Lego News!!! - UCS Millennium Falcon?

It has been known for a while now that Lego is planning on releasing its biggest ever set. What is not know is what this set will be. Since Lego dropped the news that something very big was on its way, the group has been releasing various bits of information about the set, the most useful being that it is to be part of the Star Wars line. As can be seen in the image above, the amount of pieces is stunning and the overall set will be very grey in appearance. Unfortunately, this grey colouring is no stranger to the Star Wars sets which makes it no easier to guess what this set may be.

To tease the scale of the model, Lego has released three images in total so far, one showing the pieces, one showing the instructions, and one showing the box. Each item has been compared to a previous set. I was amazed and instantly excited to see the size of the instruction book because as the only large set I own is the Death Star (10188), I am not used to seeing instruction booklets in notepad form. I presume this is very rare and only happens when a set is Death Star size. If the white box in the box picture is the true size of the box, I find this very odd. Usually boxes are thinner and less square, however as it is the largest set to date, I suppose the shape is to be expected.

There has been lots of speculation as to whether or not the set will be a new UCS (Ultimate Collector Series) Millennium Falcon. At first, I thought that this was quite unlikely because there has been at least three versions of this iconic spaceship to date, two of which are pictured above in the boxes. In a new teaser trailer for the set, Lego showed the pieces flying through space and assembling to form the set. In this trailer, one key piece was glimpsed. This piece was the well known droid BB-8. This is an important detail because it tells you where the set is from in the timeline of the Star Wars universe. So far, BB-8 has only been featured in one Star Wars film, this being 'The Force Awakens' which was released in December 2015. Other than this, the droid is scheduled to appear in the upcoming film 'The Last Jedi' which is scheduled for released in December at the end of the year. For BB-8 to appear in the set, the set has to have been featured in 'The Force Awakens' as it would have taken a while for the Lego group to plan and build the set, especially as it has so many pieces, plus it isn't being released with the promotional sets for 'The Last Jedi'. There are very few things featured in 'The Force Awakens' which BB-8 is featured with and also few things of a very large size.

With the instruction book being 'Death Star size', I immediately presumed that the set could be Star Killer Base, as pictured above on the left. In 'The Force Awakens', this structure is very similar to the Death Star, except bigger. It has been wondered for some time if we would get this structure as a set, but so far nothing has been rumoured or confirmed. It makes some sense for the set to be Star Killer Base because it is the largest structure in the film and could definitely use that many pieces. However, it is most likely not as BB-8 never went to Star Killer Base and no blue or white can be seen in the vast pile of grey.

I was very sure that the set would not be a new UCS Millennium Falcon, however, before writing this, I looked on a website called 'Geek Culture' to find out information about the set. They claim that an image had been leaked in China which shows the box, complete with all of the details. The image said the price it would cost in China which translates to $1,275 which is about £996.25. I didn't think the image had much credibility as comments claimed it to be a Millennium Falcon mock which had been edited to look like a set and the article had only been published for about a day. Although, since then, the image has unfortunately been removed from the website due to copyright reasons. To me, this highly suggests that the image did have at least a degree of credibility to it.

So is the biggest Lego set to date going to be yet another Millennium Falcon? Or is it going to be something more unexpected such as Star Killer Base? Perhaps it could be something else entirely... Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. The set will be revealed on the 1st of October.