UCS falcon rumours (that turned out to be true!)

Pitfall69

Jedi Knight #1: Can you Yada Yada Yaddle?
Jedi Knight #2: *rases hand* I've Yada Yada'd Yaddle

Pitfall69

This thread has reached now ludicrous speed

JooTog

Pitfall69 said:

Is that Jabba's second cousin on his mother's side? Jibber Jabba?

Why oh why can I not post a meme?

You can, but you probably shouldn't ;-)

On topic (I think): What are the chances that such a (rumored) large set with a big price tag will be a limited release? Just a few sets being produced and some of us might not be able to grab one? :-( Should I go and camp out of the LEGO store now?

oldtodd33

As long as it remains a good seller I don't see why Lego (or Disney) would quit making it. Look at Petshop.

Bobflip

And the Death Star, for that matter.

hoyatables

It appears that the only thing more interesting to discuss than a retired UCS Falcon is a reincarnated UCS Falcon.  

flord

Is it really going to be $800 US? That's pretty steep.

I still want it though.

Muftak1

CM4S said:

Here's a summary of what we know so far

75192 Millennium Falcon releases around October for $799.99

Includes two satellites for both ESB and TFA versions, around 7500 pieces

Comes with Hoth Han Solo, Hoth Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Old Man Han Solo, Finn, Rey, BB-8, maybe more.. and a brickbuilt Mynock

Also has an interior

:)

But do we know... Really... 

I'll hope we do!

bobabricks

flord said:

Is it really going to be $800 US? That's pretty steep.

I still want it though.

But if the piece count is actually going to be near or around 7,500, then the price is very justified, especially with Disney tax.

Russ_Hanneman

bobabricks said:

flord said:

Is it really going to be $800 US? That's pretty steep.

I still want it though.

But if the piece count is actually going to be near or around 7,500, then the price is very justified, especially with Disney tax.

Exactly. If it was priced using the usual $0.12 per part like most Star Wars sets, it could have actually been $900-$950.

So $800 is quite fair all things considered

drdesignz

Those hot dogs from Wegman's someone recommended a couple hundred comments ago were pretty good on the grill.  Thanks.  I also hear there's a new UCS Millennium Falcon coming out.  Pretty cool.

CurvedRoadPlate

I suspect it will be available for more than one Star Wars film. It would be a good tie in to the upcoming Han Solo origin movie

monkyby87

Not only do I not have $800 for Lego, I don't have the room for a set like this.  What I would like, though, is a to scale cockpit from the Falcon.  It would make a neat display piece.  Sure, I could make my own :)

MrKettle

No new explosions. 

I am dissappont. 

Also no new Lego rumours - meh.

Vortex

I was wondering how the UCS MF looks all tiled up on the top. Would it look more finished and UCS'ey ? Has anyone tried that?

Vortex

i suppose due to its circular shape it can't be tiled flawlessly. ending up looking not very neat at all

Galactus

VorpalRyu said:

A white rangefinder is not a myth, I heard it from my father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate that there will be a Gold Boba Fett (with a white rangefinder) in random UCS Millennium Falcon boxes (2,000 in all). [...]

@VorpalRyu How does that work? Your uncle's nephew is not your father's nephew? I don't know if I can trust this info when the source is so questionable.

With all the off topic (and complaining about it) going on, I have to point out that this kind of going off topic realy makes me happy to be a member of the Brickset community:

datsunrobbie said:

SumoLego said:

Perhaps some other landmark-related Creator set?  Either way, we'll all be disappointed when it is a Cars 3 Juniors set.

Got any more info on the Cars 3 Juniors set? My grandson loves Disney Cars, and I'm sure it will be easier on the wallet than any UCS Falcom that may eventually show up.

SumoLego said:

^ There's a bunch of different sets available.  I was grousing about them at Target the other day.

Like a sidestep some pretty random remark gets taken this seriously and then we all go on. I love it when that happens. Only on Brickset it seems.

@CM4S How credible are these things 'we know' at this point?

sid3windr

Vortex said:

I was wondering how the UCS MF looks all tiled up on the top. Would it look more finished and UCS'ey ? Has anyone tried that?

I keep misreading UCS MF ... I can't be the only one, can I ?

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

UCS MF!
DO. YOU. READ. IT?

datsunrobbie

UCS BMF - full-scale model of Jules' wallet from Pulp Fiction.

zmarkella

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

UCS MF!
DO. YOU. READ. IT?

Shouldn't it be:
DO. YOU. BUILD. IT?

Pitfall69

I keep thinking Samuel L. Jackson's is saying "UCS Mutha %##^^$%!!!"

Yodalicious

^ That'll be the tag line for the UCS Mace Windu bust. 

Yodalicious

I've had it with these MFing Jedi on this MFing Falcon. 

SumoLego

My choice for the box art.

Rainstorm26

Where's the sausage?

