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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…
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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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…
If you see this clip, this is when corporate was removing the previous franchisee https://youtu.be/wscQpkcwgNU?si=_k_EDfs4NmO5riB5&t=126
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I hope it’s true because I still have heaps of these silly bricks lying somewhere on my grandma’s attic. I hold your word on it that they are now worth a fortune Let’s keep them for a bit more appreciation and compound interest then… Move out of the way blue chips, plastic chips are the real investing. Who needs bricks of gold when you have bricks of finest danish plastic?
Misc bricks aren't worth anywhere near as much as full sets (unless you happen to have some of the rarer bricks people are after)
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This is definitely not uniform. I worked on inventory management at Target, and stores had quite a lot of shelf space—to the point where we'd hold large amounts of cheap, non-perishable stuff like cat litter because, well, we had the space for it. Stores also wanted to look full. We actually had parameters in our inventory management logic to increase inventory just for presentation reasons. If inventory is expensive…
Bricks and Minifigs stores are like 2000 square feet, much different than a Target. Their overhead per square foot is almost certainly far higher than Target.
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"Holding inventory" is only problem if the store is full.
It isn't - deprecation of held goods is always a risk and if you're working on consignment then that comes with weird financial liabilities. If there's a flood and you lose your inventory it sucks - if there's a flood and you lose an inventory of consigned values then suddenly you're potentially exposed to paying market value for a number of items in addition to all the site damage you'll need to address. Capacity is…
The CEO's brother (the COO) appeared on a live stream tonight and showed the Temporary Restraining Order they obtained against everyone -- Ben, Chrystal, etc. which requires them to remove all their media on all platforms etc. The basis for the TRO was that they offered "sufficient evidence" that Ben, Chrystal etc were a "criminal conspiracy" subject to RICO. This shit is crazy. Here's a screen grab of the TRO: https…
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None of this is a risk with Lego. Depreciation: not going to happen on Star Wars sets that are not longer in production. Water damage: Lego is water proof. Breakage: being easy to take apart and put back together is Lego’s core principle.
a large part of the value of secondhand stuff is in the box and packaging, assuming those nice boxes in the image were from his collection - those are a little more fragile than the Lego pieces themselves. Edit: wait, the whole collection was sealed and new in box. Yea, just water damage to those boxes would cut the value by at least 10%. Collectors are picky as shit.
I didn't realize people bought Lego to leave in the box. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised because it's a common thing for collectors to do in other hobbies.
How is then America free and democratic? I’m not American and I’m very confused by this and also the concept of bail money.
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The original franchisee claims to have lost their life savings in that move. I have no idea how exactly that happened. Their story really sounds like something from Russia back when western investors had their company simply taken from them by someone well-connected.
It sounds like the original franchisee doesn’t want to admit that they were losing a lot of money already. Only someone really desperate would take on a $200K lego collection and only collect a 10% consignment fee. It would also explain the corporate “takeover” if they were already behind on paying their franchise fees or whatever they might have owed to corporate. That being said, it’s not illegal to be a bad busine…
* They had sold about half of the consigned inventory
* The old franchise owner said they had a job offer outside the country
* Said franchise owner was current on a restructured fee schedule that, they allege, was the direct result of corporate bungling the transfer of accounts from the franchise owner previous to them