Barnes & Noble is wrapping out their promotions for The LEGO Batman Movie and for their last event for the movie is a building event for a mini Batmobile. This exclusive version of the Speedwagon is different from the 30521 polybag so if you want to collect everthing for the movie, you should participate in the event. The Make & Take event is held next Saturday, March 11. The times vary so you will have to find out what time a particular store will be holding the event.
At the finale for our three-month celebration of The LEGO Batman Movie, kids will be able to help Batman protect Gotham from the Joker by making their very own LEGO Batman Speedwagon! Kids can also collect the final two limited edition trading cards featuring characters from the movie. Join us for this fun LEGO Make & Take event (while supplies last).
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Here’s hoping that B@N does better than Walmart.
Barnes & Noble is way more organized than Walmart.
And the Lego company should be way more organized than B@N. Remember Darth Revan? It’s hard to know who to trust these days…
I don’t remember Darth Revan, What happened?
If he’s referring to the one last year, the promotion sold out before I even woke up. I’m not really a big fan of promotions that require that I forgo healthy life habits just to have a chance at getting.
Yes, I am referring to the promotion last year. The figures sold out almost too quickly, and there was talk of people ending up with multiple figures through shady means, resulting in most people not getting figures. I manged to get one, but only just.
Well it’s why I think the NASA Female set that was just announced was silly. The Mars Rover sold out in 6 hours and the Research Lab sold out within two days. What’s the point if you are never going to make enough to actually sell / give away?
I’m surprised Batmans polybag last month never ran out in North America.
I like to think TLC has learned a few things (a _few_) in recent years. The Martian Manhunter polybag was gone in about half a week in original release. The Rebels mini walker polybag lasted close to a week, I believe, also in original release. Jor-El and Flashback Shredder both had enough leftover stock that they were able to run a second promotion to burn off the stock. Revan was a similar case, but apparently with less leftover stock or a lot more demand, and as Allen suggested, if you didn’t just get into the hobby a couple years ago, you had ample opportunity to secure one the first time around. The Batmen appears to have had enough stock to outlast the promotion, but the distribution was a little bit off.
For Cuusoo, a large part of the problem was that people had been drooling over the Japanese sets but couldn’t justify the high secondary prices. Once they were available at MSRP, the market ballooned a lot more than was expected, and the speculators didn’t help the situation. Research Institute, however, was the last Ideas set that was never available in ample supply. Even the Exo-Suit that came out on the same day was around for several months before you couldn’t just walk in and buy it without having to call ahead. Not every set has been easy to obtain right out of the gate, but they’ve learned not to produce a single shipment and assume it’ll satisfy demand.
TRU has done many of these events in the past, and the only hiccup I’ve seen was the insane demand for Emmet’s car right after The LEGO Movie came out (but they ran a second promo for that model). Walmart, on the other hand, dropped the ball, tripped over it, and broke their face on a nearby rock. If TLC learned anything from that fiasco, it will be to never run a promotion like that through Walmart again. B&N has at least a few of these under their belt, and I’ve never attended one in the past, but I’ve also never heard of them borking one in the past.
How can you say LEGO learned their lesson then bring up the Exo-Suit? The reason it was around for much longer than the Research Lab, released the same day / week, is because Exo-Suit had a second run! If LEGO had learned their lesson they would have released to make more Research Labs too.
Darth Revan was initially released in 2014 and people had equal chance to get it so unless you got into LEGO after that, then yes it’s was bad promotion. Not in terms of how it went down but how many they had left over because the promo led people to believe there was plenty in stock.
Oh crap they doing a Lego Batman Movies Barnes & Noble building eventhe at Macth 11 and also don’t has it Barnes Noble in Bay plaza anymore they us to has it in bay plaza.