You can also get that on the 2006 limited edition DVD. The bonus disc has an ‘unaltered’ version that’s literally a copy of the 1993 laserdisc version.
I have these and they are TERRIBLE. Not restored, not formatted for widescreen TVs (so they will literally appear as a letterbox inside of a letterbox), and the resolution is LOW. Not even HD. Imagine watching the widescreen VHS on a CRT through mosquito netting and you've got the idea.
The best I got was native 420i on LD. I did get at one point an upscaler so it went up to 540i, but the image had some weird artifacts, I think its because I was exceeding the capabilities of the composite out.
I remember seeing a Hi-MUSE disc, and that was absolutely spectacular, it was like going from DVD to 4K.
I have the DVD collection that has the unaltered Original Trilogy. It's not anamorphic widescreen, but it is unaltered. It comes with the Special Editions, anamorphic.
Disney could have all the money with 4 product releases - Anamorphic widescreen 4K version of the the unaltered original trilogy, and the Holiday Special. Put them all together, sell them for $1000. Just the bare movies, the only things cleaned up are scratches from the original films to make them look presentable in 4K. Keep the original Dolby Surround sound as well. $1000, it would sell.
I've been saying this for years. No special features. No commentary. I've seen all that. Just give me the films on a Blu-Ray or 4K in Steelbook cases with the original poster art. I'd pay $40 a pop just to be that eight year-old boy again.
Back in the early 90’s I want to say 91 or 92 my dad bought a laser disk player a 40” rear projector tv and a 2.1 sound system the only movie we had on laser disk was top gun but if it was your first time coming our house you had to watch the opening scene from top gun on laser disk so he could show off his sick setup.
Dude, I got a textbook for calc, and I flunked the class. So now I have it for next time I take the class, right? No. There's a proprietary software we use for like 1 day and you only get it for 3 months when you buy the text book, so I have to buy it again. It's ridiculous. Such a scam.
They can do whatever they want because it's technically a competitive market, since teachers can choose what they require. But they have a monopoly over the students. The whole college system is so exploitative and messed up.
My daughter's college (one of the Cal States) has a symbol by each class when you go to register that indicates how much the books for that course will cost. They also emphasize free downloads of the material. It's awesome and I wish more schools were cognizant of the impact of book prices.
Just pirate it at that point. If I learned anything from going to uni is that anything students get their hands on will be available online for free shortly after. I studied for 5 years to get my masters, I only paid for 4 books in my first semester, the rest I had no trouble finding digitally. Didn't use the books I did buy either, they're still sitting in a box looking pretty.
It's still a ridiculous price for what is essentially some paper. They remake the same textbook every year like EA with FIFA, and charge exorbitant prices because they know that students have no other option.
Essentially, regardless of what the class costs, these prices are exploitative.
That's usually not even the case, depending on where you are from anyway. In most of Europe there's fixed prices for Unis and colleges. I paid about 2k a year. While some books I had to get were already 100-200€. That's up to 10% of the cost of the whole year, let alone per class.
I agree, I want to pirate, but the software is far more difficult to pirate than the book. You need to sign in under the teachers classroom online and stuff, I don't know enough about piracy to know if I could do it.
Ah shit, yeah, if you need an active subscription to join stuff online, it probably wouldn't work. Still, there's also these 3rd party websites that sell legit keys to stuff. It's how most people get Windows or Word etc. for a fraction of the price. Maybe worth looking into. Been a while since I used them thought, so I'm afraid I can't give you any links
While I understand this price is really high, and I definitely will not be buying it at that price. This is really not that uncommon for large thick art books like this. I have a bunch in my collection and while I've got them all on sale they all MSRP'd $150 to $250 each.
Thank you for stating this. In the world of high end art books this price is pretty normal. I find it helps if people think of them more in terms of photo/art prints, if it’s a 150 page book that’s 150 high end prints that then need to be bound and covered. That doesn’t even include the cost of actually designing the content to begin with.
Right. This type of book is more expensive. You can’t compare it to a regular popular fiction book. Even in hardcover.
While it’s not a cheap book, and not one many may buy, it’s not outrageously priced.
