What’s up you guys—Brad here. On my way home from Brickworld Chicago 2025, I turned the drive into a little LEGO road trip and stopped at two different Bricks & Minifigs locations: Schaumburg, Illinois (right near the Brickworld convention centre), and then Kalamazoo as I got closer to Canada. The whole idea was simple: walk the stores, see what kind of stock they’ve got, and hunt for cool stuff that could work for my LEGO City builds or just be awesome to add to the collection. In Schaumburg, I spotted some big-ticket display sets right when I walked in—like the Taj Mahal and an older-style Eiffel Tower—plus a wall of pre-built used sets, modulars, tons of CMFs (labeled by series, which I love), and a really solid selection of parts for builders (plants, trees, food, instruments, specialty pieces, and more). I didn’t end up buying anything there, but it was still super fun to look. Kalamazoo was stacked. They’ve got a massive bulk table, tons of minifigure cases that wrap the store, certified pre-owned sets they’ve checked for completeness, retired sealed sets, and loads of custom elements (Citizen Brick, BrickArms, Crazy Bricks, and more). The only thing I grabbed was a custom minifigure using their Kalamazoo Christmas torso—quick, fun, and a cool little souvenir from the trip.