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LEGO Star Wars UCS Falcon back in stock!

by Thita (admin) on June 16, 2018

in LEGO Star Wars

Looks like LEGO finally caught up with production of the #75192 LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon. The set was released last fall, but it was very difficult to find it in stock. However, it appears that after months of sketchy availability, the set is now steadily stocked at official LEGO stores and the Online LEGO Shop. Just in time for Father’s Day! Smart move from LEGO! 🙂

We have talked about the #75192 LEGO Star Wars UCS Falcon extensively (see links at the end of this post), including the building experience, interesting building techniques, display ideas, and even customizing the set to look like the Kessel run Falcon from the Solo: A Star Wars Story film. Below, I will only repeat the official description for your and include the designer video for your convenience.

Welcome to the largest, most detailed LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon model we’ve ever created – in fact, with 7,500 pieces it’s one of our biggest LEGO models, period! This amazing LEGO interpretation of Han Solo’s unforgettable Corellian freighter has all the details that Star Wars fans of any age could wish for, including intricate exterior detailing, upper and lower quad laser cannons, landing legs, lowering boarding ramp and a 4-minifigure cockpit with detachable canopy. Remove individual hull plates to reveal the highly detailed main hold, rear compartment and gunnery station. This amazing model also features interchangeable sensor dishes and crew, so you decide whether to play out classic LEGO Star Wars adventures with Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO, or enter the world of Episode VII and VIII with older Han, Rey, Finn and BB-8! Also includes 2 buildable Porgs and a buildable Mynock. Measures over 8” (21cm) high, 33” (84cm) long and 22” (56cm) wide. 7541 pieces. Price: $799.99 – BUY HERE

It seems like LEGO is having some issues delivering the Falcon to some LEGO fans due to the size, weight, and value of the set, so they included the following notice on the purchase page: For this item, FedEx will require an in-person direct signature at the time of delivery. FedEx will make three delivery attempts before returning the shipment to LEGO. At which point, we ask that you please contact LEGO consumer services to discuss reshipping the item, or sending it to an alternative address where a signature can be obtained.

LEGO also included some additional terms and conditions for this set, which seem to have been added to reduce fraudulent returns and exchanges. Please be advised that for the #75192 LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon the following additional terms and conditions shall apply for product exchange: Always subject to applicable federal or state law, any request for exchange of the product (return product) with another product (new product) is subject to you providing LEGO with a valid credit card as security for LEGO receiving the return product. If LEGO has not received the return product within 30 days of the date where LEGO has shipped the new product to you, LEGO will charge the full purchase price listed at the time of shipment on at the Online LEGO Shop to your credit card. Please provide track and trace information to LEGO customer service to allow LEGO to track your shipment of the return product.

If you haven’t been able to get the #75192 LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon since it was released, this is a good time to purchase it. I suspected that LEGO will keep this set in stock for at least a couple of years, however shortages could continue to happen. Other currently available LEGO Star Wars sets worth considering are the #75181 LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Y-Wing Starfighter, and the Solo: A Star Wars Story sets, including the much smaller (and thus cheaper) #75212 LEGO Star Wars Kessel Run Millennium Falcon. You can find them all at the LEGO Star Wars section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? Do you have the LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcons yet? How about any of the other new LEGO Star Wars sets? Which one is your favorite so far this year? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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Friendship 5 – the LEGO Friends Rocket House

by Thita (admin) on June 15, 2018

in Featured LEGO Creations

When we talked about the 2018 LEGO Friends collection that was released earlier this year (see: 2018 LEGO Friends Sets with Clashing Colors), we discussed how some LEGO fans felt that the designs and color combinations of several of the new sets were a bit too garish – even for LEGO Friends. While this made some people shy away from the sets, others embraced the gaudy designs and colors enthusiastically and even took them to new levels. One of the best 2018 LEGO Friends set modification I have seen is by LEGO fan Suzanne Eaton, who turned the #41340 LEGO Friends Friendship House into an awesome space rocket! 🙂

The #41340 LEGO Friends Friendship House was originally imagined by LEGO designers to be an old 4-story fire station that the girls turned into their headquarters. The building itself has a pretty simple design and muted colors, but lots of interesting multi-level space. The girls redecorated the whole building with their own colors and ideas, and also kept some of the original features like the fireman’s pole and working pulley system. There is a garage, kitchen, living area, bedroom, roof terrace, performance terrace, side balcony with barbecue, a slide, plus a friendship tree with swing and a bicycle with trailer. Very fun set overall, and a great hangout place for the five friends and their guests!

Suzanne shares that after watching the test launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy earlier this year, she got inspired to rebuild the #41340 LEGO Friends Friendship House in the shape of the Falcon Heavy. She writes on her flickr page that for the concept of the model she channeled the LEGO Friends character, Olivia. Olivia is known for being into science, and building robots, rockets, and other interesting projects. So, it made sense that she would be the one that would think about turning the old fire station turned friendship house into a rocket ship! Suzanne writes “I like to think this whole model is happening inside Olivia’s imagination…”

Suzanne writes that she started by sketching out how the Friendship House may be reconfigured to mimic the Falcon Heavy’s triple booster design. Initially, she added an elaborate heart-shaped rainbow to mount behind the central tower, but she later scrapped this idea due to the design being too distracting and fragile.

The interior is kept pretty much as close to the original as possible, with only a hot tub and swing missing. Some of the features got expanded (such as the slide, which is now triple length), and the living spaces got slightly reconfigured to accommodate whatever the girls needed for launching into space and intergalactic travel.

The front door opens into a two-story atrium, which Suzanne imagines to be the airlock in the spaceship, where the girls can take off their space helmets and other gear. The crew can move around between floors using the fireman’s pole from the original set. The crew’s quarters are on the third floor, and the navigation room is on the fourth floor, with Olivia’s robot Zobo plotting their next course. The running hamster wheel from the original set was moved upstairs and connected to the winch. This way, Rumble the hamster can help power the lifting of payloads.

To build the Friendship 5 rocket, Suzanne combined parts from three copies of the #41340 LEGO Friends Friendship House, as well as parts from her own collection (mostly for the smoke clouds, flames, and engine base). She initially wanted to make the clouds bigger, but it was getting too expensive to finish the project. After trying different solutions, she settled for a fairly simple design. I really like the sparks made with flowers pieces!

To give the Friendship 5 rocket a proper background, Suzanne took the whole model over to a radio telescope at MIT’s Haystack Observatory, just outside of Boston. If you would like to see more interior and exterior pictures of the project, check out Suzanne’s flickr gallery. And I also wanted to thank Susan from FriendsBricks.com for bringing this project to our attention. And, if you are inspired to build your own firehouse-clubhouse-rocket contraption, or other awesome LEGO Friends modifications, check out the LEGO Friends section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the Friendship 5 rocket? And what do you think of the 2018 LEGO Friends sets? Do you have any of them already? Have you modified them? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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