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It's exclusive right now. Who knows where they might also install it?
It is a cool idea but sooooo expensive
Even using Bricklink prices for the quantities required it's probably going to cost more than the set does, and you have to do all the hard work yourself.
while it might be a good price for that many 1x1 plates, it's a very restricted palette so you could probably still do a better job for less (if you use other sized plates) but would involve extra leg work.
E.g. this is about a third of the cost of the equivalent thing made out of 1x1 plates, is more fun to build, and looks better imho:
Here's one I made of my cat using that approach - it was a right pain sneaking him into the photo booth (joke!). It would have cost about 3x more if I had used 1x1 plates throughout.
I had visions of a 1x1dispenser counting the required amount of plates to match the photograph! but I now see that the set is already made up with 4500 1x1 plates which gives 2198 spares once you have created the mural using 2302 plates. This makes much more sense.
I think it is a great idea, just hope the queue isn't too long tomorrow...
I reckon 900 of each colour = 4500 + baseplate and separator =4502 pieces.
I have to say though that I think this is a great offering from Lego - as people have said, the Leicester Sq store is a place where holiday impulse purchases will be rife, and having tested out the photobooth thing and seeing how good a mosaic can look I think a lot of people will be tempted - rest assured I am (and I would be genuinely tempted to have the rest of the family done too!)
So you can easily gift a card to somebody to then redeem for their personalized mosaic as long as they're able to make it to the Leicester Square store within the next 12 months.
The one part where the store employee comes in the picture is putting the printout of your mosaic in the box, and reseal the box for you.
"Hmm, let's grab 4500 1x1 plates of various colours and whack 'em in a box... Done!"
;-)
(If you know what I mean.)
@stlux yeah sorry didn't explain so well, meant that you then change your own picture for the new one. Or I'll Just put my son in there ;)
Presumably the photo booth itself would stop you choosing a photo that contains too many pixels of a certain colour...
No little people, it's operated by Lester minifigures.
That's why they can't give too many away, the machine would stop working. :)