Cups of Lego are a thing

Saturday finds us in the Lego store in Leeds. The back of the store is filled with dispensers for individual pieces. I’ve never found these very interesting, but today it turns out that they are the only way to get the pieces for the nice little Halloween themed bat and ghost designs they had in store.

So we went round and filled a pot. The cost was 6.99 which compares favourably with the price of a set with a similar number of pieces. And you get to keep the pot. This meant I was able to distract myself during Strictly Come Dancing by building the models and then working out what to do with the rather large number of bits I had left.

I realise that this will probably require the use of more imagination on my part than just buying a kit, but I can see me picking up a pot full of interesting colours and shapes on my occasional visits to the store. It also raises the prospect of buying particular Lego bricks to make custom cases for devices and perhaps even gluing them together.