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Our Services:
Music City Bricks has been in business selling LEGO products since March 2010 and we opened our retail store to the public in December 2020.
We Buy & Sell - New & Used LEGO brand sets, minifigures, parts and related items.
In or 3,000 sqft store, we have over:
500 different New In Sealed Box (NISB) LEGO sets
1,000 lbs of loose bulk LEGO pieces sold by-the-pound
4.2 million individual pieces in inventory and sold individually
9,000 LEGO minifigures sold individually
7,000 LEGO minifigures in our Build-A-Minifigure stationWe are not scheduling any new parties until we can get into a bigger building. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Music City Bricks has been operating in Wilson County, TN for
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Our Story - A history of Music City Bricks and the people who shaped what it is today
On April 7, 2009 Donald Cousineau created the Music City Bricks account on Bricklink.com - a site for LEGO fans to sell LEGO parts, sets, and memorabilia to each other. BrickLink had gone live on June 19, 2000 and was created by Dan Jezk.
On March 31, 2010 Music City Bricks had its first sale on BrickLink and Don began shipping out orders from his garage in Mt. Juliet TN. Don continued to grow Music City Bricks and built up its inventory to 104,543 parts.
July 9, 2015 Stosh Morency discovered Bricks and Wheels in Kent, WA ran by Aaron Fike. Stosh had driven by the building with the LEGO sign in the window for about a year before finally stopping in to check it out. Stosh soon made a habit of taking his kids to Bricks and Wheels on Friday afternoons after picking them up from daycare. Sometimes he would even go on his lunch breaks to dig in the bulk bins. These experiences at Bricks and Wheels would be key influences half a decade later when Stosh launched the retail side of Music City Bricks. In July 2016 Stosh, his wife, and kids headed out on a multi-year road trip around America. (This trip was captured in the book, Recalculating) Along the way, they visited dozens of second-hand used LEGO stores like Madhouse of Bricks, It's a Block Party, Brickhouse Collectables, HHH Brick Depot, The Minifig Shop, and Bricks and Minifigs. They also visited dozens of Official LEGO Stores around the US. They would chat with the owners, take pictures, and try to distill the best ideas and experiences from all of them. The Morency family knew they wanted to create a public experience at some point in the future and were also visiting wild animal parks with the same idea of learning what works and what does not.
Don and Stosh had been communicating for a while about Stosh's vision for a public space that would be a community center of sorts for LEGO fans where they could hang out, work on projects, and have access to a massive amount of LEGO parts for custom LEGO creations.
On September 6, 2018 Don handed over the reins to Stosh to take Music City Bricks in a whole new direction and a whole new level. The first stage was driven by the goal of getting the parts inventory up to 2,000,000 parts and the minifigure inventory up to 10,000 figs. On September 11, 2018 www.MusicCityBricks.com was registered. On September 19, 2018 the Music City Bricks Facebook page was created.
Stosh, his wife - Melinda, his daughter - Annmarie, his son - Zeke, and Melinda's Cousin - Ben Coile began sorting used LEGO and parting out brand-new LEGO sets by sorting them to individual parts and building out a robust inventory storage system.
On March 31, 2019 Stosh was at the Brick Universe LEGO Fan Convention chatting with Willie Neblett Jr of Titan Bricks, Toys, & Collectables. They were talking about Stosh's ideas of what he wanted to create in the LEGO fan community to foster more fun, custom building and relationship development between all the isolated LEGO fans. As they talked, Willie said, "So, basically, you want to build a clubhouse?" That was it. That was a perfect word to capture part of Stosh's vision for the place and it helped him to clarify his efforts towards that goal.
On October 1, 2019 Music City Bricks bought out Molly's Friends BrickLink Store from Eileen Boehne of Nolensville, TN. Their inventory of 57,402 used LEGO parts was added to the used bulk LEGO waiting to be sorted.
On December 17, 2020 Music City Bricks opened its doors to the public in Lebanon, TN just off Hwy 109N. This placed it centered east/west between Mt. Juliet and Lebanon and north/south between Gallatin and Murfreesboro.
We opened our doors that Thursday morning and our first customer was Patrick Durham (Instagram) (Facebook), and our second customer was Kerry Woo (Instagram) (Facebook). Two years later, in the Fall of 2022, these guys were still regulars at Music City Bricks and they teamed up as The Grandpapies in Season Three of the USA LEGO Masters TV show. They did not win that contest, but they won the hearts of many and we still have customers letting us know The Grandpapies were their favorite team.
On January 25, 2021 the BrickLink leaderboard for USA based stores placed Music City Bricks at #6 by total parts available in inventory with 3,101,392 parts.
As we navigated the struggles of our first year running the retail store and being open to the public, we were fortunate to lean on the experience and advice of Aaron from Bricks and Wheels, Larry Miller from Comix City Too!, and a variety of other business owners that stopped in as customers. Aaron flew out from Seattle, WA and walked through our store and even mailed 2,000 minifigures to us when we decided to start up our own Build-A-Minifigure station. During one of many text exchanges, Aaron said, "Stosh, you need to stop trying to be a boutique. You are leaving out too many potential customers." That was another one of those clarifying moments when Stosh realized that he did want it to be a boutique and focused his efforts on that direction. He also advised the need for signage near Highway 109 - advice that couldn't have come soon enough. Once we got a sign in place, we started getting much more visitors. Larry and his wife drove over many times to hang out and offer advice on pricing and merchandising. Their comradery and tips really gave us an emotional support system as we dealt with so many "firsts" while we learned the ropes.
Another key person during the two years before opening and the year after opening was Ben Coile. He tirelessly sorted bulk LEGO with us and urged us on. We froze and sweated together in the warehouse that had no heat or cooling. Once we opened, he built most of our large LEGO displays to help the place look cooler and set it apart from other retail locations. We could dedicate a whole page just to trying to document his contributions.
On July 30, 2021 The Wilson Post ran an article about Music City Bricks. This was the first newspaper coverage, something we had actually avoided up to that point. Our team was still learning how to run the place and we were a small team so we did not want too much coverage that might result in hundreds of people showing up all at once the following Saturday. Up to this point, all growth had been from an organic word-of-mouth strategy. As it turned out, only a few people showed up that mentioned the article. We did not get overrun and we continued onward.
On November 18, 2021 the BrickLink leaderboard for USA based stores placed Music City Bricks at #8 by total parts available in inventory with 3,623,855 parts.
On June 18, 2022 Music City Bricks bought out TitansFan BrickLink Store from Robert Holder of Knoxville, TN. Their inventory of 102,290 new LEGO parts was merged into the Music City Bricks BrickLink inventory.
On October 8, 2024 our first interns started working at Music City Bricks. Our 2024 Q4 Production Internship consisted of 18 interns ranging in age from 14 to 25 years old. The internship ran from October to December 2024.
On November 4, 2024 the BrickLink leaderboard for USA based stores placed Music City Bricks at #10 by total parts available in inventory with 4,232,037 parts.
Maybe you will be part of the future story of Music City Bricks...