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If you thought IKEA couldn’t get any better, you thought wrong. On February 8, the biggest IKEA in North America will open in Burbank, California. The biggest, we say!

At 456,000 square feet, the new IKEA Burbank edges out the 450,000-square-foot store in Schaumberg, Illinois, as North America’s largest, but falls short of the world’s largest, in Seoul, South Korea, where shoppers can traipse through a 625,000-square-foot store. (Most branches in the U.S. are under 400,000 square feet.)

Looming like a colossal yellow and blue Lego toy between Interstate 5 and the Verdugo Hills, this ginormous outpost of the Swedish retailer promises to stock the chain’s complete inventory. Everything. Smaller stores have to edit, apparently.

(If you’re wondering what will happen to the other store down the street, an unaffiliated company is looking to turn it into an apartment-retail hybrid space.)

We strapped on some comfy walking shoes and did a walkthrough earlier this week while the paint was still drying inside. Here’s what we saw and learned on our hike.

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