It’s been a pretty slow week for LEGO news, but The Brick Owl has turned up a pretty unexpected development in the form of a new, upcoming LEGO polybag promo minifigure. Now, that’s not anything extraordinary in its own right, as we get exclusive LEGO promo minifigures many times per year. No, what makes this particular LEGO promotional polybag set special is that it’s designed to look like people all of us with a local LEGO Store know and love–it’s the LEGO Store Employee Minifigure 5001622 polybag set!

If there’s one store where I don’t mind the salesmen trying to sell me something, it’s the LEGO Store! I try to hit my local LEGO Stores at least once or twice a week, so the LEGO Store Employees are a pretty familiar sight to me. So am I stoked about this just-revealed LEGO 5001622 Store Employee minifigure…? Yes. Yes, I am.

I’m not overly thrilled that LEGO is seemingly not going to include a yellow LEGO Store employee apron with the LEGO Store Man polybag promo (I haven’t seen a LEGO Store Employee not wearing one of the yellow aprons in years), but I love the upcoming minifigure all the same. Not all countries have the LEGO Stores employees wearing aprons, so LEGO must have figured they could leave that piece of attire out of the set.

The only accessory included with the minifigure is a 2×4 red LEGO brick (which obviously costs LEGO less than making a soft goods apron). In addition, LEGO Store workers in the United States wear khakis instead of black pants, but that’s a very easy custom that literally takes half a second, so I can’t really begrudge that.

As of now, there is absolutely no news on when, where, or how this 5001622 LEGO Store Man minifigure can be obtained. Seeing as how this is a very LEGO Store specific minifigure set, though, I can’t imagine it will be available as anything other than an exclusive LEGO promo set given out at LEGO Stores.

We know for a fact that this LEGO Store Employee minifigure polybag can’t be available in September or October (I posted the full LEGO Store October 2013 calendar last week), so it would seem that this LEGO Store Salesman minifigure would have to be available in November 2013 or later.

I’ll update as soon as I hear more details on what you have to do to get one of the LEGO Store Employee minifigures for your very own. And you can ‘Like’ Bricks and Bloks on Facebook to have more LEGO news, photos and updates sent straight to your Facebook Newsfeed!