Just noticed it, estimated dispatch 1-2 months, probably other summer sets listed too, haven't looked, wanted to bring the news right away, amazing price don't you think?

It's a overpriced even at $50. Not Jabba's Palace or Smaug overpriced but up there. The problem with these maxifig sets is that such a premium is put on them that the rest of the set suffers. And I don't believe that it costs Lego much to produce a maxifig. Smaug is probably manufactured in a Chinese factory for $5.

Edited January 25, 201510 yr by Mathew

Do you prefer the old one ?

Haha yeah anythings an improvement over the original but I do agree that they could have added more room to the structure

It's a overpriced even at $50. Not Jabba's Palace or Smaug overpriced but up there. The problem with these maxifig sets is that such a premium is put on them that the rest of the set suffers. And I don't believe that it costs Lego much to produce a maxifig. Smaug is probably manufactured in a Chinese factory for $5.

 

Probably a lot less than $5

How long do you all think this one has got left in it? Will this be a winner with the new Dewback and several exclusive figures?

It should do ok. It's far superior to the original iteration. My son loves to play with it. He plays with that set more than the Ewok village. The play value for the cantina is very very good and that could translate into secondary market value. It's also a great part out set if bought at a discount.

Great play value, good fig and parts value, well known scene from OT, unlikely to be replaced for some time, so should do well.  But it is a 2014 set, so should still have some time to run.

 

In the UK, surprisingly for a new SW set, it

Fantastic set. I love the playability of the Cantina itself with the multiple rooms and ability to open and close for playing. Out of curiousity, how does the Cantina look when all of the rooms are closed up and turned together? 

It does package together in a square.  The only minus is that when it is closed up the feeding trough in the back pushes out.

I picked up 10 at the $50 price to part out on ebay. Its a lot more work for sure but I believe that I'll be able to turn about a 25-30% profit on them, while only spending a few minutes a night sorting them out. Worst case scenario I'm holding a bunch of the buildings & landspeedors. The figures + maxifig seem to sell quite easily.

People buy spare buildings to put two together since it is rather small

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People buy spare buildings to put two together since it is rather small

I do the same thing with Creator houses. It's fun!

Trying to decide if I should buy at least one of these at 20% off. Normally I need a bigger discount to entice me but this set seems reasonably popular and inexpensive enough that it will probably sell fine without further discounting. I mostly want it for personal collection and figure it'll probably EOL after the Xmas stock of this set sells through.

Trying to decide if I should buy at least one of these at 20% off. Normally I need a bigger discount to entice me but this set seems reasonably popular and inexpensive enough that it will probably sell fine without further discounting. I mostly want it for personal collection and figure it'll probably EOL after the Xmas stock of this set sells through.

​I'd say 1 or 2 at that price won't harm your bottom line if you are willing to hold it until 2016.  I really think this set will do alright over the next few years.  This one and the AT-AT from the summer 2014 wave is my target to buy at discounts.  

neat video .. thxs for the share

Don't know about investment on this one but I love it for my personal collection. The kids are having a blast with it, the minifig selection is great and the landspeeder was an awesome bonus. Plus, now I have a dewback. I thought the price was fair, but maybe I'm just used to it with LEGO Star Wars now...

I got mine for 47.99 with a damaged box :-/.  I think it will do alright in the long run, I can't imagine they are going to release a UCS cantina any time soon.

People buy spare buildings to put two together since it is rather small

 

 

Someone did that exact thing and it turned out great!

See pics here - http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=555314

I thought about doing this myself, but space and money are the biggest factors. Plus I have mostly concentrated my collection toward OT ships/vehicles only.

This particular dewback has an unfortunate character trait. I can see why he's for sale. 

Anyone who bought these on sale from WalMart.com lately should weigh their boxes.  I bought five.  Four were two pounds, four ounces, which I believe to be the correct weight.  One was two pounds even, with clouded seals but otherwise no signs of tampering.  The crooks are improving their skills.  This set is a prime candidate for the 'take out all the figures and dewback, then reseal and return' scam, so be careful out there... 

