October 21, 2025 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And they were talking about there were heads on the counter.
They were that were stacked up. There were many figureheads
that were in tubs scattered about. There were many figureheads
that were on a tabletop. This is news on a Tuesday,
(00:29):
and today I had we had to do an episode.
We had to talk about something that caught my attention
that was super interesting to me because it had to
do with Lego. Now you're probably already know what's going on,
but it's absolutely fascinating. But before we get to that,
(00:52):
what we need to talk about is some news that
is coming sooner rather than later. We're talking less than
a week. We're talking October twenty fifth soon. And with
New York Toy Fair just ending, which was a lot
of fun, with some of these other toy conventions and
(01:12):
comic cons essentially cons, whatever you want to call them,
we're gonna start seeing some things pop out, some twenty
twenty six things that you know. We will probably see
something from like Marvel, We'll probably see something from Ninjago,
We'll probably see something from like City, and maybe a
(01:33):
big theme or maybe a set from one of the
more adult themes. I would expect to hear something like that.
Sooner rather than later. So here's here's what you need
to know. So on October twenty fifth, the MCM London
Comic Con and EGX event starts on a twenty fifth.
(01:58):
The Lego group is gonna be there and you know
they're going to have some things. So on the twenty fifth,
if you are somebody that is interested in going, here's
what you need to know. So at eleven thirty am,
they're going to do product reveals with a Lego designer.
No idea what that could be? That could be? I
mean that it really could be anything. That's like I said.
(02:19):
We could see Nijaga, we can see city, we can
see ideas, we can see icons, we could see Star
probably not Star Wars. We could see all kinds of
different things. Maybe we see a new theme revealed. How
great would that be? I don't I don't believe that
is going to happen at all, but it would be
(02:39):
fun to be able to get something different again. Even
though they are so diversified at this point, I don't
really know where they go after this. At two pm
local time, there becoming a Lego designer interesting. What do
you think it takes to become a Lego designer. We've
talked to enough designers and employees. It really just takes
(03:02):
a passion, right, It really takes a big passion to
play teamwork. That is one of the big things that
we've heard so often, being able to work and as
a team, take critical feedback, constructive criticism. Those are things
that you need in all career fields for the most part. Anyway,
(03:22):
So two PM becoming a Lego designer. At three fifteen
PM products signing with old Lego designer. Which designer is
going to be there? It's got to be Sam. I
don't know do Sam. I don't know Sam from the
Idea's team, assuming he's still with the Ideas. I believe
he is. I don't know. I think I know he's
from don't butcher me. I think he's from the UK somewhere.
(03:44):
I want to say England. Maybe I'm not one hundred
percent sure, great Britain. I don't. I don't know where
he's from over there, but I would love to see
what they're going to be bringing. Anyway, So if you
attend the event, visitors are going to be able to
play the new Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight. Remember
when we did the press release for all the Batman
(04:06):
sets that are coming out, and I read it like
five times in a row, and I was like, you
need to be I'm read this at night. I'm asleep.
And you can also check out the new Lego Batman
sets in person, which, Okay, those are gonna be there.
That's great, that's fun, that's awesome. You've seen the images,
is seeing them in person. It's not like you're gonna
be able to pick it up and move it and
play with it. I highly doubt it's probably going to
(04:27):
be behind plexiglass of some kind. Now. One of the
things that I find fascinating. Okay, they're doing this event.
This is kind of like a gaming idea behind this. Okay,
there's this big push towards a bunch of their games.
Do we see do we see something Fortnite revealed new
(04:49):
Fortnite Minecraft, I could see maybe I don't know that
that gets the juices flowing as much as you know
Fortnite might, or maybe Animal Crossing, I mean Sonic, could
we see more Sonic? That could be okay? What about
what else? What other properties? Video game? Mario, anything, Nintendo?
(05:13):
I would be okay with another Nintendo product of some
kind or a Sega Genesis. How could would that be
Lego Icon Sega Genesis. That would be wonderful, That would
go great with a Nintendo, that would go great with
the Game Boy. That would be awesome. I would love
to see that and put them right next to the real,
real consoles themselves. That would be pretty neat. That would
(05:35):
actually be really cool. So that is something to keep
in mind. That is definitely going to be a thing.
It's definitely going to be a thing that is more
focused on gaming in some way, shape or form in
the gaming world, the gaming genre. You know, it's it's
gonna it's gotta be something like that. So think about it.
