New magnets available in Insiders Rewards Centre
Posted by Huw,
The latest non-brick-based collectables available in the Insiders rewards centre are these three magnets, which can be acquired in exchange for 2,250 points each.
I am not usually a fan of such items, but the Lion Knights' shield, Classic Space logo, and wooden duck are very well-made and appealing, and will look great stuck on a fridge door.
They each come in a small cardboard box, well wrapped in tissue paper to avoid abrasion in transit.
It's not evident from the photos in the Rewards centre that they come with a stand and a steel sheet that matches their shape, which provides a way to display them should you not wish to attach them to your fridge or magnet board.
The 4mm-thick base is cast in the same metal that has been used for collectable coins and so on in the past, so it's fairly hefty. The 1mm steel sheet that forms the vertical part of the stand adds further heft to the assembled item.
The magnets themselves are 3mm thick and enamelled, so the colours are well-defined and bright. There are one or two minor scratches on mine, but you have to look closely to see them.
A piece of plastic magnet sheet inlaid in the back provides the piece with the necessary magnetism.
Overall, they seem to be better quality than similar items that have been offered in the past and, what with them depicting popular passion points from LEGO's history, I think they will be popular.
2,250 points is the equivalent to a discount of £14 / (~$18?) so they are fairly pricey, but if you collect things like this, and have points to spare, you will not be disappointed.
Head on over to the Insiders rewards centre to acquire them.
Goat and minifig for scale:
Thanks to LEGO for providing these items for this article. All opinions expressed are my own.
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You gave us dimensions on the bases and such but can you give us the sizes of the magnets themselves? LEGO doesn't provide the size info .
It's hard to gauge from the pictures but how big are they? I couldn't find any dimensions listed anywhere of them.
I would call them out for price gouging, but it's become the norm with all things LEGO it seems, so I won't even bother.
Wouldn't waste my points on anything that isn't bricks anyway. Easy pass.
Good point --
Lion Kinghts' shield is 43mm wide by 50mm high
Classic Space logo 70mm wide
Duck 50mm tail to beak
@Huw said:
"Good point --
Lion Kinghts' shield is 43mm wide by 50mm high
Classic Space logo 70mm wide
Duck 50mm tail to beak"
Thanks for that!
I've added a picture to the end so you can better judge their size.
@Huw said:
"I've added a picture to the end so you can better judge their size."
GOAT
I’d say they’re worth about £4 each, but having to do multiple orders to get 1 per order is always going to be the waste of money for things like these!
@Huw said:
"I've added a picture to the end so you can better judge their size."
Brilliant!
Maybe a touch on the pricey side, but I couldn't resist the duck.
Lego needs to put the sizes on the rewards page. I think they are bigger than most people believe.
Like these but with the Ninjago City sets and the fact you can't add more than one to an order means I have to pick which ones I can get.
These are very cool but boy are they expensive.
I think these look great, and the price is OK too. All 3 grabbed!
Let's get real. They're the price of 20 cigarettes or 3 pints of beer... and far healthier!
At least the Royal Knights emblem has not been referenced for the umpteenth time this year alone.
I don't use Lego.com to purchase directly and I probably won't get these from the aftermarket, but for a non-lego reword they could have done much worse.
By the way, the Royal Knighs were a subtheme from the mid 90s which is not to be confused with the Lion Knights, which were from the 80s and featured an entire lion... or with King Leo's faction from Knights Kingdom I (2000) which features the same lion but a different blue background.
Edit: It turns out today's RMotD is a Lion Knight! So there you can see what I was rambling on about.
I see no attraction in magnets
If I weren't saving up my points for those two Space Ideas rewards, I'd be sorely tempted; the stand is an especially nice touch. And @Huw, I'm not impressed by you flexing your PG (Original Goat), I got 7189 too.
@one_wag said:
"I see no attraction in magnets"
I find them quite... magnetic.
Damn they look nice when displayed
But € 15,00 a piece ..........
@one_wag said:
"I see no attraction in magnets"
Surely you mean they’re very attractive objects?
Had it been a crown or on a field purpure, I would have been tempted.
@Binnekamp said:
"At least the Royal Knights emblem has not been referenced for the umpteenth time this year alone.
I don't use Lego.com to purchase directly and I probably won't get these from the aftermarket, but for a non-lego reword they could have done much worse.
By the way, the Royal Knighs were a subtheme from the mid 90s which is not to be confused with the Lion Knights, which were from the 80s and featured an entire lion... or with King Leo's faction from Knights Kingdom I (2000) which features the same lion but a different blue background.
Edit: It turns out today's RMotD is a Lion Knight! So there you can see what I was rambling on about."
Basics the Lion Knights have an Or lion rampant upon a field azure while the Royal Knights have an Or lion’s head guardant upon a field per pale argent and gules, and Leo’s soldiers also have an Or lion’s head guardant but upon a saltire Or field azure.
