Evolution of Seasonals - 20181025

LEGO has many themes and it is interesting how availability ranges from different stores. Recently we seen Architecture sets being sold at Toys R Us which was quite a surprise to me. Prior to this year, Architecture sets are only available at LCS or LEGO Monoshops, and are rarely discounted.

Currently, what we only see exclusively at LCS / Monoshops will be seasonals, modulars and IDEAS. And today's topic is Seasonals.

2013:
https://brickset.com/sets/40052-1/Springtime-Scene
https://brickset.com/sets/40054-1/Summer-Scene
https://brickset.com/sets/40056-1/Thanksgiving-Feast

https://brickset.com/sets/40057-1/Fall-Scene
https://brickset.com/sets/40058-1/Decorating-the-Tree
https://brickset.com/sets/40059-1/Santa-s-Sleigh

Back in 2013, this series started as polybags and portrays the four seasons and christmas. I still remember the time when these were on clearance at LLM. It was a crazy time.

2014:

https://brickset.com/sets/40085-1/LEGO-Valentine

https://brickset.com/sets/40086-1/LEGO-Easter

https://brickset.com/sets/40090-1/Halloween-Bat

https://brickset.com/sets/40091-1/Thanksgiving-Turkey

https://brickset.com/sets/40092-1/Reindeer

https://brickset.com/sets/40093-1/Snowman

Seasonals upgraded to become box sets. Instead of seasons, celebrated days were chosen. Valentine, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, 2x Christmas.

2015:
https://brickset.com/sets/40120-1/Valentine-s-Day-Dinner
https://brickset.com/sets/40121-1/Painting-Easter-Eggs
https://brickset.com/sets/40122-1/Trick-or-Treat-Halloween-Set
https://brickset.com/sets/40123-1/Thanksgiving-Feast
https://brickset.com/sets/40124-1/Winter-Fun
https://brickset.com/sets/40125-1/Santa-s-Visit

The interesting part about this series is that all the sets will come with a wall. The design is simple but yet elegant and interesting. Modified 1 x 2 with Masonry Profile (Brick Profile) is the part that ties all these sets together.

I had did a write-up on the linking one of the 2013 thanksgiving dinner to the thanksgiving dinner here. https://brickrek.blogspot.com/2015/10/whats-is-thanksgivings.html

2016:
https://brickset.com/sets/40201-1/Valentine-s-Cupid-Dog
https://brickset.com/sets/40202-1/Easter-Chick
https://brickset.com/sets/40203-1/Vampire-and-Bat
https://brickset.com/sets/40204-1/Pilgrim-s-Feast
https://brickset.com/sets/40205-1/Little-Elf-Helpers
https://brickset.com/sets/40206-1/LEGO-Santa

2017:

https://brickset.com/sets/40236-1/Romantic-Valentine-Picnic
https://brickset.com/sets/40237-1/Easter-Egg-Hunt
https://brickset.com/sets/40260-1/Halloween-Haunt
https://brickset.com/sets/40261-1/Thanksgiving-Harvest
https://brickset.com/sets/40262-1/Christmas-Train-Ride
https://brickset.com/sets/40263-1/Christmas-Town-Square

For some reason, i'm always drawn to the amount of flower edge studs in this series. Especially Valentine set, we got bright green, bright light orange, dark pink, green, magenta, orange, red. short of blue spectrum and we'll have a rainbow~

2018:

https://brickset.com/sets/40270-1/Valentine-s-Bee
https://brickset.com/sets/40271-1/Easter-Bunny
https://brickset.com/sets/40272-1/Witch
https://brickset.com/sets/40273-1/Turkey
https://brickset.com/sets/40274-1/Mr-Mrs-Claus

Some would say that 2018 is the year of the brickheadz. Since its premiere at SDCC 2016 and it's first launch in 2017, this series has been picking up steam at incredible pace. In 2018, we have the seasonals jumping on the bandwagon.