…is not the title of one of the Lego Movie sequels.  This is for real.  Seventeen years ago in a storm off the coast of Cornwall, U.K. a huge wave knocked several containers off a ship.  One of those containers held something like 4,800,000 pieces of Lego, and they have been washing up on the beaches of Cornwall ever since.  The pieces that are washing up on shore are not the block type pieces but rather the small accessories , ironically many of them with maritime themes, such as life preservers, octopi, diver flippers and scuba apparatus.  According to Tracey Williams who operates the Lego lost at Sea Facebook page, dragons and octopi are the rarest of finds in what has become the quite competitive pastime of Cornish beachcombing.

“These days the holy grail is an octopus or a dragon. I only know of three octopuses being found, and one was by me, in a cave in Challaborough, Devon. It’s quite competitive. If you heard that your neighbour had found a green dragon, you’d want to go out and find one yourself.”

Theoretically, the Lego pieces could end up anywhere in the world, however the only “verified” finds are on the north and south shores of the Cornwall Peninsula.  Other Lego finds on beaches across the globe are attributed to children leaving their Lego behind after a day at the beach.