Andy's Brick Shop (bag 1)

 Adventure! Sort-of. Saying "Sort" is kind of a pun, because of all the sorting this store must do. You know, there is a whole market for Lego pieces separated out of the sets, and for old sets not available at retail anymore. Well... imagine that's a store at the mall. No need to imagine, actually; it's Andy's Brick Shop in Oxford Valley Mall!

Some people don't like "opened" Lego sets, and I'll agree there's something better about the freshness of a newly opened package. But there are a lot of times when you'd really rather not pay for the full set when all you want is one specific minifigure or a few of the rare parts. Maybe an old favorite set was sold at a yard sale, and you want to have it again? There are lots of reasons for a store like this.

 

Lego Kylo Ren greets you in the entrance. You can see behind him that this store is very big, bigger even than you can see in this picture. It's a Lego Store that's not run by the Lego company, more of a pawn shop but only for Lego. Bring 'em your old sets or bucket of bricks, they pay you for them and them re-sell them to fans eager for the pieces.

There are a lot of old sets to re-discover. Remember Monster Fighters? Not too long ago, but long enough to have forgotten about. You can see that some sets are already put together and others are disassembled in boxes.

There were a few un-opened sets, too. Even though these are cave people, this set is not that old, technically.

There were a few packs of older minifigure series. Squish them if you want, but the signs recommended only touching what you intend to purchase because of the Covid stuff.

Oh, here's that sign! Note the revolving racks of individual minifigures. So you can just pick out the few characters you want instead of buying whole expensive sets to get them. This is a Lego fan's dream!

No bag-squishing needed! Here's some figures from the random bags but not... random anymore. Notice that some are more expensive than others due to the sets they originally came from and other such factors.

The store was divided into huge sections for the various themes. Here's Ninjago sets. Notice there's a build-your-own-figure thing here, but you have to wear gloves while you do it.

Some of the older, more collectible sets were very expensive! Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit movies, would need to give up some of his treasure to purchase his set.

A "Favorites" case spots some interesting finds. There are obvious non-Lego printed creations like the KISS figures and Daenerys Targaryen, but we see the Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers real-Lego modified minifigures.

WandaVision just concluded it's season, and here we see a special case for custom figures for the show. Just like magic!

Bin full of random animals? Yup! $3 might seem like a lot for such a tiny thing, but keep in mind the price of the sets you might need to buy for one of these. Would you rather pay $30 to get the one purple rabbit piece (and a bunch of other pieces you might not want) or just get the one rabbit for $3? I guess you have to know what you are looking for, which is a big point of this whole store.

Printing on Lego pieces is a lot more common these days. The store had it's own promotional figures for you to buy!

Here's some old odd figures from a line of racing sets Lego did a long time ago. They are so odd, that the store was just giving them away... for free!

I'm repeating the sign for this box, but basically people sell the store giant tubs of bricks, and odd non-Lego bits are discovered among them. Must be fun to find this sort of thing, you think?

There were a few figures from the new Lego Vidiyo theme, the ones that come in boxes instead of squishable bags. So if you want just one specific figure, this is now an option!

Printed tiles you ask? Tons of them! Some of these are pieces with stickers on them, too. Some people really don't like the stickers since you have to be careful to get them centered perfectly. A lot of the sticker'd pieces were very off-centered!

Bins full of... that one piece... you might be looking for! Is it fun to dig for treasures like this? I'm sure they would help you look if you asked them.

A lot of these guns looked like non-Lego pieces. Some people don't mind using them, while there are some pure-ist fans who only want actual Lego produced pieces. It's okay for a store like this to give options, just be aware before you buy them like; Lego never made an acurate AK-47 gun.

There was even a section with Lego t-shirts of all kinds. If you are a Lego fan, you gotta show it! I took a lot more pictures, check back in a few days for another round of stuff we saw there.