Lego Death Star - recommendations

smarty_mcfly

Hi all,

I'd really love to pick up the Death Star but can't justify shelling out €400 on Lego (well not to my OH at least

Current prices;

€436,99 - Lego Website
€399,99 - Smyths

Is there any chance that the Lego site will reduce the price after Xmas or should I hold out for a Smyths offer - what do I doooooo??????

Oafley Jones

smarty_mcfly wrote: »

Hi all,

I'd really love to pick up the Death Star but can't justify shelling out €400 on Lego (well not to my OH at least

Current prices;

€436,99 - Lego Website
€399,99 - Smyths

Is there any chance that the Lego site will reduce the price after Xmas or should I hold out for a Smyths offer - what do I doooooo??????

Forget about Lego.com anyway. Their idea of generous might be 5% off, or double VIP points. And I'd be fairly sure that the set will disappear before those show up again. Smyths is probably you're best bet. Again, assuming they've stock. The Death Stars demise has been predicted a few times (people we're sure it was finished only a few weeks ago) and it's still seems to be in production. I'd guess that's the final run of it though.

There is a rumour of an updated version of the set for this year that'll be much more expensive.

syklops

smarty_mcfly wrote: »

Hi all,

I'd really love to pick up the Death Star but can't justify shelling out €400 on Lego (well not to my OH at least

Current prices;

€436,99 - Lego Website
€399,99 - Smyths

Is there any chance that the Lego site will reduce the price after Xmas or should I hold out for a Smyths offer - what do I doooooo??????

If you just want the deathstar, you could go the long way round and download the instructions and slowly collect the parts from places like ebay and bricklink. Some people sell quite a lot of lego for dirt cheap as kids have grown out of it, so large quantities can be got cheaply, and then you can buy any specialist parts on bricklink or other sites.

Instructions are here

List of pieces needed

NinjaTruncs

Smyths would be your best bet when they have their next 20% off sale. but that may not happen for a long time. the best you'll get from lego.com will be double VIP points which is about 10% off, but that's given as point which come off your next order, so a little useless you plan to buy more from them.

Keep an eye on Adverts are they appear on their from time to time.

MarcusP12

Not really relevant to the Ops question but there was a light hearted article in the style supplement of the Sunday times a couple of weeks ago on building this.your man nearly had a nervous breakdown by the end of it!

Oafley Jones

syklops wrote: »

If you just want the deathstar, you could go the long way round and download the instructions and slowly collect the parts from places like ebay and bricklink. Some people sell quite a lot of lego for dirt cheap as kids have grown out of it, so large quantities can be got cheaply, and then you can buy any specialist parts on bricklink or other sites.

Instructions are here

List of pieces needed

I'd be extremely surprised if you could bricklink it cheaper than retail.

Necronomicon

Oafley Jones wrote: »

I'd be extremely surprised if you could bricklink it cheaper than retail.

Was going to say the same, it almost never works out cheaper to Bricklink a set that is already in production.

@OP I think second hand might be your best bet, but even then I wouldn't expect a huge drop on the retail price.

syklops

Necronomicon wrote: »

Was going to say the same, it almost never works out cheaper to Bricklink a set that is already in production.

@OP I think second hand might be your best bet, but even then I wouldn't expect a huge drop on the retail price.

I didn't say bricklink the whole thing. I said use bricklink for any specialist or hard to find pieces. If you look at the parts list, most of the parts are fairly common.

Oafley Jones

syklops wrote: »

I didn't say bricklink the whole thing. I said use bricklink for any specialist or hard to find pieces. If you look at the parts list, most of the parts are fairly common.

People use the term brick linking when putting together a set from pieces. Even if they don't use that site.

I bricklinked a Cafe Corner this year and over 50% of the cost was probably for less than 5% of the bricks. It'd been more if I had been 100% accurate with the parts. The whole thing cost well over 500 euro for what was original a 150 euro set. Now Lego Death Star has an abundance massively prolific grey but you'll still spend a fortune in time, money and especially shipping getting even those. And with bulk buying other sets you're paying for what you don't need. Parents selling on eBay or done deal are not going to be cheaper than BL for the large quantities of the common stuff you need when you cost it properly.

kopite davo

there is a death star on ads. sealed.
reckon you will get it for about 350.
search it. excellent seller, I've bought off him before.

drunkmonkey

kopite davo wrote: »

there is a death star on ads. sealed.
reckon you will get it for about 350.
search it. excellent seller, I've bought off him before.

I'd second that, excellent seller. It'll cost you more to bricklink it and you won't have the same resale value, only Death Star on adverts, won't take you long to find him. ; )

smarty_mcfly

thanks for all the responses guys, I've put in an offer of €340, will see how it goes

(would never have the patience to order all the pieces one by one!)

ferikeferike

I actually might have one sealed for sale at a lower price than Smyths or Legoshop. I sent you a PM.

