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View more products from LegoFor 2015, LEGO is rolling out 3 themed Advent calendars: Star Wars, City, and Friends. As with previous years’ Star Wars Advent Calendars, an exclusive holiday-themed Star Wars minifig is included. This time it’s C3-P0 dressed as Santa Claus, riding a sleigh pulled by an R2-D2 with reindeer antlers. The City calendar has a mini Santa train and loads of toys, while the Friends calendar includes parts for a small hockey match and a lot of accessories – both pretty par for the course. UPDATE: Didn’t get your hands on this year’s Advent Calendars? Follow along with our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar starting December 1st! and the LEGO Shop) For those who’d rather wait to reveal all the surprises inside the Advent calendars, I’ve placed the full set images after the jump. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Defeat Count Dooku™ and recover the plans for the Death Star! Stop Count Dooku™ from leaving Geonosis™ with the plans for the Death Star!
Use the Force to help Jedi Master Yoda™ jump into the air, dodge the Sith Lord’s Force Lightning attack and bring Dooku to justice. Don’t let him destroy the lair and escape on his speeder. Includes 4 minifigures with weapons: Count Dooku, Yoda, Poggle the Lesser and Dooku’s Pilot Droid™. • Includes 4 minifigures with weapons: Count Dooku™, Yoda™, Poggle the Lesser and Dooku’s Pilot Droid™• Lair features falling lamps, tower handle and hidden compartment• Also features Dooku’s speeder• Weapons include 2 Lightsabers• Accessories include Death Star plans decorated tile, walking stick and a Force Lightning element• Unleash Dooku’s Sith Force Lightning attack!• Pull the lever and topple the pillar• Hop on the speeder and outrun the Jedi!• Hide the Death Star plans in the hidden compartment• Collect the redesigned Yoda and Poggle the Lesser minifigures• Lair measures over 5" (15cm) high, 15" (40cm) wide and 6" (17cm) deep• Dooku’s speeder measures over 1" (4cm) high, 4" (12cm) long and 1" (4cm) wide
//parts/4596898 Yoda MINIFIGURE GRADE: 8.5/10 Count Dooku MINIFIGURE GRADE: 7/10 FA-4 Pilot Droid MINIFIGURE GRADE: 3/10 MINIFIGURE GRADE: 9/10 I haven't built this set yet, but it is designated for 8-14 year olds, so I assume it is a fairly advanced set. It does look fairly simple though, and I think ages 6-7 would be able to put the set together with a little asistance. There is a great amount of detail that goes into a set like this, and you can really see it when you look at the walls of the structure. There is a lot of great texture, using bricks that are less commonly used as walls, and I think it really helps to accomplish the jagged cave walls look. Also, if you look at the doorway, there's quite a bit of nice detail, at the peak of the arch, especially in the lamp that hangs from it. In addition, there is a brown colored column that can fall, if you lift the lever that is found at its base. You can find the function in motion on the box. There is also a landing platform right outside the doorway, though it isn't that easy to see in the pictures, which is a nice touch, but the speeder of Count Dooku is really only big enough for the Count, and there isn't enough space to have the droid there, even if it was by itself.
Makes it a bit confusing to have it the pilot droid included in the set. There is some nice details on the speeder (keep on mispelling that "speedor" after CHIMA Speedorz!), like the acceleration pedal, stability fins on the side, etc. There is also a clear brick connected to the underside of the speeder to give it the illusion that it is floating. As seen on above, here is the breakdown of the price per brick of this set, for on NEW (based on latest eBay NEW prices), USED (based on latest eBay USED prices), and RETAIL (based on the original MSRP price of the set). For the US, we have a PPP (Price Per Piece) ratio of $0.10, which is really good for a SW set, though the current trends seem to be suggesting that LEGO Star Wars Price Per Piece ratios are going down, in effort to boost appeal to customers. At 390 pieces and looking at the set on the other hand, you don't really get much. Just a bunch of "rock" pieces, which could be found in dozens of other sets. I wouldn't buy this set for full price ($39.99 USD), seeing as it is going for nearly half that on eBay, and will probably only appreciate to $50 once said and done with.
I wouldn't part out this set because the only highly appealing part of the set is the minifigures, and you might just break even, and probably wouldn't make much more than that unless you bought the set dirt cheap. Star Wars is one of the most popular themes ever to be produced by the LEGO Company. Getting ahold of the Star Wars license was largely an experiment on the part of the LEGO Company. The LEGO Company was struggling to find an area where they could concentrate on, while still make large enough profit margins to stay in business. The cost of molds used to produce elements, as well as the increasing number of elements being introduced increase costs. In fact, in the year 2000 alone, around 8,000 different elements were being produced EACH YEAR. (that number peaked at 14,2000 in 2004).They wanted to stay with their long-standing motto of “Only the best is good enough” and traditional brick-and-stud configurations, but at the same time, modernize the company to “stay in the game”.
It’s during the time period of this set that infamous LEGO failures were introduced, including LEGO Galidor and LEGO Jack Stone. Star Wars luckily, was not on the failure list. Whether or not to take a hold of the Star Wars license had already been a highly debated subject within the LEGO Company, and had it failed in the first 1-2 years, it would have been removed from production. In fact, in early 1997, when Star Wars was first proposed as a possible LEGO theme, the LEGO Vice President said rather harshly, “Over my dead body will LEGO ever introduce Star Wars.” Little did the head LEGO employees in Billund, Denmark know that it would save the LEGO Company, and help to form it into the LEGO Company we know today. Source: Robertson, David C. “Brick By Brick.” This set isn't an exclusive, and is available at all major retailers including those below: LEGO Shop At Home (S@H) Target Walmart KMart Fry's Electronics Meijer Entertainment Earth Toys 'R' Us This set was first available in August 2013, so we can expect at least another year out of this set, and I would guess that we will be eventually seeing this set at a very cheap price in the future.
Don't rush to grab this set yet, just because you don't have it! At the time of the writing of this review, there are many other alternatives that are much better to invest in, and are much closer to retirement. Look at sets that were released in 2011, as those sets will likely retire within the next few months, or even 2012 sets, since they will also be off the shelves soon. This set's packaging is pretty normal for a LEGO Star Wars set. The top right logo is mandated by LucasFilms Star Wars, and you can find this logo on all 2013 Star Wars sets, not just LEGO (graphic changes annually to a different image/character). We see in the middle left a normal info panel featuring general information like suggested age, and piece could which is nothing new. In terms of the concept behind this box design, I think its pretty good, because it accents the most attractive part of the set: minifigures! Over all, I give the box design a 6 because it is above average, but the set itself brings down the appeal of the box.
I think this set won't grow a whole lot even though it represents a large and important part of the Star Wars saga, because it is just visually lacking. There is a lot missing, and I think LEGO could have done a better job with the set design. Star Wars hasn't been as strong a performer as it was, say in the 2005-2009 range, with too many remakes damaging value of older sets. Though this particular set isn't a remake, I think the sheer number of repeats has already pushed away a multitude of fans (of the LEGO product), and though there is still a strong LEGO Star Wars following both AFOL's (Adult Fans of LEGO) and in children, I think this isn't on the top of the priority list, and probably won't be very sought after once it retires. Like said before, this set is really lacking, with a lot of empty space, and not a lot of the factors customers, especially kids, look for in a LEGO set. Sure, you can have Yoda and Count Dooku fight, but the set is structured in a way that it seems like a huge waste of bricks to have what the LEGO Group has designed, if that makes sense.