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title: 'I Finally Caught Up with the LEGO Scandal'
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# I Finally Caught Up with the LEGO Scandal

> Source: [I Finally Caught Up with the LEGO Scandal](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qn7eWxT__Q8)

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## Transcript

I am finally all caught up with the
latest in the Lego scandal. So,
naturally want to yap about it. I want
to bring you aboard the Magic School Bus
here as we take a tour through the
newest and the most comprehensive dive
into this situation, which is found
through Coffeezilla's video. I highly
recommend you watch his full video here
cuz he really gets into the weeds of it
and shows everything. He bears it all.
Let's let's the entire Lego scandal
hanghog in its birthday suit. And I
think it is an incredible job he's done.
Per usual, Coffeezilla investigations I
think are always just so high quality
and just so well done. I want to be
covering like a lot of the new
information as well as also going over
how we got here in the first place
because now after so much has happened,
a lot of people have forgotten what the
actual facts are. People are, I think,
getting confused or just really falling
into the back rooms here when it comes
to like this whole story. So, they're
regurgitating phony baloney nonsense or
even just outright myths, you know, or
ghost stories. Reckless Ben's not even
real. He's been dead for 15 years type
[ __ ] And I think Coffeezilla does a
good job of keeping everything extremely
clean and all of it is real information,
evidence, facts, just the straight up
pudding of it.
>> A $200,000 Lego collection went missing,
causing a lot of you to ask me to find
it. And after seeing the cops point guns
at YouTubers, people get arrested and
sued for 1.3 million, I decided enough
was enough. Most people said the same
thing after seeing how everything
unfolded here with the behavior
exhibited by the Bricks and Minifig side
as well as the very shady behavior from
the American Fork Police Department in
the handling of this case. So, it's no
surprise Coffeezilla also said no more
Mr. Nice Guy and decided to get down and
dirty and get to the bottom of this. A
massive Star Wars collection was put on
consignment at a Lego store called
Bricks and Miniigs in Salem, Oregon.
Consignment just means the owner, Brian
Mancel, gave it to a store to sell and
he was supposed to get a cut when it
sold. The entire time he maintained
ownership of the collection and a social
media post estimated it to be worth
about $200,000. But then on November
14th, 2024, everything went wrong. This
was the night that Crystal and Ben
Gorman, the prior franchise owners of
the Salem store, got kicked out by this
guy. That is Brandon Best. He and his
partner Josh Johnson ran a sister store
in Eugene, Oregon. And Brandon drove up
that night to kick the Gormans out.
Brandon and Josh would be taking over
the franchise in Salem. And this is the
exact moment the Legos go missing. As
that store is getting handed over, the
question is, is Brian's collection in
it?
>> A perfect succinct previously on Dragon
Ball Z lore dump. That is exactly how
everything happened and exactly what
started this story to begin with where
Brian Manzel had a very valuable
collection go into this bricks and
minifigs on consignment. the previous
franchises get kicked out and there is a
lot of questions around well where are
the Legos now because Brian Mancel the
owner of the Legos has not been
compensated for all the Legos that he
had brought there that presumably had
sold as well and also now Bricks and
Minigs is being like really combative
and not super cooperative. So, just a
lot of like big questions that until
Coffeezilla's video hadn't really had
any clear answers with strong supporting
evidence and proof that really paints
the entire picture clearly on the
location of these missing Legos. So, the
first thing Coffee looks at is the
Bricks and Minifigs official press
release where they claim that there is
only like $2 to $5,000 worth of Legos
left there, which is a huge discrepancy
based on all of the reporting on how
many Legos should have still been there.
Coffee then looks at all of the suspects
and even toys around with the
possibility that this could be someone
completely unrelated like thieves. Just
regular old Joe Schmo burglars that came
in to get their grubby paws on the One
Piece here. This extremely valuable Star
Wars collection. However, the previous
owners, the Gormans, shut that idea
down. They admit that they did have
break-ins, but at no point were any of
the Star Wars, Legos, any of Brian
Mancel's collection uh subjected to
that. They they were never taken during
any of these break-ins. So, it wasn't
thieves. That is something that gets
ruled out pretty early on here. So, who
who has the Legos? Where are they? Is,
you know, does Smog have it and he's
just sitting on it like his pile of
gold? And like it's crazy how this [ __ ]
can just vanish like that and no one in
a very small tight group of suspects has
any knowledge on where it is.
Coffeezilla even plays around with one
of the ideas that maybe Reckless Bins
stole it because as you might recall the
cops came in guns blazing when they
arrested them because apparently they
had got a tip that the YouTubers in this
Airbnb had a conversation about their
stolen Legos they have. And also, one of
the owners even accused Ben of stealing
the Legos when he was melting down,
[ __ ] crashing out on a phone call
saying, "Fuck you. You stole the Legos,
bitch." So, Coffeezilla explores that
idea and it obviously reaches a pretty
comically dumb conclusion that there is
no world where that happens. That is
just barnacles. Because Reckless Bin
literally couldn't steal them. It
actually would have been impossible. He
wasn't there that night. He had no
connection to the uh previous franchise
owners. Had no interaction with like the
takeover or anything. He had no chance
to even steal the Legos if that was part
of a nefarious dubious plot he was
cooking up. Genuinely, it is impossible
for him to have been the one to have
stolen the Legos. So then he Coffeezilla
looks at Ammon.
>> My name is Ammon McNe. I am the CEO of
the Bricks and Minifigs brand. So, my
name is Matt McNeff. I'm the COO of
Bricks Minigs.
>> The people you just saw are the McN
brothers. They agreed to speak with me
to try to clear their name.
>> Boy howdy. You can probably already
imagine how well this goes. Their
defense not watertight. I am always so
impressed by Coffeezilla's ability to
get the star clowns of his
investigations to speak directly to him.
And every time without fail they make
fools of themselves. It it it it keeps
happening and I am thankful that it
does. I am just always surprised. Now
that being said, Ammon does make a
strong point about offsite holding of
Brian Mansel's collection, which is
something Brian had reiterated on a
podcast like a year ago about how his
collection was being stored outside of
that bricks and mini figs location,
outside that facility. It was in, you
know, [ __ ] secure black site or
something for security, which I think is
very odd. That is peculiar.
Why? You know, they store the Legos in
[ __ ] Fort Knox or something on
consignment like it that is very weird
if you ask me.
>> Parts of it seem to go missing on
November 14th.
>> Well, and and and I guess the No,
not not at all. I'm I'm gonna say, you
know, like that that that is not
accurate at all because
>> So, you think that the collection was in
the store at the time or elsewhere?
>> Elsewhere. When when you look at Manel's
own words that he reiterated to a
podcast last year, he explicitly stated
to another podcaster, "The sets were
moved off site for security.
