Though I'm a massive Lego fan, I've always managed to avoid spending November's paycheck on Black Friday Lego deals in the past, mostly because the discounts are often on younger-audience playsets instead of the options designed for older builders. However if this early discount is any way to gauge 2025's discounts, that's changing and I might be in trouble.
The Lego Botanicals Mini Bonsai Tree set is currently for $44.99 over at Amazon, a saving of $20 or 31% over the usual $64.99 asking price. This is quite a new Lego set, only having released in the Fall (not to be confused with the large, single Bonsai tree set which has been around for a few years) so a discount on it is a nice little surprise. However it's making me worried for my bank account that more of these lovely architectural- and designer-esque set deals are going to come about during Black Friday.
This Lego set has 709 pieces and builds three bonsai trees. The yellow is a ginko, the green one is a black pine and the lilac one is a wisteria. There's some degree of customization on all, as you can arrange the leaves and flowers as you want, and there are three stands of varying sizes you can use to present them.
It's part of the Lego Botanicals range, which is relatively new, and consists of recreations of flowers like the blum blossom, chrysanthemum and maple bonsai, as well as a few bouquets. The sets are all designed for adults, as they make for great decorations. They also use sustainably-created Lego in the leaf bricks.
Should you buy the Lego Mini Bonsai set?
As you can tell from the introduction, I'm won over by the Lego Mini Bonsai set: it's smaller and more shelf-friendly than the standard Bonsai set, but still provides a more engaging build experience than the majority of Lego Botanicals sets, which generally have fewer parts. Given that pruning real Bonsai trees is linked to mindfulness and mental health benefits, it feels fitting that the build of a Lego set should be an involving process.
However your mileage with the set will depend on how you rate its looks, and your own taste in Lego set, so I'm not going to preach to you too much about why you should buy this particular set.
What's worth thinking about, though, is whether it's worth buying any Lego deal now, or if you should wait for a few days for the 'real' deals to begin. What we're seeing at the moment are early Black Friday sales, and most retailers are putting their own discounts into action beginning a week before the day itself (which falls on November 28).
There's no doubt about it: every retailer which stocks the brick, will bring a range of Lego Black Friday discounts. Based on precedent, these discounts will hover around the 20%-off mark, though might be better or worse for certain sets. We'll probably see broad swathes of the vast Lego collection discounted, but not every set will see a reduction, and usually each retailers' sales overlap quite a bit.
It's certainly worth looking at the early sales now, because I don't imagine any currently-discounted Lego sets will see a bigger reduction over Black Friday. But if you're not won over by the deals as they are, check back over the coming two weeks and you might find something more to your taste.
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$44.99$26.99 at Amazon - Lego Botanicals Bonsai Tree |
$39.99$49.99 at Amazon - See more Lego deals at Amazon
If this deal has interested you, then you should check out our guide to early Black Friday Lego deals this year, or let us guide you through the best Lego sets overall. We've also got an overall guide to Black Friday gaming deals which you can use to prepare for when the main bout of discounts begin.
