Review: 30590 Farm Garden & Scarecrow

I’ve been on the hunt for this polybag but haven’t seen it anywhere. Anyone in the US Midwest seen this in the wild?

This is a polybag I intend to pick up! Hopefully, it will appear soon in stores. It took a while for me to finally get a Spiderman polybag, and I expect this one to be the same.

@Yo_dA said:
"I’ve been on the hunt for this polybag but haven’t seen it anywhere. Anyone in the US Midwest seen this in the wild?"

I got one at Scheel's Sporting Goods several months ago, but haven't seen it again. I wish I'd bought several!

Nice set! Hope I'll find it somewhere (in Norway) but polybags are often hard to get – for some reason ...

@560heliport said:
" @Yo_dA said:
"I’ve been on the hunt for this polybag but haven’t seen it anywhere. Anyone in the US Midwest seen this in the wild?"

I got one at Scheel's Sporting Goods several months ago, but haven't seen it again. I wish I'd bought several!"

Scheel's has Lego? Today I learned.

I usually find polybags by the registers at Target. My last two trips have come up empty. No idea where they are in the store. Like collectable minifigs, they seem to have just disappeared.

Yup…been looking for this bag for a while. Like others, can’t find it anywhere.

Great polybag that I managed to buy in Skærbæk from a BL seller there :)
I wish the white rabbit was swapped or even better came in addition to for the new grey one or maybe a piglet, but that is the only minor complaint I have about it..

I own this polybag twice since July already. I got them both for free in the LEGOLAND store in Günzburg with a purchase above 50€. And another one for free which is: 30435 i guess that one is quite rare too?

I found this set in Canada at a local toy store. They have many. I picked up a few for a Thanksgiving present for the kids on our family . The ?? was a must add to my collection.

This set reminds me of Sanitarium... 'The pumpkin patch. She'll have me put in the pumpkin patch again. It's a terrible place."

I was lucky to find these at the 'local' LDC (Thanks to a Brickset member for alerting me to it). It is a neat poly and I do wish there was a corn piece, but still a neat little vignette of a farm worker. I do wish they were a little less exclusive though as it used to be a brief time where polys were found at multiple outlets at the same or even different times. I missed the little mobile LEGO store cart due to that poly only being at LDCs or LEGOLand sites.

I managed to pick this up at a local flea market but have not seen it in stores as of yet. I'd love to see many more polybags, I'll usually even purchase polybags of themes I don't normally buy because the price point is a lot more appealing and usually have some decent elements in them. But this is a great polybag for sure.

@dingbat591 said:
"Great polybags, BUT...
Where are they available? The online LEGO shop doesn't carry them, nor do stores. Am I missing something? "

Targets, Walmarts, Joanns

Where can you get this in the UK?

I like this. Yes, it's a shame it is missing the corn. That watering can is cool. I don't like the use of the cone on the scarecrow, though.

I too am wondering where you can actually get this one. I haven't seen it anywhere (UK).

My local Toys R Us always seems to have polybags; including this great example, one of the perks of bricks and mortar.

How can we buy it?

I've collected polybags for years, and sometimes they are more difficult to find. However, I've looked for this polybag at Walmart, Target (in multiple cities throughout my state), and Lego stores, and I've never found this one. Eventually, I will probably pick this up through Bricklink. Just obnoxious I can't find it at the usual places.

Been looking for 4 of these for so long now but none in the wild so far (don't know why LEGO direct won't sell their own product to you).

@Huw said:
" @HeriSanmi said:
"How can we buy it?"

There are plenty listed on BrickLink: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=30590-1 "

Beats driving trying find... Gas

Yup! Best polybag in years imo and can't find it anywhere.

@sjr60 said:
" @sir_vasco said:
"Lack of corn has been my biggest complaint with recent Lego sets."
There's a world shortage... it's all been used up in the 'Random part of the day' threads."

Funny, but I believe the point is that the only sets the corn is seen in now are rather expensive, which is why its pointed out as a negative in the review (especially since its a field)

Apparently 30590 is a GWP from Oct 24th

@Huw said:
" @HeriSanmi said:
"How can we buy it?"

There are plenty listed on BrickLink: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=30590-1 "

Thank you!!!

Normally I dislike whining but I'm going to join in with the complaint that polybag sets just aren't as available as they should be.

UK supermarkets sometimes have them in mixed boxes but they are very often left with just the least desirable bags (Duplo is often the culprit).

In the US, the two big polybag seasons are Easter and Christmas. A few stores tried Halloween, until they realized that one of two things would happen. Sets like 30201 will sell out in days, because they contain desirable pieces/minifigs at cheap prices, while others will linger because who gives out $5 polybags to every neighborhood kid for Halloween? And since they don’t sell from the seasonal department, they automatically get clearanced. Sell them any other time of year as general merchandise, and you can sit on them for months until they finally sell. Seasonal sections will be switching over as soon as Halloween is behind us, so it’ll be a few weeks before I’d expect to see this pop up in the US, unless it gets pushed back to 2023.

