Classrooms!

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

And the CRESTS, too, for that matter. 😆 (See LJ / DW for details on the Hogwarts Moments classroom books. The crests were introduced here: LJ / DW)

So! It's January! (And a very Happy New Year, everybody! 🎉😃🍀) Which means the aforementioned sets are available on the lego shop@home websites (lego.com) as of today. w00t! (Honestly, chances are pretty good you'll be stuck with a back order status if you didn't order promptly at midnight (I, for one, did not. heh), but no worries. It will get there when it gets there. So why order now? Well, if you were going to anyway, the timing is right. Lego has a number of specials on this month. (Worth keeping in mind, in some countries, you'll be able to get the classroom sets at regular stores where you're often able to get discounts. It pays to know your local market. Germany for one isn't great on sales (compared to the US, say), and this year the prices - due to delivery issues and other coronavirus factors - have pretty much echoed lego's pricing (or worse, been higher. 😐), so ordering from lego.com won't come at an additional price for me, especially given the offers they're currently running.)

In addition to the Monster Book of Monsters (introduced here: LJ / DW)



orders over $85, 85 EUR or £85 will receive a cute retro / vintage convertible while supplies last. (Worst case, even if you aren't interested in the set per se, they tend to fetch a decent resale price on ebay, which should help offset the cost of the Books. ("Oh, so sensible, gingerwitch!" "Why thank you." lol))



Both of these sets appear to be (more or less) exclusive to this offer, and aren't expected to be sold separately in shops, effectively retiring when the offer ends (although that did change with the Bricktober minifig set, so no guarantees). Still, limited run means two things: get while the getting is good, and that resale price just went up again. Noice.

And in what I'm assuming is a bid to try to get people to not storm the website all at once, later in the month (the 18th through the 24th) they'll be offering another freebie with qualifying purchases, your choice of a helicopter or a police water scooter. So if supplies on the first two promotional items last, conceivably you could get three freebies with a single order. (Unfortunately I've lost that gamble in the past when things sold out, so I went ahead and ordered them anyway. (Plus last year's delivery issues are also a consideration.) I guess it boils down to: are you feeling lucky?)

Comments

[toblass.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up! I think I need to order these for myself since Christmas was such a miserable affair.

[erexen.livejournal.com]

Very sorry Christmas was not great. Ours was pretty sucky in general. Hectic with being pulled in all directions, but meh. Hope you New Year turns out So Much better.

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

Happy to help. 😊

Sorry to hear it, Toby. *hugs* I plan on celebrating Christmas again when it can be done properly, as it was it was something of a wash for us as well. Maybe that would work for you, too? (Presently I'm envisioning a Christmas in July... Who knows, by then it might be doable.)

[erexen.livejournal.com]

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

😘

[erexen.livejournal.com]

By time I checked, it was all sold out. I saw the vintage car (I REALLY Would like it) but Really would like the MBoM Very Much. Didn't see that one though. Sigh.

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

So I just double checked, even now if you put enough HP stuff in your shopping cart (I randomly tried the Astronomy Tower) in the US store (and haven't previously claimed the GWP), then both the car and the MBoM appear in your cart. (I didn't look around for the books, though.) But the GWPs appear automatically if the purchase qualifies and they still have them in stock.

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

Ooh those are so cool!!!

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

Yaaaas! Want! 😆 (I really like the stickers for the potions classroom walls. It so nicely captures the room in "lego-ese".)

[toblass.livejournal.com]

I just couldn’t deal with trying to get them through Lego directly since they are on back order. But if anyone is hot on getting them sooner than later, they are available on Amazon. No MBoM deal, but I can’t gamble with the possibility on losing out on getting the 4 sets.

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

IMPORTANT! In case it wasn't clear, the four sets are not an extremely limited run. The MBoM and car are. (Those two are the ones to get now or face scalper's prices. MBoM was already going for $50 - $ 100 on ebay, which is bonkers and basically completely finances the purchase of the original HP sets if you want a "free" Astronomy Tower, say.) You should be able to wait and still get the classrooms months, possibly even a couple of years from now without any problems, if you can wait that is. (Not always my strong suit. 😆 I didn't optimise this by only getting three sets, for example. I broke and ordered all four.) I mention this as with Amazon, you'd still be able to send them back if you wanted. (If you're getting them elsewhere, the main advantage are the sales everyone but lego offers. I think the best lego has ever done on the S@H by way of discounts on regular sets was triple VIP points, which is only ca. 15% off the next purchase.)

That said, I have a horrible tendency to over optimise in general, so please ignore me and enjoy the stuffing out of your sets a good month or two before I'm getting mine. 😆 In fact, post pix! (I'd love to see what's behind the wall in the potions set, for example. Or how to squeeze the minifigs into the closed set. Some clever clogs claim they've managed, but I've yet to see proof. heh)