>> The collection will not be stored on
site after ours for security reasons,
and after Sunday, the sets will be
available for purchase, but stored
elsewhere." Coffeezilla then brings this
up directly to the previous owners, the
Gormans, about the off-site storage of
Brian Mansel's Star Wars Lego
collection, asking them to pour a bit of
milk on this cereal. What does this all
mean? What does it look like? And I
think the way they explain it does make
more sense about why it was stored off
site for a brief period of time. The way
Ammon describes it makes it sound like
it was some kind of indefinite thing
where they had it buried underground,
you know, in like a fallout shelter or
something that they were, you know,
squatting on there and it it seemed very
underhanded and shady. But the way they
describe it and like the reason behind
it, that also makes sense.
>> Locations, can you address what that is?
Is that true? So, the off-site location
and the the letter that they are re that
corporate is referring to is the
original press release that we released
when we were launching the collection.
In that press release, because we had
had uh previous break-ins, I
specifically included the location that
after this weekend, those Legos would be
sto
stored offsite to deter any future
thefts. They were briefly stored offsite
after that launch weekend while I bought
safes for the back room and then they
were moved back into the store.
>> Okay. So, for most of the time the the
the sets were in the store after y'all
got the safes in.
>> Yeah,
>> exactly.
>> To me, that does pass the smell test. If
they are having problems with thieves,
you know, Lego City's under attack from
Nire Dwells, well, now they have this
extremely valuable collection that
belongs to Brian Mancel's father. And in
order to try and keep it safe and
secure, they don't have any like safes
or anything like that. So in the interim
while they get those safes, they store
it offsite.
I get that. Like I I do understand that.
And according to them, once they did get
those saves, they did bring it back. So
it was in the store for the majority of
the time. It was only offsite for a
little while. And one group in
particular is pointing their finger at
them very hard. It's the McNavs who say
they were behind on payments.
>> We started getting uh calls from the
landlord letting us know that Crystal
was uh behind on the lease payments at
the location. We had also gotten a
couple of uh notices from some of our
vendor partners that bills had not been
paid by the store. And so we felt pretty
strongly that there was going to be a
risk of her just, you know, like
attempting to file bankruptcy, doing
some of these other types of things
which we've had franchises do in the
past. And that's problematic. So that's
why we sent him up there to take some
video footage. So we need we needed to
just be prepared if if we needed to do a
hostile takeover.
>> This is not new information from the
bricks and minig side of things about
pointing the finger at the Gormans. That
they are responsible for all this
hoopla. They are the actual bad guys
here. They may not have the twirled
mustache, but make no mistake, they're
the villains. So he they are claiming
that the Gormans were behind on
payments. They they weren't doing their
due diligence. So there was a fear that
there might be bankruptcy, skipping
town, this kind of thing. So they
actually sent Brandon Best undercover
incognito to shop around and take video
to send to them. And this was before
Brandon came in to kick them out. So
they were already like investigating the
Gorman's and this shop in particular.
>> A video of the store condition in
preparation for this handover. But at
this point, Brandon does not announce
himself to Crystal Gorman. Later though,
on November 14th, once again, the same
concern about the Gorman stealing or
theft was expressed by the McNavs.
Brandon was trying to make sure that
they weren't taking things from the
store. And so, he was kind of trying to
make sure that he wasn't putting things,
you know, like hiding things in the back
and that he like, and while he was
watching that, trying to make sure Ben
wasn't grabbing stuff from the store and
moving or doing anything along those
lines cuz he just got a weird feeling
about the whole transition. She took at
least one, if not more than one, cart
fulls of things out to her car with her
coat draped over it.
>> Agent 47 Brandon Best here is undercover
and according to the McNS filming things
to make sure everything's above board
and that the Gormans aren't stealing
things, trying to prevent theft and make
sure everything's, you know, above board
and as smooth a transition as possible
with all the inventory intact without
them, you know, making off with it like
bandits. The other McNF that doesn't
have a mustache even claims that she was
taking cart fulls of items to her car
under her coat.
How How big is her coat? That'd be a
[ __ ] massive coat, right? To put an
entire cart full of items under it to
try and hide it. What is Is that like a
XXXL
raincoat or something? Like what the
[ __ ] Is it like that old thing of like
three kids in a trench coat to buy
tickets to a PG-13 movie or some [ __ ]
Like, how big of a code are we talking
here to be able to do that? That's a
pretty bold claim. And they follow this
up by saying that she actually has a
history of retail theft. Like she has a
record of like stealing. So, she is
someone that they don't trust and they
are trying to put doubt into their
credibility in the first place here. So,
it's something that Coffeezilla explores
with the Gormans directly about that.
And she does confirm, yeah, that
happened in 1999
when she was 19 and pregnant, according
to her. And the big thing here is that
she allegedly told them about that,
which is something McNeff claims they
had no clue about.
>> Kind of their side. But at every turn, I
hope you understand, I'm getting
contradictory stories down to if the
McNeffs knew about her history in the
first place.
>> Like they're bringing up something that
I told them about.
>> Wait, wait, wait. You told them
>> told them. They asked me.
>> They said they had no idea. They said if
if we knew, we would have never hired
her.
>> Cuz we would not have hired her had we
known this. I told them I had a record
from when I was 18 that was a family
issue that and didn't go into all of the
details, but they were like, "That's so
long ago. We're going to hire you based
on who you are now."
>> Now, she says that when she told them
about it, it was something that happened
when she was 18, whereas apparently it
actually happened when she was 19. Not
that it matters here in the context of
this, but it illustrates the
contradictions that are being met at
every single stage of this investigation
in this case overall from the very
beginning. And that's something I've
said a lot. A lot of what comes out of
Bricks and Minifigs has so many
contradictions that are easily
accessible to just the the naked eye,
the the peepers here. You can just see
that a lot of what they have said is
contradicted by other evidence out
there. And this is just another one of
those examples here because according to
Crystal, she let them know like off rip
that you know when she was 18 or I guess
19, she did have this thing on her
record here. And after making them
aware, they said that was so long ago,
which it was [ __ ] two decades ago,
that it doesn't bother them and that
they're, you know, still willing to do
business with her. But McNeff is now
turning around and saying they had no
idea. And if they did know, they would
have never done business with her. You
know, this huge blemish on her record.
She is a scoundrel. Did you know that?
Did you know that she has a retail theft
charge? Did you know that? We can't
trust her. She's a [ __ ] heinous evil
monster. That kind of thing. when
apparently from the very beginning
according to her she let them know about
that. Also, I would think as a big
corporation, keep in mind Bricks and
Minifigs we have to remember is a huge
corporation. They have a team of
lawyers. I would imagine they do a
vetting process for people that they go
into business with because I imagine
they would want to know if a new
franchisee is like a felon who has a
history of stealing and [ __ ] like that.
So, there's no doubt in my mind that
before they even approved her as a
franchisee, they would have seen this on
her record, this uh retail theft charge,
and they still did business with her.
Like, I just find it hard to believe
that they wouldn't have known about that
because I have to imagine there is a
thorough process that goes into being a
franchisee owner with Bricks and
Minifigs. It's a huge corporation. That
kind of standard procedure like
background checks that would come up. I
feel like it's very unlikely that Bricks
and Minifigs had no idea about that
before starting to do business with her.
