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  • The 2018 Millennium Falcon Cockpit
    The 2018 Millennium Falcon Cockpit

    By The Collector • July 19, 2018

    3,000 Made. A New Packaging Format That Nobody Expected. A Comics Code Authority Parody Stamp. And Two Characters Having A Conversation About Parsecs. The 2018 SDCC exclusive that changed the format entirely. After five years of rectangular boxes, 75512 arrived in tall, narrow packaging with a retro comic book graphic design — speech bubbles, halftone dots, bold outlined lettering, and a holographic numbered sticker in the corner. The set itself has no exclusive elements. The box is the point.
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  • The 2017 Boba Fett & Han Solo in Carbonite BrickHeadz
    The 2017 Boba Fett & Han Solo in Carbonite BrickHeadz

    By The Collector • October 5, 2017

    5,000 Made. A Pre-Convention Online Lottery. Multiple Unique Printed Elements. A Premium Slipcase Box. And The First LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz Ever Produced. The set that launched LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz — and the only way to get it was to win an online lottery before the convention even began. 41498 introduced Boba Fett and Han Solo in Carbonite as the first Star Wars characters in the BrickHeadz range, in premium slip-cased packaging with multiple printed elements unique to this set. Designer Marcos Bessa was present at NYCC to sign copies.
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  • The 2017 Detention Block Rescue
    The 2017 Detention Block Rescue

    By The Collector • April 13, 2017

    Under 2,500 Made. A Raffle And A Twitter Giveaway. The 40th Anniversary Of A New Hope. And A Box That Quotes The Film On The Back. Released at Star Wars Celebration Orlando to mark the 40th anniversary of A New Hope, CELEB2017 recreates Detention Block AA-23 from the original 1977 film — the moment Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, disguised as Stormtroopers, arrive to rescue Princess Leia. The set contains no exclusive elements; everything in it can be sourced elsewhere. What you’re paying for is the packaging and the provenance.
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  • The 2016 Escape the Space Slug
    The 2016 Escape the Space Slug

    By The Collector • April 30, 2016

    3,500 Made. Invitation-Only. No Set Number. No Price Tag. No Barcode. And A Scene That Had Never Appeared In LEGO Form Before. Not a convention exclusive — but not a standard GWP either. Escape the Space Slug was distributed at invitation-only VIP May the Fourth events at LEGO Brand Stores worldwide on April 30, 2016. The packaging has no set number, no barcode, and opens like a premium collectible rather than a retail product. 3,500 were produced globally — 28 per store across 125 locations — making it one of the most deliberately limited store exclusives in the LEGO Star Wars catalog.
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  • The 2015 Force Friday Commemorative Brick
    The 2015 Force Friday Commemorative Brick

    By The Collector • September 4, 2015

    Midnight, September 4, 2015. A single printed panel. A First Order Stormtrooper. Given free to anyone who showed up at Toys R Us at midnight. One of the most widely distributed LEGO Star Wars promotional items ever made — and one of the least documented.
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  • The 2015 Tatooine Mini-build — Fan Expo Canada
    The 2015 Tatooine Mini-build — Fan Expo Canada

    By The Collector • September 3, 2015

    800–900 Made. The Rarer Half Of The 2015 Tatooine Pair. R2-D2 Instead Of C-3PO. And The Last Fan Expo Canada Exclusive In This Collection. The Fan Expo Canada entry in the 2015 Tatooine pair — identical build to CELEB2015, different droid, smaller production run, and a higher secondary market value as a result. FANEXPO002 is the second and final Fan Expo Canada exclusive in this collection’s LEGO Star Wars run.
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  • The 2015 Dagobah Mini-build
    The 2015 Dagobah Mini-build

    By The Collector • July 9, 2015

    Raffle Winners Only. Five More Via Twitter. A Hashtag Printed On The Seal. And The Last Set In The Rectangular Box Format. The SDCC 2015 exclusive broke from the first-come-first-served and ticket formats of previous years — COMCON044 was available only to raffle winners, plus five additional sets given to winners of a Twitter competition. The Dagobah vignette is the most atmospheric of the three 2015 mini-builds, and the box is the last in the series that used the rectangular format introduced in 2013.
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  • The 2015 Tatooine Mini-build — Star Wars Celebration Anaheim
    The 2015 Tatooine Mini-build — Star Wars Celebration Anaheim

    By The Collector • April 16, 2015

    1,000 Made. The Same Build At Two Events. C-3PO At Celebration. R2-D2 In Canada. A Sandcrawler, A Landspeeder, And A Designer On Site To Sign Them. The Star Wars Celebration Anaheim entry in the 2015 Tatooine pair. CELEB2015 recreates the iconic droid scene from A New Hope in microscale — Sandcrawler, landspeeder, moisture vaporators, and a cast of brick-built figures, all on a flat desert base. C-3PO comes as a full minifigure. The same build appeared at Fan Expo Canada five months later with R2-D2 instead. Designer Mark Roe was present at Celebration to sign sets.
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  • The 2014 The Ghost Starship with Kanan Jarrus
    The 2014 The Ghost Starship with Kanan Jarrus

