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What the Record Actually Shows: An Annotated Timeline of the Bricks & Minifigs Salem Case

BAM published its own timeline titled 'What We Presently Believe Actually Happened.' Here is the same chronology with the sourcing checked, the self-attributed claims flagged, and the documented record placed next to the company's version.

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A 'Devastating Social Media Campaign': BAM's Salem Press Release Is a Blame-Shift

BAM's June 4 press release announces a 'mutual agreement to part ways' with its Salem franchise owners and pins the blame on a former franchisee. Read closely, it reads less like an accounting and more like a deflection — and its companion timeline makes the seams show.

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Ammon McNeff and Legally Mine - and why it matters

Before he was CEO of Bricks & Minifigs, Ammon McNeff was president of Legally Mine — a Utah outfit that, for a fee, teaches doctors and business owners how to make themselves judgment-proof. A look at who McNeff is, what Legally Mine actually sells, the federal class action it litigated (Eliasieh v. Legally Mine), the BBB complaint record, and why an asset-protection background is uncomfortable context for a man whose company is accused of absorbing an 83-year-old's $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection and hiding behind a corporate shield.

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Rubber Ducks, a Six-Figure LEGO Collection, and a Police Department Under the Spotlight

Two irreconcilable stories about the same arrest: a captured small-town police department jailing a journalist for helping recover a stolen Star Wars LEGO collection, or an LA content creator arrested after a multi-day harassment campaign at a private home. A look at what the American Fork Police Department record actually says about Reckless Ben's arrest, how the Oregon consignment dispute migrated to Utah, and why accountability and transparency are the part everyone is skipping.

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The Leaked Bricks & Minifigs Crisis Memo — How Corporate's Own Playbook Undercuts Its "Independent Franchisee" Defense

A purported internal Bricks & Minifigs corporate memo to franchisees — coaching them on canned scripts, comment shutdowns, review flagging, platform takedowns, and a "from defense to offense" legal campaign — leaked through the latest Reckless Ben video. Why the memo, if authentic, undercuts BAM's "independent franchisee" defense, and how Oregon's anti-SLAPP statute (ORS 31.150), prior-restraint doctrine, and the FTC's review rule frame what it describes.

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Bambu Lab, OrcaSlicer, and the Fight Over Who Controls Your Printer

Bambu Lab posted an official statement defending their GitHub takedown of an OrcaSlicer fork. Nearly 1,000 community replies later, the trust crisis in the 3D printing space is deeper than ever. Here's the full breakdown.

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