SumoLego

Next to the white rangefinder.  Let's be serious!

Russ_Hanneman

SumoLego said:

My choice for the box art.

This guy f****

Pitfall69

^Did you just repost the same pic when you quoted Sumo? Not cool man.

SumoLego

Pitfall69 said:

^Did you just repost the same pic when you quoted Sumo? Not cool man.

And I'm quoting you directly below the original post.  Although I have no idea what the other post means.

playwell

Sorry but eurobricks just broke your record for most identical pictures in a row with 5:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/133290-lego-star-wars-2017-pictures-and-rumors/&page=341

Russ_Hanneman

SumoLego said:

Pitfall69 said:

^Did you just repost the same pic when you quoted Sumo? Not cool man.

And I'm quoting you directly below the original post.  Although I have no idea what the other post means.

Can't say I'm surprised 

Russ_Hanneman

Pitfall69 said:

^Did you just repost the same pic when you quoted Sumo? Not cool man.

If stash2sixx becomes a moderator here and bans me, it will have been well worth it

pharmjod

SMC said:

Sorry but eurobricks just broke your record for most identical pictures in a row with 5:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/133290-lego-star-wars-2017-pictures-and-rumors/&page=341

Someone probably just got banned for that too...

playwell

It ended up being 6 of the same picture in a row but to be fair to EB this is where they are good at moderating. They just come along and take out the pictures and replace it with:

"Please don't quote images"

This is just a nice polite reminder to people, if only that was how all the moderating was done on their it would be a much nicer site to use.

Now I have seen two posts be edited by moderators recently in this thread, there was no explanation. Maybe the people involved got pm'd I don't know. But I think if you are going to remove memes and swearing adding a little note when doing so is helpful to everyone.

Also can I ask what is the point of the memes ban when you are allowed to post a meaningless picture then comment after it. If this thread is what people want including mods then why ban memes in the first place. If people want this kind of 'fun' then memes would add to it.

Or if you mods want the site to be a little more grown up and to be a place where people can talk about their hobby then your going to have to put something in place a little more comprehensive than just banning memes. I don't understand this pointless no mans land we are in at the moment.

cavegod

'one does not simply post meme's'

SumoLego

Incorrigible.  

^ You do realize you're off-topic?  You ought to take the above EB Forum criticism to the EB mods, and criticism of the moderation of this Forum to the appropriate topic.  It's a bit hypocritical for you to complain about meme banning and post editing in a thread dedicated to rampant, unsubstantiated rumor-mongering and baseless speculation.

SMC said:

I don't understand this pointless no mans land we are in at the moment.

Can I start a letter-writing campaign at EB to un-ban you?  Perhaps your activist self-appointed moderation would serve that forum better.

Also, to summarize:

1)  No box art has been leaked.  In fact, one image posted in this thread was fake.

2) The [email protected] site had a 'coming soon' splash page, but it had since been removed.

3) Somebody took a photo of a retail Lego Store inventory search indicating a large D2C set had a price set at $799.00.

4) There's a Design video where designers are playing with a Space Slug cut-out and a mini-scale Millennium Falcon.

5) And Blocks posted a vague UCS MF rumor.

Legopassion8

Is there some kind of  bb8 set coming out around the time of the new MF, too? 

SumoLego

cavegod said:

'one does not simply post meme's'

^^ +1, this, thumb's up

You slipped a post in there and completely confabulated my post reference carat thingys.  Thankfully, I quoted the post, so others can still understand what I am referring to.  (I think that is why there is the option to quote a previous post.)

Please amend my previous post to:

^^

willp2003

Yep, apparently it's "UCS" but costs €99 (in my opinion a UCS set can't cost that little). It should be roughly to scale with the UCS R2-D2 so expect it to be blocky. 

Legopassion8

!!

playwell

SumoLego said:

You do realize you're off-topic?

No rule against that on this forum, do you think we should introduce one then?

samiam391

SMC said:

SumoLego said:

You do realize you're off-topic?

No rule against that on this forum, do you think we should introduce one then?

Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious. Snakes. Alive.

Please, enough!

I support the meme ban. I sometimes dislike it when the pointless conversations spiral out of control and it's just a bunch of silly jokes. But it's not MY forum, I'm here to enjoy the good and the bad.

Let the moderators moderate how they want to moderate. Let the members be members and do as they please until such as a point as the moderators determine they need to step in. You act as though the moderators are clueless to what is going on in the threads, you don't have to play "tattle tale" and "self-appointed moderator" all the time. If they feel like they need to step in, they'll do it. 

THAT is how this forum is run. Now, please, let it run. 

redarmy

^ Just got the urge to post the lyrics to a Beatles song...don't know why?

SumoLego

SMC said:

SumoLego said:

You do realize you're off-topic?

No rule against that on this forum, do you think we should introduce one then?

