If you look for Lego’s most expensive models, you won’t be able to find them on the shelves even in the finest toy stores. The highest valued Lego sets are collector’s items, which are usually retired sets and thus very scarce. Collectors and Lego enthusiasts around the world are willing to pay good pennies for them, take a look! The “Market Street” Lego set was the company’s second set of their modular building series for adults. The set contains 1248 pieces and features curved staircases and interchangeable floors. It’s currently valued at around €1,400. Lego’s “Café Corner” set features 2,056 pieces and you can find it for around €1,500. The building has three floors, a mosaic and a bicycle is featured in the set! This Lego set is the tallest one to this day – the amazing 1,06 meters. The French flag on top of it is also made of Lego bricks. The number of parts is 3,428 and you’d have to pay around €1,500 if you want your very own Lego Eiffel Tower set.
At number 7 the “Imperial Star Destroyer” Lego sets costs around €1,600 and you’ll find 1,359 in the box. This set is a model of the Imperial Star Destroyer ship from Star Wars and includes a Lego minifigure of Darth Vader, a hologram of Emperor Palpatine and eight synchronized cannons! 6. Death Star II Currently this Lego set’s value goes up to €1,600. The model includes a laser and is built to scale with the original Death Star II from Star Wars. It has 3,447 pieces. Only 5,000 Mr. Gold Lego minifigures were manufactured in honor of Lego’s 10-year anniversary of their Minifigures series. You can have a Mr. Gold in your hands for around €1,700! This Lego set contains 2,882 parts and all of them are sand-green bricks. The price for this set can go up to €1,900. This Lego set is electricity powered and has 3,263 pieces! When assembled and powered up, the Grand Carousel spins and plays melodies. You would need about €2,500 to get your hands on one of those!
The “Taj Mahal” Lego set is the largest Lego set ever made. It was produced in 2008 and contains the incredible amount of 5,922. Better save some money and patience for this one. These sets are currently valued at around €2,500. 1. Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon Perhaps every Lego collector’s dream, this model is the largest Star Wars set ever made and second largest set after the “Taj Mahal”. In the box you will also find Lego minifigures of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. The number of pieces is 5,174 and the price is €4,500. Better start saving up! Here at Catawiki you can find weekly Lego auctions! A few lucky people have already bought Lego sets from this list on Catawiki, maybe you're the next lucky one! Let This Lego Loom Do Your Knitting For YouLEGO and Star Wars have a unique love affair, with the Danish toymaker putting out comprehensive LEGO sets after each franchise installment that have inspired successive generations to tinker about with the vehicles and set pieces that they see on the big screen.
However, nothing designed by LEGO comes close to the ardor that one particular fan — who goes by Marshal Banana — has for one particular spaceship from the series, specifically the iconic Millennium Falcon. The LEGO replica which he created from 7,500 LEGO pieces is the purest expression of his love for Star Wars, measuring at 22 pounds and three feet in length, and taking a whole year to plan and construct. The level of detail in Marshal Banana’s creation, from the guns and pipes to the lit-up engine, puts the official LEGO replicas to shame — in comparison, the standard model by LEGO consists of 1,329 pieces, while the biggest Star Wars model ever produced is the $6,000 USD Ultimate Collectors Series Falcon, which falls short at a mere 5,000 pieces. Take a look at the magnum opus above, and check out more of Marshal Banana’s work at his Flickr page. What to Read NextAvast, ye scurvy dogs! There be some new Pirate LEGO sets settin' sale this past week and it be time to spy upon the best salty sets of the past.
*cough* Sorry, I can't keep up the pirate talk. As mentioned above there is a whole slew of new Pirate LEGO sets available as of this week. After contacting my good friend POWERSTOMP, fellow Hoosier and LEGO enthusiast, we decided to make a list of our favorite Pirate sets from from yesteryear. We saved up for months and put these bad boys at the top of our Christmas lists. They're not the best selling, or the biggest (well some might be), but they're the sets we love and remember. Keep in mind that these are legit Pirate themed sets and not themes like LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean or The LEGO Movie that have pirate-related playsets. My father always loved to pick out big LEGO sets for my brothers and me. Since we were too young to really understand how following a manual worked he would normally present them to us prebuilt and we'd play with them. For about an hour. Then we would go Godzilla on those poor sets and tear them apart. Forbidden Island is one of the first I remember.
