Luck of the Flea Market

[Lego_Hero]

Last night I had the opportunity to visit a consignment sale at a convention center in town. We're talking thousands of square feet of used children's clothes, furniture, and oh yeah- toys. It wasn't open to the public until this afternoon, but my wife snagged a sneak-peak ticket from someone who works the sale. It's a good thing too, as it was people were carrying out cartloads of products. Of course my sole reason for going was to see if anyone was parting with their used Lego.

After sifting through several bags and boxes of falsely labeled toys, I found two tupperware tubs of Lego. One was labeled "Star Wars Lego" and one was labeled "Sponge Bob Lego". The SW box had several visible instruction booklets. The one that caugth my eye was the original Slave I ship! That set alone would have made the asking price worth while. I shook the box and saw a Boba Fett, so I thought that maybe the set might be intact. I don't own any SB Lego, so I took a chance on that box as well. In all, I paid $60. I thought that was high, but I was gambling on the fact that I could see several of the minifigs and there were alot of Lego pieces in each box.

After sorting, I'm sad to say that the Slave I is not in the box. A handful of Classic SW minifigs, including Lando, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader joined another few Anakins and Obi-Wans from Clone Wars. There were also a few Lego NBA basketball players, droid parts and a General Grievous head. There were many more unidentifiable Megablocks and Power Ranger minifigs. I'm not sure if there were any complete sets, I'll have to try building them.

All the minifigs from the SB sets were included and there seems to be alot more bricks in that box, so I think I may have two complete play sets in that box. I know I made my money back in value. I'll post again once I try to build everything.

[Big Cam]

I noticed you said Lando was in there, I presume from the cloud city set.

By chance does your boba fett have printing on his arms and legs? If so that's a hundred dollar minifig.

[BrickArtist]

I noticed you said Lando was in there, I presume from the cloud city set.

By chance does your boba fett have printing on his arms and legs? If so that's a hundred dollar minifig.

Yep, wait a while and that box could be your retirement fund

[Solscud007]

If you have the printed legs and arms boba, i'll trade for it.

[LEGO Guy Bri]

I noticed you said Lando was in there, I presume from the cloud city set.

By chance does your boba fett have printing on his arms and legs? If so that's a hundred dollar minifig.

What makes that Boba Fett so valuable. Last year I sold off his son with the yellow printed black head. It fetched a pretty penny but, had no clue as to why until I looked at the set. I do not collect LSW but, am curious about this fig.

[Cwetqo]

What makes that Boba Fett so valuable. Last year I sold off his son with the yellow printed black head. It fetched a pretty penny but, had no clue as to why until I looked at the set. I do not collect LSW but, am curious about this fig.

It's most wanted minifigure from very rare set (Cloud City). It has printed legs AND arms, which was (and still is) unocommon for lego minifigure (now with collectable minifigs we are seeing more printed body body parts, but before that there were just a few. Besides that Boba Fett is very favorite character both in SW and Lego fan worlds and even non-cloud city versions have high prices on BL (that probably changed a little with last years Slave 1).

It's pure market logic: many poeple want it and few have it. Many are probalby also in hands of Bricklink resellers which are holding onto them as sort of uinvestment and are keeping them on their BL stores with very high prices in hope that they will find someone who will be willing to pay such high price.

I checked on BL and it only confirmed what I wrote above: the cheapest complete cloud city boba is 178 usd and this seller has 3 of them. Besides that there are just two more on whole bricklink (plus another without legs).

Edited April 8, 2011 by Cwetqo

[kyphur]

What makes that Boba Fett so valuable. Last year I sold off his son with the yellow printed black head. It fetched a pretty penny but, had no clue as to why until I looked at the set. I do not collect LSW but, am curious about this fig.

When did Boba have a son? Are you talking about Jango Fett, Boba's Father?

[jonwil]

The problem with rare figs like the printed-arms Boba Fett and the various rare figs from Harry Potter and Batman and etc is that they may cost that much if you wanted to buy one on Bricklink but actually finding someone willing to PAY anywhere near that much is much harder.

I own a printed-arms Boba Fett and other "rare" figs but I doubt I could get enough for them to make it worth trying to sell them (rather than keeping them for my collection even though I never use them for anything)

[Lego_Hero]

I did a quick check on Ebay and Brickset and identified the set. It's 6209, Slave-I. I have all the minifigs complete that come with it, except for the bounty hunter's white (ninja) mask, but the ship is obviously not in the container. There's enough in the box to justify the price tag, but I probably won't sell anything.

I'm going to try to put together the other sets tonight to see what I actually have.