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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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> False. I said that a 3rd party traveling across the country to serve papers himself and then sitting in front of the house while police are called 4 times is needless YouTube drama. Genuine question, how do you think serving papers works?

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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post #118

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Corporate is also claiming that they don't allow stores to take on consignment deals, contrary to their franchise agreement explicitly allowing franchise owners to take on consignment deals.

I have absolutely no doubts a court would consider it impossible to transfer goods under consignment to a different entity free of the burden of the consignment contract. So the corporation trying to reach into the franchise to grab these goods without honoring the contract is absolute BS and they should be dragged through the mud over it. The unfortunate loophole here is that, potentially, by shutting down that fran…

yeah you cant just unilaterally cancel the contract in which you agreed to hold the goods for sale, and then take possession without any reimbursement.

You either need to pay the sales price of the consigned items, or just give them back.

If you do neither, its the same exact thing as theft. Which is what they did. They took possession of the 200k lego set with no reimbursement. Just plain ol' theft.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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The founder of mormonism married a child and given that mormon doctrine is just whatever he said definitionaly it's an official sanctioned thing. Some coercion? It was entirely external pressure. Some of the mormons haven't even stopped polygamy today.

In the 1800s, when children had mining and factory jobs and didn't go to school past age 12. Trying to position that as Mormonism condones child abuse is bonkers, imo

So because children were forced to work dangerous jobs it's okay for adult religious leaders to have sex with them? I'm not sure I follow that.

You should research polygamy in the mainline (Brighamite) sect if you haven't already. One of the last marriages to the the mormon prophet Lorenzo Snow was to a 15 year old. Snow was 57 at the time. This was not normal despite any assertion about children working.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/1c2omo0/the_wives_of_lorenzo_snow/

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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I read the counterclaims from Bricks and Minifigs here:

https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi...

This post and TFA have a common issue: no one seems to have a clear, compellingly evidenced account of basic questions about the collection and its history under consignment:

1. What exactly was in the collection?

2. What happened to the collection after it was consigned: which sets were sold, which were stolen or lost, which were moved to off-site storage, etc.?

3. How much money did the original franchise owner owe the consigner for the sets sold?

The peripheral claims about e.g. police malfeasance are disturbing, but without this basic evidence about the substance of the matter, I don't know if it's a great idea for an online mob to take sides.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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post #154

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That's the original material and indeed is entertaining, part 2 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZPfj8AlmY

Holy mother of God this seems like one of those landmark cases by the looks of what's going on. So much rot in there... Bro also fled to Mexico, they could even make a movie out of this.

100% would watch the shit out of this movie

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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I read the counterclaims from Bricks and Minifigs here: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi... This post and TFA have a common issue: no one seems to have a clear, compellingly evidenced account of basic questions about the collection and its history under consignment: 1. What exactly was in the collection? 2. What happened to the collection after it was consigned: which sets were sold, which…

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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post #486

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But you're not. The head of corporate is someone who thought he could get away with this. And almost did, until Reckless Ben showed up.

but ... they did get away with it? based on the blog post, it ends with the store closure? (which I don't understand why)

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