Factory-sealed LEGO 912280 Millennium Falcon polybag found pre-assembled

[Blud-1]

Hi everyone! I bought a magazine with this polybag a long time ago. I didn't unpack it when I saw the inscription limited edition for collection and future sale, today while unpacking after moving I found it and noticed that it was already assembled, I started probing it without opening it and found some spare cases in it. I asked the gpt chat what this means, he said it could be a factory defect and advised to post on the forum to ask people, what do you think and how much could it be worth? 

[Slegengr]

Am I understanding correctly that you have a polybag set with the set already built in the package?  Did you buy the original magazine and polybag firsthand through LEGO.com or an original LEGO distributor or secondhand from someone else who purchased it?  ...or did you buy the magazine and polybag from a retail store where customers would have access to the polybag before purchase?

I don't know enough to answer for sure to the worth of your item, but I do know it is common for LEGO enthusiasts to add a fun challenge of building polybags inside the bag, so this may be what happened here.  If you bought the magazine firsthand, it would be strange if a factory employee built the set, but probably still not worth more than the unbuilt polybag.  Maybe someone likes to collect pre-built in-package polybags and will pay extra, but I would guess not.  If there was any likely point of public contact for the polybag, I think it most likely that someone randomly built the set in the polybag for fun.

As far as I know, there are no machines that assemble parts (aside from minifigure arms/hands or such like) in the factories, so it seems an impossibility that the set "accidentally got built in manufacture" since the machines would not even have this capability.  It likely had to be a person that built the set by manipulating the pieces while still in the bag, again a common challenge for LEGO enthusiasts.

[Yperio_Bricks]

All Millenium Falcon magazin gift polybags have the "limited edition" slogan printed on it. It's just marketing. Generally, most of the magazine minibuilds have the "limited edition" slogan printed on the bag. It is really nothing special.

 

Edited July 3 by Yperio_Bricks
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