Are the Biggest LEGO Sets Fun to Build?

A while back LEGO announced the humongous Millennium Falcon set that clocks in at a whopping 7,500+ pieces. People have spent days, even weeks, building this set. This is LEGO’s largest set every produced, but LEGO has a long line of big sets with enough pieces to drown a small cat.

The LEGO Taj Mahal comes in at nearly 6,000 pieces and retails for $370.

The LEGO Death Star has over 4,000 pieces and retails for $500. (You definitely pay a premium for that Star Wars licensing!)

So LEGO has many sets with well over 2,000 pieces. The market for these sets is likely AFOLs (Adult Fans of LEGO) since few children have the disposable income, or the attention span, which these enormous sets demand. This raises the question of whether these sets are intended to be fun to put together, or if they’re more of an expensive trophy for hours of hard work putting them together. While many, such as the Minecraft Mountain Cave are highly playable, the sheer size makes them impractical for much more than display.

And again, you could spend hours, days or even weeks just putting the things together! One YouTuber asks “When does building a LEGO set become tedious?”

It must take a special kind of LEGO fan to toil through the tedium of snapping thousands of little pieces to each other for hours on end. In the end, are these sets worth it? Would fans be better off with the smaller, more reasonably priced and easily built sets? Or does size really matter?

Let us know in the comments what you think about these giant LEGO sets!