40366 LEGO House Dinosaurs now available [UK, IE, DK]
Posted by CapnRex101,
40366 LEGO House Dinosaurs is now available to purchase on LEGO.com, for those in the UK, Ireland and Denmark.
The set costs £74.99, €85.00 or 749,00 DKK, so a further spend will be needed to receive 40562 Mystic Witch, although 40513 Spooky VIP Add on Pack should be added to your cart.
Buy 40366 LEGO House Dinosaurs at LEGO.com »
As mentioned in our article yesterday, availability is limited to the UK, Ireland and Denmark because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world.
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They're not available on the Irish LEGO.com site, in fact, the listing for the Dinosaurs is gone completely from the IE site now (they were showing as retired).
Sorry, but what a crock of sht!!
…..
“ because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world.”
……
Are there illegal, dangerous ingredients in here?!
Are toy dinosaurs banned in other countries?!
How is this different to every other LEGO set sold IN THE WORLD?!?!…..
I really want this set, as I’m sure thousands do globally!!
What could possibly be preventing this!?… REALLY??…..
Couldn’t manufacture enough, so made up some crappy excuse?!…..
:(
I think they made PLENTY... they were giving it away free at the LEGO House shop, with any purchase of 2 LEGO House exclusives, last December.
@lemish34 said:
"Sorry, but what a crock of sh t!!
…..
“ because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world.”
……
Are there illegal, dangerous ingredients in here?!
Are toy dinosaurs banned in other countries?!
How is this different to every other LEGO set sold IN THE WORLD?!?!…..
I really want this set, as I’m sure thousands do globally!!
What could possibly be preventing this!?… REALLY??…..
Couldn’t manufacture enough, so made up some crappy excuse?!…..
:("
LEGO packaging differs between countries. The most obvious example is North American boxes displaying the piece count because they are legally required to do so, while European boxes are not. Languages on the packaging also vary around the world and there are many other smaller differences, although I have never made direct comparisons to identify them all.
Maybe LEGO could have produced packaging and instructions to serve additional markets, but I doubt that would be financially worthwhile, particularly since this is probably the final batch they have to sell.
Those are leftovers from LEGO House, so not "couldn’t manufacture enough" but "manufactured more than was demand in LEGO House Store".
I have the box and it has legally required warning only in English and Danish so they won't risk selling it in countries with other Official language. As for US it does not come with required piece count on the packaging. To overcome these additional effort would be needed that might cost T&M and is probably not deemed needed due to volume available.
That is probably also the answer why they don't ship to countries that would meet the requirements but are overseas - shipping from EU warehouse would cut into the profit ;)
I'm not at all interested in the set, but the legalities mentioned intrigue me.
Say I visit the LEGO House in Denmark and want to buy this set there. Do they then ask me where I come from, and if I say I'm from Germany they will tell me they can't sell it to me because the box and instructions are illegal here?
Or do they have separate "editions" in stock and sell me the version for Germany? Wouldn't seem very practical to me from a logistics standpoint.
Anyway, moving on.
Additional, @CapnRex101: some boxes in Germany now also feature the piece count. 10497 for example.
This set has not been sold in the LEGO House for a long time
@CapnRex101 said:
" @lemish34 said:
"Sorry, but what a crock of sh t!!
…..
“ because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world.”
……
Are there illegal, dangerous ingredients in here?!
Are toy dinosaurs banned in other countries?!
How is this different to every other LEGO set sold IN THE WORLD?!?!…..
I really want this set, as I’m sure thousands do globally!!
What could possibly be preventing this!?… REALLY??…..
Couldn’t manufacture enough, so made up some crappy excuse?!…..
:("
LEGO packaging differs between countries. The most obvious example is North American boxes displaying the piece count because they are legally required to do so, while European boxes are not. Languages on the packaging also vary around the world and there are many other smaller differences, although I have never made direct comparisons to identify them all.
Maybe LEGO could have produced packaging and instructions to serve additional markets, but I doubt that would be financially worthwhile."
Last time LEGO did this during COVID and their main factory shut then they sent sets from over here in Europe, they needed this white sticker stuck to them for legal reasons and people complained at that because it was stuck on the box
No because it's sold in Denmark then it's fine to sell to anyone. It's the location it's sold in not where the consumer is from when purchasing in Denmark if that makes sense
I thought these were just a few left-overs direct from a (discontinued?) line in the House. So very limited stock, and no opportunity or point in amending packaging for different markets.
