Do you have a couple hundred dollars extra that’s been burning a hole through your pocket? Have you been diligently saving your pennies (and twenty dollar bills) for months, waiting for the day that you’d finally be able to purchase the spectacular LEGO Star Wars Ewok Village 12036 and/or LEGO Sydney Opera House 10234? Well, if you answered affirmatively to those questions, today is your lucky day! Though the official release date won’t be until September 1 2013, both the LEGO Ewok Village and LEGO Sydney Opera House are now available for order!

I suspected that LEGO would do an early release of the highly-anticipated LEGO Ewok Village 10236 and LEGO 10234 Sydney Opera House after they did a similar early release in June for the enormous LEGO Tower of Orthanc set, so I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that both the Sydney Opera House and Ewok Village sets were now available early for VIP Members. Both sets are pricy to be sure, but that’s to be expected considering that the Ewok Village is nearly 2,000 pieces and the Sydney Opera House is nearly 3,000 pieces.

I’m a little bit torn on the LEGO 10236 Ewok Village. I was planning on buying it as a birthday present to myself next month (my birthday is September 4th–don’t send cards, just money, please), but now that I have the opportunity to buy it an extra two weeks early, well… let’s just say that it’s taking me an awful lot of willpower not to just get into my car and drive to my closest local LEGO Store, then spend the entire weekend building a whole “Yub Nub” Ewok Village out of bricks.

Meanwhile, as much as I love the majesty of the amazing LEGO Creator Sydney Opera House set, its $300+ price-point is keeping me at bay for the moment. Oh, I’ll own this set–yes, I will–but it’s going to take me a little while to work it into my budget, early release or no.

Both the LEGO Creator Sydney Opera House and the LEGO Star Wars Ewok Village 10236 are LEGO Store exclusives, meaning that you can only purchase them official LEGO Stores and not standard retailers like Target or Toys R Us. If you don’t have LEGO Stores locally, you can still order either set (with free shipping!) from the online LEGO Shop at Home site right now.

Are you excited for these two gigantic new sets to be released, LEGO fans? Will you be picking up one (or both) of them yourself?