We all have fond memories from our younger years putting together fun LEGO sets like cars, planes, houses, and more. But if you were especially lucky (or especially wealthy), you might have had the opportunity to construct truly massive LEGO sets like the Taj Majal, Shield Helicarrier, or even the fabled Death Star Itself. Below are the 11 biggest pre-made sets the LEGO company has ever released, sorted by number of pieces. exclusives or are out-of-print, so don't expect to nab them for their MSRP. For the ultimate Marvel Cinematic Universe fan, the Shield Helicarrier comes with five Avengers minifigures, a big bunch of manofigures, and functioning turbines powered by AAA batteries with a special add-on. Along with a few thousand other tiny details. The Ultimate Collector Series version of the Imperial Star Destroyer is full of interior detail that doesn't actually show up when the entire beast is assembled. But the most impressive thing about this set is its sheer size - it's over three feet long!
Long out of production, it now routinely sells for over $2,000. Did we say the Imperial Star Destroyer was big? If you want to build this Super Star Destroyer, you're going to need an even bigger table - this massive model is more than four feet long when fully assembled. Its custom minifigs are a nice touch. The Grand Carousel is an epic set for its detail, not for its sheer size. Its complex, colorful, and is (of course) fully motorized. If you're a big Star Wars fan, these probably are the droid you're looking for. In addition to several fun droid minifigs (Gonk Droid!), this 2014 version of the Sandcrawler model comes with functioning treads, and of course a ridiculous amount of internal detail. It's also got nearly twice as many pieces as the original 2005 UCS edition. After its fully assembled, this Eiffel Tower stands over four feet tall! It's a challenging build, making it perfect for LEGO pros. Newbies might want to pick a set that isn't almost all grey pieces. The Death Star II, like every model on this list, is absolutely massive, of course.
But it includes a lot of neat smaller details, too. I'm especially found of the physical lasers. LEGO's 2008 Death Star is a different kind of LEGO set. Plenty of these massive models have interior detail, but it's usually hidden away. This Death Star takes a diorama approach, allowing you to see lots of movie scenes all in one model. This set is rumored to end its long run and go out of production soon. Some hardcore LEGO fans dislike the Tower Bridge build since you basically have to build the same tower twice, but it's still a hugely impressive and aesthetically pleasing model. What is there left to say about the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon? It's just plain awesome, all-around. Fantastic build experience, epic scope, nice minifigs, and great detail. If you didn't snag one when it came out in 2007, expect to shell out as much as $6,000 to buy it in-box now. LEGO's Taj Mahal set clocks in at almost 6,000 pieces, making it the biggest individual LEGO set ever made. The finished model is over 20 inches wide and over 16 inches tall, making it an imposing model to say the least.
Have you ever been fortunate enough to construct one of these sets yourself? Have fond memories of another huge LEGO set not listed? Discuss with your fellow brickheads in the comments below. Justin Davis is the second or third best-looking Editor at IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @ErrorJustin and on IGN.Bear Grylls and the world's biggest LEGO set welcome the new Land Rover DiscoveryMercedes-Benz Arocs 3245product_label_list_price_accessibility 54 Reviews123451FIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISTechnicVehiclesBuild and experience the powerful Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245! Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 Reviews - page 2Coming June 1, the LEGO Minecraft Village is a $199 box containing 1,600 pieces used to create something an 11-year-old could create on their computer in an hour. Plus it comes with an enderman, which is somehow scarier in LEGO form. Look at this beautiful box filled with fabulous prizes. It’s the sort of box LEGO reps who tell me to feel free to ask for anything I’d like to review for Toy Time say “Oh, not that one” about.
Definitely not this one. As the rep who gave me a tour during Toy Fair this year said, Minecraft is currently LEGO’s best-selling licensed property, so it’s about time they put that best-sellingness to the test with a truly pricey playset. Arranged in the recommended configuration, The Village measures 5 inches tall, 17 inches wide and 19 inches deep. If I am doing my math correctly here I wouldn’t know, but it takes up a significant amount of desk space I imagine. Want to hold an open house and invite your friends over? Oh, and these are the people in your neighborhood. Just your normal, everyday villagers. Nothing to see here. The Village is an expansive (and expensive) set, packed with squares taking the place of things that are normally squares in the first place. I really do love the look of these sets. I’ve been itching to buy more LEGO Minecraft since I put together the First Night set last year. The only thing holding me back, and this might sound silly, is I haven’t played enough Minecraft the game to feel entitled to buying more Minecraft the LEGO sets.
