BrickLegacy Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 So how many of you took advantage of that sale? I was able to get through after being on hold for quite a while that day. Thanks for the tip! Kinda hoping this box arrives in bad shape so I have an excuse to build one Quote
vexxet Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 did know where to post this exactly, but i just wanted to let my bros over here know that I just picked up 3 Lego Millennium Falcon's for 67.95$ at the Disney store in my mall. Gooooooooo! 3 Quote
jharrison Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 And now sold out at TRU.ca (canada) Just 10 left at playvaluetoys.com - as near as I can tell these are the only ones you'll find online in Canada now. Quote
jaylay Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 did know where to post this exactly, but i just wanted to let my bros over here know that I just picked up 3 Lego Millennium Falcon's for 67.95$ at the Disney store in my mall. Gooooooooo! Dang what remote corner of the world are you from? That's more than 50% off their msrp. Ide clean house on all the disney stores around you for sure! Quote
jaylay Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 did know where to post this exactly, but i just wanted to let my bros over here know that I just picked up 3 Lego Millennium Falcon's for 67.95$ at the Disney store in my mall. Gooooooooo! Dang what remote corner of the world are you from? That's more than 50% off their msrp. Ide clean house on all the disney stores around you for sure! Quote
vexxet Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Dang what remote corner of the world are you from? That's more than 50% off their msrp. Ide clean house on all the disney stores around you for sure! oh yeah I cleaned them out. I was actually just looking for star wars black figures for 5$ (6 inch) but this was the only Disney store I found legos at out of the 3. It was crazy good luck. The lady that I bought them from said ohhh my husband collects legos but that didnt stop me from cleaning them out. haha. Quote
jaisonline Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 I finally built this set with my son. Sold all my MISB sets and picked up a used one for $110. While my boy loves it, I was so disappointed. If you look at the sets available around or slightly after this one debuted (Slave 1, Vader's Tie, Tie-Fighter, B-Wing, A-Wing, X-Wing, etc...) , the 7965 looks like a quick attempt to throw something together. While there are nice play features, there are glowing negatives like the boarding ramp, cockpit, gleaming openings between seems, how the top opens, overall scaling, etc... I was going to write a review but another web site already had a perfect review (the writer must think like me). Still can't believe this was a $140 retail set...so overpriced. Must read.. http://www.fbtb.net/2011/11/25/review-7965-millennium-falcon/ Quote
mscheaf Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 I finally built this set with my son. Sold all my MISB sets and picked up a used one for $110. While my boy loves it, I was so disappointed. If you look at the sets available around or slightly after this one debuted (Slave 1, Vader's Tie, Tie-Fighter, B-Wing, A-Wing, X-Wing, etc...) , the 7965 looks like a quick attempt to throw something together. While there are nice play features, there are glowing negatives like the boarding ramp, cockpit, gleaming openings between seems, how the top opens, overall scaling, etc... I was going to write a review but another web site already had a perfect review (the writer must think like me). Still can't believe this was a $140 retail set...so overpriced. Must read..http://www.fbtb.net/2011/11/25/review-7965-millennium-falcon/ It's the almost exact same design as 4504 isn't it? I haven't built this one yet but I thought 4504 was fantastic. One of my all time favorites. Quote
matt1147 Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Wow that's a scathing review. Haha Isn't it still the best version that we have (other than UCS obviously)? I never owned either of the previous iterations.... Quote
Darth_Raichu Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) I finally built this set with my son. Sold all my MISB sets and picked up a used one for $110. While my boy loves it, I was so disappointed. If you look at the sets available around or slightly after this one debuted (Slave 1, Vader's Tie, Tie-Fighter, B-Wing, A-Wing, X-Wing, etc...) , the 7965 looks like a quick attempt to throw something together. While there are nice play features, there are glowing negatives like the boarding ramp, cockpit, gleaming openings between seems, how the top opens, overall scaling, etc... I was going to write a review but another web site already had a perfect review (the writer must think like me). Still can't believe this was a $140 retail set...so overpriced. Must read..http://www.fbtb.net/2011/11/25/review-7965-millennium-falcon/ I thought it was a great attempt for a play set. They managed to include several details like the smuggling compartment and the 2 men turrets controller. I actually appreciate the ability to open part of the top (instead of the whole top) to access the inside of the ship. The ship was pretty sturdy when you swoosh it around. A boarding ramp would have made the body too fragile, IMHO. My only complain was they did not include C3PO and R2-D2 with the set Edited January 21, 2015 by Darth_Raichu 1 Quote
JosephMali Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Can someone tell me if we have more solid evidence that another MF is coming out soon. Thanks. Quote
stephen_rockefeller Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Already been confirmed set number will be released this summer closer to episode 7 release. 1 Quote
gregpj Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 I thought it was a great attempt for a play set. They managed to include several details like the smuggling compartment and the 2 men turrets controller. I actually appreciate the ability to open part of the top (instead of the whole top) to access the inside of the ship. The ship was pretty sturdy when you swoosh it around. A boarding ramp would have made the body too fragile, IMHO. My only complain was they did not include C3PO and R2-D2 with the set I really like ours... but it's the only one we own. My two complaints are the that the legs don't fold up somewhere when you're swooshing it and those stupid flick fire missiles underneath. The kids are always knocking them out and losing the red cones. Otherwise I think the design is pretty ingenious even if it's not perfect. Looks like a Millennium Falcon to anyone that sees it. 1 Quote
