Stolen Statue Of Freedom

[ACPin]

From Lego US Capitol Building at LEGO Americana Roadshow

This is a public service announcement to whomever can help provide information to the individuals responsible for stealing the Statue Of Freedom at the top of the Lego US Capitol Building last April 7, 2016 Thursday after the mall closed. Please contact the Bridgewater Police Tips line at 877-660-INFO (4636) or the Bridgewater Commons Mall at 908-218-0001.

Please feel free share this to everybody who may be able to help especially those in the NY, NJ, PA area.

How would you feel is somebody stole part of your MOC? Let us not let this happen again especially in the future locations for this event.

If you see something, say something!

[Brandon Miller]

Wow. That's just low life right there.

[zux]

I've checked the pic and it seems like stolen part isn't that small and placed pretty high. You cannot steal it unnoticed.

[Mesabi]

Where there any security cameras pointed at the MOC? Every time someone has stolen anything at my job, all we had to do was watch the cams.

[Modelmaker]

I'd like to know HOW? they took it

Was there any other damage caused?

I've looked at the pics and it looks like you would have to come at it from the top, mission impossible style

Oh and Btw....WOW!!! that's a huge build

I make museum models as a day job (non lego) and if we make anything that's too large for a "glass" case we usually surround it with 8ft high sheets of clear perspex in a modular alluminium frame

Edited April 17, 2016 by Modelmaker

[Unsame]

That is just wrong.

[AFOLguy1970]

What a shame, I got to see this last year when it was at Stonebriar in the DFW area. This is what would scare me the most about displaying a MOC openly. If I ever attend a Brickcon or similar show, it would basically require constant supervision. My builds of course would be nowhere near the size of this, which would only lend to the possibility of the entire thing being stolen rather than a portion of it which is what happened here. As others have said, it could not have been easy to do this, and it certainly would have been after hours when hardly a soul would be around to see what was going on.

Here is what it looked like prior to the theft

US Capitol by Steven Wagner, on Flickr

Edited May 16, 2016 by AFOLguy1970

[Tariq j]

I noticed there are obviously a couple of shops in the background. Perhaps you could talk to one of the shop keepers and/or customers as they may have seen something? The MOC looks very tall so you would have to at least stand on the table to get the top down which I'm sure somebody would've seen.

[Actor Builder]

I'll bet it's a hint. They're planning to steal the real version next.

[Robert8]

Unless it was Carmen Sandiego, I doubt it

[Lego Dino 500]

Holy crap, how'd they get it without breaking anything? As others said, this would be very difficult to pull off surrounded by people. I'm willing to bet it was an inside job, by a burglar, security guard, or one of the neighboring store employees. Someone who has access to the mall unsupervised after hours.

[Mesabi]

So, have they found the statue yet? It's been a month since this posted and I'm curious if it was recovered.