Green duck will cost a few pennies I guess, and the red is not cheap either, so good luck if you want to have a complete 3-D duck collection:P

This is absolutely superb! Not sure I'll be doing an Inside Tour anytime soon now but delighted for those people who will be able to visit the Vault and then receive this!

I was gifted 4000020 and we plan on using it to fund our trip to Japan in 2025.

The prices sure are steep. I would love to get my hands on one set someday.

Now how do I rob a bank...?

Love the idea, but the idea of putting all those stickers on makes me nervous beyond belief. This one would stay in the box. FYI, I am pretty sure the LiT "medals" are supposed to represent the lanyards participants get.

We have two Ferguson Tractors, but only built one. In my completely biased opinion, it is the best LiT set :) I think it will be a very long time before we sell one, and I don't see ever selling both. It's a priceless souvenir from a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Nice, but for me not a top scoring inside tour set.
My favourites are the Villy Thomson Truck, Ole Kirk's House, the Ferguson Tractor and last years fire engine :-)

Love seeing 6080 on the shelves

I would never have expected THE VAULT to be a first floor local library. Of course, I probably would have expected to see a penitent Juggernaut included so what do I know…

We are going on the tour in October, so I am very excited!

So if everyone on the tour gets one….. myself, wife, 3 kids =5…… build one…… keep 1 sealed….. 5-10 years later sell 3……. college paid for!

Nice to see 10024 Red Baron on shelves. I thought that in retrospect Lego would want to pretend that this set was never created... after recent exaggerated controversies, among others with Osprey.

Okay, does anybody have a guide to sneak into the insider tour?

This raises two questions for me:
1) What medium are people using these days to sell such expensive sets? I would hate to buy/sell something so pricy without being covered ...
2) How do we into those inside tours?

I have been craving a visit to the Lego House for a while now, this could be a nice combo visit!

Edit: answered my 2nd question with a quick search. But did my converter work properly when it says it costs nearly 3000€ per person??

@AustinPowers said:
" @dimc said:
"Those prices. People are insane. "
Just make something rare, and people will spend insane amounts of money on it.

If this was a regular retail set, people would find lots of things to critizise, but since it's an oh so precious inside tour gift, everyone is gushing about it.
I fail to see the appeal, but then again I wouldn't dream of wasting my time and money on such a thing anyway, while for others it's apparently an experience of a lifetime. Different people different preferences I guess. "

I would love to go on an in-depth tour, I think it'd be really cool to see all the history and how they make things, etc. Not sure I want to pay that much for it, but I can see the appeal. The sets though, that's just crazy. It's not like they're something crazy, it's just rare. And I'm a vintage collector, I know how certain things can be, but this is beyond my understanding. Multiple thousands of dollars for a new set that isn't even that interesting?

Today was the last day of LIT 4, so we received our sets at the farewell ceremony. They mentioned the confidentiality was ending today despite the 5th tour yet to run in September. The set is awesome, I can't decide whether or not to open my one!

@dimc said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @dimc said:
"Those prices. People are insane. "
Just make something rare, and people will spend insane amounts of money on it.

If this was a regular retail set, people would find lots of things to critizise, but since it's an oh so precious inside tour gift, everyone is gushing about it.
I fail to see the appeal, but then again I wouldn't dream of wasting my time and money on such a thing anyway, while for others it's apparently an experience of a lifetime. Different people different preferences I guess. "

I would love to go on an in-depth tour, I think it'd be really cool to see all the history and how they make things, etc. Not sure I want to pay that much for it, but I can see the appeal."
The only thing that I would love to know is how an outlet like monofigs.com can obtain all those monofig parts (in quantity) in colours never officially produced. I thought LEGO kept security tight. Apparently not. Then again, I don't think they would want to disclose such a fact. Annoying as it is.

Kind of feel that a ramp on the edge of the raised platform would have been a nice inclusion.

I wonder if there is an Indiana Jones set reference in there?

Edit: I don't think there is.

