Do people still do these?
100 editions at 8.99... :O
They'll probably discontinue it halfway though as well.
¼ the price, and a lot more fun:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Star-Wars-7965-Millennium/dp/B004OT8HJO
I just googled 'scratch built millennium falcon' 😯
http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f22/scratchbuilt-32-millennium-falcon-25081/
http://www.ketzer.com/millennium_falcon/
Yowzer!
Way too small.
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Just had a look at the 32" scratchbuilt Falcon...
😯
We just commented on that advert. Utterly bonkers.
It is full scale, though!
....and has a moving ramp..
That school is ace. They claim it's not that shape on purpose. Well maybe [i]they[/i] didn't mean for it to be that shape. But you can bet the designer did.
Mrs DoD also pointed out the price of this...
I just don't get the point of a model that you have to wait for a week to get a few more pieces to then wait for another week...and sorta repeat....
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The reviews are good 🙂
Wysiwyg, collectors market innit. Fwiw you can get one for "only" £750 on ebay atm, and the set retailed for $100 when it came out in the 'real' shops years ago.
The DeAgostini partwork RC spitfire model they knocked out a few years back is, by all accounts, utter crap. Very, very expensive crap.
My niece works for a magazine distributor and I was asking her whether anyone actually bought these things. She said that they are some of their best sellers. Why they're popular was a mystery to both of us.
Her Christmas bonus this year was made by exceptional sales of a cake baking title where you got a new cookie cutter or a muffin case each week.
Perhaps the greatest uptake is among people who pay Littlewoods £4 a week for their tele, topup their amenities on a little plastic stick and would never have £100, let alone £800 disposable for a model.
That, or just crazy people.
Wait a minute, your maths are all wrong here
the first issue is only £2.99, so it's 'build the Millenium Falcon for only £893
Bargain!
Beats the milenium falcon .....
"Build a 3d printer magazine "
Just saw it advertised on chanel 4 !
[i]Perhaps the greatest uptake is among people who pay Littlewoods £4 a week for their tele, topup their amenities on a little plastic stick and would never have £100[/i]
Ooh, yeah, those scummy [i]working class[/i] scumbags. Bet they don't even wear Rapha or shave with a fancy old fashioned style razor, the scum.
My sister loves this kind of thing - she has a ~1K golden hind, some steam train and 40 bazillion bits of rock, plus loads of others that I ran away from inspecting.
I did ask about getting it all finished - there are mainly 3 people at her newsagent that get everything brought in (just for them), plus you can buy copies that you missed.
She loves the magazine of facts (shamelessly robbed from wikipedia 😉 and everything asociated with them.
She knows she is ripped off and is weening herself off them as she started to get a steam train, then dad showed her a steam engine model that he had that you can can buy for half the price (kinda, his is 30 years old and awesome) and is twice as good (although he has ran out of the proper fuel for the boiler)>
My mum used to get a thing called medi-quest, it was the ultimate hypochondriac's guide- every month you got a little magazine with a list of new ailments you could imagine you had, then file away for future reminiscences. "AH, remember that month when we had AIDS?"
Out of interest,
Anyone know if these things hold value? I mean, if you built several hundreds of pounds worth of plastic Falcon, are there collectors who want complete models like you'd get with, I don't know, tea cards or Panini, or are they ostensibly worthless?
I say we all get together to try to find fuel for saccades dad's train.
Hah - found the engine and I've found fuel!
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[i]like you'd get with, I don't know, tea cards or Panini[/i]
It's all ciabatta these days, can't shift panini.