LEGO employees tease exclusive parts in annual Play Day
This year’s LEGO Group Play Day is centred around mystery – including some employee-exclusive minifigure elements.
Each year, the LEGO Group hosts its annual Play Day, designed to give its employees time to relax and simply play. Naturally, the play activities centre around LEGO, with last year’s focusing on a brick-built moving cake display to celebrate the company’s 90th birthday.
This year, early tweets from LEGO employees suggest that the theme is mystery, with senior model designer Justin Ramsden sharing a picture of a signpost pointing him towards ‘the Mysteries of Play’ on Twitter. Naturally, it wouldn’t be a LEGO Play Day without an element of building and even early on in the day, there are already some exclusive elements to spot.
Model designer James May shared a couple of images of his own take on a detective, complete with a dedicated torso with ‘Play Day 2023’ printed on the back. What’s more, his miniature detective is holding a magnifying glass with a red lens, a part that’s only been seen in three sets and now since 2004.
Judging by another tweet from Justin Ramsden, it appears that the LEGO Group employees have been able to build their own detectives from an array of parts – although surely all including that rare torso.
We’re sure that participants will be keeping these tiny mementoes of LEGO Play Day 2023 for themselves, but if any do make it onto the secondhand market, they’re bound to go for a tidy sum. This isn’t the first time that employee gifts have contained unique and sought-after elements, with the Star Wars Day gift also including a rare minifigure. Still, we’d say that, seeing as the LEGO Group makes us sets all year round, they deserve a few LEGO elements to keep for themselves.
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