Damn I though there where a lot less of these than 1.5k

So peak. An icon of the Star Wars theme. Nobody better be hating on this set.

Was this anyone's "I gotta have it" set when this first came out? Curious..

Still the best LEGO bust they’ve done

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"From what I understand, this is an absolutely terrible set to build. Everyone who laments the "dumbening" of official instructions, this is the set for you. Everything is shown from directly above, and there's nothing to indicate whether you're placing a brick or a plate in any step. Only by trial and error can you determine which you should have used, based on where things end up flush with each other before pieces are placed on top."

Oh my gosh, you are right. I looked at every page of the instructions just now. The instructions are impossible!!!
"

Seems understandable since they give the shape of the build you're having and the place the new bricks have.

850 is the one set I really hated building

This holds up really well for 2001

He was very iconic. I was surprised that Lucas wasted him so quickly. Dookie and Gravy didn't have the same charisma. Thank god Filoni brought him back.

Formerly "Darth," now just Maul.... The politest Sith Lord there ever was! He would always give his opponents compliments, and encouraged others to do the same. It's just a shame he hated philosophy; that little bugger Kenobi cut him in half for that.

...What were we talking about? Oh, LEGO. It's a cool set, maybe I'll try to get a copy one da- 7,500 US DOLLARS?! You know what, I'm good. I shall observe its magnificence from a distance.

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J I clicked post and nothing happened, so I clicked again.
To late now to remove it

Tbh although it's a cool set I wouldn't have room for a bust this large. Still, this was really striking to look at.

@LegoBatmanLandon it's the curved wall panel in black isn't it? That is only available in this set and in the Ogel Control Center somehow. Crazy how rare such a common-looking part is. I wouldn't be surprised if that's also why the Ogel Control Center shot up in value as much as it did. I was today's years old when I learned all this...

@PurpleDave said:
"From what I understand, this is an absolutely terrible set to build. Everyone who laments the "dumbening" of official instructions, this is the set for you. Everything is shown from directly above, and there's nothing to indicate whether you're placing a brick or a plate in any step. Only by trial and error can you determine which you should have used, based on where things end up flush with each other before pieces are placed on top."

3450 came out at about the same time, same style of instructions.

I've got this set (second hand) for over a year and it's an insane display piece. I took it apart for cleaning and wanting to experience the build, but the instructions are killing... Will do it on a rainy day ??

But of off the sets I own, this one stands out. Creepy and intriguing!

@doe said:
"This set was on sale at lego.com for 35€ because no one wanted it!!!"
Which I find totally understandable. To me it's a very unattractive set, let alone compared to the busts we get these days. While not all of them might be very attractive either, at least their builds are much more sophisticated.

Amazing for the time, even just for the fact that it had 1x1 brown plates. Those were simpler times..

@LegoBatmanLandon said:
"Ah yes, the reason 6776 Ogel Control Centre is so hard to piece together"
Is that curved panel even necessary for this Darth Maul model? I haven’t checked the instructions, which are apparently moderately hellish, but I don’t currently see where it goes from this view

Because bar that, it looks fairly trivial to part together. I mean it’s a lot of parts, and would be silly money if you were daft enough to buy them direct from Lego, but it’s all just pretty basic stuff

Always reminded me of one of those old school artist sculptures celebrating the brick with no curved or slope pieces, that just needs a mausoleum to display in.

Although common basic bricks and plates, there are still a lot of them and https://rebrickable.com/sets/10018-1/darth-maul/?inventory=1parts says around £363 to buy in secondary market, so still more economical to just buy the set.

@watcher21 said:
" @LuvsLEGO_Cool_J I clicked post and nothing happened, so I clicked again.
To late now to remove it"

You can always use the Report function to ask for duplicate posts to be deleted...which it appears someone already did.

@stefwaffles said:
" @LegoBatmanLandon said:
"Ah yes, the reason 6776 Ogel Control Centre is so hard to piece together"
Is that curved panel even necessary for this Darth Maul model? I haven’t checked the instructions, which are apparently moderately hellish, but I don’t currently see where it goes from this view"

A former member of my LUG took on the task of selling someone else's collection, and ended up owning a copy of this in the process. Someone contacted her and convinced her to trade the black panels for dark-red ones, because they're only used as internal spacers. Trying to piece together the original UCS ISD caused off colors of one of the magnet mounts to skyrocket in price after buyers gave up on getting them in the correct color, and decided it didn't really matter what color they were since nobody was ever going to see them. I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing the same with those quarter panels, but at least the off colors aren't nearly as rare as the inverted magnet mounts.

