This year's Bricktober sets revealed
Posted by Huw,
This year's Toys R Us Bricktober sets have been discovered by South Korean Instagram user idonggyu9541.
Once again, four sets will be available during October in Asian branches of the toy store.
Each set builds a coin-operated ride and comes with a minifigure and the exquisite boxes used for those released in 2019 and 2020 make a welcome return.
Unfortunately, discerning collectors in the west will have to resort to the secondary market and pay a premium for them.
You'll find photos of the boxes after the break.
via Brickfinder.
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Booooooooo!!!! I wish Lego would make these available in some capacity, GWP, VIP points, in-store, whatever.
I really like these and hope they make it to Toys R Us Canada.
Neat but unfortunate that they are not available anywhere else.. I guess I can go to a Macy's if they have their LEGO section and hope......
While no real hard to find parts or figures (well maybe that spaceship flag if not a sticker), I guess you can bricklink them, but they are neat and elaborate and would rather to be able to buy them if I could.
I'm reminded of 40335. Wonder if those will have similar mechanisms.
@Agnew: I'm with you. I wish Toys R Us hadn't closed in the US.
The dragon sort of makes sense for Castle, but that horse is straining any sense of a common theme.
Those are cute as buttons.
@B_Space_Man:
The side of the larger box shows a Space helmet, a Castle helmet, a Pirate hat, and a Cowboy hat. Clearly this is a particularly sparkly Western set.
When I posted the translations, all of the Korean characters got changed into question marks, and then I was having issues editing the post (there was no Submit button, only a Cancel button), so I've deleted the previous comment, and replaced the Korean text with a description of the text location.
I'm learning Korean, so apologies if I'm off about anything.
Translation of the text on the image (with assistance from Google Translate):
Small text between the hats and helmets: Limited Edition
Large text: Adventure Ride
Banner text: 2022 LEGO Bricktober
Small text below the banner: Free gift with purchase of 100,000 won or more (NOTE: 100,000 won is around $70 USD)
Banners below the four sets:
Space Adventure Ride
Pirate Adventure Ride
Fantasy Adventure Ride
Dragon Adventure Ride
@PurpleDave Or the Village People.
Wow look, its the four finalists of the 90th Anniversary vote!
Space, Pirates, Castle, and... Classic?
@PurpleDave said:
" @B_Space_Man:
The side of the larger box shows a Space helmet, a Castle helmet, a Pirate hat, and a Cowboy hat. Clearly this is a particularly sparkly Western set."
Whatever floats your (cowboy) boot, but like I said the colorful design does not seem cohesive. The other three align closely with historical Lego themes. Perhaps something like a covered wagon would be too difficult to portray at that scale.
@GSR_MataNui:
Space, Pirates, Castle, and Deadpool.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Agnew: I'm with you. I wish Toys R Us hadn't closed in the US."
TRU is still alive and (somewhat) well in Canada. I’m not sure we’ve gotten the Bricktober sets the past several years though.
Would love to have 'em. So cute.
But fearing the after-market price.
@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Agnew: I'm with you. I wish Toys R Us hadn't closed in the US."
TRU is still alive and (somewhat) well in Canada. I’m not sure we’ve gotten the Bricktober sets the past several years though. "
I got the mini fairground sets there last year, but they were the versions that came in plastic bags.
What happened to "no more regional exclusives"?
@SinKiller_Nick:
It’s a retailer exclusive.
@SinKiller_Nick said:
"What happened to "no more regional exclusives"?"
Excludes gwp
So cute!
@TheOtherMike said:
"I'm reminded of 40335. Wonder if those will have similar mechanisms.
@Agnew: I'm with you. I wish Toys R Us hadn't closed in the US."
"REMINDED"? - the base is *exactly* the same...
I NEED that Space one!
Don't really want to have to travel to Canada to get it. :(
Macy’s online sells ToysRUs product and I heard in Oct. TRU is opening a new 10k square foot store in Macy’s flagship store in Manhattan.
These look like fun! Hopefully the instructions and parts lists will make it online as I'd love to build these, even if I can't get the sets.
Me: “how exquisite could the boxes really be.”
-expands post-
“Wow those really are exquisite”
"Welcome return" is a gross over statement. I thought Lego promised to do away with regional exclusives. And TRU keeps having regional exclusives.
Normally I don't care that much about the box, but this one is pretty cool. I'd most like to get the Pirate ship. But in for a penny, in for a pound.
I have it on good authority that these are coming to Toys R Us in October. And yes, we still have all 80+ stores open here in Canada.
How to get those cute sets in Europe?
@LusiferSam:
And I thought people would figure out the difference between “regional exclusive” and “retailer exclusive”. Alas…
Those all beat the Sandwich Shop GWP in my opinion. I don’t know how many people have noticed though, we can make our own with the Lego pieces we already own. (You don’t have to buy everything!) ;-)
The "no more regional exclusives" promise was very clear that promotional sets like GWPs were not included in that.
'No regional exclusives' means that sets like The Office aren't limited to North America and Monkie Kid isn't limited to China. It doesn't mean all the sets ever made are available everywhere.
We may well get these in NZ at some point soon as we got the Fairground GWP and the Season GWP sets via a local retailer
As someone who lives near the only full Toys R Us store in the US... I wish they still did Bricktober.
Toys R Us has just re-launched in the UK. A long shot, but hope they will become available here.