As I told you in the article mentioning the opening of the LEGO store in Dijon, the LEGO Certified Stores are officially licensed LEGO stores managed by the Italian company Percassi.

The offers offered in these stores are generally different from those in the LEGO Stores and are grouped together in a Store Calendar specific.

Of the few offers present in the Store Calendar February 2019, we especially remember the first appearance of the polybag The LEGO Movie 2 30640 Rex's Plantimal Ambush which will be offered from 30 € of purchase from February 11 to 16.

The visuals of this bag are also already online on the server which hosts the photos of the LEGO products for the official online shop, it is therefore not excluded that it will be offered on the occasion of a promotion in the coming weeks.

(Thanks to Philippe for the pictures)

You have inevitably already heard of this service offered by LEGO in certain LEGO Stores around the world and which allows you to leave with your portrait in LEGO style: this is the LEGO Mosaic Maker "experience" which is now available at the LEGO Store des Halles in Paris.

I pitch you the thing for those who do not know: You take go online at this address, you go to the LEGO Store on the scheduled day, you pay 119.99 € at the counter, you are given a small card that allows you to have your portrait taken in a photo booth with LEGO sauce and a few minutes later you leave with a box bearing the reference 40179 which contains a gray baseplate and a buildable 4502-piece LEGO version of 1x1 from the photo taken earlier.

The portrait you get is "in five colors", or rather black, two shades of gray, white and yellow for the background. Your portrait is therefore not really in color but in black and white on a yellow background.

To put it simply, the machine analyzes the photo, converts the portrait into a monochrome version, transforms it into a LEGO mosaic and conditions for you the number of pieces needed in the five different shades.

Price for this experience: 119.99 €.

Here is a new promotional offer, unfortunately reserved for customers of physical LEGO stores, with the The LEGO Movie 2 polybag 30529 Mini Master-Building Emmet offered from 35 € of purchase without restriction of range.

The offer is valid until February 24 or while stocks last.

This rather successful bag makes it possible to obtain a minifig of Emmet and to assemble three different models: a small vehicle, a crane and an exoskeleton. Instructions for these three models are available for download in PDF format at this address.

As a bonus, and still in the LEGO Stores, you can currently get the Sweet Mayhem mini-ship below by taking advantage of the scheduled animation every Wednesday from 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m. This offer is for children aged 6 to 14 only, bring someone with you if you absolutely want to be offered this mini-trick.

If you have a LEGO Store near you and are considering adding the LEGO Star Wars set 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City (349.99 €) to your collection, know that LEGO offers you the alarm clock / figurine of Boba Fett (ref. 5000249) if you buy this big box. It's in the theme, why not.

Offer valid while supplies last in the relevant LEGO Store.

What annoys me with these LEGO alarm clocks, however, is that the manufacturer ClicTime has still not made the effort to integrate the time display in 24:00 format. It is necessary to be satisfied with a display on 12:00 with the mention AM / PM used in the Anglo-Saxon countries. I quickly got tired of trying to make my son understand that AM doesn't mean Afternoon but Ante Meridian...

Many of you have written to me to inform me of two upcoming openings: The LEGO Workshop in the aisles of the Avaricum shopping center in Bourges (18) and a new LEGO Store in Saint-Laurent-du-Var (06) in the enclosure of the Cap 3000 shopping center (photo above).

I can even add the next opening of a LEGO Certified Store in Dijon (21) which will be managed by the company Percassi already in charge of similar stores in Italy and Spain and who is currently looking for a Store Manager for this new sales area.

Some details: the LEGO Workshops are temporary concept stores set up by the company Epicure Studio, a design and event consulting agency under contract with LEGO France. They probably have the value of a full-scale test to assess the interest of subsequently setting up a permanent sales space, franchised or not.

The one in Saint-Laurent-du-Var should close its doors at the end of the year to make way for a definitive official store.

The LEGO Workshop in Bourges should remain open until 2020 according to the announcement relayed by several regional media (France 3, France Bleu). It is not yet known whether this temporary concept store will then be replaced by a permanent store, franchised or not.

(Thanks to Anthony, Patrice and all those who relayed this information to me)