40567 Forest Hideout (GWP)

[kris kelvin]

[JamesBenjamin]

For a normal GWP do they go live at midnight? do they normally sell out before morning? The last one I wanted sold out but I seem to remember it was like a day later when it did.

 

[Frike]

I don't think I have actually ever bought stuff from LEGO to get a GWP before. But I'm very tempted to get this one, though. Hopefully I can pick up maybe the Viking 3-in-1 and something else. And I'm also curious if I have to "camp" at midnight.

[Black Feather]

There’s no way to know.  Depends on how high demand will be and how many LEGO produced.  We don’t now either of those and LEGO only knows one for sure.  So did they guess high or low?  Based on what happened with the bricklink set and that they are only having this GWP for half the time a GWP is ordinarily available I would err on the side of camping out.  I just hope the site doesn’t crash and it’s gone in 5 minutes with loads of angry customers who camped out and still didn’t get it.  Probably won’t happen.  But can’t rule it out.   Would also suspect it becomes available at a later time in some form as well.  But can’t assume that either.  I’m camping.

[Lyichir]

Trying to decide myself if I'll get this to be honest. Originally the in-store AFOL day (for RLUG members) was gonna line up with the eligibility period for this, but they moved the AFOL day to July so the promotions no longer overlap. :( This is a nice GWP but I'm not necessarily a castle collector so I'm gonna have to decide whether to pick up Optimus Prime for this promotion (and figure out something else to get in July, before most of the themes I actually collect come out in August), or just wait for July and see whether this promotion rolls around again in the future.

[RichardGoring]

I'm in the camping camp too. Not so much because I think the GWP will sell out that quickly, but because the sets I want to buy to get it may be gone. That's a very small subset of what LEGO sells, and it probably overlaps with what most of you all want too. Time to sharpen my virtual elbows? 

[SirBlake]

I'm not camping out just on principle. TLG offers products I want to buy, I buy them. I'm not chasing them on the internet for the privilege of that transaction. I'm already inconvenienced that it's a GWP instead of something I can just buy outright. I'm not going to schedule my day around their silly rules. If I miss it, I will just get it at my convenience on the secondary market. Too many hoops to jump through.

[Weil]

The box in the image above says "18 years & up"  While no doubt many of these will end up in the hands of AFOLs, does TLG really not recommend this set for under 18s? It's based on a set that was recommended for ages 7-12. .  Is this meant to be some sort of in-joke?

[General Magma]

4 minutes ago, Weil said:

The box in the image above says "18 years & up"  While no doubt many of these will end up in the hands of AFOLs, does TLG really not recommend this set for under 18s? It's based on a set that was recommended for ages 7-12. .  Is this meant to be some sort of in-joke?

Maybe there aren't just gold coins in that barrel...

[TeriXeri]

The 18+ thing has been a thing with GWP since a while now.

"18 years and up" is a new one tho.

 

 

Edited June 10, 2022 by TeriXeri

[Celeri]

On 5/21/2022 at 1:11 AM, danth said:

This is just unbelievably, insanely awesome.

LEGO is knocking it out of the park for the 90th anniversary stuff.

Just wondering who I need to defeat in hand to hand combat to acquire multiple copies of these.

Your banker and your wife, probably? It is only a matter of making multiple $150+ orders, after all...

Edited June 10, 2022 by Celeri

[Weil]

10 minutes ago, TeriXeri said:

The 18+ thing has been a thing with GWP since a while now.

"18 years and up" is a new one tho.

 

 

Really? I had a quick look and none of e.g. 40529, 40530, 40528, 40484, 40487 have an 18+ age rating.  All have lower age ratings.  I saw after your comment that 40533 has an 18+ recommendation though, which also seems bizarre to me.

[Sir Dano]

Initially I thought the "18 years and up" thing was meant to be a callback to classic boxes but a quick google tells me the original set box said "ages 7-12" so no idea about that specifically. The 18+ thing in general is because TLG wants to sell stuff to adults who are too insecure to buy children's toys.

[TeriXeri]

4 hours ago, Weil said:

 All have lower age ratings.  I saw after your comment that 40533 has an 18+ recommendation though, which also seems bizarre to me.

It's a bit mixed, like the recent amusement park GWP set was 6+ , but Vintage Taxi, Barcelona , Mini Adidas Shoe, Cosmic Cardboard Adventure have been 18+ .