That and I am seriously running out of room. Best to get it out of my system in one village-sized building marathon come June 1.Set 10179Set OfBiggest Lego Set11 BiggestMillenium FalconLego SetsSets You ReWars StarTrek EuForwardWhich LEGO sets are the biggest of the big? To construct any of these sets, you're probably going to need a bigger table...We’ve got the biggest LEGO Technic set in the world here this week and we’re about to get in deep with how much we dig it. This is the LEGO Bucket Wheel Excavator, a “Technic” brand set that utilizes mainly Technic pieces, but a small set of standard LEGO bricks as well. This set is more than just a Technic set – it’s not just a model. It’s not the sort of thing an adult builds and lets sit on a shelf, as some LEGO Technic sets are prone to do. Instead, this set, be it on purpose or by complete coincidence, works with LEGO Minifigures. As we were very, very big fans of the LEGO Movie (see our original LEGO Movie Review), we’ve got a lot of Emmets on-hand.
More Emmets than we do regular construction workers, as it were – and so this photo session came into being. NOTE: LEGO makes no claim that this set is able to work with Minifigures (Emmet or otherwise), it’s just us here at SlashGear that’ve decided it should be so. The set is built completely according to the instructions included with the set (minus the extra dump-truck, which we’ve not photographed here), and Emmet looks like he’s right at home in nearly every location a person might stand on a machine such as this. Emmet fits in the Bucket Wheel Excavator’s driver’s seat – not perfectly (unless we wanted to mod it), but close enough. Emmet runs along the Bucket Wheel Excavator’s access decks. Emmet hangs from the ladders – which are, of course, standard Minifigure size. Emmet sits in a shovel! SEE ALSO: MetalBeard’s Sea Cow LEGO Review. FUN FACT: This is currently the largest LEGO Technic set in the history of LEGO. This Bucket Wheel Excavator has a LEGO motor and battery box that, with the help of a large number of gears and bars and three switches, makes for an interesting set of abilities.
The battery box and the motor sit right next to one another at the tail end of the crane – the end opposite the shovel wheel. There, 6x AA batteries later, the builder is able to control the excavator. Actions are controlled by three switches at the top of the tail end of the crane, just to the side of the battery box and motor. We are able to activate several functions here. The shovel wheel can be turned on and off on its own. The other two functions require that the shovel wheel switch be activated. As such, if the builder wishes to activate the treads so that the bucket loader moves forward or backward, they’ll also need the shovel wheel moving at the same time. The same is true of the entire top portion of the crane moving left or right – that requires that the switch be flipped for the shovel wheel, too. STEP 1: Shovels dig up bricks. STEP 2: Shovels drop bricks down slide to first conveyer belt. STEP 3: Conveyer belt moves bricks up crane arm.
STEP 4: First Conveyer belt transfers bricks to Second Conveyer belt. STEP 5: Second Conveyer belt drops bricks off in any direction, 180 degrees. around the back and to the sides of the vehicle. As the shovel digs up LEGO brick “rocks” (standard bricks, included with the set), they’re dropped on to one conveyer belt, up the arm of the crane, and down to a second conveyer belt. This second conveyer belt drops the rocks out the back or to the side of the vehicle. The digging bit is a bit complicated – it doesn’t just pick up masses of bricks with ease. Instead, it’s a situation where the builder has to push pieces near/into the shovels as they rotate. That is, unless they happen to have a very deep pile of bricks that’s forever filling in the area where the shovels pull bricks up. Note too that the builder will need to dig only bricks within the size ratio given in the bag-o-LEGO-rocks in the set (unlike the digging bit of the video above). The correct bricks are “Round 2 x 2 Dome Tops” for the most part – large enough not to get caught in any cracks, small enough to go down the slide between chutes.
The second conveyer belt moves automatically, but the direction the chute is pointed is controlled manually. The builder can let it move freely, or they can flip a switch (much like the switches at the top of the rig) that’ll keep the chute in one place. ABOVE: The second chute (Emmet’s in the way if we’d want to move it). BELOW: The lock switch to keep the second chute in place. Also in the mix are a variety of little bits that can move – ladders, for example. The top of the driver’s seat console moves as well, so that we can drop our favorite version of Emmet in as we wish. The crane arm can be lifted and lowered precisely by a set of Technic Linear Actuator pieces included with the set. These arms are not common pieces, by any means. They’re LEGO brick plastic on the outside and metal on the inside, and with the setup the instructions provide, the builder will be turning a tiny wheel connected to these actuators to move the entire crane arm up and down.
This is just about the only part of the whole build that I believe could be improved upon by an intrepid builder. Employing another battery pack and motor somewhere in the build (good luck) could potentially allow this arm to raise and lower with a switch – but we leave that to them. ABOVE: Front bumper with specifications tag for this unique vehicle. This set is 22.8 x 18.81 x 6.61 inches in the box (that’s the box’s dimensions) and weighs in at 13.16 pounds. The Bucket Wheel Excavator on its own is 16-in (41cm) high, 28-in (72cm) long and 11-in (29cm) wide. For transport from room to room, this model can be picked up by the handy handle at its top. Easy as can be. As you’ll see in our original write-up, this model can also produce a dump-truck in addition to the excavator. The excavator can also be taken apart and reconstructed into a Mobile Aggregate Processing Plant. Or a very interested builder could buy TWO sets and put both machines together to work in concert.