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Retrieved by admirers and collectors, some are reunited here for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

They called the time until the Lego head showed up again the “Found And Retrieved Time”.

From NewsForKids.net • Apr. 30, 2024

“A Retrieved Reformation” opens with the ace safecracker Jimmy Valentine working in a prison shoe shop.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021

Researchers used unique metrics to determine the time it took for the Lego head to pass: The Stool Hardness and Transit score and the Found and Retrieved Time score .

From Fox News • Nov. 29, 2018

You will see "Retrieved," "The Funk," and "Secret Service" in the magazines shortly.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir