Micro Rocket Launchpad available now!

Nooooooo! Bummer, I was really hoping this would last through March 1st. I was planning a big order. Hopefully the March GWP will be just as good.

Is this going to be tht only way to get these two space babies?

@allthenamesaretaken said:
" @ra226 said:
"Awww, man, even the box is all retro! I really have no choice here... Guess it's finally time to pull the trigger on 80054."

I was thinking the same thing"

I'm kind of torn between that or Eldorado, or a bunch of PaB parts. I'm likely to do 2 out of those choices.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @MandoEli37 said:
"Nooooooo! Bummer, I was really hoping this would last through March 1st. I was planning a big order. Hopefully the March GWP will be just as good."

Pre-orders also qualify and plenty of March sets are available to pre-order, such as Star Wars, Speed Champions, Harry Potter, NINJAGO and others."

I did not think of that! and Ninjago is exactly the theme I want! Thanks! Do you happen to know when the will be available for preorder?

@StyleCounselor said:
" @allthenamesaretaken said:
" @ra226 said:
"Awww, man, even the box is all retro! I really have no choice here... Guess it's finally time to pull the trigger on 80054."

I was thinking the same thing"

I'm kind of torn between that or Eldorado, or a bunch of PaB parts. I'm likely to do 2 out of those choices. "

I'd say PaB if you can make it work. Save el Dorado for another promo it'll be on shelf for a bit. PaB can come and go at random.

Not showing up o Lego.com for me. Wonder if it's already sold out.

I would order 42181 and 42179 (the threshold is $260 in Canada) but those two are not in the pre-order group.

What to do? And then, do I really want this? A part of me says: "no, this is not minifig scale". Another part of me says: "well this is a worthwhile tribute to Classic Space so I should get it". I'm feeling a bit like Smeagol/Gollum.

Keep in mind (stateside at least) that Bricks and Pieces qualifies towards GWPs! Go buy an Orca army and get Space Babies!

@Celldweller said:
"Is this going to be the only way to get these two space babies?"
That's the $200 question, isn't it?

I could honestly see it going either way. I love this promo regardless, so I'll be happy whether they're exclusive or not.

@classic_space17 said:
"Not showing up on Lego.com for me. Wonder if it's already sold out."
The codes before the article title (APAC+EU) means the article is only referring to the regions of Asian-Pacific and European Union.

The promotion didn't go live in the United States (and all of North America) until 12:00 midnight EST, which was just about an hour ago.

Is anyone else in the US having an issue placing an order?

^ Just got mine in, though the GWP was notlive when it was announced here. I waited a few hours and when it became available, I placed my order.

I'd love to see someone using this set in some sort of 'perspective' display.

Ok I still think it's kinda dumb that something this neat is locked behind being a $200 GWP (if it were a bit lower threshold I wouldn't have much of a problem), but honestly I find this whole microscale thing a fairly good solution to the complaints about updates of Classic theme sets being locked behind GWP, or at least palatable. It's really neat but it's not like.... /need/ in that way a full minifig-scale update would be.

@Davie7182 said:
"Is anyone else in the US having an issue placing an order?"

Yes. Payment will not process.

Well, only managed to get a ticket for one AC/DC concert in Amsterdam, not for a another one in Gelsenkirchen. That's 180 euro more to spend on Lego....might as well go for this one instead :-)

BTW: annoying that it's at least €200....and the Concorde costs only €199.99. Obviously fully intentional, but still....

@WizardOfOss said:
"Well, only managed to get a ticket for one AC/DC concert in Amsterdam, not for a another one in Gelsenkirchen. That's 180 euro more to spend on Lego....might as well go for this one instead :-)

BTW: annoying that it's at least €200....and the Concorde costs only €199.99. Obviously fully intentional, but still...."

You could add a brick separatator or some other cheap set to your order to go over the threshold.

@ryan_c_byrd said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
"BTW: annoying that it's at least €200....and the Concorde costs only €199.99. Obviously fully intentional, but still...."

I have had good luck in the past where the one penny got rounded up and I go the GWP anyway."

