Here's a random thought. For the first person that is lucky enough to find one of the "Golden Minifigures", what do you think they will list it on eBay for? (Let's just assume he/she did for the fun of it.) How about....

Here's the list of Mr Gold's that have appeared so far (that I know of).

796 - Zellingen, Germany

865 - Karlsruhe, Germany

870 - Karlsruhe, Germany

880 - Karlsruhe, Germany

898 - Burke, Virginia

933 - Karlsruhe, Germany

934 - Karlsruhe, Germany

942 - Karlsruhe, Germany

1229 - Germany

1331 - Belgium, Europe

1604 - agp548 from Hawaii, USA

1849 - Graz, Austria

3160 - Benzo on Brickset from Saskatchewan, Canada

3194 - Mos Eisley from Fullerton, California

3271 - Tuckerton, New Jersey

3342 - mushedroom

3739 - La Mesa, California

4154 - Richardson, Texas

4544 - Mountain Home, Idaho

4576 - Lake in the Hills, Illinois

4610 - Tacoma, Washington

4616 - Ellensburg, Washington

4625 - BrickBrats on eBay from Victorville, California

4628 - Portland, Oregon

4746 - Mos Eisley from Fullerton, California

4838 - Deder2416 on Brickset from Georgia

4855 - SamuraiPete on Brickset from Spring Hill, Kansas

4914 - datsunman on Brickset from Phillipsburg, New Jersey

4928 - Twiddlepotts from Portland, Oregon

These have been found but no number given.

Bricks was lucky enough to find 2

Tommahas8012 had one

Akamu54 on Brickset from Thunder Bay, Ontario

buriedbybricks on Brickset from New Brunswick, Canada

jvdrummer182 on BrickSet from New Jersey

Mike in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (No idea on number or what the guys real name is.)

Mr. Gold's found: 2,152

Mr. Gold's left to be found: 2,848

Mr. Gold: Where is he found?

Mr. Gold: World Map

Ed Mack's Edit: In addition to the Mr. Gold value discussion, John and Dave from BRICKS AND MINIFIGS posted a picture of the "dot codes" from a Mr. Gold they have in their possession. Maybe it will help you find another one.

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by TheOrcKing
update to Mr. Gold count

Usually, then you get Series 8's Santa with a ratio of 4/60 and he is more valuable than any with a 3/60 ratio in that lineup so desirability plays a part in the grand scheme of things as well as rarity.

 

 

I bought a butt load of Series 8's from Walliemart when they clearanced them for $1 back in the day and lo and behold, no Santa.  Stupid Flanders.

I bought a butt load of Series 8's from Walliemart when they clearanced them for $1 back in the day and lo and behold, no Santa.  Stupid Flanders.

That is the problem with everyone being able to feel through the bags. I am surprised lego hasn't put the figures in tiny boxes so that every purchase is completely random.

Good grief, I forgot all about this little sucker. Sorry about that!

Anywho, the current count of Mr. Golds found and registered is 1,780.

Good grief, I forgot all about this little sucker. Sorry about that!

Anywho, the current count of Mr. Golds found and registered is 1,780.

 

You have disappointed us. If I were in your shoes, I would just leave the site and never come back...

You have disappointed us. If I were in your shoes, I would just leave the site and never come back...

If you were in my shoes I would be saying "Why the hell are you wearing my shoes?" :blum:

Good grief, I forgot all about this little sucker. Sorry about that!

Anywho, the current count of Mr. Golds found and registered is 1,780.

Why does the count seem to low. There were 5,000 produced. I had a felling that there would be more, but I guess not.

Well TOK, I guess we can expect an annual update on this for the next 10 or so years... LOL

Well TOK, I guess we can expect an annual update on this for the next 10 or so years... LOL

I was thinking more like a monthly update. "Over a period of one month, only ONE Mr.Gold has been found."

It's all those grubby little kids got them and didn't register! Booo! Although I myself am fairly lazy; if I found one I might never get around to registering it. Maybe there's one in my sealed case...

 

There are plenty of well-made customed Mr. Gold on ebay. I'd probably buy it for around 20$ to save the trouble and hassle. But you can make your own based off of the genuine lego Gold chrome keychain, get other chromed parts from bricklink sellers, and waterslide decal.

its not that easy to find, i found 1 in about 20 boxes 

That would've made sense for something like Mr. Gold where they knew there was going to be a massive demand.

Sure, when you've got one rare item that people want and a bunch that people don't want, it was guaranteed to lower prices on the rest.

Next time if there is any series with special guy like Mr Gold, I'll wait to buy the series at the secondary market. No need to bother buying it at retail. 

So my Mr. Gold just sold on eBay for $710. I'm pretty happy with that price since I started him at $450 and others have gone for less recently. 

 

I am a little worried however. The buyer has 0 feedback, has Germany as his location but shipping address is in Norway. He hasn't paid yet but it's only been two hours since the auction closed. Should I be worried that he pays but then tries something fishy when he receives the item? Like saying it's fake, that it never arrived? Am I being paranoid? Anyone have any experience with 0 feedback buyers? I probably should have said on there that a buyer needed 10+ feedbacks or more. 

insurance, tracking, don't go cheap on packaging, contact buyer and ask ?'s.  no matter what you'll be sweating it until it's all done

The current count of Mr. Golds found and registered is 1,824.

Well, we are almost there to the second milestone. I doubt it will be reached before year's end though.

I wish Lego release it like the Azog. They could release it with a big gold castle. Everyone know Mr Gold and they will want to get one

hey guys, 

 

did you notice the sealed boxes going up in value on BL after the series 10 went EOL?

How high will a sealed box of 60 go?

 

Mr gold will get registered when lego decides to stop sopport the site & extra goodies

 

maybe?

So I just heard something from my old lady that makes me want to throw her and the pooch out the window.  There is an upscale toy store for the hoyy toydy (d-bags put it more crudely) at the mall near her workplace.  There were 3 boxes of 60 series 10 in that store nobody touched for months.  She told me about a 25% coupon for any purchase in store that I did not take advantage of nor did I want to walk in there to smoosh for any CMF in there.  She came home today with a roman commander for me and told me someone walked in last week and smooshed a Mr. Gold.  The end.  

 

At least it was a father and son that found it instead of evil resellers like us.

 

Guess the lesson of the story is, these Mr Golds are still lurking out in the wild for somebody to find.

The current count of Mr. Golds found and registered is 1,824.

Well, we are almost there to the second milestone. I doubt it will be reached before year's end though.

One month later we are at 1,894. We are almost to the second milestone.

The current count of Mr. Golds found and registered is 1,958.

What did I say? The new year started and still we haven't reached the second milestone! :mda:

Hi!

I saw fews Mr. Golden here in Hong Kong, around 10? Maybe.

But only few of them tried to sell online for for hundreds (US).

The market here is not big, and I saw people here to MOC their own Mr. Golden by doing electrolysis.

Or even Mr. silver.

Though, they are not going to sell, just for fun and collect.

so will it be worth buying this minifig without the original paper of finding and registering mr gold? There are a lot of customized minifigs, should it be hard to tell if its a fake one? Because i've seen some pretty good customized figs

Take it from a Toy and Sports card collector, if theres that many Mr. Gold it wont be worth much going forward.....its just not that rare.....I can guarentee you that....once the novelty is worn off people will only care about mr.gold thats numbered out of 50 or less.

Thats what killed the sports card industry.

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