And if they really had no idea about it,
that just goes to show you that they're
not really a very well-managed company
if they're uh neglecting like one of the
most standard steps in business, which
is just doing a background check.
>> After a lot of convincing, both sides
agreed to show me the photos, corporate
and the Gormans. In fact, I scheduled
the calls to do this an hour apart from
each other. But let's remember their
positions for a second. The Gorman say
whatever was left unsold of Brian's
collection that was in that store
spreadsheet was in Salem store the night
of November 14th. Then you have
corporate side. They say whatever was
left that night was maybe $2 to $5,000
of Legos. The rest was either stolen by
thieves, the Gormans, or held off site.
It was not in that store. And on both
sides, there's a lot to lose here,
right? This is where it gets really
juicy. And now we do get like hard
picture proof. And Coffeezilla also
recognizes the effect this has on the
others here, the new franchises that
came in. This is the most important
component so far in the video about the
location of these sets and also who is
being truthful. Who is actually
providing real evidence to confirm their
account of things and disproving the
other. That is a very crucial thing to
finally have definitive light shined on.
>> You'd agree?
>> There's there's a good amount of Lego on
hand. Um, this this isn't what I would
say is a well stocked bricks and mini
figs, but it's not um it's not terrible.
It's it's I would say a little below
average as far as overall stock. So, now
let's go to November 14th. Can you still
see my screen?
>> Yes, sir.
>> Okay. So, November 14th, we haven't put
this is the first time we've shown this
publicly. We've been waiting for our
attorneys to give us the approval to
say, "Hey, this is okay now to share in
this capacity." So, okay. Uh, this we
we'll go through these pictures. This is
what Josh saw when or not Josh, Brandon
saw. Uh, he took pictures of everything
in the store. All the inventory in the
store. This is what the shelves looked
like
compared to what you just saw a moment
ago.
Okay. So, I'm seeing a lot less. Just to
state the obvious, go back a little bit.
>> Yeah.
>> I'm seeing like way less. So, yeah. the
pictures I was being shown on November
14th, those shelves looked emptier than
they did on the day of October 24th. But
to be fair to the Gormans, they
addressed the empty shelves themselves.
>> So, starting with the McN side of things
here, they have these videos from
Brandon where he was recording the
inside of that location. And in the
first video that Coffeezilla is getting
walked through with the McNS, it does
seem like the shelves are far more full.
He does say that it's not like a well
stocked bricks and mini figs. It's a
little below average, but it's very
clearly more full than that video from
November 14th, which is the big day. The
shelves are noticeably emptier on that
day in that video.
>> As we get to the very end of this video
in particular right here, you'll see
that empty space right here. So, this is
the retired and certified set section
that we have to keep separate from the
new and boxed current sets being sold by
LEGO. All those empty spaces up there
were the sets that we had on display
during the day from Brian's collection
that every night when the store closed,
we pulled off and put back into the safe
and then put back out in the morning.
>> So when they say, "See, there's empty
space on the shelves." Yeah, cuz we put
them in safes at night to keep them safe
>> cuz we have giant windows.
>> Yeah, it's an explanation that kind of
makes sense given the history of
burglary now.
>> Yeah, that is an explanation that makes
a lot of sense. Breakins happen all the
time. Like look at card shops in
particular. There's a break-in every
hour at a card shop somewhere. Right now
there's someone probably getting their
glass broken in and all their Pokemon
cards stolen right out of [ __ ]
display. So they have had a problem with
breakins in the past. So it makes sense
that they have it on display during the
day when there's people there and then
they take it down at night to put in the
safes. So that way thieves can't just
see these valuable Legos sitting out
there and decide to just throw a brick
through the through the window. But when
you have these two videos, it's very
easy to spin a narrative that also makes
sense. Look, these shelves were full on
this day, but on the most important day,
the November 14th date, they are
noticeably emptier. That must mean foul
play. That must indicate that they are
stealing these sets. That's the
insinuation they're making with those
videos. And yeah, you could make that
argument, but when you actually hear
from the franchisee owners here, the
Gormans, their explanation
make sense on why those shelves would be
emptier.
>> My understanding is that he took
pictures of everything and all those
photos I showed you of the Star Wars
were all the photos were all was
literally all the Star Wars inventory in
the store.
>> Yeah, the McNe say all of the photos
should be with Brandon of all the Star
Wars items. And to be fair to them, they
showed me a lot more pictures and even
showed me a spreadsheet of all the Star
Wars sets in the store the night Brandon
took it over. And it valued to about
like5 to$10,000 or so. But then I had to
ask, sorry, here's another kind of set.
>> Okay.
>> Do you think y'all have all of these?
>> Very likely.
>> Okay.
Again, I'd be surprised if we didn't.
>> But then I couldn't help myself. I
started to bring up some of Crystal's
photos to see if they matched up. Have
you seen this before?
>> Uh, not that I recall.
>> So, do you see that?
>> Yep.
>> So, do you see it's in like some kind of
like a safe thing? I don't know if you
can see the sides there. Looks like a
bookshelf to me, but sure.
>> A bookshelf. Bro, be real. We're looking
at it. What bookshelf has hinges on the
left side of it? presumably to close. I
the not any bookshelves I'm aware of.
Maybe it's not, you know, the craziest
high most highquality safe, you know,
with the giant [ __ ] wheel on it like
the vault door you'd find at a bank, but
that does definitely appear to be a safe
that those Legos are in there in
Crystal's pictures. So anyway, uh McNeff
is now saying and even sent a sheet to
Coffeezilla about what was left in the
store from the collection valued at
around like5 to $10,000. And while going
through pictures, Coffeezilla starts
showing some of Crystal's pictures as
well.
>> Okay. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So I think the
important thing is making sure that all
of these are in the inventory for Manel.
>> Sure.
Sure. That's home.
>> 75041.
>> Yep. The vulture droid.
>> 75169.
>> 169. I'm not seeing. So, there may be.
Okay. So, there's one that is not on our
list.
>> Let's try this
10240.
>> Okay. Nope. Not seeing that one either.
What about 9493?
I don't see that one either. So maybe
those were locked at the time and
Brandon did not get those pictures.
>> You already tried pissing on my head and
calling it rain when you looked at a
safe and said it looked like a
bookshelf. So, it's hard to extend the
courtesy that this is like an honest
mistake about these sets that are in
Crystal's photographs not appearing in
their records of the inventory there.
Like, I can't say for sure if it's by
design, like they're omitted uh on
purpose, maliciously or not, but it is
hard to extend any level of benefit of
the doubt here. They should be there.
And the fact they're not is alarming and
it's something Bricks and Minigs should
take seriously. He kind of like brushes
past it a little bit, glosses over it
and like, okay, well maybe this, but
like that shouldn't be the response.
Like it should be something that you
want to immediately look into a bit more
on how this could even happen, this
mistake, if it is a mistake. All right,
that's kind of a problem because the
Gorman's had over 200 photos of this
store. I definitely knew looking at
these photos, there's a lot more Legos
in the Gorman's photos by quite a lot
that Brandon's photos just didn't show.
