Lego Millenium Falcom

[cath-hater]

I was playing poker the other night with my buddies, like we do every Saturday night for the past 10 years or so. One of the guys tells us that his WIFE (not him mind you, but his wife) just purchase one of these suckers for $1200 bucks !!  I know they originally sold for $500 in the Lego stores and I thought THAT was excessive. I've seem some people asking for $1800 for theirs on eBay. Isn't that crazy?! Man, if I would have known about this, I would have stocked up on them.

What would suck is if Lego decided to start producing them again and putting them back on the shelves for $500. Doh !

[Poppylicious]

*chuckles* ... my Blokey often bemoans the fact that he actually played with (*gasp*) - and then got rid of - his official Star Wars toys. 

Man, if I would have known about this, I would have stocked up on them.

Always buy two of every popular toy that comes out; one to play with and one to keep sealed in its packaging and locked up safely in a dust and damp free environment.

 

[jbeany]

When I was little, my mom used to hit the summer sales and snag new toys at rock bottom prices to put in the "birthday box."  When we got an invitation to a birthday party, we got to pick a toy out of the box to take to our friend.  At some point, we outgrew the idea, she stopped buying toys for the box, and we forgot about it.

Fast forward 30 years.  Mom died, and Dad had my sister and I clean out house.  At the back of the closet was - tada! - the birthday box.  Full of MIB, or "mint in the box" toys.  I put them on Ebay, which was just really getting to be big at the time.  Dear god, talk about a bidding war.  A MIB Cher doll; a MIB rare Mattel witch doll with light up eyes that was only made for a year or two;  an even rarer MIB Cinnamon doll - (that's Growing Hair Chrissy's little sister, if you didn't know...), and all kinds of odd little toys that were huge in the 70's.   Mom's antiques weren't worth much, since eBay had killed the antiques market - but geez, did those toys go for some money!  Crazy people bidding hundreds of dollars on plastic toys.....