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Free LEGO Harry Potter Minifigure Comes With Scholastic’s Back To Hogwarts Activity Book

LEGO Harry Potter fans will be pleased to know that long time LEGO publishing partner Scholastic has now listed via Amazon a new LEGO Harry Potter inspired book that you may want to purchase next year. Entitled Back to Hogwarts, this Scholastic book also comes with a free LEGO Harry Potter minifigure based on Harry’s early years in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In fact, this free and exclusive minifigure is based on new versions of Harry as found in the polybag set Harry’s Journey to Hogwarts (30407) and Hogwarts Great Hall (75954).

This free LEGO Harry Potter minifigure also includes a Hedwig minifig, wand accessories, the Nimbus broomstick, and a unique newspaper printed tile. Scholastic’s Back to Hogwarts Activity Book is now available for pre-order via Amazon and will be available to the public by January 29 next year retailing for $7 USD. Here’s a closer at the free EGO Harry Potter minifigure, followed by a brief description of the book for your reference.

Back to Hogwarts (LEGO Harry Potter: Activity Book with Minifigure)

Go back to Hogwarts(TM) with all your favorite characters from the Harry Potter films! This activity book is packed with comics, puzzles, mazes, games, and a whole lot more. Guide Harry Potter and Ron Weasley through the moving staircases, untangle the spells to reveal Hermione’s Patronus, help Neville match pairs of plants in Herbology class, and discover more of what Hogwarts(TM) has to offer!

These pages are full of endless fun — plus, a buildable Harry Potter minifigure!

The Micro-scaled LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289) Coming In November

After reporting on the appearance of the official images of the micro-scaled LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289) set over at LEGO’s online servers, we finally have confirmation that this rendition of the famous street from Potter lore is now LEGO’s next gift-with-purchase. LEGO Shop@Home has been updated once more, specifically mentioning that the set will be available as a free promotional from November 9 to 21 at any local LEGO Store and on shop.LEGO.com.

The micro-scaled Diagon Alley (40289) can be yours as a free gift for a single receipt, minimum purchase of any LEGO products worth $99 and above. Be sure to mark your calendars from November 9 to 21, especially if you’re planning to buy your next LEGO set and raring to have this micro-scaled freebie. Also expect that this might run out soon so be sure to place your purchases on time. Here’s the product description for our reference.

LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289)

374 pieces

Recreate the magic of Diagon Alley™ with this magical LEGO® micro build featuring Gringotts™ Bank, Ollivanders™ Wand Shop, Flourish and Blotts, Quality Quidditch™ Supplies and Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, plus a Mr. Ollivander minifigure with a wand.

LEGO® Diagon Alley™ Micro Build (item 40289) offer is valid on shop.LEGO.com and at LEGO Stores from November 9 through 11:59pm EST, November 21, 2018, or while supplies last only. Qualifying purchase must be equal to or greater than $99 in merchandise only; any applicable taxes, shipping charges, or value of gift cards purchased do not apply to merchandise total. Offer excludes Bricks & Pieces and backorder items. Cannot be applied to previous purchases or combined with any other discount, offer or free gift. One free set per household. Item is valued at approximately a $19.99 (US) / $26.99 (CA) retail value and cannot be exchanged or substituted for any other item or cash value. Item is available exclusively through this offer; additional sets cannot be purchased. Offers not valid at LEGOLAND® Parks or LEGOLAND Discovery Centers. The LEGO Group reserves the right to cancel or modify these promotions at any time without advance notice.

LEGO Star Wars Kessel Mine Worker (40299) Minifigure Spotted for Sale at LEGOLAND California

When this month was still rather new, LEGO released on one of its retail partners, Barnes & Noble, a rather uncommon minifigure polybag that ties in to Solo: A Star Wars Story, released just months ago. The LEGO Star Wars Kessel Mine Worker (40299) minifigure is yet another jazzed-up minifig with an accompanying display stand similar to that of the Mud-Trooper Han Solo (40300).

Still, it’s not as if there are Barnes & Noble stores everywhere. Fortunately, LEGO means to save collectors in California the trouble of hunting LEGO Star Wars Kessel Mine Worker (40299) minifigure down by having their LEGOLAND theme park carry it.

Whereas Barnes & Noble has a minimum LEGO purchase threshold in order to get the 40299 polybag free, LEGOLAND California has the Kessel Mine Worker for straight purchase at the same price as the LEGO Star Wars DJ (40298) from The Last Jedi at $2.99 apiece. That is however a tad more expensive than the Barnes & Noble alternative straight purchase price of $1.27 only.

Meanwhile, LEGOLAND California also has the Mud-Trooper Han Solo polybag available for the same minimum purchase requirement as in Shop@Home; that’s $35 in LEGO Star Wars stuff. Visitors to California’s LEGOLAND resort who are searching for these minifigs are in luck for the foreseeable future.