But corporate didn't really see it that
way.
>> But still, in in the grand scheme of
things, we're not talking again 10 times
the amount of of sets here.
>> I don't know. I I haven't shown all the
the photos yet. I don't know exactly how
much.
>> If there's a calculable figure that we
can look at and say, "Great, this is
what was there." I promise you it's not
$100,000 worth of of Lego. And so
where's the rest of it? He got me. I
don't know.
>> Maybe I'm a little too in my head about
this this U-Haul story. You don't think
it could have been some U-Haul thing?
There's no way. So to me, I believe the
Gormans provided significantly more hard
evidence with apparently a couple
hundred photos showing significantly
more Lego sets in the store than
Brandon's documentation had and what
Bricks and Minigs is touting. I I don't
think that's something to just gloss
over here. I I don't know if Mc Maf
realizes how bad that looks for them.
It's hard to chalk that up as some
honest to god mistake or or something
like that. Especially when at every turn
McNeff is trying to like minimize the
amount of Legos with this discrepancy.
Like okay, even if there was some
unaccounted for and some uh wackiness
documentation got cattywampus, it's not
a hundred thousand. It's not 10 times.
Yeah, you might have a couple hundred
photos, but it's not like that much.
It's just it's very uh fishy behavior.
And speaking of fishy, it's about to get
real weird with the U-Haul story.
>> So, when Brandon came to the store that
night, uh he was driving a U-Haul truck.
>> Now, in typical fashion, this was
immediately disputed.
>> Brandon showed up to to the Salem store
in a rental car. uh when when he came to
to get the keys from Crystal, he was
there in a rental car, not in a U-Haul.
>> But the big reason it mattered to me was
because I was actually called by an ex
employee of the Bricks and Miniix store
in Eugene, Oregon. Remember, that's the
one that Brandon and Josh owned. And he
told me something very interesting.
>> I'm a former employee started in 2024,
and I was working under the old um
manager Brian. He sold the store to a
random best Josh. Josh like, "Oh,
Crystal um stole Lego sets and bolted
out of the country."
>> Who says that?
>> Brandon. Brandon Best told us
when he was um dropping off all the Lego
sets to us that night. They used like it
was a bunch of used Lego sets that were
like Saran Graph. They had Star Wars
City. I used just a lot of stuff. It was
like a mediumsiz U-Haul truck.
>> Wait, wait. They brought a U-Haul truck.
>> Yeah, from Salem. To Eugene
>> and to Eugene and it had a bunch of Star
Wars sets on it.
>> Yes, Star Wars sets and everything. A
bunch of new stuff, too. So, Coffeezilla
was contacted by a former employee at
the Eugene location, which was owned by
Brandon and Josh, and he talks about how
he watched the Reckless Bin YouTube
video, and a lot of like what they were
experiencing with on their own started
to make sense. And then even talks about
how that U-Haul has been brought up by
the Gormans actually arrived at the
Eugene store full of Lego sets, Saran
Wrap Lego sets, Star Wars Lego sets.
This is a huge big claim here and this
is a real former employee. Coffeezilla
did his due diligence from everything I
can tell to confirm this really is an
employee who worked where he said he
worked which was at that Eugene location
with Brandon and Josh as the owners. And
he is talking about how they had a
U-Haul that brought these Lego sets. And
uh they were saying like that facility
was closed down, you know, [ __ ] was like
haunted. Crystal big thumbs down. Boo.
Crystal. We don't like Crystal. Boo. She
was like stealing Legos and stuff. And
then he arrives on his chariot here, his
U-Haul with these [ __ ] Star Wars
sets.
That's That's big. That is colossal. And
Bricks and Minifigs McN there. You can
hear him still denying the existence of
that U-Haul in the first place. It is
heavily disputed, saying he showed up in
a rental vehicle, not a U-Haul.
Explicitly saying not a U-Haul. But the
Gormans are saying it's a U-Haul. A
former employee at the Eugene location
is saying it was a U-Haul.
I mean, it sounded like it was a [ __ ]
U-Haul to me. If it walks like a duck,
talks like a duck, probably a [ __ ]
U-Haul. Like, if you were to look at the
the footage, uh the ring cameras, all
that stuff, you you won't see a U-Haul
sitting anywhere in the the parking lot.
>> So, after in hearing all of this, I
realize, look, I just got to find the
evidence. So, I start sifting through
these photos I have, right? I realize I
have a parking lot photo. I check it. No
U-Haul, just a red truck out there. I
check another photo where you could see
the window, but the problem is it's
night outside, so you can't see. And so
I'm looking at everything I can and
there's just nothing, you know? And I
have this alternate angle. I'm looking
at that and then wait a minute. Zoom in
on that photo. Bring up the brightness
of this photo a little bit. And
my gosh, there's a U-Haul in the parking
lot right outside of the store the night
of November 14th, 2024. I mean, is this
not Coffeezilla just reaching over to
deliver the scholars mate here on that
claim of no U-Haul? They now have
irrefutable evidence of that U-Haul's
presence there on that night, which
confirms the Gorman's account of things
and disproves the bricks and minifig
side of things. Now, there was that
truck that was there in like the the
footage that Coffeezilla had access to,
but there is also a U-Haul there. So,
does Bricks and Minigs just deny the
U-Haul in light of irrefutable proof and
try and stick to the story that we now
know is inaccurate about no U-Hauls
being there, only a truck? Or do they
try and feain ignorance like, "Oh, we
were only made aware of that like rental
truck. We had no clue about this U-Haul
scheme here.
>> This is something that Matt said he had
seen footage of and it couldn't be true.
>> And again, I I believe I have seen
footage from that night that shows
clearly out into the parking lot and
there's no U-Haul. After seeing this, I
said, I really have to make a call. And
that's when the story changed. So, last
night I talked with Matt McN. I brought
up this question of the U-Haul. He told
me emphatically there was no U-Haul.
Y'all came to me this morning. You said,
"Hey, we looked into it. There actually
was a U-Haul there that night. Can you
clear up what that's about?"
>> So, so, so there's there's actually two
different things that are going on here
just to help you understand.
>> Bro, I hate the way Ammon talks. I hate
the way he conducts himself. His clothes
whack. His mustache whack. This guy
sucks, man. Like, let me just help you
understand, actually. So, yeah, there's
a U-Haul there. We know you we know you
found it. We We know you found the the
evidence of the U-Haul. We're going to
have to change our story a little bit.
We're going to have to tighten the
screws a little bit here and try and get
something cohesive here cuz yeah, that
doesn't look good cuz we really were
strongly saying that there's no U-Haul.
So, here's the spin. Here's the scoop.
And I don't want to torture you with
more than necessary Ammon words that he
drils out. He's basically now spinning
this this web here that actually this is
a big misunderstanding. Uh there's
there's a odd conflation that's going on
here about like the U-Haul. Like it's
not actually there for like this store's
inventory. There was a disgruntled
former employee. Uh and there was a a
bit of uh mishandling of inventory. So
now the U-Haul is there for that
something totally separate and and you
know now things are wires getting
crossed. Everyone's all over the place.
