Just got home from Rehoboth Beach. The lady and I ended up stopping at the LEGO store in Newark, Delaware on the way. How Newark, DE has a LEGO store but Pittsburgh does not, I don't know. I was psyched to hit the Pick-A-Brick wall, because I really need some green plates, plants, brown bricks and slopes, etc., for some landscaping, plus 1 x 1 round plates, gray plates, gray bricks, for medieval church and lighthouse MOCs I'm concocting. It was a pretty small store, and they had nothing I needed, for the most part. I got some plants, some flowers, some light blue 1x1 round plates.
My girlfriend wanted the Bride Series 7 Minifigure (hint, hint, right?), so I successfully felt out a minifigure from Series 7 for the first time. I was quite proud.
As for my purchases, I got my first Monster Fighters sets - Wolf Man and Vampyre Hearse, in preparation for the Haunted House - plus the Kingdoms Chess set. So happy with them, can't wait to put the MF stuff together, and dem minifigs. Best thing about Delaware LEGO store - NO TAX!! I had like 195 VIP points, too, and I saved the $5 I had accrued, so now I have $15 in LEGO bucks. I'll probably put those toward the zombie graveyard set in August.
I wasn't overly impressed with the store itself (I've been to the one in Rockefeller Center in NYC - wow), but it's so much fun being in a store totally devoted to LEGO. I talked with the kid at the register for a bit, and he was jealous of my Chess set for army building purposes. He didn't have the opportunity to grab it yet. Having my girlfriend there, helping with pick-a-brick and to decide which sets to get, made it even better.
