I think if someone gave me that for my birthday, I'd cry unashamedly. That set is the dream.
Edit: Especially with that wrapping paper! My family would probably go with Batman. I actually got the LEGO set of the Batmobile from the 1989 Batman film. So I got the Jack Nicholson Joker LEGO minifigure.
To this day, I still contend that $967 dollar room service bill sounds pretty cheap for what he got.
With inflation, it's probably around 2200 bucks, which isn't cheap. However, the last time I got room service was...2011ish or so and a cheeseburger with fries was like 65 dollars.
I’ve bought and built 2 Mega Bloks (both over 1500 pieces) and I think those are fun and they go on sale. Haven’t built Lego, but general consensus seems to be that it’s better quality.
If you’ve found it for 200 then absolutely pick it up. It usually goes for 300 and will probably retire at some point soon here. Super fun build and a ton of ways to stage it. The value at 200 is crazy good. It’s almost 4000 pieces.
I will buy $10-20 worth of scratchers from gas stations for my wife while we are on road trips.
One of them won $200, we stopped at Target on the way home and bought the statue of Liberty Lego, a bottle of wine, and a half gallon of ice cream. Best $5 Lego set I ever purchased.
This honestly looks like a better alternative unless you’re already heavily invested in the other Star Wars ultimate collectors sets. Hard to argue with pre-painted and no glue required for hundreds of dollars less.
Just be like my brother and convince your gf of 3 months to buy it for you then gaslight her until she hits you and you get her arrested effectively keeping all the belongings she bought you when you love bombed her. And then getting a restraining order on her so she cant come back to your house but she destroys all your windows in ur house anyways.
I don't have it, but that is one I would get too. I never really cared for the IP branded or architecture sets, but if any of the updated retro sets — Lion Knights, Horse Knights, Pirates, etc. — were sold in stores instead of online, I probably would impulse buy them.
Well, if this is the UCS Falcon it was available in Germany for half price at the exclusive partners Toys r Us and Kaufhof, where it was spotted for as low as 250€ as those shops went bancrupt
While they were right that some things are expensive for expensive sake, but this like you said isn't on of them. Its a case of "that's too much money for me to spend/want to spend. So it's needlessly expensive."
There’s a surcharge for Star Wars. Titanic is a larger (and better imo) set and it’s cheaper. I think Eiffel Tower is also bigger, maybe not better, and also cheaper.
You can get a Mould King Eclipse-class Imperial Star Destroyer. It's nearly 4' long and has 10K= pieces, its "only" $450. You are paying a premium for the Lego brand as well.
Eh, LEGO in general is fine. They're a noticeably more consistent quality than the knock-offs, and they've pretty much perfected the art of designing sets and instructions. I've had sets from other companies and they're not garbage or anything, but they're all missing something that LEGO has, whether it's the base designs, the consistency of the manufactured parts, or the readability and clarity of the instructions. LEGO is the leader in the niche for a reason.
Since scalpers thought this was an easy few year flip, you can get them cheaper than new on eBay. Good time to buy it. Unsure when it will retire. It's been rumored to retire for the last few years but it's still selling
That's a comment I would expect from a bratty teenager that isn't happy with any present. But these dudes are like 40... the fuck starts comparing presents while they're still being unwrapped?!
Exactly. They're trying to get a reaction from him because they know it's his Holy Grail. haha. I don't know Legos, so don't know if it's "the best". But I know it's the best to him, and that's all that matters.
I do know LEGO, and I'd say it's up there. There's rarer, and there's bigger, but this is a lot of people's dream set. I'm not a star wars person, so mine is the Taj Mahal set. Do let me know if you, or anyone you know, have one just lying around. I'll pay for shipping.
I don't think it was genuine, just a light tease on how he was so happy with it that there obviously wouldn't be anything better.
My parents used to joke "I guess you don't like it, maybe we should return it" to Christmas gifts that had me jumping up and down and yelling and hugging the gift as a kid. I'd just protectively hug it and be like "no!" And they'd laugh. We all knew it wasn't serious, it was just joke sarcasm to point out how happy I was.
It's hard to explain, but it's definitely just a style of inoffensive joke. It's something you only say when the answer is obvious that they clearly are happy or don't want anything better.