Quite thematic with the release of the new ones. Notice how this one looks just as unsettling as the new Yoda, and his eye design is less accurate to real people, but the reason we don’t mind it on Maul is because he is supposed to make us scared.

@stefwaffles said:
" @LegoBatmanLandon said:
"Ah yes, the reason 6776 Ogel Control Centre is so hard to piece together"
Is that curved panel even necessary for this Darth Maul model? I haven’t checked the instructions, which are apparently moderately hellish, but I don’t currently see where it goes from this view

Because bar that, it looks fairly trivial to part together. I mean it’s a lot of parts, and would be silly money if you were daft enough to buy them direct from Lego, but it’s all just pretty basic stuff"

I parted this together from Bricklink a few years ago, the curved panels build the stand you can just see peeking out from behind the torso in the image. I swapped mine for trans brown / old trans black ones instead as the difference wasn't too bad, but they are definitely visible and not just internal structure

@R0Sch said:
"Somehow, Maul returned... repeatedly. *signed Disney*"

several star wars characters died but were brought back. Still waiting for Disney bring back Porkins and Nanta

@shaase said:
" @R0Sch said:
"Somehow, Maul returned... repeatedly. *signed Disney*"

several star wars characters died but were brought back. Still waiting for Disney bring back Porkins and Nanta"
Just collect all 7 dragon balls and wish them back to life!

they got it wrong its the legs that dont make it out of naboo not the body too

@R0Sch said:
"Somehow, Maul returned... repeatedly. *signed Disney*"

Though to be fair, I think only one of his returns involved surviving presumed death

@Lego_lord said:"He was very iconic. I was surprised that Lucas wasted him so quickly. Dookie and Gravy didn't have the same charisma. Thank god Filoni brought him back. "

I'd take Dooku over Maul any day. Maul was just a thug in Episode I, Dooku was evil, yes, but it was a *gentlemanly* evil. Besides, being played by Christopher Lee gets a character a huge number of points with me.

@R0Sch said:
"Somehow, Maul returned... repeatedly. *signed Disney*"

Pretty sure Maul came back i (in The Clone Wars) before the Disney buyout. I wouldn't swear to it, though.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Lego_lord said:"He was very iconic. I was surprised that Lucas wasted him so quickly. Dookie and Gravy didn't have the same charisma. Thank god Filoni brought him back. "

I'd take Dooku over Maul any day. Maul was just a thug in Episode I, Dooku was evil, yes, but it was a *gentlemanly* evil. Besides, being played by Christopher Lee gets a character a huge number of points with me.

Dooku was a chump. Maul was a legit apprentice, but Dooku was only brought in to be a placeholder until Anakin was sufficiently groomed. The look of shock on his face when Palpatine sacrificed him says it all.

@R0Sch said:
"Somehow, Maul returned... repeatedly. *signed Disney*"

Pretty sure Maul came back i (in The Clone Wars) before the Disney buyout. I wouldn't swear to it, though."

Maul first returned in “Brothers”, the March 9, 2012 ep of SW:TCW, so nine months before Disney got their mitts on the keys. Still David Filoni, though. 5000062 may have been produced in reference to that, as it was first given out at NYCC in February 2012.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I'd take Dooku over Maul any day. Maul was just a thug in Episode I, Dooku was evil, yes, but it was a *gentlemanly* evil. Besides, being played by Christopher Lee gets a character a huge number of points with me. "
One does not simply become a wizard and a Sith lord!
(And Dracula, and a Bond villain, and a Metal God, and so much more....)

I don't really get why this set is so beloved today. I mean, I wish I'd bought it back in the day because I probably wouldn't have built it and could use the money. But man, I think it's ugly, sorry. Maul is a great character and I like the colors and all, but it looks creepy.

@PurpleDave said:
"From what I understand, this is an absolutely terrible set to build. Everyone who laments the "dumbening" of official instructions, this is the set for you. Everything is shown from directly above, and there's nothing to indicate whether you're placing a brick or a plate in any step. Only by trial and error can you determine which you should have used, based on where things end up flush with each other before pieces are placed on top."

