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

Muftak1

Matt89190 said:

Vortex said:

I read 7643 pieces  !

Where?

In the fake picture.

FowlerBricks

CM4S said:

Here's the deal 

Some random store in Taiwan grabbed pictures of "10256", "10259", and "75192" from Google.

They are placeholders but this is apparently some sort of preorder form. I don't know of a 10256 coming. I think it was cancelled. 10259 is the upcoming Winter Village set. NOT my Mall of America LEGO Store MOC.  

What's interesting is that they list a 70922 CONFIDENTIAL_Batman Movie 2018_D2C coming soon too. There is no 70922 in the normal set range so it sounds correct to me. Stash2Sixx (who has given us the most information on the upcoming Falcon thanks to his sources at LEGO!!) claims it's a Wayne Manor and is coming out at the same time as the Falcon.. which is not true

We've seen that LEGO has provided retailers with information on upcoming D2Cs before (remember how we first heard about Assembly Square) so it's possible they've been informed on the details on upcoming releases?

Someone provided me with the full picture...

Yup. That's the same pic I found, but two of the boxes were taped over.

fourstud

Matt89190 said:

Vortex said:

I read 7643 pieces  !

Where?

T_T I'm starting to regret making this damn thing.

SumoLego

^ It's not a bad thing to keep everyone on their toes.  And it'll make the actual reveal a surprise.

And maybe, just maybe it keeps the designers from being boring about the 'explosion art' featuring a LEGO set.

bobabricks

SumoLego said:

^ It's not a bad thing to keep everyone on their toes.  And it'll make the actual reveal a surprise.

And maybe, just maybe it keeps the designers from being boring about the 'explosion art' featuring a LEGO set.

This has definitely been one of the more hyped sets in a long time and even Lego is ramping up the hype sending out little flyers saying "largest Lego set ever". Lego has also done a very good job keeping the pictures a secret seeing that it's about a week until press release and no real leaks. 

waynlewis

My question is what's next after this?? Will the next UCS be another remake, SSD or ISD, or something completely new? 

Paperballpark

^ UCS bust of Jar Jar Binks. It'll be full-size, using only 2x4 bricks. 

Onebricktoomany

Paperballpark said:

^ UCS bust of Jar Jar Binks. It'll be full-size, using only 2x4 bricks. 

Yes!!!  Can you imagine???  Please let this be...!!!  What? No, really... What?

Paperballpark

Designer video:

"We've listened to fans who wonder why we can't release sets with more 2x4 bricks in, so we decided to set ourselves a challenge of using only 2x4 bricks in this set!"

"We also heard all the calls for more sets with Jar Jar in them, and what better way to answer those calls than with a life-size bust?"

"...also, the ears aren't properly fixed on, so that they can flap up and down realistically."

"The set contains 1687 pieces, and will retail for $299/£279. We hope you enjoy building it as much as we did designing it!"

Onebricktoomany

Link please!!!!  Lmao

MrKettle

Paperballpark said:

Designer video:

"We've listened to fans who wonder why we can't release sets with more 2x4 bricks in, so we decided to set ourselves a challenge of using only 2x4 bricks in this set!"

"We also heard all the calls for more sets with Jar Jar in them, and what better way to answer those calls than with a life-size bust?"

"...also, the ears aren't properly fixed on, so that they can flap up and down realistically."

"The set contains 1687 pieces, and will retail for $299/£279. We hope you enjoy building it as much as we did designing it!"

... also we are proud to announce that this set contains more stickers than ANY OTHER SET before it!

fourstud

Every minifigure is also the 2007 version because nostalgia! 

Paperballpark

CM4S said:

Every minifigure is also the 2007 version because nostalgia! 

Nah, no minifigs - they would detract from the purity of the set ;)

Of course, all the stickers would be STAMPs. ;)

CCC

Paperballpark said:

^ UCS bust of Jar Jar Binks. It'll be full-size, using only 2x4 bricks. 

I hope not.

This one needs to be life size and full body, not just a bust.

CaptainRogers

Will it include a bust of George Lucas flipping his fans the bird?

Ayberk

I'd love to see some year-2007-posts where people huffed and puffed about the first UCS Falcon being 100 or 200 dollars, pounds, whatevers too much and skipped it.

bobabricks

Ayberk said:

I'd love to see some year-2007-posts where people huffed and puffed about the first UCS Falcon being 100 or 200 dollars, pounds, whatevers too much and skipped it.

