Bricks and Minifigs: Healing our broken culture through corporate hate#
Whatever happened to the world? Why are we like this? What a mess. We’ve got a war in Iran, gas costs $4+, pork and beef doubled in cost. AND! Bricks and Minifigs are scumbags trying to scumbag their way into throwing a kind and bumbling youtuber, Reckless Ben, in prison.
If you haven’t been on social media for a few weeks, you may have missed the ongoing saga - Reckless Ben vs Bricks and Minifigs. A david vs goliath story where an old, dying man tries to sell his cherished Star Wars LEGO collection to pay for bills. The collection is the largest one in the world and happens to costs roughly $200K. The company was supposed to sell the LEGOs, but doesn’t and its local franchise closes. BAM corporate takes it over and doesn’t give the collection back still. A youtuber picks up the story to find justice and entertainment.
After a run around, trying to serve court papers, Ben is thrown in jail twice due to lies from BAM and their collusion with the American Fork Police (weird name but an actual Utah police company). Currently Ben is in Mexico, while BAM is trying to sue him for the way they mishandled this fiasco. The entire world hates Bricks and Minifigs now, and they could have just given the old man his LEGOs back and given him the money they owed him. It could have been finished with real quick, but they wanted to be the big dog and now there isnt a good way to recover from this. Truly a tragedy in PR for this company, for the Fork Police, for the Mormon church (they’re all Mormons) and maybe even for LEGO.
Unfortunately, some onlookers have decided to try and fight the company in real life. They’re going to local stores and fighting staff, harassing customers, calling in bomb threats. Mainly vandalism and vigilantism, which isn’t helping anything, but it does show how strongly the public feels about this story. This is something America has been yearning for, for years. A reason to come together. A common enemy. An apolitical story and it lets everyone watching hate equally. It’s bringing people together from all walks of life and both sides of the political aisle, and in a way, healing the divide we have in our culture. It’s long overdue, and an odd thing to come together over.
It would be a dream if LEGO would step in and find a way to return the LEGO sets to their rightful owner, and pay what they’re worth. A GoFundMe was made for the family and its exceeded the $200K, which is great, but the story has changed into a battle against corruption and corporate greed. All of the world is praying to see BAM crash and burn. Theres also some insinuation of the Mormon mafia, since BAM and the Utah police are mostly Mormon, I wouldn’t be surprised.
If I were Bricks and Minifigs, I would Pay the family $500K, and give him his full lego collecition back. Drop the cases with Ben, and release a lengthy response in video and writing. Both the CEO and COO need to participate in this with their egos tucked between their legs. The evidence of their bad behavior is on video, from the beginning, and its not good. So the level of prostration required for forgiveness is at its peak. That would generate the best possible outcome in terms of public perception and moral standing and possibly lead to them having a future in business. The narrative they’re trying to run with is not available. If they had done things differently, maybe it would have a chance, their current strategy, but its moot due to the documentation from Ben and from the police. Y’all are fucked. The cheapest thing you could do is my idea. Its also the best.
Godspeed to Ben, and if BAM reads this, you can have that idea free.
If you want to go the extra mile, in the apology video, be completely honest and say why you acted the way you did at each step of this boondoggle of an event.