Lego Store

In the interest of full disclosure, I used to work at the LEGO store from 2011 – 2012. Obviously, I haven’t worked there in over three years, so even though my review might be a little biased, almost none of my original coworkers are still there, so it’s pretty much a brand new experience each time I go.
And I go probably more frequently than you would think because I am a serious fan of LEGO. Whether buying something for myself or as a gift, this is my one stop shop. Yes, you can buy LEGO in other stores, but let me tell you why you should buy from here:
1) The people who work here are seriously enthusiastic about the product. You have a question? We have an answer, probably because we’ve personally played with the set ourselves. Working here is every bit of fun that you might think it is and, at least when I worked there, we all loved the sets and had our own personal collection of LEGO as well as a wide breadth of knowledge. I don’t imagine that’s changed in the three years I’ve been gone.
2) The VIP card! For every dollar spent at the LEGO store or online, you get a point. After $ 100, or 100 points, you get $ 5 off your next purchase! I’ve been a member for years and it’s great. I usually have $ 5 off when I go in, which basically just tells you that I spend a lot of money in the store.
3) It’s a store full of LEGO. Why would you not come here?
They almost always have what I’m looking for and, if not, they can order it for me online. I love so many of the sets, but I especially love the keychains and the mystery minifigures. Oh, gawd, the mystery minifigures. I have a whole collection of them. Fun fact! When I worked here, I had 100% accuracy at guessing which minifigure was in each bag. Customers would come in just to have me pick out the minifigures they wanted. It was pretty awesome.
Since it’s Christmas time, they also have a variety of LEGO ornaments and Christmas themed sets. I actually really like their Christmas themed sets — they are very pretty and I really like the detail that goes into them. Speaking of detail, I love the level of detail that goes into every LEGO set. It really is amazing to see all the little things they think to include once you start putting something together.
Don’t want a set? No problem! There’s a little area where you can make your own minifigures and they have the pick-​a-​brick wall, where you can fill a cup with bricks you’ve selected yourself. Both areas are regularly changing and getting new pieces, so check them out each time you visit to see the new stuff you can’t wait to add to your collection.
Lastly, as a personal pet peeve of mine, it is LEGO. Always capitalized, never pluralized. The more you know!

Great customer service happens here a lot. You can imagine how many spoiled children come through these doors but the Lego experts are always kind and helpful, even to spoiled parents. ;))

The only downside to the store… it’s in the mall. I love that they have a wall of extra pieces and a station to make your own figures. They have something for everyone from the expensive sets– architecture and mind storms and large sets to small inexpensive sets. They have some on display to remind you how much you really need them. It’s a small store, so it gets packed.

A Must stop for anyone who has never visited the store before. lots to see, do, touch and enjoy, The big piano is ok, a little older but fun for all ages. try it, and you may like it

You don’t have to pretend to be a grown up at the Lego store. I was as happy as a 10 year old to get a few of the surprise Simpsons in a mystery packaging tonight. I wish they still had the Lego movie characters, now you have to buy the sets with backgrounds. No military discounts but they do have a Lego club, the more you buy, the more points you get for I don’t even know what. I guess credit to buy more Legos most likely. It’s not cheap but it’s a fun time and the staff was pretty friendly.

I really hate The Lego Store. I walk into the store and I just get so mad. The place is just wall to wall Lego sets. There are even displays of their massive sets like Metal Beard’s Sea Cow and the Death Star right in the front window, mocking all those who walk by.
I hate it so so much. But that’s only because I can’t afford to buy half (okay ALL) of the store.
So yeah, I lied. I really LOVE this place. It’s my dream store. I’ve been playing with Legos for over 25 years and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Especially with all the new Star Wars and Marvel sets that keep coming out year after year.
It’s kind of nice that I don’t live in Austin otherwise I might spend all of my paycheck here.
I did however pick up The Milano Spaceship Rescue when I went this past weekend. So I’m happy until my next visit.

