October 4 LGEO will release the first $1000 priced model, the Death Star www.lego.com



Ok I’ll admit that I’m a Lego + Star Wars fan, but this gets into the class that is artwork. I’m sure that it will not be the last one too. I did not drop the $799 on the Millennium Falcon but if I have a cash windfall these would be on the list on collector’s items to have.

Who else has an interest?

I'll pass on the Star Wars sets. Its the F1 stuff I want & don't have room to display.

Part of my little F1 collection


Also the Nasa stuff. Have a few of those too, ISS, Saturn V, Enterprise + Hubble

I have reached the point in life where I no longer step on Legos. Not only were they popular with my kid, but my cats also delighted in Lego hockey on wood floors.
Had my kid saw this when he was 12, I would have been out 1K.

P250UA5, source or a better photo of those racetrack prints?

Legos don’t seem to be what they were when I was a kid. Everything was just the blocks and at the most a round head you put on top to make a person. I remember getting kits and we never built it and just added all the parts to our giant chest of parts and built what our imagination created. Those were the days! I now wonder where that chest of legos is. I never had kids and I know it went to my brother that had two kids and they are now in their 20’s.

It still aggravates me that LEGO uses stickers instead of pad printing. Granted, that's probably not an issue with the Star Wars stuff, and that's pretty cool. LOL I wonder if the detention bay connects with the trash compactor?

I’ll admit it, I’m considering it. We are building the Falcon right now with the Titanic, Rivendell and Barad-dur waiting in the wings.

Our family likes our lego. We do them together as family activities when we are stuck inside.

Wife likes Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I like the Star Wars sets, daughter likes HP and Minecraft. Needless to say we have quite the collection.

But their prices in the past year have gotten crazy, and this lego set is no exception. I'll be passing until it goes on some deep discount.

If you dig down into the miniatures and stickers and real details of this set, Lego really cut corners on their top of the line set. Kinda sad.

They even included that one-eye monster in the trash compactor!

Man that is cool, but not $1k cool!

First of all, where do you display it? In your bachelors pad down in mom’s basement? Seriously though, my kids love legos and so do I, but they’ve gotten stupidly expensive.

That is cool, but it isn't a thousand bucks cool.

Having a few hundred pounds of legos myself, I've been building stuff from loose bricks for a long time. My most recent was a battle tank and a half-track.

The fun part was finding just the right amount of tension so the tracks spin freely on hardwood, but don't come off on carpet (or other bricks).

There is a lot of time and effort to get these sets to be just right as opposed to just being a bag of blocks.

Looks cool either way.

I invest in Lego because it’s better than stocks, bonds and gold — and I’ve made $500K in 2 years

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After Lego stops selling a certain model, that’s when the shop opens for sellers like O’Farrell. Recently, that was the Lego “Star Wars” TIE Fighter Pilot helmet model.

“It was $60 before being retired in 2021. Then by about a year and a half of it being retired, it was $350,” O’Farrell said. “You’re talking about a 400% return on investment in a year and a half’s time.”

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P250UA5, source or a better photo of those racetrack prints?

I think it was a site called Track Sculptures, but they may have since folded. Bummer as they're nice quality pieces.

I have a couple of the 1:8 scale F1 cars. I tend to stick to cars, planes and boats myself. I have a few of the space sets also. Not much for star wars and definitely not at those prices...

I honestly could see my sister's family getting this as they are all about Legos and Star Wars.

I will admit I did buy the Titanic set when it came out a few years ago. I have visions of building it with my kids when they are older, and can appreciate it. For now though we are still in the duplo phase.

The 2016-version LEGO Death Star was a lot smaller (3,803 pieces) and originally ran about $300 (about $0.08/brick). Our special needs son was into LEGOs at the time so we almost got one for him. He'd already built much of Hogwarts Castle (about 3,000 pieces over 4 sets), but I'm glad we didn't buy it. When we bought the Mega Bloks Enterprise (a couple of years later), Mrs. ST and I ended up putting most of it together because it was just too much for him and the MB instructions weren't as easy for him to follow as the LEGO instructions are.

The new one (available October 4 according to lego.com) has 9,023 pieces and has a SRP of $999.99 (about $0.11/brick).

No, we definitely won't be considering this one.

I think these big Lego’s are really cool. They just don’t tickle me enough to spend that kind of money on em.

Some would say what I spend on my stuff is crazy too though.

About 15 years ago (?) I bought my son the Lego Mindstorm Robotics kit. You could actually download programs into the robot you built. Quite the setup. I think that cost $300 at the time. My wife wasn't too happy with me but came around when she could see him building and programming robots. He's now a software engineer and part time DBA.