Does that mini F1 car have stickers? Would that be a first for a recruitment/poly bag?

Paper bags in sets and gwp 'poly bags' both being called paper bags can be a bit confusing. Maybe we need a new term for paper bag gwps/small sets, given that we still talk about paper bags in boxed sets as a new thing (despite should be fully integrated at this point)

These look cute, Boo cute.

I haven't even got any of the January sets. It's a tight-monied time/year. :(

White Moon Knight crescents as a halo? I wonder if we see this piece in the summer Ninjago wave.

@KyloBen1012 said:
"Paper bags in sets and gwp 'poly bags' both being called paper bags can be a bit confusing. Maybe we need a new term for paper bag gwps/small sets, given that we still talk about paper bags in boxed sets as a new thing (despite should be fully integrated at this point)"

Or how about calling them wax coated. Can they even be recycled like actual paper or is the supposed environmental aspect how we can burn them like coal?

@Sethro3 said:
"I was organizing old boxed sets recently in my LEGO room and I came across the old London Bus set that I have sitting around that is worthless. Do we need another one?"

Especially since the old Routemaster busses were retired about 20 years ago.

@Sethro3 said:
"I was organizing old boxed sets recently in my LEGO room and I came across the old London Bus set that I have sitting around that is worthless. Do we need another one?"

The old 4-wide one is still 20% off here and has been for months.

30736 White Seaplane is very interesting!

Bit confused by the "recruitment bag" description. Does that mean it's a gift with purchase (perhaps with the Speed Champions F1 Academy set) or a separate purchase?

@ra226 said:
"Missed opportunity for a Speed Champions London Bus."

If that happened, I would be so very happy. Right now I'm using a recolored and heavily modified 2019 Knight Bus for that duty.

I'd welcome a City type London bus.

I guess I could do the smaller tour bus.

@yellowcastle and @Watsonite, I agree that ‘recruitment bag’ is an ugly mouthful. Maybe we should call them ‘RB’ and retire the term ‘polybag’.

@ra226 said:
"Missed opportunity for a Speed Champions London Bus."

10258 is almost a Speed Champions London Bus

@darthnorman said:
"White Moon Knight crescents as a halo? I wonder if we see this piece in the summer Ninjago wave."

I just want one to customize my Samurai X PIXAL. Hopefully the polybag won't be hard to get my hands on, or it'll make its way into some Ninjago sets. I'm still surprised at how rare the gold version has remained — it's just in Moon Knight and Cole's Titan Mech.

@woosterlegos said:
"Does that mini F1 car have stickers? Would that be a first for a recruitment/poly bag?"

The F1 car is Speed Champions, and I think all of the Speed Champions recruitment bags have had stickers. It’s a little annoying and I wouldn’t recommend them to kids who’d want to play with them since the builds are also quite fragile, but they do look good when you line them up and of course Speed Champions fans are pretty used to stickers in the standard sets. You’re right that it’s unusual in other themes - I think 40178 Iconic VIP Set is the only non-Speed Champions recruitment bag I’ve picked up that had stickers and that’s quite old now.

30734 is a good companion for the McLaren Polybag. I really appreciate this model more than collectable F1.

Sully Brickheadz is amost unrecognizable. The wole set is quite pretty, anyway.

40953 is the 6-wide version of the just discontinued 40220. Frankly I don't feel the need of a more espensive, larger and a bit more detailed version of the same thing. A change of scale ould be appreciated instead.

Wish I would love that Monsters Inc. set.....but somehow it's just not working for me.

Nothing to say about any of the other ones.

@woosterlegos said:
"Does that mini F1 car have stickers? Would that be a first for a recruitment/poly bag?"

No the Speed Champions polybags have def included stickers in the past (yuck but understandable I guess)

I sometimes verge on toxic positivity defending Lego's creative choices, but I draw the line at Mike Wazowski's eye. It needs to be much, much bigger. I will correct this mistake myself in a custom mod.

It's relatively on-model, but BrickHeadz are already taking creative license, and this just doesn't read.

Sully looks like a Dragon Tales character

Monsters Inc set doesn’t work at all. Boo is the only one that represents the character. Also Mike is impossible as brickhead because of the lack of his mouth. And the only thing about Sully making him Sully are the colors. Skip!

However i like the Fortnite ones. Especially Fishstick. Might buy.

@TheBrickKnight said:
"Bit confused by the "recruitment bag" description. Does that mean it's a gift with purchase (perhaps with the Speed Champions F1 Academy set) or a separate purchase? "

No, it means neither of those things. It means polybag, but in marketing-speak rather than AFOLese.

(I assume the idea is that it's meant to "recruit" you into trying out Speed Champions or Technic by giving you a small taste of what the full-sized sets are like.)

I'm not a huge fan of Technic, but I love the Technic polybags. They kind of remind me of Erector sets. I own 30710 myself

I love Fortnite Brickheadz. Their designs capture me for some reason. I’ve never played Fortnite. Day 1 purchase

really not clear on why they didn't just recolor the already-existing BrickHeadz Minion eye for Mike Wazowski
the way they chose to go about it looks... bad

They should have made two eyes for Mike for accuracy to the meme.