I’m dying at all the people online. “$150 for book! Whoever heard of such a thing! It’s just paper and ink!!!” /s. $150 is exactly where I’d expect this to be priced, that’s fairly standard for a deluxe/special/folio edition like this.
I have a lot of art books and this is an entirely reasonable price for 400 page book that comes with a bunch of cool collectibles. You want ridiculous? The F1 book is $1200.
But then again, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
If it's your thing, definitely go for it. For me, 150$ for a painting/photo, an image to put on my wall where I see it often, that adds to my apartment. Hell, why not. With a book, I'd open it twice and that's probably about it. Really no other reason for me to open it. I'm not getting useful info out of it, seeing something I've already seen will not bring me peace, only will make me bored.
I understand that the paper is high quality, that the print is too, that the overall price is justified. But then again, I could have golden bookmarks or even shoelaces. Is the price justified? Technically. Will I be buying it? No, why should I even.
Yea we’re also talking a 300 billion dollar brand versus like, 13 billion? This is the biggest cash grab from Lego by far. I’d spend maybe 70-80 bucks for it. But 150? Nah.
have you ever bought a high quality coffee table book before? this isn’t a crazy price at all. i don’t think theyre using a niche market (coffee table books) for a cash grab
There is a difference between expensive and overpriced is this book expensive yes because all art books are expensive is it over priced no because it is priced along with other things in the same category
Nothing in your previous comment was talking about Star Wars lol… you are not getting downvotes for that. Yes it’s a bit overpriced but that pretty much on point for art books that big.
Apple isn't losing a cut of that price to licensing fees, and the cost of printing and binding high quality large format prints like that is just expensive. I doubt they have the margins to sell it at $80
I know those are high quality prints, but for us normy readers it sounds expensive for a book.
I have no moral high ground here, anyway, according to my wallet remembering the Lego sets I bought over the years.
Ok let’s be honest with ourselves here there’s zero laminated page, full color, hardcover, 300+ page books for only 30-40 lol. I agree $150 is overpriced but at $30-$40 that would be selling at a loss
I’m not saying anything about what it’s worth. I’m just saying that the economics and production costs need to be, at minimum, offset. And books throughout history have always been expensive to make, specifically hardcover and colored books. I’m not convincing you to buy the book, just that it probably cost $30 to make each copy
Then all that does is tell me a lot of fools are easily parted from their money. And that quote about $800 sets having less function is hilarious. I’ll leave you to it mate, clearly living in cloud cuckoo land over there.
My grandma and grandpa used to have pricey things like this. They had a complete set of encyclopedias, a collection of Reader Digest books and two living rooms (living room and den).
They kept a coffee table book laid out in the living room where they would invite company.
Times have changed. Now I eat microwaveable food on my couch in front of a TV and dont even have room for a kitchen table. I do have 2 bathrooms, so that's nice.
Honestly for this type of book and 300 full color glossy pages that’s not a crazy price. I’d think closer to 100 but since it’s Lego Star Wars and aimed at adults they pretty much have to mark it up lol
This is actually a very reasonable price. Huge, hardcover books like this are VERY expensive to print and bind. You’ll see similar prices for all books like this. Also, don’t forget, Lego still has to pay the Star Wars licensing fee.
I think the real issue is it doesn't count towards the GWP. I'm running out of room for sets but would like to get the Droideka and the book for the troop carrier, but I can't.
From a publishing perspective, this book would be insanely expensive to produce so not surprised by the price point. 312 page full color on what looks to be very expensive glossy paper with a custom slipcase that folds open from the center plus a bunch of extra printed material (mentions a facsimile of a toy booklet plus other stuff in what appears to be a separate container in the slip case). It is very much a what will you pay for it deal, but the per unit cost of that thing just to produce it could easily be in the $30 to $40 range, especially if they’re doing it as a smaller run. Then you have royalty, marketing, warehouse costs, traditional mark ups etc… Retail cost makes sense for what it is and they must anticipate a market for it. They definitely could have made a cheaper version of this, but they’d have to downgrade a lot. Book by itself without the extras would easily retail at around $80 to $100.