LEGO Star Wars BB-8 (40288) Polybag from May the 4th 2018 Back at Shop@Home UK

LEGO Star Wars is definitely one of the best-selling licensed product lines in the gigantic toy company’s whole catalog. It’s easily seen from the various events, freebies and exclusives from LEGO Store and Shop@Home over the years. One might remember LEGO’s May the 4^th 2018 contribution, a free micro-build BB-8 polybag with a certain amount of LEGO purchases on site.

The year’s isn’t out yet, but it seems LEGO Shop@Home UK is bringing the BB-8 set (40288) from May the 4^th back. Even better, they’re reducing the minimum total purchase price needed to have this polybag added to shoppers’ carts.

So, anybody in the UK who hasn’t gotten the 40288 polybag in May will be happy to know they’ll spend less getting it this time around. A minimum total purchase tag of £30 in LEGO Star Wars products is enough to get BB-8 (40288) for a belated May the 4^th.

Early Holiday shopping has never been as rewarding as with LEGO. In addition to this returning promotional polybag, recall that Shop@Home is at double VIP points until the end of October. Buying enough LEGO Star Wars stuff to earn 40288 ought to also make for a nice VIP point haul.

New Amazon Discount Sales for LEGO Ninjago and Wizarding World: Fantastic Beasts

There’s that favorite stock character versus topic online, called “pirates versus ninjas”. The argument for that match-up can be summed up in the trope named “cool versus awesome”; anime fans might recall One Piece and Naruto. But there’s an alternate opponent for ninjas: wizards. That’s how Amazon’s LEGO sales seem to be shaping up lately.

What I mean is that Amazon presently has discount sales for 2018 sets, two each from LEGO Ninjago and the Wizarding World. It’s your choice between the most awesome brick ninjas against the coolest (and most powerful) wizards in pop fiction (in brick form, naturally).

LEGO Ninjago Firstbourne (70653) – gets 20% off its regular $69.99 price for a sweeter bargain of $56. Worth it for 6 minifigures and two main builds (dragon and helicopter)

LEGO Ninjago Oni Titan (70658) – $49.99 on Shop@Home? Amazon’s taking 19% from that and offering just $40.47 for a giant robot build plus 4 minifigures
LEGO Wizarding World Grindelwald’s Escape (75951) – two minifigs, a vehicle and creature build for $16.82, a 16% discount from Amazon

LEGO Wizarding World Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures (75952) – four minifigures and a score of magical creatures big (buildable) and small (one-piece Niffler) gets 20% discount and priced now at $39.99

So what’ll it be? Wizarding World versus Ninjago? Amazon’s making the choice easier (and more affordable too) for you all. But seeing as Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is premiering early next month, it’s like Wizards have the advantage for just a brief moment.

New LEGO Christmas Box (40292) Gift With Purchase Set Announced

The LEGO Store November Calendar in China has made its way online, and it gives us a glimpse of our next limited edition, seasonal gift with purchase (GWP) set just in time for the holidays. Bouwsteentjes has shared an image of the said calendar, and with it comes the reveal of the LEGO Christmas Box (40292).

As you can see, there are also other familiar promotions such as the rumored microscaled LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley (40289) which we will talk later on, and the LEGO Minifigure Collector Frame (5005359). However, the most noticeable and appealing of all is the new LEGO Christmas Box (40292). Similar to the concept and design of Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures (75952), the LEGO Christmas Box features a holiday-themed vignette cleverly hidden inside a gift box. The build itself has a removable lid and opens at the middle to reveal a cozy, indoor holiday winter scene.

Being a limited edition promotional gift with purchase set, it should be expected that limited quantities will be available once this is offered at the end of the month. I’m not quite sure if it will also follow the same time frame in the US and the rest of the world, but you can bet that it will come in limited quantities.

If we read it right, the LEGO Store November Calendar from China also mentions a specific number of the LEGO Christmas Box sets that will be given away. If that is the case, then better expect that this set will surely go out fast.

I love the idea behind a surprise build, similar to the recently announced LEGO Ideas Pop-Up Book (21315). It’s those little surprises that make a LEGO set extra special, even more as it comes as a limited edition, seasonal set. I just hope that LEGO will upload its official images soon so we can have a better look.

So what do you think about the LEGO Christmas Box (40292)? Do you think it’s worth the trip to your LEGO Store or that additional purchase online? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

One More Amazon Deal: LEGO Creator Winter Village Station (10259)

And once again, Amazon is out with the LEGO set love. They’re sharing it of course with their loyal customers, especially those hunting for priced-down LEGO. This week already had them offer discounted entries for the Ideas and Marvel product lines; now it’s for their seasonal Holiday-themed series on LEGO Creator, the Winter Village Station (10259).

