LEGO Sets Are Better Investments than Stocks, Bonds or Even Gold

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Quote from: stomachgrowls on January 09, 2022, 06:20:46 PM

Quote from: Ultegra134 on January 09, 2022, 03:16:21 PM

Both my brother and I were raised with Lego. Especially my brother, had quite a few old ones, which were scattered around in boxes, missing pieces or left uncompleted. It was till once I cleaned the whole storage, finding many old instruction manuals and rebuilt most of them. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I got older and stopped messing around with them, it's a pity to see them left to their fate.

I'm guessing that a few of them are possibly worth a decent amount of money, especially if they are old and have their instructions. I'd love to rebuild some of them at some point, but I am not living with my parents anymore, so I don't see it happening any time soon.

We might get eager again on collecting those pieces and trying to be complete as much as possible since we know that it could possibly ending up with have some value with those lego sets.

For now if we cant possibly see those stuffs due to various scenarios then lets just move on and thinking up those good old days had been part of our lives even though we cant benefit out from it

but its part of our childhood days without minding about those values or worth but rather the fun that it gives when we are still young.

Not sure how I'd achieve that, being 24 years old, with a full time job, six days a week, while also living away from my parent's home. Certainly, there are a few pieces from the late 90s, which are probably worth a decent sum of money, but it requires time and patience to sort all of them out.

I miss those carefree days.

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Quote from: Obito on January 10, 2022, 12:12:59 AM

Quote from: Reid on January 09, 2022, 03:20:44 AM

I just finished cleaning the house. Now the Lego sets are complete again. Grin

Damn kids, I am now taking it to as safer place.

I enjoyed playing it with my kids up until now. Perhaps, because it is not easy to keep in sets/complete is what makes it more valuable. It's not just the oil or the plastic but being good at keeping it.
Then, there are a lot of fakes that had been created, the bigger ones that wrecks the item with just one drop. The original are mostly in small pieces only.
I am just afraid I will be the only one left playing it when this kids grow old with their smartphones and laptops. Grin

Yeah, old toys will be valuable someday.

You better teach your kids then the importance of your sets though, I have some friends that have kids and are avid collectors of statues of pop culture characters and that's what they're saying to me when the time that I get a kid, that I probably should teach them my hobbies so that when we get a shared interest, then I would be assured that I wouldn't worry that my collection would be destroyed. Regarding the topic though, I don't think that it's a good idea to do so because I feel like there's not a lot of people looking for this discontinued LEGO sets unlike stocks and bonds, you have a guaranteed profit.

That is one of the issues with those markets, the liquidity is low as the number of people that are looking for LEGO sets is limited, and most of the time they are going to be looking for the old LEGO sets as they most likely buy every single LEGO set in existence that comes out so as to no depend on someone else to buy it in the future for a high price, so while it could be interesting to do something like that if you already enjoy the hobby of collecting if that is not the case then it is better to not bother with it.

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Quote from: Reid on January 09, 2022, 03:20:44 AM

I just finished cleaning the house. Now the Lego sets are complete again. Grin

Damn kids, I am now taking it to as safer place.

I enjoyed playing it with my kids up until now. Perhaps, because it is not easy to keep in sets/complete is what makes it more valuable. It's not just the oil or the plastic but being good at keeping it.
Then, there are a lot of fakes that had been created, the bigger ones that wrecks the item with just one drop. The original are mostly in small pieces only.
I am just afraid I will be the only one left playing it when this kids grow old with their smartphones and laptops. Grin

Yeah, old toys will be valuable someday.

You better teach your kids then the importance of your sets though, I have some friends that have kids and are avid collectors of statues of pop culture characters and that's what they're saying to me when the time that I get a kid, that I probably should teach them my hobbies so that when we get a shared interest, then I would be assured that I wouldn't worry that my collection would be destroyed. Regarding the topic though, I don't think that it's a good idea to do so because I feel like there's not a lot of people looking for this discontinued LEGO sets unlike stocks and bonds, you have a guaranteed profit.

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Quote from: Ultegra134 on January 09, 2022, 03:16:21 PM

Both my brother and I were raised with Lego. Especially my brother, had quite a few old ones, which were scattered around in boxes, missing pieces or left uncompleted. It was till once I cleaned the whole storage, finding many old instruction manuals and rebuilt most of them. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I got older and stopped messing around with them, it's a pity to see them left to their fate.

I'm guessing that a few of them are possibly worth a decent amount of money, especially if they are old and have their instructions. I'd love to rebuild some of them at some point, but I am not living with my parents anymore, so I don't see it happening any time soon.

We might get eager again on collecting those pieces and trying to be complete as much as possible since we know that it could possibly ending up with have some value with those lego sets.

For now if we cant possibly see those stuffs due to various scenarios then lets just move on and thinking up those good old days had been part of our lives even though we cant benefit out from it

but its part of our childhood days without minding about those values or worth but rather the fun that it gives when we are still young.

