But what are the 2 Christmas GWP? I’ve had 4 Christmas sets in my inbox for a month now waiting to find out and worried LEGO stock will run out of what I want before I get a chance to place an order.

Ooh, I need this in my life!

Well this is certainly making me reconsider getting 41391 for the lavender hair...

Be glad this will likely not be a US exclusive like 40358 was.

I don't understand why those would be prints and not stickers, but then again, LEGO has always had a tendency to be quite arbitrary with how they allocate prints.

This would be an easier way for people to get the new apron torso that currently only appears in the Blacksmith Ideas set.

While I don't necessarily need it, I think they did a good job with it overall. And I like the threshold amount being lower than some of these other GWPs.

Now I'll just have to decide do I order cheaply enough for this or do I go full bore during Brick Friday time...

I already have 40358 but I still would like this. Especially with a purchase threshold of $65. I can find something, as long as it's in stock.

That's an easy pass for me, with BF and Christmas right around the corner, and the as-of-yet-unannounced date for the Gryffindorm room availability in US/Canada!

It is a beatiful set!! Huw, please, tell us when it is available on the different regions.

Huw, you are totally right, we have to spread our orders through the month to get all the GWP. Tell us something about them as soon as you know something. I have a good wish list and time for buying them has arrived!!!!

Let's spend on LEGOOOOO!!

@gorf43 said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
"I love that sign, and great stickers too. I have no idea when the community turned against stickers tbh, prints massively reduce versatility. Quality sagged in the mid 2000s but we're well away from those dark days now."

I really dont get it either. I can understand that many people with bad eyesight or shaky hands would have a hard time, but I think the majority of buyers are just whining about them for fun. Ive never had problems with stickers, theyre usually good quality and easy to apply. Of course, I would prefer prints, but stickers really arent that bad! "

I'm fine with stickers in most cases but I would prefer these as prints as it's my opinion that looks better than a black sticker on a black element. If it were a print I'd be inclined to BrickLink them...otherwise no thanks.

Woah, isn't that multicolored table umbrella part a really, really old print? I vaguely remember something like that from my childhood, back when all the white bricks yellowed like it was their job!

@meclo said:
"That's an easy pass for me, with BF and Christmas right around the corner, and the as-of-yet-unannounced date for the Gryffindorm room availability in US/Canada!"

But it is available in US already. I ordered it last night. I don't know about Canada though.

Do we know the Xmas GWPs yet??

That looks like the blacksmith torso, in fact all the minifig parts are pretty new. Looks like a fun little build

My city can always use more coffee shops/carts.

I prefer mine, front-mounted on a standard bicycle, emblazoned with the name “CHAR”, staffed by the S4 Mad Scientist, serving Flash with a dozen discarded foam cups around his feet. Now you know why my Flash has over 55’ of motion blur. And six porta-potties.

Love the logo - the steam is very creative! If I happen upon this set, I won’t be disappointed.

@sir_vasco said:
"Woah, isn't that multicolored table umbrella part a really, really old print? I vaguely remember something like that from my childhood, back when all the white bricks yellowed like it was their job!"

No, it’s a new one that’s only been in 1 or 2 sets. I have it from the Burger Monster Truck 3-in-1, I think the other was the corner garage modular.

I like the overall appearance of this set, but to me it looks like the cart is intended to 'close' for transportation- the menu's fold in, which will look neat- but the sign (whilst cool on it's own and erect) is only 4 studs wide...
So if it folds down, which it should really, the won't that look kinda odd with two decent sized gaps blocked by a mug and [bottle of water?]?

Also, the cart is designed to be pulled by a car or van, but the wheels are a tad small for that right? How does the coffee vendor transport his table...? I'm probably nit-picking with those 'complaints' though... Otherwise it looks neat

@denziloshamen:
Ah, you don’t need to worry about that. You need to _assume_ it’s going to happen. I can’t remember which was the last year we could qualify for the Black Friday Preview GWP with the current Winter Village set.

@GrannyLEGO:
Yeah, you need Brasso for that. What? Why are you all looking at me like that?

@NotProfessorWhymzi:
There’s only two problems with coffee. It smells like coffee and it tastes like coffee. Otherwise, it’s fine.

@meclo:
The Gryffindor dorm is available now.

@sir_vasco:
31079 was the first use. There were other umbrella prints with skinnier pie slices, which might be what you’re thinking of.

@Johnny__Thunder97:
Yeah, the menus fold in to close the front and back ends, and the mug sign likely does flip down. He can close up one of the small gaps by nailing that beanie across it, but there’s a huge gap on the opposite wall that’s just open to the sky.

Trailer wheel size depends entirely on how heavy a load they’re going to be carrying. If this is a proper commercial-grade setup, those are almost certainly too small. If it’s just cobbled together from scrap lumber with his mom’s kitchen appliances taped in place, they might be enough.

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"Eh, coffee’s overrated. Although i think that phone print is new."

I agree with you on coffee, but I think that's a pre-existing print.

$500 purchase limit in Australia…probably.

@TheOtherMike :
The first use appears to be 80107, followed by 71741, 80020, and finally 10291.

