LEGO Star Wars UCS Sail Barge brutal thoughts: It's good, not perfect, price is PREPOSTEROUS | 75397 

Thank god someone who has to actually pay for the sets is calling out the absurd price and p2p ratio

"Somone who also has to pay his way through life, who doesn't get the Lego sets for free, and has to pay a mortgage and other adult kind of things." This is why we support you Jang 🙌

I know this didn't happen, but I like to think the reason this video took so long to arrive was because Jang was looking at the price with an open mouth this whole time

At $400 and with 3PO’s silver leg and an accurate Bib Fortuna I would’ve been perfectly satisfied. $500 is definitely too much.

Video is "late" because I was on forced break due to a huge charity fundraising milestone surpassed last month; promise made, promise delivered. Now I'm back to work 7 days/week for you all!

At that price I would have expected the skiff and it's figures to be included.

Big fan of Jang’s extensive knowledge on three incredibly random alien characters who never have any lines and are only in the opening act of one movie. That’s what being a Star Wars fan is all about.

To add to that one comment; also the fact that Barad Dur is $40 cheaper and includes 1,500 more pieces, 1 less “big fig” if you want to call Jabba that, and looks to be an infinitely better display product/build experience, really hammers home how overpriced this is if the three prior examples didn’t already. I love star wars, but I’m absolutely saving to buy Rivendell instead of this.

Jang I love your real opinions. You are not sponsored by Lego and I appreciate your videos 100% more than all the Lego 'ambassadors' out there, who gush over sets shamefully despite the outrageous pricing and nonsense Lego tries to push on fans. Thanks for the video and please continue to do you, it is appreciated by us the real people, that don't have a lot of expendable income.

Completely ridiculous price. I feel like Lego is trying to see how overpriced they can make a set and what sort of excuses people will use to defend them. I wouldn't even say the minifigures are that good, just average.

I absolutely agree with you. $350 would be an adequate price. $500 is crazy.

12:42 Jang doing his best Todd Howard impression.

Jang is so real. Love that he can always have a level headed take when it comes to Lego. His rant at the end actually sold me on getting the rivendell set, the passion for Lego is infectious!!

Finally something other than a bunch of Lego Star Wars Grey… Lego Star Wars Brown!

Unpopular opinion maybe, but I think this whole "Adults Welcome" black box era of Lego is almost working against the consumer at this point because were getting desired properties and things we've always wanted from Lego finally but now ALL of them are at this single set "display piece worthy" quality and specifically the biggest things they could possibly make from that property, so the price reflects it and now all of these desired properties are shoved over into the incredibly expensive array of giant sets the average person can't reasonably buy more than 1 of or fit more than 1 or 2 anywhere. Lord of the Rings for example went from an affordable theme with loads of sets to now a single gigantic $500 set, it's ridiculous and stupid.

I…I don’t know, my gut instinct here is that this is $200 overpriced. I saw it and I thought “Without the skiff and pit, that’s a decent $300 set”. But to have so few minifigs, using the not best C-3PO, locking scene-appropriate figures behind an extra $80 set, I honestly hope this set tanks and Lego is sent a message. My favorite thing about this set is the “free” gift that I’ll never be able to get my hands on anyway.

I'd love to hear more about Jang's views on the pupils of figures like Salacious Crumb, Darth Maul and Gollum. I think a big reason why people are disliking them is because they seem to go against Lego's design rules for other figures. Like most figures just have black with the white highlight. That represents the pupil and the light reflecting. But then these characters are given their eye colour. They don't do that for most figures. Darth Maul is given yellow eyes with white on them. But he doesn't have yellow pupils. He has yellow irises. Gollum has green irises not green pupils. Luke Skywalker has blue eyes and Princess Leia has brown eyes but both their figures have black eyes.

