Le LEGO Certified Store of Strasbourg which will be located in the aisles of the shopping center Place des Halles should finally open its doors in the first quarter of 2021. The lease is signed and the 200m store² which should have opened last summer will be located near the Auchan supermarket installed in the center. It is France 3 which communicated the information on its website at the beginning of November.

I remind for all intents and purposes that it will be a LEGO Certified Store, a LEGO licensed store run by the Italian company Percassi. For those who are wondering, this is not a temporary store that would eventually be replaced by a "real" LEGO Store. LEGO manages its network, Percassi takes care of his.

LEGO also indicates for shops of the same type already open elsewhere in France that "... this LEGO® Store is owned and operated by an approved independent third party. Offers, promotions, pricing and inventory are subject to change and the LEGO VIP Loyalty Program will not be available. Gift cards and returns of products ordered on LEGO.com will not be accepted. For more information, please contact the Store directly ..."

The Italian company Percassi, which manages the LEGO Certified Stores located in France, Italy and Spain, is currently recruiting staff for two new stores which will soon open their doors in Strasbourg and Le Havre.

Le LEGO Certified Store de Strasbourg will be located in the aisles of the shopping center Place des Halles. The one in Le Havre will be installed in the aisles of the shopping center Vauban docks.

We remember the initiative launched in 2018 by LEGO fans who were actively campaigning for the opening of a LEGO Store in Strasbourg and which was then relayed by a local elected official via a letter addressed to the group's headquarters in Billund. The installation of a LEGO Certified Store is probably only a half-victory, but it's still better than nothing.

With these two new licensed stores which will join those of Dijon, Rosny-sous-Bois, Toulouse and Créteil, the French territory will have 6 LEGO Certified Stores and 9 official stores.

Please note, as LEGO indicates, these shops set up by the Percassi company are not spaces directly managed by the brand: "... These LEGO® stores are owned and operated by approved independent third parties. Offers, promotions, prices and inventory may vary. Also, the LEGO VIP loyalty program will not be available. Returns of products ordered from the LEGO.com online store will be refused. For more information, please contact these stores directly ..."

Le January 2020 LEGO Store Calendar is available and there is an activity scheduled for January 9 that should interest all those who are fans of Modulars and who are over 14 years old: from 18:00 p.m. until the closing of the LEGO Store, it will be possible to leave with a free 155-piece newspaper stand to build on site and take away.

This activity is clearly reserved for teenage and adult fans and since it is a fairly plush model apparently accompanied by a minifigure and offered without obligation to purchase, you will probably have to elbow your way to take advantage of the offer. depending on the store concerned.

This is not specified on the flyer, but this activity will probably be reserved for "real" LEGO Stores, and will not be available in stores. Certified Stores from Créteil, Rosny, Toulouse and Dijon. To be checked on site.

Update : the details of the operation are now live on the official website and it looks like it won't be entirely "free" Despite what the description below might suggest, it will be a product offered without obligation to purchase:

Update 2: the instructions are available in PDF format (1.5 MB) thanks to FlannelBricks.

Some of you may have noticed this already, the official LEGO online store now allows you to check the stock available in the LEGO Stores for a specific set directly from the product sheet.

You enter your postal code in the field provided and if you are less than 100 km from a LEGO Store you will obtain a list of the various shops in this geographical radius and information on a possible availability in stock of the product concerned.

The good news: the different LEGOs Certified Stores managed by the Italian company Percassi already open in France are in the loop and their stock is indicated.

The stock of the LEGO Store des Halles in Paris is not going up for the moment, the message "Stock checking is not available for this store"is displayed.

If this new feature can save you a trip for nothing, it's always a win.

While waiting for a hypothetical LEGO Store in Rennes in 2025 (see this article), it is a temporary store that will open its doors by the end of November in the aisles of the shopping center Carrefour Rennes-Cesson (La Rigourdière Activity Zone, 35510 Cesson-Sévigné).

As for Saint-Brieuc or Bourges, it will be a LEGO Workshop set up by the company Epicure Studio, a design and event consulting agency under contract with LEGO France.

The prices charged in these LEGO Workshops are similar to those of products on the shelves of official LEGO Stores. On the other hand, no VIP program in these temporary shops, but the LEGO Workshop in Bourges allows in particular to obtain a reduction of 10% on the prices charged on presentation of the VIP card.