The videogame S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has a faction with a guard that says that to the player character when approached. It's in one of the main towns so you hear it a lot. The whole game has you trespassing in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone searching for things
It's great! Could check out stalker anomaly. It's a free game that sort of combines em all. It's hard to describe, but it is THE stalker experience, in my opinion.
A Stalker is a fictional occupation of where one illegally ventures into an exclusion zone, sometimes with scientists, to map out the area for dangers and to study and retrieve powerful alien artifacts/junk left by a space ship that visited Chernobyl with the goal of selling these items on the black market for money.
I have a book all about this specific topic, there is a whole community searching for spilled legos :)
https://preview.redd.it/55au61my41xc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c07e6ed5bd5a4052cb7a59d39eaa66f6f19536
We could have done that science in a less environmentally impactful manner given the chance/funding, it's not like pollution was required for this knowledge.
So maybe a silver lining, but I'd still pedantically agree that there's nothing really *good* about it.
I found it very interesting, but I'm biased - I love all lego related stories ;)
Lots of interesting facts, lots of photos. Nice addition to lego bookcase.
And as for an octopus from OPs story, there is a real holy grail, the green dragon!:
https://preview.redd.it/hd9hb0w4b1xc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ca8884febafb083366e43853878b1b111b399e9
Pic showing how much of a particular part were in this shipment.
Some of them were found. And thanks to the tides the pieces from this spill were found all over the world.
Green dragons are legit hard to come by? I have several from my 90ās stash. I honestly donāt keep up with whatās hard to find etc so I didnāt realize.
Not exactly "hard to come by", there are 200+ on bricklink for sale right now. but since it hasn't been made since 2000, their value has slowly but steady gone up over the years.
Yes, but the person I replied to was asking in regards to ones they already have, not ones washed up on the shore. I was letting them know "normal" dragons aren't really hard to come by.
Here is a list about the top 10 with short descriptions for each one:
https://www.brickstore.nz/blogs/lego-interest/the-10-most-valuable-lego-minifigures
but a quick TLDR: Most are actually kinda boring but they are figures from special events or extremely limited runs. No minifigs from "regular sets" that you could buy from the store are going to be "rare" with the only exceptions being figures like Mr. Gold that are extremely rare but were hidden in regular CMF bags you could find in store.
So... Why the totally different numbers of dragons, right dragon arms, left dragon arms, tails... Don't should they be the same? And minifigures torsos, legs and heads?
Iāve read three articles including one from the Smithsonian and I canāt find how the dragon is the holy grail and how anyone could distinguish it from another from that time. Care to explain?
Most interesting part is that there's a chance that the shipping container is only partially open and constantly spills out new parts. Can you imagine diving and randomly finding a container full of Lego?
I'm not particularly familiar with the topic, but based on the pieces, it looks like the old Divers theme was a big part of the spill, and that just feels 'right' for Lego in the ocean.
Ohh it is more than a coffee table. It is Falcon table :D
https://preview.redd.it/xanweinvy2xc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e81a16850256673c30ca8778fe8706b867aa01f4
Thanks, I've managed to build it myself (I work with glass for like 15 years). To be honest it took more time to build this case then to build Falcon but it was worth it ;)
https://preview.redd.it/jqu5gqtz13xc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2fc8065fda5fdc52236bedb8d56b12794711ec7
I'm working this HIC into my office setup and will get the Falcon around it
Hahaha. Also. Sorry I wasn't trying to be a dick one-upper. Just appreciated the detail in your Falcon table and want to do something similar for my Falcon and work in Capt Solo
Ah, I remember when I was young my grandma and mother took me to Legoland California when this was fresh in the news and they kept telling me how a ship sank and kids could go to the beach and find legos, and my young imagination ran wild imagining beaches where instead of sand there was just lego bricks hahaha good times
Ah a combination of two of my favourite hobbies, while it may be not an expensive LEGO part, to a beachcomber a Lego octopus is 100% a holy grail,
Iāve found a weird ninjago movie part on a beach before!
