Dark Red Bricks on the LEGO Store Pick-a-Brick Wall

I was pleasantly surprised to find not just dark red bricks, but dark red 1 x 2 bricks on the LEGO Pick-a-Brick wall today. There weren’t many, left, and I bought pretty much all they had left, which worked out to be a single large cup full.

This is the first pick-a-brick cup I ever bought, so I was curious about some of the techniques I have read about for stacking the bricks to fit the most in the cup. You will see the start of my failed attempt below. it was hard to get perfect, and I ended up knocking the cup part-way through, which undid all of the careful work. In the end, I just built a solid core for part of it, and dumped the rest of the bricks in.

I chatted with some of the LEGO Store employees while I did this, they were curious as to what I was doing, and were really pleasant. (as usual)

People have reported fitting 600+ 1×2 bricks in a large cup. I ended up with 520 1×2 bricks and 15 other bricks too. Not too bad, it worked out to less than 4 cents per brick. For such a rare color, this is a great deal.

Approaching the LEGO Store:

Here are the red 1×2 bricks when I first saw them:

The start of my attempt to stack them the way I saw it done on Flickr, which should yield around 600 bricks per cup.

In the end, this was my cup, filled to the brim:

Here is the haul:

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the pick-a-brick wall were some interesting colors and shapes: