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Hi All, I'm a new member from Cardiff, Wales. I recently joined brickpicker.com as i'm after some advice. I've collected LEGO for a good 6 years in my childhood (i'm now 17) and aquired a total of about 25 sets. Most of which were LEGO Star Wars with some other bits and bobs. The most valuable model of my collection is the 10189 Taj Mahal, which i gather is now worth alot more than i originally bought it for! What i was wondering was, should i sell-up my LEGO now, or wait? Will it increase in value over time? Is there a peak time to sell? Who/Where should i sell it? As you can probably tell i have no real idea when it comes to selling LEGO, so any advice wo…

Hi guys, Stop building lego for almost 10+ years, I was searching a lego set for my 1-1/2 years old and I have came across this site. After reading all the info and news from this site, i can wait to start building them and collect them. This place is awesome! By the way, since i am new in here, when i try to do a price check for a lego set, there is a item CAGR, what is that mean? thanks, Felix

Hey Everyone, My name is Ahmed and I'm from Canada. A little about me Is I love comedy, writing, and soccer. I'm 20 years old and working to put myself through university currently! As a kid I loved playing with Legos, and recently I read an article on people using Legos as an investment/trading commodity and it just struck me as brilliant. I loved playing with them as a kid, love the world of economics and trading, plus as a student living out on my own for the first time, it seems like something that requires much less start up capital than traditional trading, but also holds the potential to make me some extra money, which is something every student could…

Hello everyone! I recently found this awesome site and decided it was time to sign up. I have been collecting Lego to build for a few years now and I have recently started buying to store and sell later. I look forward to reading more great posts and chatting to you all Chloe

Hey all, I joined the site Dec. 27, 2014. Glad to be here. I lurked around for a bit before deciding to introduce myself. I'm a 25 (26 in Jan) Y/O newlywed from a small town in KY. I've never been into Lego actually, my parents never got them for me as toys and i never thought about them. My new wife's best friend's husband (fathers brothers nephews cousins former roommate) is a big child, which is not bad. He has more toys than most grown adults, but the kicker is he gets them to play with. His Legos are all opened, and not assembled, but that's neither here nor there. Point is i started to wonder how much he had spent on them, and that led me to wondering how much…

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Hi, I'm new to this site. I've just been given a present that I was supposed to receive 36 years ago but it was left in a cupboard and forgotten about. It is a Crane Set (New Technical Set) code 855 and it is in absolute mint condition. What's something like this worth?

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Greetings from Seattle. My name is Bill. I'm 46, father of two boys, and am currently reliving my boyhood with them, hopefully not through them. Turning a profit and having fun at the same time?... I'm intrigued. I just bought some stock in 9676 so I'm looking forward to see how they perform in the next 10-15years.

Hello all, I've seen a couple of posts from people from Atlanta so I know there's some of us here! I've been a Lego fan since I received set 6054 when I was 5 years old. I've owned quite a bit of sets over the years. They were mostly Forestmen, Exploriens, Ice Planet 2002 (6879 is one of my favorite small sets ever), Castle sets around that time (6081 & 6082), and random others. Once I turned 15 I stopped caring about them, at 18 I moved out of the house, and at age 20 my parents gave (GAVE, not SOLD) away every single one of my sets and parts to one of their friend's kid without me knowing it. It was their house though, and they had purchased those for me,…

Long time lurker and a LEGO life-time lover since my childhood thanks to my father's passion for the (plastic) bricks. This is the very first time I write here after I've started collecting some sets last month. I'm at the very beginning (as a collector) but I'll do my best to grow and become more knowledgeable as the time goes by. Thanks for this website and its forums, it's a great place. Since building LEGO and space exploration are my preferred hobbies, I've recently posted a little humble contribute to the Rosetta mission on ideas.lego. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/86582 Ciao and thanks for your time! Emanuele

Hello All, I am new to this group and wanted to give a big thank you for all the good information found here. I found this site after a great garage sale season where I was able to pick up a lot of used sets. I wasn't even sure how much Lego's sold for when I bought them. I was just happy to have something to put together!! My first garage sale purchase was a whole box of Legos for $20 (some with instructions and box). I learned my lesson that when they say they are complete, always expect they are missing some bricks!! After building them I was able to sell them all for $150. At this point I was hooked. My next find was a lady who sold me a whole collecti…

