Come Play With Us! Bricks & Minifigs® is your one-stop LEGO® shop! We are the largest toy store of our kind, specializing in only new and used LEGO® items. We buy and trade all things LEGO®, from tubs of bulk to storage unit sized collections. If it’s LEGO®, we’ll take it!!Enjoy our selection of individual minifigs, bulk bricks, components and accessories. With the largest assortment of new, used and retired sets we keep your collection growing! Bricks & Minifigs is built on the principle of the 3 R'sREBUILD with thousands of pieces to choose from ensuring you'll have those childhood sets rebuilt in no time.REUSE is our way or saying that we buy, sell and trade anything Lego brand and pay top dollar for it.REIMAGINE those sets you get from us by creating your own masterpiece straight from your imagination. I went to Toys R Us recently to buy my son a Lego set for Hanukkah. Did you know a small box of Legos costs $60? Sixty bucks for 102 plastic blocks! In fact, I learned, Lego sets can sell for thousands of dollars.
And despite these prices, Lego has about 70 percent of the construction-toy market. Why doesn't some competitor sell plastic blocks for less? Lego's patents expired a while ago. How hard could it be to make a cheap knockoff? Luke, a 9-year-old Lego expert, set me straight. "They pay attention to so much detail," he said. "I never saw a Lego piece ... that couldn't go together with another one." Lego goes to great lengths to make its pieces really, really well, says David Robertson, who is working on a book about Lego. Inside every Lego brick, there are three numbers, which identify exactly which mold the brick came from and what position it was in in that mold. That way, if there's a bad brick somewhere, the company can go back and fix the mold. For decades this is what kept Lego ahead. It's actually pretty hard to make millions of plastic blocks that all fit together. But over the past several years, a competitor has emerged: Mega Bloks. Plastic blocks that look just like Legos, snap onto Legos and are often half the price.
So Lego has tried other ways to stay ahead. The company tried to argue in court that no other company had the legal right to make stacking blocks that look like Legos. "That didn't fly," Robertson says. "Every single country that Lego tried to make that argument in decided against Lego." But Lego did find a successful way to do something Mega Bloks could not copy: It bought the exclusive rights to Star Wars. If you want to build a Death Star out of plastic blocks, Lego is now your only option. The Star Wars blocks were wildly successful. So Lego kept going — it licensed Indiana Jones, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story and Harry Potter. Sales of these products have been huge for Lego. More important, the experience has taught the company that what kids wanted to do with the blocks was tell stories. Lego makes or licenses the stories they want to tell. And kids know the difference. "If you were talking to a friend you wouldn't say, 'Oh my God, I just got a big set of Mega Bloks,' " Luke says. "
When you say Legos they would probably be like, 'Awesome can we go to your house and play?' " Lego made almost $3.5 billion in revenue last year. Mega made a tenth of that. But Mega Bloks may yet gain on Lego. Mega now owns the rights to Thomas the Tank Engine, Hello Kitty, and the video game Halo. And, on shelves for the first time ever this week: Mega Bloks Barbies.The national award winning Educational Construction Toys, Laser Pegs® are the first lighted construction toys in the world that feed the next piece low voltage current to illuminate your creations with LED’s. You can design and build anything you want with Laser Pegs® and use them lit up or turned off. Laser Pegs are Unique Toys that teach kids spacial relations, helps children develop creative abstract thinking, encourages children to learn to solve problems, bolster math skills by grouping and improved hand and eye coordination. Laser Pegs inspire children to use their imagination and they become excited and focused on building beautiful models.
Laser Pegs are the world’s only illuminated construction sets. Laser Pegs are educational and fun light up construction kits for children. The sets can be made into at least 3 different creations and when connected to the base, light up in a variety of colors. Game play is unlimited and open ended thanks to connector kits, play tables, light boards, even sound cubes and ABC building blocks. They are easy to connect, run with a very low voltage and the LED lights have a life span of 100,000 hours. Here are just some of the benefits Laser Peg Construction Kits offer Laser Pegs® is the original lighted construction toy that combines 2 things kids love: light and building. Laser Pegs® newest line is the brightest release yet. From Mythology to Sci-Fi, this line includes 10 newly themed kits that make unique gifts for kids. Each kit comes with a large number of models to assemble and NEW Laser Pegs® shapes. If you are blessed with young children, you are probably aware of the growing importance of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field in the school system … and its exploding job market.
STEM principles are quickly becoming the most valuable skills for any child to master. What if I told you that your child could learn valuable STEM and educational principles – while loving every minute of it? We all want our children to grow up to be happy, successful, and independent. But how do we get them started on the right path? For young children, the answer is simple: TOYS! And the best toy to teach your child in the most exciting way possible? Ole Kirk Christiansen was the founder of the Danish construction toy company the Lego Group, which we all affectionately refer to today as “legos”. He was the 10th son of an impoverished family in Jutland in western Denmark. We have taken this brilliant concept, and transformed it into an interactive toy that literally “comes to life” as your child builds whatever their imagination desires! Laser Pegs offers your child the opportunity to create anything: From helicopters, animals, people – anything!
While the children have fun building, Laser Pegs teach a variety of STEM approved principles like hand eye coordination, cognitive development, math by grouping, and spacial relations. What makes Laser Pegs different from any other construction toy out there? Laser Pegs lights up! Most Laser Pegs parts light up, (the 90 degree peg doesn’t). Each Laser Pegs piece emits an LED through the reflective prisms of the individual Laser Pegs parts and construction pieces. This allows each creation to come to life with each added Laser Pegs piece and part. Once connected to any Laser Pegs Powerbase, the colorful lights radiate throughout your child’s creation, capturing their imagination and bringing it to life before their very eyes! The lights can stay on, flash, flash faster, even flash to the beat of a song… There is nothing else like it, and they are magical to see in action! We urge and encourage you to explore this website and learn all you can about these amazing toys everything it does to help your child succeed!
How it works: Once connected to a power base, each Laser Pegs® shape feeds the next shape through a low voltage current that illuminates the enclosed LED so that these incredible structures light up as you build. These shapes form a modular open-ended construction system where every kit can be used with one another to build beyond what has been imagined in kids building toys. Laser Pegs® unique design makes them compatible with Lego® and Magformers® to give your child the ability to build in every direction and with a huge number of other toys and models. One of the best gifts for kids and unique among kids construction toys, Laser Pegs® give the pure joy of creating with light. These beautiful shapes keep children playing for hours on end. Advancing beyond the box kits, this new release includes the Laser Pegs® Play Table set, which is one of the hottest new innovations in the toy industry. With 144 connection points along its surface, it allows for groups of kids to play together at one time and from any part of the tabletop.
Laser Pegs® has also released the Pendant (their first mobile power base) and the Recordable Sound Cubes, making this an incredible building system. With new parts to expand your mind and the most creative models so far, these new releases have been changing the way kids build. Laser Pegs® is a perfect kids learning toy. These sets provide a safe way to foster imagination and promote creativity while keeping kids engaged. Laser Pegs® was honored among construction toys and educational toys with the Oppenheim Toy Platinum Award, Dr. Toy’s Best 100, Dr. Toy’s Top 10 Tech and Parenting Magazine’s Toy of the Year. With many different high contrast colors and shapes that snap together securely, Laser Pegs® are visually and tactilely stimulating. They provide a hands-on approach to learning that can be used in any home or classroom and with a wide age range of students. Each Laser Pegs® shape is made from entirely one mold making it next to impossible to be swallowed. The low voltage current is less than 6 volts, eliminating any chance of being shocked.