Whew, I think I just dodged an expensive year!

Aren't these type of miniature buildings usually only available in Asia? Like the mini collection of modulars?

I have a large list of gwp saved searches on eBay awaiting purchases. If they're interesting, they'll get added to the list, otherwise no.

@daniellesa said:
"Aren't these type of miniature buildings usually only available in Asia? Like the mini collection of modulars?"

10230 was available outside of Asia.

The run of micro sets will look good in front of my larger ones.
They did the same thing at one point with Toys'R'Us and the Modular Creator sets up to a point. so I am happy to see the idea make a return.

These look neat, but thankfully I don't need them. I almost bought the larger sets back when they had sales, but LEGO canceled my order, so I never felt the need to buy any others.

I can't wait for those prices on eBay!

Nice but I don’t think I’m interested.., was hoping for Houses of the World 5 to 8, maybe next year!?

I liked the Houses of the World freebies and got them all. I have never bought a Ninjago set so have no particular interest in these, even though they do took pretty good.

However, as I still have several £250+ Lego exclusives waiting on my wishlist, I may end up getting these by default.

Not a Ninjago fan so these are not a must have for me. I only ended up with one of the Houses of the World series last year but not the one I liked the most. With the high spend threshold on these GWP's I'm getting more selective which ones I'm willing to spend rrp on sets to qualify for. I'll be waiting for something else that appeals to me.

No, I (almost certainly) won't be collecting these. I'm trying to wean myself off more brand-new Lego (I have enough to keep building for the rest of my life) and I have all the Ninjago City sets I want. Besides, the miniature versions just aren't very good representations of what makes the "real" sets so special.

Well, I will require & acquire them all!!

Having got all four main sets (two still to build) I could see me trying to get these as well, but I suspect on the secondary market rather than as GWPs.

Happily (or tragically), I love this idea, and luckily (or unluckily) I like to buy Monkie Kid sets that are only available to me via Lego.com. It's the perfect (or disastrous) situation!

It's rare for me to really want the GWPs, but in this case I'll want all four (and five and six and seven...)

Interesting that's it in the Ninjago theme rather than The Lego Ninjago Movie.

Cute, but unless they have a super reasonable target price I'll just buy 'em later on the secondary market. Even then it'll be cheaper than buying several sets (or a huge one) that probably won't get built for a longish time.

@yellowcastle said:
" @chefkaspa said:
"I don't get the point: The price threshold on recent GWPs was so high that I preferred not to buy at Lego.com. Instead I went for the 30% discount at a retailer or online shop.
Houses of the World I is the only one that I got but it didn't trigger anything to go for no II, III, or IV ( https://brickset.com/sets/subtheme-Houses-of-the-World ).
To me there is little attraction from Houses of the world or these tiny Ninjago sets.
Even 40586 seemed to be worth it's "price""
We here in the U.S. don’t have access to as many of those discounts, especially on exclusive sets. As such, it’s GWP or 2x points.
"

We don't really have access to discounts in Canada either, at least not in my part of the country. Plus, I will do everything I can not to buy from Amazon. Thus, I get 90% of the LEGO sets I buy from LEGO shop @home directly. That said, I sell 90% of the GWP I get, so I can get some of my money back.

I'm extremely interested in these four, that said. Looking forward for the threshold...

@Aardtacha said:
"Cute, but unless they have a super reasonable target price I'll just buy 'em later on the secondary market."
What about their Walmart price?

why do those look like many many pieces ...
$350 purcgase ammount lol

@Chilis_no said:
"I. don`t. need. them. (Please repeat after me)"
This is just my take, but the period after every word sounds like you're trying to convince yourself.

@bananaworld said:
"
Interesting that's it in the Ninjago theme rather than The Lego Ninjago Movie."

The Ninjago City sets switched from TLNM branding to regular old Ninjago with the Gardens. That set has a number of characters and references from the show.

I would love to have these, but I'm not going to get them either as GWPs or on the secondary market. If they were retail, I would consider it. Although the scaling between Ninjago City and the Gardens look off. I also have none of the modulars which makes things easier.

These look nice. If I can find them at an affordable price I'll try to collect them.

A second chance that takes up less space.

@Rabrickzel said:
" @ZeeMike said:
"Oh for bricks sake... Another line of desirable GWPs behind a high paywall.

Wait, I just described LEGO."

consumers are once who allow it. "

To a point. Super 7 made a change to one of their pre-order figures after 'hearing' the protests. I guess there weren't many pre-orders for it.

By the time Lego sets are officially presented protesting will not help.

Let's hope they don't include any exclusive pieces and us mortals will be able to buy them after getting the instructions!

Just checked if the instructions for 40594 are available - they are.
The only exclusive thing about the set seems to be the stickers, but I don't see any (on the front at least) on 40703.

I don't care about the boxes of GWPs since I'd like to display them anyway, so fingers crossed!

Just saw on another site that they would be an Insider Reward worth 6,500 point a each. I hope this is a joke…

@eiffel006 said:
"Just saw on another site that they would be an Insider Reward worth 6,500 point a each. I hope this is a joke…"

And here I was thinking a 250 spend was too much. Lego says let's make it a grand each.

@eiffel006 said:
"Just saw on another site that they would be an Insider Reward worth 6,500 point a each. I hope this is a joke…"
I doubt it's a joke, but it might be specific to China. Insider points don't work at Chinese retail stores, so they have less utility. It might make sense to use them for a GWP.

