I CAUGHT Bricks and Minfiigs!

Hey everyone, Ryan here, or M &R Productions, and I caught Bricks and Minifigs because there's just no way a real human wrote what I am reading in their latest blog post, a timeline of events from the Bricks and Minifigs Salem store.There's just no way.It's either written by AI or a really, really dumb human, and I'm just not sure which.We'll discuss that later.We also have another press release, Parting Ways, with Salem, Oregon franchisee owners Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson.So we're going to rip those two blog post press releases apart.

And then there was also the police body cam footage.which was originally redacted when Ben's video dropped but the unredacted versions are now out there and it sheds a lot of interesting light on a lot of things and if you can't tell I collect Legos so I won't necessarily be touching on like what's legal what's not legal you might want to watch a lawyer for that kind of opinion but as far as the Lego and the deal with the Lego goes I've got a lot to discuss here because Ben Boy, did we did we find out some interesting things from this underdacted footage now a ton has happened since Monday night when I uploaded my last video about this bricks and minifigs scandal, but I had a couple of quick highlights that have gone on in the past few days including the GoFundMe surpassing $400 ,000 in donations for Brian and Brian's dad to kind of make them whole for their collection Which of course bricks and minifigs still owes them money regardless in my opinion And you know, we got to give credit where credit is due bricks and minifigs themselves acknowledge the GoFundMe for Brian has raised over 50 ,000 as of June 3rd, 2026 in both of the blog posts that we are going to discuss today.They also, in their lawsuit, say that plaintiffs are entitled to reimbursement of amounts by which co -defendants, of which Brian is one, were unjustly enriched.This, of course, includes GoFundMe and other crowdfunding proceeds.I think at some point I have to stop wondering how much worse they can make themselves look.and of course Ben's best interest to settle that lawsuit and figure it out because it breaks so many people's hearts.

drag this on for two years and it's gonna give Ben infinite content It's just gonna continue to drag them down further So I cannot foresee that going forward if they want any chance of PR Turning around over the next couple of years and that's not to say it will it's just any chance of it And then of course patreon's response to all of this was insane.I didn't know who the patreon CEO was So I immediately I saw the video and then I googled him and I was like, oh, that's the guy.Holy crap That guy's got some balls Good for him.But anyway, I want to get into the police body cam footage, but out of an abundance of caution I am not gonna play the clip with the audio because I'm just not exactly sure how that works given this was leaked or maybe it was revealed in the way that's fair.I'm not really sure but either way I'm just gonna read the exact quote that we hear in the video and I'm actually gonna start with the one that I thought was the most insane of all of them and kind of of course sets up everything else that happened hereafter anyways, and that is at 430 in the video titled Joshua Johnson calls police on LDF church member, reckless Ben drug search body cam.And it is from Joshua Johnson, one of the two new owners.

And he says, quote, I work at the corporate headquarters as well.So Eamon, the CEO was like, Hey, go rescue the Salem store and you can have it for the price of whatever you recover it for.That is awesome.Probably the most interesting quote I have heard in the last 24 to 48 hours.Maybe there is somebody else I assume someone with like a third -party no interest that comes in and says what it's worth but on the night of the takeover I don't think that was there and so who knows when that person finally comes in who knows of course of what Brian's Lego may or may not have been sold between Corporate actually taking the store on November 14th and then Joshua Johnson also says to the officer on the phone that there were like 10 to 15 sets that we identified that were Brian's and told him you can have these sets now We don't know exactly when this was but per BAM statement in the timeline Which we're gonna get to but I'll skip ahead for a minute here They said that they found approximately 25 sets in late November or early December2024, which again, there's just, if that video from December 29th is true, where there's over 50 sets that match Brian's list, I just don't know how it's 10 to 15 or 25.

Again, the numbers keep changing.The goalpost keeps moving and it's really hard to keep track of, but there's a lot of questions being raised here in my opinion.Now on the police report that I screenshotted here from Legal Eagle's video, Josh claims that he didn't feel he needs to return Brian's Lego since the store's inventory became his once he took it over.That police reports from like May of 2025.Remember he bought the store, I believe in March of 2025 and corporate took over the store in November of 2025.So you're six months in there and he's still claiming, yeah, we have some stuff, but I don't want to give it back basically because they're annoying.

Like, Oh my God.Like, wow.Another interesting quote that kind of follows that same line of thinking from Josh in the body cam footage is quote, I didn't sign no agreement.I'm not beholden to somebody else.else's stupid agreement, which I mean.Yeah, the last thing I'll talk about from the body cam footage comes from Eamon McNeff, the CEO of Bricks and Minifigs.

