The last few years, my sister has given out Play-Doh in addition to candy for Halloween. I thought this was a cool idea and it kind of inspired me, especially after seeing how much more excited kids get over a little can of Play-Doh than they do for another boring piece of shitty orange saltwater taffy.

So I was thinking what if I did the same thing but with LEGO? LEGO is awesome and expands young minds instead of rotting their teeth. You can do all kinds of cool things with LEGO and recombine them in countless ways, so kids get way more enjoyment out of them in the long run than those awful Smarties rolls that everyone hates.

The only problem is that LEGO sets are expensive. I figure $100 is a pretty good budget to be spending on random anonymous privileged white suburban kids from Seattle, which means if I can get LEGO sets in the $4-$5 range that means I can give out 20-25 sets. That limits my options a lot, but hopefully I can find some good stuff on sale.

What's the point of this topic, then? Please help me find good sub-$5 deals online that I can buy in preparation for this!

Here's one I found on the LEGO.com site; it's just mini-figs, but $3 for 16 figures is kind of neat: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Minifigures-Series-6-8827

There are also some "mini-sets" that are $5 each... if I could qualify for free shipping they might work too:
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Small-Car-3177
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Space-Moon-Buggy-3365
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Mini-Hogwarts-Express-40028 (64 pieces!)
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Speed-Boat-4641

If I could find these somewhere else for even cheaper that'd be ideal.

POSSIBLE OPTION: buy 16 $5 sets and 6 $3 16-minifig packs and then kind of combine them so that each kid gets one $5 boat or train or car or whatever, plus 6 random mini-figs. That means I could only give out 16 things, though; I feel like I would run out super quickly in that case. Especially if word gets out that HEY THIS GUY'S GIVING AWAY FREE LEGOS.

Any ideas?

fao vellfire

The minisets you are looking at are deffo a good bet.  I have the small car and the moon buggy and they were both good builds.  Do you have a Toys R Us near you?  If you do, you should really go there to buy them because they FREQUENTLY have buy-one-get-one-half-off sales on lego stuff.  Like, it feels like every weekend they do.  You could possibly also order from Toys R Us online and get the same deal, I'm not sure.


The minifig idea is good too, since it's a bit cheaper! ! !

The minifigs are really great. I've been collecting them since wave 1, and because they're random bagged, I end up with lots of spares to use in my creations(as featured on the Jack Kirby Museum tumblr). Fuck Halloween! Buy them and keep them for yourself!

Saltwater taffy's where it's at, quit hatin

Since you are thinking this far ahead, you should teach yourself how to make hard candy.

That way, you can just buy one of each of those lego sets, and spend the rest of your time using them to make candy molds that fit together. Using the same molds, you could probably give out many more sets of lego that kids could eat after building than you could just buying and giving out the sets themselves. (which can arguably also be done with sets of play-doh, but far less desirable as flavor was not play-doh's intended purpose)

they already do make lego brick candy, you could just buy it (but it defeats the point of Not Buying Candy)

thanks for your contribution

LEGO is the brand. So you would say "LEGO bricks" technically. However I think that saying "LEGOs" is still correct in the same way that using the brand as a noun for the product in any other case is correct - "Cokes", "PlayStations", "Hondas", etc.

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Okay as GW's resident lego enthusiast let me lay down the law here, re: what LEGO themselves have said on this matter:

"Legos" is wrong.  But guess what--so is "lego".  You are NEVER supposed to use the name in a generic sense like that, you are ONLY supposed to say LEGO building bricks or LEGO sets or LEGO minifigs or what have you.  This is the only part that I'm not 100% sure about, but I seem to remember that it's because if "lego" became a generic term over time for building brick, a company like mega bloks could sell "mega bloks brand legos".

What this ultimately means is that both of you are wrong, and I really cannot stand people being smug about lego vs legos because of this.  It's a regional or cultural or PERSONAL idk whatever thing and LEGO BRAND BUILDING BLOCK is too stiff so as far as I'm concerned in general use (unless you also say BAND AID BRAND ADHESIVE BANDAGES) both are equally correct and fuck off with correcting people about it because the only really wrong answer here is to insist you're right one way or another.

Also neither here nor there but LEGO actually is short for something: it comes from the Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well".  I don't know if that affects your grammatical point or not, but there you go~