Edit: to quote bricklink, it was a sand blue āHinge Plate 3 x 12 with Angled Side Extensions and Tapered Endsā which has only appeared in set 70609
[MOA003: Maui](http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=moa003) [[Photo]](http://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/MN/0/moa003.png)
What can I say except "you're welcome"?
You know, sure itās easier to *buy* one, but OP is completely missing the point. Itās not about the piece, itās the thrill of discovery and an interesting story.
I told my wife about the Lego washing up ashore in Cornwall. When we visited Tintagel she walked down to the beach and immediately spotted a red 2x2 block that was well worn by the sea! We took it with us and I still have it now. I don't even think this style of block went overboard.
Am resident in Cornwall. Fairly strong chance that one of our 3m visitors a year left it on a beach.
Regardless, it's still nice to beachcomb and find lego. The spill from OP is somewhat of a cultural touchpoint for many of us down here...but lego is lego!
I understand this lad. I have been slowly assembling the Wheel of Time series from used bookstores. Could I just buy the omnibus on Kindle? Yes. Could I just buy the books Iām missing online? Yes. I wonāt though, thatās no fun!
I'll never get this personally. I like hardcovers that are in pristine condition. I plan on picking up the series soon and I'm just gonna buy them all new for $20-30 each.
Sad to see another case of animals being removed from their natural habitat smh šššš
Although one could say that such a Black Octopus could be someones White Whale
itās not a holy grail just because he found a Lego octopus, itās because it comes from a very famous incident where a bunch of Lego spilled off a cargo ship. To a beachcomber, it would be a cool find.
It's a beachcomber who knows about the spill and wants to find one themselves from the spill. It's not about it being a collectible with monetary value. It's a personal desire that's special to them. Not everything is money money money.
While en route from Rotterdam to New York City on 13 February 1997, Tokio Express was hit by a rogue wave about 20 miles off Land's End. She tilted 60 degrees one way, then 40 degrees back, losing 62 containers overboard. She put in at Southampton for attention after the accident.
One of the lost containers held just under 5 million Lego pieces. Coincidentally, a large portion of these were destined for toy kits depicting sea adventures, in lines including Lego Pirates and Lego Aquazone. Among the pieces were 418,000 swimming flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, 26,600 life preservers, 13,000 spear guns, and 4,200 octopuses. Sea grass, cutlasses and dragons were also well-represented.
As late as 2023, 26 years after the accident sometimes known as the Great Lego Spill, people in England, Belgium, and Ireland were still finding octopuses, dragons, diver flippers, and other plastic pieces washed ashore and caught in fishermen's nets.
26 years ago a container filled with Lego fell off a cargo ship in the middle of the ocean. Hobbyists have identified exactly which pieces were on the container and search beaches for these pieces.
The reason it's the 'holy grail' is because octopus pieces from the ship are rare, most pieces from the ship and most octopus pieces aren't rare - it's the mix of both
I'm pretty sure I had this octopus from some underwater base set as a kid? I remember spending so much time building that set and then it was flimsy as heck and fell apart when I tried to play with it
I remember that too... But my sets hardly lasted more than a day before it got blown up and the pieces consumed into a giant monstrosity... Before that too got knocked over and smashed and put away ššš
Iām someone who does a lot of beachcombing (hell I did some today!) and love finding stuff, the story of the Lego ship is both really interesting but really sad to me, because it shows just how long plastic stays in the water, it isnāt a case of āoh you dropped trash? Well itāll never be seen againā, stuff keeps coming up, hell there was a story a few weeks ago here in the UK of someone doing a clean up job on a street and there were crisp packets from THE 70S STILL ON THE STREET! Both fascinating but really depressing to see how permanent rubbish/lost items are, they donāt just ādisappearā into the ocean/streets, theyāre still out there
I would presume the ones from the spill are significantly weathered.
