What’s the most you’ve spent on a single piece?

[Rjbricks]

Not a bragging contest, just curious really. And hopefully people have spent loads and will make me feel better!

I really want to get the Overwatch Reinhardt helmet but it’s £10 at least. And a gold chromed dragon helmet but those are £13 at least. 
 

Most I’ve spent on a single brick is £8 for the Quadruple convex black slope for the Black Falcons’ fortress. 

 

 

[Murdoch17]

Here's my answer to your query, @Rjbricks:

$3+ a pop for a nine of these, from at least three stores. I needed eight of them for a large railroad water tower about seven years ago. (the ninth one was to replace a broken one I received) I swore after that, I'd never buy something so rare again!

Edited June 21 by Murdoch17

[MAB]

It wasn't me, but someone paid £60 for one of these in 2023.

I know, as I sold it to them. And based on today's prices, they got a bargain. But paid a lot more than the £2 I sold some others for in 2016 and 2017. They were originally 53p on bricksnpieces / PAB. 

Reinhardt's helmet was originally quute cheap. I bought 4 four £1.50 each. The price went a little crazy as it was a good stand-in for Sauron and you're looking at £15 now. I painted one to match armour. 

 

[icm]

A few years ago I built a Psiaki X-wing. The white parts that form the sides of the nose were rare to begin with, having come in only one or two Exo-Force sets, and almost all of the supply had already been used by other people for their Psiaki X-wings. I had to pay over $6 each for two of them.

This summer I finished restoring an old Black Seas Barracuda and an old Cross Bone Clipper that I got the hulls for about six years ago. The old dark gray firing cannons for the two ships were about $5 each, the 40L string with studs for the Cross Bone Clipper was $7, and the replica sail for the Cross Bone Clipper (not an original sail) was $20 including shipping. One yellow part for the stern of the Black Seas Barracuda was $4 plus about $7 in shipping, so I added a $5 polybag to the order to keep myself from feeling like I was paying $11 for a single part.

[MAB]

Something similar happened with the black dinosaur neck/tail when it appeared in the Arvo brothers' Alien. It jumped from about 10p to £5-6 each. Many more have since found their way to the marketplace so the price has dropped again but there are still BL sellers that listed in that time with high prices.

[SpacePolice89]

Probably the orange helmet I wanted for the orange BAM Futuron style torso to make a Futuron astronaut, I paid about ten euros for it. For replacement sails I have paid more than that but that was for a whole set of sails (for my Black Seas Barracuda).

Edited June 21 by SpacePolice89

[Triceron]

15 hours ago, Rjbricks said:

Not a bragging contest, just curious really. And hopefully people have spent loads and will make me feel better!

I really want to get the Overwatch Reinhardt helmet but it’s £10 at least. And a gold chromed dragon helmet but those are £13 at least. 
 

Most I’ve spent on a single brick is £8 for the Quadruple convex black slope for the Black Falcons’ fortress. 

 

 

Prolly $30 for a raised baseplate.

[Jack Sassy]

Some years ago I bought three 1x2 black arched window frames, back when they last appeared in the 90s and costed 5 euros a piece. Glad that they have returned.

[BrickJagger]

Not something I bought, but I recently found out that the Dragon Knight horse barding I own from Escape from Dragon's Prison is apparently worth $72 used and that's absolutely ridiculous  https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=2490pb10&idColor=80#T=P&C=80

[MAB]

8 hours ago, BrickJagger said:

Not something I bought, but I recently found out that the Dragon Knight horse barding I own from Escape from Dragon's Prison is apparently worth $72 used and that's absolutely ridiculous  https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=2490pb10&idColor=80#T=P&C=80

Where they are not broken, I can understand high prices as those parts are hard to find. Just as shocking are some of the prices where the clips of old bardings are broken. 

[GeoBrick]

The most expensive? Earlier this year, this barding here for a bit over 15 €.

[Wardancer]

Is this about bricks only?

Just bought the body of an old Hungarian Horntail for 9 Euro. I was surprised how cheap it was. 

Old Hippogriffs I bought for 12 Euro.

Four dark green horse bardings I got by buying the set four times (used), kept the bardings and resolut the sets. So it was about 15 Euro per barding.

Also with shipping and customs taxes I paid about 11 Euro per piece for custom Woodland armors from Ktownbricks.

Such is the life of a customizer.

 

 

 

Edited June 28 by Wardancer

[DonQuixote]

€15 on  a Starwars figure. Was not interested in the figure itself but his armor. Don't know what figure it is because I am not familar with modern Starwars. The armor and helmet are usable for castle 

Edited Saturday at 02:19 PM by DonQuixote

[Yperio_Bricks]

2 hours ago, DonQuixote said:

€15 on  a Starwars figure. Was not interested in the figure itself but hus armor. Don't know what figure it is because I am not familar with modern Starwars. The armor and helmet are usable for castle 

Was it this one? The helmet really looks great.

[Rjbricks]

Agreed, it’s awesome.

Couldn’t justify paying so mich for one figure so I bought the whole set on sale and sold off the rest of the figures and ship.

 

Torso actually works pretty well too. I’ve switched the arms round and have a cloak hiding the buttons on the back.

[Mr. Elijah Timms]

This gold crown and white hood piece:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=222556&idColor=1&ccName=6420281#T=C&C=1

After choosing it and later deleting it to trim costs 3 separate times in PAB orders, I finally surrendered to the $7.64 price and brought it home for the king of my Muharib (aka CMF Arabian Knight) faction. He looks great, but almost 8 bucks for a single Lego headgear piece is unprecented for me :( 

[DonQuixote]

20 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Was it this one? The helmet really looks great.

Yes. This one. The helmet and the armor look good for a castle theme. 

Is it a Knight of Ren? Don't know much about Disney Starwars. For me, they don't exist. I have the 2 trilogies of George Lucas on Bluray.

With the redemption of Anakin Skywalker and the death of Palpatine, the story ends well for me. 

17 hours ago, Mr. Elijah Timms said:

This gold crown and white hood piece:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=222556&idColor=1&ccName=6420281#T=C&C=1

After choosing it and later deleting it to trim costs 3 separate times in PAB orders, I finally surrendered to the $7.64 price and brought it home for the king of my Muharib (aka CMF Arabian Knight) faction. He looks great, but almost 8 bucks for a single Lego headgear piece is unprecented for me :( 

I bought this crown too on PAB for €3 or something. You have paid way too much! 

Edited Saturday at 02:27 PM by DonQuixote

[Yperio_Bricks]

45 minutes ago, DonQuixote said:

Is it a Knight of Ren? Don't know much about Disney Starwars. For me, they don't exist. I have the 2 trilogies of George Lucas on Bluray.

It's Marrok, an inquisitor.

When I look up the price of the crown on PAB it's €8.88 yikes. Even more than a cow!

Edited Saturday at 03:09 PM by Yperio_Bricks

[DonQuixote]

11 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

It's Marrok, an inquisitor.

When I look up the price of the crown on PAB it's €8.88 yikes. Even more than a cow!

I am sure I didn't pay that much. Yikes! Lego must have raised the price again.