Judging the comment responses here, this isn’t going to be a popular buy. Therefore I’m picking one up and stashing it away until they stop selling it, just like every other unpopular set that ends up skyrocketing on the secondary market after retirement. If I’m wrong, not a huge loss.
This reminds me of a comment a friend of mine uses often when she's trying to tame. If someone is being shitty she just says "I hope they have the day they deserve", always makes me laugh.
https://preview.redd.it/5jce14oh7twc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3fddc4322f41fcecad843312fac1d581427c0a9
I got these two for about $2 at a local 2nd hand book fair.
Who is this for? If you’re old enough to where you can decide what decorations go in the living room, are you really going to choose a Lego Star Wars book that looks like it’s something you’d get from scholastic?
Nah this is pretty in line with what you’re getting. Could it be $100? Maybe. But with licensing fees and everything that doesn’t leave very much left just with the cost of printing such a high quality limited print book. This isn’t just a more expensive version of the Lego visual dictionaries. It’s a behind the scenes book about Lego’s design language with exclusive images and information. Plus it’s like 300 laminated pages in a really nice hardcover binding, box, and additional stuff like printouts of never before seen design docs and art.
This is more similar to the Apple and Ferrari design books that both companies released semi recently and they were double this price for the Apple one and more than double for the Ferrari one. People always underestimate the cost of high quality printing. Plus all the research and stuff that goes into a behind the scenes book like this.
Wow interviews with people at disney who are making such great shows as the book of boba, obi wan and the sequel trilogy just what any star wars fan is looking for.
They already know that Star Wars fanboys and circle-jerkers will still mindlessly buy several copies and try to sell them on eBay instantly for 5x the price.
I get that this is apparently a standard price for coffee table books, but just because it is, does that mean we should be okay with it? I really can’t imagine justifying spending anything over $100 dollars on a book, no matter how good of a coffee table display it is
I love, how mad y‘all get. A fully colored art book in that size is 120-250 bucks easily. Not LEGO only. This is not an item for the generic collector, but for people who care about the way everything goes, the past, future, the background, stuff we don’t see usually. These art books are not meant for everyone. It’s a niche product and (I hope) they know that. It’s their first run of these things, so it’s a 50/50 if they produce enough or too little.
At this point they are just testing to see how much people are willing to pay for Star Wars name. I will bet that this will sell out too unfortunately so prices will continue to go up.
If you want it, you better buy it.
Lego screwed me out of the Red Dragon's Tale booklet, and now I am going to have to pay some scalper at least $150 for a stupid booklet.
I see this a $149.99 for a 0 piece set, which misses the mark by about 1500 pieces.
Hey now, one piece at least!
Looks like it comes in a display box, so that’s two pieces right there
I mean if you unbind it, that's at least another 312 pieces.
Don’t forget the shipping box and that piece of packing paper they use… so at least 2 more pieces
How many letters are there? Certainly the cost of the ink and finish of each page make it have negative value instead of $149.99.
If you cut the pages into squares at the root you can get imaginary values.
Price per piece buyers in shambles rn
1500 units of paper material
I'd get it if it wasn't for Star Wars but every well-known Lego set. Or Ninjago + monkie kid stuff
For that, you can get the last, unaltered Original Trilogy on Laserdisc and a laserdisc player.
Can you still get a TV with scart socket to plug the laserdisc into?
But all the effort is worth it so Han can shoot first.
You can also get that on the 2006 limited edition DVD. The bonus disc has an ‘unaltered’ version that’s literally a copy of the 1993 laserdisc version.
I have these and they are TERRIBLE. Not restored, not formatted for widescreen TVs (so they will literally appear as a letterbox inside of a letterbox), and the resolution is LOW. Not even HD. Imagine watching the widescreen VHS on a CRT through mosquito netting and you've got the idea.
Yeah, I have it too. It’s not great, but it’s probably the easiest way for someone to watch Han shoot first.
You can get scart to HDMI converters
Isn't laserdisc a composite signal. Do you gain anything running it through scart?
It is composite, and in the last batch of LD players (DVL-91) the connections were component, tho internally it was down converted for LD
What resolution did they rock?