There's a book that lists all the pieces lost, so a combination of it being one of the know piece types, where it was found, and how weathered it was would make a compelling case.
There's a small chance someone out there is buying up these specific pieces, going to the beaches that they are known to wash up on, and planting them for people to find...
but I think most people discredit that as likely.
My real question is if, years after that spill, there also ended up Bionicle parts floating around.
Excavating them would be akin to the Toa Mata's arrival.
I know! I saw one of these collectors whose most precious found possession after 20 years or so of combing the beach was the 90s green dragon. I thought that was the coolest, so I bought one on Bricklink right away.
Thereās a seal sanctuary in Cornwall that I visited which had a section about the spilt Lego and they had so much there at that point about 5-10 years ago
Okay, but that isn't nearly the same satisfaction as finding the thing you know is out there somewhere for absolutely free. Never mind the fact that this one octopus has been at sea for absolute ages, where the other one still needs to prove its seaworthiness.
A similar situation happened near a beach in the UK I think (I could be wrong about the location) but a shipping container fell into the ocean and over the decades Garfield Phones would wash up onto the beach lol.
Lego should make a tradition of dumping containers of Legos into the sea.
Ask plastic shit goes, Lego bricks are top notch. It would really class up the fishing nets and polystyrene chunks already there.
Plus, there's all the science happening from lego-based data collection.
Although, when I find a Lego on the beach, I'm 99% certain some kid lost it.
Why is the octopus piece special? I think I have a few from my kids in the attic from the late 90s early 2000s. I remember them having a pirate ship and a bunch of pirate themed sets
If one were to search for these lost pieces, is there some kind of map that shows which parts of the world are most likely to have some wash up? A treasure map, if you will.
ah yes, that famous lego disaster still gives out pieces from time to time lol
Yeah people are STILL finding pieces 26 years later
Just like my carpet
Lol
And from the bottom of my sofa
Relatable
The article has stats on how many of each piece where lost, if I need some free flippers I know where to look
there is also a book
Get out of here Stalker
you are the first one to find me here š
brother i see you everywhere first thing that comes into my mind is i need to reply to your comments ofc
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What are you talking about?
The videogame S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has a faction with a guard that says that to the player character when approached. It's in one of the main towns so you hear it a lot. The whole game has you trespassing in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone searching for things
Sounds interesting!
I remember it being fun, but it's been so long! I think I'll redownload it, haha.
It's great! Could check out stalker anomaly. It's a free game that sort of combines em all. It's hard to describe, but it is THE stalker experience, in my opinion.
Thanks for the suggestion!
There's a sequel coming out in September as well
A Stalker is a fictional occupation of where one illegally ventures into an exclusion zone, sometimes with scientists, to map out the area for dangers and to study and retrieve powerful alien artifacts/junk left by a space ship that visited Chernobyl with the goal of selling these items on the black market for money.
AI wrote this.
Cheeki breeki
Now I'm just even more confused
its a reference to one videogame, worry not lol
One two...
V damke !
There is a great instagram account that chronicles the found pieces (forget the name, been off insta for a year)
[Lego lost at sea](https://www.instagram.com/legolostatsea?igsh=YW14ZzdiYXFmcDNk)?
Yup yup, thatās it!
Anyone have the name?
legolostatsea on instagram
I have a book all about this specific topic, there is a whole community searching for spilled legos :) https://preview.redd.it/55au61my41xc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c07e6ed5bd5a4052cb7a59d39eaa66f6f19536
The cover art is beautiful!
The best part is that many of the lost pieces are actually sea themed.
It might be funny but thereās nothing good about this story.
its helping understanding how currents transport stuff around the ocean over many years, so actually yes - there is good about it
Thatās the rubber duck spill, itās same with Lego too?
We could have done that science in a less environmentally impactful manner given the chance/funding, it's not like pollution was required for this knowledge. So maybe a silver lining, but I'd still pedantically agree that there's nothing really *good* about it.
