Lego will release its most expensive model, at more than $1,000

It's hard to ignore that it's almost Christmas, and it's a safe bet that the underside of the tree will host many and varied boxes of Lego, at all prices and for all uses: play, collection… In this last category, sets of small bricks can reach stratospheric prices: 400, 600 or even 850 € are not unprecedented sums in the world of small bricks.

But if we are to believe the rumors, the fateful barrier of $1000 (and therefore €1000 in our country) should soon be crossed for the first time. And to go beyond this considerable sum, it was of course necessary to have a set paying homage to an ode to gigantism, to a pharaonic construction, to a colossal project… The Titanic being already taken, just like the Eiffel Tower and the Egyptian pyramids, it seems that it is towards a monument of pop culture that the decision-makers turned. And the least we can say is that the latter did not choose the smallest since in all likelihood, it is the Death Star that we find in return of the jedi which will serve as a model for the first Lego set to exceed €1000.

Star Wars and Lego, a true love story

The collaboration between Lego and the universe created by Georges Lucas has worked wonderfully for many years. The models have gradually expanded and the most stylized small ships designed from a few parts rub shoulders with the enormous behemoths of several thousand bricks: one of the most massive models (sold for €50) is also a version with scale of minifigs – the famous Lego men) of Han Solo's Millennium Falcon. Let us also point out that this is not the first time that the Death Star has had the honor of Danish bricks. Several versions, including one with more than 4,000 pieces, were marketed in 2016 before a much smaller model, only a few centimeters high, in 2020.