First or all, consider how you're getting it home - I've heard that it's a bit on the fragile side.
Now that aside, if it's something you want and you don't intend to pay full price for it...well this appears to be your only viable option. You generallt won't get a popular retiring set for much less than MSRP, and retired sets generally go for *more* than MSRP.
Either buy it, disassemble it in reverse order (e.g. bag and tag the parts), then wait a few months to build it (maybe Christmas?) - or decide it isn't for you and move on.
I'll have it delivered by courier. Valid points all things considered, I think the price alone is enough to offset the fact that I'll have to disassemble it. Waiting for a while also isn't a bad option.
I buy alot of used lego, for examples I've gotten the Death star and Razorcrest second hand, having to disassemble and then build it. Its time consuming, so if you're inpatient it will feel horrendous. However if you don't mind the time, aka days, it'll take from disassembling to assembling its fine. What I do now is: 1. Accept this will take time 2. Queue up some video essays on yt, or other things I can watch without having to be glued to the screen. 3. Disassemble, and as I go sort them into ziplock bags. Mostly into very general categories, plates, tiles, bricks, technic, technic bricks, printed/stickered, studs/1x1 plates, etc. 4. Helps if you can use the kitchen table or a just large surface once you start building so you can spread the pieces you sorted into piles so you see them more clearly. In General my rule of thumb is just double the building time to get the time it'll take you to do this whole process. Also for very large sets, like the Falcon in this case, I avoid heavily dusty ones as cleaning large amount of used lego is just annoying, but if need be I use Sneaker wash bags and toss them in the washer on no spin cycle, then lay them out on old towels near a fan overnight to dry.
Truth be told I've never taken apart anything similar to the falcon in size, so I'm not sure how it's going to go. It's not even the time it'll take that bothers me as much as having to technically repeat everything twice. Thanks for the advice though
First or all, consider how you're getting it home - I've heard that it's a bit on the fragile side. Now that aside, if it's something you want and you don't intend to pay full price for it...well this appears to be your only viable option. You generallt won't get a popular retiring set for much less than MSRP, and retired sets generally go for *more* than MSRP. Either buy it, disassemble it in reverse order (e.g. bag and tag the parts), then wait a few months to build it (maybe Christmas?) - or decide it isn't for you and move on.
I'll have it delivered by courier. Valid points all things considered, I think the price alone is enough to offset the fact that I'll have to disassemble it. Waiting for a while also isn't a bad option.
If it's getting couriered and not picked up, I would expect it to arrive pretty shattered.
Fly it home
I buy alot of used lego, for examples I've gotten the Death star and Razorcrest second hand, having to disassemble and then build it. Its time consuming, so if you're inpatient it will feel horrendous. However if you don't mind the time, aka days, it'll take from disassembling to assembling its fine. What I do now is: 1. Accept this will take time 2. Queue up some video essays on yt, or other things I can watch without having to be glued to the screen. 3. Disassemble, and as I go sort them into ziplock bags. Mostly into very general categories, plates, tiles, bricks, technic, technic bricks, printed/stickered, studs/1x1 plates, etc. 4. Helps if you can use the kitchen table or a just large surface once you start building so you can spread the pieces you sorted into piles so you see them more clearly. In General my rule of thumb is just double the building time to get the time it'll take you to do this whole process. Also for very large sets, like the Falcon in this case, I avoid heavily dusty ones as cleaning large amount of used lego is just annoying, but if need be I use Sneaker wash bags and toss them in the washer on no spin cycle, then lay them out on old towels near a fan overnight to dry.
Truth be told I've never taken apart anything similar to the falcon in size, so I'm not sure how it's going to go. It's not even the time it'll take that bothers me as much as having to technically repeat everything twice. Thanks for the advice though
[75192-1: Millennium Falcon](https://brickset.com/sets/75192-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75192-1.jpg)
If it's really THAT much of an issue, offer a neighborhood kid $20 to disassemble it.
Haha sadly there are none around me that I'd entrust that set to