We Build the LEGO Death Star, the Most Expensive LEGO Set Ever Designed

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The LEGO Death Star, disposable now, is excessive. It's excessive successful size, spanning astir 3 feet gangly and 3 feet wide – the pictures don't truly bash it justice; your jaw volition driblet a spot astatine seeing it successful person. It's excessive successful scope, encompassing six floors of elaborate Star Wars iconography, positive 38(!) minifigures of Sith Lords, Jedi, Imperial officers, and Rebel scum.

LEGO Star Wars Death Star

LEGO Star Wars Death Star

And yes, it is excessive successful price. The LEGO Death Star costs $1,000, making it the astir costly acceptable successful LEGO's history. Thanks to LEGO and Disney's third-party licensing agreement, it is astatine slightest $100 much costly than accepted contented would dictate.

I bash judge determination is – successful the theoretical realm of anticipation – a LEGO gathering acquisition that is worthy $1,000. But this acceptable falls abbreviated of that.

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The intelligence interaction of crossing the $1,000 threshold demands thing unprecedented, the likes of which we've ne'er seen before. Perhaps, it could airs a formidable situation for the precocious LEGO builder, similar 2021's R2-D2. Or possibly it could embody the decadent item of 2024's Jabba's Sail Barge, a massive, transcendently unthinkable acceptable which manages to warrant its terms tag. Or possibly it could descent by connected sheer nostalgia and ocular accuracy, similar 2024's TIE Interceptor.

The LEGO Death Star, however, is modular worldly (high standard, but inactive standard), and the portion number conscionable means there's a full batch of it. One constituent of this physique is genuinely adjacent level: a moving turbolift that moves, via turning gears, to each six floors of the set. The remainder of the set's features are anyplace from "good" to "very good." But "good" isn't what astir radical are looking for erstwhile evaluating a acceptable this prohibitively expensive.

One constituent of this physique is genuinely adjacent level: a moving turbolift that moves, via turning gears, to each six floors of the set.

The LEGO Death Star comes successful a monolithic container with 3 smaller nesting boxes, which harvester to signifier an representation of Darth Vader. There are 81 bags successful this build, with anyplace from 25-27 bags per box. The archetypal container contains a azygous sticker sheet, though the designers besides scattered respective printed tiles passim the physique arsenic well.

The archetypal happening you'll announcement (or person already noticed) astir the physique is that it's not a sphere, adjacent though each anterior LEGO Death Star iterations person been spheres. This Death Star exemplary is much akin to a heavy portion – a cross-section of a sphere – that gives you a shadiness container presumption of the scenery. If you presumption the Death Star from the back:

You get a look astatine however the elevator works, but not overmuch else. But if you presumption it from the front:

You tin spot everything. Along the model's bottommost is the vessel hangar, which besides includes a abstracted Imperial shuttle craft. To the near of that is the trash compactor room, which you tin compress and grow with the crook of a knob. Above that is simply a generic hallway, which Han runs down successful bid to flight the Stormtroopers. On the close extremity of that hallway is simply a chute where, if you driblet a minifigure into it, he'll extremity up successful the trash compactor, which is simply a neat spot of communicative consistency.

Above that is the detention area, wherever Vader keeps Leia aft her interrogation. The interrogation droid is really stored successful the leftmost country astatine the extremity of the hallway, 1 level down. But you tin easy determination it upstairs and clip it into Leia's holding compartment if you're roleplaying torture.

The LEGO Death Star contains aggregate power rooms. There's 1 for the monolithic Superlaser connected the near side, which besides contains a flippable show of Alderaan, some "before" and "after." There's different power country for the detention artifact successful the middle. Lastly, there's a hangar power country each the mode connected the right, which straight overlooks the hangar bay.

Above this 3rd power country is Darth Vader's meditation chamber. To the near of that is the constrictive walkway that leads to the tractor beam controls, which Obi Wan shuts down to flight the Death Star. Above that is simply a retractable walkway, with a consecutive rod attached to the ceiling that turns connected a gear. Here, you tin recreate the country wherever Leia and Luke plaything crossed to marque a daring escape. To the close of that is the Imperial serviceman league room, wherever Vader unit choked the serviceman who dared to insult his religion ("I find your deficiency of religion disturbing.").

Nearly done. In the apical near country is simply a chill Easter Egg: a rec country for a LEGO Star Wars Stormtrooper, featuring a blistery tub and a karaoke machine. There's a concealed compartment containing a monolithic laser cannon each the mode connected the right. And lastly, the Emperor's Throne Room, wherever Luke and Vader person their climactic duel successful Episode VI, takes up astir a floor-and-a-half by itself. Back successful 2023, LEGO sold a small-scale diorama of the Throne Room to observe Return of the Jedi's anniversary.

So ideate if you built much than 1 of these miniature Star Wars dioramas – 1 for the trash compactor, 1 for the throne room, and 1 for the meditation chamber, for illustration – and past stacked them up. That's the champion mode to explicate what the LEGO Death Star is. It's a monolithic diorama composed of smaller dioramas; they stock a communal theme, but they're islands unto themselves. There's nary existent effort to make communicative oregon applicable coherence betwixt the rooms, which are excessively cramped to roleplay without archetypal taking the exemplary apart.

Make nary mistake: each country is bully enough. But I ne'er felt similar I was gathering a monolithic Death Star – conscionable idiosyncratic setpieces arranged successful the quality of one. Or, to paraphrase Palpatine: This is not a afloat operational conflict station.

To paraphrase Palpatine: This is not a afloat operational conflict station. 

Thus, the LEGO Death Star is for hardcore Star Wars fans with disposable income – capable disposable income that the terms tag is simply a literal non-factor. Put different way: if the thought of buying this acceptable makes you wonder, "Is it worthy it?" past you're astir apt not its people audience.

If you are successful the people assemblage for the LEGO Death Star, you'll person amusive with this. Just cognize that this is not a playset; it is simply a country centerpiece designed with show successful mind, and it volition predominate immoderate abstraction you enactment it in. It's large capable and fragile capable that 1 should not bargain it without a predetermined spot to show it and a reinforced support to clasp it steady.

As for the remainder of us: the champion LEGO Star Wars acceptable this year, judge it oregon not, is the caller LEGO Gingerbread AT-AT! It's a holiday-themed physique with candy canes for cannons and Christmas lights and sweetener for aboveground detail. It opens up to uncover a Christmas scene, and it comes with a gingerbread Darth Vader. I loved gathering this set, and it's lone $60 – a specified 6% of what the LEGO Death Star costs, for adjacent much of the charm.

LEGO Star Wars: Death Star, Set #75419, retails for $999.99, and it is composed of 9023 pieces. It is disposable now, exclusively astatine the LEGO Store.

Kevin Wong is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing successful LEGO. He's besides been published successful Complex, Engadget, Gamespot, Kotaku, and more. Follow him connected Twitter astatine @kevinjameswong.

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