Went in for Lego Movie figurines and came out with very mixed reviews. The place was slammed but I won’t blame them for being awesome (EVERYTHING IS AWESOME).
What I can blame them for is lying to my face about their licensing contract. Let me explain: I was told I cannot buy any individual figurines (not Batman, not Bennie… not even Emmet!) because they have sold all their licensing rights to sell individual «action figures» and are now only allowed to sell «Lego sets.» The conclusion being that instead of a $ 5 figurine, I was relegated to buying a $ 49.99 set or nothing at all. Feed that bologna to a non-​law-​student (or anyone with a brain).
The only cool part (and reason they get both stars) is that they have this mystery bin, for lack of a better term, where they have all the Lego Movie figurines in opaque little bags and for $ 2.99 you can buy one and hope you get Good Cop Bad Cop instead of an anonymous construction worker. So there I was, a 24-​year-​old woman among an army of toddlers trying to grope each little bag for a pair of miniature handcuffs…

Got the cutest yoda keychain here, the guy that checked me out was super nice, he asked if i was a star wars fan and i said yes, he then told me about lego’s yoda chronicles and gave me a copy out of a lego catalog which i thought was very nice. Clean store considering all the kids running around, neat displays. Overall a great experience.

Possibly the best store on the planet

If I was only 10 again … this would be my heaven … did not even know such a store existed … they have the death star … need I say more?

So we headed in to the mall, since we were there. And the wife spots the Lego Store, and Zoom… Wow what a cool store. Lots of awesome little displays and a ton of different sets to choose from… On the list of things to collect when we win the Lotto.

Super nice workers. I got a large container of fill-​your-​own for my classroom. I only wished they offered discounts for teachers. I’d do a lot more shopping there!

«Hi! Welcome to the Lego Store. Who’s the lucky kid that’s getting some Legos?»
«Um, that would be me.»
Legos are one of my recent obsessions, thanks to a birthday gift I received this year. So, when I needed to make a pilgrimage to the Apple store in Barton Creek mall (because the location in the Domain didn’t have what I was looking for), I squeed to myself when I saw how close in proximity those two stores are.
The store is organized by product line, so I immediately headed to the Star Wars section, drooling over the über expensive Death Star. Maybe I could get friends to pitch in for it and we can all share custody! Anyone? Anyway, obviously this store is all things Lego, there’s even little bubbles of different colored Legos on the back wall, which you can buy in bulk if you lose pieces (like I’m sure I’m apt to do). The employees are attentive and friendly, without being overbearing. I wanted to buy the Seattle Space Needle set, but I couldn’t find one among all the other cool architecture stuff.
I kind of hate malls, but if I ever do venture back to Barton Creek, there will definitely be a visit to the Lego store!
Death Star? Anyone?

Back in the day we just had plain Legos, and you had to dream up something to build. Now they have huge, expensive sets of just about everything you can imagine, though I always get stuck at Star Wars. Still there’s something about Legos no kid can resist, and this store shows them off well, with lots of places to play around with the pieces and make stuff. Nothing is cheap, but Legos never have been. We had to drag our kid out of there, and I’m sure we’ll have to do it every time we go. A nifty store.
(Note: I will NOT call them «Lego bricks» or anything like that. They are Legos. Deal with it, Lego.)

I’ve walked by the Lego Store a few times since it opened. Each time it’s been a swirling pit of children and parents. We were finally at the mall during the week and it wasn’t quite so bad, so my daughter and I went to check it out.
The wall of pieces was pretty cool. The «build your own pack of Lego people» station was neat. We looked at most of the scenes. And I really enjoyed seeing the architectural series.
Beyond that, it was high priced Legos in a moderately destroyed store. Sorry, I’m just not that eager to spend that kind of money. Target has Legos too.

