On Sunday we brought you a first look at the new Death Star set, and now LEGO has sent us the full details for 75159 Death Star, the newest in the Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series. The set is filled with iconic scenes from Star Wars that took place on the giant battle station, such as escaping the trash compactor and Luke’s duel with Darth Vader. The set will retail for $499.99 USD when it is available Sept. 30, and includes 4,016 pieces and 23 minifigures. Take a look below to read the full press release and to check out all the photos. Keen-eyed readers will note that the model looks rather a lot like a previous Star Wars model, 10188 Death Star from 2008, which can often still be found for around $450. The LEGO® Star Wars™ Death Star™ was a huge hit with fans when it launched in 2008 and we are excited to announce that we have made some awesome updates and improvements to this huge model! Our designers added over 200 bricks and elements as well as 3 new minifigures.
This 2016 version offers a great building experience to both those fans who have the original set, and those who may be new to the LEGO® Star Wars™ universe. And here’s the full press release: US $499.99 – CA $599.99 – DE 499.99€ – UK £399.99 – DK 4499.00 DKK *Euro pricing varies by country. Win the battle for the Empire with the awesome Death Star! Reenact amazing scenes from the Star Wars saga with the Empire’s ultimate planet-zapping weapon, the Death Star! With over 4,000 pieces, this fantastic model has a galaxy of intricate and authentic environments, including a superlaser control room, Imperial conference chamber, hangar bay with moving launch rack and Lord Vader’s TIE Advanced with space for Vader inside, Emperor Palpatine’s throne room, Droid maintenance room, detention block, trash compactor, tractor beam, cargo area, turbo laser with spring-loaded shooters and seats for the 2 Death Star Gunners, and 2 movable turbo laser towers.
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I'm working on building a particular Lego set that I thought was super cool when I was a kid. The 1,742 piece epic that is Lego Model 5571: Giant Truck, from 1996, was always my favorite page of the Lego Shop at Home Catalog, and now I'm going to build my very own. I found the instructions online, and through the power of having a lot of Lego bricks laying around, I am hopeful that I can make it happen. Only time will tell how far I will be able to get before I hit the inevitable roadblock of "I just don't have one of those." As the steps have worn on and I have been tasked with less common parts, time has begun to tell. Watch this video for my latest update, or read below if you prefer reading to watching. Yes, I realize that it took me way too long to post this. While getting Giant truck together, I am also working on getting my life together. Anyway, my last post completed step six, so now I'm ready for step 7, and I'm nervously awaiting the time when I hit an Inevitable Roadblock.
I have hit an Inevitable Roadblock. Now I need two more of those 8x1 Technic plate with toothed end mounts. I definitely knew that this was coming when the first one of these came up back in step three or whatever, because these Technic plates never travel alone. I have the other parts for this step, but not those Technic plates. This will be the first case where I'll just have to halt progress until I get them. So how do I do that? As I said in the earlier post about step three or whatever, these parts are featured in 23 sets, so I could look around for one of those. Let's hit up Bricklink. The coolest set (aside from Giant Truck, obviously) that these parts are in would probably be 8868: Air Tech Claw Rig, from 1992 (four years before Giant Truck). It's a super sweet truck with a big crane on the back - or some sort of weird car with a grabber thing on the front (or a lot of other things I guess, if you're good at building things with Lego). It originally went for $139.
Lego is pretty serious about cranes as it turns out; 8868 was neither the first nor the last. In fact, just in '012 they made what is basically a remake of the Airtech Claw Rig, 9397: Logging Truck, which had a retail price of - look at that - $139 (the newer one has more pieces, too). Those of you saying Lego has gotten more expensive can go ahead and eat your hats now, or whatever. The modern 9397 is Hell of more awesome in a literal sense (8868 is arguably more awesome in a uselessly nostalgic "back in my day" sense). Claw Rig is going for a minimum of $105 on Bricklink. At this point in my life (which was several months ago, since these posts take so long for me to make), I had never bought anything on Bricklink before. I wasn't sure how shipping worked, and the cheapest options were all in Europe. I was pretty worried about that. Through the power of hindsight, I now know that it's prohibitively expensive to ship any Lego sets from overseas. Anyway, Claw Rig has five - count 'em - five of those 8x1 plates-with-whatevers I'll need, giving me a pretty inefficient surplus of two.