Also it is quite possible this is one of the last LEGO House specials available for UK as from 2023 the CE marking would be invalid in UK (and the box has only CE marking). If they start relabeling for UK only in future it will be time to start calling out double standards ...
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-ukca-marking:~:text=After%2011pm%20on%2031%20December,products%20on%20the%20GB%20market.
This is just LEGO being their usual hypocritical selves to play favourites. Period.
This:
"As mentioned in our article yesterday, availability is limited to the UK, Ireland and Denmark because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world."
Is complete BS.
LEGO isn't selling the sets in physical stores in any country other than Denmark. They are selling it online, which means it's considered a distance sale. Having a look at least at the Portuguese legislation, the obligation of providing packaging and instructions in Portuguese applies ONLY to products sold in Portuguese territory. Not online purchases or distance purchases. Which means that, at least for Portugal, they could also sell it online.
On top of that, NONE of LEGO's instruction booklets or boxes comes in Portuguese. The only thing that exists in Portuguese in any of those are the small warning lettering which also comes in a bunch of languages and that I'm pretty sure LEGO prints standard on all boxes (the LEGO House architecture set, also supposedly exclusive to the LEGO House, has it). And those warnings, IF they were missing, like with the US releases during the pandemic, could be fixed with a sticker.
LEGO simply doesn't want to.
There's no point trying to make excuses for a multi-million euro corporation that lately has, time and again, showed they don't give a flying flamingo about their consumers, despite what their marketing tries to make us believe.
This paired up nicely with 40573 Christmas Tree to get the 2 GWPs. Bit of an impulse purchase, but I think it looks pretty good.
@DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"This paired up nicely with 40573 Christmas Tree to get the 2 GWPs. Bit of an impulse purchase, but I think it looks pretty good."
Did you get the spooky add on pack? Hasn't shown in my basket for a few days when checking.
@Aurium
"Did you get the spooky add on pack? Hasn't shown in my basket for a few days when checking."
Yes.... Spooky VIP and Mystic Witch both still adding OK to basket 5 minutes ago.
@Davenocheese said:
"They're not available on the Irish LEGO.com site, in fact, the listing for the Dinosaurs is gone completely from the IE site now (they were showing as retired). "
Just became available on the Irish site in the last few minutes.
@sjr60 said:
" @Aurium
"Did you get the spooky add on pack? Hasn't shown in my basket for a few days when checking."
Yes.... Spooky VIP and Mystic Witch both still adding OK to basket 5 minutes ago."
Thanks for checking. Witch was adding but spooky VIP still wouldn't add for me (logged into VIP account). Spoke with a rep, ordered without and they added after for me.
So these dinos dance to house eh? They seem to have fun ..
For each his own, but this set is ugly and nothing special, and one can just bricklink it if they want it. My bet most people want it because it's "rare" and FOMO. Just find a friend in the UK to send it to, or a mail forwarding company.
Having said that, Lego could've donated these leftovers to children's hospitals or Ukrine and bypassing the "only selling regionally" issue.
@CapnRex101 said:
" LEGO packaging differs between countries. The most obvious example is North American boxes displaying the piece count because they are legally required to do so, while European boxes are not. Languages on the packaging also vary around the world and there are many other smaller differences, although I have never made direct comparisons to identify them all... "
That sounds like an interesting article--I'd read it just out of curiosity...
Would like to call-out that this set was not available at the Lego House, nor at 2 different stores in Coppenhagen, this summer when I was overseas. I would have picked it up, as a memonto, as it is far more memorable of my visit to the LH than any other set (aside from the LH model itself). The 3 exclusive sets that were available at the House aren't very interesting (duck, designer, press). The old Tree set and Dinos are huge physical displays at the LH, and both were quite memorable.
BTW... regarding packaging... look no further than the bastion of French in North America - Quebec - for complications tied to packaging. Vaguerities about "North American" legal requirements really translates into "United States", but its the Quebec market in Canada that is the most troublesome for vendors, due to the French language requirements and the zealousness of the Quebec Government. Those of us who live in Quebec routinely see limitations on sites for certain products being unable to deliver to Quebec destinations, and this is directly due to a lack of bilingual packing (ie inclusive of French). Vendors are forced to spend big bucks in service to a province of roughly 10M people, which is peanuts compared to the US market... and some don't even bother. (Not usually an issue with Lego, however.)