And when talking to the police officer explaining the situation, he says, quote, we had a former franchisee that entered into an invalid consignment agreement with a completely separate person.That person sold their Lego sets and didn't pay the person.So that would be Crystal and Brian there.And he is claiming that it's Crystal's fault that Brian is out a ton of money, which in part may be true, as we can see from Bricks and Minifigs lawsuit.But it also seems like Bricks and Minifigs had some of Brian's stuff too.I mean, they say they have some of his sets.

And Josh says, quote, we set aside all of his stuff in the back.You know, what are we doing here?Next, I'm going to get into the two blog posts that Brixton Minifigs dropped yesterday.The first one we'll look at is Brixton Minifigs Parts Ways with Salem, Oregon franchise owners, Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson.And before we even read any of it, I want to give you some stats on this article, and maybe you can come to your own conclusions based on these statistics.Josh and Brandon are only mentioned by name combined, combined?

The two people that they are parting ways with, that this article is about.It's titled to be about them.They are mentioned four times combined in the article.Crystal, the original owner, who the title is not about, is mentioned six times.The word unauthorized, as in unauthorized consignment deal, four times.Are you serious?

Of course, this decision to part ways with them also comes conveniently after the leaked body cam footage that we just discussed, which, you know, again, there's much more to than I discussed.Anyway, the first quote from the article I want to bring up is Bricks and Minifigs announces the permanent closure of its Salem, Oregon store, as well as a mutual agreement to part ways with franchise owners, Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson due to a devastating social media campaign.The last part of that is the most interesting to me, wherein Bricks and Minifigs is saying the reason that they are parting ways is not because Josh and Brandon did anything wrong.No, it's because of Reckless Ben's video and everybody else just jumping onto that bandwagon.It's not because they did anything wrong.I think that is insane to frame it that way.

I don't know why they think people aren't going to pick that apart because it's pretty clear that they might have done something wrong.The guy is in the video being told there's a consignment deal.He's in the picture with the consignment sets right in front of him, yet it's not because he possibly did something wrong there.It's because Reckless Ben.We want to blame reckless Ben.Nice.

Great.Good job.And as far as I'm aware, there's no official statement here that talks about the Eugene store that they also own, which Josh talks about in one of his police phone calls and says, I don't know if I want to put that out there.I was like, well, too late now.But what I've heard from my sources is that they did take the Eugene store from them as well as part of this.But then I've heard that there's Reddit posts of like employees saying, well, no, they actually, it doesn't change anything and that they still have a store.

And I don't, I don't know what the truth is there.So there is some more digging to be done certainly as far as the other store that they owned, but that's not explicitly stated in the book.and Minifigs statement here because obviously they didn't have enough time to talk about the subjects of the article no they have to quickly get into BAM's current state of its investigation and how it has uncovered significant evidence of gross negligence and how the store was previously operated by the prior owner again just immediately right over to Crystal.She's the one to blame.We didn't do anything wrong after we took over, which is pretty clear to me.They probably did some things wrong, right?

But the fact that they're not willing to be like, yeah, we messed up too.I think it speaks volumes.Anyway, continuing on with the article here, it says, as well as operational gaps during the transition and the subsequent management of document recovery.So to me, this feels like they're leaving the door open to say, Hey, who knows what happened in these three or four months between corporate taking over the store and them actually selling the store to Joshua and Brandon in March of 2025.Like that's, that's a big part there.Operational gaps.

That is a gap.Who knows what could have disappeared there?You know, that's, that's a big question.And that's a question we may never have an answer to.The next part of the article here is a quote directly from Eamon, again the CEO, talking kind of publicly here to Brian, saying, quote, This is the whole thing, right?If they had just done that from the very beginning, this entire nightmare, this absolute disaster that has been the Bricks and Minifigs Lego scandal for Bricks and Minifigs doesn't happen.

Isn't happening all the trouble he's gone through all the harassment They've claimed that Ben has brought to their store and all of that stuff that never happens, right?You got to think about the domino effect here the butterfly effect It's so frustrating that it took like over 10 days for them to finally say hey Yeah, we will make you whole for everything our bad basically is what that's saying.Why did it take 10 days?I mean the first day Ben's video dropped.He should have been like oh shoot.Yes.

We really effed up here We'll make you whole on everything our badYes.But instead the prior 10 days have happened and every, every day it gets crazier and crazier and crazier.Like they just kept saying they wouldn't cave to an online circus.I believe is what they called it.I, I would call what he is doing here, caving to an online circus, at least in, in his own words.

