Rarely is a LEGO set that isn’t some sort of exclusive and doesn’t have “LEGO Star Wars” in the name end up being one of the absolute most-anticipated LEGO sets of the year, and never has one of those sets contained mini-dolls instead of minifigures. But there’s a first time for everything, and this is it, Frozen fans! What you’ve all been waiting for since the set was announced in the fall: I haven’t found it yet myself, but various online sellers have now received and started selling the LEGO Frozen Elsa’s Castle 41062 set!

Remember when I correctly forecasted a few months ago that the 41062 LEGO Disney Princess Elsa’s Castle set from Frozen would be hitting stores early, with 2-3 weeks to go until Christmas, and bigger news outlets claimed it wouldn’t arrive in the United States until 2015 (*cough* IGN *cough*)? Yeah–score one for the little guy.

Now then, now that I’ve had my indulgent self-congratulatory moment, let’s talk about the 41062 LEGO Elsa’s Castle set. While the official release date of the LEGO Frozen set isn’t until 1/1/2015 (a factoid that news outlets unfamiliar with LEGO grasped onto as some sort of gospel), LEGO Stores and Toys R Us almost never uphold release dates for sets that don’t belong to new themes and aren’t retailer exclusives of some sort.

Thus far, the set has been purchased in North Carolina in the United States and Belgium in Europe. In the U.S. the LEGO Frozen sets were almost certainly purchased from a Toys R Us or a LEGO Store, while in Europe the sets were purchased from a different toy chain.

Unfortunately, as you might expect with a new release hot toy with this much demand coming out weeks before Christmas, prices for the set are already astronomical, as it’s selling for over $100 and more than double the retail price for 41062 LEGO Elsa’s Sparkling Ice Castle.

LEGO really should have moved heaven and earth to try to get this set out an extra month or so early, because the LEGO Disney Princess Elsa’s Sparkling Ice Castle set definitely had the potential to be their #1 best-selling set of the holiday season. As it is, I anticipate aof disappointed children this Christmas, as the demand for this set is going to far, far exceed the supply likely to hit stores in the next two weeks.

Various online sellers are now selling the LEGO 41062 Elsa’s Sparkling Ice Castle set on ebay, which is likely to be one of the only online sources for the set before the holidays. The online LEGO Shop will definitely not be stocking this set until 1/1/2015, so your best chances of tracking down this set as a holiday gifts are from Toys R Us, the physical LEGO Stores and reseller sites like ebay.

Now that it’s officially out in the wild, are you going out on the hunt for a LEGO Frozen set before the holidays, LEGO fans? Are you willing to pay a surplus to get the set early, or are you waiting it out and purchasing this set for retail price?