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The fourth and fifth U-Hauls

The first three U-Hauls ran in Oregon, rented by Brandon Best, around the store BAM seized in Keizer. The fourth and fifth are different. They ran in California and Kentucky. They were rented by a BAM corporate officer, Adam Brimhall. And each one showed up at the door of a Bricks & Minifigs store that had just closed.

CONFIRMEDtwo more rentals on file: a 26-foot truck, one way from a Santa Clarita, California storage unit to a Monroe, Washington storage unit, February 23, 2026; and a 15-foot truck with moving pads and a dolly, local in Louisville, Kentucky, March 26, 2026CONFIRMEDboth towns had a Bricks & Minifigs store, and both stores had just closed: Louisville Highlands the day before the truck, Santa Clarita weeks before itCONFIRMEDAdam Brimhall is the named organizer on the corporate LLCs that took the Keizer, Eugene, and Louisville stores in-house; BAM’s own audited financials name its “BAMF” store subsidiaries and record them “sold to an outside party”INFERENCEwhat the trucks carried. The records fix the truck, the route, the day, and the man, not the cargo

U-Haul order confirmations 18435654 (Santa Clarita) and 22020183 (Louisville), rented under the name Brimhall, live on U-Haul’s own site, where they surfaced via Reddit this week; this site verified both. Everything else is confirmed from the primary record: the closures (Louisville Courier-Journal, March 25, 2026; the Santa Clarita store’s own listings) and the corporate entities (the Oregon and Kentucky business registries; BAM’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document). The first three rentals: The second U-Haul and The third U-Haul. The takeover: the Keizer file.

Three U-Haul receipts on this site so far, and they had two things in common: Oregon, and Brandon Best. These two have neither. The renter is Adam Brimhall: BAM’s New Unit Onboarding Manager, working out of headquarters in Provo. He is not a franchisee in California. He is not a franchisee in Kentucky. His name is on these trucks for the same reason it is on the corporate filings: when a Bricks & Minifigs store dies, he is the man who handles what happens next.

The receipts themselves are not in dispute. Both order pages surfaced on Reddit this week and are live on U-Haul’s own website, readable by anyone. What they do not explain, the public record does: why a headquarters officer is renting trucks at two closing stores two thousand miles apart.

The fifth truck: Louisville CONFIRMED

Start with Louisville, because every piece of it is public.

On Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported that the Bricks & Minifigs store in the Highlands, at 1328 Bardstown Road, had closed. Customers found the windows papered over. Their store credit, layaways, and booked birthday parties went dark with it.

Then BAM told Louisville what comes next. On the closed store’s own page, the company wrote that it is “actively working on reopening a new South Louisville store,” and that customers’ stranded store credit and memberships “will be honored at our new location.” Not refunded. Honored, at the company store that replaces the franchisee. The money customers paid the closed store becomes foot traffic for the corporate one.

The newspaper reports the closure Wednesday. The truck rolls Thursday. Two weeks later the corporate replacement is filed, signed by the man who rented the truck. That is the whole mechanism, dated, in one town.

The fourth truck: California to Washington CONFIRMED

The other truck is the biggest one U-Haul builds, a 26-footer, the size rated for a four-bedroom house. And it left the state.

The Santa Clarita store, 25935 The Old Road in Stevenson Ranch, is closed, marked permanently closed on its public listings. Yet BAM’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, issued April 8, still lists it as an operating franchise. The truck ran February 23, six weeks earlier. Ask the paperwork and the store is fine. Ask U-Haul and it already left for Washington.

And unlike Louisville, nothing replaced it. In Louisville, BAM filed a new company LLC and told customers it was “reopening.” In Santa Clarita there is no such entity on California’s business registry and no reopening announced. Only a one-way truck out of state. Those are the two ways to close a franchisee out: reopen the store as your own, or ship it off and file nothing. Adam Brimhall rented the truck both times.

BAM’s own books describe the machine CONFIRMED

This is not this site’s theory. It is BAM’s own accounting.

BAM’s audited financial statements, inside its own disclosure document, list a family of wholly-owned subsidiaries, one per taken-over store, all named the same way: BAMF Salem. BAMF Canby. BAMF Orem. BAMF Billings. BAMF Southington. BAMF Port Charolette. A franchisee leaves; a BAMF entity takes the store; the company carries its “corporate store costs”; and then, in the auditor’s words, the store is “sold… to an outside party.”

The “outside party” who bought BAMF Salem, the seized Keizer store, was Brandon Best. The man in the first three trucks. That is who BAM’s books call an outsider.

