BAM said Bryan Mansell had been “made whole.” By his count, it returned about 35 sets, seven of them not his, and he says the fight “pretty much cost that in legal fees.”
BAM’s own register counts 387 of Mansell’s sets unsold the night it took the Keizer store. On a livestream on September 26, he showed what the settlement sent back: about 35 sets, none of the valuable ones, seven that were never his, among them “certified used” store stock and a set released after he consigned. The minifigures he consigned new and individually bagged are still waiting to be picked up, “tossed in a single ziploc bag.”
PRIMARY SOURCEThe stream: Sheldon Norcross’s “breaking bam settlement news with bryan Mansell and bbq counselor,” live on his YouTube channel on September 26, 2026, with The BBQ Counselor and Mansell as guests. It plays Mansell’s own video of the pickup at his attorney’s office in Portland, then his closer look at the sets. Quoted with times from the start of the stream.
PRIMARY SOURCEBAM’s August 19 release, that “the Mansell family has been made whole by BAM” (the apology; the next day); BAM’s own consignment register (the Keizer reconciliation).
What came back
The pickup was filmed at his attorney’s office: a bin and a box of sealed Star Wars sets, about 35 in all, sorted on camera into what Mansell and his friends could match to the collection and what they could not. His account has held up before: every claim he made checked out, most of them on BAM’s own documents (the fact-check).
“This is what they were able to get back so far.” (1:34)
“These are the sets that, as part of the settlement, were being returned to us from BAM.” (3:46)
“Seven of them are” … “not original sets to our collection.” (5:03)
“Of what they gave us, two thirds of it is actually from our collection.” (27:55)
The seven came off BAM’s own shelves. “The rest of this is a box full of stuff that is certified used,” he says, and of the sets like it, “We most certainly did not have anything like this” (2:38). One set “didn’t even come out until after our collection was even consigned” (2:53). Another still wore the store’s price tag: “they were selling this for 30 dollars” (23:15). “Certified used” is a Bricks & Minifigs store label; a former store manager described having “a ton of certified used” for a May the 4th sale (her account).
The collection’s best pieces did not come back:
“There’s definitely no UCS Cloud City or Death Stars or any of those sets in here.” (20:55)
“None of the” … “valuable ones were returned.” (21:17)
The minifigures are still to be picked up. Mansell showed the photo his attorney sent him:
“We provided minifigures that were individually bagged, brand new, all their parts, never used, labeled everything. This is like 30 minifigs. They just grabbed and tossed in a single ziploc bag.” (17:42)
“What’s that minifig right on top?” … “I don’t think there were police officers in the Star Wars universe.” (18:02)
He also set two returned boxes beside his own photos of the same sets on the store’s shelf. His copy of one set carried a rarer box print: “you can see we had black-haired Kanan on the front.” Both copies that came back are the common one: “that was our set in the store with black hair, and this is our set here, and it’s brown hair” (8:27 and 9:05).
PRIMARY SOURCEWhat Mansell and the people sorting with him said and showed on camera; the counts are theirs.INFERENCEThat any returned box was swapped for another copy. It rests on Mansell’s comparison with his own photos, and BAM has not answered it.
“All his Legos back,” said Johnson. “Definitely no UCS Cloud City or Death Stars,” says Mansell.
“No yellow dots”
In the Keizer store, the consigned sets carried yellow stickers. None came back with one:
“No yellow dots.” (1:41)
“Some of them even have residue where the yellow stickers were.” (2:27)
BAM’s own complaint says its operators found the cupboard sets in late 2025 “on which they noticed stickers not previously recognized” (¶ 82). What came back has none. The Keizer police file has a witness for how that happens: a former employee told the detective that “some of the yellow stickers were removed from sets,” and that “this occurred immediately after Best took over operations” (the police file). The residue is on the boxes BAM handed back.
CORROBORATEDThat the consignment stickers came off in the hands of BAM’s side: a witness in the Keizer police file, and residue on the returned boxes shown on camera.
Against the record
BAM declared him whole on August 19. The next day he had “not seen the deposit yet” (the next day). Now he has the check.
| What BAM’s side said | What Mansell says | |
|---|---|---|
| BAM, August 19: “the Mansell family has been made whole by BAM” | Mansell: “I picked up the settlement check” … “it pretty much cost that in legal fees.” 16:52 · fact check | CONTRADICTED |
| Josh Johnson, co-plaintiff, on a recorded call: “we were able to give him all his Legos back and pay him, you know, what he wanted” (the call) | Hearing that line played back on the stream: “I’m looking at the 30 out of 780 sets around me right now.” About 35 came back, seven of them “not original sets to our collection,” and none of the high-value sets. 57:05 · 5:03 · fact check | CONTRADICTED |
| BAM’s complaint: “Bryan’s purported inventory list, which he later provided Josh and Brandon in or after May 2025” (¶ 50) | His first visit to the store after the takeover: “Brandon had asked me to bring down a copy of the contract inventory list, whatever I had.” Then: “Brandon comes out from the back, shake his hand, give him the inventory list.” Best photocopied his ID “along with the contract and the inventory list.” 1:02:08 · fact check | CONTRADICTED |
BAM’s side on the left, Mansell on the right. CONTRADICTED: the man it describes says otherwise.
The numbers underneath are BAM’s own. Its register counts 387 of Mansell’s sets “still unsold the night the store was taken” (the reconciliation). About 35 came back, and by his count two thirds of those are verifiably his. Johnson put what was left in the store at “those 30 sets or so” (the call); BAM’s complaint put the back-office cupboard at “a few (approximately 20) Star Wars LEGO sets” (¶ 82). More than 350 of the sets BAM’s register counted as unsold that night are not in the bin, and BAM has not said publicly where they went.
CONFIRMEDBAM’s register and complaint, and Johnson’s words on the call.UNRESOLVEDWhere the rest of the unsold sets went, and how much of them the settlement’s cash covers.
387 unsold the night BAM took the store. About 35 back. Seven of those were never his.
What the settlement says
BAM sued Mansell for extortion in May and agreed to pay him in August (the reversal). Its FAQ on the deal did not survive a fact-check (the FAQ), and it took his claims to use against “those responsible” (the claims). The settlement agreement, dated August 16, is not public, and neither is the amount. The joint motion that ended BAM’s claims against Mansell says each side bears its own fees (the motion). Mansell’s understanding of the return was wider than what arrived:
“As far as I knew, we were getting everything back in the store, plus what was over, uh, in a storage facility somewhere.” (22:46)
“Some more minifigs are coming next week, and a couple more sets or a set.” (5:21)
This site has traced the storage units and trucks around the takeover (the storage units, the third U-Haul). He said the two sides would “go back and forth on the settlement to figure it out” (22:35).
UNRESOLVEDWhat the settlement requires BAM to return, and whether more is coming.
Sources. Sheldon Norcross, “breaking bam settlement news with bryan Mansell and bbq counselor,” YouTube, live September 26, 2026, including Mansell’s video of the pickup. BAM Franchising, Inc., August 19, 2026 release. BAM’s consignment register, as reconciled on this site. Keizer Police Department case file KZP24020132. BAM Franchising, Inc. v. Schneider, verified complaint, ¶ 82, and the August 27, 2026 joint motion, D. Utah No. 2:26-cv-00593. Matty AppleSeed, “1 hour Call with Josh Johnson,” Patreon, September 25, 2026. Everyone named here is presumed to have acted lawfully.