My very first trip to a Pick a Brick wall

[Tomsche]

Having only a brandstore nearby since rather recently, today I went on a journey and how to see what that 'brick wall' is all about. Well, i knew it, but I never used it...

The full report can be found at this little page: Brickwall

Now to sort and start building...

[eurotrash]

Good report! And congratulations on passing your exams.

[WaysofSorting]

My closest brand store and PAB is about 2 1/2 hours. Not close enough for me to have made the pilgrimage yet. I sometimes daydream that I'm filling in little gaps with 1x1 round studs just like in this article.

About how many bricks fit in these cups? Is it clearly a better deal than a set, or is it pretty comparable?

Nice write-up regardless. Can we get a pre-sort/ poured out picture to see what your haul was?

[Tomsche]

I'll do the sorting somewhere this week and picture them aye

I consider it a better deal then a set anyways, as for a 16 euro set you get about 75 pieces, and unless you grab bigger parts, your way over that number anyways...

[WaysofSorting]

I plan on making it to the LEGO store soon to do PAB. Probably early in the new year, when I can afford to fill a few cups. I know there's the PAB: What did you get Thread - but I think I will reply to this one, if you don't mind your thread Hijacked.

Having a place for the "First time PAB" experience is a valuable thread, I believe.

What were other people's "First time" with PAB like, and what could be good advise for others going to the big brick wall?

[Chilis]

This april I went to the Lego Store (LS) on 5th ave in New York. We stayed in the city for 1 week and I visited the store several times. First time was just m.a.g.i.c! The big PaB-wall was lightning up like an alter in the church. 10 big cups and a couple of sets + several polybags of the NY Taxi was the result. We don`t even (like many others) have a LS in our country so it was something I`ve looked forward to for a long time. Hope to visit the store in Copenhagen in 2014.

[Tomsche]

As promised, HERE the full breakdown of my very first trip

Over 4000 pieces, not to shabby and definitly worth it imho

[Soundmanred]

Living in Tulsa, OK, there's a Lego store about an hour or so away in Oklahoma City, but we've somehow never made it there since I got back into Lego. We really need to make a trip there sometime!

[The Architect]

Looks like quite a haul!

[Legogal]

Tom: Glad you finally made it to a PAB wall. Thanks for the informative write up. Congrats on your exams!

PAB walls can be fun if they offer anything you need at the time. Our Raleigh store one finally put up some olive cheese slopes, and I filled a large 14.95USD cup with about 2500 of them yesterday. Using a $5. credit, my price was $10. plus 65 cents state sales tax.

Ended up putting one half cup (120 ml/ four ounces) in a snack baggie after counting them. About 250 in each half cup. Then put them on our "you get investigated by the US gov when you buy a scale this accurate" scale, and measured the weight of each baggie…... full of bricks that is. (Would have no idea of what to do with a baggie filled with that other white substance!)

Now awaiting the other pastel colors of cheese slopes at PAB. Could be a long, long wait. But it is fun checking the wall often and watching all those little kids messing up the bins and floor. I drop a lot, too, and fit right in with the stroller crowd. At least I don't try to eat them!

Edited December 21, 2013 by Legogal