@Antoine_23:
It was reported available in the comments for another article, and I already noted that it’s up in this comment section. I just checked the site, and it’s the first thing you see.

I'm not getting anything in November but this set seems kinda special to me since I work at one of these. We run a coffee cart in my independent living class that delivers to people all across my school and stuff. Heck, we just did business earlier today! If it weren't for the stickered tiles I'd try my hand at making this with pieces I already have, although the trolley from the Hogwarts Express set looks more like the one we run IRL, it's more portable if it isn't as ginormous.

11 non-specific currency units for a coffee or water? Seems LEGO City has an inflation problem.

Is this similar to/same as, the Target Been there Donut that set, from around 12/18 months ago?

edit' Nope, completely different lol

This looks like a nice little set.
Is there a reason it is Creator and not City?

I WANT THESE STICKERS :)

@Slobrojoe:
That’s kinda true, but torso and leg assemblies are treated as a single element each. We know this from comments on 21109. Solid black torsos were free because of Darth Vader, blue because of Benny, and green because of Leo/Raph. White would have cost them a slot even though all the components were probably in production at the same time, because no minifig used a solid white torso when they were designing the Exo Suit. So, your Marvel minifig might require as few as four slots (leg assembly print, torso assembly print, head print, and molded hair).

And D2C/very expensive sets are _more_ likely to get sticker sheets than something small like this. This will be in production for a very brief time, and would only require a couple new prints that may be generic enough to see repeated use that would justify a print. Some new SW UCS set may need three dozen prints that will never be reused, may stay in production for five years, and would hog a massive amount of element slots until they retire it and digest themselves of any spare parts. It may also have required a bunch of recolors that are much higher priority, because you can fix missing deco with stickers, but you can’t release an AT-AT with random green body panels just because you wasted those slots on fancy print and couldn’t negotiate with anyone for light-bley recolors.

@The_Sly_Fox:
If the person who comes up with the idea works on the Creator team, it becomes a Creator set. Lots of Creator sets fit within the scope of the minifig-scale Town/City genre, like Creator Expert Modulars, and Creator 3-in-1 mini-modulars.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Slobrojoe:
That’s kinda true, but torso and leg assemblies are treated as a single element each. We know this from comments on 21109. Solid black torsos were free because of Darth Vader, blue because of Benny, and green because of Leo/Raph. White would have cost them a slot even though all the components were probably in production at the same time, because no minifig used a solid white torso when they were designing the Exo Suit. So, your Marvel minifig might require as few as four slots (leg assembly print, torso assembly print, head print, and molded hair).

And D2C/very expensive sets are _more_ likely to get sticker sheets than something small like this. This will be in production for a very brief time, and would only require a couple new prints that may be generic enough to see repeated use that would justify a print. Some new SW UCS set may need three dozen prints that will never be reused, may stay in production for five years, and would hog a massive amount of element slots until they retire it and digest themselves of any spare parts. It may also have required a bunch of recolors that are much higher priority, because you can fix missing deco with stickers, but you can’t release an AT-AT with random green body panels just because you wasted those slots on fancy print and couldn’t negotiate with anyone for light-bley recolors."

I agree, but the Blocks interview suggested that legs and torsos came separately in different boxes. But you seem to be incredibly knowledgeable so I’m probably wrong

@PurpleDave said:
" @The_Sly_Fox:
If the person who comes up with the idea works on the Creator team, it becomes a Creator set. Lots of Creator sets fit within the scope of the minifig-scale Town/City genre, like Creator Expert Modulars, and Creator 3-in-1 mini-modulars."

Thank you. I always wondered how it was decided.

@Slobrojoe:
I’ve never been on a tour of their operation, but I’ve read a few articles written by people who had. I think it was Gizmodo that posted photos of their part storage “cathedral”, and I recognized the actual tote storage system because we used to have the same thing where I work. You can have as many totes as you can afford to purchase, but the storage system has a fixed number of places it can assign them. It’s the latter that really limits how many elements they can park in their warehouse, combined with how many totes each element needs allocated to it (something tiny with low turnover might not fill one, while something bulky with high turnover might need hundreds after a fresh production run). The computer system will keep track of where each element (and what quantity) is assigned, and will handle transportation of each tote when it’s needed.

If I was setting up their production lines, I’d have dedicated equipment for minifigs in a centralized location, so you could run all the components for a torso assembly together, immediately assemble and print them, and then put the ready-to-pack assemblies in these totes until they’re needed for sets. The loose components should never be stored as elements because then you have to assign SKUs to every hand, left arm, right arm, torso, hips, left leg, and right leg, rather than one for each completed assembly. But I don’t work there, so I can only guess that this might be why they had black/blue/green as options for the Exo Suit minifigs while white was off the table.

Love the menu board stickers
and the 3D Coffee Cup sign above.

Set looks great, I need to pick up Barracuda Bay anyway and this is a great opportunity

Hasn't been a good GWP / Promo all year... Hopefully Christmas GWP can break the trend.

