Lego Store Review: Tysons Corner, VA
This is the second in a series of reviews of Lego store Pick-A-Brick walls.
There are currently 2 Lego stores in Virginia. The first review was the closest to my house, and the second review is next closest.
7966 Tysons Corner Center
Tysons Corner Center, VA 22102
July 1st 2016, around noon
Number of Bins: 110
Number of miscellaneous bins: 2
Number of colors available (not including misc. bin): 26
Number of different shape parts (not including misc. bin): 55
I will mention that my results are a “snapshot” of one visit, and may not represent how the store is at other times.
My first thought when entering the store was to wonder if the new “Pick-a-Model” would be up yet or not, being the first day of the quarter. It was, the new model is a truck. The old model (the butterfly) was taken down. (I did not check to see if they still had some butterfly blister packs in the drawer behind, I should have, but I forgot.)
This is one of the larger pick-a-brick walls I have seen and it was impressive. This store does have the current “fan favorites” bins (sand green 1x1 brick, sand green 1x2 plate, a modified plate ball joint, and a modified plate socket joint).
There were 2 miscellaneous bins. I have decided that while having a misc. bin adds 5 points to a store’s score, having 2 misc. bins does not increase the variety of the wall that much. Therefore whether a store has 1 or many misc. bins they only get the 5 points once.
The reason I am choosing variety as my standard for scoring points is that I don’t intend these reviews to be for my use alone. If it was just for me then I would only count the bricks that I like, but I have met other builders at the wall who were looking for very different things than me. While you can’t please all the people all the time, with variety you are best able to please most of the people most of the time.
I have re-thought my scoring system. Giving points for the number of bins gives an extra advantage to larger stores. They already have a higher potential for variety, no need to give them extra points for being big. (It would be bad for a large store with poor selection to score higher than a small store with good selection.)
I will also mention that my partner was impressed with the selection in the build-a-minifig display as well.
The total is then
26 + 55 + 5 = 86
Current scores
Tysons Corner (110 bins) Variety Score 86; July 1st 2016, Friday, about noon
Potomac Mills (64 bins) Variety Score 62; May 21st 2016, Saturday, about 2pm
There are currently 2 Lego stores in Virginia. The first review was the closest to my house, and the second review is next closest.
7966 Tysons Corner Center
Tysons Corner Center, VA 22102
July 1st 2016, around noon
Number of Bins: 110
Number of miscellaneous bins: 2
Number of colors available (not including misc. bin): 26
Number of different shape parts (not including misc. bin): 55
I will mention that my results are a “snapshot” of one visit, and may not represent how the store is at other times.
My first thought when entering the store was to wonder if the new “Pick-a-Model” would be up yet or not, being the first day of the quarter. It was, the new model is a truck. The old model (the butterfly) was taken down. (I did not check to see if they still had some butterfly blister packs in the drawer behind, I should have, but I forgot.)
This is one of the larger pick-a-brick walls I have seen and it was impressive. This store does have the current “fan favorites” bins (sand green 1x1 brick, sand green 1x2 plate, a modified plate ball joint, and a modified plate socket joint).
There were 2 miscellaneous bins. I have decided that while having a misc. bin adds 5 points to a store’s score, having 2 misc. bins does not increase the variety of the wall that much. Therefore whether a store has 1 or many misc. bins they only get the 5 points once.
The reason I am choosing variety as my standard for scoring points is that I don’t intend these reviews to be for my use alone. If it was just for me then I would only count the bricks that I like, but I have met other builders at the wall who were looking for very different things than me. While you can’t please all the people all the time, with variety you are best able to please most of the people most of the time.
I have re-thought my scoring system. Giving points for the number of bins gives an extra advantage to larger stores. They already have a higher potential for variety, no need to give them extra points for being big. (It would be bad for a large store with poor selection to score higher than a small store with good selection.)
I will also mention that my partner was impressed with the selection in the build-a-minifig display as well.
The total is then
26 + 55 + 5 = 86
Current scores
Tysons Corner (110 bins) Variety Score 86; July 1st 2016, Friday, about noon
Potomac Mills (64 bins) Variety Score 62; May 21st 2016, Saturday, about 2pm