No comments yet? Well I’ll post one!

I’ll try to pick this up, but I bet it’ll sell out quickly.

Gee, it sure is nice they're giving the largest company in the world the right to screw over all their customers.

I have had nothing but major delays and sudden cancellations on any amazon exclusives of late and I certainly don't trust the company to hold up their end of the bargain if you purchase this from them.

Oh well, if anybody can actually get any, kudos. You deserve it.

Can’t imagine we’ll be able to buy and ship to the UK

Thanks to Jeremy... And me... I posted in your own message boards (and reddit) about this last night. Even mentioned the SKU in the URL... I wonder if Jeremy got it from me? ;-P

Does this mean it won't be available from the lego online shop in the US?

Amazon doesn't generally put limits on anything, so good luck to us regular folk that don't have the time and/or money to be on top of this. Bit of a shame really.

Maybe Lego kept some of the stock for direct sale hopefully.

At least the other sdcc were somewhat easy to get. I hope they didn’t secret sell all of these to scalpers in the middle of the night just seems a little seedy to me.

Well if it is already out of stock the article should be renamed “ Nebulon-B Frigate was available from Amazon”.

The product page for this item is no longer searchable on the Amazon website. It's a shame really. I suppose I'll just Bricklink it now.

While regional exclusives in general are terrible for a majority of fans. The way this was handled (assuming the information is correct) is especially egregious. Posted with no warning and a e-commerce site that does not limit amounts and without an actual name or picture during their own promotional event.

I wonder if that means that the 77905: Taskmaster's Ambush will be released too, or if it has then I just missed it?

Don't forget that if this goes like Bespin Duel or Wonder Woman, this Comic-con exclusive will become available at LEGO LEGO.com as well. You still have a chance to grab a copy there. Amazon ship date is 11/14, so I expect this to show up on LEGO.com at that time. Set your alarm clocks.

What is the typical production run on a Con exclusive like this? There were a lot more than 1000 of the Bespin set available, same with Wonder Woman. I'm loading a Bricklink list just in case but I half expect this to pop up again somewhere.

@theJANG said:
" @steamingpileofbrick said:
"This was already made available last night 10/13 on Amazon under the item "LEGO tbd-CC-SW-2020". The stock started with 999 available, and replenished at times... but now says out of stock. Was shared on the Lego investment site Brickpicker. "

999 units of an uncertain set with no name or description were bought by speculative investors in approx. 12 hours. I seriously underestimated how serious the... investor... market is. Not being cynical here; this is eye-opening. That's a lot of kids toys moved off the primary retail market and into the control of private profiteers in a very short period of time. Imagine if the identify of the listing was confirmed up front?"

Are you trying to tell me all of the comic con sets are 'kids toys'? Do you really think TLG is that naïve thinking Comicon exclusives are ending up in Timmys stocking at christmas?!? A high percentage of these wont ever be opened.

@BricksBrother said:
"Are you trying to tell me all of the comic con sets are 'kids toys'?"

Why are you fixated on this? The point of the post is the nature and scale of the scalper market. I agree, I had no idea there were that many ripoff artists.

Edit: the thread on Brickpicker has been moved to a private part of the forum.

@BrickBob09 said:
"No regional exclusives my arse."

If you actually read their exclusions to worldwide release then you would understand there are four categories that allow regional exclusives.

I have zero issue with the exclusions.

From what I have heard it can range from 1000-5000. Bespin Duel seems to have been 8,000-10,000 unofficially

post amazon link please

@CDM said:
" @BricksBrother said:
"Are you trying to tell me all of the comic con sets are 'kids toys'?"

Why are you fixated on this? The point of the post is the nature and scale of the scalper market. I agree, I had no idea there were that many ripoff artists.

Edit: the thread on Brickpicker has been moved to a private part of the forum.

"

Do you know why they did this? I can't follow it anymore.

@gugclo said:
"Do you know why they did this? I can't follow it anymore."

To keep the discussion private, I assume. If this were to pop back in stock they want to hoard it for themselves for as long as they can.

@CDM said:
" @gugclo said:
"Do you know why they did this? I can't follow it anymore."

To keep the discussion private, I assume. If this were to pop back in stock they want to hoard it for themselves for as long as they can.

"

wow....

I think I'll be much happier if I just assume I will not be able to purchase sets like this. Looking forward to having the full inventory on Bricklink at least.

So where can we start the petition to persuade Lego to release this worldwide and stop scalping?

It seemed like the stock on this one held on for an eternity compared to Hasbro exclusives. LEGO will probably offer up some stock the same way they did with the Wonder Woman and Bespin Duel sets.

Any idea when or where the new Black Widow set will be released?

That's a shame, Lego explicitly said there would no longer be regional exclusive sets.

Does anyone have confirmation that the stock that was bought was really the set, and really was sold out? It would be fascinating if the placeholder listing that got bought wasn't actually the set, but something else or even a scam.

@blueshift said:
"Does anyone have confirmation that the stock that was bought was really the set, and really was sold out? It would be fascinating if the placeholder listing that got bought wasn't actually the set, but something else or even a scam."

Yes. Image in order history has just been updated to reflect the Nebulon-B frigate set. Still no product link on the site (link in order history leads to a 404).

Did TLG really give their inventory to Amazon and then the set sold out in a few hours? This thread devolved, so I'm trying to understand what happened.

@CM4Sci said:
"SDCC SETS WERE EXCLUDED FROM THE REGIONAL RULE"

HANDS IN THE AIR, DON'T CARE

SDCC exclusives have always the worst of the bunch.

I'm just happy getting chance get these instead ebay at 300 bucks a piece

@tgewin said:
"Thanks to Jeremy... And me... I posted in your own message boards (and reddit) about this last night. Even mentioned the SKU in the URL... I wonder if Jeremy got it from me? ;-P"

Nope, it didn't come from the Brickset forums. I credit the original source if it has already been posted.

I was really wanting to get this, I kind of want to have one of each type of ship in my collection. However the scale of this model is unappealing to me. Even if it wasn’t close to minifigure scale, I still would have been much happier if it could at least hold one minifigure. I suppose I need to thank Lego, they just saved me $40!!!

@mjnewLegofan said:
"Any idea when or where the new Black Widow set will be released?"

Maybe around when the movie will be released. Seems silly to release it in 2020 when the movie now won't be available until 2021.

Bruh moment

@Chills said:
"Did TLG really give their inventory to Amazon and then the set sold out in a few hours? This thread devolved, so I'm trying to understand what happened. "

It doesn't seem like anyone knows for sure. Based on those following the listing there were approx 1000 presold. How many were produced? How many does Amazon have to sell? Will Amazon have more to sell closer to / on the supposed release day of Nov 14? Will Lego have their own allotment to sell? All unknown.

@Bycougars said:
" @CDM said:
" @Chills said:
"Did TLG really give their inventory to Amazon and then the set sold out in a few hours? This thread devolved, so I'm trying to understand what happened. "

It doesn't seem like anyone knows for sure. Based on those following the listing there were approx 1000 presold. How many were produced? How many does Amazon have to sell? Will Amazon have more to sell closer to / on the supposed release day of Nov 14? Will Lego have their own allotment to sell? All unknown."

This is what bothers me the most. I wish Lego would come out and make official statements on these exclusives. Like "Hey this is only available in this region, it will be available on this date, from these retailers and there are only x amount being produced"

Instead its all up in the air and unless you sit and watch Lego blogs and news 24/7 you have no chance at grabbing one before they are gone."

I am curious to see what happens, part of me feels like this wasn't suppose to be put up when it was and thus why nothing has been said about it. let see what happens...very mysterious indeed.