JupiterKid

I'm not really into the Star Wars Lego, but the Death Star has always come across as very appealing to me. But my dilemma is where would I store the thing? I've very limited space as it is.

I'd have to create the space for it. Move over, other pieces!!:D

sonny.knowles

JupiterKid wrote: »

I'm not really into the Star Wars Lego, but the Death Star has always come across as very appealing to me. But my dilemma is where would I store the thing? I've very limited space as it is.

I'd have to create the space for it. Move over, other pieces!!:D

I have the same problem with this and a (bricklinked) UCS MF.

I got an acrylic display case made for the DS, considering getting one for the MF.

Oafley Jones

The rumours of an updated DS are getting more credible. Reports of a set number are just surfacing. Again, the rumour has it being a lot more expensive. I wish it was the Falcon, but I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before we see that. I'm sure we'll see a lot more updated classic sets from now on.

ferikeferike

Another on adverts if you are still interested.

NinjaTruncs

Has the set been discontinued? I see it's sold out on Lego with no indication of when it will be back in stock.

Wolverine359

Do you remember when the Death Star was on sale in Smyths for €270? I have one built from the day it was available from LEGO.com (and made a fun stop-motion video with it, search my username on YouTube if you'd like to see it ), but I had to buy a second one at that price.

sonny.knowles

Apparently there is a new Death Star due this year. More expensive and presumably more pieces.

sonny.knowles

I'd love a UCS Snowspeeder.

Lego2016

Hello,
Sorry for bringing an old thread back up but does anybody know where I can buy the lego death star? Can't find anywhere online to buy it.

Oafley Jones

Lego2016 wrote: »

Hello,
Sorry for bringing an old thread back up but does anybody know where I can buy the lego death star? Can't find anywhere online to buy it.

It's discontinued, so resellers on eBay, bricklink would be your best bet. However I wouldn't bother as An updated version is expected later this year.

Lego2016

Oafley Jones wrote: »

It's discontinued, so resellers on eBay, bricklink would be your best bet. However I wouldn't bother as An updated version is expected later this year.

Thanks Oafley Jones. I think I'll hold off and get the new one! Hopefully it will be out this year!

NinjaTruncs

Oafley Jones wrote: »

It's discontinued, so resellers on eBay, bricklink would be your best bet. However I wouldn't bother as An updated version is expected later this year.

Any news on the new one yet? I'm hoping it's a display piece rather than a playset like the last one.

Rhyme

People sell that Death Star on Adverts every now and then but it's gotten expensive since being discontinued.

I hope the new set is good. I've heard so many possibilities of what it could be that I've stopped trying to guess. My favourite out of all the 'rumours' was a Trench Run vignette. I'd gladly shell out a few hundred for something that good. A repeat of the last one or the abomination of the 10143 Death Star II model would be a miss for me.

syboit

Rhyme wrote: »

People sell that Death Star on Adverts every now and then but it's gotten expensive since being discontinued.

I hope the new set is good. I've heard so many possibilities of what it could be that I've stopped trying to guess. My favourite out of all the 'rumours' was a Trench Run vignette. I'd gladly shell out a few hundred for something that good. A repeat of the last one or the abomination of the 10143 Death Star II model would be a miss for me.

Not sure I'll be getting my hopes up after the recent "assault on hoth" ucs set. Its good and all but nowhere near what I was expecting. I could see the new deathstar being a rehash set (like the falcon and many others) but with a host of updated figs.

robinph

Probably just end up with a partially completed one to fit in with the new film.
http://img.lum.dolimg.com/v1/images/open-uri20150608-27674-kwzc8p_9f561fbf.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1200%2C674

Theboinkmaster

robinph wrote: »

Probably just end up with a partially completed one to fit in with the new film.
http://img.lum.dolimg.com/v1/images/open-uri20150608-27674-kwzc8p_9f561fbf.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1200%2C674

that's episode III :rolleyes:

The new death star is rumoured to be based on the Force Awakens starkiller base.

Theboinkmaster

syboit wrote: »

Not sure I'll be getting my hopes up after the recent "assault on hoth" ucs set. Its good and all but nowhere near what I was expecting. I could see the new deathstar being a rehash set (like the falcon and many others) but with a host of updated figs.

The UCS hoth set has been heavily criticised - the latest star wars lego is crap compared to the older sets.

Rael

More rumours about the new DS have surfaced on Eurobricks this week. It's rumoured to cost $499 and has 28 minifigs. It's supposed to have close to 5000 pieces and is rumoured to be the biggest set Lego has released.

Again to clarify these are rumoured leaks appearing on Eurobricks this weekend.

robinph

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

that's episode III :rolleyes:

The new death star is rumoured to be based on the Force Awakens starkiller base.

But the next new film is episode 3.75 so just before it is finished for episode 4.

Don't think I'd call a Force Awakens base a Death Star set. The weapon may have increased in size from a small moon to planet sized and be doing a similar thing to blow stuff up, but Star Killer base is not a Death Star.