Everybody got that? XD
...brought to you by the Observer Book Of Heraldry..
All three for 2250 would be a lot more reasonable. $22 for a tiny magnet is a bad deal.
I'm in the minority here in the comments, but I absolutely love these. I even like them more than the mini-Ninjago City sets, which are also super cool.
Yes, it'll take some time to collect them all with the annoyance of one VIP/Insider Reward per Lego online purchase, but I'll take that over the aftermarket.
@Brickalili said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"At least the Royal Knights emblem has not been referenced for the umpteenth time this year alone.
I don't use Lego.com to purchase directly and I probably won't get these from the aftermarket, but for a non-lego reword they could have done much worse.
By the way, the Royal Knighs were a subtheme from the mid 90s which is not to be confused with the Lion Knights, which were from the 80s and featured an entire lion... or with King Leo's faction from Knights Kingdom I (2000) which features the same lion but a different blue background.
Edit: It turns out today's RMotD is a Lion Knight! So there you can see what I was rambling on about."
Basics the Lion Knights have an Or lion rampant upon a field azure while the Royal Knights have an Or lion’s head guardant upon a field per pale argent and gules, and Leo’s soldiers also have an Or lion’s head guardant but upon a saltire Or field azure.
Everybody got that? XD"
I thought I was having a stroke reading this
Doubt it but are the magnets strong enough you could hide the steel backplate inside your shirt or other and attach the magnet on the outside?
Regardless, expensive but had to jump on the classic space logo. Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo.
These look great!
@Belboz said:
"...brought to you by the Observer Book Of Heraldry.."
Oh the memories. The last one I had was the Observer's Book of Automobiles... with the newly released Morris Marina on the cover!
@Gataka said:
"Doubt it but are the magnets strong enough you could hide the steel backplate inside your shirt or other and attach the magnet on the outside? "
If it worked, that would be particularly fun to do with the Classic Space logo; pretend it was a Star Trek: The Next Generation-era communicator. "Away team to Galaxy Explorer..."
@sjr60 said:
"Let's get real. They're the price of 20 cigarettes..."
20 cigarettes (about one pack) are 14 Pounds in the UK? Wow.
If only that was the case here too.
@Binnekamp said:
" @Brickalili said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"At least the Royal Knights emblem has not been referenced for the umpteenth time this year alone.
I don't use Lego.com to purchase directly and I probably won't get these from the aftermarket, but for a non-lego reword they could have done much worse.
By the way, the Royal Knighs were a subtheme from the mid 90s which is not to be confused with the Lion Knights, which were from the 80s and featured an entire lion... or with King Leo's faction from Knights Kingdom I (2000) which features the same lion but a different blue background.
Edit: It turns out today's RMotD is a Lion Knight! So there you can see what I was rambling on about."
Basics the Lion Knights have an Or lion rampant upon a field azure while the Royal Knights have an Or lion’s head guardant upon a field per pale argent and gules, and Leo’s soldiers also have an Or lion’s head guardant but upon a saltire Or field azure.
Everybody got that? XD"
I thought I was having a stroke reading this"
I’ve long believed heraldry’s arcane and obtuse language is designed that way solely to keep people from understanding it properly, so that feeling may be the point…
@AustinPowers said:
" @sjr60 said:
"Let's get real. They're the price of 20 cigarettes..."
20 cigarettes (about one pack) are 14 Pounds in the UK? Wow.
If only that was the case here too. "
Yep... about £13 - £17 per packet. Not that it would bother me if they were £100 per packet! It just makes me thankful that I've never smoked and that my brick addiction is much cheaper!
@sjr60 said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @sjr60 said:
"Let's get real. They're the price of 20 cigarettes..."
20 cigarettes (about one pack) are 14 Pounds in the UK? Wow.
If only that was the case here too. "
Yep... about £13 - £17 per packet. Not that it would bother me if they were £100 per packet! It just makes me thankful that I've never smoked and that my brick addiction is much cheaper!"
Indeed.
But if cigarettes are THAT expensive in the UK, I wonder how smokers can even afford their vice any longer.
@Gataka said:
"Doubt it but are the magnets strong enough you could hide the steel backplate inside your shirt or other and attach the magnet on the outside?
Regardless, expensive but had to jump on the classic space logo. Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
You could use rare earth magnets inside your shirt to attach the magnets on the outside.
@AustinPowers said:
" @sjr60 said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @sjr60 said:
"Let's get real. They're the price of 20 cigarettes..."
20 cigarettes (about one pack) are 14 Pounds in the UK? Wow.
If only that was the case here too. "
Yep... about £13 - £17 per packet. Not that it would bother me if they were £100 per packet! It just makes me thankful that I've never smoked and that my brick addiction is much cheaper!"
Indeed.
