Update for Nov. 29: The new Lego Star Wars AT-AT building kit has SOLD OUT! You can sign up for updates from Lego to find out when it will be available again. In the meantime, check out our other Cyber Monday Lego Star Wars deals. If you want more, though, here are the coolest sets currently on sale...
Lego launched its epic new Star Wars Ultimate Collector's Series AT-AT building kit on Black Friday, and those who picked it up on launch day scored a kit for Luke Skywalker's lightsaber for free.
While out of stock, the Lego Star Wars UCS AT-AT walker kit is listed at $799.99 at Lego.com and also is for sale in stores.
The lightsaber set is an exclusive building set that you won't be able to pick up in stores or online later. You can also find more options at our Lego Star Wars deals, Black Friday deals for space fans and Black Friday Lego deals pages.
- Shop for all the Lego Black Friday offers at LEGO.com official store
If you're a member of Lego's VIP Rewards, which is free to sign up, you'll rack up points with your purchase that you can redeem for coupons later. Lego is offering "one-day only doorbusters" at its VIP Rewards Center for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you sign up now, you can get a $5 coupon on Cyber Monday for just 455 points, down from its normal 650 points. If you spend over $200 on Cyber Monday, VIP members can score a free Lego fleece blanket. Lego is also running a 1 million-point sweepstakes that lets you log in daily to enter through Nov. 29.
First introduced in 1981 in "The Empire Strikes Back," the AT-AT, or All Terrain Armored Transport, was an essential ground assault platform for the Empire in the Battle of Hoth. Its armor plated exterior provided protection from Rebel Alliance Snowspeeder fire and it successfully penetrated the perimeter of Echo Base to deliver its payload of Imperial Snowtroopers. The only way to bring down the Imperial "Walkers" was to ensnare the legs with a tow cable as Wedge Antilles and Wes Janson demonstrated.
With 6,785 pieces, this is the second-largest "Star Wars" Ultimate Collector Series Lego set to date and measures 24.5in (62cm) high, 27in (69cm) in length and 9.5in (24cm) wide — it's more or less accurately to scale with the minifigures. It features sliding side doors that open to detailed interiors, a movable head, adjustable legs, movable guns, speeder bikes, and an E-Web heavy repeating blaster — also first seen in the Battle of Hoth in "The Empire Strikes Back," but made infamous in the Season 1 finale of "The Mandalorian."
To prevent the set from collapsing under it's own weight, the joints are constructed with a combination of Lego Technic turntable gears paired with worm gears and the set includes a special brick-built tool that's used to adjust the leg joints, one by one, for the perfect pose. It means the joints won't buckle, but it also means the legs can’t be positioned by hand. We haven't had a chance to see one in person yet, but we have no doubt this will be one of the best Lego Star Wars sets to date.
The set also includes nine minifigures: Luke Skywalker in a Snowspeeder flight suit, General Veers, two AT-AT drivers, a Snowtrooper Commander and four Snowtrooper minifigures. It's just under 800 pieces smaller than Lego's original large-scale "Star Wars" masterpiece: the UCS Millennium Falcon, but is quite a bit larger than the 4,784-piece UCS Star Destroyer that followed it. The Ultimate Collector Series also includes the A-wing set and the recently released Republic Gunship set.
When back in stock, the USC AT-AT set will be available from the Lego website.
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