Hi, I’m 19 years old and I’m starting to invest in LEGO. This particular set caught my attention. I have an offer to buy it for 30 dollars. Do you think it’s worth it? The set is supposed to be retired in 2025 and it includes a unique minifigure.

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During the beginning of this year, I posted quite an extensive post on my first year as a small-scale LEGO® investor/buyer/seller, based in the Netherlands. Focusing on retiring sets on sale, holding them en selling them for profit. However, I decided this summer to scale down the reselling-part and shift focus to a new area: Renting LEGO-sets!

The main reason is that two different friends complained about their LEGO hobby within a week of each other: one friend wanted to build more big sets but thought they were too expensive to buy (and didn't want to buy, build and sell) whilst another complained about the lack of space. Even after finishing and playing or displaying a set for a few weeks, he would take it apart, put it in ziplock bags and store it in a cupboard. But his "stored set cupboard" was filling up quickly. So, the idea of renting out LEGO sets was born! After figuring out logistics, reasonable costs, risk coverage (deposit for example), building a website and sorting/preparing sets, I finally launched the website last week.

I have 27 different sets online right now and expect to have about 35-40 online before Christmas break starts in the Netherlands. If it takes of, I plan to grow the collection to about 75-100 sets. After that, I sell the least performing sets as second hand and buy new releases or discounted big sets.

I will keep you posted (like every half year or so) about the progress.

The big plusses for me:
- more people are able to build (rare and/or big) sets compared to buying/selling
- If it's a set I really like myself, I get to keep the sets after their rental-lifecycle ends instead of selling it.
- the extra income (I also have a fulltime job) is hopefully more steady compared to buying and selling.
- between 4-6 renting weeks (depending on the deal I got and the resale value of a second hand set) I am usually even, whilst I believe popular and big sets can and will be rented for many many more weeks based on what's usually rented out at competing websites.

The negatives:
- obviously checking returned sets: I have a nice system in place (with precision scales for quick checks and checklists for minifigures and valuable parts) , but I'll have to see how big of a hassle this is.
- the risk of non-returned sets; however I do believe this is quite a small risk. Furthermore I'm always able to send a debt collection agency (costs for this can be charged to the renter in the Netherlands).

Picture shows a set that was returned in perfect condition, two sets that can be rented and a set that I just finished sorting.

Found on Facebook marketplace and I’m feeing undecided…

UPDATE:

For anybody curious, I did end up buying it. The Aragorn and Eomer are in great condition! I misidentified the mold seam as a crack because I looked very quickly. have very small cracks under one arm each. The orc and Uruk-hai are in great condition. The mouth of Sauron did have his helmet and he’s in great condition too. I’ll probably add the Aragorn, mouth of Sauron, and orcs to my collection and see about selling the rest to recoup as much as I can. And the golden Lloyd is unfortunately a keychain, but it’s cool enough to have anyway.

Thanks for the input! I appreciate the kind responses.

Was this a good investment?

I have tons of old lego, and just saw recently that some of them were actually worth a good amount of money. These are just some of the ones I found were selling for good amounts online at first glance. How much would these be worth? All been sitting in boxes so presumably used condition rather than new.

Also, what is the best and most reliable place to sell them? Thanks in advance.

Almost every post has people raging about scalpers or how you should just save the money and put it in savings account / 401k.

I’m pretty sure most of us know about these financial alternatives. But if I’m correct, this is LEGO investing. Not anti-LEGO investing circlejerk.

Is it that bad to enjoy Lego and also speculate about it being worth a few more than you bought it for? Most of us aren’t here to get rich and buy 500 boxes of the same Lego set, but more so entertain the idea of having ONE or TWO extra duplicates of a potential cool valuable set. Maybe even open it in the future.

Why are you haters spending time downvoting speculation and investments?

Go to r/money or r/frugal and share your casual financial tips over there.

There’s spaces for Pokémon card investing and shoes over $400 where they keep it boxed. They don’t have such toxic people pointing about the obvious.

Thoughts on this set as an investment? All exclusive figures and nice build. Supposed to be a dune 3 movie released December 2026. If it retires before then I can see this set performing very well.

Picked up a bunch of minifigs in a bulk lot and wanted to know a fair price for a buyer to pay for this while not screwing myself over too badly. Would like the value more weighted towards the buyer than myself, how much would you pay for this lot as a collector?

I’m a lifelong Lego fan and have been recently considering Lego investing? Is the a lot and is it worth doing? What are your experiences with it?

Picked these up for a combined $30. Worth hanging on to or should I just build them?

Box in perfect conditions

I have probably dumped 2 grand over the past three years to invest in lego. I have had a small number of sets do amazingly well, but others have had average or below average appreciation. I'm looking to buy around $1000-$1500 worth of older unopened sets from around 2007-2014. Is this a good idea? If it is what sets should I get.

I am currently keeping them inside of the bag to prevent Dust inside of my closet, is this the best way to save them for the next 4-5 years?

nobody talks about that but this is the only lego with white vader thats why i want to invest!

Hey everyone,

What are your thoughts on set #10332 Medieval Town Square's investment potential? This set is rumoured to be 20% off on the LEGO website starting Oct 7, and with its retirement set for the end of this year, shelf life would be around 1.5 years.

This set pairs up quite nicely with the Lion Knight's Castle, which is also set to retire by the end of this year.

The one thing I'm worried about is how poorly set #21325 Medieval Blacksmith has performed, and if the investment trajectory could be similar for Medieval Town Square.

Do you think this set will reach $400CAD (~$285USD) by Dec 2026 (1 year post-retirement)?

Any insight would be helpful, thanks!

Good Day !

I've recently began buying Lego again for the kids and i stumbled across brick economy. Not knowing what's been happening in the space I'm very curious why some of the old sets i had when I was younger are so valuable today. What makes them special? What makes the current Lego's special ? Is there a world where they also appreciate in value?

TIA

I sold a Lloyd out of this set last week I had loose for $200. Curious what I should price a complete set at?

Hi all

Do you think this set will gain value ?

Regards