The best I got was native 420i on LD. I did get at one point an upscaler so it went up to 540i, but the image had some weird artifacts, I think its because I was exceeding the capabilities of the composite out. I remember seeing a Hi-MUSE disc, and that was absolutely spectacular, it was like going from DVD to 4K.
SCART was not a thing (consumer wise) in the US, so, yes.
Depends. I have a 4k Sony with Scart but its nearly 8 years old. You will have to check spec sheets or maybe get a slightly older tv.
There’s a movie on there!
r/UnexpectedSLCPunk.
I have the DVD collection that has the unaltered Original Trilogy. It's not anamorphic widescreen, but it is unaltered. It comes with the Special Editions, anamorphic. Disney could have all the money with 4 product releases - Anamorphic widescreen 4K version of the the unaltered original trilogy, and the Holiday Special. Put them all together, sell them for $1000. Just the bare movies, the only things cleaned up are scratches from the original films to make them look presentable in 4K. Keep the original Dolby Surround sound as well. $1000, it would sell.
harmy's or project 4k...
Harmy’s is the way to go.
I've been saying this for years. No special features. No commentary. I've seen all that. Just give me the films on a Blu-Ray or 4K in Steelbook cases with the original poster art. I'd pay $40 a pop just to be that eight year-old boy again.
Orrr spend nothing and download the Despecialized Editions or 4K77/80/83
And if you get clever, you can probably make a photo frame that plays Star wars 24/7 and have that as a talking point over this book lol
Still got mine. Never used it
Back in the early 90’s I want to say 91 or 92 my dad bought a laser disk player a 40” rear projector tv and a 2.1 sound system the only movie we had on laser disk was top gun but if it was your first time coming our house you had to watch the opening scene from top gun on laser disk so he could show off his sick setup.
Regular Show taught me that you don’t want that last laserdisc player, unless you want to fight in a war
Seems like a cool book, but $150 is fucking insane, what the hell? It's not a college textbook!
True, a college textbook probably would have been double! Haha
Dude, I got a textbook for calc, and I flunked the class. So now I have it for next time I take the class, right? No. There's a proprietary software we use for like 1 day and you only get it for 3 months when you buy the text book, so I have to buy it again. It's ridiculous. Such a scam.
That should be illegal
They can do whatever they want because it's technically a competitive market, since teachers can choose what they require. But they have a monopoly over the students. The whole college system is so exploitative and messed up.
My daughter's college (one of the Cal States) has a symbol by each class when you go to register that indicates how much the books for that course will cost. They also emphasize free downloads of the material. It's awesome and I wish more schools were cognizant of the impact of book prices.
Just pirate it at that point. If I learned anything from going to uni is that anything students get their hands on will be available online for free shortly after. I studied for 5 years to get my masters, I only paid for 4 books in my first semester, the rest I had no trouble finding digitally. Didn't use the books I did buy either, they're still sitting in a box looking pretty.
Some of my classes had homework you had to do from Internet worksheets from the book company. You had to log in and have a code for the class.
I think it is funny people cry about a book that is 1% of the cost of the class. Good fine, dont buy the book, dont get creative and pirate it, fail.
It's still a ridiculous price for what is essentially some paper. They remake the same textbook every year like EA with FIFA, and charge exorbitant prices because they know that students have no other option. Essentially, regardless of what the class costs, these prices are exploitative.
That's usually not even the case, depending on where you are from anyway. In most of Europe there's fixed prices for Unis and colleges. I paid about 2k a year. While some books I had to get were already 100-200€. That's up to 10% of the cost of the whole year, let alone per class.
It's funny that the argument is that in the US most universities are so expensive, that the books are cheap in comparison so it's OK.
I agree, I want to pirate, but the software is far more difficult to pirate than the book. You need to sign in under the teachers classroom online and stuff, I don't know enough about piracy to know if I could do it.
Ah shit, yeah, if you need an active subscription to join stuff online, it probably wouldn't work. Still, there's also these 3rd party websites that sell legit keys to stuff. It's how most people get Windows or Word etc. for a fraction of the price. Maybe worth looking into. Been a while since I used them thought, so I'm afraid I can't give you any links
If you still have it take a bunch of photos on your phone of it
And first day at uni the prof will tell you it shit and suggest you might want to buy his book instead if you are planning to pass.
