If you have a LEGO fan in your household, you likely know how expensive those little building blocks can be (not to mention how fun they are to step on in the middle of the night 😮 ). However, the hours of intense, creative play and educational benefits that these blocks provide make them a parent’s top choice and a child’s favorite. With that being said, check out these seven tips to help you save BIG on LEGO… If you live near a LEGO store and are just starting to build your LEGO collection, their in-store Pick & Build wall offers a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors of LEGO bricks at bulk pricing and you can buy a large cup-full for $15.99 or a small cup-full for just $8.99. This is a great option if you’re not quite ready to invest in full LEGO sets! To maximize your Pick-a-Brick cup purchase, be sure to fill the small rim at the bottom of the cup with tiny pieces, then add the larger, expensive pieces and then then add smaller pieces again. Top off the cup with the tiniest LEGO pieces so they can shake down into the crevices and you’ll have a HUGE cup of LEGO pieces at a great price!
Your child can add to his or her LEGO collection completely Free by attending various events at your local LEGO or ToysRUs stores! The LEGO store offers a FREE Monthly Mini Model Build for VIP customers (it’s Free to sign up and is highly recommended to sign up or register your VIP card at least 2 days before the event). Also, ToysRUs has Free Build Events where kids can build and take home a Free Mini LEGO Set based on a particular theme (go here for details on a recent LEGO event). The LEGO store also offers a Free LEGO VIP Loyalty Program that allows your to earn rewards just for being a member! You’ll earn 1 VIP point for every $1 spent (100 VIP points equals a $5 VIP reward), access to exclusive member-only gifts, special bonus and double point offers, access to member-only LEGO Store events (as mentioned above), exclusive news about hard-to-find sets and more! Did you know that you can score Free LEGO Magazine subscriptions for each child (age 5-9 years) in your household? T
he magazine is mailed out 6 times a year (in January, March, May, July, September, and November) and each issue is packed full of LEGO news and behind-the-bricks interviews, comic adventures, games and puzzles, building challenges and Cool Creations built by LEGO fans, as well as sneak peeks at the latest sets and themes. Also, rumor has it that these magazines may include occasional coupons to your local LEGO store. 🙂 To sign up, go here and click “Sign Up” and create a LEGO ID using your child’s date of birth. You will receive an email from LEGO Club to activate your account as well as an additional email with a subscription link to sign up for the magazine! Please note that if your child fan is age 7 or under, you will automatically be signed up for a Free subscription to LEGO Club Jr. magazine. offers great Bundle Deals where you can purchase multiple LEGO-themed sets at a greatly reduced price, especially during the holidays! Pl, often offer deep discounts on LEGO buckets, bulk pieces and sets. Al
so, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for Clearance LEGO deals at your local Walmart store! Barnes and Noble has Clearance Events throughout the year where you can save BIG on various items, including some LEGO toys. In fact, I spotted select LEGO Creator sets and LEGO Chima sets priced at just $2 each during a previous Red Dot Clearance Event and here…awesome savings! Target also offers awesome deals on LEGO sets, especially around Black Friday (with the Toy Catalog) and during their in-store Toy Clearance Events which take place every January and July! Plus, in the past there have been rare LEGO Target Cartwheel offers that can be stacked with store coupons for increased savings. Also, note that Target is rumored to mark down their toys on Thursdays. Target or Walmart shoppers – wouldn’t you love to confirm that your local store has a rumored LEGO Clearance set (or any other item) in stock before you make a special trip?! Well before you spend time packing up the kiddos and spend money driving over to your local store, consider using the Inventory Checkers detailed in this post.
