BAM produced one rental receipt to explain the night of the takeover, and blamed a camper for everything the receipt could not. Brandon Best rented two U-Hauls in three weeks. The one BAM did not show drove the same road.
CONFIRMEDtwo U-Haul rentals by Brandon Best, three weeks apart, both round trips out of Eugene, from the rental recordsCONFIRMEDBAM’s camper account, in the CEO’s own words on camera, and the reversal from “no U-Haul” to “there was a U-Haul”REFUTEDthe claim that the U-Haul was rented to tow the camperINFERENCEwhat the two trucks were carrying
U-Haul order confirmations and contracts 15284899 (November 14, 2024) and 12982152 (October 24, 2024), Brandon Best, on file with this site. The CEO’s statements, the November contract, and the odometer photo are quoted from the Coffeezilla broadcast “I Found The $200,000 Missing Lego” (June 10, 2026). Brandon Best is listed as operator of both the Keizer and Eugene stores in BAM’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F. The takeover record is in the Keizer file.
When a former Eugene-store employee told the investigator Coffeezilla that a U-Haul had come up from the Salem area carrying Star Wars Lego, the company had an answer ready. That truck was from October, it said, and it carried a different franchisee’s inventory. The truck on the night of the takeover was something else. The chief operating officer, Matt McNeff, first said there had been no U-Haul at all. Then the story changed, and a camper appeared to explain the truck away. BAM produced the receipt for the November truck. It never produced the receipt for the October one. This site has it now, and the two receipts describe the same trip.
Asked why Best had a U-Haul at the store on November 14, BAM chief executive Ammon McNeff gave Coffeezilla this account, on camera. It is quoted here in his words, with the time in the video where each passage appears.
So the camper is not this site’s claim. It is the company’s. By the CEO’s own telling, a camper trailer was moved to Oregon in advance, in anticipation of the takeover, and the U-Haul existed to tow it. Both halves of that come from BAM.
Best rented from U-Haul under his own account. Here are the two rentals, from the records.
Eugene to the Salem area and back is roughly 140 miles of highway. The October truck drove about 180. The November truck drove 186. One run the company calls cargo. The other it calls a camper. On the odometer they are the same trip: a Salem round trip, plus roughly forty more miles of local driving.
The company’s explanation for the truck is that a rental pickup “is not rated for that particular weight” and a U-Haul box truck was. That is backwards. A full-size pickup out-tows a U-Haul box truck; the box trucks are built to carry cargo in the box, not to pull a heavy travel trailer behind a cutaway van chassis. U-Haul’s own rental contract prohibits using its trucks to tow a trailer it did not supply, and the box trucks are not fitted with the seven-pin connector or the electric brake controller a travel trailer of that size needs. And the November 14 contract rents no towing equipment at all. Whatever the truck was for, the receipt is a cargo receipt: a box, and on October 24 a dolly to load it.
Take the company at its word that a camper was “moved up there in anticipation” of the takeover. A camper does not stage itself. The two men who carried out the Keizer takeover, and who together own the Eugene store where the collection later surfaced for sale, are Brandon Best and Josh Johnson, named together in BAM’s own filings. Best, by the company’s account, flew in overnight, so Best did not drive a camper the length of two states. That a camper was pre-positioned in Oregon before the takeover is the company’s admission. Who towed it there, and in what, is a question the company has not answered and the receipts do not: no U-Haul on either date was equipped to tow it.
Best rented no U-Haul for the next twelve months. His next rental is a year later, in November 2025. Yet over those twelve months and into 2026, Lego sets matching Bryan Mansell’s consigned collection went up for sale on the Eugene store’s own website, a few at a time, running through May 2026. Whatever moved, moved by the takeover, not in a steady stream afterward. The selling was slow; the moving was not.
On camera, BAM’s chief executive pronounced a timeline “absolutely zero sense.” The two receipts are the company’s own timeline. A box truck with no towing equipment drove the same road as an admitted cargo run, three weeks apart, both under Brandon Best, and the company showed the public only one of them.
In fairness: the rental records state the truck, the dates, the miles, and the equipment, but not what was inside either truck. BAM’s position is that the November truck towed a camper and that the October load belonged to a different, unnamed franchisee. No court has ruled on any of this. Brandon Best, Josh Johnson, and Bricks & Minifigs are entitled to the presumption of innocence, and nothing here is a finding that any of them committed a crime.
BAM showed the internet one U-Haul. Its own story needed two, plus a camper it says was waiting in Oregon before the takeover began. The truck it would not show is a cargo truck that drove the same road, on the same account, three weeks earlier, on the day the company says its man went to look the store over.
What the truck reached, and what happened to the collection after it got to Eugene, is a separate record. That the collection arrived at the Eugene store all at once, that its resale dates cannot be back-dated past the store’s own server timestamps, that the specific sets match Bryan Mansell’s consigned collection, and that Brandon Best and Josh Johnson took the Keizer store over and own the Eugene store where it surfaced, are walked set by set, date by date, in the Keizer file.
Sources. U-Haul order confirmations and contracts, Brandon Best: contract 15284899 (15-foot truck; out November 14, 2024, 10:17 a.m.; due November 15, 10:15 a.m.; returned 12:41 a.m. November 15; starting odometer 128,573; estimated 160 miles at $0.99 per mile; total paid $216.09) and 12982152 (17-foot truck and utility dolly; out October 24, 2024, 9:56 a.m.; estimated 100 miles; total paid $232.35). Both rentals were picked up in and returned to Eugene. The 186-mile and roughly 180-mile figures are computed from the total paid, net of the fixed rental and equipment charges, at the contract per-mile rate. CEO Ammon McNeff’s account, COO Matt McNeff’s “no U-Haul” statement and its reversal, and the November contract and 12:41 a.m. odometer photo are quoted from Coffeezilla, “I Found The $200,000 Missing Lego,” June 10, 2026, at the times linked above. Brandon Best is listed as operator of the Keizer store (3670 River Road N) and the Eugene store (780 Blair Boulevard) in BAM Franchising’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F. The post-takeover Eugene listings are drawn from the store’s public online catalog and are detailed in the Keizer file. The wider record: the map.
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