Customer reviews:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great!
Comment: This set is fun to build and play with because all important scenes of Star Wars are in it! And there are lots of minifigures to play with. The Darth Vader TIE fighter is also very cool! The twin canons and elevators inside are very interesting to play as well. Cheaper at lego website.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Huge Death Star
Comment: This set is huge. The price here is off too, [...] has it for [...] with free shipping. Even that is a lot for a lego set, but this has a little of everything. It took me around 12-15 hours. I don't know for sure because I spent a lot of time between two days building it and taking breaks between. Either way it took the good part of two days to build.
The set is sturdy and designed very well for being so large. It was not missing any pieces or missing any instructions. The instructions are huge as well and they come as a ring binder.
My son loves all the figures that come with the set, and this set has a lot of cool features and things like the prison opens up and connects to the trash room. They do things like that in this set which is cool.
I have been a fan of Lego and Star Wars and this set is awesome. Building it was more of a chore, but the end result is very cool. My son loves playing with it, and all of the minifigs that it comes with.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: this is the best lego i have bought
Comment: this lego set is well presented and is not dificult to follow its instructions
it is a very fun to play with my kids love this lego set
simply the best lego i really recomend it

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent for kids and parents alike
Comment: I bought the Lego Death Star for my son for his 14th birthday six months ago. He put it together with my daughter and me, and since then the kids have spent many hours playing with it. Even while we were building, they would stop to play as we completed each room. This set is worth the price alone just for the unlimited play value. The number of mini figures, "machines", and other working parts in the set is also impressive. Every room has something that moves and there is an elevator in the middle of the Death Star that covers three floors. Even the conference room (in which Darth Vader famously strangles his officer) has individually spinning chairs. You can literally recreate every Death Star scene from the movies using this set.

The list of mini figures is as follows: ANH Luke, ROTJ Luke, Stormtrooper Luke, Han Solo, Stormtrooper Solo, C-3P0, R2-D2, R2-Q5, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, Tarkin, Darth Vader, the Emperor, Royal Guards, Stormtroopers, and four droids including the interrogation droid from ANH and a rolling mouse droid.

As to the particulars of the Legos themselves: it took three of us about four solid days to build this set. Part of that time was sorting the many pieces (our bags did come numbered unlike a couple other reviewers have reported) and part of it was play breaks as mentioned above. One of the machines took us two hours to build as we put it together slightly wrong the first time and had to do it all over. Out of over 3800 pieces we were missing one part, which we were able to cannibalize from one of my son's unbuilt Knight's Kingdom sets. Not too bad! The super laser is very fragile and we ended up swapping out one of the big disks for a different one from our Lego collection as it seemed to work to hold it together better. Other than that we had no real issues and the majority of the Death Star is surprisingly solid considering its size and the number of pieces involved.

All in all, I would highly recommend this set to Star Wars fans and Lego fans alike.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Outstanding Lego set!!
Comment: Outstanding Lego product. My seven year old saved for over a year to buy this himself. It is worth every penny and for him every "little" toy and sweet he couldn't buy while saving for this. After reading other reviews, I decided to keep a long to see how many hours it would take for him to complete this set. The grand total was 18 hours over a 4 day period. The only help received was separating the pieces once a bag was opened, the time to do that is counted in those 18 hours. He found the directional booklet (which is HUGE) easy to follow. The piece itself is amazing, the level of detail, the amount of places in which to re-enact movie scenes, the number of minifigs, makes this Lego at their very best. My son says he'd buy it again if he didn't have it. Truly worth the amount it costs. I would HIGHLY recommend this to any Lego, Star Wars fan or collector.

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