Amazon.com: Customer reviews: LEGO Star Wars Super Star Destroyer 10221

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Stephen

One of the best Lego sets

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024

Love everything about this set it’s such a striking model and looks great on the table on display.

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Derry

Delivery was prompt but...

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2013

The price was reasonable and delivery was prompt and with good tracking.

However the box that i received had slight tear on the surface prints. If amazon knows its product well, it should be familiar that this line of lego products are known as Ultimate Collector Series.

It is more like a collectable than a toy. I would have hoped that Amazon would have send out a box without any damage. ( i can tolerate damage that are caused by the shipping company as these are beyond amazon control but the box had tear on the surface of the printing is not so acceptable to me...

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Stephen

One of the best Lego sets

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024

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Love everything about this set it’s such a striking model and looks great on the table on display.

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Jason F.

Absolutely epic.

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014

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Beyond a doubt, this is one of the best toys I've ever owned. It's a large build, took about three days at about six hours a day to construct. Found a few videos online (one was a rather good time lapse creation) that might give you an idea. The instructions are, in classic LEGO style, very easy to follow despite the 240+ (!) pages for assembly. Would recommend it to any LEGO or Star Wars enthusiast. The sheer size of it is impressive, so if you're looking to purchase this, make sure you have the space available and a good way to display it. It's about four & one half feet long, one & a half wide at it's widest point. Kids who have seen the classic trilogy and adults alike project enormous, beaming smiles seeing it, which like other reviews I've read, turns the discussion quickly to the movies and the love for them that it represents. It is a fantastic piece, sure to make whatever room you display it in a thousand times more awesome. You'll not be disappointed!

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Like Star Wars? Like LEGOs? GET IT NOW!!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2012

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If you are both a LEGO and Star Wars fan you do yourself a disservice by passing this on this one. I know $400 is quite a chunk of change to cough up for a LEGO set but it is well worth it and like the other LEGO ultimate collectors series sets it will only go up in price so it's a investment also. You don't want to regret not getting this now when your looking at this in a few years with a $1000+ price tag.

I found building it to be easy and enjoyable. It took me about 12 hours total to get it completely assembled (4 hours at a time over three days). The finished product is quite an impressive specimen to look at, it is nicely detailed and is 4'1" in length. It is also surprisingly sturdy and easy to move around because the underside of it is a solid piece so you don't have to worry about where to put your hands when you need to move it.

Get it, You'll love it!

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Louis S. Carrozzi

If you are both a Star Wars fan and a Lego fan, you can't go wrong!

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014

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I think the title of my review pretty much says it all, but I have to write a little more for this review so I'll just say a bit about myself.

I was 6 years old when Star Wars came out, and immediately became a lifelong fan. I was 10 when Empire came out, and 13 for Jedi. Outside of Star Wars, my childhood was packed with Legos. I had all kinds of sets, but there were no "star wars" sets back then, not like now, so I used to build my own "giant spaceships" like star destroyers out of what legos I had around. No, they didn't look anything like a read star destroyer, but it was FUN.

Now, seeing this product, I thought "This IS my childhood!" How can you put a price on that?

Now, just to let you know, these are part of the "UCS" or Ultimate Collector's Series of toys. They have ALL gone up in value over the years because they are limited edition collector's sets. Once Lego stops making them, they are GONE.

I made a huge mistake NOT getting the Millennium Falcon UCS set. I could have got it for $500 a few years ago, and I sadly I didn't. When I went back online later, when I had some more money to buy one, they were all selling for about $3500 each. That's right: a 700% return. The lowest return on a UCS set, so far is 200% value. The average value increase is somewhere in between. The original Star Destroyer UCS set went from $300 to $2000 over about 8 years.

I'm not making the same mistake twice. I bought 2 of these: 1 for myself for display, and one to hold onto as an investment. I did the same with the Red 5 X-Wing UCS set.

But at the end of the day, the SSD looks fantastic as a set piece on my wall shelf, and it was really FUN to build a lego set some 30 years after I built my last one. I forgot how much FUN Legos are!!!

Put aside some time for this one though, it took up a whole table and took me about 5 nights, 3 hours a night, to finish it. I had a few pieces left over, which was fine.

