Lego’s Latest Star Wars Set Makes Jabba’s Sail Barge Bigger Than Ever

Such is inevitable successful the worlds of some Star Wars and Lego that things repeat—ideas to instrumentality to and beryllium improved upon, whether it’s bringing a quality backmost implicit and implicit or, successful Lego’s case, picking an iconic plan and trying to bash it the champion justness you tin with modern plan over 25 years of iteration. Its latest Star Wars “Ultimate Collector Series” set goes backmost to Jabba’s Sail Barge, and makes it adjacent bigger that it has ever been successful brick-built signifier before.

This greeting Lego revealed that the next Star Wars UCS set, releasing adjacent month, volition beryllium a monolithic recreation of the Khetanna, aka Jabba’s Sail Barge from Return of the Jedi. Clocking successful astatine a whopping 3,942 pieces, the 30-inch-long exemplary dwarfs the company’s anterior takes connected the Sail Barge from 2013 (just 850 pieces) and 2006 (781). And not conscionable successful pieces either: the acceptable volition besides travel with 11 minifigures recreating of people Jabba, his associates and his assorted partygoers, and a fewer cardinal rebel heroes. Here’s the afloat breakdown of who’s who:

• Jabba the Hutt
• Bib Fortuna, Jabba’s Twi’lek majordomo
• Salacious B. Crumb, the Kowakian monkey lizard
• Max Rebo, the luckiest Ortolan instrumentalist successful the galaxy
• Kithaba, a Klatooinian skiff guard
• Vizam, a Nikto weapons master
• Wooof, different of Jabba’s Nikto goons
• A Gamorrean Guard
• Princess Leia, successful her Huttslayer outfit
• C-3PO
• R2-D2, implicit with the portion tray helium wears to service guests earlier Luke’s breakout

Lego Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Jabba’s Sail Barge Gallery

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The afloat acceptable features a elaborate interior, including a cockpit, situation and armory, kitchen, and amusement country with abstraction for Jabba’s throne, each viewable by lifting up the near broadside sheet of the barge, and of people a elaborate exterior, including weapon emplacements and the fateful blaster cannon Luke fires to destruct the barge aft rescuing Leia. Alas, there’s nary included skiff to truly implicit the scene, but hey, that’s wherefore Lego just truthful happened to release that abstracted Sarlacc pit and Skiff playset past month, isn’t it?

Of course, each this summation successful size and scope volition mean an summation successful terms too: the UCS Sail Barge volition acceptable you backmost a hefty $500 erstwhile it releases successful a fewer weeks, beginning connected October 3 for Lego Insider Members, and past October 6 for its afloat release. As a bonus, anyone who buys the acceptable from Lego during that play volition person a bonus acquisition acceptable successful the signifier of a tiny buildable replica of Luke’s greenish lightsaber from Return of the Jedi.

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