But yeah, does that clear it up? Does
that make sense? It really just doesn't
make any sense. He's saying that that
collection that he had brought to the
Eugene store was from that other problem
that they had and the employees just
misremembering the timeline. Like those
Star Wars sets that he had in Matt
U-Haul didn't come from, you know, this
one. It was from something totally
separate that he was also just doing it
like the same time as him investigating
the Salem store. He was doing them both.
He wears many hats. Jack of all trades.
He's very talented. So yeah, he was
doing that and then when he came back on
the 14th, uh he then starts talking
about like oh he had like a rental truck
and he tried to attach a camper to it
but it just wasn't rated for that. So he
thought a crap like this is this is the
story that McNe is telling. Like it is
it is quite a tale. It is it is like a
you know an epic up there with the Iliad
I'd say but like it's not really making
a ton of sense to me
>> in anticipation like meaning like a
camper trailer in anticipation of the
the potential hostile takeover
previously.
>> Is that why he had a U-Haul? Is that the
reason he had a U-Haul was for this
camper or what's going on with the
>> So, so, so then what happens is he takes
his his uh rental vehicle truck and he
tries to connect the the trailer uh the
camping trailer to that truck and and
it's not rated for that particular
weight and he realized, a crap. He
called around and found that that U-Haul
uh had a rating for, you know, like one
of their box trucks. And so he grabbed
that, went and got it at 10:00 a.m. on
the 14th. And at uh and so he then went
and hooked that trailer up um to the
camping trailer to a U-Haul, drove that
trailer down to another location where
he could set up the camping trailer in
Salem. Uh dropped off the camper
trailer, and then he arrived in a U-Haul
to the Salem store. And then um
>> what a story, Mark. [ __ ] me, bro. the
amount of and then it's like he's
writing fanfiction live. I'm taking a
peek inside the writer room here. Like
he's talking about all of this as if he
was like a force ghost on this guy's
shoulders like watching him do all of
it. Where is this even coming from? Like
this who who would ever do this? By the
way, the story he is telling, I can't
fathom a human being doing. Like, it's
just so messy and sloppy and convoluted.
Like, I don't I just don't see a world
where this would be a path that someone
actually takes. Now, I'll go ahead and
spoil that the U-Haul plotline doesn't
get us anywhere closer to finding the
Legos, but I do think it is important
because it illustrates their willingness
to change their story or just outright
tell a fib. So, Coffeezilla got
documentation of that U-Haul. He got
photos from Brandon of that night and
there's so much discrepancy there that
it literally would be impossible for the
story to have gone the way that Ammon is
claiming it did. The timing is just not
feasible. It literally cannot happen the
way in which it's described. So, even
though the U-Haul doesn't help us solve
the mystery Lego here, like Coffeezilla
get to the bottom of it, it just shows
to me the willingness for Bricks and
Minigs to just start spinning their
[ __ ] wheels about basically anything.
and just a complete refusal to like even
stick to their own story and their own
facts. Like it's constantly changing
with them and there's always like
contradictions that seem to pop up. It
is just very uh shady I would say. In
particular with Ammon's behavior, this
guy has a humiliation fetish
potentially. He loves to put his face on
claims that have contradictory evidence
publicly available. So like in this one
he tells this whole story this this
novel that he writes here about like the
U-Haul to explain it even after the
other McNF firmly sternly with no
riddles no guesswork no wiggle room
saying there is no U-Haul that's wrong
now proven that that wasn't true there
is a U-Haul there and now Ammon's got
this massive story cooked up about it
and the story just like there's no way
it can be true based on everything
Coffeezilla was able to together from
Brandon like the actual documentation.
So like I don't think there's any world
where that's true or reality yet he's
proudly making that claim even when it's
like evidence contradicts it like
provably contradicts it. I that's why
it's just so peculiar to me. Like they
keep saying these things and can't even
stick to their own story.
>> First from corporate I got the point of
sale records from the Salem store from
2023 to 2024. And secondly, from Crystal
Gorman, I got her internal records of
Brian's inventory of what was sold or
not in order to pay him and keep track
of prices. Now, Coffeezilla gets access
to some of the bookkeeping here, and he
talks about how the original claim of
this being a $200,000 LEGO collection is
just not true. It's highly inaccurate.
It was used as marketing buzz online.
Yes. like from Bricks and Minifigs
themselves as their marketing material,
like the $200,000 collection, that kind
of thing. And that became, you know, the
most eye-catching part of this whole
story is how much the Legos are worth.
But according to all of what is
available here, the actual estimated
value is calculated to be around
$107,000 according to what Coffeezilla
has access to. still an extremely
valuable Lego collection, but that claim
is just not accurate about it being
200K. It is still extremely valuable and
that is still an extreme amount of
money, but it is important to get things
correct and the correct amount is around
$100,000 $107,000,
which as Coffeezilla mentions is
somewhat nebulous because they're not
all sold. So, you can't really say
exactly what the value is cuz they
haven't been paid for. So maybe it could
be a little more, maybe a little less,
but it is not fair to say it's $200,000.
He then talks to Ben about it, about how
surprised Ben is, cuz he'd been led to
believe it's 200K this whole time. He
then talks to the Gormans about it and
Crystal talks about how she initially
arrived at that number for the sake of
like the press release to be eye
grabbing. But in her spreadsheet she
mention or she calculates it around like
the 85 to 120k ballpark range not 200.
That was her arriving there off
basically like eyeballing it and then
putting out the press release about this
huge collection that is very valuable
that they got their hands on. But as she
actually went through the inventory in
the spreadsheet, it was closer to that
like 100k mark.
>> It's about $107,000. Now, between 2023
and 2024, the Gorman's record sales of
about $24,000 of Brian's collection in
their inventory tracking list. And of
those sales, Brian was entitled to about
65 to 70% of it. He was paid $17,000,
which roughly tracks with that. Which
means on November 14th, the big night,
the remaining amount of Brian's
collection that should have been in
there is about $82,000.
>> And this is why having the correct
number is important. And it's something
Coffeezilla mentions. If you're going to
be trying to locate the missing Legos,
you have to know what you're even
looking for and how much you're looking
for here. cuz if it's a $200,000
collection, there is a lot more out
there in the [ __ ] wild out there in
the rain and cold, you know, needing to
be found. But now that we have the
accurate numbers, you can start to more
fine-tune the investigation to locate
them. So, on the the big night here, uh,
you know, on on judgment day, $82,000
worth of Legos should have been in that
store, which is a really big deal
because Bricks and Minifigs officially
stated that there is only like 2 to
5,000 that they located there. And
McNeff even said that there's only like
11 to 15k total Star Wars in that
location.
How is that possible? We have the
bookkeeping. There should have been
$82,000 worth of Star Wars Lego sets
from Brian Mansel's collection there.
But according to Bricks and Minifigs and
according to uh uh MC Mcnasty McNeff, I
don't know why I blanked on his name so
hard. Uh [ __ ] Mc Cheeseburger here.
