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Online? Or physical shops?
Which one do you prefer getting your bricks at?
Personally I like shopping around at the local Lego store, though it can be a little akward usually being the oldest one buying sets for myself...
Which do you like and why?
If i ever go to a Lego Store, it's the one in Oberhausen. Besides that i just buy online, as i love old Lego which they obviously don't sell at the Lego Store.
Pity there is not a single Lego Store in my country 
But I have only made a few orders from the online Lego Shop, mostly because there is little Lego sold around where I am at.
Online. The nearest physical LEGO Store is about two hours from where I live, which is unfortunate.
However, when on holiday I make a point of going to the LEGO stores in the countries I visit. I've been to the Nuremberg LEGO shop twice now!
Maybe once or twice a year I'll bus out to the LEGO store in Bellevue to get LEGO, but I really hate malls. I should go check out Magic Mouse Toys to see if they have the Spaceship, SPACESHIP, SPACESHIP! set so I can avoid going out to the east side.
The Lego Store I visit is in Christiana Mall in Newark Deleware. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes away. I visit about 5 times a year. I visit that one because it's the closest one to me.
I prefer to shot at the LEGO store as opposed to online, because shipping is annoying. I live close enough to one that I could walk to it if I wanted to, so I always check there first if there's a set I want, and it's really nice if I need something immediately, due to say, a contest deadline. I'm lucky in this way, it's unfortunate there aren't more LEGO stores around, the selection at retail stores isn't usually very good.
There are two LEGO stores close to me within a distance of 3.5 hours, one in Austin, and another one in Houston. I only ever had the luck to check out the one at the Galleria Shopping Complex in Houston once, when there was a LEGO convention held in the adjoining hotel. If I remember correctly, my family might have bought one or two sets there, and a "make-a-minifig" pack.
And the one in Austin isn't much different, but if we're around town, chances are that we'll stop by. But, my family always prefers to shop for LEGO locally. So, do I. I don't think I've ever purchased LEGO online. It really is more convenient to simply go to Walmart, a mere two miles away, or to Toys'R'Us, which is twice that distance from my house.
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Online. The nearest physical LEGO Store is about two hours from where I live, which is unfortunate.
However, when on holiday I make a point of going to the LEGO stores in the countries I visit. I've been to the Nuremberg LEGO shop twice now!
If I lived that close, I'd be there each weekend!
The nearest physical LEGO store is a 12 hour, or there about, international flight away from me. I was fortunate to visit one when I was last in America, and I signed up for the VIP program, so now I shop online and only when I have more than $150 to spend so I get free shipping as well as the points 
Backyard Legos, JEALOUS! You can WALK to a Lego store???!! You practically have a Backyard Lego source!
I always prefer the physical store over online. I go to a LEGO story every chance I get when we go down south, there's none anywhere near me or even in my state. I often buy at Wal-Mart or Fred Meyers here in town, and sometimes from LEGO shop at home online, the VIP program is nice. I miss going into an actual LEGO store, browsing, and buying
Backyard Legos, JEALOUS! You can WALK to a Lego store???!! You practically have a Backyard Lego source!
Puns.
To add to the discussion, I'm still definitely working on being confident about being a 20 year old shopping alone in the LEGO store, an advantage of online is privacy. But then again I'm also trying to work on self confidence, so...
To add to the discussion, I'm still definitely working on being confident about being a 20 year old shopping alone in the LEGO store, an advantage of online is privacy. But then again I'm also trying to work on self confidence, so...
What's wrong about that? LEGO is the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone should be allowed to enjoy it without anyone judging them. What better place to do it than a store where people understand your passion
Yeah, Backyard Legos, first of all, it's actually more private buying Lego sets in a physical store than online. Secondly, there is no shame in an adult buying Lego sets, especially these days. In the 80s, there was much more stigma placed by peers when a teen or young adult bought a toy, which, fortunately isn't the case today. Today there is so much appreciation for the historical aspect of pop culture that there is no "shame" (really the "shame" is just peer pressure) to adult toy buying.
Actually, the Lego Store has sales for AFOLS every now and then. It's commonly accepted there.
I usually go to my local lego store in Westfield Stratford City (right next to the Olympic park I've never been in 
). It used to take me about half an hour on the overground, but then I found out that I could take the Javelin train from St Pancras and get there in 7 minutes, so I take that route now. 
The one on the internetz.
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