More images: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/1dl1975/lego_inside_tour_2024_exclusive_set_the_vault/

What's the Brickset policy on releasing images on these one-off LIT sets? Some of us haven't done our LIT 24 tour yet, having booked and paid months ago. However, the team at Lego informed us a few weeks back that images had been leaked by an early participant. I'm disappointed, to say the least, that Brickset chose to parrot Jay's when the 2024 LIT season hasn't concluded...
As an avid fan and daily user of Brickset you can only avoid an article like this for so long.

@Russell844 said:
" @theseasentinel said:
"What's the Brickset policy on releasing images on these one-off LIT sets? Some of us haven't done our LIT 24 tour yet, having booked and paid months ago. However, the team at Lego informed us a few weeks back that images had been leaked by an early participant. I'm disappointed, to say the least, that Brickset chose to parrot Jay's when the 2024 LIT season hasn't concluded...
As an avid fan and daily user of Brickset you can only avoid an article like this for so long."

The embargo is over. That's why everyone is posting the pictures."

Thanks, Russell. That's weird, though, that they would embargo the information at all if not long enough to cover the last tour.

4000001-1 MISB is £7000! I can’t imagine spending that much on one set.

@Tuzi said:
"I wish someone posted the instructions of these sets online already - would be fun to just build it with parts bought off Bricklink!

Those LIT necklaces though, sheesh"

yeah, i want those necklaces! they'll be insanely costly but it feels wrong that they exist now and the figures we got from the tour don't have them.

personally what i'm most curious about is seeing all the sets on display in the build! and are they stickers or prints. i imagine any exclusive stickers or prints in this set will be insanely expensive, if they end up on the market at all.

this is definitely one of the best inside tour sets i've seen since the one i got. much better than what i got too, but i'm not gonna be ungrateful lol!

@Huw said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @Russell844 said:
" @theseasentinel said:
"What's the Brickset policy on releasing images on these one-off LIT sets? Some of us haven't done our LIT 24 tour yet, having booked and paid months ago. However, the team at Lego informed us a few weeks back that images had been leaked by an early participant. I'm disappointed, to say the least, that Brickset chose to parrot Jay's when the 2024 LIT season hasn't concluded...
As an avid fan and daily user of Brickset you can only avoid an article like this for so long."

The embargo is over. That's why everyone is posting the pictures."

Thanks, Russell. That's weird, though, that they would embargo the information at all if not long enough to cover the last tour."

Yes it is odd that the embargo is not after the last tour but that's how it's been since they've been doing tours throughout the year.
"

Very many thanks for the insight.

When I did the tour in 2019, there were I think four in the spring and one in the fall. I did the first tour. We were told the embargo ended after the fourth tour. They specifically told us the participants of the fifth tour would receive an extra gift because of the spoiling of the tour set.

@MusiMus said:
"Nice to see 10024 Red Baron on shelves. I thought that in retrospect Lego would want to pretend that this set was never created... after recent exaggerated controversies, among others with Osprey."

There's a difference between a military machine that's still in use an a military machine that's been obsolete for more than a century.

I wish Lego had service for buying their stickers...

@Zander said:
" 4000001-1 MISB is £7000! I can’t imagine spending that much on one set."

me neither and i bet most people wont spend the 4000€ or similar for past sets of the line. a new ferguson tractor cost about 7000! That is insanity. The big question is who is willing to pay that much for a few legobricks? Honestly, i believe most people owning this set will most likely never open it trying to sell it their whole life until they die...
one of the ferguson traktor was sold in dec 2023 for about 2000 acording to bricklink. So this 7000€ seller will most likely never sell his for that price..
Also i think for the visitors of the tour its a special set, but for anyone else it just isnt. one might like the look of a set but there is more to it than just the looks if you have been on the tour.

I hate stickers but i love this stickers sheet!

I love that we get kicked in our nostalgia just by seeing abstracted versions of boxed sets. Abstracted versions of packaging that are burnt in our minds. Love it

Lego really need to stop with this stupid exclusives... it's so effing annoying...

