I didn't actually go to the Grand Opening on December 4, 2010. I wasn't much interested in seeing the crowds of people that were there for the holiday shopping. There was a little robot set for the first 300 people, to spend $35, but so far I haven't seen anyone post one. I took the afternoon off today in order to get some pics and check out the place without so many people there.
It looks very modern doesn't it. I liked the old stores beams and columns that looked like LEGO parts. They kept the platforms but put different builds on them.
That's the giant Pick-A-Brick wall. Most of the bins are fakes, the bricks walled off, just for show. Sadly there wasn't anything that I needed when I looked at the new larger selection. I got some tan plates anyway.
TwinLUG got asked to build the LEGO designed models that are in the ribbon that runs around the store. There are portholes to look through and the models sit inside on photo backgrounds. A huge pile or boxes arrived at Roy and Alice's house and a dozen people came by the Saturday after Thanksgiving to build the models from instructions and bricks supplied by LEGO. The instructions were sort of hard to read and the bags of bricks for the models were missing a lot of parts. Luckily Roy has some LEGO and could supply the needed parts. I built the Fast Food meal, the ugly fish, a bunch of dogs and humans and those horses. The horses were a bitch to keep together. I was thinking glue that afternoon. I put more pics up on Flickr.
I really like that sabertooth a lot. The models really are nice additions to the store. I like the centaur quite a bit too.
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