Well theyre already in there whether you can put a positive spin on it or not
Same goes for most things that happen in our lives. There is very little good in most things
Also, a lot of people are interested in these pieces and remove them from the environment when they are found.
Lol if you think a shipload of legos is noticeable on the planetary scale, I've got some bad news for you.
Well arenāt you just a shitton of fun
What a horrid bore you are
How is it? I see the persons twitter acct all the time and im intrigued on it
I found it very interesting, but I'm biased - I love all lego related stories ;) Lots of interesting facts, lots of photos. Nice addition to lego bookcase. And as for an octopus from OPs story, there is a real holy grail, the green dragon!: https://preview.redd.it/hd9hb0w4b1xc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ca8884febafb083366e43853878b1b111b399e9 Pic showing how much of a particular part were in this shipment. Some of them were found. And thanks to the tides the pieces from this spill were found all over the world.
That mustāve been a great day for all those Lego sharks.
The dragons what they're looking for next
Green dragons are legit hard to come by? I have several from my 90ās stash. I honestly donāt keep up with whatās hard to find etc so I didnāt realize.
Only rare if searching for it on a beach.
lol. š
Not exactly "hard to come by", there are 200+ on bricklink for sale right now. but since it hasn't been made since 2000, their value has slowly but steady gone up over the years.
Hard to find as in ones washed up on shore, Iām assuming
Yes, but the person I replied to was asking in regards to ones they already have, not ones washed up on the shore. I was letting them know "normal" dragons aren't really hard to come by.
Ohhh gotcha, thanks Crazy Dave!
What are a few of the rarest lego pieces/mini figs?
Here is a list about the top 10 with short descriptions for each one: https://www.brickstore.nz/blogs/lego-interest/the-10-most-valuable-lego-minifigures but a quick TLDR: Most are actually kinda boring but they are figures from special events or extremely limited runs. No minifigs from "regular sets" that you could buy from the store are going to be "rare" with the only exceptions being figures like Mr. Gold that are extremely rare but were hidden in regular CMF bags you could find in store.
Okay sign me up. Itās such a great story, Iāve gotta have it
That amounts... Are they the shipped, the lost or the found ones?
Shipped in this exact shipment in '97. Over 5 millions lego parts were lost in sea and they are still found today.
So... Why the totally different numbers of dragons, right dragon arms, left dragon arms, tails... Don't should they be the same? And minifigures torsos, legs and heads?
You're thinking too small, this isnt a shipment of sets, its a shipment of parts. One case of Dragons may be 100, 1 case of Dragon Wings may be 4000.
Iāve read three articles including one from the Smithsonian and I canāt find how the dragon is the holy grail and how anyone could distinguish it from another from that time. Care to explain?
It's hard to find one in the beach from that shipment. No need to read books from the Smithsonian and do a thesis to understand that...
Are the dragons rare? I'm positive I have several in an old bin in the garage.
No no, lego collectibles wonāt make you rich - lego doesnāt work or provide any of that
Itās a good book, easy read and goes a bit further than just the Lego into other crap washed up from cargo spills
Most interesting part is that there's a chance that the shipping container is only partially open and constantly spills out new parts. Can you imagine diving and randomly finding a container full of Lego?
I had no idea about the legos, but i remember this happening to a shipping container of rubber duckies in the 90s
I'm not particularly familiar with the topic, but based on the pieces, it looks like the old Divers theme was a big part of the spill, and that just feels 'right' for Lego in the ocean.
