It hasn’t been a week yet into 2015 but there’s already bad news. Remember all those promos that LEGO was having with the LEGO Creator Flower Cart (40140), LEGO Star Wars AT-DP (30274), and the LEGO Friends Mini Golf Set (30203)? I’m sad to say that the first two has pretty much been completely sold out. You heard that right. In fact from what I heard, the AT-DP was sold out probably on the second or third day, even at my local LEGO Store. Below is what a rep from LEGO emailed to one of our readers:
Thanks for getting in touch with us.
I’m so sorry the LEGO® 30274 Star Wars AT-DP is in fact sold out completely. We received such a high amount of orders we quickly sold out of it.
There is a way you might still be able to get the promotional set though! I see based on your address you do have a local LEGO® Brand Retail store close by. I will provide the address and phone number to you so you might be able to give them a call and see if they have one in stock.
So that brings us to the question of did LEGO underestimate the amount of orders they are going to get? To take it a step further, was it a mistake of making the AT-DP available free for any LEGO Star Wars purchase? With that stipulation, any Star Wars purchase would have qualified you to get the polybag including keychains which was a cheap way to get it. Would have it been better if it was available for purchases for $75 or $99 for that matter? Since many people were ordering the new UCS Slave I (75060, it would have probably reduced the number AT-DP polybags that were going out with smaller orders that didn’t reach the purchase threshold and the amount available possibly could have been better rationed out.
As of this writing, the Friends Mini Golf polybag is still available. If you’re desperate to get either the Flower Cart and AT-DP polybags, there’s still BrickLink or eBay out there but beware that they will probably be at pretty expensive prices and wouldn’t be worth it by then. Were you guys able to pick up at least one of the three polybags before they were sold out?
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my local store said they have never sold so many keychains. So I think it would have made a huge difference. They still had the slave in stock if I recall correctly, but they were out of microfighters and keychains and friends keychains. my contact said she had never sold so many friends keychains at all since they came out, but even what they sold together friends and star wars was nuts. they still had the flower cart so I was able to get that and a couple city cets and other stuff, but they didnt have a lot of the new sets in yet since the holidays they had not received a shipment. she also said that they didnt get as many promo cases as they normally do. so they were limited from the beginning
No, when i tried to purchase something for more than 75 there were no more polybags. I didn’t complete the order because i really wanted that FREE polybag. And i don’t live anywhere near a LEGO store.
Got the golf set with Vet ambulance (& the Double Decker Couch)– would have bought a Snowspeeder and the Jasmine set to get to $75 but decided to postpone the princess set & get the ‘speeder at Target.
Not sure this promotion helped TLG over-all… certainly got me wondering if this (and the new round of store-exclusive bags isn’t the beginning of what hurt the comic-book publishers back in the mid-90s after all their limited editions and varient covers flooded the market.
Went to the local lego store on the 15th and was still able to get the flower cart. The flower cart polybag came in a box, which was on the ground behind the register and that box was full.
I also got hooked up with the AT-DP, even though I didn’t buy any Star Wars. (I’m a regular there and I was super happy when I got it.) The employee told me they had ran out, but she knew where the hiding spot was at.
As for the friends golf polybag, I didn’t get it even though I bought the pet ambulance. I think the cashier at the time forgot; this cashier tends to forget a lot.
In regards to the comic book and lego flooding the market. Several different things about lego and comic book is that legos will last a lifetime. These are plastic bits that you can pass on for generations and continue to build and break and build new stuff. I think the prices will go down since people do flood the market with it. But seriously, who collects baseball cards or comic books anymore?
Another way to think about it, if there is a 16yo who wanted the Maserk Train or Green Grocer and couldn’t afford it at that age. By the time they are 20 or have the money, lego will no longer sell it, however you can still get them online. So they might pay double the price, but now they got it.
I know I wanted sets from the 90’s when I was a kid and my parents couldn’t afford it. Now as an adult, I can buy them online as long as they are not super over priced.