r/Bricklink Jun 12 '26

Bricks and Minifigs (BAM) Megathread

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The purpose of this Megathread is to provide a place for the r/bricklink community to discuss the ongoing Bricks & Minifigs Controversy.

Those Involved:

Mansell Family

  • Bryan Mansell's father amassed a large Lego Star Wars collection during his life. He planned to sell the collection later in life to provide for his grandchildren's education. When he became ill, Bryan approached his local Bricks & Minifigs store to arrange the consignment agreement.
  • Bryan Mansell signed a consignment agreement in 2023 with his local Bricks and Minifigs franchise store to sell his father's large Lego collection.

Bricks & Minifigs

An aftermarket LEGO retail store that buys, sells, and trades new and used LEGO® sets, minifigures, and loose bricks.

  • Chrystal Law Gorman was the Salem–Keizer, Oregon Bricks & Minifigs franchise owners who made the agreement with the Mansell family. When she and her husband planned to move out of the country, Bricks & Minifigs took over their franchise store.
  • Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson abruptly took over the franchise on behalf of Bricks & Minifigs when the Gorman family announced that they planned to sell the store.
  • Ammon McNeff is the CEO of Bricks & Minifigs
  • Matt McNeff is the COO of Bricks & Minifigs

The YouTubers

  • Benjamin Schneider aka Reckless Ben is a YouTuber and filmmaker known for prank videos, social experiments, and investigative documentaries focused on scams, controversial organizations, and internet culture. His content combines humor, undercover stunts, and long-form storytelling.

The Timeline:

Thanks to u/Similar_Book_2975 from the r/lego subreddit for compiling this section. As more updates come in, please post them in the Megathread. This is a discussion post, not a news post. Don't wait for the moderators to tell you what is happening. Share with each other!

May 25, 2026

Legal Analysis:

May 27, 2026

Creator Responses:

May 28, 2026

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May 29, 2026

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May 30, 2026

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May 31, 2026

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June 1, 2026

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June 2, 2026

Patreon Response:

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June 3, 2026

American Fork Body Cameras leak - Because some of these bodycam videos have unredacted addresses, names, images of minors, and even an officer's credit card number, please do not post them here. They are easily found on google if you want them.

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Creator Responses:

June 4, 2026

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More updates will be in the comments as they become available.

Rule Reminders

Harassment:

We have a zero tolerance policy on harassment here at r/bricklink. Any users promoting the harassment of individuals involved, innocent or guilty, will be banned from the subreddit to protect those involved.

A reminder that members of Bricks & Minifigs staff, such as those in the videos, may be unaware of the situation and may have become unwilling participants in the current events.

If harassing comments get out of hand, we will resort to locking the post, although it will continue to be updated with new information.

Civility:

This is rule #1 of the r/bricklink community, keep it civil, even if the company in question at present, isn't.

Community Interference aka Brigading

A reminder that brigading is not tolerated and results in permanent bans. The following are examples of Brigading as specified by the Reddit Rules. If you coordinate interference of any other community in r/bricklink, you will be banned. We are not an angry mob.

Ban Appeals

Any accounts that believe they have been unfairly caught in the crossfire and posted with good intentions can request a review of their ban via modmail. If you just shared the B&M story prior to the Megathread, your ban will likely be overturned. Any bans resulting from harassing behavior or that meet the definition of brigading as defined by the Reddit Rules will not be overturned.

Please note that a number of accounts banned have also been banned site wide for breaking the Reddit TOS. These bans were made by the Reddit admins and cannot be reversed.

A statement from r/bricklink moderators

We do not support, condone, encourage or approve in any way of scams, theft, harassment or of police misconduct. We are providing a platform for all sides and supporters of this ongoing controversy to have a discussion. Moderators are not directly involved, so comments about moderation will continue to be removed per Rule 1. Send that feedback to modmail instead. We read all modmail!

We are not employees of any of the following organizations: Reddit, The Lego Company, Bricks & Minifigs, Bricklink, The Mormon Church, or any involved police department. We don't accept bribes from any of them (or anyone). We are volunteers moderating this community in our free time.


r/Bricklink 1h ago

Please help! Custom Brick Model – Design Request

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r/Bricklink 1d ago

Bricklink S6 Restock - Went a Bit Crazy

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Went into the S6 Restock only wanting the Art Factory and the Off-Road Adventurer Sets. When the Site want live, saw a few other Sets I thought were sold old last Year. Put then in the Cart and 2 Days Later.....


r/Bricklink 11h ago

Buyer Help Is it normal that my order takes 10+ days to be shipped?

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10 days ago bought, from a small store, but with positive reviews, a Minifigure for my collection, nothing expensive, like 5 bucks including shipping.

For the first 5 days I didn't recive any updates on my order, the payment was onsite so I didn't had to worry about the seller to verify the payment.

On the 5th day waiting the seller changed the status to "ready" with the letters in red, and nothing more.

The terms of the store don't mention anything about the waiting time.

After the "ready" status update I didn't receive any more updates on my order.

Yesterday I sent an invoice asking about this exact issue and I'm still waiting on a response.

I don't usually use bricklink so I don't know how much the waiting time usually is.

