The truly awesome new set, 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van, is now available in the LEGO® Shop for shipping to Australia. It’s priced at $169.99 (with a limit of 5 per customer). However, be aware that postage will set you back $35 for standard or $80 for express.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The official LEGO® Shop is offering bonus gifts with the purchase of particular LEGO® Star Wars sets this month. But don't get too excited - the sets in question are the expensive ones, and the gifts are paltry.
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The next set in the LEGO® Modular Buildings series, 10218 Pet Shop, is now available from LEGO® Shop@Home with an RRP of $269.99. This has got to be one of the cutest sets ever, with lots of lovely details and even a parrot! But as always shipping will add substantially to the cost. If you [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The LEGO® online shop is indeed offering free shipping to Australia for orders over $90 AUD or more, as part of its Star Wars day celebrations. It’s valid today and tomorrow ONLY. This is a rare deal so it may be the perfect time to get some of those exclusives that are so hard to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 29, 2011
May 4 is International Star Wars Day and is an unofficial holiday for fans, thanks to the fabulous punning opportunities of “May the fourth be with you”. This upcoming May 4 there are a couple of exciting Star Wars LEGO® promotions happening. Local online store Outer Rim Trading Co is having a big “May the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 26, 2010
The Boxing Day sale catalogues are strangely devoid of LEGO® at all the major retailers as far as I can ascertain. The only big deals going on are at the official LEGO® online shop, where they are offering 50% off a ton of sets as well as a free exclusive NinjaGo minifigure keyring if you [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The LEGO Shop has added three little Halloween seasonal sets to its line up for $3.99 each. Very strange sets they are, like something my six year old would build and with a tiny number of pieces. Easy to recreate just from the images! Here they are: 40012 Halloween Pumpkin – 18 pieces! 40013 Halloween [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 3, 2010
Numerous readers have reported sightings of the new Harry Potter sets at Target and Toys R Us stores in Victoria and Queensland. I’m going to pop in tomorrow and see if they’ve hit Sydney yet. As I’ve said before, I think they are great value, especially when compared to other licensed Star Wars rip-offs LEGO [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 1, 2010
My dream set, 10214 Tower Bridge, is now available to buy on the official LEGO Shop site. It clocks in at $379.99 – quite reasonable for a set with 4287 pieces. There’s a limit of 5 per customer as is usual for these exclusives now. Shipping will set you back an additional $45. All the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 1, 2010
10212 Imperial Shuttle™ is now available for purchase on the LEGO Shop for a whopping $449.95. Limit of 5 per customer. This is a great set but it seems a little overpriced to me. The Taj Mahal has more than twice the number of pieces for only $50 more. Now I’m worried for the still-to-be-announced [...]
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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