UCS AT-AT revealed!

I’m going to need to see a review or two of this. Something about the “head” isn't immediately hitting the right notes for me, but I suspect better angles and some comparison shots will help.

Told you so ;-)

Wowzers same here had hopped for same or less than MF! I think this will have to be a purchase later on when on offer etc!

@supervir2 said:
"I’m going to need to see a review or two of this. Something about the “head” isn't immediately hitting the right notes for me, but I suspect better angles and some comparison shots will help."

I suspect it's the viewport. To my eyes, it protrudes slightly too far from the rest of the cockpit giving the head a slight weird look.

This is a beautiful set, and finally a UCS with more than 2 minifigures. The only thing I can find that I dislike are the blue technic pins at the head's side-cannons

Looks like I gotta get up early for Black Friday this year and camp out at the Lego store!

Stunning! Glad I'm not a Lego Star Wars collector as that is a huge price, love the look of it from underneath.

Maybe if this had come in around $400, I would have considered it. But double that, c'mon, that's not even right. Excited for it, and always a dream to have an AT-AT in the collection, but I finally shelled out for the 75288 this year. That will have to due.

Looks fantastic and I like the two land speeders stowed in the rear. Hopefully Lego will place in a perspex box in a Lego Store so can see in more detail! From the photo of Luke Skywalker hanging by a thread I assume that the mini-fig scale is more 1:1 with the movie?

What a pet! :D

Magnificent set, day-one purchase if the site doesn't crash… :s

I also just hope there won't be a price bump in the Benelux, like for 75192 Millennium Falcon, whose RRP is €849.99… (I know the article mentions a price of €799.99 in the Eurozone, but as long as I cannot get confirmation from Shop at Home, I will keep doubting…)

What a beast. Looks really cool, but I don't think I can spare that amount of money for a single Lego set. There are so many sets being released by LEGO it's getting harder to choose which sets I want to buy and which one I'm letting slide by me into resellers heaven or scalpers hell (whichever you prefer to call it). I'm waiting the first update on the 2022 modular for now before buying a- new LEGO set.

I can't wait to read the review and see how this thing works.
(stability, movement, etc)

I have a Raskolnikov Plus Size ATAT MOC already, but now I am thinking about a change... damn.

It looks pretty good. Maybe the legs are a bit too thick and the viewport sticks out a bit much but overall the proportions are good and the level of detail is impressive. The interior looks amazing and it's nice that it fits so many troopers.

Though when I have €800 I'd rather get the Millennium Falcon of course, it's a way better deal. This should've been €700 at most.

Impressive, most impressive

@DrDaveWatford said:
"Magnificent!

I feared that we'd never get a UCS AT-AT due to stability concerns, but I'm delighted that LEGO had the courage to take it on."

From the panels on the lower right of the back of the box it appears theres a tool needed to lock and unlock the joints for posing. Probably a good compromise considering the current system scale one can barely stand on its own.

I'm certainly glad that Lego have some major releases that I have absolutely no interest in! And, as others have said, it seals the Titanic as my next must have bargain buy.

What an amazing set!

I will be very disappointed if there isn’t a function with the front guns moving back and forth.

@Be_hapi said:
"I will be very disappointed if there isn’t a function with the front guns moving back and forth."

There is, check out the review videos already out.

Holy cow! Lots of space inside. I'm surprised by the number of minifigs included.

So, who is going to buy 8 or 10 of these to fill one with Snowtroopers?

Too expensive (I’m a UK resident). £100 more than the Falcon that hasn’t even retired yet!? Daylight robbery, but sadly I fear I’ll be tempted nonetheless. Sigh.

Wow that looks pretty special. Not sure about spending £750 on it though.
I'll wait and see how CapnRex's review goes.

The price seems too high, and no mention of my prerequisites for a UCS AT-AT: fully accurate reciprocating cannons on its 'chin', preferably operated by turning a handle or some other technic mechanism. I can see arrows indicating the guns move in and out in the picture, but no clarification. Also the E-Web must include a power-pack!