First off, I’d like to say I do not recommend going to this store on a Saturday when everyone is at the mall doing their back-​to-​school shopping. Not good. It was so crowded!
But even through the crowds and screaming kids, I could see that this was one of the coolest stores I’ve been to in awhile. If you are a Lego fan, then you have to come here and take a lookie!
Lots of models set up, lots of really neat sets. I am coming back for a better look on a weekday one all the kiddos are back in school. I think it will be much more reasonable for checking out the Lego goodness this store has going on.

I remember building with lego as a kid. I had a big bucket of the bricks and, on weekend afternoons, I’d dump them on the floor in the living room and proceed to build houses, forts, helicopters, etc. I think around the time I was 10, Lego came out with the pneumatic toys. Those were also really cool, but my lego days were coming to a close by then.
Anyway, 20 years later I walk in to the Lego Store and I want to know something: When the hell did Lego get so damn awesome? Replicas of Frank Lloyd Wright’s «Falling Water»? A HUGE ROBOT that WORKS and does all sorts of different COOL stuff? All kinds of Star Wars themed kits and freaking Taj Mahal replica!!!
Man, I’m glad this place wasn’t around when I was a kid because 1) my parents would’ve never sustained the $ 300 a week hits I needed to quell my «lego habit» and 2) my head would’ve probably exploded at least once or twice from all the cool stuff inside.

As I’m looking over the Star Wars Echo Base set, one of the staff excitingly points out, «Isn’t that kit awesome?!? You get Han Solo on a tauntaun. A tauntaun!» I grinned and replied, «That’s precisely why I’m getting it.»
«And you can stick a guy inside the laser tower! Hey, did you see the set with the wampa?!?» «Yes, yes we did.» «Awesome!» and he scoots off to help some other folks.
We run into him a bit later, showing some kids the Toy Story 3 Pizza Planet Truck Rescue kit. «You can open the hood and load pizzas into the engine. Then, you can shoot pizzas out the front!»
My hat’s off to you, Mr. Enthusiastic Lego Store Clerk. I dare say I’m a bit envious of your job, showing kids all the cool Lego sets and having a good time while doing it.
The other awesome thing at the Lego store is the Digital Box. It’s a real-​time video screen and just by holding up a Lego box, it will show you a 3D model of what the finished kit will look like. You can tilt it and move it around the screen to see all the different angles. It’s pretty amazing. Kids were having just as much fun playing with the Digital Box as they will be playing with the real Legos. There’s some videos on YouTube, go check them out.

Holy wow, this is a great store for both kids and adult fans of Lego. Pretty much every Lego theme line is represented in here.
It’s been a long time since I built a Lego kit and it seems in recent years Lego has started creating cool kits aimed at non-​kids (often with a non-​kid pricetag)
Much of this store is devoted to these advanced models and hard to find rarities like the $ 300 Taj Mahal kit. I just picked up Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater from the new Architectural line that has things like the Guggenheim and the Seattle Space Needle.
The whole back wall of the store is a bulk brick section, where you can buy common parts by filling up a bucket with whatever you might want.
The staff was friendly and genuinely enthusiastic, even as a couple dozen 3-​footers scramble excitedly around. I fear I’m going to spend way too much money here…

There is no more important event in his genius mind than the opening of the Lego store right down the street. Christmas mornings, birthdays, and the Easter Bunny pale in comparison.
With a cool swagger he walks in, the store already a buzz with giddy children hardly able to contain themselves. Amateurs. If this eleven year old is nervous about being the first customer ever at this store he doesn’t show it. Figures.
He surveys his surroundings, sizes up the competition and browses the new boxed sets as if he is looking for some rare find. With his purchase in hand he checks out and cements his place in Lego history, adding to his legend. When the manager tells him he is the first customer at the new store he calmly pulls his Lego VIP card out of his pocket in his short pants to pay for his purchase with earned points.
The manager asks if he can take his picture with him, we oblige.
As he walks out of the store swinging his yellow bag in his hand past the line of people 15 deep, he states «I told you they should build a store here, almost everyone I know plays with Legos»
I didn’t teach him to be that cool, that’s just how he rolls.