So, I mean, ultimately I suppose it is a good thing that they are saying they will make them whole on anything unaccounted for.So that's, that's good.That's nice.We gotta give them a point.But the fact that it took so long is unbelievable.And you still ended up where you should have been anyway.

They have tanked their entire business.They have potentially ruined it for hundreds of franchisees that had nothing to do with it.All to just do what they should have done to begin with, or at least offered to do.I suppose they haven't done it yet.They've offered to do what they should have done to begin with.I just can't believe it.

Making him good on Crystal's side of wrongdoings is nice.To me, there's a tacit admission there that, hey, yeah, we actually had his stuff and probably sold some of it, and we probably owe him for that.Or at least morally should owe him for that, even if there's some wild legal loophole.I'm getting worked up.I'm getting worked up.Next paragraph, quote, the investigation also produced new documentation that dramatically challenges the speculative social media narrative around the Mansell collection.

Evidence shows there were three sets of books being managed by the previous owner, Ms. Law, slash Gorman regarding the collection, all with different accounts of what was sold and more reliable high end market values for the entire collection, which is more accurately estimated at 95 to a hundred thousand.Obviously the number most people are talking about out there is 200 ,000.And I just look, I agree that the collection is probably not worth $200 ,000 or it wasn't worth $200 ,000.Now it's probably worth a million dollars with all the social media attention on it, right?But it doesn't matter.The article here should be about Josh and Brandon and anything that Bricks and Minifigs might have done wrong.

Instead, who cares what it was actually worth?Anyone that's like looked at this deeply knows the collectionmight not be worth exactly $200 ,000.It might be worth half that.It might be.We don't know exactly what it's worth, but it's still worth a ton of money and a ton of stuff went missing.

And we don't know why Brian wasn't paid his full amounts by Crystal allegedly.And we don't know what happened after 1114 because Bricks and Minifigs hasn't released their store sales data.They claim operational gaps earlier in the article, which may be true.be leading to them saying we don't have the sales data who knows of course the store was allegedly cash only for some point in time there's so many questions here and and they're just focused on oh yeah actually the the value of the collection was half it was only 100 000 so it's not even that bad that's what it Who cares?Who cares?It doesn't matter.

It does matter, right?Like, I'm not, like, it does matter.Like, I, that's why I spent all the time I did counting up what I could see in the store.It does matter what it's worth.Don't get me wrong, but it doesn't matter in this article.It's so irrelevant.

It's so irrelevant.Next bit from the article, Crystal Law slash Gorman entered directly into an unauthorized consignment agreement with Mr. Manziel, yet never made a formal introduction between BAM Corporate nor the new incoming franchisees.And you see the word unauthorized in there, of course, doing some lifting.But I think the word doing even heavier lifting is the word formal, making a formal introduction between BAM Corporate nor the new incoming franchisees, because Crystal does make them aware of a consignment deal.I can, I can be agreeable to the idea that she didn't say, Hey, here's Brian.He's the guy you're doing the consignment deal with.

Here's his con. I can see at least from the video we've seen, she doesn't just lay it out for them, but they're aware that a consignment deal is possible.present there's something there and then when Brian comes in a few days later saying hey I have a consignment deal you don't think they would have put that together like they should have been like oh yes of course let's figure this all out right here and now before we do anything else selling Lego Star Wars and and whatever right potentiallybefore crystal was able to leave the country if of course she had anything to do with it And so yeah, you would have you would have had that opportunity right then and there to be like, yeah Let's figure it all out and somehow it just didn't get figured out you but yeah Them putting the word formal introduction in there is is pretty wild again It's their way of being technically correct that yes crystal never like sat down and said here's everything involved But she did say there's some consignment deal and they were aware of it I believe both the person there and the person on the phone were BAM corporate employees So that is her making an introduction to BAM corporate in my opinion But not a formal one again using like they're just trying to use words to trick people But it's not you're not getting past me.Nothing gets past me I mean, I don't know.I'm not a lawyer.But like I mean, come on, man Like again, it's we're just not being humans here and being realistic about what's going on.

