Introduction
LEGO Shop at Home (USA | Canada | UK | Australia) and LEGO Brand Retail Stores are offering the 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway October 2022 GWP Gift Promo Set with LEGO purchases above $120 USD / $150 CAD / €120 EUROS / £120 GBP / $199 AUD.
Valid from October 1-13, 2022 or while supplies last. For those living in Australia, the promo gift set is now sold out at LEGO Shop at Home Australia.
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In this LEGO review article, we’ll review the 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway set (October 2022 GWP Gift Promo Set).
18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway contains 239 pieces and is recommended for those aged 18+.
The retail value price for the 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway as listed on LEGO Shop at Home (USA | Canada | UK | Australia) is $19.99 USD / $24.99 CAD / £17.99 GBP / $29.99 AUD. You cannot purchase this item by itself at LEGO.
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Official 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway GWP 2022 Product Description from LEGO Shop at Home Website
Escape the everyday and join Ray the Castaway on a brick-built desert island with this LEGO® Ideas set (40566). Build palm trees, a shelter and a raft, and bring the scene to life with the Ray minifigure, plus parrot, crab and 2 fish figures. This competition-winning model was created by LEGO fan designers and makes a delightful gift for adults or any LEGO enthusiast.
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Colorful desert island model (40566) for play and display – Build a life on a brick-built desert island for Ray the Castaway with this LEGO® Ideas competition-winning model, created by fan designers
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Realistic details – The desert island model features a buildable shelter, raft and palm trees, plus a Ray minifigure and parrot, crab and 2 fish figures
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Gift idea – This 243-piece model measures over 5 in. (14 cm) high, 7 in. (19 cm) wide and 5 in. (13 cm) deep, and makes a fun gift for adults or any LEGO® enthusiast
18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway 2022 Set Packaging
This is the front box for the LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway front box. It has the recommended age, set number and number of pieces.
This is the top of the box and it showcases the actual size of the included LEGO Ray minifigure.
This is the back of the box. It showcases some of the cool details like the snakes and the dimensions of the set.
18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway 2022 Set Contents
Dumping out the contents, you get a instructions booklet and five bags of pieces. Note that they are not numbered. However, its not unusual as this set isn’t that big.
Here are the pieces sorted out by color.
18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway 2022 Building Process
The beginning pages of the instructions booklet talks about the LEGO IDEAS designers for the set. 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway was created as it was the grand prize winner of a LEGO IDEAS competition. The LEGO fans that created this are twin brothers David and Diego Escalona. There’s a little story about the set. Its nice that LEGO includes something like this in the instructions so that builders have a better idea of the set they are building.
There’s also an instruction page telling builders that LEGO is transitioning to more sustainable packaging. These include paper bags for the pieces. For this set however, we still got all plastic bags.
The first thing you build is the LEGO minifigure Ray.
Here, we have the LEGO Ray minifigure. He has a gray piece where he can look for things far away. Ray has a nice beard, printed torso and red shorts. His skin tone is yellow which is the traditional classic skin tone of LEGO minifigures.
This is the back of the LEGO minifigure Ray.
Next up, you build the LEGO Raft.
The raft has a pole with a white flag. There’s a rope where it can attach to the desert island as well. Two studs are on the raft so that you can put 1-2 minifigures on it.
Here, we have Ray on the raft using one of the studs on it.
The next thing you build is the desert island along with the shelter and palm trees.
You first start building the base that consists of blue, beige and green colors. The blue represents the ocean while the beige represents the sand. The green represents some of the grass.
Here, we have already added a yellow starfish on the blue base as well as a clear bottle in the ocean.
You also build a brown treasure chest. There are some red diamonds crystals inside. The treasure chest can be closed.
You continue with the desert island by building the shelter and adding more details. Now, we have the fishing rod with the fish, a yellow cup, cooking pan and a small fire.
Complete 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway 2022 Set
The set is now complete after adding the palm trees and more details.
Here is the back of the desert island. The palm trees look really nice.
This is where you store the treasure chest that we previously build. It is underneath the shelter at the back.
There are lots of details in this set and they include 2 snakes. A yellow swim tube is also here too. There’s a nice clear beer bottle and there’s a starfish too.
Ray can spend time cooking with the campfire. He has a pan and can roast the fish that he caught. A blue and yellow parrot sits on top. This is a pretty neat looking parrot. There’s also a nice big red crab nearby.
On the side of the shelter, there’s a fishing road with a fish that is caught. A yellow cup is near the shelter for Ray to sip on. The raft can be attached to the shelter too through the rope.
These are the spare extra pieces from the build.
18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway 2022 Set Review Ratings
- Design: 9/10
- Build: 9/10
- Minifigures: 7/10
- Playability: 9/10
- Parts: 9/10
- Price: N/A
- Overall rating: 9/10
Overall Thoughts
18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway is a really neat and cool set that has lots of playable features. Although its small, LEGO fans can recreate many castaway scenes on the desert island. These include cooking with the campfire, exploring all the small animals nearby, resting in the shelter, enjoying the shade under the nice palm trees or exploring the oceans with the raft. Overall, this is a nice set. The complete set took about 45 minutes to build and that includes sorting the pieces too.
You can currently get 18+ LEGO IDEAS 40566 Ray the Castaway October 2022 GWP Gift Promo set with LEGO Harry Potter purchases above $120 USD / $150 CAD / €120 EUROS / £120 GBP at LEGO Shop at Home (USA | Canada | UK) and at physical brick & mortar LEGO Brand Retail Stores. Valid from October 1-13, 2022 or while supplies last. For those in Australia, the set is now sold out at LEGO Shop at Home Australia.
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