If you shop via official LEGO stores or the Online LEGO Shop, you know that almost every month LEGO includes a free gift with your order. This may be a small set, a special minifigure, a poster, or some other unique item (for example, right now you can get a free Lloyd minifigure, and next month you can get a special LEGO VIP set with qualifying purchases). Sometimes these gifts are only available with purchases from a certain theme (i.e. receive an exclusive Star Wars minifigure with any LEGO Star Wars purchase), and/or your purchase needs to meet a minimum dollar amount before the free gift gets included (i.e. receive a free holiday sets with purchases of $50 or more). During some of the promotions, you can even collect more than one gift item at a time (i.e. you get a free Star Wars minifigure because you ordered Star Wars sets, and you will also get the free holiday set because your total purchase was over $50). Those are some of the best promotions. 🙂
LEGO knows that these promotions are very popular, so they do something special every month. They also advertise these specials ahead of time via the LEGO Store Calendar, email, and the homepage of the Online LEGO Shop. Giving away a nice little free set or unique minifigure can greatly boost direct sales, as many people collect these special promotional items. All in all, the program is a win for LEGO and a win for fans. And now, LEGO is asking the fan community for ideas for future gift-with-purchase sets.

For this survey, all ideas for future gift-with-purchase sets are welcome, and you can share them in the comment section below. I will collect all answers and submit them via the LEGO Ambassador Forum before the deadline, which is November 1st. Below are a few guidelines to keep in mind, directly from LEGO, as you think about ideas.
- Ideas consisting of or containing copies of any existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third party intellectual property rights will not be eligible for this activity. However, ideas to themes within the current LEGO portfolio are welcome, so LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Super Heroes, and LEGO created IPs such as LEGO Friends, LEGO Nexo Knights, and LEGO Elves, are allowed.
- Ideas consisting of or containing trademarked terms, or names that otherwise constitute infringement of any third party intellectual property right will not be eligible for this activity.
- Ideas should be compatible with the current LEGO system of play. This means that all ideas have to be possible to execute with the current portfolio of bricks and LEGO minifigures.
- Please remember to consider the LEGO brand values. This means; 1.) no politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements, 2.) no religious references including symbols, buildings, or people, 3.) no sex, nudity, drugs, alcohol or smoking, 4.) no swearing or profanity, 5.) no death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture, 6.) no first-person shooter video games, 7.) no warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials, 8.) no large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc., 9.) no racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals, and 10.) no ideas containing defamatory or degrading elements.
Also, to be clear, a gift-with-purchase set is something that is given out to people who take advantage of a specific promotion that LEGO offers. For this survey, LEGO is specifically looking for gift-with-purchase ideas, which would be popular with the adult LEGO fan community. In other words, LEGO would like to involve and hear from as many adults as possible.
An obvious question that might come up; is there any limits to how big the gift-with-purchase set could be? LEGO’s response to this is that the ideas should not be size-specific at this stage of the survey. Some examples they gave are as follows: futuristic spaceship, prehistoric animals, modular building corner restaurant, flower(s), steam train from 1923, and underwater creatures. As you can see, that’s quite a bit of variety, so at this point just focus on brainstorming ideas, and not worry about final models.
So what do you think? What kind of sets would you like to see in the gift-with-purchase category? More holiday sets? Seasonal sets? Mini models of larger sets? Recreations of retro sets, themes, and minifigures? Or something else? And how do you like the free sets LEGO is giving away now? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below! Also, you are welcome to share this page with other LEGO fans, so they can submit their ideas as well. The more the better, so we can flood LEGO with awesome ideas about the freebies they should give us. 😉
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