According to him, there was only 11 to
15K in total Star Wars there. So that's
just that's not adding up. Where is it?
So, I went through Crystal's photos
myself, which she shared with me, and
hired people to go through and hand tag
the Star Wars Legos that were in these
photos. We looked through over 200 plus
photos, multiple videos, and matched
what we saw with Brian's collection. In
the end, I ended up with about $21,000
of Legos matching Brian's collection
that can be proven to be in the store on
the night of November 14th. Now, to
state the obvious, that's about three to
five times what corporate estimated, at
least on their press release. Now, yes,
there are inherent errors in these
estimates. Maybe we picked up some Lego
that matched Brian's collection, but
wasn't Brian's. But even though this is
a bigger number than corporate said, I
have to admit, even with pretty generous
assumptions being made, there's still a
huge gap of about $61,000 here that I
just couldn't find. I think that was a
really clever way of doing things here.
He has so many photos from the Gormans
here and he hired a team to go through
manually old natural and tag them and so
that way they could find the valuation
of what is provably in the store on that
night and there is still a large amount
unaccounted for. Like yes, of course,
give or take, there's some error there
and how it was gathered and like what
the actual value might be, which he
points out. But even still, that is such
a good thing to work off of there
because now you have provable amount of
what's in the store and what is still
just completely lost in the ether, you
know, [ __ ] ghosts out there. But then
I learned Brian had made a special side
deal with M&R Productions, who had
recently purchased some Legos from him.
And this is where it starts to get
messy. So, these are the pictures that
M&R Productions sent me looking at the
Lego that Brian sold him. This was stuff
reportedly in storage. And it's
interesting because of an early
inventory list which had a column called
location that Crystal used. And it
listed a lot of the Star Wars items as
being located in what they called
storage. Now, previously I was told that
all of the stuff in storage was put back
in the store, but there's a bunch that's
on this list that I can't find in the
store that seem to appear in these
pictures. Now, I've been assured, by the
way, that most of these Legos were not
part of the inventory spreadsheet. They
were never given to Bricks and Miniigs.
This is a separate part of the
collection. But I did a check and 100%
of the items that match the Brian
collection inventory just so happen to
be listed with a location of storage. So
this starts to make things incredibly
fuzzy and I'm inclined to believe that a
lot of these are part of that same
inventory list.
>> Yeah, but I think that's a very natural
conclusion to draw from that. And this
is a really big thing that I had never
heard anything about. This uh side deal
on the Star Wars Legos that were sold to
someone else totally outside of all of
this commotion, but those sets still
appear in that spreadsheet, but they're
marked as located in storage, which as
Coffee points out, storage is something
according to the Gormans that they had
offsite, but would bring back to the
store and put in the safes. So like it
was in their possession still like
securely locked down. But how could that
possibly be true if they have been sold
to somebody else and there are now
pictures to confirm it and it seems like
it is all part of that collection. It
shouldn't be appearing in the
bookkeeping at all in that case. That is
super messy. And according to
Coffeezilla's estimates, it comes out to
about $15,000 in Lego that isn't
missing. We can see where it went. It
was sold to somebody else, but in the
inventory sheet is still marked in
storage, which I believe is very
inaccurate to say, and that is quite
shady.
>> Anything. And by the way, before we
continue, yes, this was all a lot of
work. If you want to, please support us
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made.
>> I wanted to leave that plug in here
because Coffeezilla's work truly is
incredible, and I highly recommend
everyone go support him in any way you
can. his his investigations, I think,
are among the best, not only on YouTube,
but just in general. He really does get
to the bottom of his [ __ ] stories in
a way that is very rare these days. And
I'm always appreciative of his work.
Now, the next thing he's looking at is
the point of sales records. And in
there, he notices that according to
this $51,000
worth of Brian Mansel's collection was
sold. And according to Crystal herself
back in like an earlier talk with
Coffee, she even says like $50,000 of
the collection was sold. But Brian's
only been paid $17,000. What sense does
that make? He should be paid more. He is
owed more. So where is that? Where has
that gone? Who came in and shook that
lunch money out of him?
>> Hey, it was about 50 something,000.
Yeah,
>> but Brian was only paid 17,000.
>> Okay.
>> And it should have been about double
that
>> without again without seeing any of
those any of those records, without
seeing those individual tickets. I can't
answer that any better.
>> This is kind of a problem. The math
ain't math in here. 65 to 70% of 50,000
is almost double what we believe Brian
was paid. And digging into the details,
it turns out a lot of these sales come
from what Crystal's spreadsheet actually
categorizes as layaways, meaning they
were marked as having been sold. But
layaways are when someone puts a down
payment on an item and later pays it
off. I imagine if any of you are
familiar with layaways, you just rolled
your eyes in a big way that always ends
in a lot of fuzziness, a a lot of
friction. So now we're starting to we're
starting to see
something very new in this story here.
So, Coffeezilla has learned that a lot
of this comes from layaways
>> worth about $20,000
in layaway. And that felt a little
strange to me. And because of that, I
asked Josh Johnson, the incoming owner,
and he responded, quote, "There were two
to three items on layaway when they took
over."
>> I haven't gone through and done a count,
but I know it was
vastly more than 2 to three.
>> It was about 98. that that makes sense.
>> Coffee then tries to wrap his head
around this whole huge amount of
layaway. And Crystal then explains like,
"Yeah, it is extremely rare." And she
says that she's not even sure they've
ever done layaway until this set came
in. But then goes on to explain like how
their layaway worked where they'd, you
know, put the down payment then make
payments over like 30 days and that kind
of thing. and that it was just a a big
there was the way she dove into it was
already very much a lot of moving
pieces. She even mentions like one set
in particular went on layaway four times
and then eventually got sold. So like
this amount of layaway and like the
discrepancy between how much layaway
like what what Josh is reporting and
what is reported on the sheet like the
whole thing with this layaway here is
already getting into some really spotty
ground that makes it hard to like really
nail down what's going on and why
because it feels like a crazy amount to
be doing on layaway which is something
Coffeezilla mentions as So, a lot of
these are see like look at this like so
like it says POSOS final sale price but
it's listed as a layaway but it's but
it's sold for $5.99 because it matches
it matches with the store sale price.
>> Okay.
>> So, were they on layaway? Were they
accidentally marked layaway on the
spreadsheet? What's going on there?
>> Um our Ewok Village was one of those
cases. Uh at some point he had I think
like eight or nine different items on
layaway. Um, so they'd come in and make
a payment for a a a bulk payment. You
know, I've got 800 things on layaway.
I'm going to make $100 on my payment.