Just just stop and think a minute for what where
(05:59):
they could go. We've gotten so many Mario sets from
what twenty was it, twenty nineteen, maybe twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one. I don't remember when they first started.
It's been a number of years now. We've gotten a
bunch of different sets. So now where do we go
with it? Now? The Mario universe is like limitless, you know,
(06:19):
there's plenty of things with Sonic, you know, Fortnite is
constantly doing their thing. There's only I feel like there's
only so much that you can do with Fortnite. Although
there's a rumor that Ninjago and Fortnite are going to
be a thing sometime in October or October in November,
So I don't, man, I don't know. It could really,
(06:41):
it could really go a bunch of different ways. So
set your calendars for the twenty fifth of October, and
I'm sure we'll find something. Without a doubt, I'm sure
we will find something. So now to get to the
pop culture news. And heard this on the radio today
(07:02):
as it was driving around, and I was like, wait,
what when when anything Lego makes the news, it's usually
for usually for a mainstream media, it's usually for something
not always great. You know, it's a counterfeit thing, like
(07:23):
with the whole lepend deal way back when it's you know, well,
in this case, smuggling, we're essentially I've heard it called
it a bunch of different things. I've called it smuggling,
a theft ring, you know, all kinds of different stuff.
(07:45):
And what I'm talking about is in California, Northern California.
This individual I'm not going to say the guy's name
because you know, you're innocent, I guess until proven guilty,
which if you're gonna be proving guilty with something, this
is that kind of fascinating in its own right. How
do you Okay, let's let me take a step back
here and get this. So this individual in California, what
(08:08):
he was doing is he was going into stores and
he was walking out with free Lego products, and he
was what all people do, right, they break them down,
they sell parts, they sell minifigs, they sell parts of minifigs.
(08:29):
And we're only talking now. When I heard this figure,
I was blown away. Six thousand dollars worth of Legos.
Of course they all say Legos. Nobody knows how to
do do it correctly when it comes to the media
other than the Lego group. Six thousand dollars. I was
expecting him to say, like one hundred thousand, six thousand dollars.
(08:50):
I was like, yeah, that's it's quite a bit, but
it's not as far. That is not as much as
you think it is. Six thousand dollars in Lego products,
It's not that much over a lifetime, you know, over
you know, five years, I know, I know I spend
a good fraction of that every year, just for my
(09:10):
own sheer, enjoyment, or for gifts for somebody else. Six
thousand dollars in Lego products does not go that far.
You could buy six death Stars right now for that.
Think about that six death Stars worth of Lego products.
So the great thing when I when I heard this
on the radio today they were talking about it, is
(09:31):
if it was like a CSI kind of crime scene, okay,
and they were talking about and it was mentioned in it.
I went and I found articles for this because I
had to go and find out what, you know, was
all going on. And they were talking about there were
heads on the counter, they were that were stacked up,
(09:52):
there were minifigure heads that were in tubs scattered about.
There were many figureheads that were on a table top.
And of just thinking to myself, like, y'all are really
trying to make something out of this? Is actually hilarious
to think that this plastic toy, when you were talking
about their heads essentially began decapitate. It's like, in what
(10:12):
world did you think that was gonna you know, I
guess it. It's it's we're talking about it, so obviously
it's a thing. But obviously this is a Lego Centric podcast.
It's a little bit different, but mainstream media talking about
this and one of the I'm gonna read this specifically
to you. The quote from here. It says the scene
(10:33):
suggested systematic sorting duh, and potential resale activity consistent with
fencing operations involving high demand collectible items. Every Lego piece
is a high demand, high highly valued, high demand collectible item,
all of them. Just do me a favor once, Okay,
(10:53):
think of a set that you you know you had
Fomo or didn't have Fomo. You didn't the fear of
missing out, you couldn't afford it, you didn't know. It
was the thing we talked about it. We've talked about
it before with the when we did the Winter Village train. Okay,
Winter Village stuff, Star Wars stuff. The modulars going back
(11:13):
and back collecting things. Go to twenty fifteen and pull up,
I don't know a modular and go to Bricklink. Go
to eBay, Go see what the price is. Guarantee you
it's a full hundred percent markup at minimum. At minimum
something it may have cost two hundred dollars back then
you're probably going to be paying around six seven hundred,
(11:35):
maybe more, depending on what it is at this point
in time. Maybe So to think that somebody got involved
with the theft of Lego products to break them down
to be able to sell them off, I gotta know
what the guy's brick Link account is, honestly. I mean,
I think it'd be absolutely hilarious to see this account
(11:58):
and then you have all these you know, it's like, oh,
you know, closed, everything that has been seized, my store
is now closed. Obviously he's got, you know, bigger problems
and stuff like that at this point in time. But
you know, hearing that it was so that he was
actively involved in organized retail theft, specifically targeting Lego sets
(12:18):
and communicating with local retail thieves to commit thefts. Local
retail thieves. I didn't know that was a thing. How
about local Lego retail thieves. That's essentially what we're going
at here. And they would target, they would target Walmart
and Target stores is essentially where they were going. And
(12:39):
you know, I made a joke today to someone and
I said, well, there goes the fun stuff for the kids.
