When we were in Santa Cruz recently, a friend dragged us to a giant shopping mall. In no time, our senses were overwhelmed by TOO MUCH: stuff for sale, Cinnabon and Starbuck’s smells, piped music, people. Stumbling on the new Lego store made it all worth while. We loved its giant wall of help-yourself bins of Legos: we could buy the exact amount of whatever color(s) we wanted.  Since we naturally seem to lean toward the monochromatic, we started imagining all the things we would devise with white Legos (maybe with one orange one stuck in to mess it up a little), or maybe these hot green ones…

There were nice little displays you could peer into, where we saw our “white” fantasy worked out a bit, and thought of…

…Kartell’s Componibili storage designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri in 1969, and the elegant form plastic can take…

We’re happy that Lego finally figured out a brilliant simple way to sell basic Legos and is opening stores all over the place…(Click here for strategies for getting the most Legos for your money when you fill a cup from a bin.)

Let us know what you devise!