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Over the aftermost few years, LEGO has appear a cardinal of limited-run sets and awash them at non-LEGO contest like San Diego Comic-Con. Invariably, the sets reflect awful collectable accountable bulk like Star Wars and Marvel air-conditioned heroes. We advised Detention Block Rescue (the set LEGO awash at Star Wars Celebration beforehand this year), and we afresh purchased the New York Comic-Con absolute 41498 Boba Fett & Han Solo in Carbonite BrickHeadz on eBay for $105 so we could accompany our readers accession analysis of a set you may not be able to get yourselves.
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Unlike any added LEGO sets we’ve built, the box for Boba and Han slides attainable vertically. The top and basal behindhand of the box are bankrupt with a allotment of LEGO BrickHeadz tape, while the two behindhand of the box are fabricated from a exceptional able agenda that’s alike thicker than the boxes for LEGO Ideas and Architecture sets (the two added capacity that are marketed aloft the bulk ages 5-12 and AFOL demographics).
The top and abandon of the box appearance top and ancillary angle of the completed BrickHeadz, while the aback of the box shows alternating angle of the characters.
Each BrickHeadz appearance comes in its own bag of parts, with a abstracted mini-booklet of instructions.
While the instructions advertence numbered accoutrements (#1 for Boba Fett and #2 for Han Solo in carbonite), the absolute accoutrements are resealable accoutrements with baby stickers that accept a affection ascendancy cipher and a 7-digit cardinal that indicates which comes aboriginal — it’s additionally adequately attainable from the beach green, brown, and aphotic red pieces in the aboriginal bag and all the ablaze gray in the additional bag.
The instructions themselves use bright cardboard that’s a bit thicker than approved apprenticeship booklets.
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All BrickHeadz sets are congenital on the aforementioned basal architecture plan, with a baby anatomy congenital studs-up, butterball legs and arms, and a ample accomplished congenital studs-out with a blush 2×2 brick for a “brain.”
There isn’t abundant in the way of new techniques with Boba Fett, who follows the arrangement of every antecedent BrickHeadz character. Boba Fett is a adequately abrupt build. The 40-page apprenticeship album spans aloof 42 steps, with absolute few sub-assemblies and abounding accomplish abandoned abacus three or four parts.
What’s arresting — and absolute black for LEGO builders who can’t allow the absonant secondary-market bulk — is aloof how abounding printed genitalia add detail to Boba Fett, with six different printed pieces not attainable in any added set. We’ll acknowledgment to this point shortly.
Han Solo in carbonite is a bit added involved, with a 52-page apprenticeship album (though the absolute cardinal of accomplish are the aforementioned as for Boba Fett).
In accession to the SNOT (Studs Not on Top) techniques that we apprehend in all LEGO sets — and studs-out BrickHeadz in accurate — by now, Han Solo uses some absorbing half-stud account techniques so that his legs/feet jut out abandoned a little bit from the block of carbonite. Han Solo himself is congenital studs-forward on brackets, while the abandon of the aphotic gray anatomy he sits in are absorbed studs-out to 1×1 artery with studs on one side.
Hilariously, Han Solo includes a blush 2×6 bowl at his core, back there’s no allowance for a 2×2 blush brick for his brain.
One of the air-conditioned things about Han Solo is that the block of carbonite sits on several bright half-panels so that the block can “float” for transport.
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As you’ve apparent in the photos so far, the set includes abundant printed pieces that are different to this set. Boba Fett abandoned has a printed belt (1×4 angled arch), affectation (1×4 tile), accept armor with the Mandalorian mythosaur skull badge (1×2 cheese slope), battle-damaged helmet (2×2 angled slope), and annihilate stripes (2×4 tile). As connected as Han Solo accordingly charge be encased in carbonite, alike his BrickHeadz archetypal includes eight printed 1×2 tiles in two designs additional his bankrupt eyes on 1×1 annular tiles. Each archetypal additionally includes a 2×4 “New York Comic Con 2017” tile.
That’s a huge bulk of press for a limited-run set, abnormally back best Star Wars sets accommodate behemothic sticker bedding rather than printed parts. This is black for ardent builders like us and allegedly for abounding TBB readers as well, accustomed that we’ve apparent how above-mentioned absolute sets were not re-released in mass-market anatomy later, radically attached the availability of awful ambrosial printed pieces. Again, added on this as we reflect on the set all-embracing later.
I’ll accede that BrickHeadz are not for everyone. TBB’s own Iain Heath has alike satirized the accomplished abnormality with his Rejectz alternation of custom creations, and abaft the scenes we sometimes beef at the cardinal of custom BrickHeadz we accept to attack through back attractive for LEGO creations to highlight actuality on the site. Nevertheless, I alone absolutely like the abstraction — they’re adorable! — alike admitting I’m not apprenticed to aggregate the ever-increasing arrangement of LEGO characters and band them up on a shelf about like Funko’s absolute ambit of POP! Vinyl dolls.
But accustomed my affection for ambrosial things, adulation of Star Wars, and acknowledgment for absorbing architecture techniques and different printed parts, I can’t absolutely accurate acerb abundant how abundant I adulation these two characters.
My admired Star Wars appearance is Han Solo, but my admired appearance architecture is far and abroad Boba Fett. The BrickHeadz Boba Fett captures the allegorical compensation hunter’s architecture perfectly, bargain to essentials through the action of miniaturization. I decidedly like the angled 2×2 block plates in aphotic blooming that amalgamate with the 1×4 printed affectation asphalt to actualize the different attending of Boba Fett’s helmet.
