LEGO Sets Are Better Investments than Stocks, Bonds or Even Gold

[AicecreaME]

This is a subjective matter. This won't apply to everyone because we have different tolerance to risks and we have different appetites as well. What seems good to you might not be good to others, and vice-versa. Stocks, bonds, golds, crypto, real estate, lego, and other valuable objects can be a good investment. It just depends on someone what among those will he pick and how he would hold it to preserve its value or even go beyond its value during selling time.

We are all different and we want different things too. We prioritize to buy mostly what we want right after what we need. Hence, investing in lego could be a good idea because for others because for them it holds a great price and it could be suitable for all ages, may you be a child, teenager, or adult. Another reason is that they could really be fond of seeing, playing, and collecting it too. Although to some it might appear to be useless or worthless because they don't like it and they don't see the need for it will arise in the future given the production and manufacture. So basically, it just depends on how you will choose to view and appreciate it.

[kaya11]

I don’t think that legos are better investments than gold or stocks. I think the author was just over exaggerating. You need to understand you have no idea which Lego set will be big in 20 years. So what are you going to do? Buy every single set that they release. They release maybe 100 new sets a year and some of these sets are expensive and extremely Large.

Where will you store these Lego boxes? Need to store it in some heated room so it doesn’t get water or moisture damage. Seems that holding gold would be much easier.

This is like one of those lucky investments where only 1 in 100 sets becomes so rare that it’s value appreciates. Either way great read.

Totally agree on this, I could store gold or silver in my pocket worth 500 dollars than a set of LEGO, which needs extra care and wait for how many years to attain what your expectation of price is. Gold and Silver has been there for us thousands of years ago, it's just hard to replace it by anything especially LEGOs.

[Lucius]

I'm having a hard time trying to take the article seriously lmao.

Like, sure, as could any other illiquid and speculative asset such as basketball/baseball/Pokemon/MagicTheGathering cards, or rare vinyls, or limited-edition sneakers, or Kobe Bryant memorabilia, or a Rolex/Patek Philippe watch, etc etc. But it doesn't automatically mean that these are better "investments" in a risk-adjusted basis.

I understand in which direction the article is aimed, but the market for Lego is certainly not nearly as big as the market for gold, silver, or stocks - that is, people who are interested in such things do not make up a large percentage of the world’s population. In addition, in the event of world war, natural disasters, or hyperinflation, gold and silver will always be a universal means of payment, and I would like to see how much the 1970 Lego set will be worth in that case.

Should we now consider that Lego is even better than Bitcoin?

[el kaka22]

I never understood these lego or beeny baby or whatever those things are called stuff. I mean don't get me wrong, I do not want to sound like old timers who say "whAt Is NfT??" and never get the idea, I understand why something would be precious to some people but it is something that can be built, that's the weird part.

Like lego company could see each goes for over a thousand each, and produce enough that it would be 100 bucks each for thousands of products and make a killing, what stops them from doing it? I am not saying that they will, but I would be very anxious to invest into something that someone can drop the value so quickly.

[Oilacris]

Totally agree on this, I could store gold or silver in my pocket worth 500 dollars than a set of LEGO, which needs extra care and wait for how many years to attain what your expectation of price is. Gold and Silver has been there for us thousands of years ago, it's just hard to replace it by anything especially LEGOs.

Lego collectors will take this opportunity to stock more as they van see it as investment, actually many toy collectors feel satisfying happiness already by just seeing them so what more when they will have a chance to make profit on it in the future like how popular auction ir shops accepting collectibles items especially the oldest ones are now. It will depend on us where to invest our money, as long as we divesrsify our money and investment to properties, crypto, stocks, gold or collection then it will be fine if managed properly.

Some doesnt really bother on making it as an investment but rather they are just following on whats their interest in.It did just turn out that these LEGO's did really make out some significant popularity

which turns out to be beneficial to those who are dealing with it and make out some sort of masterpiece or extraordinary works from those lego sets or pieces.

Value? It does depend on the demand but recognition of LEGOs would surely remain forever even some people do say it is just a toy.