Everything's going to be behind plastic now in this part
of the country. There were other parts of the country
where it's gonna be like, you know, I'd really like
that Lego set. Could you please, you know, turn off
the laser beam grids and could you go get the
manager with the key to open this. That's essentially what
(13:02):
we're going to. Maybe not in all places, but I've seen,
you know, you go down to certain grocery stores in
certain areas and things are locked up. Now Lego sets
in Walmart, I've definitely seen in Walmart they have those.
It's like a like a small hockey puck and it's
got the strings that are strapped around it so that
you you can't steal it because if you try and
(13:25):
take that out, it'll go out the door with you.
But you know what people do. I've seen this many
many times, and this is your public safety announcement. Okay,
if you were going to go buy a Lego product
at a store other than the Lego Group stores, the
Lego stores, please even then maybe please check to make
(13:46):
sure that the seals are not broken. That you know,
shake it. There's no guarantee that something hasn't been taken out.
Some people weren't good with the replacing the a little
what do you want to call it? The security tapes
that allow you to know, oh, yes, this has been
tampered with or not. People return stuff with rocks in it.
(14:09):
I've seen stories of that. I've heard horror stories of that.
You know, people go buy something and they get it home.
That's why you keep your receipt. They get it home
and you know it's they dump it out and it's
you know, parts from something else. It's megablox like a
version of that. So it's just kind of interesting. But
(14:31):
local retail thieves. It just it just came across really weird.
We're talking like and of course I'm in the mindset today,
I'm like, okay, we've got We've already done. I've already
at this time, you know the time of this recording,
I've already recorded all the pirate stuff. So I'm thinking like, okay, pirting,
you know, stealing, you know, it all just kind of
came full circle within a week. It was just kind
(14:53):
of weird. But think about that you've been buying from
somebody potentially from bricklink or e parts that have been stolen.
It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. And you know there's things
that there's certain themes that people will go buy ten
of Star Wars stuff, things that have more of an
(15:17):
exclusive minifigure. If you look on Bricklink. Okay, let's say
you look on Bricklink you're looking for let's say let's
say Ninjago. Okay, let's say Season seven, the Hands of Time. Okay,
Chronics and Crux, their minifigures alone have been sold off
(15:38):
from sets by themselves for a long time. If you
go onto Bricklink and you were to look up a
certain set that had both of them in which I
think it was the Iron Doom set, and you look
in there, what you were noticing is the first I
don't know, eight ten results. And I was curious because
I did this the other night because I was looking
(15:59):
for some thing and I went down rabbit hole. I
was looking for a part, and it's like the first
eight or ten results are set is incomplete, set is complete,
No minifigs. Set is complete, No minifigs, set is complete,
no box, no minifigs. Because the minifigs hold value, people
don't want to go buy the whole set. Some people
just want to collect minifigs. If you just want to
(16:21):
collect all the minifigs from Ninjago, because again you're talking
anywhere from four to six hundred dollars per wave of sets.
I can get all the minifigs for cheaper, you know,
five bucks at the time for a minifig. Now I
think the Chronics and Crux are like it's like forty
bucks for a minifig, which is absolutely insane. Stuff blows
(16:42):
my mind. I know the collectible minifig stuff is out
there like that. It's just it's just absolutely wild to
even think that that is. It's a business and people
do it. You know, people will make good money off
of reselling Lego products. It's just absolutely it's crazy. So
last thing I wanted to touch on real quick is
(17:04):
I was talking to a friend of mine. I was
sending a message to this person and I forget how it.