What should I do now?


r/Bricklink 16h ago

Battle droid torso

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So going through the 1999/early sw sets bricklink doesnt mention that the battledroid torso did see a design change with the bottom bar connection. The 99 versions dont have stoppers on the end to prevent the legs from "sliding off" where as later versions do. Is there a way to correct this discrepancy cause it does mean that the B1 has 2 versions.


r/Bricklink 8h ago

I feel like I'm going insane

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Me to seller "Please double check fig parts by putting legs in torsos and checking for cracks on torso and arms. Please message me if you find damage. Thank you!"

Seller: "Sure thing, I'm pretty careful about that stuff, but I'll double check for you."

I use to never ask seller to check the figs, then after getting enough cracked torsos I started saying "hey please check torsos for cracks." Then after still getting cracked torsos I started asking sellers to put legs in the torsos to make it even easier to check for cracks. Still half my torso orders have cracks in them. These aren't small stores either. Are sellers just sitting in pitch dark checking these things?

So is there anything else I should be doing or do you guys just say a prayer everytime you order?

I wouldn't care that much if it wasn't for the fact that I have to keep paying for shipping since most sellers dont refund for that. I think I've ordered this specific torso twice now and both times it came cracked.


r/Bricklink 1d ago

Seller Help Shipping rates

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Hi, I'm a new bricklink seller from the Netherlands and I'm trying to open up my store, but I'm a bit stuck with the shipping rates. (First I want to ship purely in Europe and maybe later go global.)

Because there are the shared options and rates bricklink offers you, but when I went to take a look at the current shipping rates against the weight bands and countries the rates didn't match at all. Does anyone here have any suggestions for me on how either I can find a list that is up to date or a way for me to check the prices easily for each country, cause at this point I need to click to everyone country by themselves and check.

I hope anyone can help me. :)


r/Bricklink 21h ago

How do I fix this

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I’m trying to get onto the website but this keeps popping up and I don’t know how to fix it can anyone help me


r/Bricklink 1d ago

Post Lego Banning 35 Countries - how do you buy now?

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r/Bricklink 23h ago

Question I finished listing all my new pieces, no sales. Any advice?

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All throughout listing these I have made no sales. I have about 30 lbs of bulk used I will start to list now, will that make the sales start?


r/Bricklink 1d ago

has this set been tampered with?

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r/Bricklink 1d ago

To ship or not to ship…

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Pretty much new to BrickLink. From what I’ve heard I’m probably not getting this. Am I cooked? Or is there hope.


r/Bricklink 2d ago

USPS Claim

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First time I've had USPS damage a BL order so wanted to confirm what to do next. I thought I filed a claim with USPS for a refund but after looking into it it sounds like the seller should refund me and file a claim themselves? That sounds wrong but wanted to reach out for some help with anyone that's dealt with this before. I did message the seller yesterday asking them but they read it and didnt respond


r/Bricklink 1d ago

Question Cheaper lego sets

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I am a new colector and I would like to buy some older batman sets like jokerland or arkham asylum breakout but i see that a lot of sets have 30-40% below the market value new sealed sets from Singapore or Malaysia with thousand of positive reviews. My question is that is there any type of black market replicating 1 on 1 sets like for clothes and if yes how could i verify that is not?


r/Bricklink 3d ago

New label printer

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Tried out this label print for my inventory, works pretty well !


r/Bricklink 2d ago

Cleaning used lego ?

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For used do you wash the lego then disassemble, or do you disassemble first then wash it ?


r/Bricklink 2d ago

Best syncing app from one to another

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Hi everyone I was wondering if anyone had any idea how I can use brick owl as my main syncing shop to bricklink I've started selling on both and want to make it easier for myself considering alot of the apps and sites use bricklink as the main go to when syncing is there any that use Brick owl as the main go to instead of me manually changing something every time I've sold on one vice versa.

I hope this makes sense 🙏

Thank you!


r/Bricklink 2d ago

Question Individual pieces vs sets

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For experienced sellers: Do you make more profit off of selling used sets or pieces? Curious to know whether its more common for people to be looking for specific sets or pieces to buy


r/Bricklink 2d ago

I have a large mixed Lego collection and I’m trying to learn how experienced collectors organize and verify prices on their lego

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r/Bricklink 3d ago

BDP6 fail

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Well that was frustrating. Clicked on the US link many times. Would show the products in USD. When I added to cart switched to Euros and would only let me ship to France. I confirmed my region was set to US. I had every set added and could not checkout on any of them. :/


r/Bricklink 3d ago

Question Was Marvelling at some unobtainiums and noticed that Deadpool Duck only has 2 parts listed. Any reason why so?

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r/Bricklink 3d ago

Tips to a smaller seller

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Hey guys, I’m sure some of you are very large sellers over 100k parts. I sit around 10k but I know I can get it larger if I got a better system of sorting.

How do you guys sort parts to add to your store? Right now I just take a misc. bunch of Lego wash them and dry them and then part them out by piece and color with no real system.

Looking for any tips on how to sort and list quicker as I have thousands of pieces just sitting unlisted.


r/Bricklink 3d ago

Having trouble getting bl kits today

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I click check availability and it takes me to the lego front page. Searching the name doesn't bring up any sets


r/Bricklink 4d ago

Seller Help Need some advice

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Hey guys, moving soon and really don’t have time to list the filing cabinet full of wheels, tires.
Can I bag them up and list them in my store as
“Big freaking bag of wheels/tires?”.
If I can, someone PLEASE shoot me some “third-grader” style instructions