It's a nice concept, but if it's points based mine have been screwed up for a while. They're stuck at 444 no matter what I order

You can look at the parts in each pack on Bricks and Pieces. The spooky one is rather tame, black frog and cool witches hat with hair seem to be the stand outs for that pack.

@Huw said:
"The set inventories can be viewed here at Brickset too."

Oh that is soo much better, thanks Huw! I was curious how many of each piece it would be and that answered all my questions about these except the vip point cost. These look great and I will have a hard time deciding which I like more and where to start! The Fun and Funky as well as the Winter Wonderland really stand out for me. So many cool pieces.

If they price those reasonable, people might spend some of their points on them! Well, who am I kidding...

Fully expecting these to be in short supply just like the coins. I currently have plenty of points available so hopefully we will find out how we can get them soon. I also hope they won't be an in store only promo.

@Razorbeast said:
"It's a nice concept, but if it's points based mine have been screwed up for a while. They're stuck at 444 no matter what I order"

Yeah, I won't be able to get them either, nor any VIP reward for that matter. My rewards page is blank no matter what I do. Customer service couldn't help. So, I've given up on VIP.

@lordofdragonss said:
"PIGS"

PIGS!!!!!!!!!! This pack will be sell very fast or at the same way the Pirate will for nostalgia alone.

Service packs are back?

Ooh, these look great, they'll be fun and useful for fleshing out all kinds of builds. I hope LEGO get their stock levels sorted with these as look like they'll have a very wide appeal to all kinds of customers. I can't see a need for these to be limited edition or collectible so hopefully they won't be in short supply.

I'd certainly be interested in these packs, the pieces are so useful.

@EGRoberts:
It's a dark-bley frog, which is profoundly less exciting. Oddly, all four packs do include frogs in at least one color. It looks like the only other shared mold across all four packs is a 1x2 plate.

I'm sure I'm gonna want the spooky pack, shame we don't have an image yet.

I hope these will be easy to get on Bricklink

These look fantastic, what a great idea I can't wait to pick all of these up, especially the pirate one

Very slippery slope this is. What is to stop them to sell incomplete sets for 100% prices. If you want to the full experience you’re gouged into buying vip bags. Just look at video games! It stared with cosmetics and ended up impacting the gameplay. Lego now too offers some additional cosmetics but for how long?

Oh, great, something else to get disappointed over when I miss out...since I'm afraid I can't convince myself they won't sell out in less than an hour. They do look like some nice collections of pieces, I admit. I hope I'll be pleasantly surprised when I try to get a few!

I want 10 Pirates and 10 Funky, for the pigs (any chance of a goat in the Spooky?).

But I guess I'll get a grand total of 0, if it goes like the previous VIP rewards...

Small livestock, a plague of frogs, poops & pineapples, and classic Space orange helmets... oh myyyyyyy

Perhaps Bricks & Pieces will stock the parts individually as well, for those who don't need a million frogs.

Yes, more of this sort of thing Lego!

@EGRoberts said:
"You can look at the parts in each pack on Bricks and Pieces. The spooky one is rather tame, black frog and cool witches hat with hair seem to be the stand outs for that pack."

But it does come with 6 full skeletons.

If these can only be "bought" with VIP points, I guess I need to go buy a bunch of sets! Which is the point, of course. And then I imagine you'll still need to order something for them to be shipped with. ...I think I'll just try B&P for the parts I really want- pigs!

@karrit said:
"Fully expecting these to be in short supply just like the coins. I currently have plenty of points available so hopefully we will find out how we can get them soon. I also hope they won't be an in store only promo."

Speaking of which, any word on a reissue of the final coin? I know they brought back the Space coin after it went quickly the first time, but the last coin went even more quickly. Having managed to get all of the first four plus the 5-coin display case I’d really like to complete the set.

They real question is of course will they be kept in stock and how many points will they be.......

@8BrickMario :
You've got the set inventory. Since it doesn't actually build a model, that's really more informative than dumping all the parts in a pile where you can't see some of them.

@chrisaw :
To date, I don't think there are any VIP rewards that allow more than 1x per account. You could theoretically run multiple accounts, but that just splits your points up to where you have less buying power for each. It also means you're inviting them to catch you based on shipping address and shut off your access.

