If you have been to a LEGO Brand Store recently, you might have seen some new changes to the Pick-A-Brick wall. For people who frequent the wall, you may have noticed that the price per cup has been raised $1.00 from its previous price. The smaller cups are now $8.99 each and the larger ones are $15.99. Another change is that the wall will have certain brick elements that are the same for every Brand Store and will be rotated simutaneously throughout the year. These elements will give kids some inspiration of what they can build and the labels suggest what they could go well with such as LEGO City or Star Wars.
For people who buy in bulk of the elements at the store, the prices for the cases has also gone up from the usual $75 to $100 price tag now. Even with the price increase, the cases are still a pretty good value if you need a lot of a certain element. How do you guys feel about these changes to the PAB Wall? Let us know in the comments below.
Shout out to Genevieve who does a great job in keeping our wall filled with cool and interesting pieces.
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Hopefully they’ll announce what new parts will be featured on the wall in the monthly store calendars. I don’t regularly go to the LEGO store, so it’d be nice to know when I should go if I want something specific.
Explains the ton of space parts in the stores. How do you buy a case is my question though?
Just ask one of the employees. They’ll usually tell you what they have in stock in the back.
Any idea how many pieces are in a case or how big the dimensions are?
Depends on the brick. Here’s what some of the boxes look like. http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=25076&p=275344
Not gonna affect me, we don’t have any Lego stores in Australia :'(
I can see the $1 jump cause like inflation or what ever, but $75 up to $100. That feels just a tad steep. I knew people had access to cases, but I didn’t know it was as easy as asking for it. HAHA Might have to do that at some point. I’ll have to find the most universally useful lego part and ask for a case of it.
I got a little overzealous with olive cheese slopes and dark purple 1×2 tiles. As a result I have a bunch of them even after using quite a few on some MOCs. Its nice having that freedom of “yeah I can afford to use 80 of these on one MOC” Now if only they’d get the smallest version of the Hero Factory bone piece in there. Now THAT is a super useful part in MOCing. Lol
from a discussion i had with the manager of my local B&M store, there is going to be theme running through part of the pab wall, but we’re both fairly sure it’s not going to be licensed stuff unfortunately. there will also be quarterly rotation of the themed bricks.
A 25 dollar jump for the cases, thats too much imo!
Agree
Just went to downtown Disney and saw the new wall. Definitely worth the additional dollar. Finally nice to see parts i can use instead of the usual assortment of regular bricks. They had Propellers, rear airplane fins (Med) and Cockpit glass and small jet engines. To me it’s to build small polybag type planes or helicopters. The notations on the bins did say, Either new, or city or star wars. I did like that they had tires and rims which is basically hit and miss at that Lego store. 2 really small tires and 1 of the standard tires. which i scooped up as I’m spending a fortune ordering them through Lego.com
Forgot to add, Per one of the employees. No idea when they will rotate stock for these. As they come in was his comment. It’s new to them. Only had the change for a week
If your gonna raise the prices so drastically I want to see hard to find elements like Battle Trolls, or Rancor Monsters back there.