I am very skeptical that this would be the case in other markets. Many insider programs will feature points exclusives, but they will also sell points directly to allow customers to cover the difference in the balance. That's a revenue generation scheme. Lego doesn't offer that, and it takes time for points to accrue from purchases, so I don't think high point value exclusive rewards makes sense for Lego.

Awww, now this way I might get all 4 as I only have Ninjago City.

0 interest on it!

It would be interesting to have these as models in a Master Wu Ninjago Dojo or Ninjago Clubhouse MOC.
High Speding Threshold sounds bad to me....

I might have to pick them up on the secondary market .....

@yellowcastle, @eiffel006 said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @chefkaspa said:
"I don't get the point: ..."
We here in the U.S. don’t have access to as many of those discounts, especially on exclusive sets. As such, it’s GWP or 2x points.
"

We don't really have access to discounts in Canada either, at least not in my part of the country. Plus, I will do everything I can not to buy from Amazon. Thus, I get 90% of the LEGO sets I buy from LEGO shop @home directly. That said, I sell 90% of the GWP I get, so I can get some of my money back.

I'm extremely interested in these four, that said. Looking forward for the threshold...
"
I didn't know that.

Waiting for the re-release of 70620. If LEGO can pull themselves away from this week’s redesign of a tired SW vehicle, 70620 would go down very well.

@chefkaspa said:
" @yellowcastle , @eiffel006 said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @chefkaspa said:
"I don't get the point: ..."
We here in the U.S. don’t have access to as many of those discounts, especially on exclusive sets. As such, it’s GWP or 2x points.
"

We don't really have access to discounts in Canada either, at least not in my part of the country. Plus, I will do everything I can not to buy from Amazon. Thus, I get 90% of the LEGO sets I buy from LEGO shop @home directly. That said, I sell 90% of the GWP I get, so I can get some of my money back.

I'm extremely interested in these four, that said. Looking forward for the threshold...
"
I didn't know that.
"
For the most part, the U.S. lost discounts on exclusives more than 10 years ago. It got worse when Toys R Us shuttered. I once split a pair of BOGO modulars with another Brickset member. :o)

We can occasionally find a clearance reduction like with the Razor Crest but not often.

IMHO it will be one of those cases when box looks great, but set after build doesn't.
Why? Because lack of base (yes, sometimes lego put too many pieces into base - agree, but not making any base will make those models look cheap.

House of the world had ridiculous threshold (non license sets without minifigs!!!) if here will be similar I will consider it as insulting AFOL's again (after X-Men plane price).

For someone who doesn’t have the space for modulars, I’m liking the direction they’re taking…not so much for the price to get them though…

Looking forward to collecting them? Well, I will be if the spend threshold isn't so high as to make them unattainable for me. If that's the case, then the aftermarket going rate will likely be more than I can stomach as well.

@Maxbricks14 said:
""boat does not float" i'm going to try to prove Lego wrong by conducting an experiment. in my pool. so i did it with the two pieces and yes it does float. Quite well actually even if you push down on it. The only problem is it rolls on its side, so watch out citizens of Ninjago city!"

If you knock all of the air bubbles out of the parts, and then assemble them underwater, I think you'll find it will sink quite quickly. Or if you leave it in the water long enough, the air bubbles will dissolve into the water, and it will sink. I once built an entire Pirate ship (excluding the sails) underwater like this, because I wanted to use it as a decoration in a fishtank, and the air bubbles were enough to keep it from sinking. Once they were gone, the only parts that floated were those made of polyethylene, which was basically limited to the sabers. This actually resulted in a rather cool effect, as I had it crewed with old floppy-arm skeletons, so the sabers caused their sword arms to wave in the currents.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
""boat does not float" i'm going to try to prove Lego wrong by conducting an experiment. in my pool. so i did it with the two pieces and yes it does float. Quite well actually even if you push down on it. The only problem is it rolls on its side, so watch out citizens of Ninjago city!"

If you knock all of the air bubbles out of the parts, and then assemble them underwater, I think you'll find it will sink quite quickly. Or if you leave it in the water long enough, the air bubbles will dissolve into the water, and it will sink. I once built an entire Pirate ship (excluding the sails) underwater like this, because I wanted to use it as a decoration in a fishtank, and the air bubbles were enough to keep it from sinking. Once they were gone, the only parts that floated were those made of polyethylene, which was basically limited to the sabers. This actually resulted in a rather cool effect, as I had it crewed with old floppy-arm skeletons, so the sabers caused their sword arms to wave in the currents."

That's a great idea. The Silent Mary, 71042 would look amazing in a fish tank.

@Vickinator said:
"That's a great idea. The Silent Mary, 71042 would look amazing in a fish tank."

It would need to be a _large_ tank. I put 6250 in a 20gal tank, and that's about the limit of what I could get away with. My dorm at college had a 100gal tank, and even that might not have been big enough because it was long more than tall.

I'm not interested on the box because I recycle them so.. exchanging a large amount of insider points won't be worth it for me. However I can't wait to have the parts list as I probably have most, if not all, of the pices to build this :)

I got pictures of 40703's parts list, made a bricklink wanted list with it and exported it as XML so others can import it into the wanted list; here it is in case someone wants to start gathering the parts to build it from scratch :)

https://pastebin.com/qW9wBszc

Keep in mind this list doesn't include extra pieces; it's only the 339 parts of the build.