As a child, many probably had quite different hobbies than today. A boy from Cornwall, UK, regularly goes treasure hunting for lost LEGO with his family and has now struck it lucky.
What is lost LEGO anyway? The Tokio Express was a container ship that, in 1997, was hit by a wave on its way from Rotterdam to New York and lost 62 containers. One of these containers was filled with LEGO, which has been washing ashore on the coasts of Cornwall ever since the incident.
The LEGO shipment contained about 5 million figures and building blocks. However, the particles were not evenly distributed, among them were, for example, 418,000 water wings, 26,600 life jackets, and 4,200 octopuses.
One of the people on the hunt for the lost LEGO treasures is 13-year-old Liutauras Cemolonskas, who regularly combs the local beach with his family and has meanwhile found his greatest treasure.
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The boy finds a figure that hasn’t been found in 18 years
What did the boy find? While combing the beach at Marazion in Cornwall, the 13-year-old found the “holy grail” among the lost LEGOs. The octopus is the rarest figure that was lost 27 years ago. With only 4,200 pieces on board, the last one was found 18 years ago.
The boy is delighted with his find, as he told the PA news agency (via standard.co.uk). The search for the octopus has been going on for over 2 years already.
Here you can see a picture of the rare octopus:
In the meantime, the boy has already found 789 LEGO building blocks, his father revealed. Many fossils have also come into the family’s possession through the family hobby.
The father said about his son’s hobby: “As a child, I was interested in archaeology, and later Liutauras also did [beach combing], so we always worked together as a family.”
What will the boy do now that the treasure has been found? Now that he has the rare octopus in his possession, he already has his eye on the next treasure. For his collection, he still needs a dragon, of which there were only 33,941 pieces on board.
Among them are 33,400 black dragons and only 514 green dragons. So obtaining a green dragon will likely keep the boy occupied for quite a while.
Interestingly, after the find of young Liutauras, another LEGO octopus has washed ashore, this time in Porthleven, which is about a 16-minute drive from Marazion. Lost LEGO expert Tracey Williams suspects this could be related to the high spring tide that could wash up the toys.
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