Which is right now, and for the past several minutes, I have not been able to get onto lego-dot-com. I’ve been placed in a “waiting room” due to “high demand”, which refreshes automatically every 20 seconds. At first I wondered if the site had been hacked, but I’m wondering if this explains it. Everybody’s trying to get their orange astronauts before they sell out.
I was able to redeem the points for the reward and received the email/see the reduction of Insiders Points. Now when I attempt to apply the promo code, I’m getting a “This Promotion code is not valid, please try again” message. Hoping that it’s just something related to the current massive influx of traffic on the shop.lego.com website and things will settle down in a bit. Checking the reward page now looks like everything is “View Information” and clicking into any just has a “We are under maintenance. Please come back later to redeem rewards.” message.
Not entirely sure if getting the (hopefully valid) promo code essentially reserves the reward or what. I guess I’ll find out once I get around to trying to redeem the the promo code I received.