Adequate supply is a different matter. These may not be as hot as other offerings, just because the contents seem to be fairly easy to obtain through other sources, and there's no model to build (so no instructions of significance). I could make an attempt for them, but I don't really see anything that I can't pass up.

@Blondie_Wan:
They said they'd reissue all five coins later this year. To my knowledge, they haven't reissued any of them...yet. They also didn't say anything about the large case being reissued, one way or the other.

@560heliport said:
"If these can only be "bought" with VIP points, I guess I need to go buy a bunch of sets! Which is the point, of course. And then I imagine you'll still need to order something for them to be shipped with. ...I think I'll just try B&P for the parts I really want- pigs!"

I'm shocked you don't keep some emergency points on hand! Thank god I just went to the lego store the other day, boosted my points by 2000 on top of the few thousand emergency points I keep in there.

@EGRoberts said:
" @560heliport said:
"If these can only be "bought" with VIP points, I guess I need to go buy a bunch of sets! Which is the point, of course. And then I imagine you'll still need to order something for them to be shipped with. ...I think I'll just try B&P for the parts I really want- pigs!"

I'm shocked you don't keep some emergency points on hand! Thank god I just went to the lego store the other day, boosted my points by 2000 on top of the few thousand emergency points I keep in there."

I pretty much spend my points as soon as I get them! Until now, there has been nothing I wanted to "spend" them on, so I just use them for discounts in-store. (I almost never buy anything online. It's not worth the stress of worrying about theft after delivery. Also, I live just 15 miles/25 kilometers from Mall of America.)

@PurpleDave said:
" @8BrickMario :
You've got the set inventory. Since it doesn't actually build a model, that's really more informative than dumping all the parts in a pile where you can't see some of them.

@chrisaw :
To date, I don't think there are any VIP rewards that allow more than 1x per account. You could theoretically run multiple accounts, but that just splits your points up to where you have less buying power for each. It also means you're inviting them to catch you based on shipping address and shut off your access.

Adequate supply is a different matter. These may not be as hot as other offerings, just because the contents seem to be fairly easy to obtain through other sources, and there's no model to build (so no instructions of significance). I could make an attempt for them, but I don't really see anything that I can't pass up.

@Blondie_Wan:
They said they'd reissue all five coins later this year. To my knowledge, they haven't reissued any of them...yet. They also didn't say anything about the large case being reissued, one way or the other."

Ah, okay, thanks. I was under the impression the Space coin had in fact already been reissued. I’m good for the entire rest of the series, including the display case, but I missed out on the final coin.

I wish they’d accounted for demand a little more. I think many of us could have foreseen the Space coin would be extra-popular (not that I’m concerned about that one myself, since I got it the first time, but I’d really like for all the other fans who wanted it to have been able to get it), and as for the final coin, I know it’s self-serving of me to suggest, but I’d kind of like it if they’d made a point of producing and setting aside enough for everyone who, say, got all four previous coins plus the case, and thus was clearly likely to try to complete the set, but oh well…

Re: VIP rewards that allow more than one per account, I have noted that when redeeming rewards there’s typically a Quantity selection pulldown, defaulting to one (in fact IIRC when I redeemed the Space coin offer myself I briefly contemplated getting more than one, so I could have one go in the big case and another displayed on its own, but decided against it, and was subsequently glad I hadn’t deprived someone else of it). I can certainly say the contest entry redemptions do allow for more than one, since they typically pointedly allow for up to fifty entries.

Does every one of these things have frogs? It looks like the Winter Wonderland one has at least one reddish-brown frog, next to the top hat. I can’t quite be sure from this pic that’s what it is, but it looks like it. The Fun and Funky one clearly has a bunch of frogs, in at least three colors, no less (I see pink, yellow, and classic green), and Pirates and Treasure has gold ones (!). It seems like a pretty heavy concentration of frogs.

Edit: I see others have noted the curious abundance of frogs. Somebody’s plans for a LEGO terrarium are about to get a big boost…

I want all of these packs.

Reminds me of how Scala sets were presented

@Raeth said:
"Very slippery slope this is. What is to stop them to sell incomplete sets for 100% prices. If you want to the full experience you’re gouged into buying vip bags. Just look at video games! It stared with cosmetics and ended up impacting the gameplay. Lego now too offers some additional cosmetics but for how long?"