It's like she told them it's on camera This is not disputed.She said it there's a consignment deal and they said we take on the consignment and then they're just like well Actually, it was a low -level employee I just so like they're just doing so much like well actually this well actually that or here's a word that kind of makes our truth technically true but the reality of it is we were told there was an assignment but not formally seriously this is where we're at give it up it's over this party I don't know why they don't just give it up they've already said we'll make them whole above this I don't know why they're still trying to argue about it I just don't it doesn't it doesn't do them any good next quote we've uncovered in our internal point of sales POS data that shows more than $52 ,000 and potentially more was sold from the collection during her tenure, her being Crystal, which is significantly more than was reported by Miss Law slash Gorman.So of course, again, Bricks and Minifigs trying to put the blame on Crystal, which if she did sell $52 ,000 of Brian's stuff and only paid him $19 ,000, then yeah, she owed him a lot of money.And they try to, of course, give credibility to this idea, which very well may be credible from the looks of it.that I've read through, uh, that crystal law Gorman owed close to $200 ,000 at the time of planned abandonment slash separation, causing her to be undue any payout on the date of separation.Now, from what the CEO Ayman personally told me, crystal owed about $175 ,000.

So I feel like this is a very intentional roundup to $200 ,000.It's their way of meeting what the other side has been saying of, of Brian's collection being worth $200 ,000.That is what it feels like to me.Because otherwise, why not say the $175 ,000 number that I've been told by the CEO himself?That just doesn't, you know, like you're not doing yourself any favors here at all.It's unbelievable.

And you would, I would imagine, know the exact number that she owed you.So why not just say the exact number?Why are we, why are we footing around what the number is.Just say she owed us $175 ,742 .32.Easy, done, be exactly truthful, no ambiguity, just straight into the point.This is what she owed us, bam.

He said, bam, get it, bam.

Now, the other blog post they made was an article titled what we presently believe actually happened, a summary timeline of bricks and minifigs Salem store.And this is of course, as of June 4th, 2026, and I don't see a huge relevance to starting off by giving your company history.I don't like it.

I don't like it.

I will say though, it is kind of nice to have Brian and Ed represented a little bit there at the beginning, but yeah, putting bricks and minifigs history, nobody cares.You know, the public perception at this point, get on with it.That would be my, my opinion there.If I was advising on this, you know, as a long time internet user, if you want to know my credentials on giving advice for stuff like that.So yeah, I think we all kind of know and understand that the consignment agreement was entered into around November.2023.

Again, while some of this may be true and if it's true, it's true, that's just what it is, but it feels like they're using these articles to be like, Oh, crystal did all this bad stuff.And they never get to the stuff after that bricks and mini figs did bad.So we'll see, hopefully they get there in here, but you know, they say crystal was supposed to ensure the collection, but there's no evidence of insurance, right?They're just throwing stuff in there like that to make sure everybody knows what a bad actor crystal was here.Like that's kind of, their MO it feels like throughout a lot of this and maybe fairly so in some cases maybe she was supposed to have insurance and didn't have it but is that relevant here because I don't think insurance would pay out if crystal herself stole it, right?I feel like that's what they're implying.

But anyway, the next section, November 7th to 12th, 2023, they try to distance themselves more.Of course, again, all of this is kind of got a use for BAM here of trying to like set their narrative.Like while it seems like it's this upfront, like, Hey, this is what we believe happened.It also is a little bit of like, Hey, you know, it uses Crystal's email address as the press contact and not BAM corporate, of course.So BAM corporate didn't know about the consignment deal.That's of course the implication there and why it's written that way.

I'm pretty sure you can go back and see the Facebook post or in a screenshot of it that she did use that email, right?So that's not an untrue thing.But again, is it relevant to say that she used that email outside of just strengthening the like, Hey, BAM corporate had no idea side of things, which of course they had no idea when it just started.I would, I would agree with that.The next section covers about a year of time from November, 2023 to October, 2024 titled monthly payments and disorganized tracking systems by crystal.Ah, I got to throw in disorganized in their, uh, owner of Salem, Oregon location at the time and says for approximately one year, Brian visited the store monthly around the 15th to collect paper receipts and a check for his share of sales.

He received approximately 15 ,000 in total payments during this period, as was stated on collector weekly podcast on April 16th, 2025.And from everything I've heard, Brian was paid $19 ,000.but of course this is November to October.So perhaps that last 4 ,000 of the 19 ,000 was paid, uh, after crystal lost a store right after November there.I don't know.Right.

But I, by both Eamon and Brian have been told 19 ,000.So that 15 ,000 number raises an eyebrow, but again, that it's not the complete timeframe there.So.you know, hard to tell.This is a big one here and it's going to come back later.It says though not disclosed or known except by her and potentially later Brian, Crystal apparently marked his sets with a small removal sticker to keep track of them as mansell consignment inventory.

