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Seasonal: Easter Bunny & Friends Flower

Saturday, 10th March 2018 By Caz

I spent enough in the LEGO store in Gateshead the other day to earn two gifts with purchase. The first was the Easter Bunny Minifig and display box. I have to confess, I’m no fan of these fancy boxes, and I probably won’t be keeping it. Horror! you man say. Whatever.

5005249 Easter Bunny Gift With Purchase
5005249 Easter Bunny Gift With Purchase

The Bunny minifig itself is quite cute, with big pink ears, a smart bowtie and waistcoat, and apparently a new print on the egg.

5005249 Easter Bunny Minifig
5005249 Easter Bunny Minifig

I was expecting the bunny but I wasn’t expecting to also get this Friends flower polybag (30404). 

30404 Friends Flower Polybag
30404 Friends Flower Polybag

It was another fun little build and will go well with my other gift with purchase flowers.

30404 Friends Flower Built
30404 Friends Flower Built

Filed Under: Seasonal Tagged With: 30404, 5005249, easter bunny minifig, friends flower, gift with purchase

Seasonal: Nutcracker (40254)

Wednesday, 20th December 2017 By Caz

One of the freebies I got yesterday in my Leicester Square haul was this festive Nutcracker (40254).

40254 Nutcracker Box
40254 Nutcracker Box

It was an enjoyable build with some useful little parts included. I’m not sure how long I will keep it built but for the moment it looks good standing guard in my LEGO room.

40254 Nutcracker Built
40254 Nutcracker Built

Filed Under: Seasonal Tagged With: 40254, freebie, gift with purchase, gwp, nutcracker

Advent: Day 1

Friday, 1st December 2017 By Caz

I bought myself a LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (75184) this year – the first time I’ve had an advent calendar of any sort for ages. And I also got the neat promotional set 24-in-1 (40253) free with a reasonable purchase from the LEGO shop online a couple of weeks ago. Both sets come in colourful boxes with great images on the front, which give you a good idea of what you can expect to build.

75184 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2017
75184 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2017
40253 24 In 1 2017
40253 24 In 1 2017

Of course, the Advent Calendar will be unveiled one day at a time, but the 24-in-1 required me to empty the contents into a sorting tray and start rummaging! There appears to be a good selection of pieces in plenty of interesting colours and yes, another pesky orange Brick Separator! The instruction booklet is substantial with decent step-by-step guides to each model (and advice to use that brick separator at the end of each day, ready for the next one!). Parts are re-used so you won’t be able to make all 24 models at once, but that seemed fair enough.

24in1 All Parts
24in1 All Parts

So what were today’s builds? The Star Wars calendar instructions appear on the rear of each door as you open them. No. 1 hid a charming little Ghost ship, nice and colourful and a few decent details around the sides.

Star Wars Advent - Day 1
Star Wars Advent – Day 1
24in1 - Day 1
24in1 – Day 1

Meanwhile we had a different sort of ship with the 24-in-1 – a Tall Ship with treasure aboard! Quite a cute model and an inventive use of the wing pieces for sails.

I had also bought myself what I thought was a nice little Christmas Tree model with a couple of minifigs and presents around it. I was quite disappointed on opening it that it just appeared to contain enough pieces to make the minifigs, presents and a “star” for the top of the “tree” – which was just a print on a cardboard box inside!

I must admit to feeling pretty cheated by this packaging:

Christmas Tree Box
Christmas Tree Box
Christmas Tree Built
Christmas Tree Built

I had genuinely assumed the tree would be in there too, and rather disappointing that it wasn’t. Do you find the first picture misleading?

Filed Under: Advent, Seasonal, Star Wars Tagged With: 24in1, 40253, 75184, advent calendar, gift with purchase, gwp

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