Build-A-Bear Workshop's Pay Your Age deal returns with some big changes
Build-A-Bear Workshop's Pay Your Age Day deal might have seemed like a fun summer activity for families. In reality, that day last July ended pretty disastrously as the favorite mall store, where you can build your own stuffed animal, ended the deal early citing safety concerns.
Here in the Triangle, long lines of parents and children formed even before malls in Durham and Raleigh opened to take advantage of the deal, which allowed customers to only pay their child's age for a stuffed animal. The episode might have spelled the end of the Pay Your Age Day deal, but Build-A-Bear Workshop isn't walking away from it.
Instead, they're offering a new version of Pay Your Age Day with the Count Your Candles Sweepstakes. And it looks like it won't involve long lines at the mall.
Here's how it works, according to Build-A-Bear's website:
Enter by June 16 for a chance to receive a ticket to pay your age for a new stuffed Build-A-Bear animal or to win a birthday party experience.
More than 200,000 people are expected to receive a Pay Your Age limited ticket. With the ticket, according to Build-A-Bear's website, you can visit a Build-A-Bear Workshop during one of two redemption periods in the week of June 24 to June 28 and make one stuffed animal per child present. There's a limit of two stuffed animals per ticket.
Another 10 people will win the Count Your Candles Sweepstakes grand prize of a birthday party experience, worth up to $250, to be used any time in the next 12 months.
Want to give it a shot? More information is on Build-A-Bear's website. Build-A-Bear Workshops are at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh and The Streets at Southpoint in Durham.
