LEGO has started to upload official images of a few of the 2016 LEGO City, Creator, and Technic sets to their servers. A few of the sets have also been listed on Shop@Home if you can find the link with them being scheduled for release on December 1. This is probably the first time I’ve heard of 2016 sets being released before Christmas so if the listings are indeed true, there are more options for your holiday shopping. Check out some of the official box images below.
City
Fire ATV (60105)
Fire Starter Set (60106)
Rally Car (60113)
Race Boat (60114)
4×4 Off Roader (60115)
Ambulance Plane (60116)
Garbage Truck (60118)
Prison Island Starter Set (60127)
Police Pursuit (60128)
LEGO Creator
Super Soarer (31042)
Chopper Transporter (31043)
Park Animals (31044)
Ocean Explorer (31045)
LEGO Technic
Display Team Jet (42044)
Hydroplane Racer (42045)
Getaway Racer (42046)
Police Interceptor (42047)
Race Kart (42048)
Mine Loader (42049)
Drag Racer (42050)
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LEGO releases a bunch of new sets before Christmas every year. Nothing new.
Where’s the Ninjago and stuff 🙂
& The Marvel Superheroes?!
AWESOME
It may be the first time they’ve been officially cleared for early release, and almost certainly the first time they’ll be sold through LEGO Brand Retail a month early, but 10-15 years ago it was very common to find the entire January wave of SW sets on store shelves by mid-December. One year I actually called Consumer Affairs to request a replacement for a mispacked part in the Technic R2-D2, and I was told it wasn’t out yet. If it was a mom and pop store, breaking street date like that could get them cut off, but Walmart and TRU are famous for thumbing their respective noses at the rules and daring anyone to decide not to sell to them. And of course, TRU has a history of buying early release privs so they get as much as a full month before even S@H can start selling.
However, they are now two years into a massive surge in demand that was sparked off by a certain movie about a certain blue spaceman and his pointy-eared buddy, and they’re heading into the most demanding part of the year. Production for old sets has been ramping down so they could fill channels with new sets pending the new year, and someone probably realized it doesn’t make sense to have flush shelves on New Year’s Day when they spent the back half of December picked clean because all remaining stock was locked in cages pending street dates.