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LEGO Black Friday 2024 Livestream Details

November 6, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Tomorrow, LEGO will be holding their Black Friday 2024 livestream in which they will be revealing this year’s exclusive set and gift with purchase and we have some additional details for the event.

For the German stream, there will be a walkthrough of the set, early access to the LEGO Insiders reward, a sweepstakes to win a signed copy of the set or one of 20 x €100 LEGO® e-Gift cards. North America will have a similar stream with the same items but with different hosts.

We can give a guess that the exclusive set will be the LEGO Icons The Endurance (10335) and the corresponding GWP is rumored to be Shackleton’s Lifeboat (40729).

German Live Stream (in German)

Date & Time: November 7th at 20:15 CET/11:15am PT

Location: Munich centrum LEGO store

Link to livestream: Livestreams zur LEGO® Set-Vorstellung

Theme: Join us LIVE for a chance to win the Black Friday exclusive set, one of 20 x €100 LEGO eGift cards, and redeem an exclusive LEGO® Insiders reward

• LIVE LEGO® designer Q&A (submit questions in the chat) and walk through our BF Exclusive LEGO set
• Early access to the LEGO® Insiders reward
• LEGO® Insiders sweepstake – A signed set or one of 20 x €100 LEGO® e-Gift Cards
• Hosts: Project Explore designer Hans-Burkhard-Schlömer, Influencer Ross Antony, Munich store manager Sebastian Oelschlegel

US + Canada Livestreams (in English)

Date & Time: November 7th at 6:00pm EST

Location: Munich centrum LEGO store

Link to livestream: LEGO® Set Reveal Livestreams (US) and LEGO® Set

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LEGO Retiring Soon List Updated for US – November 2024

November 5, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

LEGO has finally updated their Retiring Soon list on the LEGO Shop for the US and here’s are what sets will be going away soon. Of course this isn’t the comprehensive list as LEGO doesn’t list everything that is retiring but it gives you an idea of what to expect. As of this post, there are 73 items listed as retiring, presumably by the end of the year. Note that some of the sets are older sets, quite a few of them are also from this year.

Update: LEGO has added more items to the list which brings the count to over 100 items.

LEGO Inside Tour 2025 Registration Now Live

October 28, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you ever wanted to attend one of LEGO’s most exclusive events, registration for the LEGO Inside Tour 2025 is now live. From now until the end of the month at 10:00 am CET, you can sign up for a chance to attend the event in Billund, Denmark. Participants are selected in a random drawing from the entries.

It costs 23000 DKK which is equivalent to about $3,335 per person not including travel costs. The tour will include three nights at the LEGOLAND hotel and includes all meals, drinks, and snacks.

The LEGO Inside Tour will take you inside the LEGO House for an exclusive look with a chance to chat with LEGO designers. The tour also takes you to the home of Ole Kirk Kristiansen as well as to the Billund factory. At the end of the tour, you will get the exclusive set for the year which if you sell it, could potentially pay for your trip.

Next year, there will be 10 tours so there’s there’s more spots that previous years.

• March 26-28
• April 7-9
• May 19-21
• June 2-4
• June 18-20
• September 8-10
• October 1-3
• October 29-31
• November 19-21
• December 10-12

Are the LEGO Tie-In GWPs Out of Control?

October 24, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Next week, LEGO will be releasing two new gift with purchase sets that ties in to some of their new releases but is LEGO going overboard with these types of promotions? The two in question are the Entrance Gate for The Botanical Garden (21353) and Cerebro for the X-Men: X-Mansion (76294) and including those, there have been I believe five sets are similar that have been released this year which includes the Mimic Dice Box, the Technic P1 Logo, and Fell Beast, Borgin and Burkes: Floo Network, Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber.

From a business perspective, it’s smart for LEGO to tie in certain GWPs with sets they go with since they know fans will buy them. From the buyer’s perspective, it hard to keep up with some of the releases if you’re into those fandoms and there’s a sense of FOMO since there’s only a limited time to get them. If we’re just looking at the six sets above, unless you’re using reward points for discounts, you’re looking at almost $2,800 pre-tax.

We already know that LEGO will most likely continue these types of promotions in the future so it’s inevitable. As more and more sets become more expensive, it’ll be harder to justify these purchases unless the promo sets are proportional to the main sets.

LEGO Bakery (40696) GWP Review

October 13, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Presumably the last LEGO shop set that will be released this year is the Bakery (40696). The set has 376 pieces and we’re assuming it’ll require a $200 purchase, similar to the previous shop sets.

The front of the Bakery has your typical boutique style design with the two windows on the sides of the door. Inside the windows, there are two giant cupcakes which is probably deceptive marketing.

The awning uses a combination of red and dark red slopes. The bakery sign uses a sticker and there’s a croissant logo above it.

On the second floor, there are some more smaller windows with some dark green awning above them.

On the back side of the bakery, it has an open concept as there is no back wall. This has stuck with all four of the shops that have released this year. The bottom floor has a showcase showing some of their offerings as well as a counter with more baked goods laying around.

The upper floor has some seating as well as an island of pastries in the middle.

Overall, the LEGO Bakery (40696) isn’t a bad model but the thing that holds it back is the $200 purchase price requirement to get it. Although the model is fairly detailed, I don’t think it is worth the $200 purchase but if you’re already collecting the line, you’ll most likely get the last one. LEGO likes to double up on promotions for these sets so it’s more incentive to make a larger purchase so it’ll probably … Continue

LEGO Announces Global Training Program for Vietnam Factory Employees

October 11, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Back in 2021, The LEGO Group announced that there will be a new $1 billion LEGO factory in the Binh Duong Province of Vietnam. Ahead of its opening next year, they have launched a global training program for employees. Here they will learn the necessary skills and knowledge about the various manufacturing equipment used in LEGO production. Test production is on track to start by the end of this year with the grand opening scheduled for the first half of 2025.

The LEGO Group launches global training programme in Vietnam ahead of 2025 grand opening

• Design and implementation of training programme supported by the company’s LEGO® factories worldwide.
• New training programme to equip hundreds of employees with best-in-class knowledge to operate high-tech equipment.
• Test production on track to start by end of 2024, grand opening on track for H1 2025.

BINH DUONG PROVINCE, VIETNAM, October 9, 2024: The LEGO Group is kicking off a comprehensive training programme for hundreds of its team members at its new LEGO factory in Binh Duong province in southern Vietnam. The programme is designed to equip employees with the skills and knowledge necessary to operate high-tech production equipment ahead of the factory’s grand opening in the first half of 2025.

The training programme will include both hands-on learning overseas at the company’s factories worldwide, as well as local-on-the-job training, creating an exchange between newly hired employees in Vietnam and international colleagues with deep subject matter expertise. Participants will be exposed to scenario-based knowledge and learn troubleshooting skills across

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LEGO Micro Ninjago City Sets Discounted in Rewards Center

October 10, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Earlier this year, LEGO released the Micro Ninjago City sets in the Insiders Rewards Center and it doesn’t look like they are selling well because they have all been discounted. Originally, each set required between 2,300-2,700 Insiders points but they all now require 1,800 points to redeem. Obviously it’s a bummer for those who spent an extra 500-900 points to get them when they first came out but who knew that LEGO would discount them later on.