One of the many genius elements of the LEGO system means that their products are designed to be constructed, taken apart and built again. However, that knowledge must have been cold comfort when this teacher found her near 30 year old LEGO collection, many of them Star Wars sets, smashed into their constituent parts at her school in Orange County, California.
SAN CLEMENTE — For two weeks now, Jeanna Bassett has been in shock and mourning.
“It’s been like a death in the family,” the longtime Concordia Elementary School art teacher said on Tuesday, Dec. 11.
On Nov. 26, Bassett was summoned to the school library. More than 100,000 pieces from her 125 built-out Lego Star Wars kits lay strewn throughout the room. Some larger pieces remained snapped together but mainly the Legos lay separated.
Some had either been smashed or thrown so hard that parts of their hard plastic had shattered.
“No, the Death Star! No, the X-Wing! No, the Millennium Falcon! No, the TIE Fighters! Oh no, the Sandcrawler!” Bassett said. “I just kept saying, ‘No, no, no!’ ! I was in so much shock.”
Along with the Lego sets — many of which had been built more than 30 years ago by Coby Bassett, the teacher’s youngest son — books were strewn everywhere and a computer had been smashed.
No mercy for the Orange County Register referring to LEGO as ‘LEGOS’, but we wish Jeanna all the best in returning her collection to its former glory.
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