Completely agree. I've always wanted to get this set to complete my UCS builds in my collection but the pricetag like the $40 Naboo fighter was just too much. So I rebuilt the entire thing in Stud.io and then redid the instructions! If anyone is interested I'm happy to share as you are correct its near impossible to understand these old instructions. I also did some redesign of pieces that cost too much, the 4-1/4 round panels at the bottom I changed the color for something cheaper and replaced old parts that are discontinued with new ones, and then some of the interior pieces that you never see, I made them whatever the cheapest color is available on those parts too, but from the outside it looks identical. Then I purchased all the pieces either on Bricklink or from the PAB wall at my local lego stores and it cost me about $200 to build.

@Denmark_Dragon said:
"Was this anyone's "I gotta have it" set when this first came out? Curious.."

Not me. I didn't buy it when it was in stores as I thought it just looked too ugly. However, I did end up buying a second hand one with box and instructions years later as the SW completionist in me decided that I had to have it, :)

@CapnRex101 said:
"…'Han Shot First' Greedo..."

Wait, what now?

@PurpleDave said:
" @stefwaffles said:
" @LegoBatmanLandon said:
"Ah yes, the reason 6776 Ogel Control Centre is so hard to piece together"
Is that curved panel even necessary for this Darth Maul model? I haven’t checked the instructions, which are apparently moderately hellish, but I don’t currently see where it goes from this view"

A former member of my LUG took on the task of selling someone else's collection, and ended up owning a copy of this in the process. Someone contacted her and convinced her to trade the black panels for dark-red ones, because they're only used as internal spacers. Trying to piece together the original UCS ISD caused off colors of one of the magnet mounts to skyrocket in price after buyers gave up on getting them in the correct color, and decided it didn't really matter what color they were since nobody was ever going to see them. I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing the same with those quarter panels, but at least the off colors aren't nearly as rare as the inverted magnet mounts."

After looking it up, I'm rather shocked. Of all the colors for a long-running element of that sort to be super rare in, it's *black?*

@MCLegoboy said:
"I want this set so bad.
Darth Maul is my favorite character, and it's purely for aesthetic reasons. In 1999, 5 year old me loved everything about him. I never bothered with the Expanded Universe, Episode I was enough, but I am glad that he returned in animation, and man, has he had a lot going on in animation in the current Canon. Maul even has his own show now, but he's only in it from time to time, and it's everyone else reacting to his presence and the moral quandaries that are the most interesting things about it.
I'm disappointed that there aren't any Shadow Lord LEGO sets, not even just one, but I guess the design team was a bit more focused on the Mando-Verse, and probably some special Star Wars 50th Anniversary sets or something for next year. Maybe we'll get something though because the show is very good, the action in it is incredible, and it would be neat to get some of the characters as minifigs. There will also be a Season 2, so who knows what else could inspire the designers in the future."

There is a rumored Shadow Lord set for January 2027. We don’t know what it is yet.

14.6c per piece, in USD and in today's money.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @CapnRex101 said:
"…'Han Shot First' Greedo..."

Wait, what now?"

This minifigure, which was created seemingly just for fun, or perhaps to test a new printing machine: https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/347/lot/113143 "

There are other possibilities. Kevin Hinkle once told me he was given a budget for minifig business cards, but was apparently not required to use official prints, so he had an AFOL print the later batches up with bespoke print (I have three different versions of his minifig). Our late, original LEGO Store manager also showed me some LEGO Store employee minifigs that were produced for a LEGO Store managers’ conference, and those were also jobbed out to an AFOL who does custom prints. So they do sometimes have stuff made by outside sources, and they do sometimes have them made as tokens for participating in some internal event. I’ve seen video of how pad printing works, and I’m somewhat doubtful that they’d etch a plate with a custom design like that just to test a new pad printing machine, when they could just pull a set of plates from storage. Now, if they used it to test a Minifig Factory style printer, that would be a different story. Sky’s the limit, when it comes to those (depending on talent).

Just took a close look at the picture for the first time. I thought this set was cool as a Star-Wars-loving kid anyway, but I didn't realise that Maul's nose here was SNOTty until today... I can see the underside of plates at the side, though.

Come to think of it, looks like his chin's similarly SNOTty, too. He must have a really bad cold for it to have dribbled so far down his face...!