LEGO Australia and Alquemie Group (formerly Alceon) have just announced that Canberra, the nation’s capital has been selected as the next site for a LEGO Certified Store located at Canberra Centre.
This is great news for public servants and politicians who live in the ACT, or surrounding regional centre like Wagga Wagga who want to get their LEGO fix – who will soon no longer need to travel to Sydney for their latest LEGO store.
Richard Facioni, Executive Chairman of Alquemie Group, comments: “With one of the most loyal and growing communities of brick fans in the country, Canberra has been on our radar for some time as an ideal venue for a new LEGO Certified Store.
The custom-built store will be located at Canberra Centre with 250sqm of prime retail positioning and will offer one of the country’s widest selections of LEGO sets including limited editions, in addition to a portfolio of play experiences, activities and events available exclusively in store
Expect the usual trappings such as:
- Pick a Brick Wall
- Build a Minifigure Station
- A large selection of LEGO, and LEGO Store exclusives
Congrats to Canberra for scoring a LEGO Store! Let me know in the comments if anyone is reading from the ACT and is excited about this!
hell yes i’m excited for a LEGO store coming to the ACT! Been waiting for one since the ones in Sydney opened. would be great to have a discovery centre too.
Woohoo! Yeah it’s fantastic that the ACT are getting some love. Discovery Centres are tricky since they require a massive amount of visitors/tourists to be sustainable
You do realise a large number of the Canberra population are neither public servants or politicians? Lots of LEGO fans here that work in all kinds of jobs.
Hi I’m from Canberra. Really excited! I’m 11 (turning 12 in October). My parents work a little bit away from Canberra Centre. Soon they will be able to buy LEGO. P.S Jay (non minifigure picture) said *years. What is he referring to & why does he mean.
Hey Max, thanks for your comment! So glad you’re excited. Do tell me about the new store once it has opened!
I think it might be a typo of some sort.
*years
Any hints on when the store will be opening?
No idea, sorry. Watch this space, or follow https://facebook.com/jaysbrickblog / or https://www.facebook.com/legocertifiedstores.anz/ where they usually announce the dates!
Fantastic news for all the lego enthusiasts in Canberra. No more trying to buy unique pieces online.
One of the few bits of good news coming out of Canberra in recent weeks 😅
Yay!! Everything is awesome 😉
Great! Been looking forwards for many years!!!
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Thought this would have to come, seeing as all the less important cities now have their own store ;). I shall be at the opening with bells on!
Excellent! Hope they have a ton of opening specials. It’s a really nice feeling to be able to get sets on the day of launch 🙂
I just let out a squal when I heard this news!!
I work in the office building above the Canberra Centre so this is great news for me.
… but maybe not for your wallet!
Definitely excited about this news.
Wooooooo! Finally. Although I’m not big on paying full price for sets, it’ll still be great to have a store here.
It will also be good to have those “LEGO” only sets that aren’t available in other retail stores, and not have to travel to sydney, qld or melbourne to get them! So excited!
Still lots of great benefits like Build a Minifigure, and exclusive sets you can’t find anywhere else!