Win Harry Potter sets in Brick-a-brac's competition
Posted by Huw,
Online retailer Brick-a-brac is currently selling eight 30435 Build Your Own Hogwarts Castle polybags for £35 instead of £40 when you use the code BRICKSET30435 at checkout.
In addition, anyone who buys them can enter into a building competition to win Harry Potter sets with a combined value of over £200, including a grand prize of 76403 The Ministry of Magic.
All you have to do to be in with chance of winning is combine the pieces of the 8 bags and build a castle or anything else, for that matter. Find out more on the competition page and good luck if you enter.
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So that's where all the GWP polybags went!
@sjr60 said:
"So that's where all the GWP polybags went!"
There were GWP Polybags?
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @sjr60 said:
"So that's where all the GWP polybags went!"
There were GWP Polybags?"
Yes. Starting on the 15th, you could get the Hogwarts Stairway GWP with Harry Potter purchases of $130 USD and the BYO Hogwarts polybag with purchases of $40 USD.
In some territories, one or both GWP’s are already sold out.
Thank you I was looking at buying some of these!
I have to say thankyou @Huw I was rather annoyed that the free GWP sold out in the UK, (or they or the dates wrong) in about 3 hours. I was looking at £7.50 on Ebay and now I've bought a few for £5 plus a load of polybags I've not seen on general sale. Thankyou Brick-a-Brac too
I'm fine with most GWPs, but it's a shame that this didn't release as a set. A licensed "build your own" is pretty unique, perhaps a nice way to get some Harry Potter fans to get into the creative side of Lego, rather than only assembling/collecting.
£5 seems not bad for the parts and 1 fig.
But buying 8 gives you an useless Dumbledore army so you either have to sell them or find a use for the torso.
Actually very happy that the Build Your Own Hogwarts GWP polybag ran out. Another 40529 Children's Amusement Park now being offered is so much more useful... can't have too many swing boats!
So…I’m getting the idea that the microscale Hogwarts pictured in this article cannot be built with eight copies of this polybag, but I see eight different somethings when I click through to the set listing.
This polybag is still available as a GWP in the US. The Grand Staircase is gone, but the polybag is still there.
I also read in another comment somewhere that the Lego Discovery Centers (common in some US malls) have the polybags for sale.
@PurpleDave said:
"So…I’m getting the idea that the microscale Hogwarts pictured in this article cannot be built with eight copies of this polybag, but I see eight different somethings when I click through to the set listing."
The picture is a combination of about 90% of the pieces from 8 polybags. No extra pieces were used.
You can see other contest entries on Instagram via the link below. Well, only 1 at the moment but more will be added.
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/hogwartsminibuild/?hl=en
@sir_vasco said:
"I'm fine with most GWPs, but it's a shame that this didn't release as a set. A licensed "build your own" is pretty unique, perhaps a nice way to get some Harry Potter fans to get into the creative side of Lego, rather than only assembling/collecting."
A surprising number of Harry Potter fans already make MOCs, at least if Rebrickable is anything to go off of.