But if cigarettes are THAT expensive in the UK, I wonder how smokers can even afford their vice any longer. "
Same as always, cheap ones bought on the black market imported from Europe.
@CCC said:
" @Gataka said:
"Doubt it but are the magnets strong enough you could hide the steel backplate inside your shirt or other and attach the magnet on the outside?
Regardless, expensive but had to jump on the classic space logo. Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
You could use rare earth magnets inside your shirt to attach the magnets on the outside."
Would need to be careful of various metallic bodily adornments....
@Gataka said:
"Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
I'd love to see the 1964 LEGO System logo plus colour bars as a magnet.
@sjr60 said:
" @Gataka said:
"Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
I'd love to see the 1964 LEGO System logo plus colour bars as a magnet."
Or maybe a collection of such magnets. 5007504 just might have put that idea in my head..
I don't even understand what are they for? To small for decoration, too big to wear, to expensive to collect.
@TheOtherMike said:
"If I weren't saving up my points for those two Space Ideas rewards, I'd be sorely tempted; the stand is an especially nice touch. And @Huw, I'm not impressed by you flexing your PG (Original Goat), I got 7189 too.
@one_wag said:
"I see no attraction in magnets"
I find them quite... magnetic."
I must be on the wrong side. They repell me.
I think I'm finished with non-lego lego.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @sjr60 said:
" @Gataka said:
"Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
I'd love to see the 1964 LEGO System logo plus colour bars as a magnet."
Or maybe a collection of such magnets. 5007504 just might have put that idea in my head.."
Yes, absolutely. I have that print too, and all of the Logo keyrings. The colour bars and split 'O' were special to me as that was Lego before my 44 year break!
@MrNobody said:
"I don't even understand what are they for? To small for decoration, too big to wear, to expensive to collect."
They're not 'for' anything. Perfect for decoration. Some like them, some don't. Absolutely fine either way.
Some seem to get angry about them though, and that's really weird!
@one_wag said:
"I see no attraction in magnets"
Of course not. The four forces, including magnetism, are invisible.
@sjr60 said:
" @Gataka said:
"Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
I'd love to see the 1964 LEGO System logo plus colour bars as a magnet."
I'd rather have more key chains than anything. Those I use as Christmas tree ornaments.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @sjr60 said:
" @Gataka said:
"Hope they make more, classics like Blacktron or Octan, and modern ones like Vita Rush or the new-ish city exploration logo. "
I'd love to see the 1964 LEGO System logo plus colour bars as a magnet."
I'd rather have more key chains than anything. Those I use as Christmas tree ornaments. "
Yes, more interesting key chains would be good, so long as there are still plenty to buy normally as order total topper uppers!
I think they ask for too much points, plus, it's still baffle me that you can't add more than one gift to the basket, you have to do 3 separate orders if you want all of them, which is bonkers and so stupid
@MLF said:
"Maybe a touch on the pricey side, but I couldn't resist the duck.
Lego needs to put the sizes on the rewards page. I think they are bigger than most people believe."
I think they also need to increase the size of the pictures of the rewards. It's very hard to judge certain items without doing an online search first.
Who the heck needs stands for such tiny magnets? Not even all 3 together are worth paying 15€ for considering these all come from a sweatshop in China and cost a few Cents to produce. Instead of trying to rip off their most loyal Insiders customers with cheap tin souvenirs, TLG should find a proper incentive for people to actually want to buy something at full price from their buggy website.
@R0Sch said:
"Who the heck needs stands for such tiny magnets? Not even all 3 together are worth paying 15€ for considering these all come from a sweatshop in China and cost a few Cents to produce. Instead of trying to rip off their most loyal Insiders customers with cheap tin souvenirs, TLG should find a proper incentive for people to actually want to buy something at full price from their buggy website."
I can tell you're getting impatiently waiting for yours to arrive....
I almost grabbed one until I saw the price. Unfortunate
I just opened the shipment I received last week, and took the Space logo out of the box. I'm a bit disappointed that the back piece sits so loosely in the base, and the planet looks more brown vs how gold it appears in these photos (hey, at least it's not pukey pink), but otherwise it turned out really nice. I don't have any particular interest in the shield, but I may consider picking up the duck at some point. First, however, I need to secure the two Ninjago sets I got codes for.
@PurpleDave said:
"I just opened the shipment I received last week, and took the Space logo out of the box. I'm a bit disappointed that the back piece sits so loosely in the base, and the planet looks more brown vs how gold it appears in these photos (hey, at least it's not pukey pink), but otherwise it turned out really nice..."
I got mine yesterday and I was also disappointed on how loose it sits in the stand. And compared to the duck (at least in the pictures) the yellow doesn't feel nearly as vibrant as it could have been.
The Tiago Catarino review answered my question: the magnets are not strong enough to hold through clothing.
He also pointed out that the color of the classic space logo is accurate to what it looks like on the classic space minifigures (closer to muted gold than vibrant yellow).