 

Someone did that exact thing and it turned out great!

See pics here - http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=555314

I thought about doing this myself, but space and money are the biggest factors. Plus I have mostly concentrated my collection toward OT ships/vehicles only.

​The money factor shouldn't be too bad because you can sell off the extra figs and landspeeder, AKA the most valuable parts of the set. But space is always an issue.

This is back in stock at Lego S&H, but is still out of stock at Amazon, and only in store pickup at target, and walmart.  However, the online instore pick-up discounts for this set have ended at Walmart and Target for the time being.  They were as low as 53.00 a couple weeks ago, which is close to 25% off retail.  I decided to dump more money into this at that price and buy more sets.  I'm currently sitting at 7 of these... I figure at this point, there maybe a small clearance of this set during the usual end of summer sale dumps they usually do, but we shall see.  I'm thinking this set is going to be a winner by the end of next year.

I noticed some Wal-Marts restocking the Cantina, which is good news.

Anyone who bought these on sale from WalMart.com lately should weigh their boxes.  I bought five.  Four were two pounds, four ounces, which I believe to be the correct weight.  One was two pounds even, with clouded seals but otherwise no signs of tampering.  The crooks are improving their skills.  This set is a prime candidate for the 'take out all the figures and dewback, then reseal and return' scam, so be careful out there... 

 

Can you provide pics of the 4 seals for the 2 underweight sets?

 

Can you provide pics of the 4 seals for the 2 underweight sets?

​I believe this to a problem only with in store purchases..Are you suggesting that the thief's are breaking into the warehouse stealing the mini figures prior to the sets being shipped out. or walmart is shipping returned sets from stores...I have never been worried about tampered seals from online orders...

​I believe this to a problem only with in store purchases..Are you suggesting that the thief's are breaking into the warehouse stealing the mini figures prior to the sets being shipped out. or walmart is shipping returned sets from stores...I have never been worried about tampered seals from online orders...

True but you never know Regardless it shouldn't matter in this case. Tampered with seals are somewhat noticeable unless totally perfect / flawless. In order to educate fellow BP users, the pics will help (kinda like what I do in the repro / fake sticker / printed tile element thread)

 

Can you provide pics of the 4 seals for the 2 underweight sets?

​Sure, if you'd asked sooner...  I returned the set, so I can't take at any pics at this point.  I am really, really meticulous about these things though.  I collect a few different things, not only Lego, and I'm accustomed to closely examining valuable items and assigning them a grade based on wear and imperfections.  These seals were perfect.  There was no stray adhesive to either side, they were perfectly transparent, and there was no debris of any kind under the tape.  I have no idea how the scammer managed this, but his or her talents are wasted on stealing minifigures.  If I had not weighed the box, I would have had absolutely no idea there was a problem.

When I returned it in person at Wal-Mart, the nice CS lady thought I was crazy.  She had never heard of anyone doing this before.  So she opened the box right then and there, and two things were noticeable immediately.  First, there was glue, looked sort of like plain Elmer's or carpenter's glue, between the two cardboard flaps of the box.  Obviously you couldn't see this until you broke the seals.  The second thing was of course that every minifigure and the dewback were missing.  All other pieces appeared to be present in their sealed bags..

This was originally a Walmart.com purchase, not in-store.  Someone had bought the set from Walmart.com, very carefully opened the box, removed the minifigures and dewback, then extremely carefully resealed it to look as good as new, before returning it to Walmart.com.  The company is clearly not in the habit of weighing returned lego sets, though they obviously should be.

I weigh every set I buy from everyone.  This is the first problem I have encountered.  So I don't think it's an epidemic.  But it is a real threat, especially for relatively small sets that are loaded with valuable figures.  I don't expect crooks to open up Tower Bridges and steal tan bricks.  I do expect them to open up Cantinas, EDB's, and similar sets in which half or more of the value is in the figures.  Anyway, I assume everyone who reads this has a postal scale accurate to the nearest 1/10 ounce or so.  Weigh everything that comes in, and you should be alright.