I forget how it came to my mind at the time,
and it had to do with investing with Lego Lego products.
How do you go about it. You can't buy stock
in the Lego group because they're a private entity, a
private company. But you can buy their products and turn around,
(17:29):
hold on to it and then turn around and sell
it in the future for some bank especially modulars, you know,
especially somebody again it's back collecting. If you were to
get a modulate, the modular from this year, what it
was to door to door tutor corner. I think that's
what it is from this year, I believe is what
it was. You take that modular, you buy it in
(17:50):
twenty twenty five, if you hold onto it for even
five years, because it'll probably be around for two years
before it goes to the retired list, maybe maybe two
and a half years a retired list, Okay, then what
then you can't get it anymore? Then you have to
go to third party retailers. Maybe Amazon still has some
stock left, maybe a Target at that point in time.
(18:12):
A Target, I don't think they sell them in walmarts,
but a Target is definitely not holding on to something
like that that long. That thing is already been marked
down and out, even if it's just a ten percent
marked down. They are clearing shelf space. Retail shelf space
is very very very very valuable. So there's no holding
onto that, not for two years. So then you go
to Amazon, you go to eBay, you go to I
(18:36):
think is it whatnot? Is that anyway in auction site
something like that, anything where you can buy something that
is sold out already that is retired and you can
now get well, what is happening? You're gonna pay a
lot of money. But guess what if you bought it
in twenty twenty five, you bought three modulars, what happens
(18:56):
in five years when they're they're completely retired? Well, guess what?
Then you can turn around and sell it. And what
you'll notice is the value on there. There's a tool
on I know it's on Bricklink if you go to
brick set. I know brickset has a where they show
you the new and the used value. I don't I
(19:19):
think it's just general. I don't know if it's specific
to like eBay or Bricklink. It might just it might
be off a Bricklink. They might pull that data from Bricklink.
But you go there and you could you could sell
yourself up. It's essentially what you're doing now. You can't
just be like, well, I'm gonna go buy this Lego
City set and do it. But hey, there are certain
Lego City sets that I have right now that have
(19:39):
never been opened and have had for I don't know,
fifteen years because about multiples that are very valuable right now.
But the set that I was talking about was the
and I'd already mentioned it today on here was the
what is it? The Death Star? The New Death Star.
It's a thousand bucks, right, thousand bucks. You go buy
(20:02):
a couple of those. Most of the Star Wars fan
community has already gotten theirs or will be getting theirs.
That'll be something that stays around for probably three years.
You know, we saw the Millennium Falcon hang around for
a very long time. That was seven eight hundred bucks.
We're definitely gonna see this hang around for a while.
But the thing that I'm getting at is there's a
(20:24):
way to invest in Lego products and make some money.
It's just not going to be right away. It's it's
a long term strategy. You just have to be smart
with it. So, like I said, you know people that
like Lego ideas stuff, all of them are numbered. Each
project is numbered. So if you started out with number
(20:47):
one and you're trying to collect through, even like the brickheads,
you're trying to collect through, there's always something that somebody
else out there is going to want or going to
quote unquote need, not a true need, but the go
to need to complete a collection or they missed out
and they want it now or maybe they want another one,
So there's definitely there's definitely an opportunity there. Just don't
(21:10):
steal it, okay, just actually purchase it correctly with whatever
you know buying power you have. Please do it that way.
Don't don't send in your local retail thieves to go
steal your death star. Be pretty difficult to get that
out under your shirt. I think that is gonna be
a big old problem you're gonna have to deal with there,
(21:33):
So don't do that. And definitely don't decapitate your minifigs. Okay,
there's already too much plastic on plastic violence these days.
We don't need any more yellow heads being found strewn
about on counters and in tubs. And you know, just
just please take care of your minifigs. Please be gentle
(21:54):
to them. They're people too. So that's gonna wrap up
this segment of breaking news. I just I really hope
you guys enjoyed it. This story absolutely tickled me pink
when I I heard it, and then I started researching
it and read about it. It just it absolutely just
(22:14):
made me die laughing. It just was it's just above
and beyond, just the imagery that went behind it is
just these quotes that just made it so much more
than what it really is, but it made it so
much more route to be than what it was. It's
(22:34):
just like, all right, so that's gonna wrap up. Like
I said, I'll talk to you guys next time.