exciter1 Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 I really like ours... but it's the only one we own. My two complaints are the that the legs don't fold up somewhere when you're swooshing it and those stupid flick fire missiles underneath. The kids are always knocking them out and losing the red cones. Otherwise I think the design is pretty ingenious even if it's not perfect. Looks like a Millennium Falcon to anyone that sees it. On pretty much any build we do, my son just hands over the flick-fire missiles and says he doesn't want them. He's either tired of picking them up, or doesn't want me hounding him to pick them up. 2 Quote
Darth_Raichu Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) I really like ours... but it's the only one we own. My two complaints are the that the legs don't fold up somewhere when you're swooshing it and those stupid flick fire missiles underneath. The kids are always knocking them out and losing the red cones. Otherwise I think the design is pretty ingenious even if it's not perfect. Looks like a Millennium Falcon to anyone that sees it. Oh I forgot about the legs. Those were the first thing I wanted to make fold-able. I was/am not ingenious enough to figure out a way to make them fold-able and stable though Flick missiles are flick missiles Edited January 21, 2015 by Darth_Raichu Quote
naf Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 The Falcon is a hard set to do in Lego, it has a very odd shape and a lot of curvature. On top of that, it's so iconic that it needs to look pretty close to what appears on screen for fans to accept it. That's why the UCS version looks so good, it's like Lego told the designer to throw piece count and production costs out the window, make the thing look exactly like the ship we see in the movie. 7965 had the very difficult task of looking like the Falcon, falling within a piece count and price point constraint for a retail set, and the need to have play features. With that in mind, I think it's a great set. It comes with the core cast of episode 4 minifigs, it's very sturdy, swooshable, and in my opinion looks just fine if you remember that it is a Lego set and not an exact representation. The bottom looks like junk, but would you sacrifice pieces that give the top and interior detail so that the bottom can look more "finished"? In terms of scale, no Lego set is going to be to scale, that's the nature of medium. The cockpit is large compared to the rest of the ship, but you can fit both Han and Chewie in it so I think it's worth the sacrifice in scale. I consider 10198 Tantive IV to be in the same category as 7965, it's a playset model that looks like the original ship, but has scale issues and sacrifices some accuracies for play features. I don't feel like 10198 gets the same hate, but that's probably because the Falcon is more well known and loved. The guys over at fbtb seem to be very hard to please at times, a lot of their reviews need to be taken with a very large grain of salt. I think they forget that they're reviewing Lego and not some perfectly to scale, screen accurate model. 3 Quote
JosephMali Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Already been confirmed set number will be released this summer closer to episode 7 release. Where are you finding this information? Quote
cladner Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Where are you finding this information? brickpicker. its in the forum somewhere under star wars sets. Quote
fuzzy_bricks Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 The guys over at fbtb seem to be very hard to please at times, a lot of their reviews need to be taken with a very large grain of salt. I think they forget that they're reviewing Lego and not some perfectly to scale, screen accurate model. They certainly don't fawn over sets just because they are made of LEGO, but I enjoy their reviews for that reason. I may end up dismissing most of their criticisms as trivial, but at least they brought them up. Quote
JosephMali Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 brickpicker. its in the forum somewhere under star wars sets. Thanks. Anything more specific? I am not finding anything yet. It it like the 7965? Should I sell mine? Quote
stephen_rockefeller Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Where are you finding this information? The brick show guys are an excellent source for upcoming sets. They go to all the toy fairs and know many people in the industry. 1 Quote
templesweeper Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Thanks. Anything more specific? I am not finding anything yet. It it like the 7965? Should I sell mine? If you don't want the "classic" Falcon, then I'm sure you can't go wrong selling it. But remember, the new Falcon for Episode 7 has a few different design points (the antenna is rectangular, not circular, for example) so if you don't care about that, feel free to sell. Me, I'm keeping. I don't see a classic Falcon being made for maybe a decade. Quote
jaisonline Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Wow that's a scathing review. Haha yup. i think it's sorta deserved though especially with a $139.99 MSRP tag. Isn't it still the best version that we have (other than UCS obviously)? I never owned either of the previous iterations.... yes, it is. unfort, i think saying it's the best version to date isn't much ha Quote
exciter1 Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 If you don't want the "classic" Falcon, then I'm sure you can't go wrong selling it. But remember, the new Falcon for Episode 7 has a few different design points (the antenna is rectangular, not circular, for example) so if you don't care about that, feel free to sell. Me, I'm keeping. I don't see a classic Falcon being made for maybe a decade. I hope the new one has an updated bathroom. Chewie needs some room to maneuver. 2 Quote
gregpj Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Oh I forgot about the legs. Those were the first thing I wanted to make fold-able. I was/am not ingenious enough to figure out a way to make them fold-able and stable though Flick missiles are flick missiles Some day it might be something I try to modify those legs.... but I have a problem (well, one of many haha), I'm a Lego set purist 99% of the time. I don't like to modify sets unless there is a significant problem with them that causes them to fall apart, etc. Or I do small things like I did with my 41999 where I mounted the extra license plate under the chassis to keep it with the set. Working on a deal for some used sets including two 7965s so maybe it'll be my chance soon. My fingers are sore from assembling the rear tracks for the UCS Sandcrawler last night though! 1 Quote
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