January 2010 Assortment Prices, Piece Counts
Below is the list of MSRP and piece counts for LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Toy Story January 2010 assortment along with reported Toys’R'Us prices:
LEGO Star Wars
- 8088 ARC-170 Starfighter – 396 pcs – MSRP: $59.99 – TRURP: $65.99
- 8085 Freeco Speeder – 177 pcs – MSRP: $24.99 – TRURP: $28.99/$29.99
- 8087 TIE Defender – 304 pcs – MSRP: $49.99 – TRURP: $54.99
- 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack – 79 pcs – MSRP: $10.99 – TRURP: $12.99
- 8084 Snowtrooper Battle Pack – 74 pcs – MSRP: $10.99 – TRURP: $12.99
- 8086 Droid Tri-Fighter – 268 pcs – MSRP: $24.99 – TRURP: $29.99/$31.99
- *8092 Luke’s Landspeeder – 163 pcs – MSRP: $24.99
- *8091 Republic Swamp Speeder – 176 pcs – MSRP: $29.99
LEGO Toy Story
- 7595 Army Men on Patrol – 90 pcs – MSRP: $10.99 – TRURP: $12.99/$13.99
- 7590 Woody and Buzz to the Rescue – 92 pcs – MSRP: $19.99 – TRURP: $21.99
- 7592 Construct-a-Buzz – 205 pcs – MSRP: $24.99 – TRURP: $25.99
- 7593 Buzz’s Star Command Spaceship – 257 pcs – MSRP: $29.99 – TRURP: $32.99
- *7591 Construct-a-Zurg – 118 pcs – MSRP: $24.99
- 7594 Woody’s Roundup! – 502 pcs – MSRP: $49.99 – TRURP: $54.99
* – items marked with an asterisk are store exclusives.
As you can see, the markup TRU places on top of MSRP is pretty significant once you add it all up. Out of the Star Wars sets, the Droid Tri-Fighter seems to be the best value, while Luke’s Landspeeder seems to be the worst, but honestly, the rest are all pretty bad. Toy Story sets seem to be a better value overall, with Woody’s Roundup hitting that golden ratio of about 10 cents per piece. Woody and Buzz to the rescue is the sore spot of the group however, but since you get RC with a pullback motor, it doesn’t seem so bad.
comes through with some advance pictures of 2010 box art images. All sets are available for preorder and are scheduled for release on January 1, 2010. I’m not sure if Amazon ships earlier than the release date, but, historically, January 2010 sets have been available at Toys’R'Us earlier than their release date. 