I mean, who can forget the first time they armed a money with a gun? One of the smallest Pirate sets on record, Battle Cove is a perfect mishmash of all things that make the Pirate series so silly and fun. A shark, a pirate, a cannon, two guns, one pirate flag - it's like the essentials of my five year-old imagination. All I needed to add was a monkey with a sword and all was right with the world. I'll admit that I was never too excited at the prospect of pitting pirates (the obvious winners) against snooty soldiers who had an obvious military advantage. I guess I just always rooted for the underdog. That's why Enchanted Island, and the other sets featuring indigenous island dwelling people, are at the top of the pirate world (in my own opinion). The tiki gods and kickass war masks were just too good to pass up. I felt like the islanders were the underdogs now, which meant they usually won out against the pirates in my mind. Or maybe they could both team up and take down those hoity toity soldiers...
Speaking of soldiers, here's a nice set where they're on a nice field trip... They'll chewing on a cannon balls soon enough. Those poor ignorant fools. Aside from the sweet rotating skull I always loved to have the captain throw down barrel, a la the original Donkey Kong, for his men to avoid. Then he'd hoist them back to his look out and bring the pain all over again. It was nice to have a full water base board as well, because it forced me to come up with some ideas for my own island shapes and builds. I sure do love those old palm trees. What's a list of pirate sets without a sturdy ship? While it's not one of the larger, fully equipped ships that have hit store shelves over the years, the Cross Bones Clipper is one solid little schooner. With the trademark skull and crossbones flying high and a treasure map in hand, it's not hard to see why this little ship became one of my favorites to customize. I always thought it was pretty badass that there was a human skull (human LEGO figure, that is) on the front.
Fear my ships and all its skulls! I envisioned these guys as a couple of clowns who were always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yes, they were forced to cruise around on a raft ~ but at least they had a badass pet shark to keep them company. Usually I would have these guys get captured and locked up by the Imperials. Overall this set saw a ton of playtime in my collection. It features three minifigs, one of which is actually the captain of the Renegade Runner (6268). The cloth sail with skull & crossbones is unique to this set, and the rigging added vertical placement options for the minifigs. It is a well designed set that allowed for a number of different unique configurations: A crane operation, pirate loot cart, or an island keg party! This was the first pirate set I received as a birthday gift. It quickly became the centerpiece for all of my LEGO Pirate theme adventures. How cool is this setting?! It's a colonial trading post, fortified by the Imperials. It's a big set, with tons of space and different levels, greatly increasing it's playability.
I remember heavily fortifying this outpost over time with the addition of more imperial cannons and walls, as well as extending the dock to accommodate the arrival of larger ships. Includes a custom raised baseplate, a merchant focused ship (unique to this set) and nine minifigs. The original build of this set is pretty basic. As an adult, I would love to see a more advanced build because the setting for this set is very cool. I may have actually screamed when I got this set for Christmas as a kid. It became the heavy hitter of my Pirate collection, and this thing struck fear in the Imperial land defenses I constructed. As a kid, I remember being in awe at how huge the completed ship was ~ (Actual dimensions of 26Lx9Wx19H). 9 minifigs came with this set ~ including a rare merchant pirate, a female pirate, as well as the iconic Captain Redbeard. The Merchant pirate is actually the rarest pirate of all time, appearing in only two large sets (6286 & 6277).The ship itself had some fantastic features: cannons rotatable 360º from port to starboard, a handy cargo crane, and a lifeboat on the rear.
I had multiples of this set. It was cheap and provided a ton of guns (I really love guns). What's not to love about a triple barrel musket cart? I had a hiatus from Pirate theme for a time, but when this set hit the shelves my grandma gifted it to me. Rekindled my love for the pirate theme, unfortunately that run would be short lived with the end of Pirates in 1997. The "Spanish Armada" minifig designs were unique and added another narrative to my Pirate / Imperial heavy collection. I never really considered it a "flagship", and tended to use it more as an armed merchant vessel. The ship itself had several uniquely colored pieces that set it apart. Green railings and cannon bases, white & blue hulls. The main cloth sail featured the awesome armada crest. Overall, it was a fun set that added variety and many hours of additional play to my already large collection of Pirate LEGO.So there ye have it mateys. The best sets (in our humble opinions) that ever did sail the bricky blue ocean.