In General
Large Sized Sets
Medium Sized Sets
Small Sized Sets
LIDL History
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LIDL is a supermarket that had it's beginnings in Germany in 1973 (see below). I had thought it was a British chain, because the first I had seen it was on a British TV show, probably the science fiction show HUMANS.
Anyways, the supermarket chain is slowly taking on a major presence in the U.S., with stores being all over (at lest) the Baltimore/DC/Richmond VA areas.
Besides their excellent filet mignon, I like cruising their "tchotchke" (that's Yiddish for -misc things-, the "T" is silent) aisles for just about anything else besides food :-). I pick up some of their tools every now and then, and have not been too disappointed by their quality - no, the stuff isn't as good as even Ryobi stuff at Home Depot, but it's cheap enough to have around as a second or third of something. They also carry household items, clothing, and seasonal items.
Every Wednesday, they come out with a new flyer. For many of the items, you have to get there ON Wednesday if you want one or two, cause they usually don't get many of certain items, and rarely get items re-ordered. Example: At the beginning of November 2024, they got two styles of parts cabinets in. They got about 4 or 5 of each. If you didn't grab one on Wednesday or Thursday, you were out of luck, they disappeared quickly.
Another item they introduced in the middle of November 24, were hot melt glue sticks. They had packages of: white/clear, muli-colored, black, and brown. I grabbed all I could find of the black and brown ones, they will come in handy at Halloween time building my Halloween mazes - you just don't normally see those colors!
So this year, the day before Thanksgiving, I noticed they had available a whole series of Lego compatible building block sets. The store I shop at in Timonium MD, had three or four of each of the sets pictured below. I'm one of the reasons stuff like this disappears quickly, because I bought an entire set - one of each. I DID NOT find these sets listed on the LIDL website or in their Wednesday Flyer.
Some of the sets contain custom parts, not seen anywhere else in the Lego/Mould King/Jiestar/Dollar Tree building block world.
Parts count for the sets are noted on the boxes pictured below.
Notice, that in the sets containing minifigs, they do not follow Lego contours!
Large sets are $29.99USD, medium sized sets are $4.99USD, and the small sets are $3.99USD.
Being a LIDL "member" got me $5.00 off on each of the three large sets.
Don't be thrown off by the SET numbers on the receipt, they do have different SKU's.
There are three major sets:
- A Police Station
- A Fire Station
- A Pet Vet Clinic
To complement the three sets above, they offer:
- A police ATV set
- A police boat set
- A police car set
- A police motorcycle
- A fire truck set
In addition, they have these sets available:
- An excavator
- An airplane
- A convertible car set
- A taxi cab set
- A race car set
- A mech robot set
Acknowledgements:
Product from LIDL
Websites and other additional information sources of interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl
LIDL's Christmas 2024 Building Block Offerings
--- The Large Sized Sets
The Police Station
The Fire Station
The Pet Vet Clinic
--- The Medium Sized Sets
The small boxes that don't have Spanish on the same side as the English side, has the cover in Spanish on the other side.
--- The Small Sized Sets
Short history adapted from Wikipedia:
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