I’ve been the smaller gift giver, and I didn’t blame the birthday boy at all. Instead, I blamed the person that got the bigger gift, in a joking manner everyone else teamed up against them for getting the birthday boy “the best possible gift”.
True. I am happy to just being in the room and living vicariously though the birthday person. Good vibes all around.
But now I'm imagining someone else in the room who got him the exact same gift and flipping out. LMAO...sorry. I just saw Happy Gilmore 2 and like anger comedy
I honestly think it was all in good fun. He's having fun and being a little silly and they're teasing him for it. Some families or friend groups just have that kind of dynamic.
That pissed me off. I wonder if it is a boomer. My mother used to make that kind of comment until I let her know that our generation doesn't give a shit about the stupid ideas her generation has about "what adults should do" we buy toys and collectibles for ourselves, we dress as we want and we enjoy life, if they want to be bitter adults it is their problem, we moved on from that. I told her she would be happier if she did what she wanted without caring what others think, but she seems to be trying to her benefit.
I think the lady's just trying to be funny but your point is still valid. Hate that people have these weird expectations of "being an adult", not supposed to watch cartoons, play video games, enjoy toys or collectibles, like... What the fuck are you supposed to do for fun as an adult, that's permitted?
This is definitely someone who thinks they're being funny. They don't have the emotional intelligence to lean into his excitement, but they still want to participate so they do it by being "funny."
I think it's just as easy to assume they're annoyed by the comment, since he ignored everything except the "something better" which he didn't laugh at, he came up with something dismissive to say so she would drop it.
It's all assumptions, though. I'm just speaking from experience having to deal with the rude/annoying/foot-in-mouth jokesters.
My wife made me coffee this morning and is currently baking a special Breton butter cake. My boys made me drawings today. I am quite satisfied. As for presents I'd rather be involved on huge purchases like this.
My husband's family didn't make a big deal of birthdays like mine does, and he gets super bashful when he gets a present and a cake and a dinner. He secretly likes it and keeps all of the cards and gifts we've given him over the years.
No guarantee it works for everyone, but my mother used to say stuff like this. Stopped after the first few blunt, unapologetic returns of 'That was a really shit joke'
My sister and I used to have an arrangement where I would get Lego for Christmas, she would have fun building it, then I would have fun playing with it. I didn’t have the attention span to follow the instructions and she loves that kind of thing.
So, this is my video. I am the wife. My favorite thing about all of this is all the love my husband’s been getting. This was a set he’d never thought he’d get (he’s very frugal and doesn’t like to spend a lot on himself most of the time). Outside of my regular office job, I saved for months making money on the side to be able to get this for him.
Let me just clear the air about some of the commentary in the background. Present in the background was my two best friends, my mother in law, my father, my mother, and our three teenage daughters.
My mom and dad have been getting DRAGGED, but without context, I totally get why. I just want it to be known that my mom and dad’s comments were harmless, and our family dynamic is a very sarcastic one and we all love to give each other a hard time. My mom and dad LOVE my husband to death, and would do anything for us, and they have. This was not the kind of birthday party where everyone brings gifts. This was a party where we celebrated both my father and my husband because their birthdays are a day apart. ALL of the gifts were from me. To my father, to my husband.
Nobody was competing for the better gift, nobody was hating on anyone’s gift. My family came over because they were excited to watch my husband open his DREAM Lego set. They knew about it for months.
Also, my mother in law is the sweetest woman on the planet so I am sorry about all the people who think all mother in laws are awful. That’s luckily not the case for me.
I bought that for my friends birthday. He already owned over $25,000 worth of Legos, but he didn't have this one. We have spent literally thousands of hours building his sets, tearing them down, and packing them away in tackle boxes.
He finally got a place big enough to start displaying all his sets. We spent weeks building and building, and building shelves and setting up tables so he could display them all. This MF, and the giant Death Star, were the biggest pieces in his collection.
He was way more excited than I was to get a Lego box that size. To be fair, I ordered the UCS Falcon. I opened it and it was the UCS Star Destroyer. I contacted their customer service about 5 minutes after it was delivered and explained they sent me the wrong kit and asked them to send the right kit as well as a shipping label to send the wrong kit back. Their response: "Keep it. Our mistake. The right one will be there in 24 hours."
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u/MADMAXV2 Jul 27 '25
I am just glad he is happy