Black Friday deals have begun!

Yay

Doesn't look like the World Map is reduced in the UK

Eiffeltower is in the pocket! Party on dude... :-)

@Huw , several of the sets you listed have reduced prices in Australia but not in Europe. Those include World Map, Sanctum Sanctorum, Vespa, and Orchid.

I've been looking at various regions in anticipation of potential sales here in the United States, and was surprised to see that the first four Brick Sketches -- Batman, Joker, BB-8, and Stormtrooper -- are on the Sale items list. None of them have been available on the US Lego site for ages.

@dbbunny said:
[[ @d_m_t_arnold said:
[[Doesn't look like the World Map is reduced in the UK]]
Think these must be US deals as several aren’t reduced here. Pity, I would have been tempted by World Map]

Nothing is listed for the US yet, at least as far as I can tell. It’s still 4.5 hours till midnight here.

4 £5 Discount Codes, 3 Sale Sets,1964 Keychain grabbed.

Discount Codes and Promo Codes can now be entered in the same box. That makes things much simpler!
(Still only 1 Promo Code per order of course)

Only spent £32 so far, so would be interested if the World Map does get reduced. I think there was a hint of different things on different days

Or you could go to Argos that have some nice sets with 1/3 off - Optimus Prime and the trash compactor to name 2

Anyone know if I’m missing something?? Is there’s any reason to head to store in the morning as apart from 75% of vip point £5 discount voucher I can’t see anything I couldn’t get cheaper elsewhere or already got on last weeks vip weekend???? ??

@Gwanny007 said:
"Is there’s any reason to head to store in the morning"
Santa on skis?

@sjr60 said:
" @Gwanny007 said:
"Is there’s any reason to head to store in the morning"
Santa on skis?"

Morning ???? Do you know the spend threshold to get it please, I can’t see it anywhere??

@Gwanny007 said:
"I can’t see it anywhere?? "
£40
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/black-friday-deals
(Scroll across from Winter Elves Scene)

@woosterlegos:
Midnight for the US is spread out over a five-hour span, because we span six time zones. I haven’t seen it often, but some people west of EST/EDT have been burned by becoming too obsessed with midnight being the start time, and forgetting that the entire US uses the same site. As soon as it goes live in Eastern, Hawaii/Aleutian gets access at 7pm. One person showed up over two hours late for one of the coin drops because they lived on the west coast, and had seen that it would show up in the Reward Center at 9am.

@Gwanny007
Over the next three days, I’ve got 24 hours of Detroit Festival of Trees followed by teardown. Less reason to go shopping on Black Friday is a welcome thing. I’ll make sure to grab a code for the next keychain, but if there’s nothing that catches my eye in terms of sale prices, that’s not a bad thing.

P.S. @Huw , Any chance of adding the 5007091 & 5007092 Keychains to the database? TIA.

@PurpleDave. Thanks for over-explaining US timezones to a US citizen :).

I’m hoping to get the Sanctum Sanctorum for a discount. I know it’s not guaranteed to be on sale in the US just because it’s on sale elsewhere, but in the interest of hoping, does anyone know the percent discount for that set in other parts of the world?

@woosterlegos said:
" @PurpleDave. Thanks for over-explaining US timezones to a US citizen :).

I’m hoping to get the Sanctum Sanctorum for a discount. I know it’s not guaranteed to be on sale in the US just because it’s on sale elsewhere, but in the interest of hoping, does anyone know the percent discount for that set in other parts of the world?"

In Ireland, it’s at a little over 20% off in Smyths toy stores. Was €250, now €198.

@woosterlegos said:
" @PurpleDave. Thanks for over-explaining US timezones to a US citizen :).

I’m hoping to get the Sanctum Sanctorum for a discount. I know it’s not guaranteed to be on sale in the US just because it’s on sale elsewhere, but in the interest of hoping, does anyone know the percent discount for that set in other parts of the world?"

https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/black-friday-cyber-monday-sale-sets?sort.key=PRICE&sort.direction=DESC

I think the US page is live, only without the discounts yet.

