There are few of us (in my generation at least) who don’t remember their first introduction to the Star Wars movies. The brilliance of the special effects and the continuation of the story as a 3-part trilogy conspired to make Star Wars more than just another movie. It was part of an era. The popularity of the Star Wars franchise has been successfully maintained in recent years with the prequel films, Star Wars I, II, and III. In the merchandising department, Lego has also kept Star Wars at the forefront of toy and game development, in a wide variety of formats, including the Lego Death Star 10188 model that was introduced in 2008.
There is more than enough in this Lego set to keep you busy for hours as you build this incredible project, a task that should not be undertaken lightly as it contains over three thousand Lego pieces. Even the instruction manual is exceptionally long, with more than 250 pages. As it has been designed to be a playable piece, the Lego Death Star is relatively sturdy and can move reasonably well once construction is complete. However, there will always be some tricky little bits that can fall out.
The four-tier Death Star contains a combination of the scenes that appear in two different Star Wars movies. The half-built Death Star in Stars Wars IV – A New Hope and the complete Death Star from Star Wars VI – Return of the Jedi. The model features iconic scenes from the movies such as the Death Star control room, detention block, hangar bay, and of course the emperors’ throne room for the smash hit finale. The finished project is a large sphere that does not have the outer shell, but instead leaves every internal location readily available. The set is designed in detail and there are special touches to make the Death Star more fun, like the spinning guns and spinning chairs.
A great advantage of this model is that it is not just a visual project that is placed on a shelf once finished. This Lego 10188 model is built to be a play item and is approximately 16 “tall and wide when complete. The set includes 24 figures that allow you to recreate some of the most memorable scenes from the movies.
Some of the Lego Death Star 10188 figures are exclusive collector’s items in their own right, notably the new versions of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker dressed in Storm Trooper clothing, and the death star and interrogation droids that have never appeared. in none. of the previous sets. The garbage creature Dianoga is also available for the first time so you can play the scene in the garbage compactor where Luke, Han and Chewbacca help Princess Leia escape from the detention center in the original Star Wars IV.
