LEGO Mosaic Maker: The concept is now available at the LEGO Store des Halles

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 €.