A-ma-zing. Absolutely perfect. Now I need to stop procrastinating and get myself a copy of 75288, because there's no way I'm going to afford this one, much less have anywhere to put it ....

Is it actually in minifig scale?

I love it. However, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the UK selling price *sigh*
Might have to be a long wait for sale

Surprised Luke doesn't come with printed arms like in the UCS Snowspeeder set.

I really have no interest in buying this at all (though it is very cool) but the ad for it put out on social media is my favourite ever!

Oh this will look within scale on our own LEGO dioramas, interesting that they hinted at this monster in the Imperial SD UCS set.

This set is 950$, the Gunship was 480$. I dont see how this is worth it. Its just boring and, well, gray! An easy pass for me.

With the Gunship coming out earlier this year I thought they'd wait on releasing this till next year. $1300 AUD is a lot with the Gunship coming in at $530 AUD and R2-D2 $330 AUD. It's an expensive year to be a Lego Star Wars fan in Australia! Still waiting on the first two to make it out to retail stores so I can at least pick them up on sale, otherwise will be missing out on all of them :(

Meh, hyper detailed robo camel.
Give us something from the old republic!

I think @VeersWatch on Twitter is happy.

Eh. Looks cool but I'll get the ucs millenium falcon first.

It’s the set I’ve always wanted, and given the source material, I don’t think they could’ve done a better job. Not very happy that it’s a £100 jump on the MF. A sub £700 price point is more reasonable and realistic

My 8 year old self could only dream about such an impressive set, but that price!!! Wowsers, that's expensive. It actually makes the Titanic look like a bargain.

what, no stud shooters? ;)

@MeisterDad said:
"Sand blue chairs."

75288 from 2020 also uses several of the sand blue chairs.

Waw impressive and fantastic. Of course the price goes along so it's a no for me but boy I'd love to have it !!

I wish I had that kinda cash I think it looks awesome.

Sweet - going to get it as soon as it is available in SA

The minifig selection compared to UCS Gunship is shocking. I'm glad they included a full crew this time around, we didn't give lego that much choice tho as there was massive backlash with UCS gunship minifig selection. 800 euro is too expensive for me, for most. This would make the ultimate christmas gift.

@LuvKernow said:
"How much? No. As much as I have been waiting for this, that price is ridiculous, even with inflation aspects. Just. No."
Unfortunately I have to agree. I have the Falcon but I just can’t see an extra £100 in this.

(I am UK just visiting mother in law in North Macedonia!)

Way too expensive for a Lego set. Close to $1000 including tax for a lego set. Most people couldn't afford such as toy. Although the SD has even worse ppp.

"the set can also fit an army of Snowtrooper minifigures inside – 40 in total"
Now we're talking.

@eiffel006 said:
"Ever since I heard rumours about this months ago, I started saving. Minute one purchase for me (if LEGO.com works, that is).

I do wonder how much it’ll be in CAD, however. Hopefully no more than $999.99"

CAD$949.99...yes, had to check website right away...not too bad insofar as the LEGO US/CAD exchange goes :)

@Duq said:
"It's big. It looks cool. But no way does it look €800 cool."

It's a giant grey box. For 800 quid. Not even going to get it at the inevitable 30% off on Amazon. Just looks boring.

Equals to $1065 in Norway. Omg. Glad I’m not a SWfan/collector, but a cool model nevertheless.

$800 for a child's plaything. P.S., November 26 is Black Friday.

@essel said:
"Magnificent set, day-one purchase if the site doesn't crash… :s

I also just hope there won't be a price bump in the Benelux, like for 75192 Millennium Falcon, whose RRP is €849.99… (I know the article mentions a price of €799.99 in the Eurozone, but as long as I cannot get confirmation from Shop at Home, I will keep doubting…)"

Update: it seems the €799.99 price is confirmed in the Benelux, against all odds! That remains a very expensive set, luckily I'll be using most of the VIP points I've accumulated since September 2020 to soften the blow…

Very nice update I love the AT-AT walker although I'm not gonna buy this but I bet its huge!

