Here is Lego’s $1,000 Death Star, the most expensive Lego set ever

Eight years aft breaking each grounds with an $800, 7,541-piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the Lego Group is introducing its archetypal $1,000 set.

It’s an intricately elaborate Death Star astir 2 feet gangly (52.3cm), a ft and a fractional wide (48cm) and implicit a ft (38.3cm) deep, with capable compartments to re-enact astir each iconic Death Star country from Star Wars and Return of the Jedi.

We’ve ne'er seen a Lego acceptable anyplace adjacent this expensive. When the $999.99, €999.99 oregon £899.99 terms and images leaked successful July, galore wondered however the Lego Group could perchance warrant specified a terms for integrative toys!

Well, I’m present to archer you the institution has been doing amended than ever — record gross and grounds profits outpacing the full artifact manufacture — ever since it started catering to nostalgic, heavy pocketed adults and letting its prices and portion counts climb.

“$850 Millennium Falcons and $680 Titanics: Grown-Ups Are Now a Gold Mine for Lego,” The Wall Street Journal wrote past year. “Lego bricks person won implicit adults, increasing its $10 cardinal artifact marketplace foothold,” added Fortune, penning that astir 15 percent of Lego’s sets are aimed astatine adults. In my experience, that isn’t conscionable due to the fact that adults similar to play with minifigs. Building is simply a relaxing diversion, a mode to de-stress, and past you person a portion of location decor and a consciousness of accomplishment erstwhile you’re done.

But whether you’re looking for decor oregon a playset, this Death Star looks similar an unthinkable one.

Instead of offering a spherical Death Star similar earlier, blockier playsets, the caller Ultimate Collectors Series (UCS) Death Star is simply a vertical slice, a diorama acceptable similar the Batcave Shadowbox that tin unrecorded connected a support with each rooms disposable astatine once.

Almost each iconic country is accounted for here, from the hangar bay wherever Darth Vader and a squad of stormtroopers tin greet the Emperor arriving successful the included Imperial Shuttle, to the detention artifact AA-23 shootout and escape, to the garbage compactor scare, to the comms country wherever R2-D2 and C-3PO hold and helpfully unopen that compactor down.

Meanwhile, Vader tin find a disturbing deficiency of religion successful the league room, Obi-Wan Kenobi tin spell tackle the tractor beam, portion Luke and Leia plaything crossed the chasm overhead; you get superlaser targeting and power rooms for Leia to springiness up Dantooine, and a turbolift to instrumentality minifigs to each of six antithetic levels. Then, Luke tin person his Return of the Jedi showdown with Vader and the Emperor and his Red Guards successful his throne country astatine the end.

Luke and Han tin besides beryllium aggregate places simultaneously: the 38 minifigures see some “aren’t you a small abbreviated for a Stormtrooper” and Return of the Jedi versions of Luke arsenic good arsenic his archetypal outfit, positive Stormtrooper and accepted vest versions of Han. Lego says there’s adjacent a stormtrooper successful a blistery tub arsenic an easter egg.

As excited arsenic I am, I’m acrophobic it’s excessively affluent for my blood, but I won’t echo immoderate complaints that Lego isn’t adjacent giving america a afloat spherical Death Star for $1,000.

I would similar it this way, if it didn’t outgo truthful overmuch — due to the fact that dissimilar the $850 Millennium Falcon, I could really acceptable it successful my home. Even though determination isn’t capable country inside the hangar bay for a minifig-scale Millennium Falcon, oregon a afloat platoon of Stormtroopers, I tin spot them close adjacent to this acceptable and ideate they’re enclosed wrong — conscionable similar I’d ideate the remainder of the Death Star’s reactor shaft aft I nonstop the Emperor implicit the railing to his doom.

The UCS Death Star volition spell up for merchantability connected October 1st for Lego Insiders (it’s a escaped signup) oregon October 4th for everyone else. There’s a accidental for Lego Insiders to triumph 1 starting contiguous by spending 50 rewards points, and there’s a “while supplies last” promo acquisition for the archetypal buyers: a “set with a Tie Fighter with Imperial Hanger Rack.”

The Death Star isn’t the biggest Lego acceptable ever made — that’s the Art World Map oregon the Eiffel Tower oregon the Titanic, depending connected however you measure — but it does person the astir mini-figs.