I remember this set, I recommend it for older people/kids that are Lego collectors, not young kids. It is very big and it comes with 6 minifigs. First we have B'Omarr Monks who looks good except it should of came with 2 of them, one should look like this. Then we have Jabba The Hutt who is very detailed, he big and is easy to put together. Then we have a 2 droids, Gonk and EV-9D9, I agree with anyone who thinks that his head piece should of been different rather than an upside minifig head. I dont have much to say about Gonk. Luke Skywalker has a black cloak and hood and does not come with hair, then we have Princess Leia in a Slave Bikini who I have not really anything to say about.

Pros:

-B'Omarr

-Gonk

-Leia

-Jabba

Cons:

-No Rancor?

-EV-9D9 should have a better head piece.

Overall, for younger kids, you might need someone older the put it together so that you can play with it. For older kids/people, you can put it on display.

Jabba's palace is a fun set to build and has some very rare figures, now onto the pros and cons

Pros:

• Jabba
• luke
• leia
• b'omar monk gonk and ev 9d9
• Fun to build
• the trapdoor mechanism
• the colourful parts and the stairs

Cons:

• No rancor
• lack of dsign in the "torture room"
• needs jabbas message and prize to complete it

Overall a fun little set, highly recomedded but dont pay ofver 60£ for it

Jabba's Palace is what I would describe as more of a playset rather than a model. Of course, you say, Lego is a toy with a core demographic of people below the age of 14.
However, Lego does have an army of adult fans such as myself, who just can't resist the little bricks, and I did cartwheels when Lego bought licensing from Lucasfilm LTD and started to make Star Wars sets. I buy them, build them and put them on display, regarding them more as model kits, even though they are toys.
So Jabba's Palace makes a nice static model, even though it has a fair amount of playability.
Construction is straightforward and poses very few, if any problems. The kit is mostly based on Jabba's main audience chamber, despite the name, and features Jabba's sliding throne, complete with frogs in sauce and a hubub, a dance floor and the trap door which falls away quit nicely when you slide back Jabba's throne. To complete the picture a little more, the set contains a little 'workshop' for EV-9D9 to work, prepping Gonk droids and R2 units for toil wherever needed most. The workshop is nothing more than a control panel brick in the basement section of the model, but without it EV-9 would be surplus to the set, not having anywhere to reside. But I'd rather have her, than not, so that control panel is most welcome.
For a playset the construction is a little flimsy, being a two level affair held up by struts and plinths forming a box structure. As a static model it's rigid enough. It's quite hollow, allowing little fingers to pull Luke out from the basement (Rancor pit) after falling through the trap door.
For finishing touches, the set has some nice flame elements all round, two flights of stairs, to give an authentic feel, and the front section of the model opens up revealing the basment level and allowing better access to it.
A fairly good selection of mini figures are included here, including the aforementioned EV-9, Luke Skywalker and Gonk Droid.
It is worth noting that Luke is supplied without gloved hands as per the movie, and also has a cape. A hood would have been nice too, just to complete the look.
B'omarr Monk spider droid is included here, complete with brain in jar, and is quite a nice construction - technically not a mini figure.
The two best pieces are saved till last. First up is Leia in slave outfit. A somewhat daring piece for Lego, with all that yellow flesh on show. She even has a chain around her neck to stop her running too far from Jabba's side. Which leads me on to Jabba himself. An excellent, faithful mold, requiring the construction of his tail and nothing more.
A Jabba scene in Lego was a long time coming and is now available. At the time of production, this set had a fairly reasonable price tag. Expect a new in box set to fetch double it's original price today.
I give this set a 5/5 brick rating for the new and rare mini figures it provides and for Lego's first attempt at a Jabba scene, even if it isn't as faithful as some might hope for. But don't forget, it's a playset first and foremost, not a serious model.

I think lego actually did an okay job on this set. Although Jaba's pallace may be a lot smaller than it was in the movie, I think that it would have been hard to replicate the actual size of it without making the set cost about 3 times as much.
I think that the main flaw would probably be the lack of minifugures, although you can get those fairly easily if you just buy the other two sets that are designed to go with it for an extra eight pounds.

My favorite part of this set is probably the B'omar Monk Droid. (is that right) I liked this droid particularly, not only because it provided me with my first katanas,but because it is pretty well designed, and looks as though it is one of the weird droids that seems to lurk deep within the corners of Jabba's palace.

Now that I think of it, probably the biggest flaw for this set is that when Luke falls through the trap door, there'll be no rancor to attempt to devour him.

I received this set as a kid and had a blast with it. I think this set is kind of unique in that it was really one of the first (If not the biggest at the time) sets that was not a ship, it was a scene. Cloud city came out that same year, so along the same lines, not a ship and it was large(r).

Pros:
Original Jabba
Unique robots
One of the first large "scene" sets

Cons:
As a kid I had a little difficulty in getting the set to stay together as i was building it
not very movie accurate

It did have two seperate sets that hooked onto the side which added Bib Fortuna, Boba, Guard, 3PO & R2. The new set pretty much took all three sets and combined them and improved them. Either way it is a great set to have in any serious collection. Fun to play with and equally cool decorating a shelf.