Let’s be clear: We’re total Lego lovers. We even named the Lego brick one of those everyday items that’s actually a design masterpiece, and over the years, we’ve happily shared deals on some of our favorite sets. But I’ve got to say it— the backlash against Lego’s newly announced Star Wars Death Star set? Totally warranted.
Last week, Lego hyped up what it’s calling “one of the most highly anticipated Lego Star Wars sets ever”: a 9,023-piece build that’s supposed to recreate Death Star scenes from across the Star Wars movies. But the set’s size isn’t the only thing that’s huge— its price tag is a jaw-dropping $999.99, making it the most expensive Lego set ever made.
Now, if you’re dropping $1,000 on something, you’d be totally reasonable to expect Lego to make the Death Star— a famously spherical space station— look like an actual sphere. Spoiler: That’s not what we’re getting. Instead, we’re stuck with a much flatter, two-dimensional slice of the Death Star. Frankly, you could argue this thing belongs straight in the trash compactor. It’s so squashed, in fact, that it looks like it’s already been through one.
Unsurprisingly, Reddit is blowing up with disappointed Lego fans letting off steam. “$1,000 and it’s just a cross-section?!?” one fan rants. Another adds, “Lego’s making their first-ever $1,000 set… and this is it? Yikes. You’d think they’d at least put out something that could be the ‘crown jewel’ of the Lego brand. Instead, this just feels like a reflection of what the brand’s become— clunky and totally unoriginal.” Someone else sums up the problems perfectly: “Sticker sheets instead of printed pieces, no dual-molded legs, the GWP (gift with purchase) is just a part of the set they stripped out to push impulse buys, it’s not even a hemisphere… and it’s their first $1,000 set.”
And honestly? Those small details say it all. Using stickers instead of printed bricks, and holding back a key part of the set— the TIE Fighter hangar— only for people who order in the first week? That’s the kind of cheapness you don’t expect from a $1,000 product. It just doesn’t add up.
