LEGO Star Wars 75419 Death Star's high price has drawn plenty of critiques online, and the Brick Fanatics team aren't sure about the cost either.
We're just a few weeks away from the launch of 75419 Death Star, and the 9,023-piece build is confirmed to cost £899.99 / $999.99 / €999.99. The price and other features of the biggest LEGO Star Wars set ever made have caused a stir in the community, and some fans don't believe that this set is worth such a high price tag.
Ahead of the launch of this monumental model, the Brick Fanatics team are putting together their thoughts on the price and whether or not they are even considering this build at all. Read on to see what the team thinks of the most expensive LEGO set of all time.
Rachael – 'I simply don’t want it, even for £50'
I started trying to imagine how much I would pay for 75419 Death Star, and it’s honestly difficult to put a number on it. When I think about the time I’d need to invest in the build, and the final display model I would have to put somewhere (although where in my one-bedroom flat it would slot in is beyond me), I think the honest answer is that I simply don’t want it, even for £50 rather than £900.
And that’s okay. Not everything has to be for everyone, but it is a shame that this history-making LEGO set has very little that entices me. The dollhouse idea isn’t a terrible one, but it’s been executed poorly, and there’s little to draw me in that I couldn’t achieve with some well-arranged Death Star dioramas. I’ll be keeping my money for other LEGO adventures.
Matt – 'I could get a PS5 and an Xbox and still have change'
When the UCS Death Star was revealed, I was definitely less-than-impressed. However, the more I’ve seen and written about the LEGO Star Wars set, the more I genuinely like it, warts and all. However, that’s not to say I’d ever genuinely consider buying a copy, though.
In fact, for the high price of the model, I could get my hands on a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X and still have change left over. I’d also have to consider how mad my partner would be if I spent that much money on any LEGO set. Believe me, a quiet home life is much more preferable than owning a brick-built battle station!
Jack – 'It's more displayable, but not worthy of the price tag'
I'm not quite as put off on 75419 Death Star as the rest of the Brick Fanatics team. As a LEGO fan, I can appreciate the direction the design team opted to go in rather than making a full sphere. That concept has been done before, and while many (myself included) will have expected the first $1,000 LEGO set to go all-out and depict the full space station, I already struggle to display my copy of 10188 Death Star.
I enjoy the more displayable form of 75419 Death Star, and the level of detail on offer is great. However, you just can't ignore the fact that this 9,000-piece build is a staggering £899.99 / $999.99 / €999.99. For that price, I would expect more prints rather than stickers, improved minifigures with dual-moulded legs at least, and some kind of surprise similar to
While 75419 Death Star is more displayable and a genuine achievement from the LEGO designers, it's not quite worthy of that price tag. I would consider it, flaws and all, for £749.99. That's only if I didn't already own 10188 Death Star, though, and with a couple of years of saving up at least. I'm seemingly more willing than most of the team to spend so much on LEGO, but at £900, I expect nothing but the absolute best. 75419 Death Star has too many flaws to justify such a cost, even for an obsessed fan, such as myself
Chris – 'How much would I spend on a single LEGO set at all?'
How much money would I spend on 75419 Death Star? I’ll meet your question with another one: how much would I spend on a single LEGO set at all? And the answer to that one, so far, is £300. That’s the current ceiling I’ve reached with 71741 NINJAGO City Gardens and 76178 Daily Bugle. They’re both great sets, sure, but I still had mixed feelings about spending that much money on them. So I couldn’t in good conscience cough up much more than that on the Death Star, which is obviously not realistic for a 9,000-piece set regardless of its quality.
It’s all relative, isn’t it? If you’ve got disposable income coming out of your ears (not literally, unless you’re selling your earwax on questionable websites) you might not think much of dropping a cool G on one set. That ain’t me, folks: especially with a now-five-month-old baby who refuses to cool it on the growing front and needs new clothes every other week, while I continue to rattle around in decade-old band tees.
But let’s conjure another scenario, one in which I drive around in a gold-plated Ferrari and wear gold-plated boots and (whisper it) a t-shirt I bought in the past couple of years. Would I spend £900 on the Death Star then? Probably. But I’d be hot-footing it to Rebrickable for alternative ways to display it or build on it, because I’m with Rachael on this one… it looks great in Dimitri’s close-up shots, but in its overall presentation, it just falls flat for me. But hey: at least now I can go back to saving up for Arkham Asylum.
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