MSRP on the kit was $499.

I got my for around $425 with some kind of special discount deal at the time

I had always drooled over the idea of having something like the DIAgostini replica, or similar, but studio scale stuff was just way out of my price range

Then Bandai came along, and it coincided with a 25th year anniversary for my work, of which I had a choice of roughly $1500 in gift cards or ordering some nonsense stuff from a list of things they had. So obviously chose gift cards, which I essentially treated as found money and wound up buying some of my grail items which I figured I would never be able to afford otherwise

I got a 3-D printer (which was on sale), the Falcon, and the 1/72 Halcyon Aliens Dropship (got a good deal and wound up paying $100 shipped for that one) and still had a few hundred left over for more normal priced kits

Once in a lifetime splurge

As such, it took me such a long time to get up the nerve to build the Falcon as I  had to make sure to get it right as there was only one shot. i.e. can't just trash it and get a new one if I screwed it up 

Looking at https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B073ZRGX6T you can see the price history of it. Man, had not realized it dropped as low as $288! I missed that one for sure

Although I wonder if that was the Standard edition as that was often around $75 to $100 cheaper

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