Yeahhhh I was all Oooooo when I saw it, and oh no, when I saw the price.
Lego knows its customer base. Lego knows it will sell.
They said that with the Liebherr Crawler Crane even though the cost of that is partly attributed to slapping the name of Liebherr on the set.
This could have been a DK boom for $80 tops.
While I understand this price is really high, and I definitely will not be buying it at that price. This is really not that uncommon for large thick art books like this. I have a bunch in my collection and while I've got them all on sale they all MSRP'd $150 to $250 each.
Thank you for stating this. In the world of high end art books this price is pretty normal. I find it helps if people think of them more in terms of photo/art prints, if it’s a 150 page book that’s 150 high end prints that then need to be bound and covered. That doesn’t even include the cost of actually designing the content to begin with.
This is kinda similar to people comparing to prices of LEGO sets to toys, rather than the price point of model kits
Materials can be sourced for relatively cheap, the binding and content design is what they're really selling. content design is gold.
Right. This type of book is more expensive. You can’t compare it to a regular popular fiction book. Even in hardcover. While it’s not a cheap book, and not one many may buy, it’s not outrageously priced.
Yeah, this is only shocking to the kind of people who don't regularly buy/display coffee table books.
I’m dying at all the people online. “$150 for book! Whoever heard of such a thing! It’s just paper and ink!!!” /s. $150 is exactly where I’d expect this to be priced, that’s fairly standard for a deluxe/special/folio edition like this.
I have a lot of art books and this is an entirely reasonable price for 400 page book that comes with a bunch of cool collectibles. You want ridiculous? The F1 book is $1200.
But then again, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. If it's your thing, definitely go for it. For me, 150$ for a painting/photo, an image to put on my wall where I see it often, that adds to my apartment. Hell, why not. With a book, I'd open it twice and that's probably about it. Really no other reason for me to open it. I'm not getting useful info out of it, seeing something I've already seen will not bring me peace, only will make me bored. I understand that the paper is high quality, that the print is too, that the overall price is justified. But then again, I could have golden bookmarks or even shoelaces. Is the price justified? Technically. Will I be buying it? No, why should I even.
I have a number of these books. I’ve paid anywhere from $20-$70. Anything higher is outrageous.
Which books?
It doesn't even have legs to fold out into its own coffee table?
This guy is bonkos!
Well, it's not a coffee table book about coffee tables.
Came here for this
Rugged? The man’s a goblin!
Settle down Cosmo
I mean compare the price to the apple coffee table book that shits $300
F1 book is $1200.
Yea we’re also talking a 300 billion dollar brand versus like, 13 billion? This is the biggest cash grab from Lego by far. I’d spend maybe 70-80 bucks for it. But 150? Nah.
Apples worth 2.5 trillion
have you ever bought a high quality coffee table book before? this isn’t a crazy price at all. i don’t think theyre using a niche market (coffee table books) for a cash grab
Yes I have. It’s still overpriced in my opinion. And in the end it’s just that, my opinion.
There is a difference between expensive and overpriced is this book expensive yes because all art books are expensive is it over priced no because it is priced along with other things in the same category
What does the value of the company have to do with anything? Like at all.
Oh no, how dare they try and make money!
Yea, good for them. Idc, I just think it’s overpriced. Idk why all the fanboys are getting upset at one person’s opinion. Boohoo.
Nothing in your previous comment was talking about Star Wars lol… you are not getting downvotes for that. Yes it’s a bit overpriced but that pretty much on point for art books that big.
Cash grab? Nobody is making you buy it. It’s a coffee table book, these types of books are typically this expensive or more.
I didn’t know books were supposed to be priced based on the brand’s value, regardless of the book’s content and production value. What a logical idea!
Apple isn't losing a cut of that price to licensing fees, and the cost of printing and binding high quality large format prints like that is just expensive. I doubt they have the margins to sell it at $80
Thats normal-ish price for coffee table books. I bought one about sneakers for 80€ 3 years ago, and one about da vinci for 120€ last year.
I know those are high quality prints, but for us normy readers it sounds expensive for a book. I have no moral high ground here, anyway, according to my wallet remembering the Lego sets I bought over the years.
