Definitely going to buy this

Nice... The same reindeer + a smaller sleigh came with 10275

This will go nicely with my Polar Express MOC!

This is so adorable that I might have to buy multiple! one for my winter village, another to display on its own…

Wow

@huw there is a second image (of the box reverse) on that same page…
@PaNic I’m not sure about that… I wonder that there aren’t multiples of Santa and his sleigh, it would help explain how he can deliver all around the world in a single night.

WOAH a teddy bear and a guitar... plus those reindeer...hmmmm

me need

You do realize that Christmas isn't until December, right?

I bought a santa Torso recently and I already had the dual moulded legs to make mine so I just need the Reindeers! Lol

Definitely looks huge. Sadly it's gonna be pricey presumably and would be off the shelf in an instant.

Need to have a contest to use the parts to turn it into a reindeer battle pack

I have not been able to get reindeers via BnP so I'll be buying at least 2 of these!

There was also the sleigh in 10275 Elf Club House - no Santa included, but you could always through one in. Smaller, but I think the size was more mining-scale.

I want.

battlepack...

Based on the price for that link, probably be a $40 US/$50-55 CAN/30-35UK set. and $70 for NZ if they do have it.

@PaNic:
Of course not! You have one driving a vintage car with an elf and some presents in the rumble seat, preceded by eight reindeer riding white scooters and one riding a red scooter. And you have the lizardy one riding a lime and dark-red sleigh with bone runners, behind eight tiny green velociraptors and one dark-orange one (as they land on a certain house made of bedrock). And you have the grumpy green one glaring at a large Christmas tree. And you have a few more standing outside of businesses with red kettles and bells.

I got my full compliment of reindeer from BnP a while ago but I may need to buy two of these when they release. That sleigh and all the gifts are awesome.

The set looks great! I wish they would have gone all out and had 8 reindeer. Might have to modify this set.

yes!!!

I have 40010. It was changed a little and rereleased as 40059. The deer head was used again in 40287. Has a very British name, interesting it seems that all the other sets were called "Santa's Sleigh" on both sides of the pond.

Would I be a horrible if I built this set...and put my COL176 directly in front of it...well, the song IS a modern holiday staple.:)

This has been an exceptional year for animal moulds, keep up the good work Lego ;)

I have the impression that this will be out of stock as fast as last year’s 40426, which means it’s almost unobtainable...

@greenhorn said:
"I have the impression that this will be out of stock as fast as last year’s 40426, which means it’s almost unobtainable..."

Wreath was in stock for over a month, at least in North America. So not that quick. Though true it should have remained available through December. One issue is the online limit was stupidly set to 20 originally.

One hiccup with this sleigh set, it looks like you can't change the nose colors.

I was able to secure 8 reindeer from Lego BAP last year, so this is hilarious. Though with this sets' almost guaranteed popularity I'll probably still be glad I secured those reindeer. I do really like the sleigh build also so will try to get one for sure. Awesome set.

@Huw Remember our 6-scale 246-2 ? :-)

Still not reindeer…
These are deer/stag…
*sigh* I blame Disney - but they finally got it right in Frost, though…

Who else zoomed in to see if they were on Santa’s nice list...

@csiramokus: that is pure comedy gold.
:-)

@Nytmare said:
" @greenhorn said:
"I have the impression that this will be out of stock as fast as last year’s 40426, which means it’s almost unobtainable..."

Wreath was in stock for over a month, at least in North America."

Lasted, I think, 10 days in Australia.

Gonna have to buy loads of these, I want to recreate the Phoenix Park!!!

@jsutton said:
" @Huw Remember our 6-scale 246-2 ? :-)"
Don't remember seeing that one embiggened, and I thought I'd seen most of them. Got pics?
(P.S. Please put anything like that on Flickr and add to https://www.flickr.com/groups/upscaledlego/pool/ )

*cough* has anyone checked the Australian store’s seasonal offerings?

Took me far longer than I should have liked to work out what the four extra bricks/tiles were for.

@chrisaw said:
" @Nytmare said:
" @greenhorn said:
"I have the impression that this will be out of stock as fast as last year’s 40426 , which means it’s almost unobtainable..."

Wreath was in stock for over a month, at least in North America."

Lasted, I think, 10 days in Australia.
"
Lasted less than three days in Germany. In our local store according to staff the wreath sold out within two hours! They were supposed to get more stock but this never happened. Very weird situation.
I guess there were more Technic Ospreys sold in total than Christmas wreaths, at least in Europe.

