Hellego! On my trip to Ontario this summer, I had the chance to go
for the second time of my life to a Lego store! It was awesome!
This
time at my trip to the Lego store I decided to have the ultimate Lego
store experience and do something you can only do at a Lego store: get
bricks from the Pick A Brick wall!
Here I am picking out bricks
I
would not always right away put the bricks in my buckets so that I
would be able to better organize the space to have as many bricks as
possible in the buckets.
Here I am working at my buckets
Here
I just finished my buckets. If you look closely, there is tape on both
Pick A Brick buckets so that the lids don't fall off. That's how full
they were.
This
will probably surprise you, the people who worked at that Lego store
found out that it was the first time I was doing the Pick A Brick wall.
So they gave me plenty of tips and tricks on how to put as many pieces
in each bucket. I could not believe it! I which I would have gotten
their names because I would have mentioned them in this post ;). They
were all so nice to me. That is also why I thanked them at the end of
my video.
I don't know if you noticed in the video
where I show all the models displayed in the store but one of them is
made not by The Lego Group, but the members of the torolug!
There
is a plate under that explains what the LUG is. For those of you that
are new to the Lego community, a LUG is a Lego Users Group created by
mostly adult fans of Lego. Most of the time you have to be at least 18
years old to join one. There are plenty all over the world. The torolug,
as you probably guessed is a LUG based in Toronto. The well known Si-Mocs is part of this LUG. You can visit their website for more info here: http://torolug.com/
As you can probably tell I had an absolute blast at the Sherway Gardens mall Lego store!
In total, after looking at all the models, talking with the people who
work at the Lego store and taking lot's of time at the Pick A Brick
wall, I spent a total of about 1h and 45 mins! That was a long time but
it was worth every minute. I could have stayed even longer!
If you want to see the models again without going through the whole video again and extra pictures, go visit my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdlegoblog/
Wow! That looks awesome! I wish there was a LEGO store near me. :D
ReplyDeleteYeah I would like it to. This is probably the closest Lego store from my house and it's about an 8h drive :/
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