Lego 10179 Millennium Falcon - circa 2007 - clone build - Frame is finished.

Lego 10179 Millennium Falcon - circa 2007 - clone build - Christmas 2017 (& well beyond) / New Phase

She is now approaching a yard (36") long.

 

Lego 10179 Millennium Falcon - circa 2007 - clone build & real Lego 75105 basket case from Ebay

Got the rear thrusters built up and attached. Got delayed by getting a Lego 75105 Falcon basket case from Fleabay while looking for missing spare parts. It was in bags and a box and was pro-ported to be missing pieces (it was). I put the pdf plans from the Lego site on a tablet and managed to resurrect it, sans missing pieces. I also added some stuff I had to spice it up a bit. I was going to try to integrate the 75105 interior in some areas of the bigger Falcon but for now will just continue to build out the clone.

 

Lego 10179 Millennium Falcon - circa 2007 - clone build - Christmas 2017 / Phase One complete

Phase one, infrastructure, is complete. Superstructure plates (2nd phase) come next. The original Lego 10179, produced in 2007, goes for over $1,000 (cough) in collectible form, used. Individual pieces collectively cost more than that. Lego introduced the 75192 model earlier this year. If you were a Lego VIP and got on the waiting list, you could get one for around $800. The 2007 model had over 5,000 pieces, the 2017 over 8,000 (actually the Lego model has under 8,000 but the Lepin clone is over 8,000). I procured the Lepin clone models of each a couple weeks ago. The Lepin 05033 Star Plan model came first and that's where we (Jacob, my son helped) started Christmas weekend. Now doing a couple of steps each day. Biggest challenge is fishing through 5,000 pieces in over 100 individual bags to find discrete pieces to assemble. Back when Phase Two is complete.

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