It's glorious!
Wow, seats like 38 troopers.
Incredible details in and out.
MUST GET!
Love that little screwdriver/wrench to adjust the legs. Very clever.

I don't collect Lego Star Wars but this set should be Modular-scale if you want to demolish 10278 with laser fire.

@kzat82 said:
"This is a beautiful set but I just can't with the size of these things. Between the Discovery shuttle, the UCS Gunship, now the Titantic and this ... where are we supposed to put these things??? "

You don't have a dedicated Lego house? I love the Falcon, but it's my one big set and I only break it out occasionally. Some day I'll make one of those coffee table display cases for it. This thing is mighty impressive, though. Who would have thought we'd ever get a minifig-scale AT-AT?

@iwybs:
Is there no floor where you live?

Just like the Titanic, an amazing model that's way out of my price range. At least this model is the closest to minifig-scale

Looks pretty good, but it's too expensive. When LEGO was producing a huge number of sets over $200, I said it was getting ridiculous. Now, with an ever-growing number of sets not just over $300 or $400, not just $500, or $600, but $700; it's truly nuts. How long until they start selling over $1000 sets?

I hope this year's LEGO employee chistmas gift will be a 65756 in x-mas livery. Now that would be a nice bonus and in par with company's successful year.

I've been waiting for this ever since my renewed interest for Lego and I must admit I had my doubts about the quality if they ever were to make one, but I have to say that this looks amazing!

I'd say it's perhaps even closer to canon than cavegod's moc.

And the fact that the legs and head is movable and that it has an interior and that it has the truest minifig scale I've ever seen and not just "minifig scale" is, again, just amazing.

Can't wait!

It's like 75252 over again. People will complain about the price, but SW fans are such slaves to the brand that they will pony up regardless. It's honestly disgusting that these people are enabling LEGO and Disney to get away with price-gouging. Truth be told, it isn't as bad a deal as the ISD, which ppp wise approached 20 cents per piece, and lacked the amount of minifigs and an interior like this AT-AT have. And blind SW fans will come up with inane excuses for the price like "It WeiGhs a L0t!" and "It Has LOts oF bIg PieCeS!" While in reality those potential expenses are balanced out by the fact that its mainly a model of ONE COLOR, and thus not all that complicated to manufacture. And why is there this time an additional surcharge in the UK?

I asked for more COWS then this happens….

@Norikins said:
"It's like 75252 over again. People will complain about the price, but SW fans are such slaves to the brand that they will pony up regardless. It's honestly disgusting that these people are enabling LEGO and Disney to get away with price-gouging. Truth be told, it isn't as bad a deal as the ISD, which ppp wise approached 20 cents per piece, and lacked the amount of minifigs and an interior like this AT-AT have. And blind SW fans will come up with inane excuses for the price like "It WeiGhs a L0t!" and "It Has LOts oF bIg PieCeS!" While in reality those potential expenses are balanced out by the fact that its mainly a model of ONE COLOR, and thus not all that complicated to manufacture. And why is there this time an additional surcharge in the UK?"

Why would being predominantly one color make any impact whatsoever on the price? Lego manufactures each part type separately. If this were something like a model kit where all the parts could be punched off a sprue (and thus molded together) that might amount to some savings, but Lego's production line is instead optimized to easily produce individual parts of multiple colors, making any potential savings due to shared colors between parts negligible if any such savings exists at all.

I’ve never understood the love for the AT-AT, out of all the varied SW vehicles it’s way down the list for me, so I can admire the build and the engineering effort gone into the design, but I think i’m going to pass - I gambled my £££ on the Titanic over the AT-AT and I’m glad I did.

I think that's bigger than my doggo at home...

It looks impressive, but I can't justify that much cheddar on a toy. But I'm sure they will hit their sales goals no problem.

Happy building to all that get it.

I love it! Best UCS Set in a while, but I’m not sure my wallet agrees.

Yes ! Nothing more to say, than yes. (Oh, I will have to sell my car, but yes !).

That is magnificent.

