LEGO Pieces Continually Wash Up On Cornwall Beaches

[greanie2011]

I was browsing the "internets" and . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/legos-wash-ashore ... 28729.html

[greanie2011]

Says alot about the durability of our beloved lego block. Cant be broken down by the most powerful force on earth WATER! (Water=2nd most powerful force on earth, maybe?)

[JustBrickin]

It was an interesting read. I'm going there one day to get some free LEGOs! Don't you think that the LEGOs have been eaten by fish, etc? That'd be sad.

[StClair]

I was browsing the "internets" and . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/legos-wash-ashore ... 28729.html

That was interesting. Thank you for sharing. I stumbled upon another with the same story with some pics also http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28367198 A lady has started a facebook page to track people's finds. "There's stories of kids in the late 1990s having buckets of dragons on the beach, selling them," says Tracey, who lives in Newquay.

[condor]

Haha, I was coming here to post this story. Great read indeed.

[Mantisking]

Interesting. I wonder if anyone has tried to find the container and salvage the sets that are left.

[vynsane]

A couple of days ago, BBC.com published an article about 62 containers that dumped overboard in a freak wave off the coast of England 17 years ago. According to the ship's manifest, one apparently held an estimated 4.8 million LEGO elements inside, which have continually washed ashore on Cornwall beaches since a few months after the incident.

Ironically, many of the pieces were of a nautical theme, probably a mix of Pirates and Aquazone sets (according to Brickset's database, which places those themes in the 1996/97 timeframe).

One of the interviewees runs a Facebook page dedicated to documenting the discoveries.

[Mantisking]

Scooped.

[vynsane]

Hah! Whoops, that's what I get for going on vacation! (My presentation is better, though )