Nope, they didn't do that. But didn't matter in the end, instead of the Concorde I pre-ordered the McLaren MP4/4 and a bunch of Exclusives, which together happened to be just over €200.

I do still want that Concorde but I'm still hesitant since I have no proper place to display such a huge thing.

I was able to check out using PayPal without any issues around 12:15 last night. This seems always smoother than CC purchase, and faster too

Was going to get Lion Knights Castle but that’ll be another time. Instead have picked up Ornithopter, Space Rover, and mech bringing spend to £183. The micro space rocket is on eBay for £40+ but I thought why buy when I can get it for ‘free’ with other purchases.

@Celldweller said:
"Is this going to be tht only way to get these two space babies?"

They will pop up in P @B later for sure like other gwp pieces

Such a waste. They should just have produced it in normal scale with normal minifigures. This blows.

@cabbie said:
"I was able to check out using PayPal without any issues around 12:15 last night. This seems always smoother than CC purchase, and faster too"
You can't use gift cards with PayPal though :-(

@lordofdragonss said:
" @Celldweller said:
"Is this going to be tht only way to get these two space babies?"

They will pop up in P @B later for sure like other gwp pieces "

I did a big PaB to get the GWP. The terms say standard PaB won't count, but it's worked out in the past. The GWP popped into my bag. Purchase is confirmed.

I also bought the Monkie Kid City as a backup for a second copy. The terms don't appear to void multiple purchases any longer. In practice, they definitely haven't bothered since the pandemic.

Hard to tell if I should grab this now. Was considering Eldorado (since that's a must-buy to pair with my original), and this would probably sell for a good bit on the aftermarket. It's very cute but I don't really need spacebabies, and I have a number of original CS sets in minifig scale, though none of the sets recreated here.

@Davie7182 said:
"Is anyone else in the US having an issue placing an order?"

I did for a bit. I was rebuilding a PAB order (about 10% if it went out of stock), and I’d used a second window to add some sets to my cart. It choked on my PayPal payment, but when I closed the second window that was showing my shopping cart, I was able to get it to go through. Maybe if I hadn’t been sitting there repeatedly refreshing the second cart to see when it purged….

I did a $200 PAB order this morning - no issue with it being added. I did the same for the last promo as well. I actually had the GWP shipped to me before any of my bricks came in!

@ryan_c_byrd said:
"I have had good luck in the past where the one penny got rounded up and I go the GWP anyway."

From talking to LEGO Store employees, a $100 GWP may have a hard spend of $100, it may be exactly $99.99, or it may be even lower. In the latter case, they can’t find the true threshold unless they ring up two orders that land just above/below, and only one allows the GWP. For $99.98, that’s easy enough with two $49.99 sets, but trying to check $99.00 or $95.00 is more of a challenge.

Why they vary like this is unknown. They don’t get any warning, so the only ones that are an easy guess are GWPs that pair well with new D2C releases that cost just below the stated threshold. So, Modulars, or Winter Village are lines that have often had this penny forgiveness, if only because it’s cheaper than paying someone to take an irate phone call from every customer, and then send them free copies of the GWP anyways to placate their anger.

@Banners:
If you mean VIP rebates, those should apply before payment is submitted. I think you should be able to apply prepaid LEGO gift cards, too. If you mean splitting the payment between a prepaid credit card and PayPal, that would probably only work if you linked the card to your Paypal account as the preferred method of payment (and your normal preferred form as the “backup”).

@StyleCounselor:
Old rules from when there was Pick-a-Brick and Bricks & Pieces were that one counted and the other did not. Now that it’s PAB Bestseller and PAB Standard, both count.

Eh, went for it. Seems like it'll be a pretty popular GWP on the aftermarket, and I was 100% going to be getting Eldorado at some point. Hopefully it'll cover around 15% of the cost, not a bad discount considering I don't expect Lego to discount it any other time.

I ordered Eldorado Fortress 10320 to obtain this GWP - no interest in Spacebabies, so will probably sell them off if I build the set.

@StyleCounselor said:
"Soooo, your bank account is Back in Black?"
Well, this sure was one dirty deed not exactly done dirt cheap.

