One of the little known secrets about LEGO is that you, the individual, can buy bricks directly from LEGO, and so price out builds. Note that this is different than buying pre-designed sets from LEGO.Prices range from around $0.07 to $0.15 per standard brick. If you assume that a decent Death Star consists of 1 million bricks, then $70,000 to $150,000 of material plus labor would be the answer.Adjust your cost up or down, depending on the size of the replica you want to make.Now, the pedants will quibble that the cost shown at the link are what LEGO sells to consumers; their own costs for manufacturing that inventory are of course lower; you could, if you want, apply a discount to those above costs, say 50% or more (I don’t know what their margins are).Incidentally, you may want to reach out to LEGOs social media team and see if they’re interested in answering this question. I know that this guy used to run social media there: Lars SilberbauerTop 7 LEGO Star Wars Sets imageThe Star Wars franchise is undeniably the largest franchise in the world.
It has a cult following that truly is unmatched. To go along with that, there are a lot of companies that license out the brand....Read More about Top 7 LEGO Star Wars SetsMoving the Death Star Want to see the future of car technology? Brian Cooley found it for you at CES 2017 in Las Vegas and the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The connected home experience you didn't know you wanted Everything you need in a phone, except the headphone jack Correct us if we're wrong, but we don't remember the Rebel Alliance boarding either Death Star. The first one was destroyed via an external exhaust pipe and the second had its core blown up by an X-Wing and the Millennium Falcon. DICE is fudging cinematic history with its newest DLC for Star Wars Battlefront, but damn, it looks bloody good.Battlefront's 'Death Star' DLC is available for Season Pass holders from today, and there's already fresh footage coming out of the new map / mode, such as this 20-minute delight.
Related: Star Wars Battlefront VR is the stuff of dreamsHangar bays are counterpointed by narrow corridors and precarious walkways. It's an exceedingly familiar environment that's been given some extra glitz by DICE. Somehow the studio always seems to be able to make the environments of the films look even more appealing.Even Bossk, a Trandoshan bounty hunter who has never really appealed to us, looks like a great addition to the hero roster. Inside the dark, monochromatic interiors of the Death Star, his thermal vision gives him a real edge.If you want to see evidence of the final section that causes the big bada boom, then skip to 21.35 where you can watch players make the infamous trench run toward sci-fi's most ridiculous design flaw.If you want to grab the Death Star DLC you'll have to either grab the Season Pass for Battlefront, which costs £39.99, or wait until it becomes available to all in a couple of weeks. The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title.
It may contain one or more characters which cannot be used in titles. Return to Main Page.Some rare Lego sets are now selling for literally thousands of pounds online, as enthusiasts snap up the popular toys. But it's not just rare pieces that are selling well, with standard sets now frequently worth more than when they were new and even old bags of unsorted bricks in demand. “With the soar in popularity of Lego with both adults and children, the effect on the values of both rare, hard to find sets and new releases has been incredible," said Bev Channell, event director for Lego event BRICK 2015, running at Birmingham's NEC this week. “It’s well worth searching through your old sets to see what treasures are hiding there.” The bigger, rarer sets tend to be worth the most - but with Lego frequently refreshing its range that means any old set that's large enough could be worth upwards of £1,000. Currently, these are the most valuable sets: Sadly, to get the best prices for your Lego, it needs to be “mint in box” - which means not opened since it was bought and still factory sealed.
The good news for people who want to play with their toys is that you can still get good returns for assembled models – as long as there are no pieces missing. The easiest Lego sets to sell are Star Wars themed, with Millennium Falcons, Death Stars and X-Wings all selling well – and some prices in the thousands. But there's much more than just Star Wars selling. A look at the best-selling kits on BrickPicker shows trains, play houses, dinosaurs, Harry Potter sets, Back to the Future Deloreans and Pirate sets all featuring. Most of the sales take place on eBay, with BrickPicker providing lists of the top selling and biggest rising prices – as well as a tool letting you compare the price of sets. You can also search on eBay for sold prices of similar sets. If you've got a box of Lego, rather than a specific set, you can bulk-sell as well – although prices for these are a lot lower. That said, if you have the time and can split the box out by category (be it Star Wars, pirates, Medieval, Technic or whatever) these smaller – more specific - bundles will frequently sell for more than a job-lot of unsorted bricks.
To get the most value, you need to be selling pristine-condition Lego toys. “As with any sort of collectible, the safe storage of the collectible is very important,” Ed Mack explains in a piece on How to make money from Lego . “Although the actual Lego brick is pretty much indestructible under normal conditions, the Lego boxes and instructions need special care.” That means quite a lot of space to store them all if you're trying to make money from them, and possibly adding the cost to your insurance. Then there are the seller fees on eBay. And the shipping costs – remember, Lego is bulky and could cost quite a bit to ship. And if you're selling to a collector, they'll expect it to arrive in good condition, so packing costs go up again. Oh, and don't count your profits before you sell – the price of a set can drop fast if Lego re-introduces it while prices can rise as well as fall in line with demand too. Is Lego better than gold? 500+ VOTES SO FAR The market for old toys on eBay is much bigger than just Lego.