And they were talking about there were heads on the counter.
They were that were stacked up. There were many figureheads
that were in tubs scattered about. There were many figureheads
that were on a tabletop. This is news on a Tuesday,
(00:29):
and today I had we had to do an episode.
We had to talk about something that caught my attention
that was super interesting to me because it had to
do with Lego. Now you're probably already know what's going on,
but it's absolutely fascinating. But before we get to that,
(00:52):
what we need to talk about is some news that
is coming sooner rather than later. We're talking less than
a week. We're talking October twenty fifth soon. And with
New York Toy Fair just ending, which was a lot
of fun, with some of these other toy conventions and
(01:12):
comic cons essentially cons, whatever you want to call them,
we're gonna start seeing some things pop out, some twenty
twenty six things that you know. We will probably see
something from like Marvel, We'll probably see something from Ninjago,
We'll probably see something from like City, and maybe a
(01:33):
big theme or maybe a set from one of the
more adult themes. I would expect to hear something like that.
Sooner rather than later. So here's here's what you need
to know. So on October twenty fifth, the MCM London
Comic Con and EGX event starts on a twenty fifth.
(01:58):
The Lego group is gonna be there and you know
they're going to have some things. So on the twenty fifth,
if you are somebody that is interested in going, here's
what you need to know. So at eleven thirty am,
they're going to do product reveals with a Lego designer.
No idea what that could be? That could be? I
mean that it really could be anything. That's like I said.
(02:19):
We could see Nijaga, we can see city, we can
see ideas, we can see icons, we could see Star
probably not Star Wars. We could see all kinds of
different things. Maybe we see a new theme revealed. How
great would that be? I don't I don't believe that
is going to happen at all, but it would be
(02:39):
fun to be able to get something different again. Even
though they are so diversified at this point, I don't
really know where they go after this. At two pm
local time, there becoming a Lego designer interesting. What do
you think it takes to become a Lego designer. We've
talked to enough designers and employees. It really just takes
(03:02):
a passion, right, It really takes a big passion to
play teamwork. That is one of the big things that
we've heard so often, being able to work and as
a team, take critical feedback, constructive criticism. Those are things
that you need in all career fields for the most part. Anyway,
(03:22):
So two PM becoming a Lego designer. At three fifteen
PM products signing with old Lego designer. Which designer is
going to be there? It's got to be Sam. I
don't know do Sam. I don't know Sam from the
Idea's team, assuming he's still with the Ideas. I believe
he is. I don't know. I think I know he's
from don't butcher me. I think he's from the UK somewhere.
(03:44):
I want to say England. Maybe I'm not one hundred
percent sure, great Britain. I don't. I don't know where
he's from over there, but I would love to see
what they're going to be bringing. Anyway, So if you
attend the event, visitors are going to be able to
play the new Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight. Remember
when we did the press release for all the Batman
(04:06):
sets that are coming out, and I read it like
five times in a row, and I was like, you
need to be I'm read this at night. I'm asleep.
And you can also check out the new Lego Batman
sets in person, which, Okay, those are gonna be there.
That's great, that's fun, that's awesome. You've seen the images,
is seeing them in person. It's not like you're gonna
be able to pick it up and move it and
play with it. I highly doubt it's probably going to
(04:27):
be behind plexiglass of some kind. Now. One of the
things that I find fascinating. Okay, they're doing this event.
This is kind of like a gaming idea behind this. Okay,
there's this big push towards a bunch of their games.
Do we see do we see something Fortnite revealed new
(04:49):
Fortnite Minecraft, I could see maybe I don't know that
that gets the juices flowing as much as you know
Fortnite might, or maybe Animal Crossing, I mean Sonic, could
we see more Sonic? That could be okay? What about
what else? What other properties? Video game? Mario, anything, Nintendo?
(05:13):
I would be okay with another Nintendo product of some
kind or a Sega Genesis. How could would that be
Lego Icon Sega Genesis. That would be wonderful, That would
go great with a Nintendo, that would go great with
the Game Boy. That would be awesome. I would love
to see that and put them right next to the real,
real consoles themselves. That would be pretty neat. That would
(05:35):
actually be really cool. So that is something to keep
in mind. That is definitely going to be a thing.
It's definitely going to be a thing that is more
focused on gaming in some way, shape or form in
the gaming world, the gaming genre. You know, it's it's
gonna it's gotta be something like that. So think about it.
