Interesting Exercise
A friend passed along a link from Facebook for a heavily-discounted Lego Millenium Falcon , asking if it was one I already had, implying I may be interested. And at a glance, it is kind of appealing, even if I don't really need another model to put around somewhere. The pictures catch the eye, of course, and you see the Ultimate Collector Series Falcon, which is huge and sells for $800 give or take. Then you see it marked down to $49.95. Wow! I'm a pessimist, though, and that immediately starts triggering red flags for me under the "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true" warning. So I start looking a little closer and some things jump out. The box image doesn't have the Lego logo. in fact, the place where a logo would be is blacked out. The description actually doesn't say Lego anywhere. Hmm. This brought to mind the Chinese Lego bootleg/knockoffs known as Lepin, and a quick search turned up Falcon models from them for around...