Do you also have one of those (extremely) expensive Lego sets?

In Uster, in the Oberland of Zurich, 600 unopened Lego sets were found in the estate of a deceased person. Some of them are real rarities – Watson reported on them.

But how is the collector’s value of a Lego set calculated? Is there perhaps a real treasure among your Legos in the attic?

The website Brickeconomy.com answers these questions. It collects offer and purchase price data from various providers worldwide and makes a current and possible future estimate based on the prices achieved. What quickly becomes clear: the differences between brand new sets in the original packaging and sets that have already been used are enormous. Therefore, there can be real hope almost Only owners of unopened kits can do this. But simply: only “almost”.

This category contains standard Lego sets that you, I and my brother-in-law could purchase in the store. However, a condition for this category is that the sets are still in the original packaging and unplayed (which is a bit of a shame). But chances are, even if you’re not a collector, you have one of those sets (a Christmas gift that hasn’t been given away, hasn’t been returned, forgotten).

This set is a reissue of 375-2, which was only released in the US.

Interesting here: the supplied emergency vehicle was not yet a kit.

An unopened set of the monorail was also found in the Uster find of the century. The price is currently 1,110 francs.

Now it becomes more realistic that you have such a rarity. The condition for a maximum price in this category is: All parts as well as the construction manual and the box must be available. If this is not the case, the set will radically lose value. An example: if the Bobba Fett minifigure is missing from set 10031 Cloud City, the price is reduced from over 3,000 francs to less than 500. The happiness is in the details.

The enormous prize of Mr. Gold is explained by the fact that only 5,000 figures were produced. Mr. Gold belongs to series 10 of the minifigure collection.

The Town Plan 810-4 is a kit that was only sold in Great Britain, Ireland and Australia.

This city map was sold in twelve countries in continental Europe – and is therefore a lot less valuable.

One thing to say about the Millenium Falcon: the new price was an impressive 440 euros (420 francs today). The increase in value is still impressive.

It wasn’t that easy to get this minifigure. It was given away to lottery winners at Comic-Con 2012.

It’s unrealistic that we, normal Lego owners, own a set in this category. The top positions are occupied by special edition sets and figures that were only given away for free during special events. To participants in lotteries at events – or to employees. Due to their low volume, the prices here are truly astronomical. Why are only the nine most valuable sets presented in this category? Because #10, Cloud City, #11, the UNICEF VAN, and #12, Mr. Gold, have already been introduced.

One thing can already be revealed. Comic-Con 2013 attendees who won a minifigure in the Lego raffle can rub their hands.

The most expensive Lego set ever is the less-than-spectacular-looking Lego parts factory in Mexico (Lego Oactivities Mexico). It was presented as a gift to the factory’s employees at the opening in 2011. However, this price only applies to an unopened kit. Used, the factory is worth just under 100 francs.

Only 100 of these nondescript masks were given away at a VIP event at Comic-Con 2014. Whoever threw the item in the trash will now be angry.

Sometimes lottery prizes are good for something. There are only 200 of these Spiderman figures. And those still in the peloton are worth more than 12,000 francs.

As the most expensive set available in regular stores, the “Yellow Castle” also ranks very high among the most valuable sets of all.

Fortunately for the Belgians: Only 500 of this special edition of the T-Rex were produced. 100 were given away in stores in Belgium. Anyone who had the nerve not to open the item now has a little treasure.

We continue with the minifigures. These two were given away exclusively at the 2012 New York Toy Fair. Only 125 sets of them exist. What is especially special are the serious, ‘non-Legoesque’ facial expressions of the figures.

Approximately 350 of these exclusive Spider-Woman figures were available to raffle winners at Comic-Con 2013.

The sparrows are whistling from the rooftops: if you get your hands on a Lego figure at Comic-Con, guard it like a treasure. Because it probably is. This was also a raffle prize – just like the last statue in this list:

200 of these figures were given away at Comic-Con 2013. While the first of these sold for just over 100 francs in 2017, the price exploded in the years that followed. At the beginning of 2013, one of the figures even changed hands for more than 12,000 francs.

And with all the crazy prizes we can’t forget one thing – and I hand over the microphone to Michi Strasser, who regularly organizes Lego events such as Brixpo or the Brick Bazaar (on December 3 in *drum roll* USTER !):