Well, we knew this was coming: Prices impacted by tariffs...

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

It was unavoidable. When Trump began faffing about fairly indiscriminately with tariffs and trade wars loomed, lego prices stateside quite naturally had to be impacted as well. The increase is expected to be roughly 15 % on the smaller sets decreasing to 7 % on the larger ones. The global effects are still unclear, but usually when there's a price hike somewhere, companies often to take advantage of the cover it provides and raise prices elsewhere as well, or they use it to defray the spike in one area, or the production is scattered and more intertwined than we tend to think and more regions are affected. Perhaps having gone through price hikes in Europe in recent years, however, we might be spared.

Fateful unfortunately had some news for us as to the anticipated US price fluctuations. The rest of us will need to wait and see.



Sorry.

And because we can use some good news now... There's a really cute GWP (gift with purchase) on offer until the 29th, or for as long as supplies last, with a purchase threshold of $150 or 150 EUR. Lego 40783 Coral Reef Diorama GWP, that looks like it would be a nice extension for the 76420 Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake aka Second Challenge:

Comments

[erexen.livejournal.com]

Agreed, noticed the green antlers used to make seaweed, The jellyfish was cool too.

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

I did like that jellyfish. If it's GitD, then it's especially cool. (Three cheers for bioluminescence!) I also think the brick built fish are more successful than I would have expected, but it's a little odd that they haven't included the actual fish piece here.