LEGO Insiders Days promotions available now, including Sea Serpent GWP!

Sea Serpent gone already here in Australia.

Got one

Except it's not available now in the USA, have to wait until the 7th. If they're going that fast in Australia i might have to get on a midnight rather than wait until morning.

Was planning on getting 10337 next time Argos had it reduced again, so grabbed it now on lego.com for £30 off. Fully expect Argos to have it for £50 off by tomorrow!

@oldtodd33 said:
"Except it's not available now in the USA, have to wait until the 7th. If they're going that fast in Australia i might have to get on a midnight rather than wait until morning. "

Probably not. Oceania really does get shafted on pretty much every promotion. I can’t speak for Europe, but it’s been a while since I saw a GWP sell out within 24 hours for the US market (not sure if Canada is rolled in with the US, or handled separately these days). I think the LotR Fell Beast might have been the last one I actually noticed sell out that fast, and that was two years ago. Both of the next two LotR GWPs had plenty of stock.

@PurpleDave said:
" @oldtodd33 said:
"Except it's not available now in the USA, have to wait until the 7th. If they're going that fast in Australia i might have to get on a midnight rather than wait until morning. "

Probably not. Oceania really does get shafted on pretty much every promotion. I can’t speak for Europe, but it’s been a while since I saw a GWP sell out within 24 hours for the US market (not sure if Canada is rolled in with the US, or handled separately these days). I think the LotR Fell Beast might have been the last one I actually noticed sell out that fast, and that was two years ago. Both of the next two LotR GWPs had plenty of stock."

Yes, Australia seems to get bent over quite a bit but I've learned if you want something get it now. I recently bought the 40893 GWP as a presale from someone on flebay and they were supposed to ship it by June 15th. Well, they missed the order time for 11377 and it went out of stock and Lego doesn't ship the GWP until it comes back in stock so I ended up filing for a refund and I'm sure the seller didn't like that but I'm not losing what I paid for it waiting for him to get his GWP copy. Besides it's the perfect excuse to buy the Police Train. It isn't double VIP which I prefer but I should get two GWP's for the effort.

Was planning on getting the Tintin rocket to get the Sea Serpent but then I saw Jaws with a small deal on it (only 20%) - still, the set is retiring soon and I kind of wanted it but not at full price. So I got that plus PaB plus small city sets not on amazon. At that pace, I might finish the year 2026 with my wishlist completely empty - which will make things significantly more manageable going forward - lately I had to scramble to get some sets before they retire.

I had three sets in mind to get to earn the sea serpent, 11505, 11511 and 60506. Then 60506 went temporarily out of stock, again, so I had to improvise and get 11514, 80120 instead.

It only gets me £8 worth of insiders points, but I'd rather do that then order the serpent off Ebay. I sell gwps there but I don't sell for outrageous amounts, I go by lego value, which is £19.99 for the sea serpent, not the amounts I've seen going.

I do wish lego would raise the point ratio though. £8 for £162 does not seem good value.

@daniellesa said:
"I had three sets in mind to get to earn the sea serpent, 11505, 11511 and 60506. Then 60506 went temporarily out of stock, again, so I had to improvise and get 11514, 80120 instead.

It only gets me £8 worth of insiders points, but I'd rather do that then order the serpent off Ebay. I sell gwps there but I don't sell for outrageous amounts, I go by lego value, which is £19.99 for the sea serpent, not the amounts I've seen going.

I do wish lego would raise the point ratio though. £8 for £162 does not seem good value. "

Not sure if you will keep this one but going from your second paragraph, that means £28 for £162 - which is nothing to go crazy about but fair I guess. You can probably sell it at £25 and still be well below most sellers. I also got a tiny amount (5% like everyone else!) for my order and one of my set is on backorder - so the spending for it will occur later.

30% off 21356 was nice. No 40912 GWP, no 5010053 GWP either (only certain themes and not Ideas), it's always uncertain whether you will get a GWP so most of the time it doesn't matter to me. Having said that I was pleased (and lucky) to get 40712, 40767 and 40686 in the last couple of years.

Thankfully I don't have nostalgia for the Sea Serpent, and the plane just looks like a poor man's version of 6368.
Coupled with the fact that I would have a hard time finding any exclusive sets that interest me at the moment, I am happy to miss out this time round.
Seems I'm not the only one as both GWPs still seem to be readily available over here.

