Kohila

What a beautiful ship... I have it on my shelf alongside its three most recent incarnations (That is to say, all but the Slave I from 2000).

I would've done the Express Delivery if I could, but I recently started uni and have a PO Box now. LEGO doesn't do any of the additional shipping methods to PO Boxes.

That's a possibility! Funnily enough, each of the three times I've ordered sets on the S@H were all in different states in the US.

It's quite odd because I've had mixed experiences with them. I've ordered a small set from them as a birthday gift for my younger brother and it didn't arrive until around a month after I placed the order. I've ordered the Jedi Interceptor and that took an average time of about a week. But dang if I ain't surprised that a set as large as the UCS Slave I is the fastest one to ship.

Wow, they processed the order really quick. :o I ordered it late Tuesday night and they had it shipped by Wednesday and it's expected to get here by Friday. Super excited to finally build the thing.

Totally managed to slip in and order the UCS Slave I when it was temporarily in stock this evening. I'm glad, too; it's already OOS again. :P

I just wish we had the piece in Dark Blue.

They've actually appeared in multiple sets since they debuted in the 8097 Slave I. You can see a list of available colors here. :)

That's what I'm hoping for. I'm a Boba fanboy and it would pain me on some level to have a glaring typo on the sticker sheet of the Slave I. The only thing is that I've always gotten the Slave I sets early. I have the 8029 version from before they changed the structure with the 2x4 slope bricks. I'll probably be buying the set in the next few days, or whenever they restock them I guess.

Really looking forward to buying this set. I'm in the middle of moving, though, so I don't plan to order it until I finally get settled into my new dorm room and have an address to ship the set to. But it seems that the LEGO S&H can't make up its mind on how it's stocked. First it was OOS until the 12th, then it was OOS for a month. Yesterday afternoon it became available, but that apparently didn't last long as it's now OOS for a month again. I'm gonna be checking the stock status religiously and hopefully I can snipe the set.

Dang, Anio. Now I have -another- UCS model to start part hunting for; still working on the Slave I though. :P I'll definitely be buying the instructions for this model when they're released, btw. ;)

I've been playing the game fairly heavily over the course of ~8-9 years. Pretty high levelled at this point. :)