Shipwrecked Lego still washing ashore from 1997 spill

By Lucy Cormack
Updated July 23 2014 - 2:18pm, first published 1:42pm
"These days the holy grail is an octopus": The most prized of the mini-figures to be washed off the 1997 container ship. Photo: Facebook
"These days the holy grail is an octopus": The most prized of the mini-figures to be washed off the 1997 container ship. Photo: Facebook
Buried treasure: A Lego ID guide showing some of the pieces to have fallen off the container ship in 1997. Photo: Facebook
Buried treasure: A Lego ID guide showing some of the pieces to have fallen off the container ship in 1997. Photo: Facebook

Where some may dream of treasure chests of gold at the bottom of the ocean, others dream of jewels.

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