Appetizer Menu, dine in only.

@Sethro3 said:
"I was organizing old boxed sets recently in my LEGO room and I came across the old London Bus set that I have sitting around that is worthless. Do we need another one?"

Came here to comment this, so good that I was already beat.

Tempted to get 40953, since it's an upgrade from the 40220 I already own. Will definitely be picking up 30736 if I can find it. I like 40861, but I may have to clear out some space for it.

@skulleigh said:"I kept scrolling back and forth through the page thinking I was just missing the set that looked like a paper bag and wondering why anyone would want to build a paper bag model until I finally re-read the text.

I need more tea."

I didn't have to reread anything, but I was still like, "Wait, what?"

@AustinPowers said:
" @Watsonite said:
"The term 'recruitment bag' is terrible. 'Polybag' was an established concept, and 'poly' refers just as much to versatile themes and topics as it does to the packaging itself. 'Recruitment bag' sounds like a duffel bag for conscripted soldiers. Ridiculous."
I will always be calling these kinds of sets Polybags, as in Greek "poly" meaning "many". I never thought the term was referring to the material of the packaging. "

I never thought that it could mean anything else.

@huw is the supply llama now the biggest (by overall takeup of space) brickheadz ever made? I know the Han Solo in Carbonite might be a close second...

@Sethro3 said:
"I was organizing old boxed sets recently in my LEGO room and I came across the old London Bus set that I have sitting around that is worthless. Do we need another one?"

They’re still popular icons of London. If this one is a regular retail set, I imagine it’ll be stocked in shops all across London. It’s like the X-Wing of England. I’ll probably get it. I have two of the GWP, the big one, my 8-wide MOC, probably none of the sets that came with microscale versions (but those are easy enough to build from loose parts), and technically buried amongst the boxes of my childhood collection I should have the old STAMPy model that used to belong to my brother.

@Anonym said:
"Or how about calling them wax coated. Can they even be recycled like actual paper or is the supposed environmental aspect how we can burn them like coal?"

Could steal a term from baseball cards and call them Wax Packs. And my local LEGO Store’s manager did point out that they’re biodegradable, which is not true of the polybags that preceded them.

@MonsterFighter said:
"Especially since the old Routemaster busses were retired about 20 years ago."

When I built my MOC back in 2012, they had mostly retired them, but on portions of two routes, for part of the day, you could still ride on one of the oldies. I only had room for six letter tiles across the front, and needed four for “2012” and a fifth for a space, so mine ended up being Route 9. Later on I heard the two-digit route had stopped running them, and it was just portions of Route 9 left, but now you’ve got me wondering if even that has ended.

Recruitment bag is the new term for polybags? Genuinely thought that name was for employee sets or something like that…

@axeleng said:
" @Everyone said: "Recruitment bag is a terrible, terrible name"

If the idea is to "recruit" new people to the hobby, they at the very least has to be easily available. Not GWPs, not random store exclusives, not locked away in a warehouse in Billund. Available. As in "actually possible to buy".

@AustinPowers said: "I will always be calling these kinds of sets Polybags, as in Greek "poly" meaning "many". I never thought the term was referring to the material of the packaging"

Doesn't that name still fit with the packaging, given how they're made from multiple materials (paper+plastic), the very reason they're hard/impossible to recycle?"
All the more reason to keep calling them Polybags

I just hope that 30734 Mini F1 ACADEMY Car will be available as a GWP as some previous ones have been. The lack of easy local availability of the paper/polybags is a real pain that often means having to pay well over the odds for them.

P.S. If Recruitment Bag is, as some have said, just the new name for polybags, then it's an awful name.
If it's just the name for sets used to recruit sales targets, then it's a perfect name.

@kyrodes said:
" @ra226 said:
"Missed opportunity for a Speed Champions London Bus."

10258 is almost a Speed Champions London Bus"

That’s the one bus that i yearn for. I scratched an itch with 76446 last year but that Creator Expert Routemaster is still a must-have (or at least overdue for a re-release) I was almost gonna buy 21347but it didn't do it for me in the end and for that price i know which would be a more satisfying build.

@Andrusi said:
" @TheBrickKnight said:
"Bit confused by the "recruitment bag" description. Does that mean it's a gift with purchase (perhaps with the Speed Champions F1 Academy set) or a separate purchase? "

No, it means neither of those things. It means polybag, but in marketing-speak rather than AFOLese.

(I assume the idea is that it's meant to "recruit" you into trying out Speed Champions or Technic by giving you a small taste of what the full-sized sets are like.)"

Ah, thank you. That makes sense now.

The bag thing confused me too (I'm autistic, it happens) but once it was explained I get it. I'm not a fan of the term but really only LEGO themselves would use that term so it's hardly an issue. I do want that F1 Academy one though.

Not really sure what the deal with the London Bus is, it didn't need to be redone.

Quite like the Fortnite two-pack, mostly because it's our first LEGO Fishstick (one of my favourites from Fortnite).

The main thing I don’t like about “recruitment bag” is it’s really quite long, especially compared to “polybag”. But it’s quite petty as complaints go.

I don't care what TLG calls the polybags. Fight me, Kristiansen.