It’s a good year to be a monied LEGO Star Wars fan. While there have been dozens of Star Wars models from LEGO in the past—and to think I once thought I’d be able to buy them all—two classic, original trilogy models are getting the star treatment this year.
The first has never been immortalized in official LEGO form before: The “Motorized Walking AT-AT,” otherwise known as the quadrupedal mecha that plodding across the swept snow fields of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. (As a child they plodded across my nightmares; later in life I came to think of them as ancient, forlorn pack beasts, yoked to the terrible service of Imperial tyranny.)
Standing over a foot tall, the AT-AT’s internal motor powers it in a lumbering recreation of the original’s melancholy march. It’s a $130, but it comes with a tiny Luke Skywalker with a grappling hook and lightsaber. (Empire middle-management aficionados will buy it for the General Veers minifigure, of course.)
If the AT-AT’s price wasn’t enough to make you cough and sputter like you just came out of a bacta chamber, pony up for the “Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon,” a 5,195-piece recreation of the fastest freighter about which dubious cosmological boasts through the Kessel Run were made. It’s the biggest LEGO set ever—and the most expensive at $500. It’s almost three feet long.
Of course, money is no object when you’re buying something something for someone you truly love. (You are going to buy this for me, right?)
Millennium Falcon; AT-AT [Shop.LEGO.com]













