The kids may not have had a chance to break in their new lunchboxes yet, but LEGO is already gearing up for the 2014 Holiday season! The October 2014 LEGO Store calendar has been posted online today, and it includes several LEGO holiday-related tidbits on it. But the most important thing we learn about the LEGO 2014 holiday sets from the new calendar is something we look forward to hearing about all year long: the first of the two 2014 LEGO Holiday Set free promos has been revealed: LEGO 40106!

A couple weeks back, LEGO finally posted the long-awaited official, hi-res photos of the 2014 LEGO Winter Village Santa’s Workshop 10245 set. While not quite everyone is totally sold on including a LEGO Santa’s Workshop instead of a more traditional town building addition for this year’s Winter Village LEGO set, the majority of collectors (me included!) seem to be pretty infatuated with LEGO 10245 Santa’s Workshop.

And for those folks, the announcement of the LEGO 2014 Holiday Set 40106 is great news–it’s basically an extension of the Winter Village LEGO Santa’s Workshop set!

The LEGO 40106 Holiday Set (#1 of 2) portrays a tiny LEGO Holiday Elf Workshop, complete with loads of little tools for the Elves to work with (including an awesome LEGO power drill!). You’ll get not one, but two free LEGO Elf Minifigures with the free promo 2014 LEGO Holiday Set, as well as the adorable little diorama itself. But even with two of them, the elves have their work cut out for them–Santa’s got an extensive list of gifts they have to make in the workshop, including a LEGO bulldozer, a LEGO train and a LEGO Tin Soldier!

While I suspect there’s not any open space in the actual LEGO Santa’s Workshop set where you’ll be able to stuff in the 40106 LEGO Holiday Set 1 of 2, the set is very obviously themed to fit in perfectly next to Santa’s Workshop. This set is a must-have for my holiday LEGO display, and all the motivation I need to make a hefty purchase at the LEGO Store in October 2014.

The 2014 LEGO Holiday Set 40106 promo will be available online and at the LEGO Stores with any qualifying purchase from October 1st to 31st, 2014. It may seem a bit weird to be building Christmas Elves and adding onto Santa’s Workshop before we even get to Halloween, but I’m sure not going to complain!

What do you think of the first of this year’s two free promo LEGO Holiday Sets for 2014, LEGO fans? Will you be making a $99 or more purchase in October 2014 to snag one of these sets, or are the LEGO Holiday Elves and their workshop just not doing it for you?