I was just wondering what investing in Legos in Asia is like. Do the sets cost more or less? Is it worth to invest in Legos in Asia in the first place? Just curious.

 

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Im in Korea and recently started to collect lego sets. Conditions here are similar to other Asian countries except Hong Kong where the prices are US competitive. Lego has an official presence here thru their online store and other local distributors but the licensed products cost at least about a third higher than the US and others also cost more. New and popular sets cost way more for the obvious reasons. Recently released batman tumbler, for an example, is selling for upto US $370 here.

So I do most of my buying thru US online sites it ends up being cheaper than here even with int'l shipping. I would be interested to set up an operation here to sell lego sets as a side biz if anybody else is interested. (I'm new so plz excuse my any inappropriate comments made here)

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Lego in Singapore is never cheap but I realised there have been some efforts to bring down the retail price for selected models.

 

For instance, 76018 Hulk Lab Smash (SRP US$49.95) retails for S$109.90, but fast forward that months later to a newer model, 76022 X-Men vs Sentinel (also at SRP US$49.95) retails for S$89.90.

 

There is still a significant price gap vs the US but I think we can see that shrinking in the upcoming models. After all, it doesn't take much effort to import them from the US and this will hurt SG sales to a certain extent.

Hi all, I am new here, living in Singapore.

 

I have started buying Lego sets for some time now and all my lego sets are from Hong Kong or Japan.

 

The price in Singapore is too high. I noticed HK Toy/Lego market is being valued by collectors and investors. It's really a free market driven by demand and supply. 

 

In Singapore, my take is there are too many rich people here that do not look at the price of a toy/lego. There's no market here at all. The shops are happily collecting revenue from people who thought they have bought the sets cheaper at 10-20% discount. 

 

Another theory that I have concluded is the distributor in Singapore set the distribution price at a premium. Driving the market price up.

Hi, I am from Malaysia and have been collecting Lego sets for about 2 years now. I buy mainly from local vendors as well as from ebay, both locally as well as from US. Though there are price differences between local sellers and US sellers on ebay, I have managed to get bargains from buying as well as from auctions.

Of course, prices have gone up since the last two years that I have been collecting, especially all those vintage sets from Star Wars to Technics to Creator. Of late, all minifigures including series collector sets have all gone crazy in terms of prices as the last three months have seen an increase of over 100% for some unique minifigures or 'hard to come by' minifigures or some 'popular' minifigures. They are too many examples to list, but suffice to say, prices are not coming down any sooner for all those retired UCS, Exclusive as well as Retail Limited sets as well as the many elusive or popular minifigures.

It augers well for the hobby in Malaysia.....

I live in the Philippines, since there is only one LEGO Certified store in the Philippines prices are expensive. About 1.75x in the US, the cheapest LEGO sets you can get are from resellers who either get their product from another country or from a local toy store but when I say cheapest it's about 1.5x price. However, there are retired sets that you can get from time to time which are sold with almost no increase in price even after 5 years from resellers.