LEGO aims to find out “if there has been some problems or if there are some requests.” “When doing something like that, we’re looking very much into consumer feedback”, Frederiksen revealed, building a better picture of the early design process behind this brick-based beauty. Feedback from the fans was taken on board That was really good, so that was our starting point.” 20. “We wanted to make big improvements this time around,” Stockwell teased, but we had a blueprint to go from. “We’ve been thinking about it for years”, Stockwell admitted, “wondering when the day would come and we’d actually get started again.” In the end, the Falcon’s importance in the new trilogy of films helped LEGO get the green light on this project, and so work began. “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.
LEGO MILLENNIUM FALCON SERIES
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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