I’m not sure how many people already knew this but I didn’t and I’ve been regularly going to LEGO stores for several years now.

If you tell the store employees it’s your birthday they’ll let you build a free minifig. Even better, they have some exclusive parts they keep behind the register for this specific purpose (although the person at my store said you can use the BAM parts instead if you’d prefer).

It only came up because I mentioned to an employee that I’ve been collecting the brick suit figures and he mentioned that there was an exclusive one (reddish orange) in the birthday figure parts (they previously released this in a different shade of orange).

The only bad thing is that it doesn’t look like they make normal reddish orange legs. They make medium legs in this color for an Animal Crossing figure.

Anyways, I figured this info was worth sharing.

https://old.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/1j56f4t/lego_store_tip_you_can_get_a_free_figure_on_your/