A Salem-area family says a Star Wars Lego collection worth as much as $200,000 was left in limbo after Bricks and Minifigs’ Keizer franchise changed hands, setting off a dispute that now spans the collection’s owner, the store’s former operators, corporate leadership and a criminal investigation.
At the heart of the fight is a basic question: when control of the Keizer store changed in November 2024, who was responsible for a collection that Bryan Mansell says still belonged to his family?
Mansell said his family spent roughly $30,000 over 15 years building the collection, preserving every item sealed in its original box. He said it grew to more than 780 sets and 1,200 minifigures, with an estimated total value of about $150,000 to $200,000. Records reviewed show the sets alone carried an estimated value of about $60,335 to $98,480, while the minifigures were tracked separately.
In November 2023, Mansell consigned the collection to the Bricks and Minifigs franchise store in Keizer under a signed agreement with Chrystal Law-Gorman, then owner of Bricks and Minifigs Salem-Keizer LLC. The store publicly promoted the collection as one of the largest and most valuable privately held Star Wars Lego collections in the world. Mansell said the unveiling drew a line of customers out the door…