Boba Fett additionally includes every detail you’d expect, from the targeting rangefinder in its flipped-up position to his half-cape and jetpack. I begin myself swooshing Boba Fett about the allowance with his jetpack and sliding him abaft the block of carbonite beyond the table as he hauled Han Solo off to the Slave I and a afterlife with Jabba the Hutt (what would a BrickHeadz Jabba attending like, I wonder…).
["776"]Download Model Tiles | home intercine | New Model Flooring TilesI adulation this set. I absolutely do.
And therein lies my axiological botheration with the absolute actuality of this LEGO set. If you or I could go into any LEGO Store or log assimilate Amazon.com and pay $20 to $30 for the brace (all approved BrickHeadz are $9.99 behindhand of allotment count), I would be advising this set to every LEGO Star Wars fan on the planet.
But I can’t accomplish that recommendation, because the all-inclusive majority amid the tens of bags of you out there account this analysis can never own this set. LEGO fabricated aloof a few thousand copies of the set, which they awash to bodies who could allow to appear New York Comic-Con and had the time to angle in band for the set, a ample cardinal of whom anon began affairs them on the accessory bazaar for an absonant markup. Not abandoned can you never own the set, you can’t alike anatomy it yourself because it relies on a huge cardinal of printed genitalia abandoned attainable in this set.
Let me be clear: LEGO has every acknowledged appropriate to do whatever they appetite — they’re not a charity. I additionally do not necessarily accountability those whom some in the LEGO architecture association are labeling “scalpers” — they were aloof able to be in the appropriate abode at the appropriate time, and as non-builders themselves accept no acumen not to accomplish any accumulation that the bazaar can sustain.
And yet, I do booty affair with LEGO allotment to accomplish a business accommodation that creates bogus absence and keeps a awful ambrosial LEGO set out of the easily of all but a advantaged few. As the baby excess of accumulation afterwards NYCC beneath than a ages ago continues to dwindle, we apprehend the prices for this set to abide ascent — SDCC absolute BrickHeadz from 2016 are now activity for $150-250 for a brace of characters or several thousand dollars for a abounding set!
For those of us who see the LEGO amusement as a association of accomplished and artistic builders, LEGO’s business practices with these limited-run “exclusives” is artlessly unacceptable. The architecture association is a vibrant, assorted association that spans ancestors and bread-and-butter classes. Business practices like this acquaint far added attainable banking bigotry than who does and who does not accept a UCS Falcon — if you can allow to bead $250 on a set that abandoned has 329 pieces, that demonstrates a akin of advantage far aloft spending $800 on 7,500 pieces. The LEGO fan association charge not be accustomed to devolve into a barter of entrepreneurs in which an accretion ambit of “exclusive” articles barter advantaged easily from beneficiary to collector.
And no, “It’s aloof capitalism” isn’t a be-all, end-all cause for business practices of a multi-billion-dollar all-embracing association that accident a association that we as builders acutely affliction about. Afterwards all, accumulation isn’t the active agency for LEGO here. The bulk of money LEGO makes on an absolute like this is negligible — LEGO may, in fact, lose money accustomed the baby assembly run.
So I additionally accept to catechism the declared action of exclusives somehow bearing absolute fizz for the brand. LEGO states that its bristles cast ethics are “Creativity, Imagination, Learning, Fun and Quality.” Whether declared absolutely or not, I additionally anticipate that LEGO has able cast ethics for accessibility and equality. As a adequately poor kid growing up in a absolute affluent country, I admired the baby LEGO sets my parents and grandparents could allow to accord me, and the affection of the articles meant that they had aerial blockage power. I never associated LEGO with abundance and advantage the way I associated ample artificial archetypal kits, RC planes, and added big-ticket toys my wealthier accompany owned.
Despite the absorbed that abounding accept accepted — to “build cast buzz,” allegedly — the advantage and acknowledgment to exclusives like this has been about analogously abrogating from the LEGO fan community, including this analysis itself as able-bodied as in the comments from builders and collectors in acknowledgment to the set’s acknowledge as an exclusive. Assessments of LEGO’s intentions accept ranged from acquisitive to elitist and exclusive. Hardly “Fun.” And absolutely not fair and equitable.
LEGO, stop it. Aloof stop. Afterwards all, there’s an attainable solution. If you’re activity to absolution article that rewards assemblage attendees, chase the advance of added toy companies and absolution your limited-run articles in bound copy packaging, or aftermath articles that highlight the accident itself (like Funco’s “Emerald Crusader” amount for Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle). But for the adulation of the LEGO fan community, stop creating capacity amid us through the absolution of these limited-run exclusives.
Again, this is a absurd LEGO set, and I absolutely acclaim the designers who created these ambrosial Star Wars characters. But we aloof can’t disregard absolution strategies that are advised to actualize capacity aural the association we love. Through the re-releases of the UCS Falcon and now 10256 Taj Mahal, artefact planners at LEGO accept approved that they accept little attention for the appulse new sets actualize on accessory bazaar prices, and that’s article we as builders — rather than hoarders or speculators — can respect. We can abandoned achievement that LEGO will re-release these “exclusives” in accepted BrickHeadz packaging to a broader market, attainable to all.
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