I’m not dropping $200 right now on Lego so I’ll miss this one. But I’ll be curious to see where the aftermarket prices land. A fun little set.

Well..., this has made me to finally pull the trigger on Eldorado :)

FOMO hit me hard this morning and I decided to get this. I selected three potential sets to get it: 10297, 10318 and 10320. All of them were backorder. I went for 10318 as this was exactly the threshold (minus one cent: 259.99) to get the GWP.

Is there a reason why the BrickLink Designer Program sets do not count towards this GWP?

Re 199.99 vs 200 and the threshold, prices in the Irish LEGO site and store are full EUR amounts like 20, 30, 200 etc. It has been like this since around mid August 2022.

I assumed this was the case globally, obviously not.

@gunther_schnitzel said:
"Re 199.99 vs 200 and the threshold, prices in the Irish LEGO site and store are full EUR amounts like 20, 30, 200 etc. It has been like this since around mid August 2022.

I assumed this was the case globally, obviously not."

Seriously Lego, this should not be difficult. Just put the threshold at: X minus 0.10 (in any and all currencies). This means you have to meet the threshold within 10 sets (some people prefer having lots of smaller sets than big sets and it's fine).

I was lucky this time around, I met the threshold of 260 with a set of 259.99 But I remember in the past not being able to do that.

@markyman20 said:
"Is there a reason why the BrickLink Designer Program sets do not count towards this GWP?"
No legitimate reason. But they owe me 2 valentine beardogs. ;o)

@CapnRex101 said:
" @MandoEli37 said:
" @CapnRex101 said:
" @MandoEli37 said:
"Nooooooo! Bummer, I was really hoping this would last through March 1st. I was planning a big order. Hopefully the March GWP will be just as good."

Pre-orders also qualify and plenty of March sets are available to pre-order, such as Star Wars, Speed Champions, Harry Potter, NINJAGO and others."

I did not think of that! and Ninjago is exactly the theme I want! Thanks! Do you happen to know when the will be available for preorder?"

Sorry, I thought NINJAGO was available for pre-order, but it seems not, at least in the US at the moment."

Man That stinks. I think I’ll just wait for the March GWP in that case.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Soooo, your bank account is Back in Black?"
Well, this sure was one dirty deed not exactly done dirt cheap."

That's because I've got the biggest balls of them all!

@ZeroGravitas said:
"I ordered Eldorado Fortress 10320 to obtain this GWP - no interest in Spacebabies, so will probably sell them off if I build the set."
I wound up getting Scary Pirate Island 40597 last October but will probably never open it as Pirates isn’t my thing :~S

I snagged this GWP, 40712, today and will definitely be opening it and adding it to my Classic Space display collection.

To reach the threshold, I got Japan Postcard 40713, Harry Potter: Forbidden Forest 76432, Jurassic World: Baby Dino Rescue Centre 76963, War Machine Mech 76277 as a gift for a friend, and a load of PaB parts including some white CS astronauts.

@Tuzi said:
"I'm betting on this GWP running again in June/July, like the blacktron and tahu sets did last year. I've already got plenty sets left to build and I can't justify spending another two hundred bucks on sets this time of year."

I’m banking on that too as the AU/NZ Lego store is sold out of so much stuff that I can’t find enough that I even want to get to the threshold. Very frustrating.

@PurpleDave said:
" @StyleCounselor :
Old rules from when there was Pick-a-Brick and Bricks & Pieces were that one counted and the other did not. Now that it’s PAB Bestseller and PAB Standard, both count."

Yeah. I suppose my point wasn’t as artfully expressed as I would like.

It was simply this: the terms still forbid PaB purchases from counting- even though they clearly do count in practice, and have for at least a couple years. Thus, the terms need an update.

Yet, they did bother to update (and change in practice) the terms regarding multiple purchases.

Perhaps even more bizarre, is that they did update the terms to reference "PaB standard pieces" as forbidden even though they clearly do count in practice.

Lex applicata v. lex scripta.

Seems incongruous, don't you think? But, it's Lego, after all.

I love classic space but sadly this just doesn't have that wow factor that compels me to spend £180+
The mini spacemen aren't enough.

