The Lego Pick a Brick program allows people to buy individual bricks, but the Trump government got rid of the de minimis rule , which waived import fees on items less than $800 in value, making it hard for small businesses and bespoke items like this to participate in global trade.
The bestselling Pick a Brick items are shipped to the U.S. in bulk, so they should still be available, but the rarer components that ship directly from Denmark are no longer available to order. Fans are claiming that this has wiped around 2,000 bricks from the inventory, according to a report on 404 Media.
The Pick a Brick site only lists this as a “Pause,” but there is no mention of how the company plans to overcome this. It’s likely that it will just need to ship more pieces in bulk to the U.S. to make North