Um, one customer in particular would do
that and then when he'd gotten up high
enough to pay for one set, we'd pull
that set out, mark it as sold. She
states numerous times that without being
able to see like the actual sales
ticket, she can't really give a great
explanation, but she talks about like
one of the more complicated layaway
experiences they had like with the Ewok
village. And like you can see
where things are getting really muddy
through this layaway um protocol that
they had there. and it's leading to a
lot of funky bookkeeping that is making
some really odd stuff come to light. And
another thing that Coffeezilla gets into
I think is a very big one. But I even
found more than that in this POS data. I
also found about $10,000 in sales that
match Brian's collection that were not
marked as sold under this inventory
spreadsheet. Some of our things that
were not found,
>> okay,
>> were explained by the POSOS system
because they were found in the POS
system as being sold. So, like they
weren't marked on the spreadsheet, but
they were marked as sold via the POS
system. And this is about $10,000 worth
of Lego that basically were matched.
>> Huh. Uh there is a possibility that the
the consignments were ended when I
wasn't at work and I just didn't go
through and pull them up. They didn't
get put in the consignment ticket. I
hadn't gone through that those those
consignments in a couple of months. I
hadn't gone through the inventory in the
back room in a couple of months. So
there it is entirely possible there were
things there were sales that were
finished that I never clocked as being
finished. I don't know that without
going through and actually seeing it.
>> But you're saying it's possible stuff
was sold, not updated on this inventory
list.
>> It's entirely possible.
>> Now, that is a big stinky whoopsie if
things from this collection are being
sold and they're not being updated and
Brian is not getting paid because it's
not getting updated. So, they don't know
that it's getting sold in the first
place. You can see where we're having a
big problem now. This bookkeeping is now
seeming to be the most egregious
catalyst to where this whole thing
started with this missing Lego
collection and him not being properly
paid for Legos that may have actually
already been sold and aren't even
missing. Now, in that audio recording
when Brandon Best came in and kicked
them out, she does make a mention that
Brandon may not have been paid yet.
everything that he's owed. That is
something that is explicitly mentioned
by her. Coffeezilla also plays the
recording where you can hear all of
that. I've played it for you a couple
times. I'm sure you know what I'm
talking about and is assured by the man
on the phone who we know is Kai or Key.
I already forgot how to say his [ __ ]
name. That the consignment liability
will be taken on by the new franchises
here that are coming in. So Crystal does
make a mention that Brian hasn't
received everything that he is owed here
from all the sales, but from the
bookkeeping here, it looks very messy.
So the amount that he was going to get
paid from Crystal probably still
wouldn't have been accurate. At least
not in my opinion. Not based on
everything I'm seeing here, cuz it seems
like a lot may have been overlooked,
forgotten to be updated, or just lost
somewhere along the way in the
bookkeeping, which would make it very,
very difficult for them to properly
compensate him for what they have sold
from his collection, either through
layaway or through just finishing that
consignment there on those. So, it was
already in a weird spot, but she did
recognize that there was money that he
was owed and put that on the radar of
the new incoming owners. Maybe you can
chalk some of this up to bad
recordkeeping between the U-Haul, the
layaways, the $20,000 in Lego sets that
corporate called $2 to $5,000 that was
there that night, the offbook deals. But
even if we can't like fully know 100%,
you know, what these weird things were
about, I think they tell a story of what
actually happened to Brian's collection.
In a way, multiple people, I think, are
kind of right, kind of wrong. The
Gormans were correct that more of that
collection was there that night of the
takeover than previously thought. But
corporate also alleged that some of it
was offsite and that appears to be
partly true. Although some of that is
disputed and it looks like, you know,
way more of the collection was sold and
layawayed than Brian was paid for. But
all in all, there's a lot less missing
than many people think, especially if
your starting number is $200,000.
>> Very, very, very true. Yeah. After
watching this, it is extremely clear
that from the very beginning, there was
not nearly as much missing as everyone
thought going into this story. And yeah,
bricks and mini figs seems to be liar,
liar, plants for hire in a bunch of
cases. Sure. But their claim about like
the off-site stuff, yeah, Coffey's
right. It does seem like on all
available evidence that is true. not
just offsite and then brought back and
put in the safe, but like sold offsite
like to that other guy, the M&R. And
then the Gormans are correct that there
were more Legos there than Bricks and
Minifigs is saying. And it does look
like a lot of this goes back to really
terrible recordkeeping. I don't know
whether that's like malicious like the
Gormans were trying to like scrape from
the top or try and like, you know, stiff
Brian and take the lion share for
themselves and like use underhanded
tactics for it or if it really was just
bad bookkeeping because they weren't
very good at bookkeeping. It's hard to
say for sure. I like I really I don't
know one way or the other on that, but
the layaways and how they kept track of
everything is clearly a huge issue that
definitely made this situation
significantly messier. And according to
Coffeezilla, Brian Mancel is still owed
like $50 to $83,000
by his estimation here in payments that
he hasn't received that he should have
received in this general ballpark range.
That is the most important piece of all
this. A man who's been really wronged on
all sides here, it seems that is still
owed this money here from this [ __ ]
conundrum for Lego. He wasn't
compensated for. And I think honestly
that's something that Bricks and Minigs
obviously should handle and make right.
Regardless of what a franchisee does,
the new one, the old one, the company
behind it must stand behind their
product, their service, and I can't
imagine a better example of a company
doing the opposite. Unfortunately,
Bricks and Miniix has chosen to deflect
and dodge responsibility at most
opportunities and created a really awful
customer experience that has snowballed
into this crazy series of events.
>> That's so [ __ ] right. Coffeezilla
absolutely hitting the bullseye. It's
something I've been saying from the very
beginning. Even if Bricks and Minigs at
some point along this journey came out
and proved everyone was wrong here, at
the very core, Brian Mancel is a
customer who attempted to use the Bricks
and Minifig service because he believed
it was the gold standard and his best
bet to sell his father's lifelong Star
Wars collection for life-changing money.
and through this ended up getting
completely shafted. And yes, a lot of it
could maybe tie back to like the
terrible recordkeeping with the previous
owners, but at the end of the day, it is
something that Bricks and Minifigs
themselves should have been more more
than willing to make right on their own
because it is still their company. It is
their brand. And every step of the way,
they villainized Brian. They attacked
Brian and refused to make it right
without this huge public spectacle
putting pressure on them. Now Ammon's
singing the whole like, "Let's just all
be friends. Come grab my arm and we'll
square dance" type [ __ ] Like it took a
huge massive avalanche as Coffeezilla
describes it to finally get them to even
toy with the idea of making it right.
But they have nowhere along this path
actually wanted to do that. Which is why
I've said this makes no sense for their
business because who the [ __ ] would want
to work with them going forward? Because
if you are brand main sale in this case,
if you are a customer that wants to use
bricks and minigs and you're going to
sell through them and something goes
wrong, they're not on your side. They
have proven that they will be actively
combative against you and will do
everything they can to slap you down for
their own self-interest. That is the
most glaringly obvious fumble you could
ever make as a business. And it's
something Bricks and Minifig still to
this day refuses to recognize. But
instead of taking accountability for
that, they've taken an aggressive legal
strategy, which I told them personally
was a horrible idea. As of writing this,
Brian Mancel is being sued for 1.3
million as part of a legal campaign
against him and Reckless Ben and any of
the associates. Remember, Brian is the
same guy who lost all these Legos at
Bricks and Miniig store. And I told the
CEO and COO that's ridiculous and they
should drop this. Look, mistakes have
been made by plenty of people here. But
there's a lot more people who have
inflicted selfowns the likes of which
we've rarely seen by just choosing the
worst possible path at every fork in the
road. No pun intended. But the best path
to making things right in my view is by
just making Brian whole and moving on.