@JRBricks said:
"It's a cool little set. Not something I'd be going out of my way just to get though. Need to wait and see what all the other promotions next month will include, especially the Christmas GWPs, points, etc. "

Coffee Cart promo ends Nov 14, Christmas promos will be announced Nov 15. LEGO purposely being coy.

I like this set, going to get one

It's cute, nothing crazy

@PurpleDave said:
"There’s only two problems with coffee. It smells like coffee and it tastes like coffee."

Recent advances in coffnology have solved these two problems. You can have coffee that smells like Jaffa Cakes, or tastes like Maple Bacon. Hell, it doesn't even need to be hot!

Having never been a fan of hot drinks ("coffee tastes like gravel, tea tastes like puddles"), I really struggled when I needed to regularly commute by car, solo, for 5 hours, at night. I started drinking copious amounts of really strong "coffee" out of necessity and I've never looked back since.

Mainly I never look back because there are dark things back there, waiting, watching...

Y'know, I think I might need to cut down on the caffeine.

Anyway, the GWP looks OK to me.

I like it and will probably have to try to pick one up on ebay or similar as long as it's not too expensive! For stickers I use tweezers, use the cranked spade end type (like stamp collectors use) and there will be no more out of line application - it also avoids greasy fingerprints to the back of transparent stickers...

@ComfySofa:
Or, for the price of one of those drinks, you can get a calorie-free bottle of decoffeenated caffeine pills that’ll probably last you a month or two. No smell, no taste, and no spills that stain.

For tea, I’ve actually hunted around for some interesting herbal flavors. Currently the most mundane one I have is probably lemon/ginseng, which is nice for a sore throat. Other flavors I have are chocolate (yes, chocolate herbal tea, might be chocolate/mint), pomegranate, and of course blueberry. Because blueberries are awesome. If you freeze them, they even turn from green to purple.

I'm curious as to the inclusion of the bicycle. Is there an attachment for the bicycle so that he tow the trailer? I like the 6x6 coffee sign, but I would change to a larger plate which slides down when the shop is shut or during transport?

@ambr:
It’s got a tow ball peeking out on the far right, so there’s no way it’s getting hooked up to that bike, but there is a second minifig in the set. *coughHINTcough*

@PurpleDave said:
" @ComfySofa:
decoffeenated caffeine pills

blueberries are awesome"

A solid 25 seconds of internet research has confirmed there is an huge gap in the market for caffeinated soft fruits.

@TheOriginalSimonB said:
"11 non-specific currency units for a coffee or water? Seems LEGO City has an inflation problem."

Drink overpriced coffee!
Larry the Barista: That'll be $37.
Emmet: Awesome!

Why can't sets like this just be released normally? I like this. I would buy it straight off the shelf if it was there. I am fed up with having to scroll the internet to buy sets like this. Luckily my LUG is good as a way of me getting them plus some of the polybags that are freebies rather than buying from randoms online. I want the 1950s car too (I managed to get the carrot house).

@bookmum:
Because they’re both the manufacturer and a retailer. If they don’t want to lose their retail partners, they can’t undercut them on pricing, so for much of a product’s lifespan, they sell only at MSRP. Other chains can discount below that and beat them on price. GWPs are a way to “fight back” by offering more value if they can’t offer lower price. To work, GWPs have to be desirable. If, say, the average GWP is equivalent to a rainbow-colored, ounce-sized car with little wings, they’re not going to entice many buyers to pay full retail when they can find alternate sources that sell at a discount. The flip side is you can’t rely on the GWPs to do all the heavy lifting. If people are only buying the regular sets because the GWP is the only part that they find interesting, they may very well just stop buying altogether. They’ll probably still come here to complain about how nothing interests them anymore, but that’s a different matter.

@PurpleDave but if a set like this was on the shelf for say £10 I would walk into Lego store and buy it. But if I can only get it buy spending a high amount of money then I won't - because I can't afford the higher amount.
However I can purchase a GWP from a secondary seller quite easily which means my money is going to that seller rather than Lego. Lego wouldn't receive any money from me for a product they created and I want. So if they are worried about losing out sales at an official Lego Store because supermarkets etc are selling cheaper they are still losing money from people like me who would happily buy something off their shelves - if it was on their shelves.
If that makes sense?

@bookmum:
But how does it work on a larger scale? If you buy someone else’s copy, but ten other people forego the discount for the GWP, they came out ahead, right?

This looks like a good set to build with my spares. Hmm, I think I'll try it right now...

Hmmm...not bad; reminds me of that 'Target' set, that came out roughly a year after they vacated Canada...only thing kinda' wrong here: where's the hinged 'roof', that doubles as a 'wall' when the the thing is moving...I mean it doesn't look very secure for transport...

Oh, I also like how the top of the 'coffee' shown on the right sign looks like the top of a Technic's Pin...

So an update, this GWP is available later this month in my country, but only at two specific LEGO certified stores, for a $110 spend (US$81 equivalent). My original comment aged poorly. In fact, I'm no longer interested in this set and will remove it from my wanted list.

Better grab that 41391 off the store I was at last weekend while I still can...