I finally had time to get to my local LEGO Store to check out the new elements on the Pick-A-Brick Wall. During each quarter of the year, you can expect some new stuff showing up on the wall that you may not have seen before. Some of them are labeled with themes that the parts would go well with and for this quarter they include LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends as well as some that go well with anything in general. From my understanding, these elements are sent to LEGO Stores throughout the US so you may also have seen them already.
For elements that go well with LEGO Star Wars, we have light bluish gray modified 1x1s with handle, trans-orange cheese slopes, trans-red round 1x1s, trans-neon yellow round 2x2s, and black 1x2s with clip.
For the LEGO Friends elements, we got pink 1×2 tiles, lavender 1×2 plates, lime green 1×1 studs, dark bluish gray modified 1x2s with arms, light bluish gray 2×2 tiles, white modified 1×2 grills, and trans-green round 1x1s.
Finally for the general parts, there were black modified 1x1s with headlight, medium blue 1×2 plates, orange 1x2s, yellow 1x2s with printed face, dark pink 1×2 bricks, tan 2x3s, lime 4×4 plates, medium blue 2x4s, black palm tree tops, and lime 45 slopes.
Overall, there are some very nice elements for this quarter with some of the more popular ones being the grey 2×2 tiles, the yellow 1x2s with faces, and surprisingly the medium blue 2×4 brick. Again, shout out to Genevieve for keeping the wall looking awesome. Stay tuned because in an upcoming post, I will be talking about the new elements from the Build-A-Minifigure bar.
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This is nice news, I can use a few of the new pieces. I just wish all of the Lego stores had the same brick wall. My closest has virtually nothing I can use, rarely has all the new parts shown here.
That’s weird because from what I heard, all the stores get the same bricks. I’ve had comments on FB that other people found the same pieces at their location.
I think it can vary a lot, depending on the size of the store too. The larger stores have twice as many bins. I am mainly speaking of the stores near me, here in N. Calif. The Disney store had a lot when I got to go there last year.
I was at the Arden Mall store last weekend and I didn’t see the new pick-a-brick pieces yet.
Background, my local lego store’s PAB inventory sucks. According to the employee, they are at the bottom of the chain in regards to getting their bins stocked or unique pieces. It’s always the usual 2×4 bricks or 4×4 plate.
In contrast, while on vac for Christmas down in Socal, the Costa Mesa store was stocked up the ying yang with doors and windows with frames for both.
I’ve been to my local store every week this Jan and here was how it looked.
1st wk of Jan: Half of the bins were naked, the ones that had elements were the usual pieces of 2×4 bricks and 4×4 plate with a mix of 1×1 small details. And even the ones that had elements in them were half full.
2nd wk of Jan: Still some naked bins. One of the employees was cleaning out the bins, pulling out pieces from the last wave and putting them into a large box. The highlight, they had doors with frames!!! Haven’t seen doors and frames together for several months.
3rd wk of Jan: Q1-15 wave comes out, pieces that was described in this article. My jaw dropped as all the bins were stocked with new and cool elements. I was even more happy to see horses, stairs, and 1×2 palisade bricks. Horses and stairs at this store is a rare sight. According to the employee, the horses had been out for about three days. I got a cup worth of horses, about 16 and there were about less than a dozen left in the bin. Also saw some 1×2 trans white plate and 1×4 green tile.
Q1-15 seemed like a better selection than prior.
I need to make another visit, see if its improved for my store too. Hope so.
I need to keep checking back for those 2×2 tiles, I have been needing to finish some sidewalks.