Exclusive SW Lego sets

To continue my theme of small SW Lego sets, I'm now on to my exclusives.  Almost all of my versions are rebuilds from parts, with the only one that is "genuine" being the 2019 Tantive IV store build.  I went to the London Lego store for the Luke build in 2019 but they were doing a ticket system and mine was #52.  I hung around for as long as I could but they'd only got to about #20 and I had a team event at work that I needed to go to.  So that one was a painful rebuild too.

Here's my list of what I consider to be exclusive mini-build sets (there are some larger ones such as the Yodachron, LLCA53 and SWMP which I've covered elsewhere, and I've not included the minifig only exclusives).  Basically, these are the sets which don't have standard Lego set numbers.

  • TANTIVEIV - 2019 in-store build
  • XWING - 2019 Australian "make and take" build at the Westfield Chatswood shopping center near Sydney
  • LUKE19 - 2019 in-store build
  • MAY2013 - 2013 in-store build of the Holocron droid (Holochron?)
  • TF05 - 2005 Toy Fair VIP Gala set - re-release of 7251 (therefore not rebuilt)
  • 5002939: Mini Phantom.  Given away with purchases of Star Wars products at LEGOLAND Florida, February 2015.
  • 5005376: Darth Vader pod. 2018 promotional give away (surprised this one doesn't have a normal set number)
  • 5005747: Black card display stand.  Pretty much the only benefit of getting a black Lego VIP card.  I had to write in to Lego to get my version.
  • 6176782: Escape the space slug.  VIP competition event giveaway from 2016
  • Legoland park brick-built minifig exclusives from 2018: 6252770 (Leia), 6252808 (Chewy), 6252810 (Han), 6252811 (Obi-Wan) and 6252812 (Luke)
  • CELEB2015: Tatooine minibuild.  Available to buy for $40 from a 2015 SW event. Just 1000 released!
  • CELB2015MF: Falcon on a stand.  Very unexciting.  My version doesn't have the printed sticker. Also released as set 55555.
  • CELEB2017: Detention block rescue.  Similar story but only 500 released
  • CELEBVI: Slave I.  Exclusive at Star Wars Celebration VI held August 23-26, 2012
  • Comic Convention sets (excluding the duplicates and collectable display sets): 
    • 010: Drop ship and AT-TE (2009)
    • 011: Printed tiles (I don't have this one!)
    • 019: Sith infiltrator (2012)
    • 024: Luke landspeeder (2012)
    • 032: Jek-14 stealth infiltrator (2013)
    • 039: the Ghost (2014)
    • SDCC2015: Dagobah minibuild (2015)
  • Porg... speaks for itself.  From 2018.  I remember not managing to find any instructions for this one and having to reverse engineer it

 












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