#Lego millennium falcon 2017 vip full

Then, in early February 2018, five months after the release of the UCS Falcon, LEGO sent Black Card holders a message titled “, your first LEGO VIP Black Card offer is here!” The special offer was simply double VIP points on LEGO Star Wars purchases. (I ordered my UCS Falcon in early December, but didn’t receive my Black Card until several months later.) First, they promised to send everyone who was part of the LEGO VIP Program at the time they purchased the UCS Falcon a special, new VIP card that would come with a number of special benefits over the following twelve months. And yet, LEGO made a number of promises after the release of the Falcon - again, promises that they were under no obligation or expectation to make. It’s important to acknowledge up front that LEGO had no obligation to provide UCS Falcon purchasers with anything special at all. More about Black Card promotions for VIP Program members If we were designing something like this ourselves, we would also have included a message of appreciation to Black Card holders for their loyalty. Similarly, whereas the sleeved box that contained the hand-picked parts for the NYTF-exclusive Boba Fett made that set feel “artisanal,” the same type of interior bag used as the set’s outer packaging makes the whole thing feel cheap. Overall, the build itself feels slapdash, with the absolutely minimal number of unique parts necessary. As such, it’s a little disappointing that the Black Card design isn’t also reproduced on this piece. Still, the otherwise all-black minifig feels a little, uh, gimpy… The minifig carries a 1×2 black tile, which presumably represents the black card. But one thing LEGO builders love doing is creating minifig avatars for themselves, and it seems likely that we’ll be seeing lots of LEGO “ sigfigs” featuring this new torso. At first, we thought this was extremely odd - LEGO, after all, does indeed make black minifig hands and even black torsos with black hands as recently as 2012. The otherwise all-black minifigure has yellow hands.

The most notable element that’s completely unique to the set is the black minifigure with a torso printed with the Black Card logo (a silver Millennium Falcon logo sweeping upward). Let’s take a closer look at the unique elements of the set. When complete - and it’ll only take you four or five minutes to build it - the frame stands at an angle, with a spot for the unique minifigure included in the set.

Rather strangely, the Black Card in the instructions themselves is printed at an oddly low resolution, appearing smeared or blurry.Īnd yes, you build the copy of the Black Card right into the frame - there’s no slot as such to insert it or remove it from the frame. The instructions are in a staple-fold booklet that isn’t anything particularly special. We’ll come back to the card in this promo set in a moment. Before the set arrived, I was wondering what the point of the frame was, since most people would probably carry their card in their wallets to actually use in person at LEGO Stores. One immediate surprise is that the package includes a copy of a Black Card. This was the case, for example, with the interior bags in the limited-run New York Toy Fair exclusive Boba Fett & Han Solo last year, ahead of the mass-market LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz released this year.

#Lego millennium falcon 2017 vip full

LEGO typically uses this type of packaging for low-volume sets that they pack by hand rather than spinning up full manufacturing lines in their factories. The Black Card frame comes in a resealable polybag with the instructions and parts loose inside the bag.

The Black Card and this “exclusive” promotional gift is limited to a relatively small number of LEGO builders and collectors - even among the “hardcore” LEGO builders on staff here at The Brothers Brick, only two of us purchased the UCS Falcon last year during the time when LEGO was issuing Black Cards - so we wanted to share our observations about the promo set as well as our experience as Black Card holders so far. The Black Card is a special VIP card given to people who’d purchased 75192 UCS Millennium Falcon the first several months that it was available after its release last September.

Earlier this month, LEGO announced the one and only promotion so far for LEGO VIP Program “Black Card” holders.