Same here... wanted to complain but now it worked! Have faith guys! Got mine and also the confirmation mail by Lego...

I never get my confirmation email for like, hours afterwards

@SMC said:
" @Joao_Master said:
"It´s because of things like what is happening now that Lego group continues to push the prices higher and higher! Almost like they have honey or something.
A set that is so damn expensive and still the online store gets clogged.
They should have released this set on a different day.
"

The site was fine at 11:59 with all the same people on it waiting, this seems like another case of the Lego website not being up to it."

Actually it wasn't, I was on queue mode since 23:58, at least (I used the site until :54, left the page open and went to do some things, when I returned at :58 I was on queue mode already).

The online queuing system really scared me for a second but fortunately it was only for a minute or two. I actually refreshed my AT-AT page two times after midnight before the queue went up but the change hadn’t been processed. Order is all sorted now and took £100 off to make it £600 which is more palatable. The AT-AT on its own with this discount applied still counts for £30 worth of VIP points which helps ease the wallet a tiny bit more.

FYI one of the extra benefits of Cyber Monday is £5 off vouchers able to be redeemed at almost half price of points. But they are limited to 4 per account and apparently have ‘limited stock’. I’m sure this is being mentioned elsewhere too.

@dbbunny said:
"Well unsurprisingly the discounted sets at Lego weren't worth staying up or waiting in the queue for but Zavvi (UK) has some good deals"

£519.99 for 75192 UCS Falcon :-)

@SMC said:
"The site was fine at 11:59 with all the same people on it waiting, this seems like another case of the Lego website not being up to it."
Seems to be the affiliate link that causes queuing. Accessing the site directly was wait free.

It became availale at 11:55 here! I made the transaction in less than 1 minute. Everything worked perfectly... I was expcting to fight! But I'm super happy I did not have to!

It's live on the USA site early! I got the tin and Luke's Saber!

The US Site didn't crash or go into a waiting room or anything. Got another tin instead of waiting till midnight to get Santa front yard. Not sure how I feel about it?

Yep, it dropped a few minutes early. Ordered mine!

Anyone else get an extra $30 unexplained charge on their order?

Aaaaand.. there's a queue.

Edit.: was.

I had no trouble today. THANK YOU LEGO!! for the limit of 1. Please continue this practice with all new sets, at least on day 1. I hope everyone gets what they want this holiday season.

@Chills said:
"Yep, it dropped a few minutes early. Ordered mine!"

Mine also was able to buy at like 11:55. I didn't get the santa's front yard added but hopefully the other two things went through ok

Got one ordered but it says in process and under that is says please contact customer service. Used pay pal and it went through on their end. Been ordering from lego for years never seen that before.

I got my order in, then it said there was an error on my order details page and to contact customer service, then the charge hits on my bank. I check lego.com again and it's set to processing, but the total is now $863, I go into the details, the breakdown equals $833. Now my bank has an additional $30 charge, but lego shows nothing regarding the extra $30. I have no clue what's going on and still no email confirmation.

@gizzmo55 said:
"The US Site didn't crash or go into a waiting room or anything. Got another tin instead of waiting till midnight to get Santa front yard. Not sure how I feel about it? "

I ordered early as well and everything went through perfect. My original order also showed Tin as GWP but now that order shows up in "Order History" it switched it to Santa's Front Yard! So maybe yours will do the same.

Got my order in here in Canada .... but in my haste, totally forgot about the 10% cash back at Rakuten!

Having had a splurge on various sets in various Black Friday sales already I just couldn’t bring myself to order this, despite wanting the lightsaber set most of all. I’ve ordered the parts as new from BrickLink instead.

Here’s a weird something. Signed in, went to order an AT-AT. Everything went smoothly. Not a single issue. Just before I was about to check out, I changed my mind. I wanted this so badly…and now I’m waiting. Not a single explanation is coming to mind.

I think I’m crazy.

An the free light saber is selling for £150 on ebay....