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Both my brother and I were raised with Lego. Especially my brother, had quite a few old ones, which were scattered around in boxes, missing pieces or left uncompleted. It was till once I cleaned the whole storage, finding many old instruction manuals and rebuilt most of them. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I got older and stopped messing around with them, it's a pity to see them left to their fate.

I'm guessing that a few of them are possibly worth a decent amount of money, especially if they are old and have their instructions. I'd love to rebuild some of them at some point, but I am not living with my parents anymore, so I don't see it happening any time soon.

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I just finished cleaning the house. Now the Lego sets are complete again. Grin

Damn kids, I am now taking it to as safer place.

I enjoyed playing it with my kids up until now. Perhaps, because it is not easy to keep in sets/complete is what makes it more valuable. It's not just the oil or the plastic but being good at keeping it.
Then, there are a lot of fakes that had been created, the bigger ones that wrecks the item with just one drop. The original are mostly in small pieces only.
I am just afraid I will be the only one left playing it when this kids grow old with their smartphones and laptops. Grin

Yeah, old toys will be valuable someday.

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Quote from: bhooscream on January 08, 2022, 07:22:07 PM

I don't know that Lego is that kind of worthy thing. What I know is that many children like lego toys so much. And some teenagers or even adults are also fond of the toys. But I am actuallay not really sure this is a worthy investment in my country. Because there are not exactly may people who are interested in Legos.
That is why I am not sure whether the research is in line with condition in my country or not.
It seems like a tupperware that is also very valuable, isn't it?

Value you mean?
You could check this link out.
https://www.fatherly.com/gear/most-valuable-lego-sets-minifigures/

Its a toy but cant really be denied that these are really having some expensive figures not including those limited edition or
something in collectors item.

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I don't know that Lego is that kind of worthy thing. What I know is that many children like lego toys so much. And some teenagers or even adults are also fond of the toys. But I am actuallay not really sure this is a worthy investment in my country. Because there are not exactly may people who are interested in Legos.
That is why I am not sure whether the research is in line with condition in my country or not.
It seems like a tupperware that is also very valuable, isn't it?

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LEGO is so valuable (the old discontinued sets) because besides being a creative toy full of possibilities, it's also very well made (probably the most well polished of the entire toys' industry) with excellent raw materials quality.

Moreover, LEGO is nostalgic for many adults who had a set or another back then or just desired to had that, although the parents couldn't afford the toys.

Naturally these sets become highly appreciated relics along the decades. Personally, I always dreamed about some sets from the 2000's, like the Old West, Jungle, Sphynx from the egyptian set, Ninjas, Medieval...

And now it's not possible anymore, because the sets' styles were completely changed and in my opinion they have lost their originality.

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I have watched many videos of those big guys that are overwhelmed when their girlfriends have given them a huge Lego set toy. I thought that it's just personal happiness but there seems to be a market value that can grow eventually overtime. Someday, there's really going to be a big value for those good conditions since everything and every toys have their collectors that wants to display it somewhere in their house and the process of collecting it gives them happiness in return of having a greater value as they purchase.

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Alternative investments have vastly outperformed a lot of asset classes.

Of course, there are risks involved but I actually think that risk-adjusted returns wise they can actually continue to return more than market indices over the long run.

However, the catch is that you need to make sure you understand how it works first before putting money in. It's not as simple as buying an ETF.

Also, don't put money into securitized versions of these alternative investments (e.g. fractional art, that just doesn't make any sense to me).

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on January 07, 2022, 04:10:01 AM

Who would have thought that Lego could be of value? My child's interest disappears as soon as he assembles another Lego car or model. The further fate of these plastic kits falls into one large box with toys, or simply wallows underfoot. I will definitely explain to my son that by scattering these objects, he is simply walking on the future money. Grin

Although yes, in a new form, Lego sets are quite expensive in our country.

They might really ending up on having a value in future years to come and that would be always varying on such recognition.I cant really still believe that these plastic toy could really have
that kind of possible value which we know that this isn't really the right thing since they are built up for other purpose.

Speaking of Stocks Bonds or even Gold then nothing beats out but there are just people who do have own perception on things whether it could really have some value in future years
to come or doesn't have and this one had been included.

So its a personal set of choice whether they do believe it or not.

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Quote from: jackg on January 03, 2022, 11:48:38 AM

I suspect the 11% is probably a hard to get target too. I don't know how much Lego expanded since the 80s too and you run into the risk of discontinued sets not staying that way.

Also, the past might not be a good reflection on the future... The study was also done by collectors of Lego sets too.

And the study focused on limited editions most likely, and those are hard to get in the first.
The main source of that article is nypost, and nypost is just a clickbait newspaper.

