75192 - UCS: Millennium Falcon 2017

[marcandre]

1 hour ago, Foxhound said:

According to rumors, the set will consist of more than 7.000 pieces, cost 799,99€, will be revealed on Force Friday and will be released on October, 1st.

Source: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-star-wars-ucs-millennium-falcon-75192-vorstellung-beim-force-friday/37905

In für drei 

[longshot]

From everything Ive heard from my sources the set should come in at $799 US.......... Honestly cant imagine it costing anymore than that if they want it to be within reach of most people.

[brickvoyeur]

1 minute ago, longshot said:

From everything Ive heard from my sources the set should come in at $799 US.......... Honestly cant imagine it costing anymore than that if they want it to be within reach of most people.

While I understand what goes into the cost of creating an IP protected Lego set.... $799 is out of reach for "most people" when it comes to a box of plastic bricks. The only people buying this set will be collectors with disposable income. Little Timmy from a working class family isn't going to have this under the tree. It will though, in my opinion, drive up the sales of 75105. Parents will be more willing to compromise when Timmy asks for this bohemoth, and the other set can be found more than $650 cheaper.

[exciter1]

Just now, brickvoyeur said:

While I understand what goes into the cost of creating an IP protected Lego set.... $799 is out of reach for "most people" when it comes to a box of plastic bricks. The only people buying this set will be collectors with disposable income. Little Timmy from a working class family isn't going to have this under the tree. It will though, in my opinion, drive up the sales of 75105. Parents will be more willing to compromise when Timmy asks for this bohemoth, and the other set can be found more than $650 cheaper.

I think people with available credit will still buy this set.

[longshot]

I still think $800 is a pretty steep price, but considering the new DS is $500 and isnt half as interesting or built anywhere near as well as this MF will be it seems somewhat reasonable. I do think little Timmy will be very content with 75105 or any number of more reasonably priced sets. Even as a collector once you start to cross the $1000 mark you have to think twice about it. I know for me even with SS stuff my limit is around $500............not that some of the pricier pieces Id love to have just cant justify it.

[Darth_Raichu]

34 minutes ago, longshot said:

From everything Ive heard from my sources the set should come in at $799 US.......... Honestly cant imagine it costing anymore than that if they want it to be within reach of most people.

$800? That means I have to QF for about $950 shipped just to get my $5 profit  BOO!!!

[longshot]

2 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

$800? That means I have to QF for about $950 shipped just to get my $5 profit  BOO!!!

Probably closer to $975 unless you sell it locally. Im just guessing, but if they sell out quickly and are scarce for Xmas this set should be selling for around $1200-1400 on ebay.

[Val-E]

Yawn, it´s going to be a loooong month.

[Cheese]

Got some info today on the Falcon and it looks like it's a complete remake similar to the Death Star remake. Practically identical with some colour changes to rare parts with new radar dish and minifigures. Retail will be $799. Hope everyone has offloaded all of their spare inventory.

[Bold-Arrow]

Just now, LahH001 said:

Got some info today on the Falcon and it looks like it's a complete remake similar to the Death Star remake. Practically identical with some colour changes to rare parts with new radar dish and minifigures. Retail will be $799. Hope everyone has offloaded all of their spare inventory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lovely

[Darth_Raichu]

1 minute ago, LahH001 said:

Got some info today on the Falcon and it looks like it's a complete remake similar to the Death Star remake. Practically identical with some colour changes to rare parts with new radar dish and minifigures. Retail will be $799. Hope everyone has offloaded all of their spare inventory

Can't wait to see the Designers' Video 

[Furious_george]

Designer / photocopier.

[WCH]

Interesting, I feel like this thing is going to be so hard to QF if it retails at $799

Edited July 29, 2017 by WCH

[boliramirez]

In for 10 !!!  

[exciter1]

1 hour ago, LahH001 said:

Got some info today on the Falcon and it looks like it's a complete remake similar to the Death Star remake. Practically identical with some colour changes to rare parts with new radar dish and minifigures. Retail will be $799. Hope everyone has offloaded all of their spare inventory.

Do the cheese slopes add a much needed play factor?

[Lordoflego]

Where's the freaken leaked image finally? Damn.

[starwarsxpress]

so excited for this I can hardly wait

[exciter1]

30 minutes ago, Lordoflego said:

Where's the freaken leaked image finally? Damn.

I think we've had 7 different versions.

[CM4Sci]

2 hours ago, LahH001 said:

Got some info today on the Falcon and it looks like it's a complete remake similar to the Death Star remake. Practically identical with some colour changes to rare parts with new radar dish and minifigures. Retail will be $799. Hope everyone has offloaded all of their spare inventory.

Gotta know something though

 

 

Is there an extra cheese slope?

[Cheese]

Gotta know something though
 
 
Is there an extra cheese slope?

What happened to you with your photo shopping now makes sense

[Dr Jedi]

5 hours ago, LahH001 said:

Got some info today on the Falcon and it looks like it's a complete remake similar to the Death Star remake. Practically identical with some colour changes to rare parts with new radar dish and minifigures. Retail will be $799. Hope everyone has offloaded all of their spare inventory.

Something has to be different if this price is correct.  10179 was just short of 5200 pieces.  Even at today's prices, and considering the Star Wars theme, that can't be more $650.  $700 absolute max.  So where does the extra $100 come from?  Is that a tax just to thank Lego for re-releasing 10179 and saving lots of people thousands of dollars?  Or is the argument that they've packed more, smaller pieces into essentially the same model, and in so doing run the piece count up to 6000 and the price to $800?  

If this model is largely unchanged from 10179, I really don't see it selling well at $800.  I'll hold out hope a little longer that we're going to get something that is a significant improvement from the original.  Unfortunately, the last time I held out hope that a Lego rumor like this wasn't true, we ended up with a WTS re-release.

[Cheese]

Something has to be different if this price is correct.  10179 was just short of 5200 pieces.  Even at today's prices, and considering the Star Wars theme, that can't be more $650.  $700 absolute max.  So where does the extra $100 come from?  Is that a tax just to thank Lego for re-releasing 10179 and saving lots of people thousands of dollars?  Or is the argument that they've packed more, smaller pieces into essentially the same model, and in so doing run the piece count up to 6000 and the price to $800?  
If this model is largely unchanged from 10179, I really don't see it selling well at $800.  I'll hold out hope a little longer that we're going to get something that is a significant improvement from the original.  Unfortunately, the last time I held out hope that a Lego rumor like this wasn't true, we ended up with a WTS re-release.

Didn't get any info on mini figures so possibly more mini figures, for example adding in figures from new trilogy. Throw in another six minifigures and there's easily the justification for another $100. There will be new building techniques that they will have applied ( a la cheese slopes!) which will boost the piece count without changing the fundamental aesthetics of the model

[marcandre]

2 hours ago, Dr Jedi said:

Something has to be different if this price is correct.  So where does the extra $100 come from?  

 

Disney logo on the box costs $100...

[KShine]

I think someone might need to start working on an update for this image.

Edited July 29, 2017 by KShine

[jaisonline]

here's where the extra money goes (when compares to 10179's MSRP)

• inflation
• licensing fee to Disney / LucasFilm.  i'm sure it increases regularly. 
• additional bricks, minifigs, stickers, printed elements, etc...
• projected extra money the Lego suits know they can charge since many SW fans are fanatics.  Only problem is ANY $800 MSRP Lego set will sit on retail shelves and warehouses after the initial demand is fulfilled.  It's too much money even w/ nice discounts.