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Not quite poly, this bag: 30701 LEGO® Botanicals Field Flowers

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Today, Branko take a look at the final, and smallest, Botanicals set due for January 2025 release. While this set was provided by the LEGO Group:

LEGO has provided us with 30701 Field Flowers polybag… no, not polybag, a baggy of sorts. All opinions are our own. When I heard this set was coming I was ready for a rant about polybags being plastic and LEGO was supposed to phase out plastic packaging etc etc etc, and then this bag arrived: a paper bag. Rant over.

For years, polybag has been the popular name for small LEGO sets packaged in these little plastic bags made from PolyPropylene (PP) plastic (category 5), hence the name ‘Poly-bag’.

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Free and Exclusive: When too many things happen in the one week (Lego Creator App and Poe’s X-Wing Polybag)

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Polybag Fever

So, last monday the word began to spread around the inter webs:Lego (TM) Starwars (TM) Poe’s X-Wing Fighter(TM), free but only if you buy this month’s K-Zone.

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We hardly ever see these in the wild in Australia – more often in the confined ecosystems of Videogame pre-order bonuses or lego Shop@home bonuses

For those without tweenage children, K-Zone is a magazine aimed primarily at boys aged 6-10, containing equal parts toy advertisements, movie ads (some veiled as toy advertisements), video games (some based on toys, some with toys based on them) and comics (based on the subjects of TV series, movies, or the toys derived from said licencees).  It effectively retails for 6 dollars (cover price $5.99) and sits at the end of supermarket checkout isles, ready to trap unsuspecting mothers in a frenzy of uncontrollable pleading. I wish it was around at the time I was a boy.  My mother is glad that it wasn’t.

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