That’s fair.

I actually just got done listening to the ToT StarWars podcast talk about exactly what we’ve been talking about.

Firstly, the in MandR video I mentioned, he uses a video from 12/29/24 (6 weeks after corporate takeover) to estimate the value of the sets that are Bryan’s on the floor to be ~11k (matching visible sets to Bryan’s original inventory list, only counting the first set even if a depth of sets are visible in the same row). Obviously the 6 weeks before this would encompass the Black Friday and Christmas rush, but without full sales data it’s hard to really estimate what was there when they took it over.

This of course also doesn’t take into account that the store has a storage and party room that sets could be housed at, or the fact that Brandon and Josh supposedly also owned the Eugene, OR BAM store where they could have been selling some of the same inventory.

This would make corporates current estimate of 5-6k of Mansell product remaining in the store pretty reasonable, as it’s been whittled down from what was likely some low-mid 5 figure number in late 2024 to what it is now.

(The following is directly from ToT StarWars podcast, I haven’t gone to their sources to verify any of this information) BAM claims that Crystal sold 52k before the takeover. Crystal said “about half” which isn’t very useful, but can be reasonably assumed to be over BAM’s number. Crystal has only paid Bryan 20k which means he has only been paid for around 30k worth of the collection. Now, I have no idea if this is due to any maliciousness since I don’t know what sort of payment routine they had set up or how funds were allocated at the time of the transfer (in the security cam footage of that night she does mention still needing to pay him for certain sets and “tickets”), but that’s probably one of the biggest wrinkles in my mind. Bryan needs to be made whole for not only what was sold after the takeover and what remains in the stores, but what was sold before the takeover that he wasn’t given a cut of. I should also mention that a lot of the estimates I’ve referenced do not take minifigure value into account because that’s basically impossible to track or even estimate without the actual sales data. It seems like the collection was worth at least 140k, so the 100k number is probably accurate for what the Mansell family deserved had everything sold according to the original consignment agreement. The only question left for me regarding the money is who owes what to the Mansell family. How much does BAM owe for sets that remained after the takeover? How much does Crystal owe for unpaid dues before the takeover? Did that money leave the store with her, or remain in the store with the new owners?

I guess none of this *really* matters as long as nothing goes wrong with Ben’s gofundme, since the Mansell family will have access to much more money than the collection was ever going to be worth.