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  W. Noyes

  5 out of 5 stars

  It's not a toy, it's a display model. And a GREAT one at that!

  Reviewed in the United States on 12 January 2013

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  I've only built one other Lego set before, and that was the 500 or so piece x-wing. This fantastic kit is absolutely no toy. You'll get no play value out of it; that's not what it's for. It's a display piece and it's a very good looking display piece; quite commanding in its appearance. I had a LOT of reservations about perching the finished shuttle on top of the stilt-like display stand ("this looks rickety, it's too top-heavy, it'll easily fall over, etc, etc"), but its actually pretty sturdy. I'll probably take it back down off the stand and remount it on its landing gear just so it's not as big of a target for passing room traffic, but for a just-finished build with all the visual novelty it's providing right now, I'll leave it like it is.

  The amount of structural and mechanical engineering that's been put into something like this is no less than astounding. 2500 bricks, bits and pieces, and they all press-fit into an operating model of this size and complexity without even a single drop of glue? Wow!

  One reviewer remarked there are a couple of parts on the back below the vertical stabilizer (shark fin? whatever...) that want to fall off. That's true. They're two flat wedge-shaped pieces opposite one another, each one held on by a single (what I want to call) "lego stub". I found I had a few extra small bits left over after the build, and one of those was a black part# 4121715, a double-ended stub used typically to fasten two girders together side-to-side. I used that as a sort of stabilizing component to the two wedge-parts on the back, sticking each end into an available receiving hole in each part. They're still pretty shaky, but a little less so now.

  Another reviewer noted his #3 instruction book was mis-printed. Mine wasn't, but half the time during my build, I wasn't using the paper books anyway. All of the instruction books for all of the Lego sets like this are available in .pdf format for downloading and displaying on your computer. I put the pdf manuals up on the screen of my 27" iMac and did just fine following that way.

  This kit is newly retired, so it's going to become harder to find, and more expensive. (It's already almost $100 more than what I paid.) Now I'll have to go out and get the Super Star Destroyer!

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  jimwrignick

  5 out of 5 stars

  Loved it...not without a couple of problems

  Reviewed in the United States on 30 December 2012

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  What major project does not come with a few headaches though. The 16+ is there for the sheer manual labor involved in putting this thing together. The ends of my fingers are still sore from pushing together tiny pieces on top of other tiny pieces. Great experience though. About 18 hours worth of construction, 2 of those were probably spent looking for bits missing.......see below.

  I gave it 5 stars for the pure ingenuity that went into the design. The wing construction alone put a smile on my face. (and my nine yr old son who got this from Christmas) Hats off to the LEGO engineers.

  Problem 1....Not really a problem but I have been spoiled recently. Recent kits come with the bags labels 1,2 3, 4, etc that map to the guides you are reading from. Not in this one...you're on your own. Daunting at first but get all the Tupperware and glassware you have in the house and keep 1 bag per bowl. You'll get used to the mentality behind the bag separation.

  Problem 2.....I am not mad, I swear....they were not there....I know these pieces were not in the kit. 2 missing pieces that joined the head to the body. Kinda important. I scavenged from a Lego castle.

  Problem 3....This is kind of a big one and it may have only been my shipment. The instructions in book 3 ended abruptly halfway through construction of the jets at the rear of the shuttle. It then repeated the entire section of the head construction only to go on to step 29 of the left wing(may have been right, not sure) eeeeek, I scratched my head....... I skipped to book 4 that went on to building the opposing wing with no problems..I scratched again, drank some coffee, grabbed a full size mirror off the wall and worked in reverse to replace step 1-28 (with all the sub steps in between) from book 3 using book 4. The jets I figured out from the picture on the box and knowing what pieces were left over.

  Other than the couple of missing pieces and a problem in the printing dept. LOVED it....

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  Chaitanya Kolluri

  5 out of 5 stars

  Size does matter!

  Reviewed in the United States on 17 March 2013

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  A great set. I had lots of fun building it and I'm in my late twenties. Certainly requires concentration and some skill to assemble and probably not for the under teen age group (as the 16+ indicates). When I got this, I clearly underestimated the size of the final object. There were so many small pieces (2500+ of them) but it was difficult to comprehend the size of the finished shuttle after all these small pieces came together. I got a sense of the scale of this thing after completing the construction of the of the middle wing. And my jaw dropped after I completed the assembly in full. My imagination was 1/3 smaller. The fusion of the ever desirable Lego brand and the timeless epic saga Star Wars comes through in a magnificent size. It's a great collectible for all Lego enthusiasts who are into Star Wars. Probably took about 12-14 hours to assemble with breaks, so I was occupied several evenings.

  The pieces do not come in Lego's new numbered packing. So you need ample space to keep the packets separate and frequently the assembly booklet requires you to locate pieces from several packets. That is the tim consuming part but it's all part of the fun.

  Get it. You won't regret it. Make sure you know were to store it once assembled though because it is big!

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  Eric M Eliason

  1 out of 5 stars

  My son would have loved this but....

  Reviewed in the United States on 26 December 2013

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  We received this purchase from "School Student Toys" via Amazon order. Upon opening the packing we noted that the product box was well used and worn out. The contents of the box had been spilled out into the packaging. There was also no assembly instruction book. We returned the product as it was clear the contents had been tampered with. Decided to buy product directly from LEGO web site and had no problem with the product received from them.

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  Matt&W

  5 out of 5 stars

  Excellent UCS Set

  Reviewed in the United States on 19 December 2012

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  The product came in a large box with paper stuffed, the actual lego box was not damaged at all. The set itself is great, it was a very time consuming build and the finished model is very sturdy although there are one or two pieces near the center fin that falls off easily if you touch it. The model was larger than expected too, it definitely weighs around 10 pounds. You can either display it on a stand or on a detatchable landing gear, the wings also rotate by two individual handles in the back. Overall, this is an excellent set and you certainly don't have to be 16 and up to build this. I would highly recommend it, it is a worth display piece in your home.

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