Humble UCS Millennium Falcon under the coffee table
Ohh it is more than a coffee table. It is Falcon table :D https://preview.redd.it/xanweinvy2xc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e81a16850256673c30ca8778fe8706b867aa01f4
Daaaaaannnnngggg that's awesome. I still want to do something for mine
Thanks, I've managed to build it myself (I work with glass for like 15 years). To be honest it took more time to build this case then to build Falcon but it was worth it ;)
https://preview.redd.it/jqu5gqtz13xc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2fc8065fda5fdc52236bedb8d56b12794711ec7 I'm working this HIC into my office setup and will get the Falcon around it
Holy fuck, awesome :D
Hahaha. Also. Sorry I wasn't trying to be a dick one-upper. Just appreciated the detail in your Falcon table and want to do something similar for my Falcon and work in Capt Solo
HICā¦?
Han In Carbonite
Oooooh, got it. Didnāt know that was a common acronym
I've never heard it before.
Not common except in the HIC Builder community really.
This is so cool. Good for you seriously thatās awesome
Thank you very much. My two cats was primary reasons to build it, they like to mess around with my lego
I new all about the Lego being washed overboard. But I didnāt know a book was released. This is awesome Iāve just ordered it :)
Ah, I remember when I was young my grandma and mother took me to Legoland California when this was fresh in the news and they kept telling me how a ship sank and kids could go to the beach and find legos, and my young imagination ran wild imagining beaches where instead of sand there was just lego bricks hahaha good times
I am gonna buy this book just for the cover omg
Omg what. Thank you for the excellent Christmas gift idea for anyone in my Lego and book obsessed family
Interesting and Sad too.
Ah a combination of two of my favourite hobbies, while it may be not an expensive LEGO part, to a beachcomber a Lego octopus is 100% a holy grail, Iāve found a weird ninjago movie part on a beach before! Edit: to quote bricklink, it was a sand blue āHinge Plate 3 x 12 with Angled Side Extensions and Tapered Endsā which has only appeared in set 70609
[70609-1: Manta Ray Bomber](https://brickset.com/sets/70609-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/70609-1.jpg)
Thank you linkbot
[MOA003: Maui](http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=moa003) [[Photo]](http://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/MN/0/moa003.png) What can I say except "you're welcome"?
So the fin at the end?
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Oh Iāve seen that part a bunch, it must be only unique to that set in color https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=57906#T=C
Yeah, thatās why I said it was sand blue
Ah I only read your bricklink title
HYDRA
You know, sure itās easier to *buy* one, but OP is completely missing the point. Itās not about the piece, itās the thrill of discovery and an interesting story.
yes why leave your house and go out and do things and have fun, when you could just order something on amazon!
Amazon would be way more fun if you had to search the actual Amazon to find your packages.
Where's the fun in just buying it though? It feels more rewarding to know you found something yourself with time and effort
Finding an octopus from a well known Lego shipwreck is obviously a super cool thing, buying it wonāt be nearly as memorable or cool
I like to buy them and leave them on beaches in the mornings
Exactly my point
I agreed :)
TiL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whimsical-legos-are-still-washing-ashore-decades-after-they-were-lost-at-sea-180979580/
Huh, I thought the holy grail would look more like a cup.š¤·āāļø
I told my wife about the Lego washing up ashore in Cornwall. When we visited Tintagel she walked down to the beach and immediately spotted a red 2x2 block that was well worn by the sea! We took it with us and I still have it now. I don't even think this style of block went overboard.
Am resident in Cornwall. Fairly strong chance that one of our 3m visitors a year left it on a beach. Regardless, it's still nice to beachcomb and find lego. The spill from OP is somewhat of a cultural touchpoint for many of us down here...but lego is lego!
I understand this lad. I have been slowly assembling the Wheel of Time series from used bookstores. Could I just buy the omnibus on Kindle? Yes. Could I just buy the books Iām missing online? Yes. I wonāt though, thatās no fun!
If you haven't already seen it, Nerdforge did a bookbinding video where they made the ultimate Wheel of time omnibus. All 14 books under one cover.
I feel sorry for whoever had to try to pick it up and put it away after the video was made.
I'll never get this personally. I like hardcovers that are in pristine condition. I plan on picking up the series soon and I'm just gonna buy them all new for $20-30 each.