I was doing searches to get info about sets and kept getting links to this Brickpicker place, so it was definately time to sign up. Kind of backed into the Lego world this summer when we bought 17 sets at a garage sale for $165. No boxes, but pristine and complete with manuals and each nicely in a plastic container. I recognized some themes like the Star Wars R2D2, but didn't have a clue about the others. Ended up that in there was Skyline, Sopwith Camel, Creator Ferris Wheel, and a number or retired early-mid 2000s Star Wars like a clone tank and AT-AT. Actually feel cheap that we haggled on price a bit, the asking wasn't much more but we really didn't have a …

Hi I'm a lifelong Lego fan who has many great memories of playing with Lego during my childhood. My modest collection included the 6274 Caribbean Clipper which I have less fond memories of the mast keep falling off, and the pride of my collection the Lego Model Team Sea Jet (5521) - I was young and easily impressed! Unfortunately I let me whole collection go when I went to University for what now seems to have been a rather paltry sum. Like many others though I have to also credit Lego as a major influence in becoming an Engineer and love the opportunity to use it whenever I can! I recently started thinking about investing in Lego as a 'passion' investme…

Hi all! Just wanted to say hi! My name is Brendan and I live in Cincy! I'm a long time collector with minor flipping here and there but am looking to invest long term. My father in South Dakota even wants to get involved to so I'm excited to use the wonderful resource to get questions answered, score good deals, and obviously share the hobby with all of you. Any other members in the Cincinnati area?

Hi my Name is Dimi, and i started investing in Lego 3 weeks ago. now i will stop buying and start waiting nice forum so far. Living in germany

Hello, I am totally new to the site and have spent a week or so browsing before deciding to post! My husband and I have five year old twin boys who are Lego fanatics. They started with the Lego Architecture series just before they turned four years old and by 4.5 they had completed the Robie House- "reading" the directions and laying every single brick with their own little fingers! So here is why am here- Our sons have desperately wanted the London Tower Bridge for nearly two years now and the Sydney Opera House since it was released. Given their age we have not jumped at the idea! Our boys are learning about how sets retire and increase in price. The…

I had a very LEGO heavy childhood. If I look at old catalogs from the late 80s, I remember having like 90% of those sets (minus DUPLO). I used to play with almost everything, from Fabuland to all LEGOLAND series, Technic and Model Team, you name it. Just recently, I started buying LEGO again. I was tempted to automatize many things in a City scenery with PF and an EV3, Trains, signals, switch points, conveyor belts, maybe vehicles? I also like Technic, the freight plane was a total blast. Would love to get an RC car with controllable transmission. Maybe I'll open one of my 4x4 crawler or pick ups and try a MOC. I'm a casual investor at best, just picking up some…

Hi I am Stacey from Hong Kong. You know most girls love Christmas so much, because of those ad pictures, the design and color they used are really eyes catching. Because of the Christmas sets, I became a Lego fan. I wish I could have more space to display all Christmas set and 10211, 10224, 10197, 10214 etc, however Hong Kong is a really small city with over 7 million people. Even we don't have space for displaying Lego, we still buy a lot, but never open it. Haha Now i start to invest in Lego and thankful that so much useful information in here. Thank you and nice to meet you all

Hi, My name Sony I'm male 23 years old... My hoby is collecting the toys lego... Thank you

New on the board.. been here for a little while but never introduce myself. Been really collecting since 2 years but my passion started almost 37th years ago! Hope I could help and be helpd also. kind regards to everyone. Thanks

New to lego investing but hoping to make it another revenue stream, just a bonus that i love lego .

Hi Everyone, I'm Mike, an adult fan of lego from the UK. My wife thinks that I am mad after recently getting back into LEGO. My collection is only small at the moment, consisting of the Ghostbuster Ecto 1 and X wing (9493) I have the Tumbler (76023) sitting in the Lego warehouse waiting to be sent out (hurry up lol) and the Millenium Falcon (7965) waiting for me for Xmas. My 2 lads have taken an interest too and are eagerly awaiting Xmas so they can build what they have asked for Looking forward to getting new ideas for future sets from everyone

Hello everyone, My name is Paul and I am from Oregon. I have been following this great website since early in the summer. There is great insight from all of you, as well as some great humor. I lost my job earlier this year and started selling my own items from around the house to create some extra cash. I am using ebay, of course. I have done this from time to time over the years and have always wanted to start my own business selling online....so I have done just that...just getting started. I have found that Legos, and toys in general, are the route I want to take. I hope I can pick your brains from time to time. I do have a couple of questions to s…