Once again I considered the long drive and how early I'd need to embark. Nearly three hours after I left my house, I had returned, disappointed, but pondering whether to venture back out the following day per the store manager's suggestion that additional stock might arrive overnight.
Also, from what I've since heard, there were other LEGO stores that received the identical allocation of "a few." The largest numbers I've heard of so far were in the mid-teens. However, in the parking lot right outside was a Maserati, a Bentley, and more Teslas, Benzes & Bimmers than I cared to count. You might think I have a run-down, forsaken LEGO brand store in a particularly poor retail location. Also known as "a few." That is the total number of sellable copies of the single largest & most-anticipated toy that were available at this brand storefront of the largest toy brand in the entire world. To reinforce the arithmetic, I've just accounted for a total of three UCS Millennium Falcons leaving this site. Before it, I would soon learn, had departed only two others. I encountered exceptionally bad traffic on my way to my nearest LEGO Store this morning, arriving 1.5 hours after I departed, just in time to see one of the $800 sets rolling out to the parking lot with its new owner (who had staked out the store since a little after 5am). major release day) and ludicrous shortages at brick & mortar locations. It was also another frustrating day for countless fans who experienced outages & errors on Shop at Home (as on every. If you haven't heard by now, today was the launch of the biggest & biggest-deal LEGO set of all time, the second UCS Millennium Falcon.