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.
Jones founded Brickdiculous as a space that works for everyone, serious collectors, casual builders, kids experiencing LEGO for the first time, and adults who never really stopped. The shop also hosts day camps and building workshops, giving it a community function that goes well beyond retail.
The Pioneer Place move puts Brickdiculous steps from Floating World Comics, which is also relocating from Lloyd Center to the mall’s basement concourse on August 12.
