TRU Canada Bricktober 2013 + Free October Events

[kiiaal]

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LEGO Bricktober Event

It's Bricktober at Toys"R"Us! Get set for spooky LEGO® fun all month long!
October is one of the most exciting months of the year at Toys"R"Us! In addition to cool LEGO® instore
gift-with-purchases each week in October, check out these exciting events instore:

FREE* Minifigure Vintage Collection 5 Pack (Vol.1) - Friday, September 27th
*with purchase of $75 or more (before taxes) on ANY** LEGO® Building Sets
**excludes clearance. Available instore only. Min 10/store.
While they last. Excludes Express locations and Wonderlab.

PLUS, FREE* LEGO® City Seaplane when you spend $30 or more on ANY** LEGO Building Sets.
**excludes clearance. Available instore only. Min 50/store.
While they last. Excludes Express locations and Wonderlab.

Minifigure Trade In Event - Saturday, October 19th
Bring in a LEGO Minifigure and trade it in for another one with our sales associates!
Just look for a store associate wearing a LEGO badge! Visit your local Toys “R” Us store to participate! Excludes Express locations.
*While supplies last. LIMIT of One LEGO minifigure trade per person.

Superman Make N' Take Event – Saturday October 26th from 11a.m.-1p.m.
Build your very own LEGO® Superman™ Sheild and bring it home with you!
While they last! Excludes Express locations. No purchase necessary. Visit instore for details.
Min. 100 of each model build per store.

[dulait]

Minifigure Vintage Collection 5? Same as the ones from past year I believe. I guess that is strike one, let see what kind of sales they have, and let us all hope they are not strike outs.

*Update, so they are not the old ones from past year, but the sales are very weak, 20% off Chima, Ninjago and Technic. I will pass. Yet, to be fair, there are a few exclusive for those people whom are into these themes,

Technic - 4X4 Crawler (9398)
Technic - Logging Truck (9397)
Technic - Unimog U400 (8110)
Legends of Chima - Eagles' Castle (70011)
Ninjago - Fangpyre Wrecking Ball (9457)

[kiiaal]

The flyer is up on their website. Looks like the Minifigure Collection is different than last year's.

20% off All Lego Chima, Ninjago and Technic

[harry99]

Not even any clearance this year - but it's TRU after all.

[JJpach]

Seaplane is the 2011 seaplane??

[QuagsireQing]

It begins. It should be corrected in the opening post that this is not a Vintage Minifigure Collection, just a Minifigure Collection. Nowhere is the word "vintage" used in the flyer; the minifigs are all clearly recent ones. It also says that it's collection 1/3, so what will the free bonuses be for weeks 4 and 5?

[hatcher]

Wow, what a terrible opening round for Bricktober. Let's hope things pick up over the next few weeks. On the bright side, my wallet will be much happier if the terrible deals continue.

[fuji143]

They changed it to free shipping at 4 sets now...

[Brick & Blue]

FBTB has pictures of all three sets. They do not get better. There are more of the same, just boring fireman, cook, office guy... bleu

[Shijima]

Agreed. Unless later weeks have some Wow deals(30% or over discount). The minifigs are lackluster copies that anyone whos bought city sets would have tons of.

[brickmont13]

Here are all 3 sets

[Blacknight]

I wonder if these are all made in China with inferior plastic like the old minifigure sets were? If so, they're probably not worth trying to get unless people plan to resell them or something.

[harry99]

They are most likely made in China - they will still get $20-$30 later on - so it might be worth getting them now rather than later - cause with shipping it's still gonna cost $35-$50 later on.

[Blacknight]

True but you could probably get all those minifigs individually off bricklink for $12 inc. shipping and they'd be the better plastic.

[harry99]

^ Yes - totally correct. I'd definitely advocate for that way. Just when you want them all boxed up - but there really isn't any collector value.