You could bricklink this entire thing for significantly less, using used parts, and save even more by getting yellowed stuff, since a SAND BARGE would actually look significantly more realistic like that lol

I think another issue with the minifigs that is so evident in the marketing, is that the whole scene becomes quite tragic without Luke coming to the rescue. It feels like a darker timeline where Leia and the droids were stuck with Jabba forever!

I definitely respect the fact that you won’t be picking this one up even as a major fan. Honestly, the price is absurdly difficult to justify.

No matter how advanced other reviewers post their views, I will always watch and like your videos, keep up the good work 😊

You're one of my favorite lego reviewrs. You keep it real and dont fawn all over the product like some reviews do. Also for most people halfway to $1000 is not an easy spend when we have bills and living expenses. Of course getting free product makes them lose sight of that issue. Thanks for an honest review. ❤

This is why Jang is the only reviewer I trust. Someone who has to buy the stuff, and gives his honest thoughts. Great video!

Needed to hear this! Love the source material so much but have been having so many doubts about the value of this set, thanks Jang 🙏

This review is the precise reason I come to Jang’s channel. We truly appreciate your honesty man.

Lay it out there Jang, great job. Much love and support, glad you’re in it for the HOBBY

I'm never too fussed about accuracy since I'm used to Marvel using concept designs, but when it comes to how pricey this set is, the lacking aspects for minifigures stick out really bad. It's silly and odd prioritizing giving Leia dual molded legs over C3PO (who has had a far more detailed version), there's frankly no win in that choice considering this product is aimed towards older audiences anyway like you said. IMO the appeal of the sail barge is its variety of characters present in the scene, and unfortunately this set does not do it properly.

Agreed, the value of this set is absolutely atrocious next to those three sets you mentioned; granted they're all incredibly expensive but those three gave you so much more despite costing the same. Heck right at this moment, the UCS Razor Crest is heavily discounted from a retailer called John Lewis in the UK and is a bit cheaper than this Barge at £390; granted nowhere near as many figures but it's a much more substantial build! Or even worse, when looking outside of licensed sets, 71741 NINJAGO City Gardens is a massive $150 cheaper, has 1,700 more pieces (mostly tiny but some large) and DOUBLE the number of figures over the Barge!

I have the first sail Barge that was released, I highly modified it and added much needed minifigures that wasn’t included, saved me £500

Best Lego content on RU-vid. He has basic consumer access to the sets and that makes everything so much more legit. Anyone that has free sets given ahead of the public is automatically suspect to me, no matter their opinion and proclamation of honesty.

Given there will probably be fewer people buying this than other UCS sets, it could go the path of the razor crest and be marked down 30% in a few years. When that happens I will buy it.

This set should have been $350-$400 at most! $500 is insanity!!

thank you Jang for standing up to the lego group

$500, no Luke is absolutely diabolical behavior- I agree

This set was missing too many figures, not just the obvious ones like Boba Fett, Luke and the rest of the gang. We could of got so many exclusive characters such as Tanus Spijek, J'Quille, Shasa Tiel, Geezum, Saelt-Marae. Still not sure if I will purchase it or not.

Jang I love you, thank you for calling out this price!

Jang: I love your reviews. I appreciate that you actually buy all the sets that you review as opposed to being sent them. I watched your reviews of the old Sail Barge & Skiff sets from 2013 - I bought them both. I then added the characters, weequay, Han & Cheebacca from the 2016/17 skiff and it looks so much better. I intend to buy a couple of the minifigs from the UCS set to add to my 2013 Sail Barge. I can have all of that for under £300 and in my opinion, the 2013 sets are still better looking and more fun.

Jang. The interior of the barge itself was really dark, especially after Leia shorted out all the windows. As for the price? Holy Moley! They should’ve included the Skiff set for 500 bucks. It’s insane that they want $600 for the total set.. Edit: on a sidenote, one of the early reviewers actually said I wouldn’t buy this on day one unless you can get the light saber and resell it. I was like wait a minute, you’re saying to justify the price of this LEGO set I need to buy and scalp another LEGO set?

