So it’s a few days earlier than expected, but it looks like the 10211 Grand Emporium is now available for purchase and it appears to be shipping as of today.
LEGO’s description:
The LEGO Modular Buildings series continues with this spectacularly detailed 3-story department store, designed in a realistic scale with lots of special building techniques and rare pieces. On the street outside, citizens carry shopping bags, send letters at the mailbox, admire the window mannequins, then cool off at the ice cream stand while a busy window washer works above. Enter through the revolving doors to discover a ground-floor clothing department, complete with a cash register, fitting room, hats, jewelry, perfume, and even a selection of spare trousers. A brick-built escalator carries customers to the second floor housewares department with glassware and golden plates for special occasions, and then it’s up to the top floor for the toy department (complete with toy house and push-scooter) with an impressive chandelier above the open atrium. Up on the roof are a billboard and skylight!
Highlights:
* Measures 15″ (38 cm) high and 10 in (25 cm) wide
* 7 minifigures
* 2182 Pieces
* Designed for a corner location (similar to Cafe Corner)
* Prices: €.149,99, GBA 97.85 (UK), $149.99 (US)
Even though the 10211 Grand Emporium isn’t technically available until March 3, somebody already has one and has posted a time-lapse video of its assembly on YouTube:
We thought that LEGO’s 10211 Grand Emporium would be showing up in March as did everybody else. Turns out that we may get it at the beginning of March. Huw over at Brickset mentions that it looks to be shipping to North American and Europe a month from now.
The LEGO Shop has it listed in the LEGO Exclusives section and they are showing a ship date of March 3, 2010.
This is the description for it:
Welcome to the grand opening of the Grand Emporium!
“The LEGO Modular Buildings series continues with this spectacularly detailed 3-story department store, designed in a realistic scale with lots of special building techniques and rare pieces. On the street outside, citizens carry shopping bags, send letters at the mailbox, admire the window mannequins, then cool off at the ice cream stand while a busy window washer works above. Enter through the revolving doors to discover a ground-floor clothing department, complete with a cash register, fitting room, hats, jewelry, perfume, and even a selection of spare trousers. A brick-built escalator carries customers to the second floor housewares department with glassware and golden plates for special occasions, and then it’s up to the top floor for the toy department (complete with toy house and push-scooter) with an impressive chandelier above the open atrium. Up on the roof are a billboard and skylight!
Highlights:
* Measures 15″” (38 cm) high and 10 in (25 cm) wide
* 7 minifigures
* 2182 Pieces
* Designed for a corner location (similar to Cafe Corner)
* Prices: €.149,99, GBA 97.85 (UK), $149.99 (US)
If you’ve been following this thread at Eurobricks since October of last year, you’d be aware of the amount of buzz revolving around an upcoming set styled after the modular buildings line, which started with 10182 Cafe Corner in 2007, and then continued with the 10185 Green Grocer and then the 10197 Fire Brigade in 2009. The wonderful thing about these sets is the whole modular aspect – they not only fit together, but are designed so that you can lift each floor off to see different scenes.
The set is 10211 Grand Emporium, and here are the specifics:
* March 2010
* 2182 Pieces
* Large store (not a shop)
* Designed for a corner location (similar to Cafe Corner)
* Prices: €.149,99, GBA 97.85 (UK), $149.99 (US)
Here’s an image of the box:
Some of the things that stand out to me are (no particular order):
* The window washer
* The color of the building pieces
* The window displays
* The escalator
* Interesting use of quite a variety of pieces, inluding the awnings, flower pots, and scooter.
For a lot more photos with more detail, check the Eurobricks thread. You can check out the older sets in this style at Brickset.
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