![]() “It’s now ten years ago since we did the first one”, he added, referring to the previous Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon (product 10179), “and we know that it’s been highly requested.” “Is there ever a wrong time?” jokes Frederiksen, asked why now was the right time to launch a new – bigger than ever – LEGO Millennium Falcon. They’ve been wanting to do this for years I learned that straightaway, and then I learned these fun nerdy facts, during a 45-minute Q&A with the master builders Frederiksen and Stockwell…. Minutes later, inside a nearby hotel conference room, I waited with a coffee and a cookie and a group of other journos, as Jens Kronvold Frederiksen (Director of LEGO Star Wars Design) and Michael Lee Stockwell (Design Manager of LEGO Star Wars) sat down behind their gobsmacking creation. They were waiting for it to open at midnight, in the hope of buying an Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon before anyone else. ![]() ![]() It’s priced at £649.99, but it’s doubtful that LEGO will struggle to sell them: I walked by Leicester Square’s LEGO Store, on the way to the launch event, and Star Wars fans – replete with woolly R2-D2 hats and handy foldable chairs – were queued outside the shop. This set has 7,541 pieces, making it the largest LEGO set ever produced. On a chilly London night in the middle of September, Den Of Geek sent me to a special launch event for the new Star Wars LEGO kit: the Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon (product number 75192), the latest brick-based incarnation of the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
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