Agree with you.

@Blondie_Wan:
They may have a quantity field, but I don't think you can ever change it. When you redeem points for a single code, you are locked out of buying a second copy of that code as the box underneath it changes to "Redeemed". You are right about the raffle entries. I tend to forget them because I tend to ignore them. I'd rather spend points on sure things.

I did manage to get a full set, including the large case, but my final coin has a noticeable blemish on the rim of the reverse side. Considering some of the reviews I've seen, I count myself lucky that this is the worst I experienced, beyond having to burn an entire vacation day to even try for the last coin due to them rescheduling the drop from midnight on May 1st to mid-morning on a weekday (not that I will remain bitter about that all the way to my grave...). I've said repeatedly that I would have preferred if they had just offered a "season pass" from the start, so those of us who had the points saved up at the time could just commit to getting every code as they released. On the first of every month, they could just send out codes to anyone who opted in, allowing 60 days from issue to redeem each one. The people who seemed to be most upset about how things went later on were those who only bought the early coins (and case) so they could have a complete set, but really cared more about the later coins that they ended up missing. After that were people who only wanted the Space and/or final coins.

40512 has yellow, green, bright-pink, and reddish-brown frogs, 40513 has dark-bley frogs, 40514 has white frogs, and 40515 has pearl-gold frogs. Get one copy of each set, and you'd have 28 new frogs.

Coming back to point out the Spooky pack comes with six skeletons and the Pirates one comes with two. Anyone planning on building a Skulkin army is going to have a field day!

All those frogs are giving me flashbacks to 3854...

@TheOtherMike:
10281 now holds the princely crown, with 101 frogs, but I think80104 (22 frogs) took it last year from Frog Rush (20 frogs). I don't think anything else even hits double digits, so 40512 should have the fourth-largest pile of frogs with 16.

Looks like the pig from 40512 isn't available in Bricks and Pieces. No big surprise there.

I hope they aren't in the VIP center, I hate trying to get stuff from there. I want the Spooky & Winter sets.

Probably been suggested, but I think the objective here is to have more bulk supply items that they can offer for users with smallish amounts of VIP points (or those with more than enough) to spend their points on reliably year-round, as opposed to the typical limited edition stuff that can be unreliable to even purchase.

I would suspect these will be plentiful.

Are those going to be widely available in LEGO Stores, or just exclusive to certain places? Because I NEED THOSE PIGS.

Frankly, I don't get the wide appeal these packets seem to have to the audience here. If I wanted some of these pieces, I would have bought them from Bricklink. Normal customers, who don't use Bricklink, will sure like them, I get this. But on this site here...? That puzzles me a bit.

From the inventory the pirate pack is the most self contained with two skeletons, shark, map, treasure and cannon. So kids can already have some fun, together with all the other accessories, before you add it to your existing pirate world . Next up the 4 'Spooky' skeletons and cart may find a home. I'm not sure what to do with the Fun and Funky, as just reminds me of all the spares I have at the bottom of my bucket that I never use.

I just wish these were on sale in the Xtra range.

So I assume this means no hope for more Pirates sets in the future? They're basically having a garage sale of parts they produced for Barracuda Bay and the Pirate ship with some other parts thrown in.

Love these but unfortunately only available via VIP Rewards...and have no access to physical VIP Rewards items due to LEGO LEGO.com ban :(

Feel bad for Winter Wonderland, it's the only one that'd be left in stock :-P.

Employee A: "Hey, give me a list of parts we have a huge overstock on"

Employee B: "here you go"

Employee A: "cool, let's bundle them together and convince people to spend their hard earned VIP points on them"

Employee B: "great idea! win/win for LEGO Group"

If you manage to get one of each, you will get these frogs:
40512: yellow, green, pink, brown
40513: dark blueish grey
40514: white
40515: warm gold
The only available colour you won't have is tan(brick yellow).
Currently on Lego parts: tan, brown and dark grey are out of stock.

Must obtain!

While I appreciate Lego grouping these...'parts bags' (checks calendar...still 2021...) into 'Themes'; they shouldn't be in "VIP", they should be in "Xtra"...