There are packaging rules in Canada. If there isn't French on the box, you can't sell it. I understand the TLC's problem in providing this everywhere.
But seriously, they had these left over, and they were willing to release them at S&H. That's not a bad thing, even if everywhere can't benefit.
Cue all the ranting and raving.
This release is a perfect example of no good deed going unpunished. I doubt TLC will do this kind of release in the future. Is that better?
Jeez!
@LegoBoi69 said:
" @gylman said:
"There are packaging rules in Canada. If there isn't French on the box, you can't sell it. I understand the TLC's problem in providing this everywhere.
But seriously, they had these left over, and they were willing to release them at S&H. That's not a bad thing, even if everywhere can't benefit.
Cue all the ranting and raving.
This release is a perfect example of no good deed going unpunished. I doubt TLC will do this kind of release in the future. Is that better?
Jeez!"
I know right .. "
Not only that, but still the same price as it was 2 years ago... leaving many devastated that there's no evil, greedy price rise to howl about!
@lemish34 said:
"Sorry, but what a crock of sht!!
…..
“ because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world.”
……
Are there illegal, dangerous ingredients in here?!
Are toy dinosaurs banned in other countries?!
How is this different to every other LEGO set sold IN THE WORLD?!?!…..
I really want this set, as I’m sure thousands do globally!!
What could possibly be preventing this!?… REALLY??…..
Couldn’t manufacture enough, so made up some crappy excuse?!…..
:("
Oh boy, another one lost their minds. First the Hulkbuster and now these exclusive Lego House Dinosaur kits. What's happening!?
Thanks for the heads up. Ordered a set. Brings back good memories of days out when my boys when they were young.
@lemish34 said:
"Sorry, but what a crock of sht!!
…..
“ because the packaging and instructions do not meet the legal requirements to be distributed elsewhere in the world.”
……
Are there illegal, dangerous ingredients in here?!
Are toy dinosaurs banned in other countries?!
How is this different to every other LEGO set sold IN THE WORLD?!?!…..
I really want this set, as I’m sure thousands do globally!!
What could possibly be preventing this!?… REALLY??…..
Couldn’t manufacture enough, so made up some crappy excuse?!…..
:("
Can't wait for the latest border force episode when they find contraband lego with a non compliant box. The fine will be worse than trying to smuggle in a box of fruit.
What was that about stopping regional exclusives?
@gatorbug6 said:
"What was that about stopping regional exclusives? "
These aren't regional exclusives, they're only available in a certain store, much like the 90th anniversary castle was only available in Walmart
I just assumed the reason European boxes don't have the parts number on them was due to the average resident of a European nation exhibiting innate psychic abilities that we Americans aren't allowed to know about.
It's alright guys, I'll keep your secrets.
@tm76 said:
"
Can't wait for the latest border force episode when they find contraband lego with a non compliant box. The fine will be worse than trying to smuggle in a box of fruit."
You joke, but the legos I had shipped from London to the US a few weeks ago, US Customs opened the outer box and some of the inner boxes, I presume to search for contraband. The giant grease stain FedEx put on the box in transit probably didn't help things there.
@gatorbug6 said:
"What was that about stopping regional exclusives? "
That record is now irretrievably broken; please stop trying to play it.
Think for one minute:
This set was ONLY available if you PHYSICALLY visited Denmark. Now (and for a short time a couple of years ago) it is being made available to a few more people, because of some overstock issue or something, but they can't\won't stock it worldwide due to box info\logisitics\some economics reason.
Would you prefer:
a) they allow a few more people to buy it, or;
b) they let them collect dust until they sell them all eventually at Billund?
@tedgarb said:
" @tm76 said:
"
Can't wait for the latest border force episode when they find contraband lego with a non compliant box. The fine will be worse than trying to smuggle in a box of fruit."
You joke, but the legos I had shipped from London to the US a few weeks ago, US Customs opened the outer box and some of the inner boxes, I presume to search for contraband. The giant grease stain FedEx put on the box in transit probably didn't help things there."
They are probably screening for Fentanyl.
There was a recent incident where someone tried to smuggle 15000 fentanyl pills inside a 10698 Lego Classic Box (along with the bricks).