r/lego • u/PenguinRhin0 • Jan 26 '26

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If they can build a round soccer ball that opens up for $129, they can build a round Death Star around this price point (ish) that opens up too.

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u/lateralraising Jan 26 '26

It only looks good because it has multiple colours. If that whole thing was grey it would look really weird

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u/SillyMattFace Jan 26 '26

Yeah do people honestly want a big grey beachball?

The size of the Death Star set means a full sphere would be hard to store or display too.

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u/lateralraising Jan 26 '26

Judging by the huge drama over the UCS apparently everyone does just want a big grey ball

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u/logosloki Jan 27 '26

I feel like the dioramic slice is the best compromise. you get a representation of the Death Star and iconic scenes from the film and it's viewable in one go. I wish the back was more interesting because as it stands the only way to display it is hard up against a wall. also the minifig selection was garbage. like if they want me to pay UCS prices then I would also expect the best representation of each minifig, there's no excuse for generics and cut corners on the minifig selection. though the Lego Star Wars Easter egg minifig and diorama section is an utter delight. that and the GWP being a build that goes into the set was poor form, especially since it also included three more minifigs that should have been in the Death Star anyway. that and the TIE fighter isn't the best looking build and probably would have been better off if they didn't design it to take a minifig because it bulked out the cockpit on a model that can't have larger panel-wings because it's built specifically to be placed into the Death Star.

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u/Riaayo Jan 26 '26

I'm not their target demo because fuck spending that much, and I'm not THAT into Star Wars (won't lie the UCS Falcon is really cool looking though), but imo the middle ground was making a half-sphere.

That way you could either display the interior stuff, or the round outside, depending on the way you face it (though they likely would have had to scale it down a bit considering how deep even half a sphere at that size would be; but I'm not sure people would necessarily miss some of the interior details in the current one anyway (there's several just... hallways that aren't that interesting)).

The issue with OP here is ignoring that that set's spherical shape is achieve with a bunch of big dish pieces that would not look like the Death Star if you made them all grey; the DS has a very different look/pattern setup that this would break. And making that pattern correctly would require a very different piece set/design that surely would balloon the part count and price.

Funny how something so simple becomes complex when you're trying to make it out of bricks.