Still available in the UK and the sabre too. Did Lego learn and make more in advance, or, is it over priced? Or, well, both?

Check out step 131 from the first booklet. HUGE design mistake. There is no way you can het that axle out again. And it occurs on all four legs.

@merman said:
"Check out step 131 from the first booklet. HUGE design mistake. There is no way you can het that axle out again. And it occurs on all four legs. "

Well spotted! That's quite a bit of hardward locked in with that one axle: it completely locks in the turntable as well. Perhaps with effort (and damage) a knife point will get it out, but it's a design oversight for sure.

Took the plunge in the end as was hoping for other sets to be on offer (long shot I know). Used VIP vouchers from the recent "cash out" event to drop it to £4.95 as they expire next week.

Really hoping they send the GWP in a separate box, no idea what they normally do on these massive sets but can't be good to have in same box - got my MF/ISD from JL so not sure what's normal

@Shropshire said:
"Really hoping they send the GWP in a separate box, no idea what they normally do on these massive sets but can't be good to have in same box - got my MF/ISD from JL so not sure what's normal"

The shipping email for mine said that the GWP would be in a seperate box. Mine shipped from the Australian warehouse, but hopefully it's the same for orders shipped from other warehouses as well.

@Douglas_Rory said:
"I ordered early as well and everything went through perfect. My original order also showed Tin as GWP but now that order shows up in "Order History" it switched it to Santa's Front Yard! So maybe yours will do the same."

Mine still shows Tin.

@alldarker said:
" @merman said:
"Check out step 131 from the first booklet. HUGE design mistake. There is no way you can het that axle out again. And it occurs on all four legs. "

Well spotted! That's quite a bit of hardward locked in with that one axle: it completely locks in the turntable as well. Perhaps with effort (and damage) a knife point will get it out, but it's a design oversight for sure. "

Or maybe you could just use some kind of pin to push on the axle from the other side.

@meandonlyme said:
" @Douglas_Rory said:
"I ordered early as well and everything went through perfect. My original order also showed Tin as GWP but now that order shows up in "Order History" it switched it to Santa's Front Yard! So maybe yours will do the same."

Mine still shows Tin.

@alldarker said:
" @merman said:
"Check out step 131 from the first booklet. HUGE design mistake. There is no way you can het that axle out again. And it occurs on all four legs. "

Well spotted! That's quite a bit of hardward locked in with that one axle: it completely locks in the turntable as well. Perhaps with effort (and damage) a knife point will get it out, but it's a design oversight for sure. "

Or maybe you could just use some kind of pin to push on the axle from the other side."

I agree. It’s still a design flaw from the LEGO perspective of needing an outside tool to disassemble the set. But I think the best way to reverse that axle is a small diameter screwdriver, paperclip or maybe a pin to push the stop axle from the reverse side through the pin and connector. Just a little give should allow you to use your fingernails to pull the axle through.

Only available for backorder in the states now.

UK/EU - the limit has just been increased to 2 from 1.. so sales must be a little slower than anticipated so can take the brakes off a little.. or they've learned to allow everyone time to dip in first by being restrictive..

What was the midnight opening gift for Leicester Square by the way?

Now temporarily out of stock in US.

@Daniel8 said:
"Got one on backorder. Not bad, considering how fast UCS sets sell out on its release day."

And see the Lightsaber is now not showing as a GWP on the At At page

@brick_engineer said:
" @Jackthenipper said:
"What was the midnight opening gift for Leicester Square by the way?"
In addition to Luke's lightsaber, santa's front yard and a christmas tree polybag, you got a certificate of authenticity, golden snitch and tantive IV monthly mini builds, a printed "I love Lego store London" tile, the Tatooine micro build, the 20th anniversary Obi Wan polybag, the 2013 May 4th Hoth Han Solo polybag promo, and an envelope containing Empire Strikes Back prints. You could get an autograph from the C3PO actor too."
Not too shabby - Sounds like fun - I wish I could have gone!

damn... still awailable in Denmark some 23 hours after release...that is surprisingly.. even lukes saber is still there !

I ordered mine online and everything went smoothly. The page went live a few minutes before 11 CST last night, and the entire thing was completed within a minute or so. It took about 2 hours for the confirmation email to get sent, and a bit longer for the order status to go to "In Warehouse". I am grateful LEGO seems to have amended their past stock mistakes this time around - that or there just wasn't as much interest in this set as there has been for others in the past. US is now "temporarily out of stock".

They just increased the limit to 2 from 1. Must not be selling that well.

Impressive dispatch. Received mine already this morning. That is less than 24 hours from order to arrival.

The strangest thing with a Lego purchase I ever had happend to me yesterday.

I got to the Amsterdam store early to get my copy of the AT-AT. A large number of sets were packed in large bags and put in front of the store for easy checkout. So I bought my set, got a bag full of GWP's and went to work, very happy to get it first day.

Then, when I got home I opend the box, only to find out that there was no AT-AT inside! Instead I was given a box with 2 Home Alone sets inside.

So today I went back to the store and explained it to the staff. Luckilly they still had the AT-AT in stock and I could take it home. The store emolyees were happy too, because they finally had some Home Alone sets back in stock. Now I can finally start building :)

@merman:
Wow. That may actually be the intent. Once you put that axle in, the entire assembly shown in that step is locked together. The pin and axle-joined have just enough clearance to be removed as a single piece, until you drop the pin joiner in place and put the axle through it. The turntable connects inside the frame on one side, and is pressed right up against the pin-to-axle assembly. Using regular 2L pins means you have to remove the turntable to get the pins out. So this is a joint that seems to be designed to be unable to accidentally come apart.

If you want to be able to disassemble these joints, maybe replacing the pin-joiner with 3x half-bushes would do the trick. Press all three up against the frame once the axle is in place, and they should have enough combined friction to prevent them from loosening up over time, but you can slide them towards the pin and then use the combined group to extract the axle just enough to grab the flanged end and pull it free. Or, the joint might still be able to loosen up over time, disassemble itself, cause a leg to fall off, and the set to topple over and crush a small child or pet. If they did this intentionally, they probably wanted to avoid having that very thing happen.

@Shropshire:
The largest sets tend to be packed one per case, and I know they had special shipper boxes made just for 10179, so you got set box, warehouse case, shipper carton, and the only extra things they added were a CoA and a congratulations letter for 1st Edition purchases.

@brick_engineer:
You got a Hoth Han for going to the launch event? Glad I couldn’t make it...

@legojeroen:
I was told Home Alone ships two per case, so I’m guessing the shipper cases are the same size? I’ve bought sealed cases of CMFs from LEGOLAND Discovery Centers before, and I can’t see how they tell them apart without popping the seals. There’s some sort of ID number on them, but it has nothing to do with the set number.

@PurpleDave said:
"
@legojeroen:
I was told Home Alone ships two per case, so I’m guessing the shipper cases are the same size? I’ve bought sealed cases of CMFs from LEGOLAND Discovery Centers before, and I can’t see how they tell them apart without popping the seals. There’s some sort of ID number on them, but it has nothing to do with the set number."

There was a little sticker on the side with a barcode, 'Ideas', a setnumber and '2'. The big brown box was the same size as the one around the AT-AT so that explains the mistake. I also recieved certificate numer 13/100, which is also very suspicious

@legojeroen:
Speaking of Home Alone, I actually built my copy today at Detroit Festival of Trees. Started at 10:30am, finished at 6:45pm, with some breaks to talk to the public. So, just over 8 hours. I have the second UCS MF, and this gives me a very rough idea of how long it might take to build that. I spent 18-3/4 hours building 10179, spread out over about a day and a half, but the bag assortments were designed for efficiency of packaging, and you got about 80 unnumbered bags with a lot of them being duplicates that related 2-9x. I suspect it should be possible to build the second version faster than the first.