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Do NOT Get “LEGO City 2022 Advent Calendar (60352)” From Amazon — $23.99 For Shipping.

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by Anura Guruge
on November 2, 2022

Click to ENLARGE. From MY shopping cart. I did NOT place order.
Click to ENLARGE. I bought it from ‘Target’.
Click to ENLARGE. The two NEW ‘Lego Advent’ calendars from last year — the 2021 edition on left, the 2000 (yes Y2K) edition on right.

Regular readers of this blog might know that we are BIG into Advent calendars. Last year we had 12 Advent calendars going in parallel, 11 of them Lego Advent calendars.

So, as you can see I buy at least one Lego Advent calendar each year — & have been doing so for quite a number of years.

So, this year, by rote, now that it is November I went to Amazon to get this year’s Lego Advent. Of late I get the ‘City’ one as opposed to the ‘Friends’ because that one has more interesting figures. The initial price, $24.69 looked good. It was just at checkout that they wacked me with the $23.99 shipping. I looked at other options at Amazon. All were equally bad.

Then I remembered that I ran into this same thing last year. I ended up physically going to a Target & picking up a set. This year I ordered online. Target is CLEVER. They had it priced at $34.99. Free shipping starts at $35. CUTE. So, I ended up getting a $16 Lego Christmas Penguin kit! Legos never go to waste in our household.

In case you are interested I got this, i.e., a Lego compatible, too — this one from Amazon. For the price I could NOT resist.

Click to ENLARGE. Amazon listing.