CONFIRMED
This is the plain-language edition of where BAM Franchising actually lives, and how many times it has moved. Same facts, same grade, none of the file or registry numbers, nothing collapsed into boxes. Every claim below is stated again on the cited edition with the documents attached.
When you sign a franchise contract, you agree to something easy to miss: if it ever comes to a fight, you will have that fight in the company’s home state, under that state’s law. So it matters where BAM Franchising, Inc., the company behind Bricks & Minifigs, actually lives. Across its own disclosure books the answer keeps changing. First Oregon. Then, for years, “Utah, soon.” Then Delaware. And the Delaware company it now tells buyers it has become is, on Delaware’s own records, behind on its taxes. Then this month, a fourth name appeared.
The brand never changes: it is always BAM Franchising, doing business as Bricks & Minifigs. The home state is the moving part. The company started in Oregon in 2011. Then four straight editions of its disclosure book, the one every buyer reads before spending their savings, promised it was moving to Utah. The deadline kept sliding: first “during 2018,” then 2019, then 2020. Not one edition ever records the move as finished. The Utah promise was quietly dropped, and the paperwork went back to calling the company Oregon. Then the 2025 edition gave a new answer: it is now a Delaware corporation, formed in October 2023 and left standing after an April 2024 merger. The merger certificate was signed by Ammon McNeff, as president.
Now the part that matters. The Delaware company the 2025 disclosure points to is the exact entity a person buying a franchise in 2025 or 2026 is told they are contracting with. And Delaware’s own record for that company shows its status as “AR Delinquent, Tax Due.” The last annual report on file is for 2024, and about $5,566.99 in franchise tax is shown outstanding as of March 2026. So the legal home the company advertises to new buyers is one that, by the state’s own books, is behind on the rent.
On July 9, 2026, a corporation with the very same name, BAM Franchising, Inc., was filed in Utah, the state the disclosure book had promised to move to years earlier. It was filed through a commercial registered-agent service, whose whole job is to stand in for whoever is really behind a filing. And that is the catch: the public record does not say who filed it. It could be the company finally making the move it announced for years, or someone else grabbing an available name. The record does not resolve which, and this page does not guess.
Think of a company’s legal home the way you think of an address for serving papers: it is where you go to sue it, serve it, and collect from it if you win. A franchise contract usually makes the buyer bring any dispute in the franchisor’s home state. When the home moves, that target moves with it, and BAM’s own contracts follow the drift: older editions send disputes to Oregon, newer ones to Utah. A home behind on its taxes makes it harder still, because a delinquent Delaware corporation cannot get a certificate of good standing, and its ability to sue or defend a case can be affected until it catches up. Meanwhile the Oregon company many franchisees first signed with has been merged out of existence, and the survivor is the one now shown delinquent. For a franchisee, or a creditor, trying to hold this company to its word, a business whose legal home keeps hopping states and whose current home is behind on its taxes is simply harder to find, serve, and collect against. None of that, by itself, is proof of wrongdoing. It is what the company’s own filings and the state registries show.
To be fair to the company: a Delaware tax delinquency is curable, not permanent. It can pay the tax, file the missing report, and return to good standing at any time, and the record does not show the charter voided. Reincorporating in a new state by merger is an ordinary, lawful step, this is not a hidden owner, and this page pins the July 9 Utah filing on no one. Everyone named is presumed to have acted lawfully.
Oregon, then “Utah, soon,” then Delaware: the company’s legal home keeps moving, the one it names today is behind on its taxes, and this month a fourth version appeared in Utah with no filer on the record.
Where this comes from: the company’s own franchise disclosure documents across more than a decade of editions, the certified Delaware certificate of merger, and the public business registries of Oregon, Delaware, and Utah. Every one of those records, with its file and registry numbers, is on the cited edition of this page.
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