The Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie comes out this December and one of the new main characters in the movie is Shadow the Hedgehog. LEGO has recently released a set featuring the antihero which contains 720 pieces and retailing for $69.99.
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We’re only a few days away from November which will be a big LEGO shopping month on the LEGO Shop with all the new releases and upcoming Black Friday promos. Here’s a quick guide on what will be available and we we can expect in a few weeks. As far as new LEGO sets, there’s only a couple but they are big hitters.
For the promotions we know about, the LEGO Ideas Books Are My Passion (40698) will be available starting on October 28 and will run until November 11, while supplies last. For the other big ones, the LEGO Marvel Cerebro (5009015) is available from November 1-7 with the purchase of the X-Mansion and the LEGO Botanical Entrance Gate (5009005) is only available from November 1-7 with the purchase of The Botanical Garden.
For Black Friday, there should be some promos towards the end of the month and Insiders should get early access a week before including some sort of gift with purchase set, sales, extra points on certain sets, etc. We’ll update as soon as LEGO releases the details.
Ideas
• The Botanical Garden (21353) – $329.99
Marvel
• X-Men: The X-Mansion (76294) – $329.99
Turing Machine – Working LEGO Computer by The Bananaman 201864801 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,900 piece build features a working Turing machine that you can use to make your own programs with LEGO.
The project joins Cliffside House, Gravity Falls – The Mystery Shack, Round House Ski Lodge, Italian Villa, Summit Station, Betta Splendens, The Moon: Lunar Landscape, Overpass Park, Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle, The Discworld Unseen University Library, Clue – The Playable Mystery Game (AKA Cluedo), Mr. Brick Coffee Pot, Bob Ross: Studio & Paintings, Woodland Wildlife, Sawmill, Gravity Falls Mystery Shack, and Godzilla as the ones to reach the Third 2024 Review Stage.
UK retailer WHSmith has revealed the exclusive minifigure for the upcoming LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition to be Emperor Palpatine. This version of Palpatine is from The Rise of Skywalker in which he had the black and red robes. If LEGO made this version of Palpatine, perhaps we can finally get another version of the character in a set based on Exegol. The book is listed to be released on August 1, 2025.
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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 Godzilla by MattE720 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. This is a re-submission of the same Godzilla build from the recent movies which also hit the 10k goal back in February 2023.
The project joins Cliffside House, Gravity Falls – The Mystery Shack, Round House Ski Lodge, Italian Villa, Summit Station, Betta Splendens, The Moon: Lunar Landscape, Overpass Park, Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle, The Discworld Unseen University Library, Clue – The Playable Mystery Game (AKA Cluedo), Mr. Brick Coffee Pot, Bob Ross: Studio & Paintings, Woodland Wildlife, Sawmill, and Gravity Falls Mystery Shack as the ones to reach the Third 2024 Review Stage.
It’s been a few months since we’ve updated the list of LEGO Ideas sets that are currently in productions and there’s been lots of changes since then. The latest LEGO Ideas sets that have been announced are The Botanical Garden (21353) which will be releasing on November 1 and Books Are My Passion (40698) gift with purchase set that will be available starting next week.
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