Unfortunately the prices are only gonna get worse because people are still going to buy it.

This set should have included 2 skiff speeders and the sarlacc pit that is the only way i could justify this costing $500 dollars

I feel like lego is just testing the willingness of star wars fans. I bet the next UCS set they will make will be another 50 dollars above the price, and they will keep going higher and higher until the fans finally notice it in a few years. When they do, they will mercifully take the price down to only 250% from the 300%, and it will start selling more than ever before. Or maybe they are just taking into account that the investors will do the math of "I buy this for 500, sell the thing for 200, so i have the barge for 300" inside their head, and price it with the GWP in mind.

Loved the reasonable roasting from the first to the last second.

If Jang, who usually tries to be as fair and nice as one could be, tells you its overpriced....IT IS overpriced. Really sad, because the Model looks cool :(

So, are they going to call her "Boba Fett's starship" Leia now?

I broke my addiction to UCS sets a few years ago. My last UCS was the 2nd UCS Star Destroyer. That was the final one. The price has become too ridiculous. I like the all of them a lot, but that price.... Just too much. But I'm probably not the target audience for this type of product anymore. And that's okay.

Regarding the price: “I don’t care what galaxy you’re from….that’s gotta hurt”

I’ve been watching you for well over 12 years now. Jang, you are my favourite RU-vidr; I cannot emphasize enough how much I respect your honesty and integrity. This set is my greatest disappointment, as a Lego fan who wanted the 2006 one more than any other set. What could’ve been a home run like the UCS Slave 1 is instead an insult to every hardworking middle-class person who’s spent their lifetime supporting Lego. I thought I would get a UCS Sail Barge day 1, no matter what, more eagerly than any other new UCS except for maybe a hypothetical Jango Fett’s Slave 1. But I will not reward such corrupt pricing practices. Would even prefer to find a pre-owned 6210 eventually. Thank you again, Jang, for being the greatest Lego RU-vidr of our lifetimes

The figures beside Leia seem like an afterthought. They focused only on the set itself, then realised when they were done that they still had to include figures, so designed the most basic minifigures and threw in Bib Fortuna from the BoBF throne room set because they ran out of time. They could've done so much more, and tried to at least make the price tag reasonable. However, Lego has lately been upping prices to a ridiculous degree, with no justification behind it. They need to be transparent about these decisions

Man why is this not $399? This screams "I'm exactly $400 in value" that licensing fee is getting too high man. Disney is going to be the death of the UCS line...

Jang I just want to say that I have always appreciated how raw and unfiltered you are in situations such as this. I value your opinions so highly. Never stop being you

Excellent, thanks Jang!

LEGO are high. They have lost touch with reality. It’s not the actual dollar amount, it’s the value that dollar gets you. Would love to see a ‘rotten tomatoes’ guide for LEGO sets based on pure value

11:18 MY FAV JANG NOISE

The gift with purchase lightsaber is so frustrating to me. If those lightsaber sets were widely available, I'd buy every single one, day one, and probably be willing to pay more than $22 (because I'm a little delusional). I bought all the helmets, I'd love to have all the lightsabers to go with them. It's infuriating to have desirable, reasonably priced, adult-oriented products locked behind $500 gates and only available for 1-2 hours before being gone forever. Also goes for the Fell Beast that released with Barad-dûr.

As someone who has been struggling to decide whether to get the Sail Barge, Avengers Tower, or Rivendell… and has been leaning Sail Barge. You definitely changed my mind quite a bit. I love this set… I think it’s *cooler* to me than Rivendell and the AT, (just more of a Star Wars fan) but the price is just ludicrous.

Thanks Jang. I’m getting a bit frustrated with the price defenders. I wish there was a way to get Lego to make some high quality sets at better prices. Feels rare for themes I enjoy

For $500 you can get your hands on Max Rebo, plus a free sail barge on the side!