@woosterlegos said:
" I’m hoping to get the Sanctum Sanctorum for a discount. I know it’s not guaranteed to be on sale in the US just because it’s on sale elsewhere, but in the interest of hoping, does anyone know the percent discount for that set in other parts of the world?"

20% in Australia and New Zealand. Not discounted in Europe.

https://www.lego.com/en-au/categories/sales-and-deals?

You can see offers in other countries by changing the country code in the link, such as:
au for Australia
de for Germany
es for Spain
fr for France
gb for Great Britain
us for United States

Waiting for that online velvet rope to be slowly moved aside...

12:45 Update - alright, order in to get the pirate ship ride. Time to go back to bed to have plenty of energy ready for the US - England SOCCER game!

Love it. Was on the site early, looking at stuff... got an error, had to go 'Home' and get stuck in the waiting room queue. I get in again, only to have another site error, and back into the queue I go. Why do we do this to ourselves...?

And the US doesn't get the sanctum on sale.. cool.

@styledshadow said:
"Love it. Was on the site early, looking at stuff... got an error, had to go 'Home' and get stuck in the waiting room queue. I get in again, only to have another site error, and back into the queue I go. Why do we do this to ourselves...?"
Agreed, en-us site is pretty unstable at the moment.

Over 20 minutes in queue (on phone and laptop) and still not in the store.

Only seeing 15% on Optimus Prime--doesn't even match the 20% (with double VIP) from a few weeks ago, go figure. I don't know, looking pretty lackluster. Will probably just order something exclusive and unlikely to be discounted just to get to the free shipping so I can get my Dragon Ride.

@ra226 said:
"Only seeing 15% on Optimus Prime--doesn't even match the 20% (with double VIP) from a few weeks ago, go figure. I don't know, looking pretty lackluster. Will probably just order something exclusive and unlikely to be discounted just to get to the free shipping so I can get my Dragon Ride."

That's the set I was looking to nab, and its not discounted in Canada. Shows up on the BF list; no discount on it. (Nor the Real Madrid set.) Sigh. Will just have to keep watching Amazon like a hawk... they dropped their pants last week on several sets for a few hours... I'm hoping they do it again for the ones I want...

@styledshadow said:
" @ra226 said:
"Only seeing 15% on Optimus Prime--doesn't even match the 20% (with double VIP) from a few weeks ago, go figure. I don't know, looking pretty lackluster. Will probably just order something exclusive and unlikely to be discounted just to get to the free shipping so I can get my Dragon Ride."

That's the set I was looking to nab, and its not discounted in Canada. Shows up on the BF list; no discount on it. (Nor the Real Madrid set.) Sigh. Will just have to keep watching Amazon like a hawk... they dropped their pants last week on several sets for a few hours... I'm hoping they do it again for the ones I want..."

Haha, that's exactly my plan. I find that they add deals around midnight PST so check then. Hoping for Prime or BTTF. Strange that they have Prime listed, but not discounted. Maybe it'll get a discount on "Cyber Monday".

The stuff being reduced in price in Czech Republic is laughable. It looks more like getting rig of Lego they are unable to sell. Great Black Friday indeed. Funny like ordinary shops are 20-30% cheaper than Lego eshop itself (VIP points included). I don't understand this philosophy. Well, hard pass.

Just an FYI for Uk peeps, Argos has the UCS landspeeder at 30% off and Mandos starfighter at £20 off , pushed the button at those prices.

^ I ended up doing that. Not a bad take--ordered the Jazz Quartet with 4x $5 vouchers purchased at 75% off with VIP points earned (just realized VIP points are no longer doubled as they were over the weekend?), and was able to add my Dragon Ride I'd purchased last week and meet the free shipping threshold.

When did this stuff start requiring so much thought???

Plus dozens of sets have been reduced by 20-30% including 10302 Optimus Prime, 51515 Robot Inventor, 31203 World Map, 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, 10298 Vespa 125 and 10311 Orchid.