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Davron R

Impressive

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2014

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I bought destroyer for my nephew and he is like it a lot!!

Firstly this is a fantastic model, at over 3000 pieces and over 1.2m long finding a shelf to put in on was challenging. All the pieces came in numbered boxes with numbered bags, unfortunately, as you started on a particular section some of the parts were spread over several bags, so to resolve this issue, I separated the pieces into their different categories.
This model is very repetitive so this made it rather quick to build in some sections, however when it came to the engine sections, these being made in separate sections and are literally slotted in later. You must be careful and gentle as the are just sitting there.
When completed the model is heavy and playability is nil, however it looks great completed and makes a great display piece.

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Ted

Some of the most fun I have had building legos

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2013

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I recently jumped back into building Legos and I wanted something challenging. Well this model delivers that! The scale of the model is awesome and looks fantastic finished. I have seen quite a few pictures of it completed on the internet but those really don't do it the justice it deserves when it is finished and sitting in your own space.

Hats off to the design team! They managed to keep the model relatively light yet fairly solid when finally assembled. I really enjoy seeing unique solutions during the building process and has given me a few ideas for some MOCs of my own.

A couple of cautionary notes: This model has a ton of small 1x1 modified bricks, and 1x2 bricks. If you are not paying close attention to some parts of the instructions when building out the longer portions of the ship's structure you could run into alignment problems later on. However, I was very pleasantly surprised how well everything matched up and fit together at the end.
Working through the Numbered bags and spending the extra few minutes to sort the parts helps the build process and is well worth the time.

Might be a little pricey but given the amount of Legos and the finished results I felt well worth it. Very satisfying build!

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George D Johnson Jr

In one word, tedious

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2014

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Awesome Lego model. This thing is huge, and detailed. Did I mention huge? Perfect complement for any Star Wars collection. Took about 8-9 hours to build. I had read reviews that talked of missing pieces, but I had no problem with this. Instructions are very clear, the booklet is as big as an atlas. Lots of fun to put together, but you need room. I used a large L-shaped desk, but would have been better at a large table. The pieces are separated into groups, which is a Godsend considering there are over 3,500 pieces. It's solid, I'm glad I made this purchase.

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Kris L

Definitely NOT a toy, but a work of art :)

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014

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It's probably the longest lego set I've ever seen, and so far it has the highest piece count of any other lego model I've put together. The details are nice, but the interior leave much to be desired. Of course there wasn't much room to work with (considering the top panels take up half the free space on the top), but maybe they could have designed it so the minifigs that come with the set could actually stand up in the interior, instead of having to make them seated so the top could be placed on firmly. Also, on a ship like this, repetition was abound, but that's to be expected unlike on another UCS like the melinium falcon.

Overall, once you're done building it, it looks amazing. I am so proud to have it in my living room, and it gets a lot of compliments when I have guests over. Since it's a collectors set, it's for display more than it is for playing on, but you will not regret buying it. Also, shipping was much faster than I expected. The 4 star is for the design effort of the model itself. Amazon gets 5 stars for quick shipping :D

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Buy this from Amazon but make sure to ship with Prime and Select Next Day Air for $3.99

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2012

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I bought two of these because this is going to become a true collectors piece. One will be given to my 8-year old son for his next birthday; the other one is an investment piece to be enjoyed a couple of years down the road. The LEGO Star wars Super Star Destroyer is going to become a highly collectible piece; Lego will most likeley discontinue this in 2013. Regarding shipping... This is a giant and very heavy Lego box: close to 16 lbs. Previous reviewers on these heavy Lego sets have sometimes noted that the LEGO product box arrived damaged because the outer shipping carton was beaten up. I agree that these expensive sets should be packaged with more care by Amazon (cardboard boxes should be sealed with tape along "all edges" of the cardboard box; not just the horizontal fold of the box). I have a simple solution to minimize any potential shipping damage: upgrade your account to Amazon Prime and select Next Day Air for $3.99 which ensures save arrival (ground shipments take several days during which the boxes are naturally beaten up along the way). $3.99 upgrade for overnight is a very small price to pay considering the high price tag of this item. By the way, I have purchased numerous times from the online lego store and I find that their packaging system is pretty equal to Amazon. Just upgrade to Next Day Air and you will have less to worry about.