@Squidy74H said:
"With the Gunship coming out earlier this year I thought they'd wait on releasing this till next year. $1300 AUD is a lot with the Gunship coming in at $530 AUD and R2-D2 $330 AUD. It's an expensive year to be a Lego Star Wars fan in Australia! Still waiting on the first two to make it out to retail stores so I can at least pick them up on sale, otherwise will be missing out on all of them :("

R2D2 is not coming to retails stores in Australia they are an Amazon AU exclusive, so no competition - which means the price will not go down. Not happy about that, Amazon AU shouldn't be considered a retailer here.
So you can get it through Zavi Australia - around $30 discount now and then, or double points day at Lego - which is approx 10%.

Not sure where the Gunship is being sold - still waiting for that to appear somewhere.

One would hope for a Snow Trooper battlepack to be released, to fill the 40 seats.

Oh my.

@Goujon said:
" @Brainslugged said:
"Wow! £100 more than I was expecting. I actually though it could be a touch less than the MilF."

Why did I have to do a double take? "

I would've liked your comment if it isn't already exactly 69 likes now.

I'll definitely get this one, but it may be a while. I'm honestly unsure if timing the release of an $800 set right before the holidays is a good idea or a terrible idea. People have to stretch their dollar at this time of year with gifts and other sundry expenses. Is that offset by those who look at this and see it a a perfect holiday gift for someone? I don't know. I suspect not. Adults tend to get UCS sets for themselves.

Then again, Lego won't remove it from stores or from Shop-at-Home any time soon, so there's no real urgency. I just question whether the release day buzz takes a hit versus a release scheduled for somewhere in the ballpark of March, April or May. It would be a good May the Fourth release.

To paraphrase Pippin: "They come in UCS?? I'm getting one"

Absolutely disgusting price. Lego is real greedy these days.

So much interior space... finally... space for minifigures...

Does anyone know how close to minifigure scale this is, it seems quite close considering how big AT-ATs are?

@CAC101 said:
"Does anyone know how close to minifigure scale this is, it seems quite close considering how big AT-ATs are?"

Certainly when you observe the Luke minifig dangling down from its belly the size looks "close enough for government work," as they say.

Anyway, one thing's settled for me. I have to buy 75288 a.s.a.p, to console myself for never being able to have this monster. Then I'm going to download the instructions for the big one and perhaps Bricklink a leg or the head to set, Ozymandias-like, behind the little 'un....

@navamac said:
"Absolutely disgusting price. Lego is real greedy these days."

They are going to end up out pricing so many out of this hobby. I know this will never happen because people won’t unite but the entire Lego community should form a pact, boycott this set and others which are blatantly overpriced and refuse to buy any until they make them more reasonable prices.
There can be absolutely no justification for this price at all other than pure greed and taking AFOLs for mugs who’ll pay any price as long as the box has a Lego logo and a Star Wars logo on it. It’s no wonder their profits are so high.

The 2017 UCS Falcon was a hard enough sell for me at this price, and for me personally it had a solid 10 years of hype supporting it. And I went on to see that set discounted to as low as ... I think $880 (AUD). No chance in hell Im paying retail for this.

@holdre007:
Peter Petigrew’s head in a Santa hat? I’m not getting any sets for 65756.

@Norikins:
Logistically, it’s easier to change colors than molds. That’s true for pre-colored pellets, but with inline coloring, it’s literally just a few button presses and waiting for a few shots to clear the previous color out of the system. Using a wide variety of shapes in small quantities is also more of a burden on the production schedule than using lots of a few shapes.

...I'd still be tempted to put a Snowtrooper on a toilet above where Luke is; as a "tip of the hat" to Robot Chicken (laughed so hard at that..:D) (Snowtooper: "What the..." BOOOOOOOOM!!!!)

That's another £750 I won't be spending. How on earth do LEGO come up with prices these days? Roll a dice? Or just add £100/£200 or more onto the last one? 42131 Bulldozer started at £450 I think, 10294 Titanic £570, now this at £750... what next? £900?