I see none of these sets on sale in the US :(

@MandaPanda742 said:
"Plus dozens of sets have been reduced by 20-30% including 10302 Optimus Prime, 51515 Robot Inventor, 31203 World Map, 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, 10298 Vespa 125 and 10311 Orchid.

I see none of these sets on sale in the US :("
@Huw: For the list of sale items, perhaps add the text "in some regions"? Looks like it varies considerably around the world.

@MVives said:
"Don't forget the $5 VIP discounts! You can redeem four of them, and use them immediately, i.e. $15 off ($20 discount for the points price of $5)."

Can you use all four on one order?

31203 World Map, 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, 10298 Vespa 125 and 10311 Orchid are all NOT on sale in the U.S.A.

@MandaPanda742 said:
"Plus dozens of sets have been reduced by 20-30% including 10302 Optimus Prime, 51515 Robot Inventor, 31203 World Map, 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, 10298 Vespa 125 and 10311 Orchid.

I see none of these sets on sale in the US :("
In Germany I can see Optimus Prime (which I already have) and the Robot Inventor set, but not the others.
But there are some interesting (at least at the discounted price) smaller sets here, which at least make nice parts packs. The Vidiyo stages sets are 50% off, several exclusive BrickHeadz are 40% off, and some store exclusives too. Not too bad.

@Banners said:
" @MVives said:
"Don't forget the $5 VIP discounts! You can redeem four of them, and use them immediately, i.e. $15 off ($20 discount for the points price of $5)."

Can you use all four on one order?"

Yes I just did with the pirate ship ride as well!

@laibros said:
"The stuff being reduced in price in Czech Republic is laughable. It looks more like getting rig of Lego they are unable to sell. Great Black Friday indeed. Funny like ordinary shops are 20-30% cheaper than Lego eshop itself (VIP points included). I don't understand this philosophy. Well, hard pass."

I actually liked this black Friday very much. There are discounted Monkey Kid sets, you are not able to get in other shops. And then the possibility to redeem 4 125 CZK coupons and use all of them on single purchase? Wonderful! Of course for other stuff broadly available, other retailers are much much cheaper

Honestly really disappointed with Black Friday for the UK, these are all just the sets that aren’t selling/retiring soon, with a handful of icons thrown in. Barley any monkie kid or Ninjago, I was really hoping Ninjago city gardens would be on sale. Do they change sets everyday? Or add to the sale?

It says 75% off 5$ codes, but at checkout the codes gave me -10$. So with 4 of them I got -40$ discount on my order. Did anyone else get that?

@busyman said:
"It says 75% off 5$ codes, but at checkout the codes gave me -10$. So with 4 of them I got -40$ discount on my order. Did anyone else get that? "
Sounds odd! 5$ codes should still be 5$ codes... It just costs 75% less VIP points than usual to get them.

On the website 'VIP Account / Rewards Redeemed' will show you what you got and how many VIP points it cost you.

@styledshadow said:
" @ra226 said:
"Only seeing 15% on Optimus Prime--doesn't even match the 20% (with double VIP) from a few weeks ago, go figure. I don't know, looking pretty lackluster. Will probably just order something exclusive and unlikely to be discounted just to get to the free shipping so I can get my Dragon Ride."

That's the set I was looking to nab, and its not discounted in Canada. Shows up on the BF list; no discount on it. (Nor the Real Madrid set.) Sigh. Will just have to keep watching Amazon like a hawk... they dropped their pants last week on several sets for a few hours... I'm hoping they do it again for the ones I want..."

Amazon is live, $199 CAD for Optimus and BTTF.

There was a waiting line at midnight just to get on the LEGO site. :'-) Some pretty good discounts. Might cave...