As an example, this LEGO Star Wars Construction Battle Pack was rumored to be on clearance at Target for just $17.98 (regularly $59.99) – BUT you can save time by checking the inventory at your local store before making a special trip. If you’re looking for miscellaneous LEGO pieces and are okay with incomplete sets, you may want to browse through your local thrift store or yard sales to find deals on secondhand sets (remember, you can bargain at yard sales!). If you choose to purchase pre-owned sets, be sure to sanitize the pieces before letting your child play with them. Just set the pieces in a sink with hot, soapy water OR put them all in a mesh bag on the top rack of your dishwasher (if they don’t need scrubbing). starting at just 10-15¢ each. My city isn't listed Send us some info about your City to be included in our List. Please fill fields below: Welcome to a new Lego shop experience. Sell and buy your Lego products with ease, like never before!
Discover our Virtual Shops 6098 KING LEO'S CASTLE 1822 SEA CLAW 7 a Lego® Encyclopedia with 12666 Lego Sets, where you can find retail price, parts, 5220 Lego instructions and other info; a Buy section, where you can Buy 50400 Lego Sets or Parts that other members are selling here on oldLego; a Sell wizard, that lets you Sell your Lego Sets or Parts in a very easy way. And if you need, our staff is always ready to help you. 2 X 2 Bricks (The Building Toy) X-Large Building Plate (Light Gray) Circuit Shock Racer / V-Twin Super Bike 2 Road Plates, Curved Login via Social Network Login with an oldLego account Log me on automatically each visit Your cart is empty. Lego sets come in all different sizes with different numbers of Lego pieces. Of course bigger sets cost more, but is there a linear relationship between set size and cost? Let’s take a look. Oh, and yes – I did look at this before, but that was a long time ago.
It’s time to revisit the data. It’s not too difficult to find data for Lego prices and number of pieces. If you just look on the Lego online store. There you can find both the price and the number of pieces for each set. You can even sort them by “themes” – like “Star Wars” or “friends” Even though it’s easy to get, I only collected price data for a subset of the themes (mostly because I am lazy). If I put all of this data together, I can get a plot of the set price vs. number of pieces in set. Here is what that looks like. Let’s look at the linear function that fits this data. The slope of this line is 0.104 US Dollars per Lego piece. There is your answer. On average, one Lego piece costs 10.4 cents. Also, I think it’s nice to notice that this data is fairly linear.What about the y-intercept for this fitting function? The value from the fit is 7.34 USD. That means that for this function, if you had a Lego set with zero pieces in it, it would still cost $7.34 – you know, for the box and instructions and stuff.
Yes, I know that there are Lego sets cheaper than $7.34 – this is just the y-intercept for the fitting function. Now let me point out the three outliers in this plot. Notice that all of these (one from Duplo and two from the City theme) are train sets. Of course train sets are going to be more expensive than a set with the same number of pieces (but not a train) because of the electric motors and stuff. If you are looking for a “good deal”, might I suggest the Trevi Fountain (21020). This set has 731 pieces for just $49.99. According to the fitting function, a set with this many pieces should cost about 83 dollars. Suppose I break all the data into the different themes. If I fit a linear function to each of the different themes, I can get both the price per piece of Lego and the price of a zero piece set. Here are the brick prices for some of the Lego themes. The error bars are the uncertainties in the fit parameters. If you know what a Duplo block is, you probably aren’t surprised that they are the most expensive (63 cents per brick).
These are bricks created for smaller kids. They are all large so that you can’t swallow them. It just makes since that they would cost more. The other expensive bricks are the City sets. But this is deceiving due to the high set prices of the train kits. I suspect if you removed these train sets from the plot, it would be a more normal price. What about the base cost? This is the y-intercept of the linear fit. Here you will notice that the City theme has a negative base cost. This means that if there were no pieces (on average) in a City set, Lego would pay YOU money. But why is this negative? It’s because of the high price of the train sets. They increase the slope of the linear fit but also push the y-intercept into negative values. The real bargains are the Architecture themed sets. These have a base cost of only 70.7 cents where as the Marvel themed sets have a base cost of 3.61 USD. I’ve probably already answered some of these questions in the past, but it would still be fun as a homework assignment.