An arm and a leg? Oh boy! what a deal!
The Botanic Garden was a mix between the Michigan ballroom exhibit, and the River ballroom exhibit, because it had a mix of mature, and well made Lego displays, as well as something to buy. Unlike the River room which sells Custom Lego minifigures, and Lego parts, the Botanic Garden sells old and new Lego sets, and they don’t come cheap either. The price for a modern set we have today, such as Alien Conquest, would be double or triple the retail price! I understand that the older sets from the 80-90’s would cost double or triple from the original retail price, but why new set? Right next to the sale of expensive lego sets, there was a build your own minifigure booth! It was very different from the Lego store minifigure builder, because there are more parts, and accessories to experiment to create your own minifigure. In the Lego store, you have to make three minifigures that contain, head, torso, leg, hat, and accessory, and they sell for $9.99. The booth at Brickworld however, charges one minifigure with head, torso, leg, hat, and accessory for $5.00, or three for $11.99. This might seem like a rip off, seeing how you pay two dollars more for minifigures you can get cheaper at the Lego store, but these minifigures have more variety of what kind of head, torso, leg, hat, and accessory that can be chosen. The parts I assume, come from new and old Lego sets that were dissected because of that exact reason. I didn’t buy either Lego store minifigure, or the minifigures from Brickworld, yes I do find that Brickworld has more variety, but both are a bit pricy for a minifigure. Besides all that, the displays there where big, creative, and had a lot of things going on. You can see many conflicts within the display itself, such as a normal gas station, people filling up their car, truck, tie fighter… Wait what? Well at least the prices on the display are better than last year… The trains are not as impressive, a few caught my eye as being unique, and or something I saw already, or just a set slapped on the track. Overshadowed by its older brother, the River exhibit, it has better trains, and better things products to buy.