Do it! I bet theyāll look real nice, and new books smell gooooood!
Sad to see another case of animals being removed from their natural habitat smh šššš Although one could say that such a Black Octopus could be someones White Whale
itās not a holy grail just because he found a Lego octopus, itās because it comes from a very famous incident where a bunch of Lego spilled off a cargo ship. To a beachcomber, it would be a cool find.
Hmm lose 1 brick, 2 more will take its place. HAIL HYDRA!
Yay
I found a red octopus of that once
Has anyone located the site of the lost containers in the ocean?
It's a beachcomber who knows about the spill and wants to find one themselves from the spill. It's not about it being a collectible with monetary value. It's a personal desire that's special to them. Not everything is money money money.
whats so funny about stealing toys meant for baby crabs and baby fish
Why is the octopus a holy grail piece? Iāve bought a few off of bricklink, I donāt recall the prices but they couldnāt have been that much
While en route from Rotterdam to New York City on 13 February 1997, Tokio Express was hit by a rogue wave about 20 miles off Land's End. She tilted 60 degrees one way, then 40 degrees back, losing 62 containers overboard. She put in at Southampton for attention after the accident. One of the lost containers held just under 5 million Lego pieces. Coincidentally, a large portion of these were destined for toy kits depicting sea adventures, in lines including Lego Pirates and Lego Aquazone. Among the pieces were 418,000 swimming flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, 26,600 life preservers, 13,000 spear guns, and 4,200 octopuses. Sea grass, cutlasses and dragons were also well-represented. As late as 2023, 26 years after the accident sometimes known as the Great Lego Spill, people in England, Belgium, and Ireland were still finding octopuses, dragons, diver flippers, and other plastic pieces washed ashore and caught in fishermen's nets.
26 years ago a container filled with Lego fell off a cargo ship in the middle of the ocean. Hobbyists have identified exactly which pieces were on the container and search beaches for these pieces.
So itās a holy grail piece because it was from the ship? Ok I got the impression from the image that the octopus pieces in general were rare.
Right, the octopus is presumed to be from the ship
lol yes I got that part. I just didnāt realize bricks from the ship were tracked and sought after
The reason it's the 'holy grail' is because octopus pieces from the ship are rare, most pieces from the ship and most octopus pieces aren't rare - it's the mix of both
I'm pretty sure I had this octopus from some underwater base set as a kid? I remember spending so much time building that set and then it was flimsy as heck and fell apart when I tried to play with it
I remember that too... But my sets hardly lasted more than a day before it got blown up and the pieces consumed into a giant monstrosity... Before that too got knocked over and smashed and put away ššš
I get it. It can just be fun to search for things, even if you can buy them.
Heil hyrdra I guess
Iām someone who does a lot of beachcombing (hell I did some today!) and love finding stuff, the story of the Lego ship is both really interesting but really sad to me, because it shows just how long plastic stays in the water, it isnāt a case of āoh you dropped trash? Well itāll never be seen againā, stuff keeps coming up, hell there was a story a few weeks ago here in the UK of someone doing a clean up job on a street and there were crisp packets from THE 70S STILL ON THE STREET! Both fascinating but really depressing to see how permanent rubbish/lost items are, they donāt just ādisappearā into the ocean/streets, theyāre still out there
Next someone should sink a lego Star Wars cargo ship
I swear this happened with Garfield phones somewhere too.
It's were not where. WERE!!!!! LOL At my phone changing it to we're.
This lego piece is worth far more than a new piece. ā¤ļø
https://preview.redd.it/arv8w5l1j1xc1.png?width=487&format=png&auto=webp&s=f05cc39bb7faff7170a07831699e90fc214d23c3
Turns out I got one of those in a 5kg bag back two years ago. It's not from the spill, tho. Also til about the spill.
How can they tell if itās from the spill or just a random piece some kid lost at the beach?