Rivendell's roof 1x1 tiles are cancelled out by the dumb black minifigure display in the sail barge.

Thanks for the great video Jang! This is definitely one of the sets where I’ve been a bit on the fence, not about purchasing (this subject matter would never tempt my wallet at this price) but as an observer who loves Lego and Lego Star Wars. Your video firmly swayed me to agreeing with your opinion on this set. Major props on showing the comment from the blog site with the price comparisons and testing down any argument made to justify the price here. I hope this set doesn’t succeed for Lego and that fans vote with their wallets. If the set was $350-400, I think it gets a pass. Part count and figure count for that size of vehicle would seem appropriate, especially for a subject matter that will draw less attention than a Venator or Slave 1. If they have their $500 price point set ahead of time, fine, but make it bigger with more parts so there is more space for more figures. If you can’t do that as it will screw up the scale, fine, include the Skiff and essential characters from 75396 with this and sell a separate version with some of the same characters and some different. The scene does have TWO Skiffs. For collectors that would allow for the optimum display/collection/etc. , while also still allowing for fans who do not/can not spend $500 on a Sail Barge set to recreate the sarlaac pit scene from ROTJ.

Thanks for your work, Jang! Jedi was my first Star Wars movie in a theater and, for a long time, it was my favorite. Therefore, I really wanted to forgive this set's price and add it to my collection. Your honest review (and your reference to being about my age so I know we're coming at this from a similar angle) helped me overcome my nostalgia and realize that I should find a better use of my LEGO dollars. Thanks again!

Jang is the only “real” Lego RU-vidr I know of. Every other Lego RU-vidr fakes the majority of their opinions so that Lego will keep sending them more free stuff.

I think the Lego bubble will soon burst. Lots of other companies make sets at least as good for less. Cobi, Gobricks, Bluebrixx, Cada, Funwhole, Pantasy. With the recent drop in quality that Lego had (incorrect colours, big sprue points) many of them have even better bricks than Lego. They often give you better designed sets at lesser price or at least just the smaller price, some even have cool extras (Funwhole always comes with an entire LED USB set, Cada put glue and cotton wool in a recent rocket set so you could basically create a mid-launch display setup) and often have prints instead of stickers. It makes Lego look like cheapshots and I‘ve also heard of Lego employees (second hand accounts) who were told to design a set for a specific price range only for the money makers to basically decide to sell the set for significantly more than originally intended without changes. It’s appalling. Especially since I think Lego in the past 5 years had so many fantastic sets that were jut way too overpriced. They probably lost 1000s of dollars on me for overpricing their sets - I would have bought this sail barge at 300 easily. I would have bought the cantina at 250, the Razor Quest UCS at 300, or the recent Lego Star Wars book at 40-50. (for 150 I get one of the massive Star Wars Archives books from Taschen). Alas, it’s not meant to be. Last I want to tell you how much I appreciate your reviews, often positively biased but not blind to Lego‘s faults, and I appreciate that you are drawing a line here.

Some AFoLs will 'punish' Lego for this obscene price by only buying three of them.

Another good comparison is to the Mos Eisley Cantina from a few years ago. It's a lot cheaper but only has 800 fewer parts (and still has some quite large plates, walls and domed roof pieces) but has 10 MORE minifigures. Now, some might say "but Jabba is big so he's more expensive". Yeah? Well the Cantina has a Dewback!

yup this video has cemented you as the most honest lego reviewer out there. So tired of "thanks lego for sending me this set!" at the start of these reviews, it instantly makes me question the bias aspect of not having to drop freaking 500 bucks for this thing.

300$, maybe 400 with the companion set (sarlacc Pitt and sciff) and maybe another skiff.

