Total building time: 28hours and 3minutes! Part 1: Sorting the bags and building the base frame Part 8: Bottom plates on the rest of the ship Part 1: Sorting the bags and building the base frame Below you can find links to every separate chapter (and the total building time for that step). This report is divided in 17 parts/chapters, this is also the number of parts in which the kit is categorized. Step by step we will go through the building process with an extensive photo-report! Building Report Lepin Millennium Falcon In this build report we will take a closer look to the build quality and overall experience. You will save about €600/$680! Too good to be true? This replica can be bought for about €200/$220. But, it is thanks to LEPIN (rebranded to LEPENING) that the average person has the chance to get a taste of this awesome Millennium Falcon kit. I want to make it absolutely clear that I’m not rooting for company’s who steal other company’s ideas. The ethical matter is a different discussion. LEGO’s patent expired years ago, which made it possible for other businesses to start copying the LEGO idea. LEPIN (LEPINING) to the rescue? For those not familiar with LEPIN or LEPINING: This is a chinese company that makes replicas from existing LEGO kits. You don’t have the budget to get your hands on the Ultimate Millennium Falcon? Well, that’s understandable, not everyone has the budget for such an expensive LEGO kit. It is a real shame since it is a unique experience to build a Millennium Falcon of this size! At Amazon you can buy the real LEGO kit for a fair price (click). The new price-tag was now around €800 or $900! With ease, this kit took the crown as begin the biggest and most expensive LEGO set ever brought to market! The set has a total of 7541 parts and is just absolutely massive! Due to its very high price, not allot of fans would get to enjoy building this set. It would be an improved Ultimate Millennium Falcon. To the delight of the community, LEGO announced a new set in 2017 (10 years later). Until 2017, LEGO never surpassed this set in price or number of parts. Some LEGO sets sold as expensive as €4700 (or $5300)! The original Millennium Falcon from 2007 With a price-tag of around €450 or $500, it certainly was not a cheap kit! This kit is no longer available and the prices shoot through the roof on the second-hand market. Only the control room had some detail but that was it.
The interior of the ship was not that special and lacked allot of detail.
At that time it was the biggest (and most expensive) LEGO set ever (with 5197 parts and a total length of 65 centimeters). It was also called the UCS edition ( Ultimate Collectors Series). There was a burning need for more in the whole community! In 2007 this need was finally redeemed with the first Ultimate Millenium Falcon Collerctors edition (nr 10179). In 2004 an improved version was released, with an overall better building experience. Already in the year 2000, LEGO brought there first Millennium Falcon model to the market (with 663 parts in total).
Also at LEGO they feel the same way about it. The Millennium Falcon is an icon for every Star Wars fan, that’s for sure. FYI, the brand name recently changed to “LEPINING Millennium Falcon”. Before we start talking about the 05132 LEPIN Millennium Falcon ( Bought here: AliExpress), we will briefly talk about the history of the LEGO kits.
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