    By The Collector • August 28, 2014

    The Same Ship. A Different Jedi. A Different Country. And The Harder Set To Find. The Fan Expo Canada entry in the 2014 Ghost Starship pair. FANEXPO001 uses the same build as COMCON039 but swaps Chopper for Kanan Jarrus — the Jedi hero of Star Wars Rebels, also making his first appearance in LEGO form. Distributed in Toronto three weeks after SDCC, it is consistently harder to find on the secondary market than its San Diego counterpart.
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  • The 2014 The Ghost Starship with Chopper
    The 2014 The Ghost Starship with Chopper

    By The Collector • July 24, 2014

    1,000 Made. A Droid Nobody Had Seen In Physical Form. The Same Ship Released The Same Summer At A Convention On A Different Continent. And A Back Panel That Tells You Exactly What You’re Holding Before You’ve Opened It. The SDCC entry in a two-set 2014 strategy that split the Ghost Starship across two events and two continents — Chopper at San Diego, Kanan Jarrus at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto. Both sets were character reveals for Star Wars Rebels ahead of its October 2014 premiere. To own both, you needed a passport.
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  • The 2013 JEK-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter
    The 2013 JEK-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter

    By The Collector • July 18, 2013

    1,000 Made. A Ticket Required To Buy One. The First LEGO Star Wars Character Exclusive To Exist Only In LEGO Media. And A Box That Is Itself A Piece Of Storytelling. The first set in the rectangular box format that LEGO used for Star Wars exclusives from 2013 through 2015. COMCON032 introduced JEK-14 to the world weeks before his debut in the Yoda Chronicles animated series — making this the only SDCC exclusive where the set itself was a character reveal. The minifigure is unique to this set and has never appeared in any retail release.
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  • The 2012 Luke Skywalker’s Mini Landspeeder
    The 2012 Luke Skywalker’s Mini Landspeeder

    By The Collector • October 10, 2012

    1,000 Made. The Third Tin Of 2012. An Exclusive Luke Skywalker Minifigure Found Nowhere Else. And The Most Valuable Of The Three By A Significant Margin. The NYCC entry in the 2012 tin trilogy — same format, same price, same run size as COMCON019, but at a different convention three months later. The Luke Skywalker minifigure inside is unique to this set and has never appeared in any retail release. That detail alone accounts for most of the gap between this tin’s current value and the other two.
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  • The 2012 Boba Fett’s Mini Slave I
    The 2012 Boba Fett’s Mini Slave I

    By The Collector • August 23, 2012

    1,000 Produced. Only 250 Sold At The Event. A Tin Can Packaged Like A Collectible. And A Boba Fett Minifigure Whose Secret Is Locked Under His Helmet. The only LEGO Star Wars exclusive ever packaged in a tin. CELEB2012 came to Star Wars Celebration VI in a cylindrical metal can wrapped in full-bleed Bespin artwork, with a Boba Fett minifigure exclusive to this set and a mini Slave I model that fits inside the open cockpit. 1,000 were made. Fewer than a quarter were sold at the event.
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  • The 2012 Darth Maul’s Mini Sith Infiltrator
    The 2012 Darth Maul’s Mini Sith Infiltrator

    By The Collector • July 12, 2012

    1,000 Made. 200 Per Day, First Come First Served. A Shirtless Darth Maul In A Separate Polybag. And The First In A New Series Of SDCC Mini Ship Tins. The SDCC entry in the 2012 tin trilogy. COMCON019 established the format that all three 2012 exclusives shared — cylindrical metal tin, panoramic label artwork, medallion lid, numbered label panel — and set the template for the mini ship series that LEGO would continue at SDCC through 2015.
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  • The 2011 Star Wars Advent Calendar
    The 2011 Star Wars Advent Calendar

    By The Collector • July 21, 2011

    1,000 Made. No Raffle Required. A Retail Set You Could Already Pre-Order. And Packaging So Good It’s Worth More Than What’s Inside. The most accessible SDCC Star Wars exclusive of its era — no lottery, no raffle, just walk up and buy it. The build inside was a retail set anyone could get in September. What made COMCON015 worth having was a brown cardboard shipping box pretending to be a care package from Santa Claus, and a limited edition holiday print that has never been properly documented anywhere.
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  • The 2011 Star Wars Miniland Figures
    The 2011 Star Wars Miniland Figures