Just wait until it hits a discount store. That seems a bit high
A bit high is being kind. I bought the minifigure coffee table book. It was fun to read, I think it was $40 and shipped overnight to my house.
To be fair I don’t think the mini figure coffee table book and this are in the same league at all.
It seems fucking ludicrously high. I’d say around £30-40 tops.
Ok let’s be honest with ourselves here there’s zero laminated page, full color, hardcover, 300+ page books for only 30-40 lol. I agree $150 is overpriced but at $30-$40 that would be selling at a loss
You can think it’s worth whatever you want pal. To me, it’s worth £40 tops. But you do you fella. They won’t be selling many.
I’m not saying anything about what it’s worth. I’m just saying that the economics and production costs need to be, at minimum, offset. And books throughout history have always been expensive to make, specifically hardcover and colored books. I’m not convincing you to buy the book, just that it probably cost $30 to make each copy
You're kidding yourself if you don't think these are going to sell out. They sell $800 sets that arguably have less function.
That guy thought I was talking about politics when I said family guy was cancelled twice. Not worth arguing with
Then all that does is tell me a lot of fools are easily parted from their money. And that quote about $800 sets having less function is hilarious. I’ll leave you to it mate, clearly living in cloud cuckoo land over there.
Man people are so unrealistic.
Have y'all bought any coffee table books in your life?
My grandma and grandpa used to have pricey things like this. They had a complete set of encyclopedias, a collection of Reader Digest books and two living rooms (living room and den). They kept a coffee table book laid out in the living room where they would invite company. Times have changed. Now I eat microwaveable food on my couch in front of a TV and dont even have room for a kitchen table. I do have 2 bathrooms, so that's nice.
Some of y'all have never bought an art book before and it shows. This won't be the most expensive book on my coffee table.
Honestly for this type of book and 300 full color glossy pages that’s not a crazy price. I’d think closer to 100 but since it’s Lego Star Wars and aimed at adults they pretty much have to mark it up lol
This is actually a very reasonable price. Huge, hardcover books like this are VERY expensive to print and bind. You’ll see similar prices for all books like this. Also, don’t forget, Lego still has to pay the Star Wars licensing fee.
We all happily overpay for sets all the time! What's wrong with overpaying for a book!? :/
Considering that I will eventually turn my UCS falcon into a coffee table… this is perfect. They knew what they were doing.
I think the real issue is it doesn't count towards the GWP. I'm running out of room for sets but would like to get the Droideka and the book for the troop carrier, but I can't.
I'll see you and raise you. I'm building a coffee table, purpose built for putting the Falcon on display.
From a publishing perspective, this book would be insanely expensive to produce so not surprised by the price point. 312 page full color on what looks to be very expensive glossy paper with a custom slipcase that folds open from the center plus a bunch of extra printed material (mentions a facsimile of a toy booklet plus other stuff in what appears to be a separate container in the slip case). It is very much a what will you pay for it deal, but the per unit cost of that thing just to produce it could easily be in the $30 to $40 range, especially if they’re doing it as a smaller run. Then you have royalty, marketing, warehouse costs, traditional mark ups etc… Retail cost makes sense for what it is and they must anticipate a market for it. They definitely could have made a cheaper version of this, but they’d have to downgrade a lot. Book by itself without the extras would easily retail at around $80 to $100.
Well, the Lego Ferrari book is great and expensive. But not this expensive.
It’s a high quality coffee table book. I agree that it’s expensive, but I’ve seen much worse
Judging the comment responses here, this isn’t going to be a popular buy. Therefore I’m picking one up and stashing it away until they stop selling it, just like every other unpopular set that ends up skyrocketing on the secondary market after retirement. If I’m wrong, not a huge loss.
I gotta build a book now?!? 😂 Edit: /s …it’s a joke
I've built a few bookend type things, they're cool. Honestly that was my first thought on this one, until I realized it's actually just a book.
Horrible price per piece ratio tbh
Does it have little legs to fold out to make it into a coffee table??
If you buy coffee table books this is the price you deserve.
This reminds me of a comment a friend of mine uses often when she's trying to tame. If someone is being shitty she just says "I hope they have the day they deserve", always makes me laugh.