Pity the new Snow White set wasn't available for preorder, but I got the Dune 'copter and a few small sets that had been on my wish list for some time instead. Wasn't going to worry about GWP for a while but this one did its job for TLG. Hope it does come back again for those of you whose desired sets weren't available at the moment!

Not really bothered about this, so it's a pass. As gwps go, I liked the year of the dragon, first one of that theme I haven't put on eBay.

I saw it as a built set today in the Lego Store.
Glad I didn't buy to reach the threshold. The space babies are nice. The rest not so much.

Although Lego is still promoting the GWP on the US site, it’s no longer added to my cart when I go over the threshold. Looks like it must have just sold out.

A shame since I’m going to be away for a few days and was hoping it would last long enough for me to order and have it arrive after I returned. I didn’t want it sitting outside in the rain.

I’m going to hope the local stores still have it after I return.

@PDelahanty said:
"Although Lego is still promoting the GWP on the US site, it’s no longer added to my cart when I go over the threshold. Looks like it must have just sold out.

A shame since I’m going to be away for a few days and was hoping it would last long enough for me to order and have it arrive after I returned. I didn’t want it sitting outside in the rain.

I’m going to hope the local stores still have it after I return."
It’s adding to my jazz club. Maybe check your totals again?

@yellowcastle said:
" @PDelahanty said:
"Although Lego is still promoting the GWP on the US site, it’s no longer added to my cart when I go over the threshold. Looks like it must have just sold out.

A shame since I’m going to be away for a few days and was hoping it would last long enough for me to order and have it arrive after I returned. I didn’t want it sitting outside in the rain.

I’m going to hope the local stores still have it after I return."
It’s adding to my jazz club. Maybe check your totals again?
"

I was trying with the museum before and it wasn’t there…but it is now. Must have been a glitch. (A glitch on Lego’s site?! Shocking!)

It was on the US web store this morning, it seems to be gone now. Bummer.

It will be back on Monday I suspect as it was only for insiders this weekend per @CapnRex101 above.

@yellowcastle said:
"It will be back on Monday I suspect as it was only for insiders this weekend per @CapnRex101 above."

Either they ran out from VIP orders or their system isn't updating properly. It doesn't appear in my cart after adding several items totaling $500.

@Vindic8ed said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"It will be back on Monday I suspect as it was only for insiders this weekend per @CapnRex101 above."

Either they ran out from VIP orders or their system isn't updating properly. It doesn't appear in my cart after adding several items totaling $500."

Me either. :o(. Pretty stupid 2 day GWP that LEGO couldn’t even make available to regular people.

It’s seriously gone already. The only have the duplo duck GWP!

Gone in the UK as well, wasn't there this morning when i checked!

@yellowcastle said:
" @Vindic8ed said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"It will be back on Monday I suspect as it was only for insiders this weekend per @CapnRex101 above."

Either they ran out from VIP orders or their system isn't updating properly. It doesn't appear in my cart after adding several items totaling $500."

Me either. :o(. Pretty stupid 2 day GWP that LEGO couldn’t even make available to regular people."

Yeah, kind of pathetic. I meant to order on Friday but totally forgot about it.

@MandoEli37 said:
" @CapnRex101 said:
" @MandoEli37 said:
" @CapnRex101 said:
" @MandoEli37 said:
"Nooooooo! Bummer, I was really hoping this would last through March 1st. I was planning a big order. Hopefully the March GWP will be just as good."

Pre-orders also qualify and plenty of March sets are available to pre-order, such as Star Wars, Speed Champions, Harry Potter, NINJAGO and others."

I did not think of that! and Ninjago is exactly the theme I want! Thanks! Do you happen to know when the will be available for preorder?"

Sorry, I thought NINJAGO was available for pre-order, but it seems not, at least in the US at the moment."

Man That stinks. I think I’ll just wait for the March GWP in that case."

As far as a March 1st GWP, I don't think any has been confirmed yet. I could be wrong though.

Looks like it's sold out, and prices on secondary market are around $50.

I just built it. It hits all the high notes for a Classic Space set. I hope you got one.

There are plenty in the Gateshead MetroCentre store UK. I got mine this morning!