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UCS set #4 unboxed at home today... Birthday present... certainly the most intriguing of the 4 to date. No way that the Tie can top it, but alas I have to have the Tie with my X-Wing..

Better ships. Yes.. But I need this to compliment the X-wing. Yes, as a 39 year old Star Wars child, there are 3 iconic must have ships. This is the Megatron to Optimas Prime..

Doesn't really matter to me whether it has UCS on the box or not.... I see it ultimately as important as whether or not when bricklinking a UCS Falcon, you get 100% accuracy of colours of the hidden technic lego parts which you'll never see. (People get so hung up on that, yet after all that they still don't have a genuine UCS Falcon anyway... it's a replica) What matters to me is what I want from a Star Wars Lego set... Some sort of attempt to at least try and accurately reproduce a vehicle to scale, and plenty of pieces. The plaque doesn't make or break the set to me (although it is a nice touch), and I don't really care for mini-figures, although I wouldn't say no to a Falcon with the complete set of ANH characters in it from that flght. They can slap the UCS marketing on an Ewok Village all they want, it doesn't make a big playset any more appealing to me...

Fantastic blog... almost gives me motivation to attempt this, lol..

My collection started in the last week in April now sits at 10240 Red 5 X-Wing 10227 B-Wing 10225 R2-D2 Unless a Tie variant or the Millennium Falcon get another release, that will probably be me for the time being..

At the end of the day there are a small group of craft which will always attract more attention than others.... X-Wing, Tie, Falcon IMO being the top 3. All 3 are iconic to the original trilogy. All 3 are recognisable to non-fans. All 3 are recreatable in a UCS lineup to a mini-figure scale.

I bought it about a month ago. I like the design of it, but structurally the UCS X-Wing is more sound and was more enjoyable to build...

I've been following these Falcon Bricklink threads for a while now, and I'd love to have a go at this. I started itemising via Lego NZ the availability of the pieces, but there are just so many pieces I can't get here, and even pieces that I would think would be common I can't get the colours for. I could see it getting very expensive sourcing parts from overseas.

First post... ;) , I've been lurking for the last few weeks. As an adult Star Wars OT fan (ROTJ was one of, if not the first movie I remember going to watch as a child), and someone who hasn't owned lego for well over 25 years, I kind of fell onto this hobby by mistake... Amazing what a Google search engine can do... Anyway, around three months ago I suppose I first really found out that Star Wars Lego isn't just the realm of 9-14 playsets, and the more I read and looked at the UCS lineup, the more intrigued I became... the 2007 Falcon although I've never seen it (and likely never will) just frankly blows me away... After looking at the new UCS X-Wing (my personal favourite ship of the OT) my partner bought it for my birthday, and I loved every minute of building it... If I had a pre-teen child, I'd buy them 9493, but to build and display, 10240 is a wonderful set. Fast Forward a few weeks, and the B-Wing (still available in limited numbers in shops here) was dropped by 25% by a local online retailer, and although I had reservations about originally buying it (fragility combined with size) I decided I'd kick myself if I didn't, due to it only being a matter of time before it is gone forever... (and I do have a soft spot for all the OT spacecraft) And now, in the last two days I have been building R2-D2.... completely different set to the other two, and in many ways my favourite of the three... although the craft are visually striking display pieces, there is something just really satisfying about building R2... He has more pieces, takes up less room, and just feels more technical and thought intensive to build...