Solely going to focus on the price here - yes, that comment sums it up so perfectly. From Germany, and Lego has a rather bad reputation here these days. The pricing for many of the bigger sets just seems so random, as if they are throwing dice and checking if they can get away with it. Year after year, the sets contain less pieces and figures for ever-growing prices. My own salary certainly hasn't been going up that much, and I can in no way allow myself to buy these sets, even though I would love to have many of them. People might now suggest that one should just save up and get one of them eventually - but come on. If this is your hobby and passion, then obviously you would like to buy them a little more often. Unfortunately, the trend seems to be that Lego is becoming more and more of an item for rich collectors, not average consumers.

I’ve never seen Jang just straight up not buy a Star Wars set, especially one as hyped as this one. Mad respect Jang.

I'm just blown away with the price of Lego Star Wars nowadays. Like I saw at Walmart yesterday the new small mandalorian battle pack is $25 which for such a small set blows me away. Same with the sand skiff at $80! Crazy

Splitting off the Sarlac and the barges rather than bundling them into this under the same price point is genuinely diabolical.

So for $500: - missing Luke - missing Han - missing Chewbacca - missing Lando - missing Boba Fett - missing sarlacc pit - missing skiff - needlessly inaccurate Leia that looks like she's wearing shorts... censored for the "adults welcome" set... - an inferior C3PO than current cheaper sets - a piece count that doesn't justify the price - a $80 DLC set sold separately that has the other characters, which also has inaccurate characters - if you get the $80 set, you've now got two different looking stands...

I'm glad you had some time off, and I'm very glad you're back. This video is excellent. :)

I agree with you, $500 is outrageous, same price as the Rivendell set… Disney is greedy and they using Marvel and Star Wars to increase the price of their sets

To quote Dark Helmet, that price is LUDICROUS! The comparisons by Bricky Dee Williams that you shared, really puts things in perspective. I can't believe how bad a value it is compared to Rivendell and the Avengers Tower. I don't blame you at all for not buying it, JANG.

This pricing is absolutely disgusting. Lego needs to review their ptp ratio.

I can‘t explain how much i like this video ❤ thanks Jang 👍

You had me rolling all video long! Well done, Jang!

I just feel dissappointed and my wishful thinking is that LEGO somehow realizes that they have gone to far and apologize. This will never happen and I genuinely believe they are testing how far they can go and what the market will bear. I love the idea of buying a huge a UCS set as something special and "once in a lifetime" but this just doesn't feel right. Even if I was willing to pay 500€ for it, I don't want LEGO to go away with this. Maybe I'm a bit to invested in this but I'm honestly really sad about it. Thank you JANG for your opinion.

Respect for putting your foot down on the absurd pricing. I’m a collector and love GWP’s, but this is a hard pass for a day 1 purchase….

This price is perfectly reasonable...for me to quit Lego from here on. Not that I needed it. Stopped buying for a year now without regrets. This is the final nail in the coffin. I hope more will stop feeding the greedy cashgrab by a toy brand mainly profiting from nostalgia, recyclable artificial material with artificially induced scarcity. Sincere thanks to Lego, and best wishes to whoever is still feeding this beast.

I know you've often talked about how Lego sets the price of a set and then designs the set to match the price... this honestly feels like a case where the original design for this set at $500 *included* the Skiff set with all the other characters who are supposed to be in this scene lol. And then they were just like ... wait... let's parcel this out separately, too

I always try to do the parts and minifigures of sets and people are like 'That's because those sets came out in the past and INFLATION!!!!'. Those people are fools.

9:26 You made me crack! I was having an underwhelming day, and this made me laugh, genuinely!!

Jang is the best! Love how you said parents can address morality. Keep fighting the good fight!

