Last Christmas, I picked up the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon (Ultimate Collector Series). It’s a whopping 7541 pieces and is the largest LEGO set ever built. A friend of mine made an awesome unboxing and timelapse video of my build. Enjoy!
The instruction book is coil bound and is basically a giant intimidating tome…
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The detail is pretty amazing – both inside and outside.
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It’s also got minifigs from both the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy! They also include the radar dish from each of the trilogies that can be swapped in and out.
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Inside the big box, there are 4 boxes with numbered bags. The instruction book goes in order starting with bag 1 and so on, but it’s not clear which box contains what numbered bags since it’s not sorted – you’re forced to look through all of them. There’s also some weird stuff where there are unnumbered bags and some bags have extra pieces that get used in a different part of the build, but the instructions don’t indicate this at all.
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To protect it from dust, I bought some acrylic panels and glued them together to make a box for it. There’s also a stand that the Millennium Falcon is sitting on, which is this display stand.
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I found the build pretty cool when I was building stuff like the different rooms inside the ship, and the outer hull sections. Since there is SO much detail everywhere, it can be a little bit tedious to build the little tiny bits of detail everywhere. But in the end, it looks absolutely amazing and is a definitely a conversation piece for guests 🙂