{"id":41650,"date":"2025-04-15T19:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=41650"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:39:57","slug":"lego-resale-prices-leading-to-large-sales-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=41650","title":{"rendered":"Lego Resale Prices Leading to Large Sales, Thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lego sets have a scarcity factor that is fueling a pricey resale market, making some sets worth as much as $16,000.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/i> reports that this has led to Lego kits (Lego\u2014and the NYT\u2014note that the plural of Lego is Lego, not Legos) being considered a collector’s item, like Pok\u00e9mon cards. It has also led to a thriving criminal network of thieves looking for their next plastic brick score.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, a 29-year-old man was arrested for two separate Lego heists in California, one where he is accused of stealing 200 Lego boxes, and another alleged robbery of over $10,000 worth of Lego merchandise. Last year, thieves in Oregon were caught stealing 4,000 Lego sets worth more than $200,000, and robbers in California stole more than $100,000 worth of Lego sets and accessories from a store there. The owner of that shop said the stolen items were on eBay within hours.<\/p>\n

“It’s really ramped up in the last five, six years,” Meghan DeGoey, the owner of a toy store with eight locations in Northern California, told the New York Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n

DeGoey said that her stores recently had $7,000 worth of Lego sets stolen.<\/p>\n

Shane O’Farrell, the YouTube creator behind “Bricks Bucks,” a Lego-investing and reselling channel, told the New York Times<\/i> that the reason why Lego sets increase in value is because of the way the system is set up: A kit spends about two years on store shelves max, and then isn’t manufactured again.<\/p>\n

According to BrickEconomy, a website dedicated to the “economics of Lego,” the most valuable Lego set right now is a “new and sealed San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Spider-Man.” It’s estimated to be worth $16,846 today, with an average annual growth of about 10.8%, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

There are several other expensive sets listed, including a T-rex kit worth nearly $9,000.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Artnet <\/i>reported that a rare Lego minifigure from the 2000s found at a Goodwill in Pennsylvania sold for almost $20,000 at auction.<\/p>\n

So, it might be time to check your old toy bins and closets.<\/p>\n

O’Farrell told the New York Times <\/i>that he made $250,000 last year and has made even more than that in the past when he put more time into reselling.<\/p>\n

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Never, ever “legos.” We would say LEGO bricks as the word “LEGO” should always be used to describe another word.<\/p>\n

\u2014 LEGO (@LEGO_Group) March 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Related:<\/b> World’s Largest Toy Maker Abandons Initiative to Make Recycled Plastic Toys<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n