Look at the bottom three rows. The Eugene entity names BAM Franchising itself as a member: the franchisor holding direct equity in one store’s operating company, the thing a franchise system exists to not do. And the same three names sign the new entities in state after state: Brimhall, Giles, Gabriel McNeff. A standing corporate crew for taking stores in-house. The trucks are that crew’s other paperwork: Brimhall signs the entity that takes the store, and Brimhall’s name is on the truck that shows up when it closes.

The truck runs before the disclosure

Across all five, the physical move comes first and the paperwork catches up later, or never. Santa Clarita: truck in February, still “operating” in the April disclosure. Louisville Highlands: closed in March, and no BAM disclosure will admit the departure before 2027. Keizer: a seizure, booked as a “transfer.” If you want to know what is actually happening to Bricks & Minifigs stores, the franchise documents will tell you next year. The rental records tell you the same week.

And one more tell, printed on the orders themselves: both new trucks were booked the same day they drove. “Order Placed” and pickup, same date. So was the takeover-night truck in Keizer. These are not moves planned on a calendar. They happen when they have to.

And that is why the Keizer story was never a one-store story. What happened to Ed Mansell’s consignment is the company’s standard exit: a store closed, its contents trucked away, the goods resurfacing under new ownership. Keizer just happened to have a consignor standing in the doorway. Santa Clarita and Louisville closed quietly, with nobody watching. Except U-Haul keeps records.

What this record does not show

The orders fix the trucks, the routes, the days, the equipment, and the renter. They do not fix the cargo. Nothing here shows a single item being loaded, and whether either truck carried store inventory, fixtures, or something else, the receipts do not say. That gap is graded above, and it stays a gap until a record closes it.

In fairness: companies move things when stores close, and a corporate officer renting a truck for that is, on its face, ordinary logistics. BAM could say exactly that. But notice that saying it concedes the rest: the closures, the timing, the corporate takeovers, the officer running both. The dispute would be over one word, whether “logistics” is the right name for it, not over any fact on this page. No court has ruled on any of this, and nothing here is a finding that Adam Brimhall or anyone else committed a crime.

Five trucks. Three in Eugene, rented by the man who took the Keizer store and resold its shelves. Two more this spring, a 26-footer out of California and a 15-footer across Louisville, rented by the corporate officer whose signature takes closed stores in-house. Wherever a Bricks & Minifigs store goes dark, a truck shows up. And now the name on the rental line is the name on the filings.

Sources. U-Haul order confirmation 18435654 (26-foot truck; out Monday, February 23, 2026, 11:17 a.m., Keep It Self Storage, 25333 Railroad Ave, Santa Clarita, California; one way to Glacier West Self Storage, 17600 147th St SE, Monroe, Washington, due Thursday, February 26; up to five days and 1,053 miles; total paid $3,678.86; status Completed) and order confirmation 22020183 (15-foot truck, two days; out Thursday, March 26, 2026, 2:17 p.m., U-Haul Moving & Storage at Bardstown, 4128 Bardstown Rd, Louisville, Kentucky; round trip, due back by Saturday, March 28, 7:38 a.m.; six furniture pads and a utility dolly; estimated 20 miles; total paid $143.75; status Completed), both rented under the name Brimhall. Both order pages surfaced via Reddit and are linked above, live on U-Haul’s own site; this site verified them and holds copies. Louisville Highlands closure: Louisville Courier-Journal, “Louisville Lego store Bricks & Minifigs closes,” March 25, 2026; the store stood at 1328 Bardstown Road. BAM’s reopening-and-credit language: the company’s own Louisville Highlands store page. Santa Clarita store, 25935 The Old Road, Stevenson Ranch, California: marked permanently closed on its public Yelp listing; listed as an operating franchise in BAM Franchising’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F, issued April 8, 2026. Corporate entities: BAMFSALEM LLC (Oregon, filed November 4, 2025), Willamette Forest Ops LLC (Oregon, filed June 4, 2026, naming BAM Franchising, Inc. and Matthew McNeff as members), BAMF Louisville South 1 LLC (Kentucky, filed April 9, 2026), all naming Adam Brimhall as an organizer, from the Oregon and Kentucky Secretary of State registries. BAM’s audited financial statements in its Franchise Disclosure Documents name wholly-owned subsidiaries BAMF Southington CT LLC, BAMF Salem 1 LLC, BAMF Billings 1 LLC, BAMF Orem LLC, BAMF Port Charolette LLC, and Bricks by the Box LLC, and record that BAMF Salem and BAMF Canby were “sold… to an outside party”; BAM’s 2026 FDD Exhibit F lists Brandon Best as operator of the Keizer store. Adam Brimhall is BAM’s New Unit Onboarding Manager. The first three rentals, all Brandon Best in Eugene: The second U-Haul and The third U-Haul. The takeover record: the Keizer file. The wider record: the map.

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