mattaddiction

But it's been the best part of 6 months now?! And they are still tricking out and not readily available, which is what I find kinda odd. This is the only Lego set I've tried to get on the release day and then followed so I've not idea if that's standard practice for Lego these days with a popular set but I am assuming with them been a Global market leader its not normal.. They definitely must have underestimated initial demand, having limited people to only 5 sets per customer..... Must be some demand though! They went from ins-tock yesterday morning, to pre-order back to out of stock over less than 12 hours... m

They were actually in stock on the UK Lego site this morning until about 10am.... a$$.....

I get that some of the people who originally managed to place an order ordered probably ordered a couple (Which won't have helped supply), but I don't see how it makes that much sense for investors because of the time needed to sit there and wait until stock is available. Lego really should have limited to 1 per customer from the start imo, why on earth would 99% of genuine lego builders need 2+ sets of that size, event if you've 2 kids both wanting one, where would average Joe put two Falcons ??!! All just doesn't seem to add up to me... Especially with all the new films having come/coming out, I just find it hard to believe Lego have underestimated demand *That* much and then not sorted out extra production when they have seen it?! If there really are that many people stockpiling the set for investments, then hopefully they are shooting themselves in the foot... making too much future supply. Still miffed! m How are Lego's factories set up (i'm curious). Where is there manufacturing done, the far east? m

Or maybe the plans were stolen and and somewhere in a droid in a Star Destroyer.... somewhere in a galaxy far far away.... (sorry, not trying to answer my own question, but I couldn't resist..). Bu seriously: I can't believe they underestimated demand that much.. We are now nearly 6 months on and their production hadn't caught up?? Seriously..?! What does 'They Nintindo'd the release' mean? If they are holding up supply, to create demand.. they are certainly annoying some potential customers. m

Thanks for the reply Kevin, TBH at this point i'm over it and can wait, sense has returned and the idea of spending £650 on plastic bricks is less appealing at this point (as well as figureing out where to putit/what to do with the old one). And more so the idea of having to do that much leg work to spend said money.. I'm more interested now in whats actually going on at Lego towers with this set and it's (lack of) availability. m

Hi Builders, I had been looking to get the new UCS Millennium Falcon set when it was released, tried to order it on the day it was released but like many it was already out of stock... so rather disappointed... And seems to have been since*... which is what is more disappointing and more so with Lego themselves, are they really that inept that they can't produce enough plastic bricks to satisfy demand (I struggle to believe there is *that much* demand for such an expensive set, that they don't have the manufacturing capacity.. or that Lego has got it's estimation of demand THAT wrong..)? Or are they trying to create demand by limiting supply? Or is there something else afoot? * Gather there is stock pop up now and again over the last few months but it's not 'in stock' properly by any stretch?! So what is the real story with the availability of this one? Really don't want to go to the dark side on this one..! Cheers, matt

Hi, How's your build going? Curious how you've dealt with some of the other 'brick problems' with this one I've bricklinked the Snowspeeder recently (hopfully you don't mind my adding), here's a few pic of mine (needs a few tweeks still): -m