I believe the original was still more expensive than 10188 at $500.

M_Boss

Ok so I been looking very in depth to the teasers and buildup for this set and trying to decipher the code that LEGO is sending us, and finally after minutes of working, I have cracked it with 100%(ish) accuracy.

So far we've had 3 teasers, 3 being our magic number. What are the 3 of the most common things debated/discussed on Brickset Forum? Sausages, is market street a modular, and the existence white rangefinder. What else go all of these have in common? Well... Sausa'juh'e, mo'juh'ular, ran'juh'efinder, they all have the 'juh' sound! It is not a coincidence, the first letter must be J!

Next we have the set numbers. The old falcon (what LEGO wants us to think this new set will be), had a set number of 10179 and the new set has an rumored number of 75192. If we turn these to letters, we get A_AGI and GEAIB. The most common letter is an A, and look how many times it appears, our magic number of 3 times! So it must be our next letter.

Now we move onto the teasers. The first teaser says the box will be 4.86x bigger, and the second teaser says the instructions will be 2.56x bigger. Rounded we will have 5 and 3. We multiply those and get 15, and then we need to add the magic number of 3, which brings us to 18. That letter is an R, our final letter. So now we have 'jar'. You may think that LEGO will create a special 'jar' type package for such a special set. That was what I was thinking until I realized Lego was hiding the final clue in plain sight.

When the latest teaser was released, the title was originally, 'MF - UCS MF 15 sec HERO Teaser video', but was later changed to 'LEGO Star Wars is assembling something big!'. Now you could naively believe that this confirms the falcon in some way, but it in fact is the missing link. There were 2x names to the teaser. That must mean that we need to 2x our current clues to figure out what the set will be.

So finally, I can confirm to you all that the upcoming set will be called
"Jar Jar".

OH NO WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!

Redbullgivesuwind

Paperballpark said:

CM4S said:

Every minifigure is also the 2007 version because nostalgia! 

Nah, no minifigs - they would detract from the purity of the set ;)

Of course, all the stickers would be STAMPs. ;)

I disagree. I will only by this set if it contains a minifigure wearing an XXXL Boba  Fett costume with sounds:

"You raped my childhood"
"George Lucas doesn't care about me"
"Real Star Wars fans like me.."

piratemania7

dspigel

piratemania7 said:

I still haven't got this. I did get the flyer for Ninjago City being available.

Rakul

^ Mine came today, so they are slowly making it to everyone it seems.

drdesignz

I also just received mine.

7BS

^Me three.
Is there any chance of another teaser tomorrow, or have they already revealed as much as they're going to before September 1st?

Crzypengu

7BS said:

^Me three.
Is there any chance of another teaser tomorrow, or have they already revealed as much as they're going to before September 1st?

I hope we get a teaser tomorrow, but I don't know what it would be about. If it was a Silhouette of the ship then next week may not have one until Friday.

blogzilly

One good thing about all this hype. It allowed me to think things through, which I don't do as often as I need to with LEGO. Said the man who spent money on an Angler Attack, Lone Ranger Set and was rifling through a set I got from the year 2000 even...all last week.

Not gonna get this right away, whatever it is. Gonna use the socked away cash and more to get the 2015-2017 sets that I want before they go away, get more caught up.

OK, resume discussion. Just thought it interesting that hype can cool a purchase fever.

Brainslugged

Does anyone know the UK Force Friday deals? I have to fly to the US that weekend, but if you can get the Scarif Trooper with ANY Star Wars purchase (like with the R2 unit last time and as opposed to the $50 spend in the US), it MIGHT be enough for me to delay my flight by a day just so I can hit up one of the London Lego stores.

Brainslugged

I just contacted one of the London stores and he said they wouldn't know about any Force Friday deals till about August 25th. Seems a little late to be getting news of a big promo starting just a week later.

kbw

Probably not the best thread for this, but I haven't received that mailer yet. Thought I saw a photo that the UCS TIE Fighter will be 20% off? Odds they discount the Slave 1 too? 
Also, does the Lego S@H site get updated at midnight or is there typically a lag. Not sure how these things work. Sorry for my noobness

Bumblepants

kbw said:

Probably not the best thread for this, but I haven't received that mailer yet. Thought I saw a photo that the UCS TIE Fighter will be 20% off? Odds they discount the Slave 1 too? 
Also, does the Lego S@H site get updated at midnight or is there typically a lag. Not sure how these things work. Sorry for my noobness

I would guess just the TIE but who knows. Midnight should be when it updates but it almost always crashes or other assorted nonsense whenever a big event goes live.

kbw

Thanks. Yeah that site is rather "buggy" imo

piratemania7

^ and ^^ I had to call the morning of when Ninjago City went on sale.  I had tried from midnight to 1 AM trying to purchase it but it never showed the add to bag button.