So cashiers could track sales and file receipts for monthly payouts.This information was not explicitly disclosed by Crystal to the store staff during her tenure as to why nor the new incoming franchise owners in November, 2024 upon her departure.And this kind of contradicts itself.It says, that she and possibly Brian knew the yellow stickers were there and why the yellow stickers are there but it says she didn't explicitly disclose it to the store staff but it was so that the cashiers the store staff could track the sales and file the receipt so like how I don't know why The store staff wouldn't have known yellow stickers were there if they were supposed to track the yellow stickers, right?Big question there.If all items had sold, Brian and Crystal estimated total sales would have been approximately 100 ,000 before the consignment split, consistent with the documented value and verbally stated by Brian on the Collectors Weekly podcast.

Again, yeah, it's clear the value of the collection may not have been 200 ,000, but is it super relevant?No, it's not part of the time.It's not part of the timeline.It's just one of the technical points in BAM's favor that I think they feel like they have to get in there so that they're not losing on every front.October 2024 to November 8th, 2024, Crystal notifies corporate of closure interest and store transition begins.BAM corporate and Crystal were aware that she owed just under 200 ,000 in unpaid royalties.

And if you remember earlier, she owed about 200 ,000.So they've changed the terminology there.Again, I was told 175 ,000.Why not just use the exact number?And in my opinion, they're using 200 ,000 again, so they can match.It's one of those petty little things there so they can match the number being stated on the other side of things.

You're already losing really badly in the court of public opinion.And then you're just doing like random stuff like this.Quote, BAM Corporate and Crystal were aware that she owed just under 200 ,000 in unpaid royalties, unpaid lease and covered vendored bills, rendering her insolvent and triggering BAM's corporate security interest in the inventory.BAM Corporate owed Crystal nothing.I do also find it interesting that they say just under $200 ,000 now and earlier they said close to $200 ,000 and then just below they're gonna say the full $200 ,000.Like why?

We have three different representations of the $200 ,000 number.Again, I was told $175 ,000.Obviously, I think they're probably rounding up to meet that number on the other side of things that's on the Facebook post of $200 ,000 for the Lego collection and what people have been saying online this whole time is that they stole $200 ,000 which isn't necessarily true as far as I can tell, but I think it does them no service and they should just be using whatever they think the exact number or the closest thing to the exact number.If it's $177 ,000, if they think that's the closest, they should be using that instead of doing what they did here.I think it's obviously fairly deliberate to use $200 ,000.Anyway, I'll get off of that.

consignment.So again, in saying the first mention of consignment means you don't need to have a prior sentence saying that you didn't know about the consignment before that, because this would, this would imply that this is the first time you know about it.So again, it's them just getting one of those technical truths in there to make them look better earlier.That's my two cents there.It says on November 14th, 2024, Brandon Best arrived at the store close to store close to begin the transition.Crystal became uncooperative, refused to hand over the keys as agreed to or provide access codes and was observed making multiple trips to her car.

Her partner, Benjamin Gorman also arrived to assist her.I think the last part is the most interesting thing to me of like she was observed making multiple trips to her car and they don't Again, it's framed to make Crystal look really bad in this particular sentence of she was making trips to her car with what?It leaves the open imagination to the viewer of what she could, was she taking just handfuls of Cloud City sets, Gold C3PO's that may or may not be fake for you people that are ball knowers out there.Like she was making multiple trips to her car with what?Personal belongings?With cleaning supplies?

With, apparently she had a bird that was in the store that I guess she left there?A bird?Was she taking her bird in her birdcage?Who knows?Right?They just leave it open there and they don't say anything about what actually was being taken to the car.

And then they obviously imply that Benjamin shows up to assist her.And again, assist her with what?They then address the ring footage that we have all seen.

That's a business thing and not necessarily you are speaking.

So they say this was not an acknowledgment of the Mansell collection, which I mean I agree She didn't say Brian Mansell is the guy but it's an acknowledgment of a a consignment and it's an acknowledgment that hey We're gonna deal with that.That's what it is.That's what they're telling crystal, right?And so to her You got it.It's yours.You're taking the store from me.

You said you got it.You, I mean, I don't know what else do you need from her, right?Uh, so that's interesting there that they have to point out that it was an acknowledgement directly of Mansell's collection, but it of course is an acknowledgement of the fact that there was consignment something like, come on again, you know, uh, it was a representative hearing for the first time during a chaotic handover and incorrectly assuming it was an authorized arrangement by BAM who maintains that consignment was not allowed.by anybody.So how could they assume it's authorized if it's not allowed?Again, question I have, a legitimate question.