[paxmao]

There is something to be said about alternative asset classes and particularly some classes that would usually not be conceived as something to invest in. It is not only Lego sets it is now about any limited edition of Nike shoes or any other fashion brand. So I do not only agree with your view, but I would also extend that to many items that were originally intended for consumers and as non-durable or mid=durable items. Hint: limited editions of Swatch watches may also do the trick 

[GeorgeJohn]

What seems good to you might not be good to others, and vice-versa. Stocks, bonds, golds, crypto, real estate, lego, and other valuable objects can be a good investment. It just depends on someone what among those will he pick and how he would hold it to preserve its value or even go beyond its value during selling time.

I really like your perception, we might find something very difficult to compromise with it due to the gravity of information we heard about the stuff, right now this your statement sounds so encouraging to newbies to the community, it's very obvious human nature that what favoured (mr A) can not favour (mr B) the way, you might castigates a particular platform because your were not successful when you were in contact with them, that doesn't not means another person won't succeed again from the same area, so in no shell, we have grab the courage of another to elevate ourselves

[Silberman]

I never understood these lego or beeny baby or whatever those things are called stuff. I mean don't get me wrong, I do not want to sound like old timers who say "whAt Is NfT??" and never get the idea, I understand why something would be precious to some people but it is something that can be built, that's the weird part.

Like lego company could see each goes for over a thousand each, and produce enough that it would be 100 bucks each for thousands of products and make a killing, what stops them from doing it? I am not saying that they will, but I would be very anxious to invest into something that someone can drop the value so quickly.

You are basically touching the main problem with all of this, even if there are some Lego sets that are very valuable there is nothing stopping the company from creating new editions of those same sets, and while some may decide to still pay a high price for the originals the truth is that something like this will reduce their value, in fact we see a very similar scenario when governments print their fiat in the sense that the more they print the less value it has.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Who would have thought that Lego could be of value? My child's interest disappears as soon as he assembles another Lego car or model. The further fate of these plastic kits falls into one large box with toys, or simply wallows underfoot. I will definitely explain to my son that by scattering these objects, he is simply walking on the future money.
Although yes, in a new form, Lego sets are quite expensive in our country.

[kryptqnick]

I know people who are into LEGO sets, and those are quite expensive, but 11% returns annually don't sound too impressive when compared with Bitcoin. Also, why is the data stopping at 2015? Might it mean that for 6 years the trend hasn't continued? I do support the idea of not throwing away LEGO because it's plastic and throwing it away is wasteful, but what I fear is that people will start buying new ones to simply hodl them. Also, it caught my eye that unopened sets were analyzed, so I don't see how keeping old LEGO sets is supported by this research.

[tygeade]

Who would have thought that Lego could be of value? My child's interest disappears as soon as he assembles another Lego car or model. The further fate of these plastic kits falls into one large box with toys, or simply wallows underfoot. I will definitely explain to my son that by scattering these objects, he is simply walking on the future money.
Although yes, in a new form, Lego sets are quite expensive in our country.

This is not regarding the small item that you buy in every store. This is more about the unique ones that are limited edition. Regular legos do not really worth that much, still worths a good amount of course but those pieces are manufactured constantly and they do not have that kind of value unfortunately.

The unique ones that you combine and build something do have it. So, if you are getting "any" shape and box and just build whatever you want with it, then it usually doesn't worth that much even after decades, whereas if you buy something like let's say a death star from star wars type of thing then it does worth money in the end because it is limited and so forth.

[timerland]

Basing off future performance off the past is just ridiculous, and anyone with a brain should be able to pick this up.

But there is some merit to this article, imho.

I think that unconventional investments are gaining more and more legitimacy because of the fact that interest rates are so low and traditional investments such as equities are simply not delivering the results that people want. This is also the reason for the NFT run-up last year.

[stompix]

I suspect the 11% is probably a hard to get target too. I don't know how much Lego expanded since the 80s too and you run into the risk of discontinued sets not staying that way.

Also, the past might not be a good reflection on the future... The study was also done by collectors of Lego sets too.

And the study focused on limited editions most likely, and those are hard to get in the first.
The main source of that article is nypost, and nypost is just a clickbait newspaper.

Now, since they mentioned a set like the Millennium Falcon, one can easily check on it.
It was around 500$ when it started in 2007 and the last offer on brickcatalog was around 1,899.79 , a bit short of 2200 you could have made with the 11% but still in range. But it wasn't sold!
Just as head up, on eBay there is a guy demanding 4500e for it.

