As a child, many people probably had completely different hobbies than they do today. A boy from Cornwall, Great Britain, regularly goes treasure hunting for lost LEGO with his family and was really lucky.
What is lost LEGO anyway? The Tokio Express was a container ship that was hit by a wave on its way from Rotterdam to New York in 1997 and lost 62 containers. One of these containers was filled with LEGO, which has been washing up on the shores of Cornwall since the accident.
The LEGO shipload contained around 5 million figures and building blocks. However, the particles were not evenly distributed; among them were, for example, 418,000 water wings, 26,600 life jackets and 4,200 octopuses.
One of the people on the hunt for the lost LEGO treasures is 13-year-old Liutauras Cemolonskas, who regularly combs the local beach with his family and has found his greatest treasure.
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The boy finds a figure that hasn’t been found in 18 years
What did the boy find? While combing Marazion beach in Cornwall, the 13-year-old found the “holy grail” among the lost LEGOs. The octopus is the rarest figure that was lost 27 years ago. With only 4,200 on board, the last one was found 18 years ago.
The boy is happy with his find, he told the PA news agency (via standard.co.uk). The search for the octopus had been going on for over 2 years.
You can see a picture of the rare octopus here:
During that time, the boy had already found 789 LEGO clamping building blocks, his father revealed. Numerous fossils also came into the family’s possession through the family hobby.
The father said about his son’s hobby: “As a child I was interested in archeology, and later Liutauras was interested in it too [Strandkämmen] made, so we always worked together as a family.”
What does the boy do now that the treasure has been found? Now that he has the rare octopus in his possession, he already has his eyes on the next treasure. He is still missing a dragon for his collection; there were only 33,941 of them on board.
There are 33,400 black dragons and only 514 green dragons. So getting a green dragon will probably keep the boy busy for a long time.
Interestingly, after the young Liutaura was found, another LEGO octopus washed up, this time in Porthleven, which is about 16 minutes by car from Marazion. Lost LEGO expert Tracey Williams suspects this could be related to the high spring tide that could wash up the toy.
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