Live data from Hacker News

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

mybricklog.com

381–390 of 704 posts

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

#381
post #326
post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, actually, a bunch of people of the same religion (cult, really), university, and now, organized theft, are indeed guilty by association. I'm glad you see it too.

[flagged]

You seem to deeply misunderstand how juries work. It's an assortment of peoples for a reason.

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

#382

For the alternate side, Bricks and Minifigs claims much of Mansell's inventory had been sold, or relocated by Mansell himself. The liability for any discrepancy in sales and his compensation is the responsibility of the franchisee with whom he sign the contract. > It was clear the full list of inventory in his documentation was not located in the store. What items could be reasonably identified as allegedly belonging…

Looks like a more detailed followup statement was just posted today: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi...

This is worth the read.

The strange part continues to be that the 2023 franchising agreement that explicitly permits consignment. While BAM is also claiming that the 2023 owners manual prohibited franchise owners from consignment agreements.

I would guess that BAM simply had poorly audited, conflicting documentation. It's one part they haven't addressed (albeit not central to their claims).

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

#383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No affiliation, other than being a fan of building bricks in general, and making a couple small purchases from one of their franchises (not in Portland, OR).

So why are you lying to defend them?

What is my lie? Quoting the posted counterclaim?

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

#384
post #350
post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like it would be hard to know which blue Lego was Bryan’s

It was sealed sets, still NIB, not individual pieces. No one would bother selling $200k of loose bricks on consignment.

Let me rephrase: “blue Lego set”

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

#386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

You'd think that if there was a side of the story where the details exonerated the company, you'd think they would share those details. If they moved someone else's property out of the store, then surely they would be able to share evidence supporting this. All we have to go by is the blogger's account, so that's the story. Just saying "there must be more to it" without evidence that there is more to it, is just vagu…

> if there was a side of the story where the details exonerated the company, you'd think they would share those details

Here is that side, published last week: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/21/salem-ore...

And some further elaboration today: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi...

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

#387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like I once heard a great word/phrase for this thing where people attack the "civility" of the messenger instead of the actual injustice being reported on, but I can't remember what it was now. It came up a lot during black lives matter protests.

[flagged]

He's not doing any favors to a case that was essentially lost and dead by bringing tons of attention to it to the point where there's a chance it might actually see a positive outcome, plus a good amount of cash via GoFundMe? Sure...

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

#389
post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If you look at the latest stuff from the previous owner where they recorded multiple conversations / pulled security footage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedmOopRTm0 1, they were allowed to do consignment deals, 2, when corporate took control, they said they'd take on the consignment liability, 3, BAM outright threatens them with making the legal process too expensive for them. All of which contradicts the curr…

yeah, it’s plain as day they say blatantly they’ll take on the consignment.

the reckless ben youtube videos are pretty clearly laid out with contracts, video evidence, etc..

the crazy part to me is how blatant the executives of bricks and minifigs are in saying go ahead and try to sue us, we’ll drag this out until you’re broke from lawyers fees. we’re a lawyer rich corp and you’re not. they don’t even try to hide it.

bricks and minifigs are just crazy dickens movie tier evil it’s crazy.

Post reply on HN