I managed to get just over £160 without too much difficulty so the Sea Serpent is sailing towards me. I might have picked it up from my local Lego store but my major items were apparently out of stock - and I’m reluctant to roll the dice on GWPs, especially ones as sought after as this one.

The discounts aren't really worth it for me, and 2x Points only on select sets sucks. If the Sea Serpent is gone already, I'm skipping this Insiders Weekend

So.... Pretty much what everybody expected, right?

That stinks as I was hoping to get Willy Wonka at a discount here in the US.

Is it me or is the Insiders Week earlier this year? I did a good haul for my birthday/Christmas last year when it was in November (managed to get 40776) but that was after saving up through the year... :S

Placed an order early this morning…

Never did get the Transformers sets but they still had Optimus so got that and Bumblebee at big discounts. And with the Serpent not a bad deal at all.

Anybody else having trouble with their orders processing? I made an order earlier this morning (several hours ago) but instead of the order processing normally it gave me a screen with the order number saying that it's still processing and would show up in my orders and send me an email when it was done. But so far, neither has happened. Kind of worried and don't know whether the order actually went through.

I was planning on pre-ordering the twin Titan mechs to get the GWP, but it looks like you can’t do that anymore.
:(

@Lyichir said:
"Anybody else having trouble with their orders processing? I made an order earlier this morning (several hours ago) but instead of the order processing normally it gave me a screen with the order number saying that it's still processing and would show up in my orders and send me an email when it was done. But so far, neither has happened. Kind of worried and don't know whether the order actually went through."

I would suggest contacting LEGO CS about this issue if you haven't already!

@Lyichir said:
"Anybody else having trouble with their orders processing? I made an order earlier this morning (several hours ago) but instead of the order processing normally it gave me a screen with the order number saying that it's still processing and would show up in my orders and send me an email when it was done. But so far, neither has happened. Kind of worried and don't know whether the order actually went through."

I got partway into the checkout process, and then it told me my cart was empty. I could still see there were four items showing in the corner, but it wouldn’t let me back into my cart. Eventually, I opened a new tab as was able to get a confirmation number the first attempt. And this was after getting hit with a queue at 9am EDT.

And I second making a call, if you haven’t seen a confirmation page, a confirmation e-mail, or a payment processed through your weapon of choice.

Here in Japan was gone after 35 min... I couldn't get one due my work time... Clearly there is a huge demand for Castle Theme that TLG insist in ignore.

Sea Serpent still readily available over here.

Escaped from my dark ages during the pandemic, and I have yet to see an Insiders Weekend with anything exciting.

I'm here in the US and everything seems to be on backorder or OOS on the website. Only things available to buy are the sets that do not sell at all. The Batman BatSymbol set has been on Back Order now for 2 months and has an expected shipping date in 60 days from now(so early Sept) and every time I have the $$ to get Arkham Asylum, that goes on back order as well. But I did manage to pick up 3 sets to get the Sea Serpent.

I'm here in the US and everything seems to be on backorder or OOS on the website. Only things available to buy are the sets that do not sell at all. The Batman BatSymbol set has been on Back Order now for 2 months and has an expected shipping date in 60 days from now(so early Sept) and every time I have the $$ to get Arkham Asylum, that goes on back order as well. But I did manage to pick up 3 sets to get the Sea Serpent.

Sea Serpent is sold out in Hungary

@Lyichir said:
"Anybody else having trouble with their orders processing? I made an order earlier this morning (several hours ago) but instead of the order processing normally it gave me a screen with the order number saying that it's still processing and would show up in my orders and send me an email when it was done. But so far, neither has happened. Kind of worried and don't know whether the order actually went through."

I seem to remember having something like that happening to me a while back, and I never got a confirmation email, but when I later checked my Orders page, the order had gone through. Have you looked there?

Sea Serpent sold out in UK?

Seems so, it's not in the offer banner at the top anymore.

I'm keeping mine, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered, given the amount I've spent recently, on back orders and bricklink preorder.

Yeah Sea Serpent gone in the UK. I missed out but not too fussed. I wouldn't be surprised to see it come back.