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With my current obsession, as Kate would call it, with Lego and all things Star Wars, I have looked long and hard at the Death Star.
Finally after long thoughts and calculations and research, a fluke look at Amazon.com and I had ordered one on Boxing Day.

Yesterday, my package arrived, now first things first, $80.00 delivery and arrived on the 4th January after ordering the 26th December is damn good. Projected Date was 14th January. Impressed, yes Sir!

$440.00 Australian full delivery included, compared to buying retail in Australia $699.00, mmm, price fairness my ass.
Well packed and on time, happy with that, will shop again 🙂
The box may have been a trifle big for the contents though…

The actual Box:

The contents of the box, ring bound, bloody heavy manual and four boxes of parts, each box contains numbered sets of bags too

So onto the build, starting with box 1:

3 lots of bags, for order sake, this is the method you follow in the manual, the bag numbers which come from the boxes in order.
I separate the parts out from the bags all in one hit and order the parts into like pieces

The minifigs collected from the first bag set

Three Lukes, Two Hans, Leia, Obi Wan, 3PO, R2, Chewie, Darth, Emperor, and a host of Imperial Scum and droids

Stages of the build:

Bag Set 2:

After that lot, the base has taken a great shape, the level of construction is detailed and solid, the compactor alone is so good, but Bag 3 is coming up with all the little details for this part of the build

A mechanism to allow the compactor doors to close in

A working elevator with winch, a nice little fork lift type vehicle for the hangar and the detail on this gun was awesome to build

Debris and Struts for the compactor, the power core for Obi Wan to shut down

So that’s box one built, next post, box two…