LEGO Ideas 40889 Build, Paint and Play! Is Free From 28 October as the Halloween Gifts End
LEGO's free-gift calendar has turned over. The two Halloween gifts ended on 27 October, and from today, 28 October, the next one takes over: 40889 Build, Paint and Play! from LEGO Ideas, free when you spend £115 / $130 / €130 on LEGO.com or in a LEGO Store, while stocks last.
40889 Build, Paint and Play! - from 28 October
This one is Doomslizer's winning entry from the Ideas "Build Your Hobby" competition, and it's a nice bit of LEGO having a laugh at itself: a plastic model kit, built in LEGO, at minifigure scale. You get a sprue, a cutting tool, a pot of glue, a brush and three paint bottles, and the finished "model" is a Classic Space astronaut. The paint bottles even carry LEGO's internal colour numbers for the shades used on the figure.
Classic Space fans have a more practical reason to want it. The sprue includes the astronaut helmet and air tanks in light bluish grey, which haven't been available in that colour before, so it fills a gap for anyone building a colour-matched spaceman.
The thresholds are £115 in the UK, $130 in the US, €130 in Europe, CA$170 in Canada and AU$210 in Australia. LEGO hasn't given an end date. GWPs at this level don't usually last more than a couple of weeks, and this one is limited stock.
The Halloween gifts that just ended
30717 Fun Halloween Skeleton was the easy one to get: a small Creator 3in1 polybag of a pumpkin-headed skeleton with a lantern and posable arms and legs, free worldwide on orders of £35 / $40 / €40 (CA$50, AU$65).
In the US and Canada, 40772 Luminous Ghost was back as well, free on orders of $120 (CA$155): a light-brick ghost with a pumpkin and a bat with posable wings. UK and European shoppers had that one earlier in October, while last week's UK/EU gift was 40916 Floral Picture Frame at £135 / €150. Pick a Brick orders don't count towards GWP thresholds.
If you missed the earlier Restaurants of the World gift, 40909 Italy, it sold out in North America within a couple of days. If there's a GWP you really want, go early.
Hitting £115
Plenty of single sets clear the 40889 threshold. 11390 Dragon Ball: Shenron & Goku at £129.99 gets you there with one item. 11388 Venetian Neighbourhood and 21065 Sagrada Família are well over it. If you've been holding off on a big purchase, now's the time. Check the set pages first: other retailers are often cheaper than LEGO.com, though only LEGO's own shop gives you the free set.
LEGO.com: Dragon Ball: Shenron & Goku | Venetian Neighbourhood | Sagrada Família