The LEGO Group is opening 10 new stores in North America this year — including one I’m especially excited about just north of Seattle in Lynnwood, Washington. LEGO will be making a model of a LEGO store — 3300003 LEGO Brand Retail Store — available exclusively during grand opening celebrations
Here’s the complete press release:
3300003 LEGO Brand Retail Store
Ages 7+ 280 pieces
New LEGO Stores are opening soon!
Celebrate the opening of a brand new LEGO Store in your area with the new, exclusive LEGO Brand Retail Store model! Not available for purchase, this set is only given out to a select number of customers with a qualifying purchase during the Grand Opening Celebration. We are proud to announce 10 new locations in North America opening in 2012:
- Nashville, TN
- Victor, NY
- Vancouver, BC; Canada
- Wauwatosa, WI
- The Woodlands, TX
- Peabody, MA
- Overland Park, KS
- Elizabeth, NJ
- Seattle [Lynnwood], WA
- Alpharetta, GA
Stay tuned for details on the Grand Opening Celebrations, featuring the new exclusive, limited-edition LEGO Brand Retail Store set and T-Shirts! For more information, please visit stores.LEGO.com.
Offers will be available during the Grand Opening Celebration only, while supplies last.
Phone orders will not be accepted, to qualify purchase must be made at store location.
All very nice, but I’d like to know when there will be any UK stores opening soon… particularly one for Scotland. Come on Lego, get the finger out :P
It’s a shame.. no love for Europe. Still not even 1 lego shop in Switzerland nor France.
Once more, PA is absent from this list. ):
Does greater Seattle really need 2 Lego stores?
Are you sure that Overland Park, KS is getting a store? Because Kansas City, MO is getting a Legoland Discovery Center with a Lego store. KC, MO is about 30 minutes away from OP, KS, can’t imagine we’d be getting two stores in that close of a vicinity.
Just checked on their website, and it is correct! Wow, I’ve waited so patiently to get a Lego store, and now we get two in the same year!
The Discovery Centers are operated by Merlin Entertainment, if I recall correctly, and the stores attached are more like a LEGO gift shop. The Brand Retail stores are a separate entity.
A store in KC will be awesome. :-D
It looks like a car battery, if the plants are put on its rooftop :P