Lego Store Opening This Summer at Easton
Press Release:
LEGO to Open First Store in Central Ohio at Easton Town Center this Summer
Officials at The Georgetown Company and Steiner + Associates, co-developers of Easton Town Center, today announced that the LEGO Group, the makers of the classic brand of children’s building bricks, will open a store within Easton’s North District in late summer 2009. This will be the only LEGO store in Columbus, and one of two in Ohio.
“Just like many others, I played with LEGO toys as a kid. And it was great,” said Adam Flatto of The Georgetown Company. “Play is a vital part of what Easton is about everyday and we’re very excited to have our very own LEGO store opening this fall, joining many other kid-focused shops and boutiques here at Easton Town Center.”
The new nearly 2,000 square foot LEGO store will feature wall-to-wall product amidst three key design components. The “Pick-A-Brick Wall”, by far the hottest store feature, offers the option to purchase specific LEGO bricks and elements in a variety of colors and shapes in bulk. The “Living Room”, an interactive play area prominently positioned in the center of the store, gives consumers a chance to get “hands-on, minds-on” with LEGO products, view out of the box displays or just take a break from shopping. Finally, a “Brand Ribbon” runs the circumference of the store, featuring LEGO model displays, company history and fun facts to entertain guests.
The new LEGO store will be located at 4004 Gramercy Street, across from Pottery Barn Kids and The Children’s Place, near Gymboree, Build-A-Bear, Delia’s and Limited Too. It will occupy the southeast corner of Easton’s new, art deco style retail building currently under construction just outside the AMC 30 Theater. LEGO is the first tenant for that building.
“Easton Town Center captured our imagination when we visited, and from the looks of it, it grabs the attention of many central Ohio families as well,” said Skip Kodak, Vice President, Direct to Consumer Business. “At the LEGO Group, we believe good play enriches a child’s life, and this is a great environment for children and families to experience first hand the creativity and imagination that goes into LEGO building.”
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June 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Awesome.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
yeah i dont care how old you are …. the Lego store is amazing
June 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I LOVE Duplos! I can’t WAIT to go here! I’m sure Desi will love it! I can picture the screams of excitement now!
June 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
YAY !!! I effin love Lego’s
June 5th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I say a big “hell yeah!” to that!
June 5th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Alec’s head just exploded. And I will have no money for anything.
A.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Guess I’ll have to make the trek. A good additon.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
[Looks at credit line wistfully ...]
June 5th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
This is so, so awesome.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
where was this 20 years ago….
June 5th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I’m so glad I have children to take with me as cover.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
You know what I miss?
Large quantity bins of various colors, shapes and sizes. The plain ones. It seems Lego sells mostly specialty sets to build specific toys. What fun is that? (OK it’s still fun) The best thing about Legos, for me, was thinking of something and trying to make an approximation of it with the Legos at hand. I used to have thousands of pieces to build cars, boats, planes, houses and everything else.
I guess they must make more money off the one-off specialty sets.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:34 am
I agree with UncommonSense … where’s the imagination with the specialty sets?
And I don’t like Easton, so unfortunately will probably miss this store. Will have to live vicariously through all of you who go. :)
June 6th, 2009 at 8:20 am
lego store? wtf? i mean…sweet!
easton? wtf?
June 6th, 2009 at 10:51 am
What? You guys never took those speciality sets and dumped them all together and threw the instructions away?
June 6th, 2009 at 11:03 am
i just wanted the medieval sets for the large green panels.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I’ll probably try to construct a couple of skyscrapers. Should be costly. How much does a single brick usually run?
June 6th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I have been buying them on-line
http://shop.lego.com/ByCategory/
there about .03-.15 cents each
June 8th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I would totally still play with this…
June 8th, 2009 at 10:06 am
man this store will bring back some memories
June 11th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
One set for my son, one set for me, one set for him, one set for me. . .
July 1st, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Special Lego email I received today!
Easton Town Center
Columbus, OH, USA
160 Easton Town Center
Columbus, OH 43219
The LEGO Store at Easton Town Center is Opening July 30! Join us July 31 - August 2 for the Grand Opening Celebration!
Help a real LEGO Master Builder construct an 8-foot tall LEGO Yoda™ during our 3-day Grand Opening Celebration weekend!
Friday, July 31: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, August 1: 10am - 6pm
Sunday, August 2: 12pm - 6pm
You’ll get a free LEGO Star Wars™ Certificate of Achievement for helping, while supplies last! Visit the LEGO Store during the event to enter for a chance to win a $50 LEGO Store Gift Card! No purchase necessary to enter.
Plus:
On Saturday, be one of the first 300 customers to spend $35 in the LEGO Store and you’ll receive an exclusive, limited-edition LEGO set!
On Sunday, the first 300 customers to spend $35 in the LEGO Store will receive an exclusive, limited-edition LEGO Minifigure T-Shirt! Shirts are available in child’s sizes only.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
“I’m so glad I have children to take with me as cover.”
EXACTLY
August 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Grand opening weekend! Anyone make it out there today. I heard there was a huge line to get in this afternoon.
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
OK, a 4 hour wait to get into a 3rd tier LEGO store???? I don’t think so. So disappointed in Columbus consumers - duped once again. Toys R Us actually carries just as many sets and apart from the odd limited set and the pick a brick - this store is a MAJOR FAIL. Super tiny too! One step into any of their other locations (Orlando) will shows you what it should have looked like.