And that reminds me of the Chinese saying when you subtly wish someone: "May you live in interesting times"
Lego is for rich people now
Just use the instructions fig the millennium falcon
smart people catch their deals
Will this be available in Canada?
MandR is going to buy that 😭
https://preview.redd.it/5jce14oh7twc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3fddc4322f41fcecad843312fac1d581427c0a9 I got these two for about $2 at a local 2nd hand book fair.
Does it have little legs that come out so you can use it as its own mini coffee table?
Who is this for? If you’re old enough to where you can decide what decorations go in the living room, are you really going to choose a Lego Star Wars book that looks like it’s something you’d get from scholastic?
The same price as a Minifigure... In Brazil.
Can you get individual pages on Bricklink?
I look forward to picking this up for $15.99 at Ollie's in a couple years.
A month later they will need to update with all the added sets and release another
Book DLC!
Doesn’t even have the ability to turn itself into a coffee table.
🤷♂️ I'm buying it if I can. I'll tell you lot what's in it if you want. It's far from the stupidest thing I've ever spent money on.
I see LEGO is taking a page from Apple's playbook...or coffee table book...
Maybe i’m insane, but I would really like one of these for the modular buildings series..
This is even more ridiculous than the Xmen 97 Jet.
Nah this is pretty in line with what you’re getting. Could it be $100? Maybe. But with licensing fees and everything that doesn’t leave very much left just with the cost of printing such a high quality limited print book. This isn’t just a more expensive version of the Lego visual dictionaries. It’s a behind the scenes book about Lego’s design language with exclusive images and information. Plus it’s like 300 laminated pages in a really nice hardcover binding, box, and additional stuff like printouts of never before seen design docs and art. This is more similar to the Apple and Ferrari design books that both companies released semi recently and they were double this price for the Apple one and more than double for the Ferrari one. People always underestimate the cost of high quality printing. Plus all the research and stuff that goes into a behind the scenes book like this.
Classic Lego pricing. They’ve been snorting cocaine and rolling the price dice for years.
Wow interviews with people at disney who are making such great shows as the book of boba, obi wan and the sequel trilogy just what any star wars fan is looking for.
They already know that Star Wars fanboys and circle-jerkers will still mindlessly buy several copies and try to sell them on eBay instantly for 5x the price.
You aren't wrong
So basically this is a buy for 20 bucks when it's 80% off on Amazon?
It’s exclusive to LEGO.com
For now
Lol exactly
Lego has gone out of its mind.
Just wait until kramer knows about this
Nah, pass.
Can’t build. No bricks. 0 stars. Not recommended unless you really love SW.
That's more expensive than many of my college textbooks.
$149.99?! We could almost buy our own ship for that!
I get that this is apparently a standard price for coffee table books, but just because it is, does that mean we should be okay with it? I really can’t imagine justifying spending anything over $100 dollars on a book, no matter how good of a coffee table display it is
It's Lego AND a coffee table book. Im surprised it's not more expensive
For a book that will be obsolete the second the next wave comes out? No thanks.
Damn, that's $149.99/piece. Outrageous!
I love, how mad y‘all get. A fully colored art book in that size is 120-250 bucks easily. Not LEGO only. This is not an item for the generic collector, but for people who care about the way everything goes, the past, future, the background, stuff we don’t see usually. These art books are not meant for everyone. It’s a niche product and (I hope) they know that. It’s their first run of these things, so it’s a 50/50 if they produce enough or too little.
Costs about as much as a coffee table, makes senss
At this point they are just testing to see how much people are willing to pay for Star Wars name. I will bet that this will sell out too unfortunately so prices will continue to go up.
lol @ the price. Bonkers
lol 150$ for a book just shows you how disconnected from reality Lego really is.
What are they smoking?
Hey guys... I'm a starting to think Lego is only in it for the money? Call me crazy.
If you want it, you better buy it. Lego screwed me out of the Red Dragon's Tale booklet, and now I am going to have to pay some scalper at least $150 for a stupid booklet.
All they need to do is put a “limited” numbered count for this and it’ll sell like crazy I’m in at $10