LEGO Movie Emmet’s Car Building Event at Toys R Us!

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The festivities keep on coming for this week’s premiere of The LEGO Movie in theaters! Earlier this week I posted links for 20% off of most of the LEGO Movie sets, and today we received news from Toys R Us that an extra-special The LEGO Movie Building Event is taking place this weekend! If you’re “Ages 5 and up”, you (allegedly) qualify for the event and are invited to come build the LEGO Movie Emmet’s Car set!

Toys R Us The LEGO Movie Building EventI was pretty pumped this morning to receive an E-Mail from Toys R Us with the word “LEGO” in the subject line. Upon opening and reading the E-Mail, I discovered that Toys R Us stores will be holding an exclusive “The LEGO Movie Building Event” this Saturday, February 8 2014, from noon to 2PM!

The special set that event attendees will be able to build is going to be The LEGO Movie Emmet’s car! This is pretty interesting, as Emmet’s car is not a set that’s available to be purchased in stores–it seems that the only way to obtain this set will be to build it at the special Toys R Us LEGO building event! According to the text in the ad, LEGO Emmet’s Car can “transform” into something else. What else? We’ll have to wait and see!

LEGO Movie Emmet's Car Set from Toys R Us The LEGO Movie Building EventAlso, the fine print states that this event is for children ages 5 and up. There doesn’t appear to be any upper age limit to participate in the building event, so I’m not sure that Toys R Us can legally force LEGO collectors of any age above 5 away. You might get some nasty looks, though, as I tend to get whenever I want to participate in LEGO building events at my local Toys R Us stores!

Okay, LEGO fans ages 5 and up! Will you be attending this weekend’s big LEGO Movie event at your local Toys R Us? And those of you who are way “up” beyond 5 (like me!), are you going to attempt to participate in the event as well?

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LEGO Movie Emmet’s Car Building Event at Toys R Us! — 18 Comments

  1. FWIW, it doesn’t say anywhere that you get to take it home. A lot of TRU events are only build-in-store…

    • All Toys R Us Events allow you to take the build with you. They run these builds on a monthly basis. Everytime we go both my wife and I and our two sons each build one and take all 4 home with us along with the building instructions.

      • They are different in different parts of the States, and those around me (in MA) don’t offer them every month – just a couple of times a year, perhaps because we have 4 Lego Stores in fairly close proximity. I took my son to a Monster Fighters one and we got to take a whole bunch of pieces home, but there was a Lego representative there who was very upset with the TRU employee who said kids could do that, and it was pretty clear that that employee was about to be reported once we left. Since then the only take-home one I’ve seen around us was the Joker’s mech one a few months ago (and a Father’s Day car before that, actually).

    • Um….yes..you take what you build home with you. We have been to many of these…all over the country…this is the whole point of these events. They give you a bag to put the pieces in along with an instructs page for you to take home. Most people do not build in the store – there is no room for that. They usually only have one small table for this and there are MANY people who show up to these events.

  2. It does however say you can bring Emmets car home from toys r us in the Lego Club magazine, issue 1 of 2014. Now I’m in Canada, and it does say toys r us Canada, but I can’t imagine the stores in the states being totally different. And if you do get the lego magazine be sure to bring it with you, free movie poster.

  3. I just saw more info about this the club.lego website. First, they show a picture of the car that turns into a boat. Second, it re-iterates the phrase several times “Intended for children.” WIll probably be up to the teenagers working that day at Toys-R-Us if they are going to let us adult builders participate. Wonder if I have a freind with akid I can offer to babysit for the day… LOL

  4. It might be just a standard polybag set. I went to one of the TRU free Saturday builds last summer when they did the TMNT polybag, since it hadn’t been released elsewhere yet. They just had a table set up with a couple boxes of the sets underneath, and photocopies of the instruction sheet. There were a couple kids building and some TRU employees overseeing it. I left and came back in the final five minutes of the thing, confirmed that they had plenty of the sets left, and just grabbed one and walked away. Several months later the leftovers of the sets turned up in the Lego isle with the other polybag sets they had out at the time.

    TRU also sometimes has true exclusive sets, like that Chima Speedorz target thing that came in a ziplock bag and didn’t even have a set number. I had to get mine over eBay since I was unable to make it to a TRU store that weekend, but it sounds like that was planned as a more active thing with the TRU employees letting kids shoot off Speedorz so they would turn around and ask Mom or Dad to buy some.

  5. If they give you any grief, just say that you’re a Toys R Us kid and you don’t ever wanna’ grow up. Because maybe if you did, you wouldn’t be a Toys R Us kid.

  6. Went this morning to watchung store nj. They only were sent the parts for the transformed flying car build sheet 2. They did not have the standard car pieces. A little disappointing. Was able to bring set home for build and also get an extra set for son who could not come. No issue with age either. One of my boys is three. All in all a good experience.

    • Hi Ian, any chance you can send me a scanned copy of build sheet 2? Our local TRU only handed out build sheet 1. At the end of the instructions, it notes that we have 2 extra pieces left over, and that we need to see build sheet 2 to make the flying car.

      • Can do. How best to get to you? If you can get me build sheet 1. I know I dont have all the parts. They only had the pieces and plans for sheet 2.

        • Hi Ian, That would be great, thanks! I’d be happy to scan and email you (and Trisha) the instructions for sheet 1 tonight. You can email me at [email protected] with your email addresses.

  8. No problems for me this morning. I was able to get one for my 6 year old daughter and they gave us one for my 3 month old son. My daughter was also able to get a lego friends picture frame from a different time. They also had a giraffe head that the kids could build. The Toysrus also did a raffle for the customers.

  10. Does anyone have any extra wheels and rims. Based on the plans it seems that’s all we need to make the standard car. If not can they be purchased separately