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This is the one of the few white Boba Fett keychains I have ever seen for sale. Supposedly only about 100 made and given to Lego employees. Price extremely prohibitive. Absolute rarity Also, a few days ago there was a MISB 6990 on Bricklink, which is very unusual. Apparently, it was sold at $1,300!

A definite bargain!

I don't know you guys, but don't you feel bad for removing the keychain? I'm both a keychain collector and a minifigure collector, and I would feel so bad to mutilate (sorry for the overstatement ) one of these babies. Furthermore, a minifigure is not the same if it comes from a keychain. Its parts come glued, and it'll always have that ugly scar. Of course, many are more pragmatic than me, but I just have problems with removing a keychain, both as a figure collector and as a keychain collector.

From time to time I find something odd/funny/interesting at Bricklink, and I thought, why not share it? Furthermore, wouldn't it be interesting for everyone to share all these amusing finds? I'll start by posting a few things. Using this Bricklink search, selecting Item Type X, and selecting Sort by "Highest Price", you will see the most expensive item X things on Bricklink. (I would post the specific searches but they don't generate a specific hyperlink). As a result of this, I have found some very expensive things on BL: Most expensive minifigure (999 euros) Most expensive set ($10,000) Most expensive part ($1,700) Most expensive "modern era" part ($550) Most expensive "unsorted lot" ($20,000, a complete Lego collection) Most expensive box ($250) (there are other more expensive ones, but all from users with 0 feedback and only one item on sale, the most expensive of which is this one at about $1700) Most expensive instructions ($500) Most expensive catalog (90 euros) Most expensive gear (GBP 17,420, for a SW promo item) Most expensive book ($620 for the Collector's Guide #666 ) Based on this data, we can conclude that at approximately $27,000, the SW promo item (gear) is the most expensive item on Bricklink. So, have you found anything interesting on Bricklink, eBay, Amazon, or anywhere else?

Thanks for the info AmperZand. On a slightly off-topic note, did they give you the record? Could I ask, what was it on? By the way, very nice avatar. So all it would take for somebody who thinks that he has the largest minifigure collection is to make a claim at Guinness? Why don't the people with those monster collection do that? I would love to know the answer to this topic's title.

WOW! Such an amazing creation, and interesting concept. Loved the monster wheels. I think that I would like to see the same concept applied to some sort of space city.

I have always loved this car, but never thought of a Lego version of it! Yours great! :thumbup: Thanks for sharing!

That's the spirit!

Hehehe well, to tell you the truth, I'm not that old and I'm not one of those PT haters, and even enjoy watching the Clone Wars whenever I catch it on TV. However, even though I collect minifigures as a main focus in my Lego collection, I have never gone "gaga" () over all the different SW clones, and actually have enough with a few, although I respect the tastes of those who do. But yes, I guess it doesn't hurt to please the kids , but we grown up kids must never be forgotten either.

That's ironic too then. We might be getting Batman thanks to the Penguin

As if this wasn't funny enough by itself, how ironic! I'm guessing Lego heard Batman's petition! Hahahaha

Thanks for the review! To be frank, I didn't try to get this figure, and even after seeing this review, I don't regret it. I can see why many people like the fig. It's definitely not ugly and up to Lego standards. Howeer, on a personal level, I did never understand the big hype for it. Furthermore, I even felt disappointed to know that this was the big May the fourth promotion. I just don't feel that it is as great as the other promo figures, and I would never pay the current prices for it. But that is just me, of course. I'm glad so many do enjoy this figure.

What if Napoleon had had success in his Russian campaign? What if the Soviet Union didn't fall in 1991? What if they won the Cold war? What if Hitler had succesfuly taken over the Soviet Union? What if the confederates won the US Civil War? What if all American colonies were still under European control? What if the Ottomans never blocked the route to the East, eliminating the need for Europeans to seek new ways there? Oh, I'm just such a big fan of History, and so much of alternate history.

Well, most of you people live in countries with a greater amount of AFOLs. In my case, I have no friend who collects these minifigures, and much less Lego at all. And I guess I could buy a box and sell all the other figures, but I just don't have the time to do so myself. Luckily for me I just got a great deal with S5

This is one of the few classic space sets that I own. When I first built it, I was impressed at its play features. In my opinion, it's one of the best classic space sets, and it's just got that old sci-fi look. I love it. Thanks for the review, and sorry for resurrecting an old thread!

Some of us AFOLs are mortals and make mistakes. I'm really not as fool proof as many of the members of this forum, especially since I like to get one of each fig, this leaves a very small margin for mistakes. I think that could be true, but still, kid's money comes from their parents. If parents saw that a minifigure is impossible to get, then they would probably be more reluctant to buy these packages. What I want to say is that there is a middle point in which Lego has an optimal gain.

I enjoyed very much reading this post. You have certainly not lost your imagination by growing up. Sometimes, I wish I could take out all my sets and make something like this. But it would be very tiring to take everything out of its, *gulp*, plastic boxes (since I don't have space to keep everything on display ). I just hope that someday I'll have my own Lego room, and will be able to have sets on display like this. And I think that this post convinced me that if I had any kids, they will be getting Lego too.

Don't people here have dreams?

I have also had problems searching, so I now use Google too. Site:eurobricks.com and you're all set. Can save you a few embarassments regarding double posts

Time will tell. Perhaps if Lego releases a big Justice League set, but I would expect that to be expensive. Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern in the same set? I can only picture that in one of the big, expensive ones.

I think they must reach a middle, optimal point. Make your target audience feel they can't get the figures they want, fill them with figures they don't want, and they will probably feel disatisfied with the product and not buy it at all. If I remember correctly, the interview on Brickjournal said that one of the reasons to keep the blind packaging is being able to make some minifigs that would otherwise be too risky an inversion. We wouldn't have got many of the figures that we got. So yes, we have to search many packages to find the figs, which is very annoying. However, the reason I mentioned above is the only one that makes me tolerate blind packaging slightly.

I feel exactly the same way. You have to be rich in order to be able to display everything in a fairly sized Lego collection.

I can't believe that I had never read this article. It's very complete and useful. Thanks for the info!

That is very nice! I don't think my family would let me decorate our tree with minifigures though... Better have them stay safe and warm in my room, away from the evil dog!

Nice to see a fellow enthusiast of the purest of all sciences! I think that I agree here with you. Surely, if they hadn't started using the 5 digit numbers already, they could have a logical system by this time. Just look at the codes for CMFs. I think they just don't care enough, or at least there isn't such a strong need for such a system, although I would love to see it.