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Lego Brand Store

A tiny LEGO shop of your very own, folded-open and packed with in-jokes.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 40574 · 2022

Pieces541

Minifigs2

Year2022

Set number40574

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The verdict

This is LEGO being sweetly meta, a little buildable LEGO Store you can put on a shelf, complete with a Pick-a-Brick wall, a Brick Pit, and 23 tiny boxes of real sets stickered onto the shelves.

It is not a technical showpiece and the price always ran a touch high for the part count, but as a keepsake of a store trip it is genuinely charming. I fell for the fold-out lower level and the sheer density of little details. If you want a serious display build, this is not it, but if the LEGO Store itself means something to you, it is a lovely thing to own.

Best for: LEGO fans who love the store trip as much as the set

The full review

What it is

There is something wonderfully self-aware about a LEGO set of a LEGO shop, and this one leans all the way in. The 40574 Brand Store recreates the newer white-and-bright retail look that started rolling out in 2022, less of the old yellow, more clean white shelving and glass. You get a Pick-a-Brick wall, a Brick Pit, a Build-a-Minifigure counter, a cash register, and a window display with a micro castle and a little train. The whole ground floor folds open so you can reach the interior and stage a shopping trip, and that hinge was the moment it won me over. It turns a static facade into a proper dollhouse-for-adults you can actually fiddle with.

The catch

I will be honest about where it wobbles, though. At 541 pieces the recommended price always sat a bit high, and this is a set you buy for the theme and the charm rather than for value-per-brick. The build itself is gentle and quick, never taxing, so if you want engineering that makes you stop and admire a clever section, you will not find much of that here. And then there are the stickers. There are a lot of them, including 23 miniature set boxes that get applied to tiny tiles, and testers were unanimous that lining those up neatly takes patience and steady fingers.

Who it's for

The biggest head-scratcher is what is missing. You get two visitor minifigures, a mother and her son, clearly out for a fun trip to the shop, but there is no store employee to greet them. For a set that is entirely about the retail experience, leaving out the person who works there feels like a strange gap, and it is the single note that came up in nearly every review. So who should get this? If the LEGO Store is a place you genuinely love, if a store opening or a Saturday browse is part of your happy memories, this is a delightful little souvenir. If you are chasing a meaty display piece or the best bang for your money, I would point you elsewhere.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building it is a relaxed evening rather than a project. The set arrives in four numbered bags plus a couple of loose plates and the sticker sheets, and the construction is straightforward LEGO, with the one recurring technique being SNOT bricks (studs not on top) used to face the interior walls so the shelf tiles and their set-box stickers sit flush. Nothing here will stretch an experienced builder, but the constant stream of little named details keeps it engaging, and the fold-out floor is a nice bit of playable engineering for a set this small.

For parts hunters, the headline element is the mother figure's coral legs, a fresh recolor at the time that had barely appeared anywhere else, so it is a genuinely useful piece to have. Both minifigures are exclusive to this set, which gives it a small collector pull. Beyond that the real value is in the printed and stickered signage and the density of shop fittings rather than any rare mold, so treat this as a themed keepsake rather than a parts pack. It has since retired, and prices on the secondary market have crept above the old retail, so it is no longer the casual pickup it once was.

Fun facts

01This was the second buildable LEGO Store of 2022. The first, 40528, was a store-opening gift-with-purchase, so 40574 was the version everyone could actually buy.
02It recreates the newer white retail design that LEGO began rolling out to stores in 2022, deliberately less yellow than the older look.
03The shelves carry 23 stickers standing in for real LEGO sets, applied to tiny tiles to mimic boxes on display.
04It officially retired at the end of 2024, and the two exclusive visitor minifigures plus the coral legs give it a modest afterlife with collectors.