@golde62 said:
"I’m in the US and I am getting this set for non-us people please contact me if you want this. Also have toads hideaway and wonder woman both at retail, trying to help people"

I PMed you but even though I am in the US. The US people had it only from amazon where there was NO LIMITS! Could I get one from you?

Surely if they were all sold there would at least be a few pre-sales on Ebay??

@deansl1882 said:
"Surely if they were all sold there would at least be a few pre-sales on Ebay??"

There are listings on ebay, including 2 listings with "more than 10 available". All are priced over $200.

@bananaworld said:
"
@djcbs said:
"(...) If the Event is cancelled, so should the set have been. (...)"
Blimey, not this again.

You're saying that if you can't have it, noöne should have it.

Stop being so bloody selfish.

"

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Unless you treat ALL your customers equally, you shouldn't release a set.
Selfish is to defend the decision to only let some people access the set. If you're a GLOBAL company, there's NO REASON to discriminate people based on nationality or region. To even suggest it's fine to do that just shows how blinded by fanboyism you are.
Here's a hint: simping for LEGO won't get you free sets. Just sayin'...

@djcbs said:
" @bananaworld said:
"
@djcbs said:
"(...) If the Event is cancelled, so should the set have been. (...)"
Blimey, not this again.

You're saying that if you can't have it, noöne should have it.

Stop being so bloody selfish.

"

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Unless you treat ALL your customers equally, you shouldn't release a set.
Selfish is to defend the decision to only let some people access the set. If you're a GLOBAL company, there's NO REASON to discriminate people based on nationality or region. To even suggest it's fine to do that just shows how blinded by fanboyism you are.
Here's a hint: simping for LEGO won't get you free sets. Just sayin'..." I disagree completely. I think every business should be able to identify their best customers and reward them. This is quite common actually. You see this in casinos all the time where they wine and dine their whales who drop down the big $ at the table. Why should a business treat everyone equally when some customers spend way way way more than others. Wouldn't it have made even more sense for Lego to data mine its online sales and look for their most loyal Star Wars Lego fans (you could for example calculate this various ways to try to either filter out resellers or even provide a loyalty program for them as well - I suggest campaigns for either or both are totally in order). This absolutely doesn't have to be a fair process. Lego has every right to reach out and reward their best customers with a bonus offering but this isn't what they did with Amazon at all. In fact they rewarded hackers who were able to buy many units of this set and scalp them. What Lego did was simply the WORST approach I can imagine, well ok I suppose I could imagine worse but you get my point. I'm tired of the egalitarianism idea that we should all have to be ready at our screens at the same instant and have a lottery effect as much as I'm tired about the way they release these special sets to either conventions or what they did with Amazon or Target instead. Why reward the comic con attendees or even Star Wars convention attendees with special Lego sets? These sets should go to their best Lego customers PERIOD. Yes I'm talking about the ones they can measure (via online or at Lego store sales), sorry but Lego wouldn't have sales data from Amazon or Ebay to track your status as one of their best customers. I don't expect them to be able to have complete data as much as act on the data they had at hand and they continue to refuse to create a loyalty reward program for this kind of distribution. The most loyal customers all over the world should get codes they can use with expiration dates and if the codes aren't used they can put that inventory into a pool where they can use other sets of rules for distribution. Give us a break. This is not a political race where everyone's votes count equally (except say when the election has been corrupted by cheating...) this is a business and it is very reasonable that the folks who spent the most can be recognized and rewarded for their loyalty. Of course, a mix of distributions may make the most sense, allocate a certain amount to the loyal fans and produce enough for the lottery but whatever they just did with Amazon...oh so wrong.

one thing to keep in mind is that Lego did release a very special Lord of the Rings character at a Comic Con and eventually they did offer that character in a later set. If I had known they were going to do this I might not have boycotted the entire line over their offering that at the Comic Con. Perhaps in this case, they will rerelease the set in a slightly different box to pacify the peasants at their gates with lit torches.

I think $40 is perfect price personally just a pity it’s us and not uk