Well that is incredibly disappointing on the UK website. I'd seen the Australian discounts and hoped we would have some the same or similar but the only high-profile set is Optimus Prime with only 20% off. I had hoped to buy the Justifier with 30% so I only reached the £170 threshold, not £250. I had to place an order of some kind for the Pirate Ride. The 75% off £5 discount codes sounds high but as it is limited to 4 per customer it's nothing more than a gesture really, essentially giving you £15. Were there any new VIP rewards we weren't already aware of? The discount on old VIP rewards did not have a high expectation to begin with but still managed to disappoint. Not as good as VIP weekend, and that was messy due to the convoluted way Lego want to give discounts. I'd much prefer they selected 25% of their products and gave a straight discount of 30-50% off those. No vouchers, no codes, no use of VIP points, just a "was" and "now" price.

@LukeSkywalker said:
" @woosterlegos said:
" @PurpleDave . Thanks for over-explaining US timezones to a US citizen :).

I’m hoping to get the Sanctum Sanctorum for a discount. I know it’s not guaranteed to be on sale in the US just because it’s on sale elsewhere, but in the interest of hoping, does anyone know the percent discount for that set in other parts of the world?"

In Ireland, it’s at a little over 20% off in Smyths toy stores. Was €250, now €198."

Currently £168 on Amazon UK...............(kicks himself for paying £170 three weeks ago!)

10299 is 20% off here in The Netherlands. 76218 is not on sale at Lego, but you can get it for € 167 at bol.com and amazon.nl.

Stock is holding out unlike during the pandemic, could've saved a lot by waiting as stuff (like GWP) isn't going out of stock immediately now.

10311 Orchid is nowhere in stock in South Africa, nevermind on sale :-(

While I want them I am waiting for my finances to recover from last week.

@Timsterino said:
"Just an FYI for Uk peeps, Argos has the UCS landspeeder at 30% off and Mandos starfighter at £20 off , pushed the button at those prices."

Thanks got the Landspeeder and Optimus Prime also at 33% off :)

@ra226:
Jazz Quarter costs $99.99, and should trigger free shipping regardless of how you pay for it. So it has never required as much thought as you’ve put into it, but also just a little bit more than you did.

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"There was a waiting line at midnight just to get on the LEGO site. :'-) Some pretty good discounts. Might cave..."

I caved.

The Harry Potter and Hermione brick-built figures are 40% off in Canada. I have no interest in HP, but if they made a Johnny Thunder brick-built like that I would buy it in a heartbeat! Are you listening LEGO company?

I wonder if actual deals in the US are being saved for “Cyber Monday”. I doubt it. Plenty of Americans are so obsessed with buying stuff on Black Friday through Cyber Monday that you don’t really need to offer big deals to get suckers into the store and spending money.

If you got the Pirate Adventure Ride last week (during the pre Black Friday sale) you can redeem for a second one today - at least in Canada.

Appreciate this isn’t quite on topic but there has been little in terms of 2023 set reveals this week. Hoping next is going to be bumper! (Inc hopefully modular news)

If you want the Pirate ride now and don't want to wait till midnight just modify the link from the Black Friday page. Like this (basicaly remove the part from Block to the =)
from this "rewards?icmp=LP-SHCC-Standard-VIP_CC_Block_Black_Friday_Live_Phase_Pirate_Ride_Set_VIP_LP-F-VIP-IDR87KZOX1"
to this "rewards?icmp=Black_Friday_Live_Phase_Pirate_Ride_Set_VIP_LP-F-VIP-IDR87KZOX1"

@ra226 said:
"Only seeing 15% on Optimus Prime--doesn't even match the 20% (with double VIP) from a few weeks ago, go figure. I don't know, looking pretty lackluster. Will probably just order something exclusive and unlikely to be discounted just to get to the free shipping so I can get my Dragon Ride."

Zavvi US has it for $142 right now for the Black Friday deals. Check it out!

@dbbunny said:
" @d_m_t_arnold said:
"Doesn't look like the World Map is reduced in the UK"
Think these must be US deals as several aren’t reduced here. Pity, I would have been tempted by World Map

"

They aren't reduced in the US either... must be somewhere else in an alternate universe!

