LEGO San Diego Comic Con 2010 Press Release, Debuts Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter

[MisterFubar]

Real anxious to see something official on the JSF, I've become quite a fan of them.

[Kevblee]

Real anxious to see something official on the JSF, I've become quite a fan of them.

I'm a big fan of any $25.00 set this day in age!

[minicoop4]

Are the Cube Dudes preassembled (glued?) or a bag of parts and instructions?

[Chief]

Well. That was fast.
416 pieces for $75

[Gooker1]

MWahahahaha!! $75?!?!? Wow, I haven't literally laughed out loud in a while, but I certainly got a kick out of this one. I thought $60 for three mini figs in a diorama was pricey, but this takes the cake hands down being that they're not minifigs. I know it rings out at $15 per figure, but it's just not doing it for me.

PASS

[Louis K.]

Awesome set and boxart, but totally overprized.

[SuperDave]

I'm not surprised by the price on this at all.
1. Miniscule production run: 450 boxes blows the economy of scale away. Production has to be in the tens of thousands to get prices down where we expect them.
2. Part selection: $15 each is the actual cost of the parts in the model. After building my own CubeDudes and pricing the parts out on Bricklink, the parts for a CubeDude run between $12-18. This is due to the high number of specialized and hard-to-find parts. Basically, you're getting the packaging and instructions for free and buying the parts at cost.
3. Con exclusive: of course it's going to be high-priced!

[Chief]

I'm not surprised by the price on this at all.
1. Miniscule production run: 450 boxes blows the economy of scale away.

I believe it's 450 available per day, but your point still stands that we're not talking about a massive production run here.

[ThatGuyWithTheBricks]

Over at EB, whung found some images of the new starfighter, and yes, it is UCS.

[Anio]

[cas]

Seeing that makes me happy. I'm glad it's not for the Clone Wars line.

[Joedward]

That is sweet. I want that.

Any high-res pics yet?

[Morgan19]

That's quite the large droid head.

m19

[Solo]

Indeed, that looks like a Hasbro action figure scale dome. Makes me laugh thinking that the X-Wing and Y-Wing UCS sets used a standard minifig droid, and now this one comes out with a larger droid dome.

[Chief]

Was this announced as UCS and I missed the memo? This is awesome!

[THX 1138]

That looks beautiful! It bears more than a passing resemblance to cavegod's, however:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cavegod/UCS/Delta-7/p1150151.jpg

[ThatGuyWithTheBricks]

Ugh, it's $100 for 620 or so pieces. Way to screw us over again, TLC.

[yankeeken]

Although it wouldn't surprise me if it was, who said it was $100?

[ThatGuyWithTheBricks]

KimT

[Solo]

Was this announced as UCS and I missed the memo? This is awesome!

It might just be a "Special Edition" like the N-1 was.