LEGO House Dinosaurs (40366) First Look!

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 by Brickfinder

In a very surprise reveal yesterday, the LEGO House announced it’s third exclusive set in the form of the LEGO House Dinosaurs (40366)!

The set consists of 864pcs and will retail for 599DKK which works out to be approximately SGD$122. The first LEGO House exclusive, the Tree of Creativity (4000026), is also priced at 599DKK.

 

These dinosaurs are iconic to the LEGO House as they are the center attraction of the master piece gallery.

Each one is built using different types of LEGO elements, the green one is  built using system bricks and the red is done with Duplo while the yellow one is constructed with Technic.

The LEGO House Dinosaurs (40366) will be available on April 17th in the LEGO Brand Store of the LEGO House!

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Here is the full press release:

Three giant LEGO® dinosaurs greet visitors when they climb the stairs to the Experience Zones of the LEGO House. Available from April 17th as a retail set. 

Positioned in The Masterpiece Gallery the three iconic dinosaurs are the stunning centrepieces of the room. Each model has a metal skeleton inside to support the LEGO bricks, the height of each models is 2,92 m (without podium) and the total piece count of the three models is more than 600.000 LEGO bricks. Now LEGO House has taken on the challenge to convert the three giant dinosaurs into a retail product.

The retail product, LEGO® House dinosaurs, will be launched at the LEGO Store in LEGO House this summer. And if everything goes as planned the first boxes will already be for sale from 17th April.

The LEGO model is a great reproduction of the giant dinosaurs capturing all the most iconic features in a rescaled version.

Designer Nina Koopman says: ”One of the biggest challenges with the new model has been to capture all the details from the big models. Especially since the models in Masterpiece Gallery were all built of the three different building systems LEGO DUPLO, LEGO Technic and LEGO System. You see it especially with the yellow dino where we eg. have used gear wheels, and ventilator elements to get the “Technic feel” into the product.”

The three dinosaurs have been on their way for roughly a year and is the third exclusive product that LEGO House launches. The others being Tree of Creativity (4000026) and the LEGO House Architecture set (21037).

In the new product it has been important to underline that it is both a toy for playing and a display model. Nina Koopman explains: “The aim was to make a stunning product and at the same time, we have worked with integrating moveable parts in the heads, arms and legs to enhance the play experience. Also the construction of the three models has deliberately been made different from each other in order to create three different building experiences, and you can remove the dinos from their podium.”

Each of the three models within the new product has a podium that resembles the real podium in Masterpiece Gallery. This pays reference to the fact that Masterpiece Gallery in itself is a giant LEGO brick – just 862 times an ordinary LEGO 2×4 brick – and the three podiums are the tubes of that LEGO brick.

The model is exclusively available at LEGO House in Billund and the retail price is 599 DKK. (Maximum 3 boxes pr. person).

Product overview

Name of product	LEGO® House dinosaurs
Product number	40366
Period for sales	April 2019 – Jan. 2021
Piece count	864 incl. a brick seperator
Release date	17th April 2019
Box size	38,2 cm x 26,2 cm x 7,05 cm
Hight of built model	App. 15 cm
Elements in yellow model	217 + podium 62
Elements in red model	238 + podium 63
Elements in green model	216 + podium 67
Decorations	Sticker sheet included
LEGO Designer	Nina Koopmann
Available for sale	LEGO House, Billund, Denmark.
Price	599 DKK