Manchester Lego Store visit

[Lakop]

Greetings,

Got back from the lego shop in Manchester at 3pm ( I live further North ). It was a good experience. The store is stacked to the roof with lego, not much technic, about five sets, but there are models on display ( in cabinets ) so you can see the scale and the parts used. Prices are on the bottom of the boxes. Staff are good and the store had about twenty people in ( not including the staff ), about three were under the age of eighteen. That says something. I bought bricks, flats and other elements of various bright colours. I got home to find my technic elements order had arrived five days early. A real lego day.

H

PS: I have a plan to post some pics asap

[Traktor]

I know the experience, visited a lego store for the first time during my trip to USA 2 years ago, only wish we had got one in Norway to.

Edited February 11, 2013 by Traktor

[Lakop]

I know the experience, visited a lego store for the first time during my trip to USA 2 years ago, only wish we had got one in Norway to.

Surely you should try and visit the lego factory. H

[rumpletump]

I would like to visit a Lego store one day. Here in Tasmania there are only a couple shops that have any Technic at all..

@ Traktor I visited Norway last year and I was surprised you did not have a Lego shop in Oslo at least.. But you do have Kjeragbolten and I think that makes up for it

[mobi]

My own experience of visiting Lego stores shows that staffs has almost no knowledge of Technic!

They struggle to point out sets. In fact, usually I manage to spot the sets before they could do it.

[piterx]

does anyone know a shop where i can buy spare technic pieces in london?

i know there's bricklink, but id like more going somewhere to buy something :P

[Lakop]

does anyone know a shop where i can buy spare technic pieces in london?

i know there's bricklink, but id like more going somewhere to buy something :P

Personally I use the lego website to purchase technic parts. It's much better now as they have a dedicated "buy a part" section. The only downside to the stores are the lack of technic but I think the shops are for the younger market, which is fine by me. They never had them when I was a kid.

[DarkShadow73]

does anyone know a shop where i can buy spare technic pieces in london?

i know there's bricklink, but id like more going somewhere to buy something :P

Agreed there, Bricklink is a huge pain. So many steps involved, and unless you can communicate with the seller via e-mail who actually communicates back to you, and I had 17 good transactions, but a lot of time you don't know what's going on, sometimes it takes a long, long time to get your parts or sets. I had 1 bad experience, so I don't buy there anymore. I have a huge spare parts collection so usually I can locate what I need for modifying a model, even if it might be the color I'm not searching for.

Wish I had a Lego store nearby too, I have 2 stores, but I'm about smack in between 150 miles to each of them. I wanted another 42006 to modify with a bucket instead of the grabber, but my local TRU stores are now out of stock, yesterday one store nearby had them in the store, but their gone now, so my only choice would be online, which I hate to do because of shipping costs. I'm rather sure the Lego store would have them in stock. Gas is really high around here (about $3.90/gal) so driving to 1 of the stores would require a lot of gas too.

Edited February 15, 2013 by TechnicFreak