And then you'd expect Jane Goodall or Amelia Earhart might be targeted at adults too, but no, the set age were 8 and 10+.

That said, the 18+ sets except the adidas shoe all share the shame type of 18+ box style, with the lego bricks on the bottom part and most have black/grey backgrounds.

 

For the forest hideout GWP it certainly tries to be a more classic box, sort of how Barracuda Bay had some classic box design hints, but those sets are actual remakes of old sets.

I can imagine this King/Queen Castle set and Galaxy Explorer sets in August probably have a yellow framed box as well.

Edited June 11, 2022 by TeriXeri

[Weil]

Thanks for the info 

[unclejeffie]

are items on backorder also eligible for the GWP?

[RichardGoring]

1 hour ago, unclejeffie said:

are items on backorder also eligible for the GWP?

Yes, but make sure to order something that's in stock too, as the GWP will only ship with a standard set (not Bricks and Pieces). And if you wait for the backordered item to be in stock, they will probably be out of GWPs.

[brimbolet]

Why for heaven's sake did they have to make the small black Castle System writing beneath the set description in the left corner. It absolutely ruins the perfect proportions of the otherwise nice nod to the vintage box art.

I'm going to get it on the first day, already told the office I have to come later to work. 

[unclejeffie]

1 hour ago, RichardGoring said:

Yes, but make sure to order something that's in stock too, as the GWP will only ship with a standard set (not Bricks and Pieces). And if you wait for the backordered item to be in stock, they will probably be out of GWPs.

wouldn't they send the GWP alone then?

[Black Feather]

I have received a GWP alone before multiple times.  I think as long as it appears in your cart it is considered an ordered item ( just free).  The receipt you get you get with it shows a price and the amount discounted.  So if the only item in your order available to ship immediately is the GWP, they will do that occasionally.

[MKJoshA]

Has anyone heard how many physical copies each Lego store is getting?

[Triceron]

Thanks for the backorder info, that might be a gamechanger for me.

I was contemplating on the Bonsai or not (on backorder) for parts to enhance my Forest sets.  

[RichardGoring]

1 hour ago, Black Feather said:

I have received a GWP alone before multiple times.  I think as long as it appears in your cart it is considered an ordered item ( just free).  The receipt you get you get with it shows a price and the amount discounted.  So if the only item in your order available to ship immediately is the GWP, they will do that occasionally.

You may have received it in its own package, but did something else ship at the same time? I've only ever heard of people getting the GWP shipped if something else was shipping (even if it's in a separate package). The GWP doesn't ship if you've only ordered backordered stuff, until something is ready to ship.

[Black Feather]

Most of my orders have included bricks and pieces and/or pick a brick whenever I ordered anything else.  But I have ordered a back ordered set, b&p, and PAB.  And I got the GWP first and the others much later.  Honestly, until now the GWP was never the main focus of my order, so I wasn’t carefully reading rules and tracking closely, etc.  But I do know that whenever a GWP showed in my cart, I have always received it.  It was never cancelled.  Even when I already received the same one with different order.  (I never made two orders same day just to get another GWP.  Just happened to make another order when still available.)  And I have ordered back orders multiple times and still received the GWP.  So I don’t know if I have been lucky or varies from region or whatever.  But I have never had one get cancelled when it shows in my cart for whatever reason.

[Frike]

1 hour ago, Black Feather said:

Most of my orders have included bricks and pieces and/or pick a brick whenever I ordered anything else.  But I have ordered a back ordered set, b&p, and PAB.  And I got the GWP first and the others much later.  Honestly, until now the GWP was never the main focus of my order, so I wasn’t carefully reading rules and tracking closely, etc.  But I do know that whenever a GWP showed in my cart, I have always received it.  It was never cancelled.  Even when I already received the same one with different order.  (I never made two orders same day just to get another GWP.  Just happened to make another order when still available.)  And I have ordered back orders multiple times and still received the GWP.  So I don’t know if I have been lucky or varies from region or whatever.  But I have never had one get cancelled when it shows in my cart for whatever reason.

This is my understanding as well. If I have the item in my cart at checkout, then I expect that item to be "reserved" for me. If some of the other items are backordered, I expect the GWP to behave just like any other item, that is to be "put aside for me" until the remaining ordered items can be fulfilled.

It seems like a logistical nightmare to handle it differently. Would they have employees just chucking them into eligible boxes before they ship out, and then just be like "oh I guess we ran out"?

Edited June 11, 2022 by Frike