{"id":117567,"date":"2026-06-27T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/117567\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:12:44","slug":"the-lego-star-wars-death-star-set-thats-caused-a-great-disturbance-in-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/117567\/","title":{"rendered":"The LEGO Star Wars Death Star Set That’s Caused a Great Disturbance in the Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re the parent to a Star Wars<\/a>\u2013crazy kid who loves LEGO (the Venn Diagram of these two tastes is close to a perfect circle), or a child-at-heart who adores one or both of these brands, you may not know about the LEGO Death Star soon to enter orbit. But for a more devoted subset of LEGO fans, the upcoming playset has been the subject of online rumors, argument, speculation, disappointment, and ire\u2014a hype cycle that\u2019s been churning for almost a year and concludes next week, when LEGO releases its first thousand-dollar set.<\/p>\n

Yep. That\u2019s the price. On October 4, you can buy a single LEGO set for the tidy\u2014though certainly not small\u2014sum of one thousand actual US dollars. The long-awaited, oft-rumored, LEGO Ultimate Collector\u2019s Series Death Star is a very large and very expensive toy. The set contains 9023 pieces, weighs almost fifteen pounds, and represents the most expensive plaything in the history of the brand. Technically priced at $999.99, it is also not the largest LEGO set ever (their Eiffel Tower is taller) nor does it have the most pieces (an elaborate LEGO World Map set features 12,000).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not even the first (or third) LEGO Death Star: the brand has made earlier versions of Star Wars\u2019 most famous planet-sized weapon, which retailed in the $300<\/a> and $400 range<\/a>. But this new Death Star represents a scale and ambition from the LEGO group so large, so costly, and so out-of-this-world that it may potentially establish a new paradigm for the types of premium collectors\u2019 products they can make and sell. Or, like its cinematic inspiration, it may become destructive on an unimaginable scale, pushing devotees of the world\u2019s most popular toy to a new breaking point.<\/p>\n

Getting a few things out of the way, speed-round style, for the uninitiated: They\u2019re LEGO bricks, tiles, and plates. They\u2019re not blocks, and they\u2019re especially not called LEGOs, plural. There are also gears, elements, jumpers, brackets, bars, flags, and dozens more named types, a dizzying hierarchy<\/a> of parts.<\/p>\n

There are also minifigures<\/a>. Some LEGO fans are exclusively fans of minifigures<\/a>, and LEGO will occasionally include a first-time minifigure or character in a large set as an incentive to purchasers. LEGO Star Wars fans are often minifig-obsessed<\/a>, and many see the strategy of hiding certain minifigures behind the “paywall” of larger, more expensive sets as exploitative and hypocritical<\/a>. You can later find these exclusive figures on the aftermarket<\/a> with heavy mark-ups. (The forthcoming Death Star set comes with 7 exclusives,<\/a> including Rogue One\u2019s Galen Erso, which means the set also marks actor Mads Mikkelsen<\/a>\u2019s first appearance in LEGO minifigure form.)<\/p>\n

The name LEGO has been commonly genericized, like Kleenex and Xerox and Google<\/a>, and this brand recognition works as part of the business\u2019s protective moat. Even though LEGO\u2019s patent on their system of injection-molded plastic bricks (studs on the top, tubes underneath) expired in 1978, most people commonly refer to any upturned Tupperware of multicolored bricks as LEGO. Brands like Tyco and Mega Bloks may have flooded the market for decades with generic, passable imitations, but no parent has ever cursed the inventor of Mega Bloks after stepping on one in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, LEGO would release 40 or 50 unique sets a year\u2014tailored assortments of bricks with printed instructions for the building of specific models, like a rudimentary helicopter, windmill, or a train station. By the late 1980s and early \u201890s, LEGO was producing 200 sets a year, with unlicensed, original themes released in quarterly and yearly cycles, products designed around objects and subjects of imagination, like Castle, Space, and Pirates. When business fell into a drastic slump in the 1990s, LEGO was lucky to find and develop a partnership with Lucasfilm, and things began to turn around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re the parent to a Star Wars\u2013crazy kid who loves LEGO (the Venn Diagram of these two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6050],"tags":[2059,1972,4248,6051,7972,7105,2713],"class_list":["post-117567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lego","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-lego","tag-lego-group","tag-star-wars","tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116822955977242754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}