LEGO have officially announced the next UCS (Ultimate Collector’s Series) set – Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder (75341)!
The set features the iconic Landspeeder that Luke Skywalker once owned and drove in the hugely popular Star Wars movies.
It comes complete with two Minifigures, an exclusive C-3PO with silver printing in his right leg, and of course Luke Skywalker himself.
The Landspeeder itself will consist of 1890 pieces and measures a respectable 17cm tall (when attached to the base), 30cm wide and a whopping 50cm long!
The official release date for VIP members is not that far away, hitting both LEGO Stores and LEGO.com 1st May. It’ll set you back a fair bit too but as most fans know it is totally with it, coming in with a RRP of £174.99/$199.99/€199.99.
Official description:
LEGO STAR WARs™ LandSpeeder – building set PRODUCT PRESS RELEASE
THIS IS THE LEGO® STAR WARS™ LANDSPEEDER™ BUILDING SET YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING For 21st April 2022: Today, the LEGO Group announces the new epic LEGO® Star Wars™ Luke Skywalker™ Landspeeder™ set – the latest in the LEGO Ultimate Collector Series (UCS). A faithful recreation of Luke’s battered vehicle, the new 1,890-piece model is a must have for Star Wars and LEGO fans alike.
X-34 Landspeeders were typical civilian transports, designed to withstand the roughest terrains. The Landspeeder was first seen in Star Wars: A New Hope™, where Luke used the vehicle extensively as part of his farm work, travelling across Tatooine’s™ harsh deserts. Accompanied by C-3PO™, Luke used the Landspeeder to locate R2-D2™, when he was discovered by Obi-Wan Kenobi™. It was also the vehicle they were travelling in when Obi-Wan used a Jedi™ mind trick to get past stormtroopers guarding entry into Mos Eisley™. Eventually Luke sold the Landspeeder to pay for his transport to the planet Alderaan™.
The LEGO Star Wars Luke Skywalker Landspeeder building set is 49 centimetres long when complete and features the two-seater cockpit, the turbine engine without a cover, the iconic curved cockpit windscreen plus an exclusive C-3PO™ minifigure (with 2K moulded legs and a side print) and Luke minifigure – complete with lightsaber.
This much-anticipated set makes for the perfect piece to display and show off your love of Star Wars and LEGO building. Even the unboxing is a fun journey within itself, with the vibrant packaging showing off the intricate details of the final built set from several different perspectives.
The new set forms part of the LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series sets, which also include the Millennium Falcon™, the A-Wing, the Republic Gunship, and the recently released AT-AT™.
The Landspeeder buiding set has been expertly created by LEGO set designer César Carvalhosa Soares. Discussing the design, César said, “It’s been an amazing adventure creating Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder in LEGO brick form. It is such an iconic vehicle in the Star Wars saga. We’ve ensured no detail has been forgotten and have even included some of the scratches. The finished product makes an incredible display and is the perfect addition to the UCS collection.”
The LEGO Star Wars Landspeeder set is available for LEGO VIPs (LEGO.com/VIP) from 1st of May 2022 and everyone from 4th May 2022 from LEGO Stores and LEGO.com/star-wars, at the recommended retail price of $199.99 / £174.99 / € 199.99
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Not bad. I expected it to be worse, but I’m curious how the set will look like with the minifigures inside, I think it will look very out of scale.
Very out of scale, UCS sets aren’t usually Minifigure scale which is why fans like them 🤔