>> Yeah. So, as Ammon continues to do his
like playing the world's smallest violin
for why won't anyone think about bricks
and mini figs feelings, we just want to
make Brian Mancel whole. That's the main
thing that we're thinking about over
here. We just have him constantly in our
thoughts and we're praying for him and
we want to help and we want to work with
him collaboratively as best friends
together. I want to kiss him on the
mouth. I want to have a group hug in the
shower with Brian and all of our team
together as one nude. just going on and
on about how their mission is now to
help Brian do everything they can for
Brian
and meanwhile they're actively suing him
for $1.3 million which is why everything
Ammon is saying about it just feels so
fraudulent feels so scummy he is a snake
he's saying that he just wants to help
him and make Brian whole again we want
to give him what he's owed while
actively suing him for $1.3 million
coffee is right that's a terrible idea
and again this should show every
customer ever in the LEGO community to
not work with Bricks and Minifig because
Brian's only crime was getting [ __ ] by
their business. Like, yes, their
franchisee, like the Gormans, definitely
played a huge role with how they handled
things and making it so messy in the
first place, but when he tried to
correct course and try and get what he's
owed and going through corporate, look
at what happened. Look at what's
happened. Yes, he went to Reckless Bin
as well where things really popped off,
but what other avenues did he have? He
couldn't fight them legally. There's
even record of a bricks and minifigs
higher up like someone that's not at the
bottom of the food chain that has a
pretty substantial position there on on
record on the phone even saying that
they will just financially bleed them
dry talking to the Gormans. They'll draw
it out in court and they'll lose more
than they would have ever made should
they win. Like going the legal route for
an ordinary citizen like Brian Mancel is
an extremely costly and not actually
attainable path. So, he tried to do
everything in his power to just be paid
what he's owed. Like, be made whole
again. Just try and get this resolved.
And look at what's happened to him.
Bricks and Minigs is suing him for $1.3
million. I don't blame him for going to
Reckless Ben. You can point the finger
at Reckless Ben like the way he handled
it was like bad and counterproductive,
whatever. Without it, nothing would have
changed in Brian's personal situation
here. And and it's just I don't know how
anyone could possibly defend Bricks and
Mini Fig's decision to sue him here.
$1.3 million. Like he is a victim of
your business, man. Like this [ __ ] is
crazy to me. It is a terrible idea and
they refuse to back down on it. This is
why I really just don't think anyone
should do business with Bricks and
Minifigs going forward. They are not
good partners to work with. They are not
looking out for you, the person that
wants to do business with them. This
[ __ ] is just ridiculous. tried it. They
were basically met with like
unreasonable requests, things like that.
So,
>> verification, documentation. Is that
unreasonable, do you think?
>> Uh, well, I think they would say they
provided the documentation and you guys
say you need more documentation. So, I
mean, that's the kind that's kind of the
>> right a spread like I understand a
spreadsheet and a contract are are a
good start.
>> Yeah.
Yeah. But we never got that. That was
never sent to us at corporate, by the
way.
>> Y'all don't have the Y'all do have the
spreadsheet, though. Yeah, y'all have
the spreadsheet.
>> That That was shared online, but like
But months after we asked for it,
>> it says it's I I'm just I'm so confused.
It says I I'm I'm on the I'm on the file
right now. It says storage used owned by
BAMranchising, Inc. owner salem.org
bricksandmigs.com.
>> What What are you looking at? It is
incredible how Ammon cannot help but put
his own dick in his mouth all the time,
constantly. So, this is like at the end
of Coffeezilla's video now. He's given
his thoughts on this whole thing and his
conclusions and he was taking it to the
parties involved here. And when talking
with Ammon, he Ammon's like, "Oh, we
never even got that." Which is just
provably false. Copy to his face proves
that they had access to this spreadsheet
that he's claiming they didn't have
access to until months later. That is a
verifiably false statement. Ammon says
owner salem
at bricksand minifigs.com. That's you
guys. Says owned by BAM Franchising Inc.
says created September 6th, 2024. And
when I look at it, this is the the Manel
uh list, I believe.
So this this would have been created
under like so so we
we have the um we all
>> you'll definitely have this. You'll have
access to this.
>> Well, I had no idea. Then you're dumb,
Ammon. Then you're just stupid. How
about that? You're just an idiot. You're
a bumbling imbecile. You're a [ __ ] And
yet you continue to say like, "Oh, they
never even provided it." Well, you just
don't know then because you're too
stupid to know. Like what? It Ammon
actually boggles my mind, bro. It's
crazy.
>> Like, so if this is the first anybody
has shown me
>> that
>> that a spreadsheet was created using
like bricks and minifigs Salem like and
all of this stuff was archived. This
this is the first I've seen that this
spreadsheet was created by Crystal and
we don't know how accurate it is, how up
up to date it was. We don't know a lot
of those types of things. And and
understand I appreciate you sharing this
with us because we had no idea. Again,
you don't know what you don't know. And
you you can't like we don't know
everything and we don't go you know like
looking in every nook and cranny
everywhere, you know, like we just don't
know some of those things. So
>> then you're a bad business. Then you're
just a dog [ __ ] business. Like this
isn't a good defense, Ammon. Oh, we just
don't know. We just like actually don't
keep track of any of this [ __ ] Yeah, we
just like actually have no idea. You
don't know what you don't know and you
don't know your own business.
Man, wake up. Use your head. You
shouldn't be in the position you're in
then. How about like I how does that at
any in any way excuse anything of what's
happened here? It's a terrible defense,
man. Especially when you keep trying to
like poke holes in other people's
stories when you admittedly don't even
keep track of your own [ __ ] You don't
even know your own things. You don't
even know what you even have access to
in the first place. So, how can you even
be approaching things to talk about them
or opine on them? Ammon, like you're
just you're off your gourd. But yeah,
anyway, it was a fantastic investigation
that I really do think got to the bottom
of most of the meat and potatoes here.
Uh, at the end, the Gormans also
mentioned that they recognize that a lot
of this falls on their shoulders for
potentially like bad bookkeeping and
that they're more than willing to like
take accountability for that and try and
make it right, but they need the tickets
from Bricks and Minifigs, which they
said they would do that kind of stuff.
All in all, just another banger here
from Coffeezilla in an incredible
investigation and can only hope that
Brian Mancel gets made whole here from
Bricks and Minigs and they actually pay
him what he's owed. Uh that they like
they need to make things right and it
starts with making him whole and
dropping that [ __ ] lawsuit. You
actual imbeciles, man. It's crazy.
Anyway, anyway, anyway though, amazing
work from Coffeezilla. Please go support
him in any way you can. That's really
about it.