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Teenager finds ‘holy grail’ Lego octopus from 1997 spill off Cornwall coast (www.theguardian.com)
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The octopus is one of nearly 5m Lego pieces that fell into the sea in 1997 when a storm hit a cargo ship 20 miles off Land’s End, Cornwall. While 352,000 pairs of flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, and 92,400 swords went overboard, the octopuses are considered the most prized finds as only 4,200 were onboard.

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[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 113 points 11 months ago

To clarify, the octopus mold itself isn’t particularly rare or expensive. The article refers to this individual piece as a “holy grail” because among the parts of the Cornwall flotsam, the “octopuses are considered the most prized finds as only 4,200 were onboard” in the lost cargo. The family in the article has been scavenging for years to collect the various parts, so this is something that is valuable to their subset of collectors but not really valuable to the typical Lego collector or fan.

[-] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Good to know cause ive got an old bin of lego and got like 5 octopus

[-] morenonatural@todon.nl 2 points 11 months ago

@MycelialMass @Squorlple was going to mention just the same 😅

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

Thanks for clarifying, I thought it was odd considering the octopus doesn't seem like a rare piece.

[-] Blaze 13 points 11 months ago

Interesting, thanks

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Tom Scott went to visit a couple years back: The beach where Lego keeps washing up

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That sounds cute. And then it gets very un-cute.

That is horrifying..

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

TL;DR?

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

It's a six minute video. Are our attention spans that short now?

There's also a TL;DR in the body of the main post.

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Are our attention spans that short now?

Short form content has completely fucked us up..

[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Ocean is full of plastic Legos, got it.

[-] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So, if this is in fact from 1997 it would have been on the beach a long time. I myself have beach-combed legos and the ABS is in no way nearly as good condition as this when it's been out to sea a while.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 months ago

I went to the beach and all I got was this stupid octopus

[-] londos@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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