Just just stop and think a minute for what where
(05:59):
they could go. We've gotten so many Mario sets from
what twenty was it, twenty nineteen, maybe twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one. I don't remember when they first started.
It's been a number of years now. We've gotten a
bunch of different sets. So now where do we go
with it? Now? The Mario universe is like limitless, you know,
(06:19):
there's plenty of things with Sonic, you know, Fortnite is
constantly doing their thing. There's only I feel like there's
only so much that you can do with Fortnite. Although
there's a rumor that Ninjago and Fortnite are going to
be a thing sometime in October or October in November,
So I don't, man, I don't know. It could really,
(06:41):
it could really go a bunch of different ways. So
set your calendars for the twenty fifth of October, and
I'm sure we'll find something. Without a doubt, I'm sure
we will find something. So now to get to the
pop culture news. And heard this on the radio today
(07:02):
as it was driving around, and I was like, wait,
what when when anything Lego makes the news, it's usually
for usually for a mainstream media, it's usually for something
not always great. You know, it's a counterfeit thing, like
(07:23):
with the whole lepend deal way back when it's you know, well,
in this case, smuggling, we're essentially I've heard it called
it a bunch of different things. I've called it smuggling,
a theft ring, you know, all kinds of different stuff.
(07:45):
And what I'm talking about is in California, Northern California.
This individual I'm not going to say the guy's name
because you know, you're innocent, I guess until proven guilty,
which if you're gonna be proving guilty with something, this
is that kind of fascinating in its own right. How
do you Okay, let's let me take a step back
here and get this. So this individual in California, what
(08:08):
he was doing is he was going into stores and
he was walking out with free Lego products, and he
was what all people do, right, they break them down,
they sell parts, they sell minifigs, they sell parts of minifigs.
(08:29):
And we're only talking now. When I heard this figure,
I was blown away. Six thousand dollars worth of Legos.
Of course they all say Legos. Nobody knows how to
do do it correctly when it comes to the media
other than the Lego group. Six thousand dollars. I was
expecting him to say, like one hundred thousand, six thousand dollars.
(08:50):
I was like, yeah, that's it's quite a bit, but
it's not as far. That is not as much as
you think it is. Six thousand dollars in Lego products,
It's not that much over a lifetime, you know, over
you know, five years, I know, I know I spend
a good fraction of that every year, just for my
(09:10):
own sheer, enjoyment, or for gifts for somebody else. Six
thousand dollars in Lego products does not go that far.
You could buy six death Stars right now for that.
Think about that six death Stars worth of Lego products.
So the great thing when I when I heard this
on the radio today they were talking about it, is
(09:31):
if it was like a CSI kind of crime scene, okay,
and they were talking about and it was mentioned in it.
I went and I found articles for this because I
had to go and find out what, you know, was
all going on. And they were talking about there were
heads on the counter, they were that were stacked up,
(09:52):
there were minifigure heads that were in tubs scattered about.
There were many figureheads that were on a table top.
And of just thinking to myself, like, y'all are really
trying to make something out of this? Is actually hilarious
to think that this plastic toy, when you were talking
about their heads essentially began decapitate. It's like, in what
(10:12):
world did you think that was gonna you know, I
guess it. It's it's we're talking about it, so obviously
it's a thing. But obviously this is a Lego Centric podcast.
It's a little bit different, but mainstream media talking about
this and one of the I'm gonna read this specifically
to you. The quote from here. It says the scene
(10:33):
suggested systematic sorting duh, and potential resale activity consistent with
fencing operations involving high demand collectible items. Every Lego piece
is a high demand, high highly valued, high demand collectible item,
all of them. Just do me a favor once, Okay,
(10:53):
think of a set that you you know you had
Fomo or didn't have Fomo. You didn't the fear of
missing out, you couldn't afford it, you didn't know. It
was the thing we talked about it. We've talked about
it before with the when we did the Winter Village train. Okay,
Winter Village stuff, Star Wars stuff. The modulars going back
(11:13):
and back collecting things. Go to twenty fifteen and pull up,
I don't know a modular and go to Bricklink. Go
to eBay, Go see what the price is. Guarantee you
it's a full hundred percent markup at minimum. At minimum
something it may have cost two hundred dollars back then
you're probably going to be paying around six seven hundred,
(11:35):
maybe more, depending on what it is at this point
in time. Maybe So to think that somebody got involved
with the theft of Lego products to break them down
to be able to sell them off, I gotta know
what the guy's brick Link account is, honestly. I mean,
I think it'd be absolutely hilarious to see this account
(11:58):
and then you have all these you know, it's like, oh,
you know, closed, everything that has been seized, my store
is now closed. Obviously he's got, you know, bigger problems
and stuff like that at this point in time. But
you know, hearing that it was so that he was
actively involved in organized retail theft, specifically targeting Lego sets
(12:18):
and communicating with local retail thieves to commit thefts. Local
retail thieves. I didn't know that was a thing. How
about local Lego retail thieves. That's essentially what we're going
at here. And they would target, they would target Walmart
and Target stores is essentially where they were going. And
(12:39):
you know, I made a joke today to someone and
I said, well, there goes the fun stuff for the kids.