How could they think it's authorized if it's not allowed?And even if it was authorized, well, you still got to deal with it, right?Like, you know?so does it, does it matter?Another one of my favorite quotes is the store was in a rundown condition with very little inventory, approximately $40 ,000.And I believe that $40 ,000 number is their cost basis.

Not like the retail price they would sell it for, just for clarity, I suppose there.Um, but the rundown condition that is remarkable for them to throw in there.Of course, it's saying that the store that closed Corporate put their name on sucked basically and it's also saying crystal was a bad owner and that's what they're of course the picture They're trying to paint before they get into anything that they could have possibly done wrong after November 14th, right?Which I have a feeling they're not gonna get too deep into but I love they say the store was any rundown condition Which may have been true But I just think it's hilarious that they found it important to point out to everybody as part of the story of the timeline right the important part of the story is Was Brian's Lego there, right?Was it not there?I mean, Crystal herself says she took like 200 pictures of the inventory on November 14th.

That's not mentioned here.at all.So there's obviously a good chance they're leaving some interesting information that you and I might want to know out in this particular section.You know, if he did the inventory, did he take pictures of the inventory?Did he have a list?Where is that list?

Can we see it?A lot of things not present on this November 14th, uh, thing, you know, for, for, for a day that was so important, it's only got what?Six bullet points.I feel, I feel like there should be more bullet points.Continuing on technically with November 14th to November 22nd, Brian comes to the store and sends termination notice.Brian attempted to reach Crystal on November 14th, 15th, and 18th with no response.

He called the store that Thursday and learned for the first time that Crystal was gone and the store had changed hands.He then came to the store three times with printouts of his contract and inventory list.He was met with confusion from the new incoming franchisees, one of whom we see in the video on the night of the takeover and is made aware of the idea that there is some sort of consignment, whether or not he knew it was Brian and Lego Star Wars that's who knows right but he knowsthat some he should expect something right and they did not recognize the agreement which of course the new owners wouldn't recognize the agreement they didn't sign the agreement again this is one of those like technical truths like yes the new owners didn't recognize the agreement because they had nothing to do with the agreement originally but now that they have taken over the store they should be taking over the agreement and they Should get familiar with it.

Yeah, well you better get to learn about it because I have a contract I have photo evidence video evidence like that is our collection Or give all of his Lego back at that point in time, right?

They say branding confirmed BAM was not a party to it Josh was also present and accompanied Brian Through the front of the store where Brian could not identify any of his collection on display And this is where Brian in I believe Ben's video says all you have to do is let me in back We can go that route or we can go to court and the guy just looks at me crosses his arms and goes, let me tell you what's going to happen.

If we go to court, we're going to drag this thing out so long.That's really the right you want to go rather than just letting me walk in there and he goes, no.

And they don't let him in the back where again, all of this very easily could have been solved right then and there, where, where Brian could have seen, Hey, all my stuff's here.What's going on?Or Hey, it's not here.What's going on.Right?A couple of obviously possible results there, but they don't let him in the back.

And that, that right then and there, Kind of, I think is another one of those things that sets a lot of this in motion, right?A lot of this could have been avoided had they let him see whatever was or was not in the back.And then says on November 22nd, Brian sent a certified mail notice address to the Salem store, formally terminating the consignment agreement between himself and crystals LLC, citing failure to pay the November installment and refusal to allow inventory inspection.And again, they specifically call out that it was crystals LLC.And I thought this was another one of the most fascinating things that they did in this entire article.Do you guys know what crystals LLC name was it wasn't crystals LLC.

I'll tell you that it was BAM FCone LLC is a Disney slave one type of situation where they needed to rename it to Boba Fett Starship so that nobody could get offended or in this case nobody would be Be like, oh look BAM is on the name of the agreement that uh, brian had but they don't want people to know that clearly And so they've just called it crystals llc jango fett starship, you know Oh my god.I love it.It's fantastic and it's got great connections to lego star wars and disney and that whole hoopla Oh, it's fantastic stuff here.So yes, um crystals llc aka bam f salem one llc just so everybody knows exactly what her llc was named.Next we go from December 2024 to April 2025 with BAM offering the inventory and public campaign beginning.

It says in late November or early December 2024, Brandon and Josh discovered approximately 25 Star Wars sets in a closed closet in the back, which in the police recording was claimed to be 10 to 15.So kind of, which is it?Uh, they did not think any of this.Oh, my favorite two sentences of this entire ordeal.They did not think anything of the fact these sets had stickers on them.They kept these sets segregated as they tried to determine what they were.

