What is the Wall of Bricks? CA - Costa Mesa CA - Mission Viejo CA - San Diego CA - San Mateo CA - Santa Clara CA - Woodland Hills CO - Lone Tree CT - West Hartford GA - Atlanta (Legoland Discovery Centre) IL - Orland Park KS - Overland Park MO - Des Peres NV - Las Vegas NY - Garden City NY - New York City NY - Staten Island NY - West Nyack NY - White Plains OK - Oklahoma City PA - King of Prussia TX - Dallas/Fort Worth (Legoland Discovery Centre) TX - San AntonioOfficial LEGO stores have this awesome feature called the Pick-A-Brick Wall, also referred to as PAB-Wall. It is a section of the LEGO store where you can buy loose LEGO elements by the cup from clear plastic bins arranged on an entire wall of the store – a LEGO fan’s dream! One challenge is knowing what LEGO elements are available at the Pick-A-Brick Wall. If you live close to a LEGO store you have the privilege of checking the PAB-Wall regularly to see what’s there. H
owever if you have to travel several hours just to get to the closest LEGO store you might want to plan ahead and make a shopping list. You may be working on a LEGO project and would really like to know if your closest LEGO store carries the elements you need in quantity. So how would you know that? You could call the store and ask if a specific element is in stock, but if you have a long shopping-list this can turn into a tedious conversation with a LEGO store-employee. There is an online inventory of the LEGO Pick-A-Brick-Wall maintained by LEGO fans at the BrickBuildr LEGO community site, you can check it out here: PAB-Wall inventory at BrickBuildr. Unfortunately the site has a quite cumbersome method of updating (involving downloading and then re-uploading an Excel-sheet) therefore many of the store-locations have been greatly out of date. Now another LEGO fan, Daniel Walton, decided to tackle the same problem and create an online LEGO Pick-A-Brick Wall inventory with a friendlier interface, and an easier way to maintain and update the PAB-Walls by the LEGO fan community. Y
ou can simply access the site from your phone while at the store, and fix any discrepancies in the inventory. T, and I recommend you check it out. Please note that the site is very new so the Pick-A-Brick Wall inventory of many of the LEGO stores are still empty (last time I checked the Orlando store selection was completed for sure). However the PAB-Wall layout for each store is already set, so if you live near a LEGO store you can help out by filling in the PAB-Wall selection. Even if you can’t do the whole wall at one time, even doing a section would be of great benefit to the LEGO community. Also, the site is not just for the USA. You can add PAB-Wall inventories in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany and in the UK, and you can also request more locations. It would also be great if employees at LEGO stores would update the inventory, especially since it is so easy to do. Actually, best would be if LEGO would maintain a website like this themselves, but since they don’t, LEGO fan maintained inventories are the second best option. S
, and if you live near a LEGO store please use the site to help update the inventory. I Speaking of LEGO Pick-A-Brick-Walls, you may or may not know that buying loose LEGO by the piece is also available at the Online LEGO Shop at the online Pick-A-Brick section. LEGO fans often choose BrickLink to buy specific LEGO pieces, however I highly recommend you also check the online Pick-A-Brick selection directly from LEGO. They don’t have the vast inventory of every LEGO element ever made like the community of BrickLink sellers do, however if you are looking for currently produced LEGO elements in quantities the online PAB store could be a great option. I found that they often have better prices on current items than what BrickLink sellers can offer. See here: Shop at the Online LEGO Pick-A-Brick What do you think? How do you like the new website for LEGO Pick-A-Brick Wall inventories? If you have a chance to try it out next time you go to your local LEGO store I would love to hear how it worked for you. A
lso, Daniel, the creator of the site, appreciates your comments, questions, feedback and suggestions. 😉Download the iPaB update form. Print it out, take it to your local LEGO store, write down the parts description/color, then update iPaB! Thanks to Moctagon Jones for this wonderful form! Don’t see your local LEGO store? Send me a Flickr mail letting me know the dimensions of your LEGO store’s PaB and I’ll get it added ASAP! This web-site does not guarantee the accuracy of a store’s inventory; some items may be sold out or the information on this web-site may be inaccurate or out-of-date. Also, some store’s inventory have a high turn-over rate. Information from this web-site is to be used only for reference purposes. LEGO Stores are NOT responsible for any information on this web-site. However, if you find this information to be out-of-date, please help us by updating it.On April 1st, LEGO Brand Stores made a major change to the Pick-A-Brick Wall. Gone are the elements that go well with certain LEGO themes.
Now we have a new Pick-A-Model section that’s been added to the wall. Each quarter, there are two different models that you can create for $4.99 per model. Each model comes with their own LEGO elements that you can get from the wall. The clamshell packaging comes with a diagram that shows all the elements you need to build the model. There are a couple of downside of the new Pick-A-Brick Wall. One thing is that you will have 12 less elements from choose from because of the space taken up by the Pick-A-Brick cups and display as well as the Pick-A-Model clamshell holders and display. Also, the new elements are intentded for the Pick-A-Model builds so if you’re thinking of filling a whole cup full of a certain new part, think again. I’ve heard that LEGO Store employees will be strictly enforcing this policy so you can’t get a whole cup of a certain element as you could before the changes were made. You can still add the Pick-A-Model elements to a regular Pick-A-Brick cup but just don’t overdo it.