The trauma of having grown up getting pirates, castles, and OG space sets for Christmas and birthdays, then finding out your mom gave them to the bratty neighbor kids while you were in college is real. I’ve reacquired some as an adult, which cost me about the same as my college tuition.
The one from OP goes for about $70 on AliExpress
/r/Lepin
Twchnically your mom owes you a lotta money
ruining various subcultures of hobby collecting has really become a hobby for the unhealthy-wealthy
I had that one. It was amazing.
Mine had blue sails. Still have it somewhere.
That one is easy to build as long as you don’t mind shelling out $60 for sails and a yellow parrot. Every other brick in there is super cheap.
I think that was the stuck up English navy one, not the pirate cool one.
I was gifted this by a family friend as a kid. It was super fun. My brothers had this and a castle. Now the parts are mixed in across 2 buckets of Lego that I’ve rescued from my parent’s storage room last year and kept for my kids.the cycle continues.
I hate keeping sets together.
All my sets get built, enjoyed, then completely disassembled and mixed into a big bin for all the fun of making our own creations.
I keep the build manuals. So I can rebuild them again if I ever wanted to. But the fun is in the building, not the having of completed sets.
Same. Until i took it into the bathtub and the. It started to smell real funky after a few month
It truly did not float.
BrickLink ‘new’ average sold for the last 6 months is 340~ retail was 200. its a retired set of a beloved 80’s set updated, so deff not going to find a new set for less than that. i have one in my collection, yeah i’d prob let go for 340+you cover shipping, but I’d definitely cover shipping for 19k! lol
and yes you to can list anything on ebay for whatever absurd price you want. but even ebay has a sold filter/tracker you should be checking…
For $19k, I would personally hand deliver it within the US.
I would personally deliver it anywhere in the world that isn’t at war, so not the US
I don’t like to fly and it feels like something that needs to be driven if its hand delivered.
I saw it in a local store for about $200. You could take it apart and rebuild it. There are also a lot of companies making really cool plastic brick stuff.
This is just for insane people who want a thing that is in the box because it’s rare. Not because they enjoy it
And then they never take it out of the packaging to even look at it.
I don’t get it either.
Wait, those few plastic bricks cost a whopping 110$?
You say “those few plastic bricks” but that set was 909 pieces, that’s about 12 cents per brick
And still looks like one with a 100 pieces?
You’re judging it based on a tiny, blurry image, here’s a clearer one