I'm not an English major, but I feel like those two sentences are contradictory.They didn't think anything of the fact that they had small stickers, but they thought so highly of those small stickers that they set all of them aside to figure out what they were.Oh, I mean, if that's not, I mean, a lot of people said AI wrote this, you know, I don't use AI in my day to day life like this, so I don't really know what to look for.But If anything was written by AI, it was that.Like if I was bricks and minifigs, I'd just say it was AI, even if it wasn't.That way it doesn't look like we have some

that's a complete idiot working for us at corporate.Because who wrote it?Who wrote that and said, yeah, it was nothing.It was a nothing burger.There was no, no cognizant thought that something was going on here.But then there was enough thought to say, hey, we should set it all aside.

Writing back -to -back sentences.That's crazy.I didn't have to dig for it.I didn't have to be like, hey, they said this thing on this other article and that's contradictory.No, it's literally bang, bang, bang.Bang!

And you gotta imagine how many people probably read through this before they posted it.Lawyers, the CEO had to have read this.There's no way people didn't read this.You would think knowing that there was a consignment, knowing that Brian came in with a consignment deal, and seeing the yellow stickers, they would pretty quickly put it all together what the yellow stickers meant.Now it's also interesting that in Crystal's lawsuit, she claims that they removed all the yellow stickers from the sets.So that's a whole nother part of the deal that I'm very keen to find out what the truth behind is and if there is any evidence behind one thing or another happening.

But yeah, it says in December 2024 and still unsure of whether they belong to Brian Bam showed these sets and offered to give Brian the stickered sets as they felt bad.for Crystal's apparent mishandling of the situation, again, throwing Crystal under the bus, and despite no reliable evidence of his ownership, this offer was not accepted by Brian Mansell.And they probably, I would imagine, leave out anything else that would be included with that offer, like if they have to sign an NDA, if he has to make any apology.I mean, if you remember in Ben's video, they require Brian to make an apology to one of the owners, I can't remember if it was Josh or Brandon, and then they also require him to apologize to the manager, right?And so, you know, was there anything more?Were there strings attached?

And they don't bring that up at all.were no strings attached.Well, yeah.Okay, good.But they don't say there were no strings attached, so it leaves the possibility open to me.And I wouldn't be surprised if there were strings.

Why wouldn't there be?Somehow over the course of about the next six months, Brian exchanged messages with BAM corporate office and BAM's legal team, and no resolution was reached until yesterday when they posted that they would come to the resolution that should have been brought to, to begin with, and that they would make him holdfor anything crystal messed up and anything they May have messed up of course, but they don't really say that explicitly.So they just kind of skipped through a ton of time there with no detail on what was actually happening behind the scenes on their end.What were the considerations?What was happening with the new owners?

Were Star Wars sets actually on the shelves at the store there per the alleged video that we have taken on 12 -29 -2024?Like none of that is addressed at all.None of like the, hey, these are our Star Wars sales for this time period.Here's the data.Here's the truth behind it or what we're going to tell you is the truth, right?I think there is a lot missing there and I think it's pretty telling just how short they spend on the time frame After they take over the store now that brings us to June 4th 2026 which is yesterday as I record this video where it says Investigation and BAM takes action following an internal investigation BAM with internal and external help discuss external help.

That's me Maybe oh that could be me Oh shout out M &R.I just discovered new evidence of negligence three sets of books were manipulated by crystal release the books Let's see him a personal email account to which she retained Undisclosed access after leaving was still connected to the company data and point of sales records showing significantly underreported sales to Brian Ben over due to the online disparagement campaign of reckless Ben BAM and franchise owners, Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson were forced to temporarily close their store.But today on June 4th, 2026, the permanent closure of the Salem Oregon store and mutual separation between the company and Brandon and Josh was announced on May 28th, 2026.One of the Utah courts issued a temporary restraining order requiring that the videos containing defamatory content be taken down, which obviously has not happened.The CEO, Eamon McNeff, has personally extended an invitation to talk to Brian with a direct offer to sit down together, review the spreadsheets, consignment agreement, and point of sales data, and attempt to informally and fairly resolve the problems associated with Crystal's dealings with him, including offering him to take every Star Wars Lego item remainingin the Salem store, whether identified as his or not, and to otherwise find a way he might be made whole for anything demonstrated to be unaccounted for.

