It's that time of year when LEGO® Pick a Brick remove thousands of elements from the service, and today we have that list – as well as a very small list of new elements being added at some stage tomorrow, Tuesday 29 October 2024.
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Element removal
Element addition
When should you buy?
- If you have lots of FOMO and you're not interested in the 2 new sets launching 1 November, our recommendation is to get in as soon as possible before popular elements start going out of stock. That includes the Nazgûl Ringwraith torso, which is still in stock in the Poland warehouse (sorry, North America). Plus, if you spend more than US$130/ AU$215/ €130/ £120 you will receive LEGO® Ideas GwP 40698 Books Are My Passion (until 11 November while stocks last) but be careful, "Standard" elements do not contribute to your threshold – only Bestseller, and of course actual sets.
- That means the best choice will be available if you buy today, so long as you're not interested in the 33 new parts being added sometime tomorrow 29 October.
- But if you want some of those new parts, plan today and buy once they appear sometime on Tuesday 29 October.
- If you want LEGO Ideas 21353 The Botanical Garden with its GwP 5009005 Entrance Gate, or LEGO Marvel 76294 X-Men: X-Mansion with its GwP 5009015 Cerebro, prepare your PaB list now and buy on Friday 1 November (ends 7 November or while stocks last). You'll get 40698 Books Are My Passion too.
- If you want to wait for a Double Insiders Points promotion, which LEGO have run in November in previous years so presumably will do again, you run the risk of the elements having been removed (or out of stock), because we don't know exactly when they will be removing them!
We hope the list is helpful for you to catch things you want before they leave.
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Those unidentified colours of the retiring Dreamzzz pieces are Dark Green and Flame Yellowish Orange as it seems from their photos on PaB ;)
ReplyDeleteYes, but those images show them as monochrome, while the parts are only known to exist as marbeled. Since they have never been in stock, we can't buy them to confirm if they are indeed monochrome or the renders have an error.
DeleteAnyone knows the reason why parts "retire"? Running low & no plan to produce more, or needing to make room? And where does the existing stock go?
ReplyDeleteThey retire because the last sets containing them are retiring, and any remaining stock must go too. They only have so much storage room.
DeleteApparently, old stock is recycled to new parts, at least that's what customer service told me when I complained about parts being off colour (sadly a rather common issue these days) - that one reason for that can be that the material they are made from is reused from old parts in various colours.
DeleteUnfortunately, there are some real surprises on the list of deletions and Lego seem determined to make their brick service as infuriating as possible for people attempting their own builds.
ReplyDeleteWe have to wait months for new parts to become available.
When they do become available they are often outrageously overpriced compared with similar types of parts.
They are deleted before they get a chance to become useful elements of the system.
Half arch 3572 is hardly a niche part in obscure colours, and yet it is set to vanish from the Lego universe. It's brief career means that it barely has a Bricklink presence, and Lego is currently selling it in reddish-brown for 61 pence each. The larger double-arch, 30938, is available in reddish-brown for 67 pence, it must contain more than double the plastic.
On course, the whole of the Lego Group is geared up to sell people sets, not parts, and providing a brick service must be an endless annoyance to the marketing department. But, fun and games like this will push more and more people off-brand, where quality improves year-by-year, and availability and price is less of an issue.
This is good for the PaB team to know; having met them recently I know they are committed to making the service something that works for the community. Often the issues we face are simply down to the way the company has always worked... doesn't mean it can't change if there is a benefit!
DeleteIt makes me wonder if it, and some of the other parts, are being retired just for another 'new' duplicate to fill it's place. Like you see with some of these new PAB parts that look like existing parts. The FOMO is real on some of these parts...
DeleteThe cost doesn't necessarily scale with the amount of plastic though. Bigger parts tend to be more expensive than smaller parts, but there are other costs associated with production and storage in addition to the amount of material used.
DeleteOK, would anyone care to explain why a 1x6 white plate sold by Lego is 14 pence, a 1x8 white plate is 16 pence and a 1x5 white plate is 19 pence? And don't get me started on 80796 Brick Modified with studs both sides, in dark bluish grey, 52 pence each!
DeleteMany of these parts look basic enough as I suspect they will soon reappear with a new ID, but you never know.
ReplyDeleteIt really throws my part FOMO for a loop wondering the same thing.
DeleteSome parts just came out this month if I recall correctly. What the heck?
ReplyDeleteAccording to my research via Bricklink and watching videos, the correct hood piece for the Ringwraith is 59276 (not on PAB) and not the shown one.
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