They can do time exclusive with fancy boxes at these type of events/tour, but like for the love of god put them a year later available to everyone with the normal box on the Lego shop FFS!

@ALEXDTI said:
"Lego really need to stop with this stupid exclusives... it's so effing annoying...

They can do time exclusive with fancy boxes at these type of events/tour, but like for the love of god put them a year later available to everyone with the normal box on the Lego shop FFS!"

No, that's wrong. I have never been to the inside tour. But if ever I will be there I WANT something exclusive to commemorate this absolutely unique few days. Lego produces 700+ sets EACH YEAR, we can live with few exclusive sets like this. Don't let FOMO creep in your brain.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @MusiMus said:
"Nice to see 10024 Red Baron on shelves. I thought that in retrospect Lego would want to pretend that this set was never created... after recent exaggerated controversies, among others with Osprey."

There's a difference between a military machine that's still in use an a military machine that's been obsolete for more than a century."

I know but Osprey in a set is only a rescue rescue aircraft. Red Baron, even if it is historical, seems to be much more controversial as a Lego set, among other things because of the large Luftwaffe stickers.

@thor96 said:
" @ALEXDTI said:
"Lego really need to stop with this stupid exclusives... it's so effing annoying...

They can do time exclusive with fancy boxes at these type of events/tour, but like for the love of god put them a year later available to everyone with the normal box on the Lego shop FFS!"

No, that's wrong. I have never been to the inside tour. But if ever I will be there I WANT something exclusive to commemorate this absolutely unique few days. Lego produces 700+ sets EACH YEAR, we can live with few exclusive sets like this. Don't let FOMO creep in your brain."

Not everyone can afford 2000+ to go to the inside tour, not everyone swim in money, what's wrong in putting the set on the shop 1/2 year later with a regular box and available for everyone?
OH NO! How can reseller now will afford rent if they can't sell these sets?

People who go to the tour get in preview a set with an exclusive box, collectors will still pay 1000+ to get the exclusive set/box, and all regular people who just want the set can get it much later for a humane price

@AustinPowers said:
"The only thing that I would love to know is how an outlet like monofigs.com can obtain all those monofig parts (in quantity) in colours never officially produced. I thought LEGO kept security tight. Apparently not. Then again, I don't think they would want to disclose such a fact. Annoying as it is. "

You can use alcohol or car scratch removal paste to remove prints. Switching out arms does not leave damage marks if you do it the right way (the hand hole parallel to the back of the torso). Switching out hands definitely leaves no marks.
I am surprised not more people deal in unprinted figure parts considering how easy it is to create them.

@MusiMus said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @MusiMus said:
"Nice to see 10024 Red Baron on shelves. I thought that in retrospect Lego would want to pretend that this set was never created... after recent exaggerated controversies, among others with Osprey."

There's a difference between a military machine that's still in use an a military machine that's been obsolete for more than a century."

I know but Osprey in a set is only a rescue rescue aircraft. Red Baron, even if it is historical, seems to be much more controversial as a Lego set, among other things because of the large Luftwaffe stickers."

Those aren't Luftwaffe stickers, as the Luftwaffe didn't exist at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe They're Luftstreitkräfte stickers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftstreitkr%C3%A4fte The current German Air Force still uses a cross insignia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Force

I like the set, even with the apparent stickers in it, but Im at a point where Ill likely never see one of those sets, either getting 'gifted' one by LEGO after a tour, or getting one with what the after market prices are, but then again look at LEGO has become: An ultra premium toy company with insane prices on their sets and apparently aiming for a certain clientele, so I think its just passed me up at this point. Its a shame, I love LEGO, but it just seems to be a company getting a bit snobby and money chasing more than anything else at this point. Especially annoying to listen to their cheerleaders that keep rationalizing this. Yes,I get its a company wanting to make a profit (and should), but now it seems they want that above all else (including quality issues, and pricing many out of the reach of their products). Maybe it was being naive that I used to think LEGO was a bit under that, but not anymore.

