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Wow! I didn't notice that. I think it's a terrible direction for Lego to go. It makes me feel like it goes against what Lego is about. I don't want to buy stuff from Lego that makes me feel like I could have just printed it myself at home on my Bambu. In fact, if my family saw this mixed in with this set, they will just assume I printed and added it 🤣.

But when you are done building it you can store it in the set box 🤣 This should be the GWP for buying the Death Slice and even then it would be hard to cough up $1K

You never defend 100%. You ask for it back then your refund

The train design is cute, and I love all of those blue hues. Unfortunately, that tiny toy train is a Selective Laser Sintering 3D printed piece. Not sure how to feel about that.

$330? LEGO has lost their ******* minds. Psst: The set # is 41843, not 40843

I have both UCS Falcons, both UCS Star Destroyers and the UCS AT-AT built and on display, and yet even though the new Death Star is generally bigger than any of them, it just feels....underwhelming? It's big, but it's empty. Its a display piece, but it's boring. Take the dioramas for the Emperor's Throne Room, the Garbage Compactor and Darth Vader's Meditation chamber, stick them in a generic wall frame and slap in a few basic sets (Death Star Cannon, Death Star Escape, Detention Block Escape) and you essentially get the same thing. There is no engineering wow like the AT-AT. No detail and shine like the Falcon. Not even the big cheese wedgeness of the Star Destroyer. It just looks like a circular frame for smaller sets. Maybe if they had done something like the Batcave Shadow Box and had a spherical front that swung open dollhouse style to see the interior. Or something crazy like a spherical front that hinged open in both directions to have an interior with the sphere halves on each side. Something that shows pushing design to the limits (like the AT-AT) to make it look impressive inside and out. Something to justify the hype and the price... But they didn't. It's just lame, lazy, boring and overpriced, which describes too much of Lego SW these days. I'm happily looking forward to buying the Venator over this. And fortunately, just like the Venator, they gave us the laziest, most underwhelming GWP possible for such an expensive set, ensuring there is no FOMO to drive an early sale. Harry Potter sets get more figures and better GWPs every single time they drop a big set. I don't know why Lego is so clueless in comparison....

Long weekend project. Great set, despite just being a box.

Anyone else join the Toy compliance webinar today? I did and I'm 99% sure resellers are done on Amazon. I'm just waiting for the 3000+ compliance request that should hit in the next couple of days. And at that point, it's gonna be a race to the bottom until the due date. THEN... after all the genuine Lego listings are gone... Amazon will be over taken with "Compatible with Lego" listings. It's not feasible to test Lego products because every color and every plastic has to be tested. I once got a pallet of 9516's examined by CPSC and they told me I had to supply testing records. Not just the results of the test (these can be found on the Lego compliance website) but also the testing methods used and details of the test. Of course Lego doesn't supply this (I even begged Lego) and after getting quotes from multiple approved labs ($15,000-$20,000 per lego set) ... my only option was to sign it over to CBP to be destroyed. I wish I knew what "Secret Marketplace" the Brick Bucks guy is talking about