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As soon as I saw the ship in Mandalorian, I instantly thought there was no way they were going to have "Baby Yoda" and a ship named "Slave I" in the same show. I suspected a move like this would be coming. Remember kids, murder is A-OK. The word "slave" is not ok. Disssssneeeeyyyyy...

Y'all crack me up. I hate to break it to you, but the Lego world does not revolve around you and the other Lego resellers out there. And there isn't a group of sales executives sitting around a room in Enfield or Billund scheming on how best to manipulate resellers into buying more of a given set. Lego is operating on a scale far larger than anything the reselling community could impact.

Thanks to a previous customer who left a string of coupons behind, including a 30% off Toys (excl. clearance, $30 max savings), picked up 20 Looney Tunes minifigures (incl. all 12 different figs) for $73 at Meijer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I should have kept my UCS Slave I. Future UCS remakes are not going to have that name on the boxes. That 20th Anniversary version is going to be

It's reached comical proportions... 1. Various "trusted sites" use past metrics and "inside info" to publish EOL lists 2. Resellers hoard 3. TLG decides to extend life since sales are so good "We" are shooting ourselves in the foot scrambling to get retiring sets...and by those exact actions causing the delay in retirement.

Official box images - not sure it's worth the £150 RRP but I'm guessing it will be in high demand!

I wouldn't attempt to put a figure on sets that are unopened in the world, but I imagine it's significant for Lego.

I imagine TLG uses an algo to determine their production these days. If a set is selling and there is no expired license and they have capacity then it will remain in production. I don't think the algo cares who is purchasing or why. It just sees the Great Hall selling out instantly, sees plenty of pieces available for production, so keeps pumping it out until the trend changes.

Lego is a private company, with two major stakeholders. They don't respond to shareholders, because they don't exist. Yay LEGO!

That is a neat mortar launcher build:

But wait, there is work involved in that. Don't know if I can do that.

Never said that resellers are nothing to Lego...just that resellers are not the kind of driver of Lego's strategy that many here think they are. How much of the $7 billion in revenue that TLG generates per year do you think are attributable to purchases by resellers? And what happens to those sales if resellers were to go away? Do you think they would just vanish...that no one else other than a reseller would be interested in buying those Lego sets? And who else were buying those particular sets? Let's see...Timmy Johnson's mom, Susie Smith's grandmother, Jack Prager's aunt, Nerdy McNerderson (for himself of course), Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo, and every other person who had an interest in buying those sets. LOL...sure...one of the most popular and successful toys of all time would be SOL if not for us resellers...I guess that's why LEGO Shop at Home has consistently banned resellers that it identified and why LEGO Shop at Home, Amazon, Walmart, and Target all impose quantity limits on purchases. Resellers are a part of the Lego ecosystem, but we're not a necessary part...we exist and profit because of the popularity of the product. Take us away and the product remains just as popular and does just as well...the products that we purchase are simply purchased by someone else.

So.... anyone been watching this season? I believe we are up to four episodes aired with the last being building big hats or something.

It’s been called a similar name since 1980, but we can call it Slave 1 as long as we want to.

Also, per The Brick Fan, the official name of the set will be “Bobba Fett’s Starship” and not Slave I. Apparently Disney is walking away from the original name so we may have seen the last “Slave I” labeled box ever.

uk is now flooded with sellers. morons with youtube & twitter throwing out garbage on an hourly basis just adds to the hold time.

He’s right you guys. Lego had $7B in revenue last year. Resellers are a flea on a hippo’s ass to Lego.

Are you sure about this? Take a guess at the % of Lego sales, particularly in the quiet months, that are resellers. Year on year they are pressured to show growth by shareholders. They have disdain for resellers so why not take advantage of them?

Didn't think they ever retired that set. Looks like the same set for 15 years . . .

I’ve cut down on Lego purchases this year due to sets being extended, more re-releases (ideas) but also I find Lego LEGO Shop at Home are delivering sets in worse condition. Smyths also very poor on delivery. I had to send some back as really bad condition boxes from both. LEGO Shop at Home use DPD here in the UK and I always say damage parcels drastically. Also the last May 4th offers this year were atrocious. I think Lego don’t need the adults buying in bulk like years ago as more adults are generally into Lego (which is good for resellers) but agree with some posts here the sold out and some other news from retiring websites can be misleading.....its certainly not as straightforward to buy/resell as a few years ago.

Who here feels like the lego group are taking advantage now as a re seller? Please do not believe the tie fighter sold out sign and go out and mad buy, this is what they want you to do. These signs are very misleading and not to be trusted anymore. The lego group know exactly what there doing, the info lately being leaked has been very inaccurate and imo you can no longer trust lists or youtube videos and sources. All I would say is keep an eye on amazon, amazon tells the whole story with all the fake news. In the last year investing has gone from bad to worse. Many people now must either have cut down or stopped completely. It won't be longer before they just keep everything in production or just for an insane time before retirement, you don't want to be stuck with tonnes of sets at this point.

Meanwhile Amazon (UK) have refreshed their Great Hall inventory from 400 off last weekend to 999+ yet again. It's been 'sold out' for many weeks. I think Lego welcome these leaks, maybe even help to manufacture them. Free advertising - and who can blame them.

A “cover”? This is Tina, bass player from Talking Heads and her husband

If you can’t wait for the next global pandemic just make a YouTube video saying how these are better than gold.

Keep your eyes out I have been finding these for $25 at some Walmarts and they just came out.