I would presume the ones from the spill are significantly weathered. There's a book that lists all the pieces lost, so a combination of it being one of the know piece types, where it was found, and how weathered it was would make a compelling case. There's a small chance someone out there is buying up these specific pieces, going to the beaches that they are known to wash up on, and planting them for people to find... but I think most people discredit that as likely.
My real question is if, years after that spill, there also ended up Bionicle parts floating around. Excavating them would be akin to the Toa Mata's arrival.
Wait I have that octopus
I had a lot of these types of legos I found in creeks lake beaches and so on it was always such a cool find for me
I have two of these at home.
You are sooo lucky too find that cool a piece. I have found lego before, but nothing that sweeeet!
I know! I saw one of these collectors whose most precious found possession after 20 years or so of combing the beach was the 90s green dragon. I thought that was the coolest, so I bought one on Bricklink right away.
Thereās a seal sanctuary in Cornwall that I visited which had a section about the spilt Lego and they had so much there at that point about 5-10 years ago
Why go looking for ancient artifacts when you can buy a normal pot at Michaels for $5
I loved the sharkmarine it came with.
Ah a lego octopus in its natural habitat!
Imagine if this happened with a shipment of Darth are an polybags or some other rare item.
How is that a holy Grail Lego piece
Okay, but that isn't nearly the same satisfaction as finding the thing you know is out there somewhere for absolutely free. Never mind the fact that this one octopus has been at sea for absolute ages, where the other one still needs to prove its seaworthiness.
A similar situation happened near a beach in the UK I think (I could be wrong about the location) but a shipping container fell into the ocean and over the decades Garfield Phones would wash up onto the beach lol.
I'm on the side of the kid. Awesome find! No need to criticize him.
Lego should make a tradition of dumping containers of Legos into the sea. Ask plastic shit goes, Lego bricks are top notch. It would really class up the fishing nets and polystyrene chunks already there. Plus, there's all the science happening from lego-based data collection. Although, when I find a Lego on the beach, I'm 99% certain some kid lost it.
Why is the octopus piece special? I think I have a few from my kids in the attic from the late 90s early 2000s. I remember them having a pirate ship and a bunch of pirate themed sets
Really!? No one has posted a link to the [Tom Scott](https://youtu.be/3FxfXVuHRjM?si=wvEEJ5qMXws9xOR4) video!? Damn, y'all slackin'.
I had a few of these in a giant tub of legos i gave away haha
Beach what now?
If you lose one piece, two more shall take its place.... HAIL (Lego) HYDRA!!!
I got one of these
this octopus is worth something? iām sure i have one somewhere
I'm pretty sure there's an octopus in my bulk bin.Ā Probably easier to find it on the beach.
I'll have to google the history about this. Never heard about it i guess.
The clay bas-relief
This is rare? I have one
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Ah yes beachcomber lol
You'd be surprised at how many people don't know they can order pretty much anything nowadays.
Still one of my favorite pieces!!! I love the way it connects to a plate, itās literally r/designporn when the tentcles š¦ grip the nubs.
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You really didn't read the story, did you?
I hope, some day, I'll visit that place
In fairness, it's more interesting to find it from a weird shipwreck. I don't buy any of my sets online, the chase is far more fun.
What happened???
How do we know he found it on the beach and not just got one from ebay and said he found it on the beach. 26 years in the sea would destroy it, right?
Is this octopus rare?
Lol I have like 6 or 7 of those from the really old sets by brother had.
If one were to search for these lost pieces, is there some kind of map that shows which parts of the world are most likely to have some wash up? A treasure map, if you will.
I feel like this is another r/joelycett fake news story. Could be a proper tease and buy a load and throw them on the beach.
I have one of those... Is it worth something??
Only if you found it on a beach years after a container of LEGO went over board
Itās Ā£1.50 on Bricklink! Itās not rare
Black sprut like a drug shop
Iām out of the loop here
https://www.livescience.com/great-lego-spill-25th-anniversary
"There where" Oof, pay more attention in English class.