Lego Star Wars 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge

Product Information

The ship is delivered with a 3.75-inch scale Jabba the Hutt, with detailed paint deco to match the grandeur of the Khetanna, and a special Vintage Collection Yakface figure. A carded version of the figure will be available for the mass-market release.

Parts: 4.5 - There is a nice selection of brown and tan parts, as well as the rare blue ice cream and some superb new Minifigure components, so there should be enough to keep one interested in this set for its part-out value. I found construction of this set very entertaining indeed. It takes about two hours at a leisurely pace and features some interesting building techniques, including a combination of slopes and plates to form the nose as well as plenty of SNOT construction used to form the armour plating for the entire vehicle. I also noted that the flooring towards the rear of the Sail Barge is created using tessellating 3 x 6 wedge plates which might be new to some people. Lastly, the use of skeleton legs to support the railing around the front of the barge is ingenious, despite not being a new technique. It will be new to some people, and it achieves a very pleasing appearance in my opinion so is a technique well worth noting. The Completed Model For instance, to capture the glamorous vintage-inspired box art showing the barge in full-color glory, 14 Hasbro employees spent 120 hours on the photoshoot, which included bringing in 900 pounds of sand to recreate the Dune Sea and the creation of one custom, posable Sarlacc.

Box and Contents

All things being equal it just looks old and tired next to the new one, but if that look is what embodies SW Lego to you then my old-and-tired is what you think gives it its charm. You're not wrong, but neither am I!

Dune Sea Songs of Salt and Moonlight" — From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi audiobook (Mentioned only)While the actual model is excellent in my opinion, it could be a little bigger, and the price is too high for what is included. The Minifigure selection is superb, and although they may not be universally popular as some are fairly obscure, they all look fantastic and are suitably accurate to the movie. Weighing in just shy of 14 pounds, and measuring at 49.35 inches long, 14.64 inches wide, and just over 17 inches from the base to the tips of the sails, the barge is an impressively massive piece of merchandise.

Dern, who had the privilege of being the first to receive a final production barge at his office in San Francisco (for final product review purposes) is excited for fans to finally get their hands on their own sail barges soon. But he’s hard pressed to identify his favorite aspect of the finished vehicle. “As a toy designer I appreciate this grand undertaking from a pure design, engineering and manufacturing toy perspective. The amount of deco and level of detail is absolutely incredible on this. It’s a bit of a showstopper. Wait until you see the size of the box this arrives in!”

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But if you are unbiased (and I should add that being biased is no bad thing here; it's a brilliant part of your AFOL story!) then you'll judge each one on its merits and most likely marginally side with the new one. with its mint green, puny looking stabiliser surrounds, yellow stabilisers, 'hidden' gun doors that are clearly visible, lazy, one-piece guns, printed Han-in-Carbonite and bright green, squashed looking Boba, beats 8097 where all those things have been improved? bdproduct search=’star+wars’ sort=’discount’ numberOfRecord=’3′ brand=” sliderMinValues=’0′ sliderMaxValues=’750′] Now we can get on to the heroes of the set, the first of which is Princess Leia in her slave attire. This is perhaps the Minifigure which was most anticipated from this set, as without this particular character, the scenes involving Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi are not complete. Princess Leia has appeared twice before in this outfit, firstly in the traditional yellow in 4480 Jabba's Palace and then later in 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge where the only major change was the colour of her skin from yellow to flesh. This is the first time therefore that this character has received a major overhaul, and this newest edition is simply outstanding. Every detail was accounted for and made for active play, Dern says. The prison cell, for example, includes a tiny set of chains that can be used to secure an action figure of your choosing. And there are plenty of other trap doors, hidden compartments, and removable pieces.

The plastic sails look nice to me in these pictures, but then again it's hard to tell in pictures what a difference a little more reflectiveness would add. Perhaps if I were to turn it around in my hand I'd find them to have a distracting glare; I can't say for sure. But in general, it's LEGO. The whole thing is plastic; I don't think it should hurt it much if the sails are as well. Also, thanks, CapnRex, for adding pics comparing this with the skiff! The proportions don't look so bad in photos. I know the skiff is supposed to be much smaller, but you're right, LEGO scaling is never a perfect science. If it were, there probably wouldn't be nearly as many LEGO train fans... a train with as much seating as a real passenger train would probably have to be at least twice as wide as the six-module standard we have now! Star Wars Helmet Collection 57 ( Databank A-Z: Trident Assault Ship–Turbolasers) (Indirect mention only) When Jabba’s sail barge, HasLab’s first crowd-sourced project, hits doorsteps early next month, the painstakingly detailed Hasbro toy vehicle will allow fans of all ages to recreate this scene in Return of the Jedi, right down to a series of hinged shutters perfect for Threepio to peek through.Dune Sea Songs of Salt and Moonlight" — From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (Mentioned only) Reclining on his throne aboard the Khetanna, Jabba the Hutt gripped his microphone and growled the final death sentence for Luke Skywalker and his friends hovering just above the Sarlacc pit. But moments later, the execution turned into an escape, leaving the mighty Jabba dead at Leia’s hand and his opulent sail barge imploding in the sands of the Dune Sea. Designers surmised that Jabba would need a kitchen to keep the serving trays of pesky astromech droids and the bellies of the barge guests full, so they created a galley kitchen, complete with fresh-caught meats. Transporting prisoners required a jail, including one forgotten Ithorian, now little more than a pile of bones in a cell, and an armory. Anyway, regarding this set, I mostly agree with the review. This is definitely a great re-imagining of the old Sail Barge, and as an owner of the old one I can definitely say this one surpasses it in a lot of key ways. I even somewhat like the plastic sails, which in these photos at least feel vibrant and "LEGO-ish" compared to fabric sails.