Lego have once again made a convention exclusive, this time for Celebration VI. Like the previous San Diego Comic Con Darth Maul with Sith Infiltrator mini kit in a tin we now have a Boba Fett with Slave-1 Tin mini kit in tin.
Limited to only 1000 pieces, they sold 200 per day of the 4 day event for $42.50 inc Tax with a limit of 2 per person. what happened to the other 200 I dont know, but like Hallmark there was a massive queue every morning.
Every tin had a sequentialy numbered 1-1000 custom printed label and the same art was used for the instructions brochure although it was slightly cropped at the ends.
Upon breaking the seal and opening the contents there’s a high quality manual that had slightly thicker paper than normal instructions, was 36 pages long and double-stapled and a baggie with all 81 bricks, and it was a nice selection of bricks that bring this mini rendition of the classic trilogy fan favourite ship that your minifig Boba can pilot.
The figure is a new build but using old parts. It takes most of its parts (legs, body, helmet and arms) from the recent Skiff 9496 kit, which is an upgrade from the previous Slave-1 8097 that came out in 2011. But it’s not got the rocket pack and the head is taken from the recent TIE Fighter 9492.
I found it odd that he came with a circular stand, but this is possibly to make up the number of bricks in the set as the Darth Maul San Diego Comic Con set was 84 pieces.
Build wise it’s nice ‘n’ easy with a good solid construction and the wings are mounted with loose beige Technic pins which hang with gravity like the vintage Kenner toy. Great for when you need to take of and go for a swoosh around your office or house.
It’s the biggest yet of all 5 small scale Slave-1’s.
Boba should have come with his antenna and I would have liked it to include the Jetpack but then Boba wouldn’t fit in the cockpit with it on, so I understand why it wasn’t included. Also the rear cannons could have been more in scale with the ship, but other than that it’s a superb little set that will happily sit on my shelf with all my other Star Wars Lego. Cost wise it’s crazy, but I have a very big Boba focus collection and I had to have it and I’m sure that Lego and other companies at the show used their exclusives to offset the cost of their boothes and staffing costs. I think if they had made 2000 they still would have sold out.
I really hope they continue this style of exclusive in-the-tin as there is plenty of scope to do many more Star Wars ships in this style.
