LEGO announces Tin Lunchbox VIP reward

This makes me wonder what retro lunchboxes based on other themes could look like!

I've just got 712 points for a €94.99 purchase, which means 7,5 points per €1 spent. 2500÷7,5 equals €333,33 spent on Lego to get the required points.

I'd rather trade them in for a discount and get regular GWPs.

On an unrelated topic, does anyone know what are the current GWPs for a LEGO store opening? I have one opening 'near' me on the 1st of September and I am considering buying the 10297 Hotel then if the GWPs are decent, otherwise buying online before that to avoid the expected 15% price hike...

It seems from the ad that by 2065 we’ll need to wear helmets with air filtration to protect us from the sun’s radiation and from air pollution. Mutations will become common, especially those turning your left thumb into another index finger. Fortunately, I probably won’t be around by then :~P

This looks a different shape than the last lunchbox, but still so very small, barely big enough to hold a sandwich and drink can and that's it. Not a practical item.

@pawelg said:
"Would you seriously consider showing up with something like this in the office or something?"

Certainly! Right now, I'm using a "LEGO Masters" shopping bag to carry my lunch.

Ah yes this will be the perfect lunchbox for School

The planets around the rocket look like bullet holes. Some AFOL really got on someone's bad side...

@560heliport:
Kubiak? Is that you?

Besides increasing the size of the box to be able to fit an entire KFC bucket worth of chicken legs inside....

Since I'm building 10497, how about an image like the back cover of the instructions: Classic Space logo on a starfield. However, I have some options instead of just a generic starfield....

- An accurate real life starfield with faint constellation lines, names, and prominent stars.
- A wide shot of the Milky Way with details for nebula, dust clouds, and other notable objects.
- A top down version of Milky Way with the Sun's location, spiral arm names, and an arrow pointing to Andromeda.
- A more starry, less blobby version of the Gaia Telescope 6000 parsec radius of the Sol System map.
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/

Inside the box --besides a thermos in the form of an Apollo Command and Service Module-- is a sticker sheet with the logos of all the Space factions so one can place them on the map where each faction might reside.

Castle, Pirate, and Adventurer versions would be welcome as well.

Also, it doesn't have to be a lunch box. Slap the image on whatever the current largest tile size is. Maybe a small Art set. Or a large Dot set. Possibuildities.

@PurpleDave said:
" @560heliport:
Kubiak? Is that you?"

...I have no idea what this means...

I like the advert but would have much preferred it as a tin sign or a print rather than a lunch box.
I'm not sure of any other adverts I'd like to see, but I would love the 1964 Lego System Logo with colour bars.

On the subject of rewards, I do wish the page could be filtered to exclude everything that has been redeemed or is sold out!

I like it. Agree with others that I don't like being forced to purchase direct from Lego, but this is a pretty neat little thing and I plan on getting one (and for once, actually have spare points on hand).

What they should do is actually have that rocket, in a modern form/style within the tin as a Gw/P.
This is something I wished they did with the Walmart yellow castle freebie. Instead of the cheap zip lock packaging.
Something with this retro styling is what I'd want in my collection, but not an empty lunch box.
Small retro-rocket (colors like in the painting) set would be nice within tin.
Additionally a kid minifig styled like from the lid, matching with helmet (classic spaceman helmet).

This was a British advertisement. In "one of the hundreds of models you can make with the 55/- Lego set", the "55/-" refers to the original price of 050—55 shillings, or £2, 15s, 0d (£2.75 in decimal form). That's *at least* £57 in today's money!

I'm guessing very few people recognize 55/- as a price today. It's neat they faithfully reproduced that detail anyway.

Also notice that nobody was attempting to insist that "Lego" needed to be printed in all-caps back then.

@elangab:
I’ve been waiting for them to open the coins up to double-dipping, as they promised to do many moons ago. Maybe I should check other sources.

As for the tin plates, I’ve only spent points on two of them, and have yet to claim the modern logo (got the vintage one a while ago). The rest don’t interest me, but I’ll probably grab this lunchbox (I think I have all the Nintendo DS LEGO lunchboxes, plus at least one extra LSW one that I can open).

@560heliport:
Old show called Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (it out-Ferrised the TV spin-off of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off). Kubiak was a character played by Abraham Benrubi, who was just as imposing in size as he is now. It was a running gag that Kubiak brought his lunch to school in a full-size paper grocery bag, at a time when people still used lunch-sized paper bags for their lunches. On the bag was written “Kube’s Lunch”. Lots of bad things happened to the contents of that bag over the course of three seasons. Anyways, I have one of those LEGO Masters tote bags, so if that’s what you’re referring to, it’s slightly larger than a full size paper grocery bag.

@PurpleDave said:
" @elangab:
I’ve been waiting for them to open the coins up to double-dipping, as they promised to do many moons ago. Maybe I should check other sources."

At least for the Canadian Lego site, it was quite easy to get these. The second batch was in stock for a long time, and I can find these on FB Marketplace for about $25-$30. I think the aftermarket price of these went down a lot after the initial excitement and stock limit. Even true for today, the tin plates are all in stock, and I see one coin still in stock.

All these items are just a payout-claw back operation by Lego.
My points are cashbacks and just that. No need to push those points into a subpar identity crisis.

@PurpleDave :
Thanks! Had never heard of it.
Two 20-oz water bottles and two sandwiches means I need a big lunch bag. Plus, it was free, and it's easy to identify.
Edit: I looked up Abraham Benrubi. Oh yeah, that guy: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Robot Chicken!

@mr_skinny said:
"We’ve had a tin lunchbox previously. Not the best of rewards. Sold it in the end as really wasn’t keen on it :-/"

I believe you're referring to 5006017

@elangab:
I got a complete set the first time around, though the last coin cost me a vacation day and was close call even then. But the second round, they said they were restricted to anyone who’d missed them the first time. And they said they would lift that restriction at some point, but I think it’s been half a year with no change. They still show up in my Rewards Center, and they all still show Reedemed in greyed out text.

@560heliport:
So is a full-size paper grocery bag marked “Kube’s Lunch”. Anyways, I don’t think he grew any since playing that high school student. He was kinda like the Hulk most of the time (pity the unlucky soul who destroyed Kube’s lunch…which happened frequently), but they’d have him wax extremely philosophical with out-of-character eloquence every now and then.

@Luka_Lobe said:
"one more thing that pushes me away from buying lego besides extortionate prices, poorer and poorer quality, too big sets, unreasonable newer and newer pieces, poor playability. there are much much better dust-catchers than adult lego sets"

Well that's job security for the Maid!!!

@PurpleDave said:
" @elangab:
I got a complete set the first time around, though the last coin cost me a vacation day and was close call even then. But the second round, they said they were restricted to anyone who’d missed them the first time. And they said they would lift that restriction at some point, but I think it’s been half a year with no change. They still show up in my Rewards Center, and they all still show Reedemed in greyed out text."

Oh, OK... I wasn't aware of that. I never ordered any of them so didn't see it greyed out.

@Draykov said:
" @mr_skinny said:
"We’ve had a tin lunchbox previously. Not the best of rewards. Sold it in the end as really wasn’t keen on it :-/"
I believe you're referring to 5006017"
Almost really good, but colour bars with the wrong Lego logo.... really bad!

I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At some point, it'll probably be on sale for much less points.

Lunchbox is pretty neat, but I want that helmet the kid on it is wearing.

I have tin Spiderman lunchbox and it's fantastic for holding my minis for D&D.

Running out of VIP rewards to redeem against, so I'm excited to see this come out! Looks like my points total go down just a touch.

This is available now here in Australia to redeem.