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The $200,000 LEGO Scandal: What Everyone Got Wrong

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This spring, one fight became the biggest story on the internet. The version everyone shared was clean: an evil company robbed an 83-year-old man of his life's work — a 780-set Star Wars LEGO collection — and a heroic YouTuber named Reckless Ben exposed them. Hundreds of millions of views. A villain, a hero, a crowdfund in the hundreds of thousands. Everyone agreed on what happened.

So we did…