I bought this set a while ago and usually I plan building the moment I get home wether its for later if I’m waiting to buy more sets to accompany it or build straight away. I opened it up to look through and I knew I was going to need a lot of time and space. Unfortunately I broke my shoulder and arm a little while ago and since then I’ve had to use one hand for building but I know this set will need full attention so for the next few months or even year I still won’t be able. But I knew it would be a challenge even getting it into the car involved some thought. On the shelf you see the front of the box and when the shop assistant is edging it out you see it’s just as deep as it is wide. Even buying a set like this is an experience. There has been talk of this set retiring soon and everybody knows what happens when they do.. it will be impossible to get hold of due to postage or pickup if you can locate one and obviously the price will go up like mad. So if you can afford this or see this on offer go for it. To me this looks like one of the best collector series sets there is -it’s not just for display, there are features you can play with, change and a decent amount of minifigures though I thought for a classic themed set they should include an R2D2 minifigure, he’s always with C3PO. There are design changes you can choose like the minifigures and satellite for modern or older period millennium falcons which is nice and like most of the collector series sets there is a good amount of reading material, some history of the millennium falcon and movie related information in the instruction book. Like all big sets you get these white boxes inside which are needed to hold the shape of the box with all that Lego inside and even they are elegantly decorated with graphics and each of the boxes have a classic movie line written on them. In my photos attached I have shown the amount you get inside one of these white boxes but the bags are randomly packed so you have to open them all to gather the numbers you need but the whole set even the packaging is made to be kept and loved by Star Wars enthusiasts. I’ve taken a few photos of the position I am in so far with this set.. not very far unfortunately.. but it’s exciting to even have a look in this box. I can see it’s going to be a long journey and a journey I’m not yet ready for because of health reasons but I can’t wait to start it. My little boy even loves this and I think it would be such an experience to let younger builders in on a set like this to share the journey with and help them learn too. Great to build on your own too if you both the place to yourself but it’s a set you’re going to want to show off at least once. I’d say buy this to anyone before it’s too late. Thank you

Having completed the 9,090 piece Titanic I set my sights on one of my favorite Star Wars ships, the Millennium Falcon. The build includes incredibly inventive build methods and unique pieces, with very little repetitive work. The ingenious build does leave a bit to be desired in order or assembly, fragility, and complexity. My biggest word of caution: If at step 126 the front of your MF is in any way bowed...stop and re-examine how you got there. The genius clipping mechanism lulled me into thinking this slight bowing was fine and allowed for some flexbility in the build. 500+ steps later I was proven wrong and taking the ship apart, thankfully mostly in large component chunks until I'd worked my way back to step 126 where I found what seemed like a minor mistake that completely altered the build going forward. This isn't a build for anyone with a sense of slapdashery or lack of focus. And when it comes to building the ship's bottom and top components, be aware that they don't snap into place, but overlap one another slightly, often loosely, which makes moving this beast an even bigger cautionary tale. As such the landing gear are some of the weakest parts of a somewhat fragile build, thus making mounting or displaying that much more careful. The details are spectacular, and once I solved my error and rebuilt the components, the remaining aspects of the build highlighted a build that was challenging, genius, but cautionary. The final product is a stunning replica of science fiction movie ship history. Getting there is a potential tale as cautionary as the movies themselves.

This set is enormous.

Yes, I know the piece count is huge, and so you expect something sizeable. And you can see in pictures that it's big. But you cannot, and I truly mean you CANNOT, appreciate the sheer scale of this thing until you're sitting with it in person. It is simply gargantuan.

It is also stunning. In my opinion, this set better than any other blends smooth tiles and studded plates (or partially studded modified plates). Smooth tiles and other surfaces allow for the model overall to look a little less "fuzzy" than a fully-studded model, like the older Falcons, but keeping some studs on display gives a visual impression of the rough-and-tumble nature of the ship itself. It's brilliantly done here.

Do I wish it had more interior detail? Maybe, although honestly, the interior details we DO get are pretty consistent with how much of the inside of the Falcon is ever actually shown on screen. It's a little confusing to remember how to access those interiors once the model is complete, though.

The build experience is a little overwhelming. Lego build processes have come a long, long way since this set was released in 2017. Newer sets have much smaller piece counts per bag; more numerous and more manageable stages with only one or two bags per stage; and instructions broken out across several books. Consider this: Rivendell has 1374 fewer pieces than the Falcon, broken across three instruction books and 49 bags. The Falcon has only seventeen "bags", many of which are actually several large bags in a single stage.

And the massive ring-bound Falcon instruction book is, frankly, not nice to use. It's beautiful, sort of interesting to look at, and has some great behind the scenes info and details within it: but hefting all ~3 kilograms of that thing around for page after page after page is just awful.

But that doesn't really matter, because in the end, this set is on another level altogether. If you have the budget, you won't be disappointed.

At a £735 price tag, I assumed the set would be quality and quantity as that’s how it is advertised, however me and my son found ourselves bitterly disappointed.

Having taken time off work during his to line out of school to build this, when not just a few,, but a full bag of pieces were missing this certainly disappointed us. However, we have the chance and allowed Lego to correct this but for the price tag the quality control is certainly not up there. And as well as that, there were still prices not delivered that we asked for so it is missing a part on the bottom turret from bag 10 which had the missing bag. Seen in pictures below.

For the price, the amount of stickers are ridiculous. Lego cut costs and cheaper out on getting stickers to replace printed blocks as it shows as most of these (other than the hyperdrive sticker) stick out like a sore thumb and as well as that the stickers were warped by the mammoth instruction manual, which makes no sense as they were more of a hindrance than anything to build this.

As far as interior, parts are very fragile so pushing wrong can cause breaks and the structural integrity is about as sound as as a straw tower holding up a bag of bricks.

All in all, as an avid Star Wars fan, this is a recommended miss. Terrible build, no quality control, cheaped out ideas. Not recommended.