My buddy got me R2D2 this year, Chewbacca definitely took longer than R2D2 will in build time.
It is physically very large. Larger than basically all cats and a lot of dogs. My daughter was 3 1/2 when I got it and it wasn’t much smaller than she was then.
I’ve assembled and disassembled it several times. I think it takes 8-10 hours to get it together and not much less to take it apart. You really have to follow the instructions in reverse to get it broken down, and the pins make my fingers quite sore if I don’t take it in stages.
The linked review is correct that the mechanics somewhat overtax the single motor, but I find the design so impressive that it doesn’t matter.
This was the last “flagship” Technic set I ever bought. We don’t have space in the house for more plastic toys this size, and I don’t love the fact that the huge ones tend to be app controlled now. But I think this was a pretty high note to go out on.
I just built the NES/CRT set. It was about 2600 pieces - not very big compared to a lot of the serious sets I’m sure. But the only real one I’ve done.
Definitely would do it again! It was very relaxing to take a few minutes out of each day and go through a bag of legos and instructions. I was kinda sad when it finished - the end product is cool, but the fun was really in putting it together and slowly watching it turn into a thing. I mean, I’d enjoy doing it again, but I don’t expect or plan to for any reason.
Woah, yep. I’ve remember seeing this one. It looks really cool. Nice!
It is really cool! I expected to it to enjoy seeing the machinery in both main parts come together, but I did not expect the surprise 1-2 cameo inside the console.
The Audio / Video connectors on the back are Perfect, haha
Yeah, the warp pipe Easter Egg was was sold me on this type of build. I really hope we get to see more non-minifig scale mocs that do this type of fan service. As I was putting it together I was trying to figure out what the hell I was building, and when it clicked? Oh man! I love showing the secret to guests.
On a similar note, the 25th anniversary Millennium Falcon has a few Easter eggs, but you only get to appreciate them during the build. Opening the Falcon up to take a peek isn’t an option.
That game cartridge mechanism is satisfying.
The millennium falcon, the big one. It took about 16 hours of build time for two people. I think the only set bigger at the time was the titanic. I’m actually not sure if the Eiffel tower has more pieces, or if it’s only physically bigger.
The giant Hogwarts with 6020 pieces! It was a lot of fun over a week, but my fingers hurt when I was done so I probably wouldn’t do it again. The stained glass looks really cool though!
I don’t think the picture does it justice. Being 6,020 pieces, this thing has to be Big, am I right?
It was! I kept it split framing my tv for a while
When I was a child I loved bionicles and worked all summer to raise $60 for this double set of dragon looking things. Better yet, you could combine them and make a hybrid monster. Somewhere in that process of creating the hybrid I realized it was too much work disassembling and reassembling and completely gave up.
I had a friend from school who was into bionicles. It looked really cool, but I have to admit that I just simply didn’t understand it
I’ve done 2 of the technix cars 1000-2000 pieces. They are fun but expensive. They take up a lot of space when you are done. The Ferrari had a lot of loose pieces for the price. As others have mentioned, look into led kits before you build it.
I bought the LEGO Rivendell set close to when it came out. It was a fun one to build, and I would do it again. Honestly, I’ll probably need to disassemble and reassemble at least some of it whenever I move.
…came here to post the same: we have a lot of flagship lego sets but rivendell is an unparalleled masterpiece, so exceptional that it makes almost everything else seem unworthy of shelf space by comparison…
I don’t have a ton of sets, but I absolutely love Rivendell. It is beautiful to look at, has all of the fellowship, and has so many tiny details. Truly one of LEGO’s best sets in my opinion.
…we (my wife + myself) were so disappointed by barad-dûr afterward!..we didn’t buy it, so we haven’t built it, but based on the photos it’s neither inspired nor crafted to the same exceptional standard as rivendell…
Lining up those roof tiles was pure torture. But a beautiful set.
I built the Apollo Lunar Lander not long ago. I enjoy the experience of putting together Lego kits so sure, I’d do that again. Or even a bigger one like the Saturn V.
The problem is what to do with these after I finish assembling them. Nicer kits have a good number of specialized parts so I don’t want to take them apart. So they just sit on a shelf and collect dust.
This one is really cool. I don’t remember seeing it before. Pretty cool design and there’s alot of detail in there. @[email protected] i understand that. They’re a lot of fun to build, but then how long do you keep them?
Not really the biggest, but most complex: the ornithopter set. Tremendous fun, and some of the mechanics feel borderline lego-illegal.
Blacksmith set a few years ago. I got it as a Christmas present and if I had money I’d do large sets more often because of the joy I felt building that one.
@[email protected] Was it this one?
Yup such a wonderful build for me
Titanic, and no. I looked at getting an LED kit for it, saw how much I’d have to disassemble and decided not to.
That’s 9090 pieces. You’re a madman. How long did that take?
Maybe two weeks of nightly building after work while watching TV.
…why does it include three pry-tools?..
Because the main box is divided into three smaller boxes, one for bow, one for stern, and one for midship. You can build them in any order, or they can be built simultaneously by you and your friends/family. They included a brick separator in each sub-box.
…ah, i can’t recall whether rivendell included two separators, but it was also packaged in sub-boxes with separate instruction books, which made teamwork a snap…
SPACESHIIIIIP!
Was this a certain Lego set, or did you freestyle this spaceship into existence? How many pieces do you think?
I’m guessing OP was talking about set #10497 Galaxy Explorer with 1,254 pieces.
My kid bought me a Back to the Future DeLorean for my birthday, about 2000 pieces.
Initially I thought it was kind of a mis-gift, something they would enjoy more than me since I hadn’t built a set since they were small and needed my help, but I made it a point to crack it open instead of letting it sit and it turned out to be quite enjoyable.
Probably the AT-ST walker from Star Wars. That was cool since I hadn’t made anything that bit, but it was all grey, and therefore as memorable an experience as the last 9 star wars movies
Edit: 8 of the last 9. Rogue One was a great movie
