Posted May 4, 201014 yr Crawling (swimming?) from the depths of the impulse buy section of the Target checkout line, it's some kind of octopedal sea creature! Set #: 30040 Name: Octopus? There's no name but it does have 8 legs Theme: Atlantis Year: 2010 Piece Count: 42 Price: $2.99 at Target The polybag provides a visual representation of the creature that lurks inside. A random instruction page provides all of the instructions. The pieces of the creature. The creature assembled. The extra parts. Design: 9/10: A creative little sea monster that makes use of some interesting techniques to make an imposing adversary for the Atlantis divers Build: 8/10: Quick and fun, but the legs are repetitive, but it's an octopus, it would be weird for it to have 8 different legs Playability: 8/10: Undersea swooshable but the dish on top tends to fall of if bumped too hard. It's size and terrifying beak make it a good foe for a diver Price: 9/10. At a little less than $.07 a piece it's not too bad, although they are pretty small parts Overall: 9/10. A great impulse set, you'll end up grabbing a handful of these things if you happen to notice then hiding along the bottom of the impulse buy station of the checkout Edited May 5, 201014 yr by WhiteFang Indexed and poll added
May 4, 201014 yr Thanks for the review. This lovely little set seems a good way to get some nice pieces to use in MOCs. It looks realistic as well which is surprising.
May 4, 201014 yr This impulse set sure beats the other Target sets like the Power Miners ones. Where did you find this set in the store?
May 4, 201014 yr Author This impulse set sure beats the other Target sets like the Power Miners ones. Where did you find this set in the store? It was at the very bottom of one of the impulse buy displays by the checkout register, hidden under hot wheels and littlest pet shop packages, I'd never seen them at any other stores Edited May 4, 201014 yr by bxheist
May 4, 201014 yr Thanks for the review 'bxheist' - COOL set eh ? D.I.Y. octopus - SWEET Hope this one comes to the land of Oz ! I'm a conformist! everyone !
May 4, 201014 yr Great Review. This would go great with the Gateway of the Squid set! - General Redwater Edited May 4, 201014 yr by General Redwater
May 4, 201014 yr Darn it I was just at Target and I'm constantly scanning for polybags because they're the only ones who ever stock them. Grrr darn them. At least I found new MnM Pretzels...Those were nice.
May 4, 201014 yr Thanks for the cute review! I do like the other promo - the mini-sub - a bit better, but this is a sweet little set for parts.
May 4, 201014 yr When did they start selling these? This is AWESOME, I love it. I'm not a fan of Atlantis, but I love the giant squid in the Gateway of the Squid, but wouldn't buy the set just for the squid... but on my last bricklink order I picked up a handful of these tentacles, so I'd love to get a couple of these and add the long tentacles. Yes, I know it's not a squid.
May 5, 201014 yr Great review! Hmmm.... Interesting.... I hope they have these (or the Toy Story 3!) polybags when I go to Target... I probably will not get this one, though.
May 10, 201014 yr Can anybody post the DPCI number from their purchase? It would make it a lot easier to find at a Target. Thank You
May 11, 201014 yr Great review! Not so impressive set on it own, but combined with one of the other sets it would blend in perfectly!
May 12, 201014 yr Thanks for the review. Did they have any other polybags? Well, I think I'll be going to Target tonight.
May 12, 201014 yr Why can I not find this set anywhere? It's so good and tentacles are always useful! Gah!
May 13, 201014 yr I checked Target and they didn't have any. :( I'll have to check 2 more this weekend. So where exactly did you find this? In the check-out line near the candy, chips, gum etc.
May 13, 201014 yr Reminds me of his brother from SW: I agree it's like the underwater version. I like the simplicity of the set but without additional Atlantis sets, this one would be pretty useless.
May 16, 201014 yr I checked 4 targets in our area and on the fourth trip I finally found them! They had more than 50 there all along the cash registers.
May 17, 201014 yr Thanks for the notification of this set, bxheist! I'm a huge collector of polybagged promo sets in the 30000s range, and I had to have this one when I first saw it. It was near the check-out stands, in the bottom right of the shelf holding the non-candy items; there were about 10 or so at each check-out stand, so maybe 100+ of them per Target. No need to hurry! Also, Club Code REG10 stands for "regular 2010", not "Regal Theatres", as some people had thought for the army man polybag in the Toy Story discussion thread. Hooray! EDIT: A couple of pics of my own copy of the set: Edited May 18, 201014 yr by ILikePi
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