And again, I just, they say that they are gonna resolve the problems associated with Crystal's dealings with him.What about the problems associated with his dealings with you and corporate and the new owners?What about those problems, right?Those are conveniently completely left out.And I don't like that.I think there's a lack of accountability there that, hey, we might've done something wrong.

The next one is the final kind of fascinating one to me as it says, as part of the proposed sit down meeting, BAM even indicated a willingness to potentially, a willingness to potentially dismiss Brian personally as a named defendant in its lawsuit against Reckless Ben and others relating to defamatory online videos and other misconduct referenced therein.Man, you know, as a token of goodwill, with the community for Brian to, to just not do it, to have named him to begin with feels pretty wild to me, but to just not do it.Like, why is it a willingness to potentially dismiss?Why is it not like, Hey, if we get this solved, we will dismiss.Why is it not, Hey, we're going to do it anyway.Like we, we kind of maybe overstepped here and maybe.

Maybe legally they didn't I don't know I'm not a lawyer I can't say I can't speak there, but I can speak as someone who is a Lego fan who has been to bricks and minifigs and shop there a lot and to see them go down this route and Not just immediately be like yeah, Brian.You were the victim Maybe we think some things Ben did were too much But we don't want to hold you accountable for those because we can see you had something really bad done to you by somebody That was under the bricks and minifigs name, and we want to make that right you know like I just don't get it You know and of course this to me implies that they are going to continue to to go after Reckless Ben, which the most interesting tweet I saw on it was that Bricks and Minifigs problem is that they can destroy Reckless Ben and it will only make Bricks and Minifigs problem worse.which is what I kind of talked about in my video back on Monday night.Um, but of course the other part of it is Reckless Ben's problem is that they can destroy Reckless Ben, which Who knows right that you got to go through court to figure that out, but I think nobody wants to see that happen, right?Like it'd be really bad I think for bricks and minifigs to go through with all of that and have to give you're basically giving Reckless Ben years of content He's just gonna make videos about everything and anything that happens is going to continue to drag BAM along through it when I mean from the very beginning of Reckless Ben's videos He says hey my goal here is to get Brian his Legos back basically, which obviously I don't think he's gonna get all of his actual Lego back But of course BAM making Brian whole would be be good there the other thing that got brought up in the last couple days it was in Legal Eagle's video and it's a quote from a police report that says Brian told them that Miss Law aka Crystal contacted him and found some of his products at her house.She returned over 230 minifigs and 12 or 13 smaller sets including Cloud City and it's unknown whether or not she like took them from the store that night when she was making multiple trips to her car or if they were something that she had maintained in her possession off -site at her house or somewhere else during the entire time.

This was January 9th of 2025 so about a month and a half after the takeover and it does call into question I think crystals whole deal here.That's the latest on the bricks and minifigs drama I am I actually have a headache from talking about all of it It is making my head hurt So much of it is so dumb and could so easily be solved with a simple sit -down meeting and like hey, we're sorry You know, we messed up.We we should make it right.We got to make it right with the community We got to drop everything like that.That would be I think bricks so many things best course of action will it be who knows and obviously reading through a lot of their documents there's a lot of stuff that is like mind -numbing the redacted police footage is mind -numbing so there's a lot a lot a lot continuing to go on and I think more will come out I don't I don't know what more isgonna come out but clearly every day new stuff happens so I'm sure I'll make another video on this at some point I would love to do a full You know encapsulation of everything when it when the dust settles if you will, but that's where i'm at right now It just continues to look worse and worse for bricks and minifigs every single day I keep seeing videos that say it just got worse.

I'm like, all right Come on, how many times can you use the same title?But it does it does keep looking worse and worse every day things keep happening and it's horrible So I guess if there's any good news, of course the gofundme reaching four hundred thousand dollars is great And i'll link that in the description below if you still want to donate anything more to that gofundme to help make brian whole potentially cover Some of reckless ben's legal fees.I don't know how that money's going to get split up or what exactly It's gonna happen there, but that's going on and potentially within the next few days Who knows we will hear of some sort of settlement between Brian and bricks and minifigs and that part of it will be settled So that would be nice, but I don't yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen there obviously the offer is open publicly from Amon's and bricks and minifigs side of things and it's gonna be on Brian to of course come to the table with them as far as I can see but everybody keeps saying I want to come to the table I want to come to the table so I'm just kind of waiting for that to happen.So let me know your thoughts in the comment section below.Leave a like if you enjoyed and subscribe if you want to see more Lego Star Wars set reviews and things.That's what I usually do here.

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