Fly off the shelves?! I see what you did there.

While I don't need another Santa or sleigh or reindeer....this is still a must buy! Christmas can't come soon enough (it is the most wonderful time of year after all).

@minecraft_lego_mom said:
"Might need 3 sets. Don't forget Rudolph!"

I got 1 in the Elf Clubhouse last year… so two of these sets and I’ll be sorted with my full set of 9 reindeer - I can’t wait !

@Boettner_Builds @kelano28 glad you caught the reference.

@Jacopyright Frost? Haven’t heard of that particular program. Yeah, folks have been misidentifying reindeer for decades. Rankin & Bass were pretty bad offenders as well.

@Jacopyright:
I think perhaps you’re referring to Frozen?

@tisi said:
"Reindeer battle pack!
Looks nice, the sleigh feels a bit oversized though. Hope they don't make it some limited exclusive stuff instead of the retail availibility."

Yeah UK only :-D

;-P

@Darth_Dee said:
"It's missing the jet engine but that is easily remedied..."

It all depends on what you feed your reindeer...

The reindeer in the classic stop-motion animated Rudolph show all look like white-tailed deer, which may explain why these reindeer also are tan-brown. (That show is probably what @SearchlightRG is referring to with his "Rankin & Bass" comment. It came out around the time I was born, over 60 years ago, and may well be the original source of the confusion.) Not fair to blame Disney; the reindeer in the Frozen sets, while definitely looking like animation rather than just a stylized animal, is much more suitably colored and shaped. Unless that's actually a caribou....

Are there true New World reindeer at all? What's the distinction between a reindeer and a caribou? In any case, I prefer brown reindeer even if they only exist in animated Christmas stories!

Oh, and @PurpleDave, you forgot my favorite sleigh--the ramshackle sled being pulled by one overburdened dachshund-cross wearing a heavily modified single antler tied to his head with black thread...the brick-built dog from the Monster Burger Truck might be a good starting place for Max.

@sklamb:
Reindeer are just a subspecies or caribou. I’m not sure why they’re identified differently. There used to be an Arctic Reindeer that was native to Greenland, but otherwise all Western Hemisphere species are called caribou.

And I most certainly did not forget the green Santa who glares at trees. Or Max, who I represent with a chihuahua piece. I don’t do either the sleigh or the antler, but another member of my LUG does both. The problem is, the chihuahua looks more like Max, but is too small to accommodate an “antler”. He uses a larger dog that doesn’t resemble Max at all, but it’s big enough to add an antler to.

@PurpleDave said:
" @sklamb:
...I most certainly did not forget the green Santa who glares at trees. Or Max, who I represent with a chihuahua piece. I don’t do either the sleigh or the antler, but another member of my LUG does both."

Ah, that's all right then. And thanks for the info on caribou vs reindeer!

@sklamb:
BTW, whatever you call them, they make a tasty sausage. I had some in downtown Anchorage, and again at Latitude 62 outside Talkeetna.

@SearchlightRG said:
" @Boettner_Builds @kelano28 glad you caught the reference.

@Jacopyright Frost? Haven’t heard of that particular program. Yeah, folks have been misidentifying reindeer for decades. Rankin & Bass were pretty bad offenders as well."

"Frost" is the Norwegian title (possibly other languages as well) for Frozen. Since it's also an English word, it's pretty natural to forget to check if it needs to be "translated" back.

I guess it was pretty much inevitable once the Harry Potter "stag" patronus piece appeared that sooner or later they would do this!

Not strictly reindeer but probably as close as TLG is gonna get at this point. Grey might have been a better colour choice than the brown but I'll take it anyway!

@Huw said:
" https://www.mrbrickhunt.com/mrbrickhunt-lego-40499-santa-claus-sleigh

Nobody's bothered to replace the placeholder text in the site template..."

Hi, I am from Malaysia and I can say that this retailer is legit but his price are always higher than retail price at first. For example, he sells the set 40516 for RM350 when it first came out which is around 80 USD. So i don't recommend using his price as the real retail price

LOVE IT

instant buy, probably get multiples to give my forestman some steeds to ride!!

still not showing up on US lego.com site...

@MeisterDad said:
"That’s a sleigh? It is huge! Looks to me more like a demilitarised tank on skis."
If you swap out the red bricks for black ones, you've got the new Batmobile.