Lego looting


Expensive play: High prices have driven a ‘big secondary market for Legos’, an MIT lecturer says, adding that the scarcity of some mini-figures has made them a great investment. — Photos: Los Angeles Times/TNS

How these plastic building-blocks went from a humble toy to criminal black-market good fuelled by LA heists.

THE hooded man darted past shattered glass, his headlamp illuminating the rare collectibles housed in display cases that lined the walls of the Bricks & Minifigs store in Whittier.

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