I've been to two different Wal-Mart stores in the last week that are clearancing out many of the CARS themed sets, including a lot of 8487 and 8486. Is this theme even worth spending a little bit of money on? Will it ever turn around and be profitable?

If you could buy-in to a few LEGO Disney Pixar Cars 2 - Limited Edition Tokyo International Circuit (8679) at $44.79 each, do you think it would be a waste of time?

Does kind of seem like a waste IMHO. You have to sell for at least $55 to break even (assuming ebay) and I just don`t think you could get much more then that, if that, right now. I`d say buy something else, you`re smart, you know what to look for 

I've had nice success selling Mack's Team and Flo's V8.  The ROI for those two are pretty decent as long as you originally purchased at some sort of discount.   The other sets seem far less desirable.  Too bad Lego never made a Doc Hudson and the police car (excluding Duplo).   I buiilt nearly every set for my son and totally understand why parents are still buying sets for their kids.  The sets are fun for kids.

 

It is also a shame the cars themselves don't look better.  That flat tiled 1x4 plate on the side of each one looks misplaced.

I've had nice success selling Mack's Team and Flo's V8.  The ROI for those two are pretty decent as long as you originally purchased at some sort of discount.   The other sets seem far less desirable.  Too bad Lego never made a Doc Hudson and the police car (excluding Duplo). 

 

It is also a shame the cars themselves don't look better.  That flat tiled 1x4 plate on the side of each one looks misplaced.

 

One of my Wal-Marts still has 2 Flo's V8 Cafe's sitting there stickered at $40.  I passed them all last year and they are back out again.

I love the Duplo Cars Theme. They are wonderful!

 

Now it even happens that everytime I see a 5816 (Ed) Mack's Road Trip in the wild I have to buy it. Like some people have it with certain books.

Not to rehash an old thread but I picked up a used lot of cars vehicles for my kids for $6 and while researching what sets they are from I noticed that a few of the sets based on the first cars movie have done pretty well. 8486 is selling for over 5x rrp on Amazon and 8487 is selling for 3x rrp now. I know it has been 3 plus years since retired but patience for those who had them seems to have paid off.

I've always liked the theme & found them quite popular with the cub-scout crowd. The new movie, Cars 3 is set to be released in June 2017 so they might see some character remakes or perhaps a revival should TLG not produce more sets, could go either way...   

Edited August 2, 20169 yr by Thumper

5816 Mack's Road Trip is doing extremely well.

1 hour ago, Ciglione said:

5816 Mack's Road Trip is doing extremely well.

where have you been lately i haven't seen you in forever

1 hour ago, Knightwing01 said:

where have you been lately i haven't seen you in forever

I was hiding.

On 12/10/2012 at 2:14 PM, Spacewalker95 said:

Will it ever turn around and be profitable?

49 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

I was hiding.

I believe it's called "going to mattresses" lol

Edited August 2, 20169 yr by Lordoflego

They really should have made a set with doc hudson the first time around.

On 31/7/2016 at 5:46 PM, micbelt said:

Not to rehash an old thread but I picked up a used lot of cars vehicles for my kids for $6 and while researching what sets they are from I noticed that a few of the sets based on the first cars movie have done pretty well. 8486 is selling for over 5x rrp on Amazon and 8487 is selling for 3x rrp now. I know it has been 3 plus years since retired but patience for those who had them seems to have paid off.

But are they actually selling at those prices or is it just what they are listed at? I can still find some of these in stores - they actually have a whole shelf for the toxic holy trinity of Turtles, Lone Ranger and Cars.

I guess if you got them at 70% off then you will do OK, but that´s the same for just about everything.

Edited August 8, 20169 yr by Val-E

Hey guys, I just found a retired Cars Superset 66386 in a store for the original price - quite difficult to find online and no records for it at all here on Brickpicker... Would you invest in this set? 
 

What do you think about this pack? (released 2011, hard to find online)
 

How much is msrp?

Hi micbelt, i did not find official information about this pack, however retail prices of individual included sets are 15€ (8206) 20€ (8426) 70€ (8487).
Value of all sets has increased ca.50% according to brickpicker by now...
I believe this pack could be really valuable as it seems very rare, and is including 10 minicars - what do you think? 

New Cars line will be out next year, which could be good or bad news....

I would buy to flip now. Using prices in usd, retail for these 3 sets were $94.97 combined and they can be sold on Amazon for roughly $226 right now. Could make roughly $55-$65 profit quickly. Since I have a son that likes the movie and missed out on the them, I would buy it to keep or maybe flip the two smaller sets to get the Flo's v8 cafe for close to nothing.

The most valuable sets from the theme seem to be the ones focused on the first movie and radiator springs.

Thanks for your opinions guys.. I got also  Mack's Team Truck  8486