Thom and Katie wanted to bring Sefton over to a place called The Lego Store (zero points for creative naming). I decided to tag along, because hey, Lego!
It turned out to be a ton of fun. There were a lot of “vintage” sets, including the Beta-1 Command Base, which is a set I had around age 10:
Notice the $120 price tag. I’m guessing it cost around $25 when I first got it– likely from Grandma Schroeder, who always had us send our Christmas gift ideas from the Sears catalog. Yeah, inflation and all, but it was interesting to see some of these older sets I remember, selling for hundreds of dollars.
Of course there was a whole section of the store dedicated to Star Wars Lego, another for Harry Potter, and so on.
Heck, it was fun just to look at the hundreds (thousands?) of minifigs on display!
And you can build your own minifig by taking what you want from a huge bin of legs, torsos, heads, and accessories:
All in all, it was an hour well spent. Sefton absolutely loved it, and I have to admit it was great fun for me as well (and Thom, I suspect).