[US] New Releases before end of November?

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• gmpirate Member Posts: 1,654

  November 2012

  TRU usually leaks. In the past, some Lego stores used to start selling sets before the "planned" date but that has been tightening up recently. Still sometimes Lego relents early when TRU opens the floodgates.

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• Ma1234 Member Posts: 693

  November 2012 edited November 2012

  LEGO Stores and Toys "R" Us should be getting the first batch of sets in less than two weeks. It's not a leak - the planned date is always right before Thanksgiving. The "January" dates often seen in retailer catalogs and advertisements are essentially wide availability release dates, rather than actual release dates.
  
  Notice the LEGO City fire station is gone from lego.com. LEGO isn't going to have a holiday season without a fire station to sell.

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• Penkid11 Member Posts: 788

  November 2012

  Ma1234 said:

  
  Notice the LEGO City fire station is gone from lego.com. LEGO isn't going to have a holiday season without a fire station to sell.

  Unless they are just that confident in #10197, which they shouldn't be.
  
  

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• LegoFanTexas Member Posts: 8,404

  November 2012

  Penkid11 said:

  Ma1234 said:

  
  Notice the LEGO City fire station is gone from lego.com. LEGO isn't going to have a holiday season without a fire station to sell.

  Unless they are just that confident in #10197, which they shouldn't be.
  
  

  Why not? So many resellers have been buying it, they just might be missing the forest for the trees.
  
  The people at LEGO who look at these things are not fools, but they are also human and might be missing that part.

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• brickmatic Member Posts: 1,071

  November 2012

  Nah, they know that #10197 is for the adult / advanced market and not for the kid / typical consumer market. The current #7208 was a 2010 set but hit the market in late 2009. Sold out right now, but I'm sure they will either get more in stock or they'll launch the 2013 version in time for the holiday sales push.

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• JBricks27 Member Posts: 678

  November 2012

  Possible new Star Wars, ninja turtles, and Hobbit before the end of the month?

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• Penkid11 Member Posts: 788

  November 2012

  ^It's usually the licenses that are saved for January.

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• KLOKRIECHER Member Posts: 253

  November 2012 edited November 2012

  I think the Hobbit sets are going to make it until the end of November. TRU always gets all of the new sets early...
  
  I hope this video here is a good tip for you when the Hobbit sets will come out:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wudIniK9DkI&feature=plcp

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