Where is the Yearly Theme Anniversary Giveaway gone?

[Klaus-Dieter]

Hello everybody!

The last three years there always has been a small but great set given away as a gift to celebrate the anniversary of a classic theme:

It started in 2014 with 5002812 Classic Spaceman Minifigure to celebrate Classic Space.

https://brickset.com/sets/5002812-1/Classic-Spaceman-Minifigure

One year later, in 2015, there was the anniversary of Pirates. So TLG released 5003082 Classic Pirate Minifigure.

https://brickset.com/sets/5003082-1/Classic-Pirate-Minifigure

And last year (2016) we got the 5004419 Classic Knights Minifigure for the birthday of Castle.

https://brickset.com/sets/5004419-1/Classic-Knights-Minifigure

The first two sets did combine classical style with updated elements and new ideas. In contrast, the last set was more or less an exact replicia of its original. On the one hand this was a bit disappointing, but on the other hand it was nevertheless - like the others - a great set.

Searching through the Brickshelf database, but finding anything, although this year (2017) being the anniversary of Technic as well as of Trains and taking into account that all previous sets were already released in summer, I have a question:

Where is the yearly theme anniversary giveaway gone?

Edited November 22, 2017 by Klaus-Dieter
inserting correct links

[MAB]

These were summer promos to get people buying during the summer months when sales were low.  I guess they decided that either they didn't need to do it again, with the popularity of Batman and friends, or that they have done enough of them, or that they didn't work as well as hoped.