Now, since they mentioned a set like the Millennium Falcon, one can easily check on it.
It was around 500$ when it started in 2007 and the last offer on brickcatalog was around 1,899.79 , a bit short of 2200 you could have made with the 11% but still in range. But it wasn't sold!
Just as head up, on eBay there is a guy demanding 4500e for it.

Quote from: fiulpro on January 03, 2022, 01:43:54 PM

All those lost Legos that my brother tried to eat or stuff in his nose would be crying right now. I was checking the price of Legos for Christmas, the titanic one, apparently it's 500$, which made me extremely anxious regarding how fast the prices are rising and would we be able to keep up with the inflation??

You should have bought it when you had the chance, it's out of stock with the last price of 599 Euros here. Grin

You missed doing a 36% profit in less than a month.

Now joking aside, some sets do really gain value, especially sets that resurface with movies or other events, star wars is the example, although lately they've done so many it probably has diluted the market. So you don't need to only buy them but buy the right ones, damn, like investing in shitcoins.

Can't wait till lego starts doing NFTs and suddenly half of the critics start praising lego sets. Cheesy

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Basing off future performance off the past is just ridiculous, and anyone with a brain should be able to pick this up.

But there is some merit to this article, imho.

I think that unconventional investments are gaining more and more legitimacy because of the fact that interest rates are so low and traditional investments such as equities are simply not delivering the results that people want. This is also the reason for the NFT run-up last year.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on January 07, 2022, 04:10:01 AM

Who would have thought that Lego could be of value? My child's interest disappears as soon as he assembles another Lego car or model. The further fate of these plastic kits falls into one large box with toys, or simply wallows underfoot. I will definitely explain to my son that by scattering these objects, he is simply walking on the future money. Grin

Although yes, in a new form, Lego sets are quite expensive in our country.

This is not regarding the small item that you buy in every store. This is more about the unique ones that are limited edition. Regular legos do not really worth that much, still worths a good amount of course but those pieces are manufactured constantly and they do not have that kind of value unfortunately.

The unique ones that you combine and build something do have it. So, if you are getting "any" shape and box and just build whatever you want with it, then it usually doesn't worth that much even after decades, whereas if you buy something like let's say a death star from star wars type of thing then it does worth money in the end because it is limited and so forth.

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I know people who are into LEGO sets, and those are quite expensive, but 11% returns annually don't sound too impressive when compared with Bitcoin. Also, why is the data stopping at 2015? Might it mean that for 6 years the trend hasn't continued? I do support the idea of not throwing away LEGO because it's plastic and throwing it away is wasteful, but what I fear is that people will start buying new ones to simply hodl them. Also, it caught my eye that unopened sets were analyzed, so I don't see how keeping old LEGO sets is supported by this research.

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Who would have thought that Lego could be of value? My child's interest disappears as soon as he assembles another Lego car or model. The further fate of these plastic kits falls into one large box with toys, or simply wallows underfoot. I will definitely explain to my son that by scattering these objects, he is simply walking on the future money. Grin

Although yes, in a new form, Lego sets are quite expensive in our country.

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Quote from: el kaka22 on January 04, 2022, 04:53:17 PM

I never understood these lego or beeny baby or whatever those things are called stuff. I mean don't get me wrong, I do not want to sound like old timers who say "whAt Is NfT??" and never get the idea, I understand why something would be precious to some people but it is something that can be built, that's the weird part.

Like lego company could see each goes for over a thousand each, and produce enough that it would be 100 bucks each for thousands of products and make a killing, what stops them from doing it? I am not saying that they will, but I would be very anxious to invest into something that someone can drop the value so quickly.

You are basically touching the main problem with all of this, even if there are some Lego sets that are very valuable there is nothing stopping the company from creating new editions of those same sets, and while some may decide to still pay a high price for the originals the truth is that something like this will reduce their value, in fact we see a very similar scenario when governments print their fiat in the sense that the more they print the less value it has.

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Quote from: AicecreaME on January 04, 2022, 10:19:58 AM

What seems good to you might not be good to others, and vice-versa. Stocks, bonds, golds, crypto, real estate, lego, and other valuable objects can be a good investment. It just depends on someone what among those will he pick and how he would hold it to preserve its value or even go beyond its value during selling time.

I really like your perception, we might find something very difficult to compromise with it due to the gravity of information we heard about the stuff, right now this your statement sounds so encouraging to newbies to the community, it's very obvious human nature that what favoured (mr A) can not favour (mr B) the way, you might castigates a particular platform because your were not successful when you were in contact with them, that doesn't not means another person won't succeed again from the same area, so in no shell, we have grab the courage of another to elevate ourselves

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There is something to be said about alternative asset classes and particularly some classes that would usually not be conceived as something to invest in. It is not only Lego sets it is now about any limited edition of Nike shoes or any other fashion brand. So I do not only agree with your view, but I would also extend that to many items that were originally intended for consumers and as non-durable or mid=durable items. Hint: limited editions of Swatch watches may also do the trick Wink

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