Star Wars fans aren’t shy about flexing on each other when it comes to their dedication to the saga. It could be their trivia knowledge, ability to recite the dialogue of every movie, or most commonly, their collectibles. That’s why Amazon’s 20%-off deal on the LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary Millennium Falcon is noteworthy. The new $68 sale price beats the LEGO Store’s full-retail price tag by nearly $20.
This isn’t the massive $850 Ultimate Collector Series Falcon that takes up an entire shelf and six weekends to build, but it is the mid-scale 25th Anniversary collectible from the Starship Collection, designed to sit on your desk at a dynamic angle on its display stand with a nameplate underneath it. It’s a finely detailed and classy-looking addition to your home, not the play-shoot-crash-rebuild toy version.
Test Your Knowledge
The LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary Falcon is a 921-piece build that recreates the Millennium Falcon as it appears in A New Hope, which means the round sensor dish (not the rectangular one from The Empire Strikes Back and beyond, but you knew that already). The model captures the cockpit, the quad laser cannons, and the dish in LEGO form at a scale that’s genuinely displayable without clearing a dedicated table.
The Starship Collection sets are mid-scale display models, which puts them in a different category from both the minifigure-scale playsets and the 7,541-piece goliath UCS version. There are no minifigures in the box. You get the ship, the display stand, a nameplate, and a special 25th Anniversary brick that marks the LEGO Star Wars line’s first quarter century. If you were expecting an X-wing pilot or a Wookiee to pose alongside it, this isn’t the set you’re looking for. If you want a piece that reads as décor rather than a toy collection, you’ve hit the bullseye.
Time Well Spent
At 921 pieces, the build time on this kit should fall in the range of a long evening or a relaxed weekend afternoon. LEGO has positioned the Sets for Adults line around that sort of appeal, and the Starship Collection builds support it better than most. There’s enough complexity in the surface greebling to keep the build interesting, and the finished object has a clarity of purpose that a lot of display sets lack. (Greebling was coined by George Lucas himself, but you knew that already.)
The 25th Anniversary brick is the clincher in terms of collectibility. LEGO Star Wars launched in 1999, and for anyone who built one of the original sets at that point, the 25th Anniversary milestone carries some emotional heft. At just $68 at Amazon, the 25th Anniversary Millennium Falcon is a great find for a Star Wars fan who wants something to display and doesn’t need it to be a room-scale project.
