Portland’s Favorite LEGO Shop Is Leaving Lloyd Center and Heading Downtown to Pioneer Place
Brickdiculous Shop & Gallery, Portland’s independent LEGO store, is relocating from Lloyd Center to Pioneer Place Mall at 700 SW Fifth Avenue in downtown Portland, with owner James Lucas Jones confirming to What Now Portland that a mid-August opening is planned. The move makes Brickdiculous the latest in a string of independent businesses leaving Lloyd Center for Pioneer Place, part of a quiet but meaningful shift that is turning the downtown mall into something resembling an indie retail destination. The concept behind Brickdiculous is simple and completely its own. It’s an independent toy store dedicated entirely to LEGO, a place to buy new sets, hunt for discontinued classics, sell and trade used pieces and minifigures, pick up fan-customized parts and LEGO-inspired merchandise, and browse a rotating gallery space showcasing work from local LEGO artists and builders. It’s the kind of store that doesn’t exist at the mall on any normal day, which is exactly what makes it such a good fit for what Pioneer Place is becoming.
