Lego Store Review: Potomac Mills Mall, Woodbridge VA
This is the first in a series of reviews of Lego store Pick-A-Brick walls.
I have been to 6 different stores at this point, but this is the first time I recorded the variety available on the Pick-A-Brick wall. Here are the Stats
2700 Potomac Mills Cir Ste 767
Woodbridge VA 22192-4673
May 21st 2016
Number of Bins: 64
Number of miscellaneous bins: 1
Number of colors available (not including misc. bin): 19
Number of different shape parts (not including misc. bin): 38
A miscellaneous bin is of course a bin with a wide assortment of parts. Many of them are the same as those currently in the other bins on the wall, but not all. There is often buried treasure in the misc. bin.
I will mention that in addition to the misc. bin, at this store there was a mixed bin which contained small wheels, tires to fit those wheels, and 2 different bearing elements (2x2 plate, 1x4 plate) for the wheels to be connected. Having all these in one bin was convenient, shows the kids which parts are meant to go together, allows the store to have more diversity of parts on the wall.
The minifig part bins also seemed good (not the best, not the worst) but it would be much harder to count the available parts there.
I have decided to give 5 points for having a misc. bin, and add that to the other numbers
5 + 64 + 19 + 38 for a score of 126.
I don't have any other hard data to compare it to yet, but it seemed a good selection compared to some other stores.
I have been to 6 different stores at this point, but this is the first time I recorded the variety available on the Pick-A-Brick wall. Here are the Stats
2700 Potomac Mills Cir Ste 767
Woodbridge VA 22192-4673
May 21st 2016
Number of Bins: 64
Number of miscellaneous bins: 1
Number of colors available (not including misc. bin): 19
Number of different shape parts (not including misc. bin): 38
A miscellaneous bin is of course a bin with a wide assortment of parts. Many of them are the same as those currently in the other bins on the wall, but not all. There is often buried treasure in the misc. bin.
I will mention that in addition to the misc. bin, at this store there was a mixed bin which contained small wheels, tires to fit those wheels, and 2 different bearing elements (2x2 plate, 1x4 plate) for the wheels to be connected. Having all these in one bin was convenient, shows the kids which parts are meant to go together, allows the store to have more diversity of parts on the wall.
The minifig part bins also seemed good (not the best, not the worst) but it would be much harder to count the available parts there.
I have decided to give 5 points for having a misc. bin, and add that to the other numbers
5 + 64 + 19 + 38 for a score of 126.
I don't have any other hard data to compare it to yet, but it seemed a good selection compared to some other stores.