I informed the customer service lady and she told me that it is not something that is done automatically (which you would think it would be pretty easy to code the system to make X set available at X date and X time).  But instead, someone manually "pushes" the set to be available and they did not do it the night before or just messed it up and had to "redo" it that morning.

I find this pretty interesting, we all knock jokes on TLG and their online capabilities (slim to none) but thats one thing you would think would be easy for them to do?

On the flip side, imagine being that person who gets to push all the sets to availability at the right time?

Stvoyager04

So 7,541 pieces then. Can't wait - £699 or £749 most likely?

blakusdk

1619 pieces bigger than the taj mahal!!!!

CommanderJigglypuff

All this teasing is making me go from 'I don't care how it looks I'll buy it anyway somewhere next year'  to 'give me this set on release date'

GallardoLU

For my first Millennium Falcon, this is shaping up to be something special. 

zorzos

Do the pieces shown in the teaser change anything? It's just a lot of tan and black bricks..

Bartelas

Alright, I've just talked to a Lego Store employee and preordered the Falcon xD 

He also told me that all they know is that the Falcon will cost 799,99€, will have around 8000 pieces and will weigh 15kg.
They will order 40 of them to one Lego Shop and 20 People in each Shop have the possibility to preorder one and pick one up from September 14th to October 1st. (I am third in line! :D) 

Somewhere around September, there should also be 3x VIP points because of the 40th anniversary. Fingers crossed that it'll be around September 14th! 

Paperballpark

zorzos said:

Do the pieces shown in the teaser change anything? It's just a lot of tan and black bricks..

No. They're all Tan and Dark Grey 2x4 bricks. Probably 7541 of them.

Stvoyager04

I think the tan bricks are signifying the Taj Mahal, and they grey bricks the new Star Wars set.

CCC

Bartelas said:

He also told me that all they know is that the Falcon ... will have around 8000 pieces

Anyone who is anyone already knows it is exactly 7541 pieces.

Muftak1

Surely the BIG question that people should be asking is : 

"Will the bags be numbered or blank, like the original UCS?"

Fun times sorting those pieces!

7BS

Some poor intern had a lot of fun counting out those 2 x 4's...
So I'm thinking that even with modern building techniques and all, they couldn't get away with adding 2346 pieces without a significant interior, right?

imhotep85

Knolling all 7541 pieces out on a massive table, now that a photo I've love to see.

cavegod

Muftak1 said:

Surely the BIG question that people should be asking is : 

"Will the bags be numbered or blank, like the original UCS?"

Fun times sorting those pieces!

I did sort anything just emptied all the bags into the box and got building.

zorzos

Paperballpark said:

zorzos said:

Do the pieces shown in the teaser change anything? It's just a lot of tan and black bricks..

No. They're all Tan and Dark Grey 2x4 bricks. Probably 7541 of them.

Ahh dark grey, my bad! Didn't spot the analogy between Taj Mahal and MF there, good one!

Paperballpark

Stvoyager04 said:

I think the tan bricks are signifying the Taj Mahal, and they grey bricks the new Star Wars set.

Good point, except the Taj Mahal was mostly white :)

SumoLego

Tan would lead me to the Tower Bridge.

Crzypengu

Bartelas said:

Alright, I've just talked to a Lego Store employee and preordered the Falcon xD 

He also told me that all they know is that the Falcon will cost 799,99€, will have around 8000 pieces and will weigh 15kg.
They will order 40 of them to one Lego Shop and 20 People in each Shop have the possibility to preorder one and pick one up from September 14th to October 1st. (I am third in line! :D) 

Somewhere around September, there should also be 3x VIP points because of the 40th anniversary. Fingers crossed that it'll be around September 14th! 

Well that worries me if there will be pre-orders. Not sure If the US will do that though

SumoLego

Is Millenium Falke related to Guy Falke or Peter Falke?  And does that come with free socks?!?