@davejbur said:
"That's another £750 I won't be spending. How on earth do LEGO come up with prices these days? Roll a dice? Or just add £100/£200 or more onto the last one? 42131 Bulldozer started at £450 I think, 10294 Titanic £570, now this at £750... what next? £900?"

I'm wondering too. AFOLs often spend a lot on LEGO. But when looking at prices on BrickLink, there are very few sets that sell above 500 euros. Maybe some Cafe Corner or Green Grocer, but not much. So I wonder how many will actually be paying something like 900 quid.
Which I find surprising, seeing how much is being paid for certain Pokemon or baseball cards, Hotwheels or action figures.

You could have this, or FOUR modular buildings with money left over. This set can take a walk… PUN INTENDED

@Wrecknbuild:
$800 is the baseline price for this set. Those who really want it will make every attempt to do so for $800 or _less_, before it retires. When it does so, some latecomers may pay aftermarket prices to pick one up, but a lot of those sales probably go to people who didn’t find out about it before it retired.

Likewise, retired Modulars on the aftermarket mostly sell to people who just found out about the Modular line and started trying to back-collect the entire run. People who really wanted Cafe Corner probably picked it up for MSRP, rather than waiting this long to buy it for several times what it originally sold for.

And if you buy this for $800, you get $800 value right out of the box. If you wait to buy a different set for $800, you might only be getting $100 value with a $700 markup due to lack of fresh supply. So, you can’t judge how a new $800 set will sell by checking how old sets priced at $800 sell.

@jeloshot:
You can walk all over the glowing slag from four Modulars with this AT-AT...

Is looks good but pity about the rumors of it being motorized are not true. Pricing would be more justifiable then

@Lyichir
@PurpleDave
When making a mostly monochrome set, less "slots" are burned for different element IDs. Each part in each color has a different ID. I expect the list at the end of the instruction manual will be shorter than usual based on the part count.
For example, two sets with similar part count, 75252 and 70620, have respectively 444 and 913 unique parts, not counting minifigures. Why should the one with 444 cost MORE THAN TWICE AS MUCH AS THE OTHER?
Also, in terms of new element recolors Ninjago City wins easily. The ISD's new or recently returning recolors you could count on one hand. The previous random piece of the day was the perfect candidate to recolor as the bottom of the ISD's balls (yes, I'm calling them that) yet Ninjago City has parts in colors that are still exclusive to it.

When we compare prices, I tend to look at it from several perspectives, I hope the readers here do the similar analysis too, and always be careful not to get addicted into being a fanboy.

The analysis goes like this. I.e. how well the 700+ dollars, euros, pounds are worth: 1) comparing to other lego sets, 2) comparing to other toys, 3) comparing to other things in life.

There are people who could afford the money, sure, having it sitting in the bank does nothing. Everyone has their own interests, some could spend this on a fine dining for a few people, some could spend this on luxury hotel stays. Etc.

For me, spending this amount of money on: 1) above, will not be meaningful, since we have quite many lego sets already, 2) above, will give my kids probably 5x more fun because we could get 10 different big sets from other types of toys and to explore many different types of play, 3) above, will mean that we take a look outside of unnecessary spending, and use the money wisely in proper places, without getting affected by 'interest generation sites' such as this or youtube or the like, so yeah, as to the post above, I probably would go for 4 Michelin tires (or 8, depending on sizes), and still coming home with some spares. :)

@imemine98 said:
"Wow that looks impressive. I am just happy I'm not a Star Wars guy and will save myself $800. This is one expensive hobby!"

Looks like the starting price went up to $1299 on Lego.com this morning!

@PurpleDave said:
" @holdre007:
Peter Petigrew’s head in a Santa hat? I’m not getting any sets for 65756."
I tried to look that up too. I think @holdre007 used the Brickset article number of this article.

Looks like the Bucket Wheel Excavator toothed piece gets a smaller version in grey.

I just received my AT-AT and on the left hand side (rear end image of the AT-AT) of the outer box it says TB-TT not AT-AT. Online images show AT-AT on that side. Does anyone know anything about this?