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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/throwaway76881224 on 2025-07-10 23:24:46+00:00.
I hope this story might save someone elses Legos. It wasn't today this happened the actual FU was 3 years ago when I happened to toss rubber worms into a storage container of Legos while packing up to move. We have Minecraft, Pokemon, Batman, and all sorts of cool sets. Or had. The storage box has been just chilling in my closet for years as my oldest kid lost interest and I decided to save them for her younger siblings. The box contained Legos, a few dozen Squinkies and a handful of those little worms used to teach measuring and counting.
Finally the time has came where I can be fairly certain nobody will choke or chew on Legos so I brought them out for my younger kids. At first everything seemed fine but I started finding melted Legos much to my confusion. My first thought was they looked melted by fire but who would do that? Eventually I decided to dig through all the Legos and pull all the melted ones out and a good many were still melted/attached to the rubber worms.
Apparently, a reaction can occur between Legos and rubber that results in the Legos all melting together into Lego worm blobs.
The apartment has reached higher than 95° F from time to time so I guess that was hot enough for the reaction to occur.
TL;DR I stored rubber toys with Legos and a reaction occurred causing many Legos to be ruined.