Millennium Falcon LEGO

• Michael
  July 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am

  Thats pretty damn awesome.

• Chris
  July 30th, 2007 at 11:33 am

  E 549? Ouch, oil prices must be up…

• Elso
  July 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

  We need a death star model at minifig scale!

• Sid Morrison
  July 30th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

  Wow, that is a lot of scratch for a LEGO kit.

  A problem I’ve noticed is that almost all of the LEGO sets in my local retail stores are chock full of very specialized pieces so that the kid(s) can build 1 specific model. In the old days, the pieces were a lot more generic (and cheaper) and children were able to use their imagination and creativity a lot better. Sure, what they wound up with looked a bit less like the Millennium Falcon, but they figured it out on their own, and when they were done, they could take it all apart and turn it into 1000 other models. Good luck finding the old “buckets of bricks” they used to sell. Yes, I know they are still offered that way, but I need to mail order them b/c the local stores only sell “Harry Potter”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, or “Star Wars” sets that are highly constraining (and expensive!)

• Mr S
  July 31st, 2007 at 3:33 am

  I second what Sid Morrison says.

• Ben
  October 4th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

  There is definitely a problem of over-specialization of parts in the higher-level kits these days, but on the other hand you get a lot more interesting parts these days to build in really creative ways. It’s amazing how well each part is designed to do different tasks. I’ve built a lot of the Star Wars kits and they do use a fair number of the same type of parts. But there are certainly a greater variety.

  I am a huge Lego fan, and I’m super-jealous of the guys who can order this. I tried, but my wife put her foot down. So I created http://www.BuyMeALego.com to trade links/ads for tiny donations. If you know a small business or blog that needs more traffic, send them my way!

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