Specific model of a Collector's Series X-Wing?

[forkmaster]

I've had this for over a decade, probably close to 15 years now. I don't actually remember how I got it, because I was really young and it was a gift. It's a big X-Wing, says it's from the "Ultimate Collector Series." Here's the twist--it's in a case, and cut in half. The left half of the X-Wing is made of actual physical Legos, and the right half is represented by a big mirror. (Some of my pictures are a bit awkwardly angled for that reason, didn't want visuals of half my room floating about the internet...)

 

My main question is why? What is this? The actual Ultimate Collector X-Wing seems rare enough as is, I can't even find any info on this thing. Anyone know?

 

Pardon the dust. 

 

 

[Guest betsy805]

7191?  Nevermind....can't explain the mirror

[Guest brickcrazyhouse]

Probably a promotial piece and the mirror effect was used to cut down on the display size, as to not stick out to far on the shelf. Still pretty sweet

[TheOrcKing]

Lego actually did the unthinkable with cutting the build in half and then stuck it to a mirror as a way of minimizing used shelf space. The mirror as you can tell was a gimmick to make it seem whole as well as floating in air. Even so the worth for this unique display should be worth a pretty penny.

[Noodlenut]

You have half of this X-wing and a mirror:  http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=7191-1

 

Because this was made for a display case, LEGO probably decided to cut the thing in half and make twice as many display cases for half the money.  Your X-wing is indeed the 7191 UCS X-wing.  It was released in 2000 and the whole thing new is worth about $850 dollars.

[Snarkie]

http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=78717&colorID=0

 

Check out this link.

[DoNotInsertIntoMouth]

Its  a TRU display Xwing 7191.

 

I have seen several pop up on Ebay and have wanted one. Unfortunately they don't garner a ton of attention. The ones I saw sell went for about $150 or so.