Totally agree with everything you said here. That being said, you asked viewers about buying the Legend of Zelda Deku Tree, which is not AS overpriced but is certainly pricey, and I am curious if you'll build that. I mention that because I'd love to see you do a video about how you see that value compared to this and some other larger sets where the price seems to be heading in a troubling direction (the X-Jet, for example). I feel like a video expressly addressing Lego's value might get more traction/be more effective instead of the message being tucked into videos like this where hype over an individual set might overcome the larger message. Just a suggestion. For myself, I thought that was a fun, interesting build that somewhat justified the cost with a large number of new parts/molds, a TON of exclusive prints, no stickers, and lots of care into premium figures (all with dual molding on legs and arms). Yet the price still stung a little. Regardless, keep doing the great work, and I appreciate someone speaking up honestly.

But Jang, you don't understand; that Max Rebo figure alone will be worth a hundred and fifty bucks at the very least. /s

I had been waiting to make a big boy Lego purchase until the sail barge reveal. Now that purchase is Rivendell.

I love the galley kitchen and I like the top deck. I think they needed to go 1 stud taller, as you can’t see Jabba’s head unless looking, up at the model.

Hoooo boy Jang is going off

ship looks good but there are 2 MAJOR problems with this set: 1. value for your money. This set is hella overpriced. 350 would be reasonable, not good but worth a look. As it counts for every other product, if you buy a bigger thing from the same brand it should be a better deal than buying 10x a smaller thing. If you spend more youre exchange value should greatly increase but in this case you get a worse price per piece / price for weight / amount of detail, prints and minifigs than what you would have gotten if you bought a lot of smaller sw sets. Thats a no go. Make it 400 bucks and include a skiff and 3 more figs, people would be ok with it. But this is simply a ripoff. 2. the figures are really underwhelming. Nowadays the only thing that lego has compared to its competition that justifies them charging more money for their product than other companies is license and minifigure exclusivity. Therefore it is reasonable to analyse the figures more precisly than other parts of the set. And this is where this set fails. - Jabba looks basically the same as his former figs (printing is a tiny bit different, ok) - Pig guard, max reebo and R2 are what you expect, as good as the former versions (ok) - the 3 other henchmen are kinda exciting because they are "new" (kithaba not so much though) but all three lack even the detail that should be considered "normal" for new figures: leg printing on the front of the piece. they just look underdevelopped for a premium priced product / brand - C3P0, Leia, Salacious Crumb and Bib Fortuna are worse than other existing figures of that costume. C3P0 lacks the dual moalded, side printed legs, Leia lacks the more accurate skirt-underpants legs, Salacious Crumb lacks the pupils and Bib Fortuna is the worst by having that wrongly reused headpiece that doesnt match the movie depiction. For all of these figures better versions exist (C3P0: land speeder/ big fig; Leia: last sailbarge; Salacious Crumb and Bib Fortuna: Jabbas palace. For these reasons in particular, ignoring other issues (f. ex. the sails that come dammaged because they arent protected properly in a hardcase or something and are therefore bend pre opening the box), this product feels like a scam.

It was super cathartic having Jang get properly annoyed about this. It’s preposterous

Love this video, keep up the good work Jang.

Thank you for telling it like it is. I'll be happy with my 2013 version and call it a day.

Like my UCS Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer, this too would eventually end up taken apart and sitting in a bin a year later because I would need the space it takes up. Like the two aforementioned sets, this too will end up being a regretted purchase once the reality sets in of how much I spent on it and the space it takes up.

JANGBRiCKS? Na, GOATBRiCKS! Never change Jang, never change!

The price would seem acceptable if it included everything from the recent very expensive Skiff set. The idea that the entire scene display costs almost $600 is just crazy.

Lego: “adults welcome” They should change that into “adults only”.

Thanks, Jang. I just made the decision to pass on this set as well, for many of the same reasons you laid out. It really hurts to do so, since I’m such a huge fan of Lego Star Wars. Let’s hope it doesn’t sell well and Lego learns something.

11:21 Word. No Luke... Leia in a kilt? No thanks.

Just a reminder you can get a old Jabba barge for HALF this price on BL. Also Compare this to cantina. Way more content for what you pay.