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First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter Our community, 654 want itCriminals have turned to Lego as a new way of making easy money, stealing and re-selling sets in a growing black market.Police have made several large-scale busts involving Lego thefts in recent weeks, as criminals have become increasingly aware of the ease and speed at which the Danish toy can be sold online. The toys also quickly increase in value, and like Uncut Diamonds, are difficult to trace. Police are regularly uncovering large-scale Lego thefts as criminals increasingly become aware of the ease in which the toy can be on-sold, their increasing value and the fact they are largely untraceable; the above picture is of 18-pallets of Lego seized during a recent raid on the Arizona, U.S home of Troy Koehler Nathan Francis, who legally sells sets of Lego on BrickLink in his spare time, said it makes 'total sense' that thieves would turn to the toy to make easy moneyLess than 48-hours later, in Phoenix, Arizona, police arrested four people in connection with £24,000 worth of Lego stolen from toy stores.
They also found £120,000 of Lego merchandise - 18 pallets worth - in one of the suspects' homes and in a storage facility. In Phoenix, earlier this month, police arrested Garry Fairbee, 35, Tarah Dailey, 33, and Melissa Dailey, 34, who were allegedly stealing the most valuable Lego sets they could find, before passing them on to Troy Koehler, 40, who is believed to have sold them online.In a more elaborate example of the crime, last year police arrested Thomas Lagenbach who made his own bar codes which he then placed on Lego sets so he could buy them at a cheaper price. Police found hundreds of sets of stolen Lego in the Silicon Valley tech executives home.Earlier this year thieves in Australia used angle grinders and crowbars to steal a haul of the toy from four separate retailers, and in England thieves have struck Lego trucks before the toy could even reach stores.In almost every case, the stolen Lego is sold online, where limited edition sets - like those linked to movies - can fetch several thousand pounds.
Nathan Francis, who legally sells sets of Lego on BrickLink in his spare time, told the website it makes 'total sense' that thieves would turn to the toy to make easy money.Mustafa Merchant shows off his Lego X-wing while his brother Ibrahim holds his Lego Millennium Falcon.)Lego is the ultimate toy, full of engineer-in-training complexity and bursting with potential creative play — as nutritious for a child’s growing mind as milk and kale.Which is a little hard to remember when I’m vacuuming up, tripping over and picking moulded plastic bricks out of pockets and socks.I remember getting my first Lego set when I was 5 years old. There’s a picture of me in a pink silk dress (a gift from an aunt in India) cradling one of those 1980s starter kits. I wasn’t sure what Lego was exactly but the package was big and shiny and I had to have it.I don’t think I actually played with the set. The bricks probably drove my neat-freak mother to distraction and, after a few months, the toy was discreetly “taken care of.”
My husband on the other hand is a born collector. His comic books have their very own bookcases (Yes, more than one!) and no one is allowed to take the comics out of their plastic sleeves to do something as pedantic as actually read them.He’s just as careful with his childhood toys. Last week, he triumphantly showed me a large, slightly beat-up remote-control truck. “I got this when I was 10!” he crowed. He still has his toy train set (unfortunately named the “Big Loader”) as well as a few original Transformers toys.And Lego.When The Lego Movie came out a few years ago, I laughed loudest at the earnest Space Lego dude — but hubby just looked wistful. Lego is expensive and for immigrant parents supporting a new life in Canada and family “back home,” frivolous toys were at the bottom of the list.Our own children, on the other hand, have reached peak-Lego.Between gifts from aunts, uncles, grandparents, older cousins, as well as the yearly Eid and birthday haul, their toy collection runneth over.
We had to buy one of those Lego organizer thingies just to keep it sorted. And still the Lego ended up all over the place.For those not in the know, Lego has moved away from miscellaneous variety packs and now sells “sets” based on popular movie and TV franchises — Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, as well as the usual motorcycles, cars and airplanes.Yet kids continue to play with Lego the same way. Which means that after my sons assemble their sets, take the requisite selfie and show it off to family, it is promptly disassembled and left on the floor for me to step on.“What happened to your Star Wars Tie-fighter?” I ask, horrified and bleeding. “That thing cost $100 and has over 500 pieces!”“I’m making My Own Creation out of it now, mom. It’s called a ‘MOC.’ ”Finally, my husband could take no more. He declared a Lego moratorium and went on a search-and-rescue operation under beds and inside bins. All Lego was seized, sorted and mini-figures reunited with original torsos, heads and hair.
He started with the Star Wars X-Wing, carefully matching our inventory to the list on the instruction manual, with 8-year-old Ibrahim’s help. Many pieces were missing.Enter the Lego Stock Exchange.BrickLink is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of anything Lego, from vintage sets to random pieces. Bricklink, often called “the eBay of Lego,” was launched in 2000 by an AFOL (adult fan of Lego), the late Daniel Jezek. Bricks are bid, sold and bought at prices that fluctuate according to Lego market conditions.While browsing, father and son are mesmerized by a kinetic MOC of Sisyphus perpetually pushing a boulder. It was designed and constructed by Jason Allemann. Mental gears start spinning as a new plan is born. Still, this might be a good thing. According to a December 2015 story in the Telegraph, over the past 15 years, Lego sets have provided a better return for investors than gold or stocks. I think it’s time to splurge on a signature piece, like the Lego Star Wars Death Star.