@dbbunny said:
" @d_m_t_arnold said:
"Doesn't look like the World Map is reduced in the UK"
Think these must be US deals as several aren’t reduced here. Pity, I would have been tempted by World Map

I had the same view. At a discount I would have been tempted but not available in UK

"

Black Friday indeed.

This is a nightmare of lego buying, .... £800 on lego in ONE week..... : (
On the other hand £800 of lego, YAY! :)

ONE PROMO code per order is ridiculous...... come on TLG make it one code per £100 spent or 5 promo codes per order. Or something else that is reasonable...

@elangab said:
" @styledshadow said:
" @ra226 said:
"Only seeing 15% on Optimus Prime--doesn't even match the 20% (with double VIP) from a few weeks ago, go figure. I don't know, looking pretty lackluster. Will probably just order something exclusive and unlikely to be discounted just to get to the free shipping so I can get my Dragon Ride."

That's the set I was looking to nab, and its not discounted in Canada. Shows up on the BF list; no discount on it. (Nor the Real Madrid set.) Sigh. Will just have to keep watching Amazon like a hawk... they dropped their pants last week on several sets for a few hours... I'm hoping they do it again for the ones I want..."

Amazon is live, $199 CAD for Optimus and BTTF."

Got it for a bit less than that ... $191.

But now Bowser is no longer on sale on Amazon. Sigh. This why I can't have nice things. lol

I really like how they advertise full price UCS sets as Black Friday deals. Although to be fair, they have discounted a few old Star Wars sets (and the Obiwan brick built baseplate set) to only slightly higher prices than other retailers. I suppose I should be thankful that I won’t need to spend any money on Lego today.

@PurpleDave said:
" @ra226:
Jazz Quarter costs $99.99, and should trigger free shipping regardless of how you pay for it. So it has never required as much thought as you’ve put into it, but also just a little bit more than you did."

No, the full back story is that I cashed points in for Dragon Ride with my previous order and then was not able to add it to that order since I couldn't use more than one code at once. Then when I tried to make a small second order, I didn't have anything I needed/wanted to order to get me up to a free shipping threshold, so the Dragon Ride waited.

Not that it matters. My point is that the free shipping threshold is just another piece of the puzzle that needs to be considered in all of this. My point is how ridiculous all this has been made.

Well, apparently LEGO "ran out" of the -75% on VIP discounts... It shows as "Sold out" for me, lol.

Walmart may still have the Galaxy Explorer for $50, it’s for local pickup only so it depends on local stock. A great deal. Check the app / website.

@smarchitelli said:
"How can -75% on VIP discount coupons be "sold out" - lame."

It's really dumb, but I believe in previous years they stated that they only released a limited number each day. Gotta push that FOMO.

Hopefully they there will be more tomorrow.

More disappointing is that the Lego House GWP appears to be sold out.

Costco has advent calendars for 20

Was not really in the plans, but I saw 42131 at 26% off (amazon) so I figured it was an ok price to get it. There was also a good deal on 42143 but I hesitated for too long and it's no longer available. Fair enough, I must keep stuff to buy for the upcoming Lego Christmas GWP.

The little camera set showed back up for me in the VIP rewards center. Anyone else?

@B_Space_Man said:
"The little camera set showed back up for me in the VIP rewards center. Anyone else?"

In the netherlands it was available for a short but now it's sold out.
€ 5 discount coupons for -75% points are also sold out.

@tamamahm said:
"I have to say the “sold out” on the vouchers, I am finding quite lame and annoying... Nothing at all about this being a limited item, so I figured I could do this at any point during this time frame. it came across like a deal they were offering to all their VIP members, just like they offer extra VIP points during a set time. I would have never guessed this was something that could “sell out”."

Feel exactly the same here. Waited until this morning so I could do it with the boy, but he was left disappointed to find the offer was limited.

~sigh~

As a postscript to the above, I have this morning (Sunday) received a LEGO News email promoting the "Redeem more for less" VIP offer, which seems somewhat disingenuous in light of this offer no longer being available.