All those lost Legos that my brother tried to eat or stuff in his nose would be crying right now. I was checking the price of Legos for Christmas, the titanic one, apparently it's 500$, which made me extremely anxious regarding how fast the prices are rising and would we be able to keep up with the inflation??

You should have bought it when you had the chance, it's out of stock with the last price of 599 Euros here. You missed doing a 36% profit in less than a month.

Now joking aside, some sets do really gain value, especially sets that resurface with movies or other events, star wars is the example, although lately they've done so many it probably has diluted the market. So you don't need to only buy them but buy the right ones, damn, like investing in shitcoins.

Can't wait till lego starts doing NFTs and suddenly half of the critics start praising lego sets.   

[Lanatsa]

Who would have thought that Lego could be of value? My child's interest disappears as soon as he assembles another Lego car or model. The further fate of these plastic kits falls into one large box with toys, or simply wallows underfoot. I will definitely explain to my son that by scattering these objects, he is simply walking on the future money.
Although yes, in a new form, Lego sets are quite expensive in our country.

They might really ending up on having a value in future years to come and that would be always varying on such recognition.I cant really still believe that these plastic toy could really have
that kind of possible value which we know that this isn't really the right thing since they are built up for other purpose.

Speaking of Stocks Bonds or even Gold then nothing beats out but there are just people who do have own perception on things whether it could really have some value in future years
to come or doesn't have and this one had been included.

So its a personal set of choice whether they do believe it or not.

[cafucafucafu]

Alternative investments have vastly outperformed a lot of asset classes.

Of course, there are risks involved but I actually think that risk-adjusted returns wise they can actually continue to return more than market indices over the long run.

However, the catch is that you need to make sure you understand how it works first before putting money in. It's not as simple as buying an ETF.

Also, don't put money into securitized versions of these alternative investments (e.g. fractional art, that just doesn't make any sense to me).

[batang_bitcoin]

I have watched many videos of those big guys that are overwhelmed when their girlfriends have given them a huge Lego set toy. I thought that it's just personal happiness but there seems to be a market value that can grow eventually overtime. Someday, there's really going to be a big value for those good conditions since everything and every toys have their collectors that wants to display it somewhere in their house and the process of collecting it gives them happiness in return of having a greater value as they purchase.

[uneng]

LEGO is so valuable (the old discontinued sets) because besides being a creative toy full of possibilities, it's also very well made (probably the most well polished of the entire toys' industry) with excellent raw materials quality.

Moreover, LEGO is nostalgic for many adults who had a set or another back then or just desired to had that, although the parents couldn't afford the toys.

Naturally these sets become highly appreciated relics along the decades. Personally, I always dreamed about some sets from the 2000's, like the Old West, Jungle, Sphynx from the egyptian set, Ninjas, Medieval...

And now it's not possible anymore, because the sets' styles were completely changed and in my opinion they have lost their originality.

[bhooscream]

I don't know that Lego is that kind of worthy thing. What I know is that many children like lego toys so much. And some teenagers or even adults are also fond of the toys. But I am actuallay not really sure this is a worthy investment in my country. Because there are not exactly may people who are interested in Legos.
That is why I am not sure whether the research is in line with condition in my country or not.
It seems like a tupperware that is also very valuable, isn't it?

[dunfida]

I don't know that Lego is that kind of worthy thing. What I know is that many children like lego toys so much. And some teenagers or even adults are also fond of the toys. But I am actuallay not really sure this is a worthy investment in my country. Because there are not exactly may people who are interested in Legos.
That is why I am not sure whether the research is in line with condition in my country or not.
It seems like a tupperware that is also very valuable, isn't it?

Value you mean?
You could check this link out.
https://www.fatherly.com/gear/most-valuable-lego-sets-minifigures/

Its a toy but cant really be denied that these are really having some expensive figures not including those limited edition or
something in collectors item.

[Reid]

I just finished cleaning the house. Now the Lego sets are complete again.  Damn kids, I am now taking it to as safer place.

I enjoyed playing it with my kids up until now. Perhaps, because it is not easy to keep in sets/complete is what makes it more valuable. It's not just the oil or the plastic but being good at keeping it.
Then, there are a lot of fakes that had been created, the bigger ones that wrecks the item with just one drop. The original are mostly in small pieces only.
I am just afraid I will be the only one left playing it when this kids grow old with their smartphones and laptops.  Yeah, old toys will be valuable someday.