TBH, I say good luck to any die-hard LEGO fans who want to spend 3 or 4 thousand pounds on one of these tours. Personally, I am not interested in the exclusive sets but I have been a completist in other collectables in my past so I fully understand the ire of those collectors who feel their collections cannot be truly completed without spending substantial amounts in the secondary market.

What I do want to say is that I wish contributors would stop talking about anger and FOMO. IMHO, many of the complaints on here are not anger at missing out but anger that TLG produces lavish tours and sets like this yet fails to get the basics right for the average customer. Stickers, website crashes, GWPs which run out almost immediately, sky-rocketing prices are just a few of the main gripes on here.

I may be alone in this but I am quite happy for any company to produce luxury tours and exclusive sets but only if they have addressed the basic issues affecting their customer base. That's what is causing unhappiness - not anger at missing out.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @MusiMus said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @MusiMus said:
"Nice to see 10024 Red Baron on shelves. I thought that in retrospect Lego would want to pretend that this set was never created... after recent exaggerated controversies, among others with Osprey."

There's a difference between a military machine that's still in use an a military machine that's been obsolete for more than a century."

I know but Osprey in a set is only a rescue rescue aircraft. Red Baron, even if it is historical, seems to be much more controversial as a Lego set, among other things because of the large Luftwaffe stickers."

Those aren't Luftwaffe stickers, as the Luftwaffe didn't exist at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe They're Luftstreitkräfte stickers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftstreitkr%C3%A4fte The current German Air Force still uses a cross insignia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Force"

Thank you for the correction, I had no such knowledge.

@yellowcastle said:
" @MusiMus said:
"Thank you for the correction, I had no such knowledge."

More of this and less high horse grandstanding could benefit some of our folks here. Thank you for a breath of fresh air @MusiMus and @TheOtherMike ."

No problem, and, as an aviation buff who's particularly interested in the planes of both World Wars (especially the second one), I was happy to help, @MusiMus .

I just want that sticker sheet!

@Russell844 said:
"When I did the tour in 2019, there were I think four in the spring and one in the fall. I did the first tour. We were told the embargo ended after the fourth tour. They specifically told us the participants of the fifth tour would receive an extra gift because of the spoiling of the tour set."

We did the fall tour in 2018. We had the set spoiled in the spring, which was alright. There are a couple of personal reasons, but The Ferguson tractor is super special to us. Had we not known about it ahead of time, I think the reveal on the last day would have been totally overwhelming. I almost broke down once or twice as it is from the information and sensory overload.

Oddly, the few spring participants we talked too were told that the fall tour would be getting something else entirely, but that never happened. No idea who miscommunicated what.

@The_Rancor said:
" @MLF what kind of trophy did you win? I’m always interested to hear what it was for and how it was designed as a fellow winner!"

It was for Best Parts Usage. It was a pretty simple bird model, but I guess it caught some designer's eye. Just recently a set of the same bird, at about the same size appeared, haha.

The actual trophy we got was a bit on the plain side, which is fine, as we would have struggled to get it home. Some of the other's were huge. The one Justin Ramsden designed was as big as the main tower in 71043 .

I waited to respond because I wanted to keep this info low key. Not sure how other former participants feel, but I am always a little hesitant to share details many about the tour because:

-I want keep as a bit of surprise for future participants

-The experience could change, and I wouldn't want anyone to have incorrect expectations

-It wasn't made super clear by TLG what we should and shouldn't share, and most of the time we were told not to share. Maybe this is less of an issue, since nothing we were shown in 2018 (i.e. 3D printing) is a secret anymore.

-and unfortunately just bringing it up in the past has lead to negative comments, as can be seen in this thread already. It was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us, we would not be in a position now to repeat, but even just being able to do it once makes us rich, elitist so-and-sos, etc. Don't need that interfering with our happy memories.