Somewhere there is a rule about you being banned from using sarcasm.  I suspect it is self-imposed, as with the rest of your micromanaging suggestions.

(Or if you are not, then '+1, thumbs up, this' for @samiam391.)

playwell

samiam391 said:

Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious. Snakes. Alive.

Please, enough!

I support the meme ban. I sometimes dislike it when the pointless conversations spiral out of control and it's just a bunch of silly jokes. But it's not MY forum, I'm here to enjoy the good and the bad.

Let the moderators moderate how they want to moderate. Let the members be members and do as they please until such as a point as the moderators determine they need to step in. You act as though the moderators are clueless to what is going on in the threads, you don't have to play "tattle tale" and "self-appointed moderator" all the time. If they feel like they need to step in, they'll do it. 

THAT is how this forum is run. Now, please, let it run. 

Let the moderators moderate how they want to moderate. Let the members be members and do as they please until such as a point as the moderators determine they need to step in. You act as though the moderators are clueless to what is going on in the threads, you don't have to play "tattle tale" and "self-appointed moderator" all the time. If they feel like they need to step in, they'll do it. 

samiam391

SMC said:

samiam391 said:

Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious. Snakes. Alive.

Please, enough!

I support the meme ban. I sometimes dislike it when the pointless conversations spiral out of control and it's just a bunch of silly jokes. But it's not MY forum, I'm here to enjoy the good and the bad.

Let the moderators moderate how they want to moderate. Let the members be members and do as they please until such as a point as the moderators determine they need to step in. You act as though the moderators are clueless to what is going on in the threads, you don't have to play "tattle tale" and "self-appointed moderator" all the time. If they feel like they need to step in, they'll do it. 

THAT is how this forum is run. Now, please, let it run. 

Let the moderators moderate how they want to moderate. Let the members be members and do as they please until such as a point as the moderators determine they need to step in. You act as though the moderators are clueless to what is going on in the threads, you don't have to play "tattle tale" and "self-appointed moderator" all the time. If they feel like they need to step in, they'll do it. 

Clever ;)

The stark contrast being you try lecturing the whole forum constantly, whereas I'm only addressing you.

There is an incredible irony in that as much as you complain about the forum being off topic you as an individual take it off topic probably more than anyone else in this entire forum.

And yes, I do wish the moderators would step in to stop your constant shenanigans as I feel it is a constant distraction. It is the "off topic" conversation that annoys me the most... it's like having a person the same age trying to act like a chaperone, watching over your back and constantly interrupting while everyone else just tries to have a good time- talking about weather, sausages, explosions, and occasionally LEGO.  

playwell

I am very carful about which topics I take off course with my comments, do you see me do it in any other discussions at the moment? I feel free to do it here because the discussion is already off topic in the first place.

I try and add to the forum, how many times have I been the first to pass on news about upcoming sets here:

http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/24229/leaks-and-more-leaks#latest

I tried to get a conversation going about BB8 in the star wars thread by bring news about the new set. Interestingly my comment here was picked up over on eurobricks and I was thanked over there.

The problem is that people don't respond that much to the Lego news I or other people post they would much rather argue with me here. A lot of the time I am just responding to a comment like I am now.

Where as other people who shall remain Sumo nameless interrupt the rare few conversations about Lego on the forum to make silly comments which then derail the whole thread. They don't do it in just one discussion at a time and I think this is much more damaging for the site.

And lets no forget I am one of the few people here that would like nothing more than to talk about the forthcoming MF.

SumoLego

redarmy said:

^ Just got the urge to post the lyrics to a Beatles song...don't know why?

I think the song you are looking for is - "The Song That Never Ends".

And I am flattered that I was mentioned by name.  @Pitfall69 - take that!

Mynatt

SMC said:

Where as other people who shall remain Sumo nameless interrupt the rare few conversations about Lego on the forum to make silly comments which then derail the whole thread. They don't do it in just one discussion at a time and I think this is much more damaging for the site.

First off I would like to start by saying that there are people on this forum who do a poor job at leaving people nameless smc. Im not sure if I am one of them but ah well.

When you make this point about how going off topic is damaging I just don't know how you can support a comment like this. In no way do I think that off topic posts are damaging at all. Since you have already brought @SumoLego up, I will use him as an example once more. When you go back and look at all his contributions to not only this topic but many others, they are all greatly appreciated, as many of his posts receive many likes. People enjoy what he has to say. And when I say this at the end of the day its not at all just limited to sumo but also many other people who contribute in fun ways.

Now the reason that I underlined the word off topic above is because I would like to go into further discussion about it. When we do go off topic, I think its still fair to say we are on topic. When white range finders and sausages are brought up, they can still be brought back to the topic of the UCS Falcon. (How cool would it be if the falcon did have sausages in it, would we then currently be on topic or still at this moment off topic?)

Does it pain you to see people have fun about a topic every once and awhile?