zskid00 Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Wellllll, they did retire SSD... Sandcrawler in, SSD out... Slave 1 in, ??? out Quote
M4x18 Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! Tumbler or Slave... I'm ruined Quote
terrymc4677 Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Absolutely beautiful. At only $200, purchasing one per month from release to eol shouldn't sting too bad. I'm going all in on this one. 2 Quote
njseale Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Looks slightly smaller than I imagined, but I think it is jus the angles of the picture. i want to see pictures with the tumbler for size comparisons, and a tumbler/Slave 1 MOC battle would be sweet. Quote
jeff_14 Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Finally! Someone to hang out with my Lobot... There was a Cloud City guard with the second last Slave 1. I put him in my old 7119 twin pod cloud car to keep the old style Lobot company 1 Quote
jeff_14 Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Absolutely beautiful. At only $200, purchasing one per month from release to eol shouldn't sting too bad. I'm going all in on this one. Ditto Quote
trekgate502 Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Sandcrawler in, SSD out... Slave 1 in, ??? out Death Star Out, 10179 Millennium Falcon In. Quote
Grolim Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Personally I'm not a fan. I'm sure I'm in the minority there Just can't see the appeal of the Slave I as a design in general. I have plenty of SW UCS sets and people recognise them all the time when they visit, but I doubt most would know what ship this was. It's not something I crave - recognition of displayed awesomeness from visitors, but just an analogy to try and convey my feelings of it not really being an iconic SW ship, to me. I'm sure it will do pretty well in the long term as an investment though, so might pick it up for that, but it won't wrestle a display spot from other sets I have. Love that Fett minifig though! Might have to just grab one separately. I can see his price starting out very high. 1 Quote
abri123 Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 so I recently picked up a very cheap used (no box) 8097 Slave. Obviously Slave I is an OT set, and the theory is that OT sets will keep increasing in value with the new films coming out, but will this new UCS set kill off much further price rises in 8097, or will the release of the UCS set give more interest to 8097 from people that don't want to splash out $200 but still like the slave I in general (meaning still keep it for now)? Quote
MartinP Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 so I recently picked up a very cheap used (no box) 8097 Slave. Obviously Slave I is an OT set, and the theory is that OT sets will keep increasing in value with the new films coming out, but will this new UCS set kill off much further price rises in 8097, or will the release of the UCS set give more interest to 8097 from people that don't want to splash out $200 but still like the slave I in general (meaning still keep it for now)? I'm on the fence about this. The new UCS Slave I has minifigure and play features. That means it's a larger version of the 8097 IMO. That's how I see it. I don't see the 8097 increasing in value much after the release of the UCS version. Quote
Ed Mack Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Personally I'm not a fan. I'm sure I'm in the minority there Just can't see the appeal of the Slave I as a design in general. I have plenty of SW UCS sets and people recognise them all the time when they visit, but I doubt most would know what ship this was. It's not something I crave - recognition of displayed awesomeness from visitors, but just an analogy to try and convey my feelings of it not really being an iconic SW ship, to me. I'm sure it will do pretty well in the long term as an investment though, so might pick it up for that, but it won't wrestle a display spot from other sets I have. Love that Fett minifig though! Might have to just grab one separately. I can see his price starting out very high. As a LEGO set, I like it a lot. As a ship, the Slave I is ugly as sin. LOL Quote
TheOrcKing Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 As a LEGO set, I like it a lot. As a ship, the Slave I is ugly as sin. LOLI think majority of the spacecrafts in Star Wars wouldn't win any beauty contests by most people's standard. 1 Quote
Miami Bomb Squad Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Looks like a pneumatic sander. 8 Quote
Migration Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Looks like a pneumatic sander. I will never be able to look at this set again without thinking about repairing fiberglass. 1 Quote
Quacs Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Looks like a pneumatic sander. I laughed hard at this. So true. Quote
beatpoppa Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Not all UCS seems to be created equal; sometimes Star Wars is in the eye of the beholder. But Boba flew away with Carbonite Han in this ship; my 11-yr old self gives me no options where best-of-breed Slave One is concerned. 1 Quote
No More Monkeys Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I think majority of the spacecrafts in Star Wars wouldn't win any beauty contests by most people's standard. Is Sandcrawler a ship? Because it was ugly too... Quote
exciter1 Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Is Sandcrawler a ship? Because it was ugly too... No, it's an epic mammoth of a machine. Quote
No More Monkeys Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 No, it's an epic mammoth of a machine. I am sure one can fit a hyperdrive there... 1 Quote
Pseudoty Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Is Sandcrawler a ship? Because it was ugly too... From the instruction manual it is a Lumbering Mechanical Hulk. Quote
Ed Mack Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I guess it's the way that Slave I flies. It is not sleek or pretty and flies weird. As for the Sandcrawler, it's a hulking mass of metal that moves very slow. It works for me. 1 Quote
Stevenplays Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I guess it's the way that Slave I flies. It is not sleek or pretty and flies weird. As for the Sandcrawler, it's a hulking mass of metal that moves very slow. It works for me. The latter reminds me of my wife. If I had one. 1 Quote
jaisonline Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I guess it's the way that Slave I flies. It is not sleek or pretty and flies weird. As for the Sandcrawler, it's a hulking mass of metal that moves very slow. It works for me. Ditto. I'll go riding in a Sandcrawler with "holiday road" playing anyday of the week. Quote
naf Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Most Star Wars ships aren't going to win beauty contests, but that's what's great about them. They are utilitarian, dirty, bulky. I think that's why I like most OT ships better than PT ships, the PT ships are way too clean and sleek looking. Look at the MF, Lucas said that he came up with the design at lunch where his olive was stuck in the side of a hamburger bun with a toothpick. And that turned out to the be most iconic ship in Star Wars Now that I've seen this I might sell off my used 8097 while the gettings good and put that money into the UCS version. 5 Quote
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