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Last two days of LEGO Double VIP Points!

by Thita (admin) on October 30, 2014

Just a quick reminded that the special offers from LEGO for October will expire tomorrow. October is the best time to take care of your holiday LEGO shopping (as well as larger orders for yourself) due to the Double VIP Points period, which only happens a couple of times a year. Also, you get the first of the two LEGO Holiday sets free with your order. 🙂

As I mentioned above, the biggest promotion for the October has been the Double VIP Points on all of your purchases during the entire month. This basically means that you earn $5 worth of VIP Points for every $50 you spend. Savvy LEGO shoppers use this period to take care of their big LEGO purchases to rake up VIP points for future shopping. This is a good time to get the LEGO Modular Buildings, large LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Technic, and other more expensive and exclusive sets. If you want to take advantage of this offer before it expires, you have today and tomorrow only. Traditionally there is another special offer for VIP members on Thanksgiving weekend, however by that time some of the most popular and desirable sets are usually hard to find or already sold out.

The other notable promotion this month has been the #40106 Free Exclusive Holiday Set with purchases of $99 or more (pictured above). It contains a couple of cute little elves in their workshop getting presents ready for the holidays. It is an excellent extension to the #10245 LEGO Creator Santa’s Workshop, which is the current addition to the annual LEGO Winter Village series.

While the first holiday set was available for an entire month, the second holiday set will only be offered on Thanksgiving weekend at official LEGO stores and the Online LEGO Shop – free with purchases of $99 or more. This second set is the #40107 Exclusive Holiday Set with a skating scene (pictured above). So if you would like to get both holiday sets, you might want to get something now and keep at least one of your purchases for next month. We will talk more about what’s new in November in a couple of days, but I can tell you right now that for larger purchases October is the best.

Also, as I have mentioned before, if you are looking to get holiday related sets like the LEGO Advent Calendars or LEGO Winter Village sets, I would suggest you get them now, as they tend to sell out by the time most people think about getting them. Plus you will earn Double VIP Points on those too, and you also get free shipping if your order is $75 or more. 😀

I have gotten two of the LEGO Modular Buildings this month and I’m super happy with both. What about you? Did you get anything during the Double VIP Points promotion? Or are you planning to by the end of the month? Feel free to share in the comment section below! 😉

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Spookify your LEGO sets for Halloween!

by Thita (admin) on October 29, 2014

in Featured LEGO Creations

With Halloween coming up in a couple of days you can think about creating a LEGO Halloween decoration. In fact, LEGO has a fun challenge on their homepage encouraging you to “Spookify Your LEGO Sets”, which sounds like a really good idea and fun thing to do! 🙂

If you own the #10228 LEGO Monster Fighters Haunted House, or any of the other LEGO Monster Fighters sets you will have an easy job, as these sets already have a spooky, Halloween vibe. Perhaps you can add lights or trick-or-treaters to the displays for some added fun. 😈

And if you have a LEGO City layout or if you own any of the LEGO Modular Buildings, you can turn the whole scene into a Halloween street party, like flickr member Kvasir79 has done in the picture below.

Or how about something like this, where LEGO is mixed up with other craft items to create the right mood for Halloween? This setup was made by LEGO fan Matt Thompson. Those masks look wonderful!

And if you don’t want to make something too scary, how about focusing on the fun of trick-or-treating? But watch out for the poisoned apple! This cute LEGO creation is made by Brickbaron.

You can also just make a small LEGO Halloween display, using some of your spookiest minifigs and a few LEGO props in front of an appropriate backdrop, like flickr member Dex has done.

Even just a few LEGO skeletons with the right kind of lighting can set the mood. Here, Lord Pumpkin is gathering an army of skeletons under the full moon, as created by Legoagogo.

And here is one of my favorite LEGO Halloween creations by flickr member sweetsha. Creative, funny, and full of character! Great use of the eyes from the new LEGO Mixels sets! 🙄

And of course you can always just make a cute LEGO Halloween pumpkin! We have talked about these before, and you can find instructions on how to make different kind of LEGO pumpkins, linked at the end.

I hope these Halloween LEGO creations give you some inspiration to make your own Halloween decorations. What do you think? Are you making something from LEGO for this Halloween? Feel free to share in the comment section below! Happy Halloween! 😉

And you might also like to check out the following related posts:

Small & fun LEGO sets for the Holidays!
LEGO Santa’s Workshop Available Now! (Christmas Village round-up)
2014 LEGO Advent Calendars & More!
LEGO Christmas Sets: Advent Calendars (introduction)
The Best Christmas LEGO Ornaments! (resources & ideas)
How to Build Christmas LEGO Ornaments (instructions)
Make Your Own Christmas LEGO Ornaments! (more instructions)
Build a LEGO Thanksgiving Turkey! (instructions)
Build a LEGO Halloween Pumpkin! (instructions)
Happy LEGO Filled Halloween! (instructional video)

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