***The Official OcUK Lego Thread***

Burned_Alive said:
3% Quidco as well..

Gone for two, one to build, one to keep. 240,000 of these made though, compared to I think 10,000 Deloreans, so probably not going to be a collectors item in the short term, if at all.
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Not sure when the Deloreans came out but they still seem very easy to get hold of at the moment.
 
Mass produced items will never become valuable enough to make a decent profit on. At most they retain their value if you never opened the box but that's about it. Not just lego, it goes for almost everything, from watches to guitars to any kind of collectables.

Now and again you get lucky with a certain item but that is normally ones that are limited because by accident (minor manufacture defect) or just a small run like first edition of Harry Potter's first book.

10,000 or 240,000 pieces is LOADS in product terms.

I wouldn't buy lego to collect, I'd buy it for the fun though. I still want that Simpsons house !
 
There's plenty of money in LEGO, new or old the trading market is forever growing. Of course it depends on the item as to whether the return is sufficient short term or if long term is the way to go. Me, I'm just buying and storing with all the other junk I hoard... in 20years time who knows.

I bought a second hand Taj Mahal :D
 
Raymond Lin said:
Mass produced items will never become valuable enough to make a decent profit on. At most they retain their value if you never opened the box but that's about it. Not just lego, it goes for almost everything, from watches to guitars to any kind of collectables.
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You are simply wrong on this one. Not only is there money in the sets and putting them aside but there is lot's of money in individual figures too. Which is why there are so many sets on ebay that have been bought opened and sold without figures and the figures separately.

Collectors Falcon goes for around 1k. Just have a look how much Cloud City goes for or just the Lando from Cloud City. I have seen one recently for £140. As soon as the Star Wars stuff is discontinued you can just sit and watch the prices go up like no shares I could invest in.

Some of the figures from sets from 4-5+ years ago go for more than the cost of the set. Of course it takes patience to sit on a set that long, something I don't have nor do I buy two of everything but you are simply wrong to think these mass produced sets can't make a lot of money.

£15-£20 for a single figure from a discontinued set sadly is not unusual. Opened sets no longer in prodution will easily get you the money back you paid for them, unopened at least double in the SW range.
 
UCS sets are pretty much guaranteed to double/triple/quadruple in value once they go out of production and the flagship Technic sets pretty much always at least double as well.

The LE UCS Falcons go for near £5k.....
 
Why is LEGO today so ****? It's just a bunch of proprietary pieces that make a shape, they may as well be airfix models :(

I remember when the was only a set amount of different pieces to construct your invention from, the LEGO movie was right, instructions FTL.
 
ubersonic said:
I remember when the was only a set amount of different pieces to construct your invention from.
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If they did that they would have gone bust. My son has over 30 kits I imagine and lot's of the pieces are still the same. Not that many one of pieces for that kit only.

Lego's fortunes have been revived due to tie ins with other franchises. If it had stayed with the number of blocks you had in the 80's I doubt lego would be doing much business now.
 
My god I thought I had an addiction :D

I will do mine when I'm off work :D

I'd like the sith nightspeeder set, managed to get my son asaij but really trying to get Savage at a decent price.

Need a Pong Krell too after seing those episodes of clone wars :D
 
Need to update my minifig collection though.

Finally up to date on all the series.

They're not mine though they're my sons sets ;-).
 
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