LEGO Pick A Brick - European Goodies IN US

Over the past couple of weeks, pictures have popped up on Flickr and most recently a friend's Facebook Account showing a bunch of goodies from US store pick a brick walls.

As was much anticipated since the Spring changes to the catalog, parts that have been fairly exclusive to European markets are finally beginning to pop up in the US.

These include parts like:

• Medium Stone Grey Round 1x1 Tile
• Olive Green Cheese Slope
• Trans-Light Blue 1x2 Tile
• Pink 1x2 Brick, tile, and 1x1 studs.
• Gold Grills and cones
• Medium Lavender 1x2 Plate
• Medium Stone Grey Mortar Bricks (Good thing I didn't bulk it!)
• White 2x2 "Jumpers"
• Dark purple "studs"
• Palm Leaves

Other assorted parts that have been noted throughout the year, as a reminder, include:

• Medium Stone Grey 2x2 Tile and 1x2 Plain Brick
• Dark Green 1x1 Brick
• Dark Pink 1x4 Brick
• Dark Purple 1x2 Tile (which apparently is a big deal even though I racked a lot of them up)
• Trans-Black Wide 4x3x1 Windscreens

Now, one thing is for the interesting breadth of pieces that showed up in Spring to exist. (and still I haven't found them all). But this batch of pieces that were only seen in Germany, UK, and Denmark is much more fascinating and opens up more possibilities. Unfortunately this lowers the value of the pieces as long as they last but I want to build MOCs with these. Shamefully, I bulked in the past the dark purple 1x2s, pretty much all the Medium Stone Grey elements, and the like but thankfully none of those pieces held one of my limited part "spots", for lack of a better term. 

We have collectors and diehard builders. Here are some of the uses you can consider:

• Purple elements - details, accents. Lavender is perfect as a color trim for various modern buildings especially SoBe art decos.
• Pink bricks perfect for SoBe and Miami faded pastel buildings. Still trying to get lucky with pink 1x2, but no luck.
• Pink tile can be fresh cobblestone. I used nougat for the Element section of Franklin St. but will feel more comfy with the bright pink.
• Olive green cheese can be used as detailed roof accents, wall decor, and other misc. city uses.
• Gold stuff can be used for building accents.
• White jumpers can be used almost anywhere and any how.
• Trans Blue tile - well be careful, if you do a skylight you're going to have to have an opaque piece below or a messy mix of clear 1x2 below the tile. Anything modern/posh can benefit from this piece.
• Palm Leaves - beach resorts
• bley stuff - for the mortar profiles, I'd prefer to use the non brick side for classic looking facade details

It's like LEGO wants us to build... um... paradise. (Cue Lana Del Rey's album "Born to Die: the Paradise Album"). Regardless, I shot an email to my local store's manager to see to getting some of these.... pronto. ;)