Heads up you scruffy-lookin' nerf-herders, because our all-time favorite Lego Star Wars set, the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon, just got an enormous Prime Day discount.
To be precise, you can currently grab this enormously popular (and just downright enormous) kit for £550.90 at Amazon instead of its usual £734.99 as part of October's Prime Day Lego deals. That's even better than the previous discounts I've been seeing, and considering how the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon has averaged around £600 for the past half a year, it's solid value. Not bad for what is widely considered to be one of the best Lego sets overall.
Should you buy the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon?
So, is this kit actually worth the hype? Discount or not, that's still a lot of credits.
In my eyes, yes. As mentioned throughout our Lego UCS Millennium Falcon review, this is a real jaw-dropper of a kit that takes the breath away when seen in person. Pictures don't do it justice; the model is absolutely huge, with oodles of detail across every surface that make it a fantastic replica of the fastest hunk o' junk around. It features a host of beloved characters and an intricate interior to explore as well, so it's not just a 'shell.'
As an example of this attention to detail, you can make the ship as the original trilogy version with Han Solo, Chewie, Leia, and C-3PO in their Empire Strikes Back outfits, or swap out the radar dish for the sequel era alternative and crew the vessel with older Han, Rey, Finn, and BB-8. There's even one of those disgusting lamprey bat things from the alien worm in Empire that you can stick on the top. Yuk.
The only downside for me would be the display space required to show this one off (it's a big boy at 33 inches long), and the lack of key minifigures. Where's that old vagabond Lando Calrissian, for instance? And what with the price being so high, I'd hope to see New Hope Luke and Obi-Wan too.
Still, these aren't dealbreakers in my eyes. The sheer attention to detail here is otherwise staggering, and it's the kind of model that draws every eye in a room. Despite having been superseded in size and complexity by this month's Death Star (which thoroughly stolen the limelight from all other new Lego sets in October), the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon is still the superior kit so far as I'm concerned.
Not feeling like it's worth the cost of entry? That's fair. As it happens, you can pick up a smaller - but still excellent - equivalent for a much cheaper £49.30 at Amazon instead of £74.99. I sang this kit's praises in my Lego Millennium Falcon (75375) review, and think it's a phenomenal option for most people because it balances a more reasonable price with a good level of detail.
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