    By The Collector • February 13, 2011

    125 Made. Not For Sale. Given Only To Guests Invited To A Party Most Collectors Never Knew Existed. And Instructions With A Question Mark On The Cover. Not an SDCC exclusive. Not a convention purchase. TF11 was a gift — handed to 125 invited guests at a private collectors party at the 2011 New York Toy Fair, timed to the opening of the Star Wars Miniland areas at LEGOLAND parks worldwide. Han Solo and Chewbacca came pre-built and glued. Boba Fett came in a ziplock bag with a question mark on the instructions. You were expected to build him yourself and add him to the box.
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  • The 2010 CubeDude — The Clone Wars Edition
    The 2010 CubeDude — The Clone Wars Edition

    By The Collector • July 22, 2010

    1,800 or 2,000 Made. A Daily Lottery to Buy It. Five Cardstock Collector Cards Nobody Talks About. And an Instruction Book You Can Only See When the Light Hits It Just Right. The first of two CubeDude exclusives LEGO released in the summer of 2010 — and the one that introduced the format to the Star Wars collector world. Five Clone Wars characters, a fragile cardstock box that most examples haven’t survived intact, and contents that have never been fully documented.
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  • The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con Holo-Brick Archives Display
    The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con Holo-Brick Archives Display

    By The Collector • July 22, 2009

    Three Printed Bricks. A Website Name. Two Stormtroopers. And Almost No Documentation. The least-documented item from SDCC 2009 — and possibly from any SDCC LEGO year. Three pieces. No instructions. No confirmed packaging. A promotional display nameplate for a website that no longer exists, given away free at a convention sixteen years ago.
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  • The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con Mini Republic Dropship & AT-TE BrickMaster Pack
    The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con Mini Republic Dropship & AT-TE BrickMaster Pack

    By The Collector • July 22, 2009

    500 Made. A Raffle to Buy It. A BrickMaster Magazine Nobody Mentions. And a Bilingual Box That Answers One Question While Raising Another. The second exclusive LEGO set SDCC attendees could buy in 2009 — and the only one that was a true double exclusive. A microscale Republic Dropship you couldn’t build anywhere else, bundled with a BrickMaster polybag most subscribers never received.
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  • The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con Collectible Display Sets
    The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con Collectible Display Sets

    By The Collector • July 22, 2009

    Six Sets. Six Days. One Per Day. 300 Each. Except One. LEGO returned to San Diego Comic-Con in 2009 with something more ambitious than the year before — a complete series of individually numbered display sets, one released each day of the convention, spanning the entire Star Wars universe from Clone Wars to Return of the Jedi.
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  • The 2009 Toy Fair Chrome Black Darth Vader
    The 2009 Toy Fair Chrome Black Darth Vader

    By The Collector • February 14, 2009

    Ten Years of Ruling the Toy Galaxy. 100 made. Given to VIP attendees at the 2009 New York Toy Fair Collectors Party. A chrome black Darth Vader in a display case wrapped in his own quotes. And a VIP badge produced in four color variants — 25 of each.
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  • The 2008 San Diego Comic-Con Clone Wars Pack
    The 2008 San Diego Comic-Con Clone Wars Pack

    By The Collector • July 24, 2008

    1,200 Made. Four Days. The First Time LEGO Star Wars Came to San Diego. Two retail sets, five extra minifigures, a two-sided poster, and an outer box that tells you exactly what year it is. $75.99. Sold out in four days.
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  • The 2008 Toy Fair Han Solo / Indiana Jones Transformation Chamber
    The 2008 Toy Fair Han Solo / Indiana Jones Transformation Chamber

    By The Collector • February 16, 2008

    100 made. Given to press guests at the 2008 New York Toy Fair Collectors Party. A rotating diorama that is simultaneously a Star Wars set and an Indiana Jones set — because Harrison Ford is both.
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  • The 2007 Star Wars Celebration IV Exclusive
    The 2007 Star Wars Celebration IV Exclusive

    By The Collector • May 24, 2007

    500 Made, $49.99, and You Had to Win a Raffle First. Five Imperial minifigures in a clear acrylic cube. Individually numbered out of 500. Only available if your raffle ticket was called. And then you still had to pay for it.
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  • The 2005 Toy Fair VIP Gala Set
    The 2005 Toy Fair VIP Gala Set

    By The Collector • February 19, 2005

    55 Made. Or 75. Nobody Knows. A standard retail set in a custom slipcase. Given to press guests at a VIP Gala on February 19, 2005. The slipcase has never been described in detail anywhere. Until now.
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  • The 2005 Nuremberg Toy Fair Darth Vader Polybag
    The 2005 Nuremberg Toy Fair Darth Vader Polybag

    By The Collector • February 3, 2005

    A $1,000 Bag of Nothing Special. The minifigure inside is the same one you can buy loose for $40. The polybag it comes in is worth $1,000. That’s what event exclusivity does.
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