Posted on 01/03/2015 12:21:52 AM PST by moose07
The story of millions of Lego pieces washing up on beaches attracted huge interest when first told by the Magazine. The list of places where the toys have been spotted is still growing.
Beachcomber Tracey Williams has been picking up Lego along the Cornish coastline ever since a container spill dumped millions of the toy pieces into the sea in 1997.
Since the curious tale was reported by the Magazine, dozens of people have contacted Williams to say they, too, have found parts of the much-loved toy scattered on shores.
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Most of the people who've contacted her found Lego around Cornwall, she says. "From what I've been told, Perranporth is a hotspot for brooms, and the Lizard seems to be a hotspot for octopuses."
Brighton, East Sussex, some 300 miles away, is the furthest confirmed report she has received to the east along England's southern coastline. But some of the sightings have come from much further afield.
Nearly 4.8 million Lego toy parts fell overboard from the Tokio Express container ship in a storm off Land's End on 13 February 1997.
Williams says the pieces which now drift up on an "almost daily basis" in numerous locations are flippers, spear guns, seagrass, scuba tanks and life preservers.
Elsewhere there have been sightings of the lost Lego in the Gower Peninsula, Wales, and seagrass, spear guns, life preservers and scuba tanks have been found recently at Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire during beach cleans.
Finds have been made abroad too, at Waterville beach in Kerry, Ireland, where an octopus matching those lost from the Tokio Express was found around 2007. Also, another octopus was taken recently to a beachcomber's fair in Florida, which had been found earlier this year at the western end of Galvaston Island in Texas.
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Um, i would take you to our leader, but he's kind of out to lunch at the moment.
If you'd like to take a seat.
What no yellow rubber ducks that fell of a container ship years back?.
Indeed some did wash up all over the world but wonder if any are left?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
This is good.... :)
Thank you for the post great info about the oceans good to see the sharks didn’t get them all.
Thanks, I hadn’t heard of it before. Good luck w/looking!
This topic was posted , thanks moose07.
Nearly 4.8 million Lego toy parts fell overboard from the Tokio Express container ship in a storm off Land's End on 13 February 1997.
Check this out, T-c!
Thanks, Moosie! What a great story! Did you happen to find any?
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