Everything's going to be behind plastic now in this part
of the country. There were other parts of the country
where it's gonna be like, you know, I'd really like
that Lego set. Could you please, you know, turn off
the laser beam grids and could you go get the
manager with the key to open this. That's essentially what
(13:02):
we're going to. Maybe not in all places, but I've seen,
you know, you go down to certain grocery stores in
certain areas and things are locked up. Now Lego sets
in Walmart, I've definitely seen in Walmart they have those.
It's like a like a small hockey puck and it's
got the strings that are strapped around it so that
you you can't steal it because if you try and
(13:25):
take that out, it'll go out the door with you.
But you know what people do. I've seen this many
many times, and this is your public safety announcement. Okay,
if you were going to go buy a Lego product
at a store other than the Lego Group stores, the
Lego stores, please even then maybe please check to make
(13:46):
sure that the seals are not broken. That you know,
shake it. There's no guarantee that something hasn't been taken out.
Some people weren't good with the replacing the a little
what do you want to call it? The security tapes
that allow you to know, oh, yes, this has been
tampered with or not. People return stuff with rocks in it.
(14:09):
I've seen stories of that. I've heard horror stories of that.
You know, people go buy something and they get it home.
That's why you keep your receipt. They get it home
and you know it's they dump it out and it's
you know, parts from something else. It's megablox like a
version of that. So it's just kind of interesting. But
(14:31):
local retail thieves. It just it just came across really weird.
We're talking like and of course I'm in the mindset today,
I'm like, okay, we've got We've already done. I've already
at this time, you know the time of this recording,
I've already recorded all the pirate stuff. So I'm thinking like, okay, pirting,
you know, stealing, you know, it all just kind of
came full circle within a week. It was just kind
(14:53):
of weird. But think about that you've been buying from
somebody potentially from bricklink or e parts that have been stolen.
It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. And you know there's things
that there's certain themes that people will go buy ten
of Star Wars stuff, things that have more of an
(15:17):
exclusive minifigure. If you look on Bricklink. Okay, let's say
you look on Bricklink you're looking for let's say let's
say Ninjago. Okay, let's say Season seven, the Hands of Time. Okay,
Chronics and Crux, their minifigures alone have been sold off
(15:38):
from sets by themselves for a long time. If you
go onto Bricklink and you were to look up a
certain set that had both of them in which I
think it was the Iron Doom set, and you look
in there, what you were noticing is the first I
don't know, eight ten results. And I was curious because
I did this the other night because I was looking
(15:59):
for some thing and I went down rabbit hole. I
was looking for a part, and it's like the first
eight or ten results are set is incomplete, set is complete,
No minifigs. Set is complete, No minifigs, set is complete,
no box, no minifigs. Because the minifigs hold value, people
don't want to go buy the whole set. Some people
just want to collect minifigs. If you just want to
(16:21):
collect all the minifigs from Ninjago, because again you're talking
anywhere from four to six hundred dollars per wave of sets.
I can get all the minifigs for cheaper, you know,
five bucks at the time for a minifig. Now I
think the Chronics and Crux are like it's like forty
bucks for a minifig, which is absolutely insane. Stuff blows
(16:42):
my mind. I know the collectible minifig stuff is out
there like that. It's just it's just absolutely wild to
even think that that is. It's a business and people
do it. You know, people will make good money off
of reselling Lego products. It's just absolutely it's crazy. So
last thing I wanted to touch on real quick is
(17:04):
I was talking to a friend of mine. I was
sending a message to this person and I forget how it.