@dingbat591:
It says “Italy”, right next to your name. Sometimes people just don’t pay attention to that.

The packaging appears to not match the product... Even if we concede that they were using spare parts in the build, they should only have two dark green studs not three. Am I missing something here? (Apologies if this is a double post; it looks like my other comment was deleted)

Where on earth do you get Polybags? I’ve wanted to get this since it came out and there are no LEGO stores in Puerto Rico. I was excited to be going to California for a month and visited a LEGO store only sadly they don’t sell them at LEGO stores! WTH? I thought for sure. They don’t sell on LEGO.com either. Target didn’t have them. So where do you find these? I found some on eBay for 3x the price!!! Why doesn’t LEGO themselves sell these D2C??

@kkoster79:
That depends on where you live, even across the 50 states and DC. I have zero idea what your situation would be like in Puerto Rico because your culture is so different from the mainland. Here, Walmart and Target are really the only two nationwide chains that carry them. Walmart usually puts them in or near the LEGO aisle, even if they’re part of the seasonal assortment. Target usually puts non-seasonal in the checkout lanes, and at Easter/Christmas there will be a spread added to the seasonal department. Besides them, regional chains like Meijer, Fred Meyer, and others carry them with various policies (Meijer stocks them to the LEGO aisle like Walmart, or a seasonal department like Target). LEGOLAND stores (at Discovery Centers, or probably limited to a few specific stores at the big theme parks) have been known to carry polybags. On rare occasion, regular LEGO Stores and LEGO.com have stocked them (like 30387), but more often they have had them as GWPs and never sold them directly.

Outside the US, they have different store chains, so different sources for polybags. Some have been packed with newspapers in the UK, but I’m not really familiar with any other international sources. In Japan, the Kabaya candy company often packs them with candy or gum (the few I got were overpacked in boxes bearing the same artwork, with the funky-flavored gumballs in a cellophane sleeve inside the box with the polybag). I don’t know what stores you have in PR, so I couldn’t begin to guess where you’d find them. It’s entirely possible you guys don’t get them at all, beyond the handful that are available through LEGO Brand Retail. Not every polybag ships to every nation, and many nations don’t get many of these at all.

@PurpleDave said:
" @kkoster79 :."

Bluish-Red David ain't wrong. I can vouch for everything he said from my perspective in the western US and having visited both US Legolands and traveled extensively and searched for polybags these many years both high and low.

Lego stores very rarely have the polybags and retail online opportunities are nonexistent in the US since the demise of TRU. You used to be able to get sweet scores like 2853590 : Chrome Stormtrooper and 5002123 : Darth Revan, or even 5002947 : Admiral Yularen. Alas, no more!

Go to Targe'/WallyWorld and follow the suggestions per redish-blue D.

@purpledave @stylecounselor thanks both for your help. Sadly we had TRU a bit longer than the mainland and thought they would stay open like Canada but they sadly closed a year ago. Funny as I’ve heard rumors of them coming back. We don’t have Target here because of a stupid car rental place that decided to use the same name and force them to pay a large sum of money that they didn’t want to do so they never came. We do have Walmart and I’ll check them further next time I go but I know the LEGO there starts at a higher price than the states thanks to prices posted by sits like brickset. We really need more stores down here. Costco Carry’s lego but it’s only a f ew sets.

Beating a dead horse and the stick has long since broken, but c'mon Lego! They are the wealthiest toy company in the world and the color matching issues persist year after unchanging year. We pay premium prices for these products and it's totally unacceptable that the color of that torso print is so obviously not a match for the legs. Rant over.

TLG really needs to rethink their polybag distribution strategy. Like making them all GWP's and magazine gifts instead of keeping some exclusive to very limited retailers. Even in Germany there is only one online shop selling 30590 and the rest of exclusive polybags like CREATOR train, 90 years of play, etc.

The polybag (lack of availability) issue is absolutely baffling. I can accept that they're supposed to be "recruitment" i.e. trying to appeal to kids who aren't diehard LEGO fans (yet), and there's a certain logic to not have them in LEGO stores because of it, but, yeah--

Why make it harder for your customers-- known, repeat customers-- to find your products?

In my country it was a bit easier to find these polybags, often in some super markets or even from an official Lego shop branch called Brick Depot (from Romania), however my complaint is that the reddish brown pitchfork is really bad, the minifigure hand scratched it easily, even some small slices came off, I send the complaint to Brick Depot and recieved another one free, but the same thing happened, after that I meet with another collector and gave me 5 pitchforks to try, it was a bit better but still scratched easily and small slices came off after a while, I hope Lego will fix the problem with this piece some day.

The Lego Store in San Francisco was giving this out free this weekend (Halloween) for anyone who said "Trick or Treat".