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Toys'R'Us Sale

Reader "W" emailed to inform me about Toys'R'Us annual birthday sale (Geoffrey, their mascot)... LEGO is included in the buy 2, get 1 free deal and "W" said the offer goes for NXT kits this year AND is available on-line and in-stores.

I checked out the website and LEGO products are listed as being covered, but no word on in-store - if someone else wants to verify and drop me an email, it'd be appreciated.

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Unknown said…
I saw this in the Sunday paper, and thought it was a good deal too, until I went into the store. We were looking at the Police Headquarters for my boy, and it was $10 more at TRU versus Amazon. Amazon has no tax (to my location) and free shipping. I? compared a few other random sets with Amazon, and found Amazon to be cheaper on all of them in the $5 - $10 range. The killer was that the TRU price for the NXT was $290. I thought the MSRP for that was $250 - at least that's what I got mine for when it came out at Christmastime in 2006.

Obviously, YMMV, and it may be a good deal depending on what you were planning on getting. Just be sure to do the math first.
Sep 24, 2008, 12:42:00 AM
MG said…
I've visited the Toys 'R Us webpage and saw that the sale they have on Lego Mindstorms is "Buy 2 get 3rd Free" offer. It includes $15 credit for shipping.

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2305520

Running the numbers (tax & shipping) it comes to $197.49 per Mindstorm kit. Not bad if you need 3 kits =pa
Sep 24, 2008, 4:29:00 AM
Anonymous said…
Actually, the mindstorms nxt set ships completely free. The $15 Free Shipping Credit is for Bill Me Later Customers. Under that text is a "SHIPS FREE" graphic, that means it ships free. It's confusing, but it does ship TOTALLY free.

Definitely do the math first, even though the Technic sets were 1-2 dollars more in-store, I saved a few hundred dollars when everything was totaled out!

Please complain to toysrus about them charging more than MSRP for Mindstorms NXT.
Sep 24, 2008, 4:56:00 PM
Eric D. Burdo said…
The local store here has them. If you need several kits, it's one of the better deals available. Works out to about $200 each (after taxes). Most of the time, the cheapest you can buy the kits for is about $230 US.
Sep 25, 2008, 7:32:00 AM
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