Review: LEGO Classic Space Tic Tac Toe (Insiders Reward)
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Is this the closest we’ll ever get to a LEGO Classic Space Battle Pack?
LEGO’s Black Friday 2024 offers will kick off from 29 November to 2 December 2024 and along with the launch of the 10335 The Endurance, we’ll also see a whole bunch of new LEGO Insiders rewards that you can redeem with your Insiders Points.
5008897 Tic Tac Toe will be making its debut on 28 November 2024, and can be yours for 2,400 Insiders Points! Not bad for a set containing an incredible 5 Orange and 5 White Classic Space Astronauts. Well kinda, because they’re not fully kitted out.
Ahead of its launch on 28 November, here’s a quick review at what to expect from this LEGO Classic Space Tic Tac Toe Insiders reward to let you decide whether its worth spending 2,400 points!
Special thanks to LEGO for sending this set over for review
Like all yellow box GWPs, the set’s manual doubles as the cover of the box and the contents are packed into a nondescript ziploc bag.
The contents are super basic, and this just looks like a LEGO Pick a Brick online order!
Here’s a look at the Tic Tac Toe (or Noughts & Crosses) board which is fairly basic, but has studs for you to place the minifigures on. To spice the board up a little, there’s a white microscale rover, plus an opalescent gem.
With 5 astronauts a-piece, there’s enough space (heh) for all 9 to fill the board, plus one odd man out.
Here’s a look at the Orange and White Classic Space astronauts. They’re not exactly Classic in the sense that they don’t have the simple smiley faces, and
You’ll need the Orange Airtanks and White Airtanks as well as the original LEGO minifigure smiley faces to complete the look. They’re in stock from Pick a Brick online so if you’re ordering anything for Black Friday, it shouldn’t hurt to add 10 airtanks to your order.
Also, LEGO have included transparent visors, which is a little odd as they don’t quite fit right and aesthetically, they just look odd. Here’s an orthodox white Classic Space astronaut for comparison.
So is this worth it? 2,400 points is worth about AU$27. Each Classic Space astronaut you assemble on Pick a Brick (sans air tanks), costs AU$3.70, so 10x minifigures will retail for AU$37 making this a pretty good deal if you want to expand your lineup of Classic Space minifigures.
Even more so as Orange Classic Space torsos are already sold out, and not likely to come back in stock, so this is likely your last chance to get them directly from LEGO!
I’d say, if you have surplus Insider Points, especially from last weekend’s Double Points promotion, it’ll be a good set to redeem the code for especially as you have 90 days to place an order. With so many Classic Space minifigures in this, I can see 5008897 Tic Tac Toe being especially popular and will likely sell out, so be sure to redeem this just after midnight on 29 November to avoid missing out!
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