I forget how it came to my mind at the time,
and it had to do with investing with Lego Lego products.
How do you go about it. You can't buy stock
in the Lego group because they're a private entity, a
private company. But you can buy their products and turn around,
(17:29):
hold on to it and then turn around and sell
it in the future for some bank especially modulars, you know,
especially somebody again it's back collecting. If you were to
get a modulate, the modular from this year, what it
was to door to door tutor corner. I think that's
what it is from this year, I believe is what
it was. You take that modular, you buy it in
(17:50):
twenty twenty five, if you hold onto it for even
five years, because it'll probably be around for two years
before it goes to the retired list, maybe maybe two
and a half years a retired list, Okay, then what
then you can't get it anymore? Then you have to
go to third party retailers. Maybe Amazon still has some
stock left, maybe a Target at that point in time.
(18:12):
A Target, I don't think they sell them in walmarts,
but a Target is definitely not holding on to something
like that that long. That thing is already been marked
down and out, even if it's just a ten percent
marked down. They are clearing shelf space. Retail shelf space
is very very very very valuable. So there's no holding
onto that, not for two years. So then you go
to Amazon, you go to eBay, you go to I
(18:36):
think is it whatnot? Is that anyway in auction site
something like that, anything where you can buy something that
is sold out already that is retired and you can
now get well, what is happening? You're gonna pay a
lot of money. But guess what if you bought it
in twenty twenty five, you bought three modulars, what happens
(18:56):
in five years when they're they're completely retired? Well, guess what?
Then you can turn around and sell it. And what
you'll notice is the value on there. There's a tool
on I know it's on Bricklink if you go to
brick set. I know brickset has a where they show
you the new and the used value. I don't I
(19:19):
think it's just general. I don't know if it's specific
to like eBay or Bricklink. It might just it might
be off a Bricklink. They might pull that data from Bricklink.
But you go there and you could you could sell
yourself up. It's essentially what you're doing now. You can't
just be like, well, I'm gonna go buy this Lego
City set and do it. But hey, there are certain
Lego City sets that I have right now that have
(19:39):
never been opened and have had for I don't know,
fifteen years because about multiples that are very valuable right now.
But the set that I was talking about was the
and I'd already mentioned it today on here was the
what is it? The Death Star? The New Death Star.
It's a thousand bucks, right, thousand bucks. You go buy
(20:02):
a couple of those. Most of the Star Wars fan
community has already gotten theirs or will be getting theirs.
That'll be something that stays around for probably three years.
You know, we saw the Millennium Falcon hang around for
a very long time. That was seven eight hundred bucks.
We're definitely gonna see this hang around for a while.
But the thing that I'm getting at is there's a
(20:24):
way to invest in Lego products and make some money.
It's just not going to be right away. It's it's
a long term strategy. You just have to be smart
with it. So, like I said, you know people that
like Lego ideas stuff, all of them are numbered. Each
project is numbered. So if you started out with number
(20:47):
one and you're trying to collect through, even like the brickheads,
you're trying to collect through, there's always something that somebody
else out there is going to want or going to
quote unquote need, not a true need, but the go
to need to complete a collection or they missed out
and they want it now or maybe they want another one,
So there's definitely there's definitely an opportunity there. Just don't
(21:10):
steal it, okay, just actually purchase it correctly with whatever
you know buying power you have. Please do it that way.
Don't don't send in your local retail thieves to go
steal your death star. Be pretty difficult to get that
out under your shirt. I think that is gonna be
a big old problem you're gonna have to deal with there,
(21:33):
So don't do that. And definitely don't decapitate your minifigs. Okay,
there's already too much plastic on plastic violence these days.
We don't need any more yellow heads being found strewn
about on counters and in tubs. And you know, just
just please take care of your minifigs. Please be gentle
(21:54):
to them. They're people too. So that's gonna wrap up
this segment of breaking news. I just I really hope
you guys enjoyed it. This story absolutely tickled me pink
when I I heard it, and then I started researching
it and read about it. It just it absolutely just
(22:14):
made me die laughing. It just was it's just above
and beyond, just the imagery that went behind it is
just these quotes that just made it so much more
than what it really is, but it made it so
much more route to be than what it was. It's
(22:34):
just like, all right, so that's gonna wrap up. Like
I said, I'll talk to you guys next time.
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