Hopefully; TLG will 'course correct', put these in the 'right place', and EXPAND...Space, Western, and so on...I mean: if TLG aren't going to do more of those 'sticker'/'signage' sets...

There is nothing exciting or interesting about these imo

The Pirate Treasure one looks super cool! A pirate can never have too much treasure!

@ecleme11 said:
"Already sold out....."
How come? They haven't even been released yet.

These are glorified Xtra packs. And they should be sold as such. The heck with the way you can obtain these thru VIP center. It’s exactly what it is...extras from their extra inventory. Don’t treat it as if they are exclusives...c’mon. Really??

@LegoDiego said:
"These are glorified Xtra packs. And they should be sold as such. The heck with the way you can obtain these thru VIP center. It’s exactly what it is...extras from their extra inventory. Don’t treat it as if they are exclusives...c’mon. Really??"

I would like them to be VIP-exclusive packs that can only be paid with money and that are not a one-time buying period.

Funny enough, these 'sets' are listed on B&P, and most of the parts are there.
Downside: no points to get (B&P doesn't count for VIP)
Upside: No points to spend...

@brick_r:
^ Really? Huh. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since I’ve also heard that B&P doesn’t count towards free shipping (and supposedly even triggers a shipping charge even when the rest of your order does qualify), and I personally discovered that they’re not supposed to count towards qualifying for GWPs (I actually called Customer Service to ask why the GWP wasn’t showing up in my cart). I don’t know if online PAB does, but I never use that because the selection is so limited.

@PurpleDave :
Actually (looks sheepish as he write this): I went back and double-checked my last order (which was predominately B&P); seems I must have gotten VIP points, as my total jumped more than the non-B&P item's (I'll come back to it) VIP's points-worth...That said...re, written.:)

You are right about GWPs (although I could have sworn some folks 'here' said they called Lego and got the GWP...but YMMV), PAB supposed does do points, and correct on the 'Free Shipping' thing...except I found a...hack? trick? cheat...naa, I hate that word:). Anywho, if you: order B&P (say 60 GL torsos...not judging:D), then send the order back to your 'main Lego site' via checkout. Once there; don't checkout there right away, 'continue shopping'. Once you do that, you can add an item (keychain, set,...mine? Cookie Monster keychain:)). If done correct; when you go back to the 'main site's' checkout, 'Free Shipping' should be available for the whole order...

@brick_r:
Here’s my experience. I was trying to place an order a few years ago, and came up short for the GWP. I added some B&P to round it up, and placed the order. Only afterwards did I realize that the GWP still hadn’t triggered, so I called up Consumer Affairs. The rep that I talked to told me that B&P doesn’t qualify for GWPs or free shipping, and that even if you got free shipping, adding B&P would trigger a shipping charge. She did add the GWP to my order, since I had placed an order that I expected would qualify.

The reps that you talk to have some discretionary powers, and their supervisors have even more discretionary powers. If you call them up with a problem, they might be able to help you out even in cases where the problem is just that you thought you qualified for something when you didn’t. In some cases, there may actually be a problem on their end that they need to correct. Back in January, the HP mosaic wasn’t triggering the Monster Book of Monsters GWP like it should have, and I recently found that the PU remote had a similar problem (while every other PU item worked fine).

I also just checked my recent order confirmations, and in spite of what I was told by that rep, I placed an order on 5/20 that included a small B&P purchase on top of two $20 sets and the redemption code for the final VIP coin, and didn’t get charged shipping. The two sets cleared the $35 threshold without adding B&P, but I’ve never experimented with B&P orders to see if the rules work as they were explained to me.

The other thing is people have noticed that the points total quoted during purchasing does not always match what ends up in your account. The most obvious source of discrepancies is that spending points doesn’t earn you more points, but this is never reflected in your cart. The other one that I know was an issue before VIP 2.0 was rolled out two years ago is that the points quoted for a set ignored anything to the right of the decimal (i.e. if you buy a $9.99 set, it would quote you $9 worth of points). When the purchase cleared, all the fractional points would show up in your account, in spite of the lower quote that showed up in your cart. I haven’t checked under the new system to see if they’re still underquoting the point accruals.

I have an article idea

What is the most common Lego Minifigure in sets
Not character, minifigure.
It could be a variant of a minifig or a minifig with one variant.