Just to be specific, that’s not the Winter Village Fire Station (10263) set that came out this year. Instead, what Amazon has got on a huge discount sale is the Winter Village Station (10259). It came out last 2017 as a complement to the Winter Holiday Train (10254) that was released back in 2016.

From its SRP of $79.99, Amazon his helpfully bumping it down to $54.99, a lovely discount of 31% for a set that barely reaches a thousand pieces in quantity. If any collectors of the near-decade old Winter Village theme on LEGO Creator expert sets are behind in getting them all, you’ll surely be hard-pressed finding a value equal to this.

In the meantime, the Winter Village Fire Station (10263) is available now for $99.99 on Shop@Home and LEGO Brand Stores. It’s the ninth entry in the Winter Village theme, just as the Winter Village Station (10259) is the eighth overall.

LEGO Double VIP Points Promo Now Up At LEGO Shop@Home

Every now and then, LEGO launches a small period wherein certain purchases at Shop@Home made under a VIP membership will accumulate double the usual points. We saw that in action earlier this month when LEGO Shop@Home introduced Double Points for purchasing two particular LEGO Star Wars sets, particularly the X-Wing Starfighter (75218) and Yoda’s Hut (75208). Apparently LEGO is feeling more generous as October gets to the halfway point and the Holidays start coming in force. Well as of this writing, they have Shop@Home holding a LEGO double VIP points promo to last until the 31st, and this time it’s now available for all LEGO purchases.

Through out the month of October, all online LEGO VIP shoppers at Shop@Home will be getting double VIP points on all LEGO products purchased this month. If shoppers have held off on buying those big, new LEGO sets such as the Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (71043) and the more holiday-appropriate Creator Winter Village Fire Station (10263), then it will be wise to take advantage of the LEGO double VIP points promo while it is still up.

It probably also bears reminding that this is also the beginning of the promo period for the LEGO Minifigure Collector Frame (5005359), with one exclusive collectible minifigure. It comes free with any minimum LEGO purchase of $75, and a must for minifigure collectors.

LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) and Marvel Super Heroes Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown (76108) Now at Great Discounts on Amazon

It seems that Amazon and Walmart are now charging neck to neck for the best LEGO set deals just ahead of the year-end holiday craze. The latter has been offering some 15-18% discounts on mostly LEGO Star Wars such as the Snowspeeder (75144) and the 2018 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (75213) while the former is a tad more diverse with the product lines involved. And indeed, there’s some new LEGO stuff with dialed-down prices to be had at the world’s biggest online retail platform. First up is the LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) which was released February of this year. It slashes 20% off the original $69.99 SRP for a more affordable $55.99.

Next on Amazon’s notable recent LEGO set sale listings is one for the LEGO and MCU fan, with the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown (76108) tie-in for last May’s Avengers: Infinity War film. From its original price of $99.99, Amazon now offers this set with a 15% off, lowering its price at $84.99.

Both sets are available with Amazon free shipping, and are good sources of uncommon LEGO elements. The elegantly designed LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) has plenty of 1×1 trans-blue round studs and the clear parts making up the bottle. Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown (76108) has the new Iron Spider and Ebony Maw minifigures plus Cull Obsidian in bigfig form. What better time to snap up these wonderful LEGO sets.

LEGO Bricktober Harry Potter Minifigures (5005254) Already Available in Some Barnes & Noble Stores

It’s been almost two months now since LEGO made its pronouncement on what will be of their limited-edition Bricktober minifigure sets in the US, since they’re only for Toys R Us stores which have since been closed. At least one set, particularly the LEGO Bricktober Harry Potter Minifigures (5005254), has been promised to be available in Barnes & Noble Stores, but since then no word’s come out on when.

Well, although LEGO hasn’t clarified the release date for the LEGO Bricktober Harry Potter minifig set, it doesn’t mean it’s no longer coming out. In fact, several B&N stores have finally been found with the set on shelves, just sitting there with no fanfare.

It was first thought that this Bricktober set is going to be available via a Barnes & Noble promotion. However, it looks like these highly sought after collectible is now found on B&N’s store shelves for sale. Buyers have noted that the Bricktober Harry Potter set came with a retail price of $7.99.

The LEGO Bricktober Harry Potter minifigures (5005254) include Madame Hooch, Professor Horace Slughorn, Dolores Umbridge and the Boggart in the form of Professor Severus Snape (in Longbottom’s granny’s clothes). In the US it’s a B&N exclusive, while other Bricktober sets such as Jurassic World, Marvel and Ninjago) are said to be released in LEGO Stores.

Elsewhere (aka where Toys R Us are still open), the sets are available as per Bricktober mechanics, added free with a minimum purchase (or bought separately). If you’re looking for more Barnes & Noble LEGO stuff, there’s also the Star Wars Kessel Mine Worker (40299).