However, there's a good chance I'll be able to use quite a few other parts from Claw Rig in Giant Truck. Also - I should point out - if I buy a Claw Rig I'll also then have a super sweet Claw Rig that I can play with. I'm 29, why do you ask? There's another truck-with-crane option, 8854: Power Crane. This one's from 1989 and it's just a little too funny looking for me. This does show just how awesome those pneumatic functions were, considering this set from '89 has very similar pumps and actuators to the ones you can find on sets today. Power Crane is priced in the 70's on BrickLink (from the Netherlands). It has exactly three of the little plates I need, so there's no unnecessary redundancy. However, the extensive red-ness of Power Crane leaves little room, I think, for other parts I could use, and I wouldn't have that super sweet Claw Rig, so I think I'll pass on this one. Yet another crane option (there isn't really anything more Lego than a crane, I guess - except for maybe a ferry) is 8438: Pneumatic Crane Truck, from 2003.
It's a re-release of 8431 (from 2002), which was a re-release of 8460 (from 1995). The early 2000's were a really weird time for Lego. Still, since this wasn't actually made in the early 2000's, it's a cool set. It's a bit less truck than Air Tech Claw Rig, but a bit more crane. Like Claw Rig and Power Crane, Pneumatic Crane Truck takes advantage of the titular Pneumatic functionality to operate, just like a real crane! Since it's smaller than Claw Rig, it's a bit cheaper. It was originally $85, and you can find them on BrickLink for - as of whenever I looked it up - $73 (from the Netherlands, so that isn't really a number that applies to me at all). I really like the look of Pneumatic Crane Truck, and when I put myself into the shoes of younger me (or current-age me, for that matter), it's a tough choice between it and Claw Rig. The real vintage choice is 8054: Universal Motor Set, from 1989. I guess this is the same amount of vintage as Power Crane, but this one feels more vintage to me.
They don't make these "here are some bits, and some things you can do with aforesaid bits" sets anymore in the Technic label, and I think that's a shame. A lot of things can be learned about Engineering tinkering with one of these, but God forbid we give kids a chance to not know what they're doing, they might make a mistake. Anyway, Universal Motor Set has a crane and a car and another car and a helicopter, plus whatever else you feel like making with a motor in it. This also has a super old-school motor kit which some collectors might be all "oh baby" over. I'm not super keen on the motor, though, since it isn't in Giant Truck. Universal Motor Set is going for as little as $39 ($45 from somebody in the US). Another, much cheaper, option is 8829: Dune Blaster. I had a very similar vehicle to Dune Blaster (8320: Coastal Cop Buggy, from two years later) - but mine doesn't have the parts I need. Dune Blaster is a pretty straightforward buggy that also makes a motorcycle. It has suspension and a moving engine, which is kind of neat I guess.
Dune Blaster is going for as little as $17 (from the US) on BrickLink, which is also kind of neat. If you're a cheapotron, though, the best choice might be 5279: Steering Elements, Plates and Gear Racks. This was just a little sack of bits that you could get to make your Legos able to steer, I guess. Like I said before, the rack and pinion setup was Hell of common in sets back in "the day" so I really don't know why you would want to get one of these, since these parts were everywhere at the time. Well, I guess maybe you're trying to build Giant Truck and need one of those sweet, sweet 8x1 jobs. It just happens that this sack of bits comes with three of them, so that's handy. It's $5 (from Germany) on BrickLink, so that's pretty handy, too - unless shipping ends up being more than the sack itself. For the money, SE, PaGR offers the smallest barrier to having the parts I need. If you're an Omega Cheapotron you might say "just buy three of those parts, dummy." Well, BrickLink does have a massive (perhaps even Giant) repository of parts for sale from all over the world.
I can get those 8x1 plates for as little as $0.07 a piece (that's seven cents). Most places have a minimum total you have to meet with your order, but I'm sure I could get there just by flipping a few pages ahead in Giant Truck's instructions to find a few more parts I need. Something just feels a little cheap (-otron) about just buying parts, though. It is staying true to the "building a hot rod in my garage" aesthetic that I'm going for I guess. I can just order all the parts I'll need and get this thing done and then I'll have that Giant Truck I always wanted. However, this endeavor will lose the "look at how universal Legos are" aesthetic that I was hoping to show off, too. There's something really fascinating about building this big (perhaps even Giant) truck purely from parts scavenged from other sets. Also this whole project may or may not just be an excuse to buy all of the old sets I lusted after but could never get because I was just a Poor Child. Now that I'm a Rich Child I can do all the things I always wanted to do (which is pretty much exclusively buying Legos).