• Study finds Lego bricks are a better investment than gold, stocks, or bonds
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https://www.cnet.com/news/lego-bricks-outshine-gold-bars-as-investments-report-says/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+New+Content+(Feed)&utm_content=5c4fb4cf9ac5640001965877&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter Could Lego sets be the building blocks of a stronger investment portfolio? A study has that found Lego sets may be a better investment than gold.  Lego did better than traditional investments like gold, stocks and bonds -- yielding an average return of about 11 percent from 1987 to 2015, according to the study published recently out of Russia's Higher School of Economics. "Lego returns are not exposed to market, value, momentum and volatility risk factors, but have an almost unit exposure to the size factor," the report said. "A low exposure to standard risk factors make the Lego toy an attractive alternative investment with a good diversification potential." It isn't just the rare or expensive sets that have done well as investments. Big and small sets, as well as "seasonal, architectural and movie-based sets," all delivered high returns, the study found. Before you trade in your gold bricks for Lego bricks, there's a dark side to collecting the retro toys. A gang of criminals was arrested in San Diego in 2015 for taking more than $15,000 worth of toys that included mostly Lego sets. Phoenix cops discovered an even bigger crime ring and seized $200,000 worth of stolen Legos in 2014.
Gold is a stupid meme investment so uhh, not surprised tbh that Lego sets are better investments.
Gold and diamond markets are scammed to sell high and buy low. You will always overpay for any jewelry with any valve. It is never a good investment unless you are buying directly from the finders (which is unlikely).
When I worked at a lego store there was this dude who came in every week and bought literal thousands of dollars worth of sets. Often it was many of the same set. One black friday he bough so many sets they had to fill the back stock room floor with all his bags. He'd always have his phone with him and at first we thought he kept a list, but I glanced at his phone once and someone was emailing him telling him what to buy and how much exactly to spend. We never ask where he gets his money or why he buys all this. But it screamed of something illegal.
It gets worse than that. There's been people who've gone to jail for printing their own barcodes and sticking them on expensive sets, and then buying them en-masse and reselling them for a massive profit. One of them was a longtime, respected seller on the biggest 3rd party online lego marketplace.
That may be what he was doing. My boss didn't care what he was doing with the sets though since the dude routinely spent so much money every single visit.. As he put it "I dont care if he sticks all those bricks up his ass."
I'M NOT BUYING TOYS MOM! I'M INVESTING!
I am no total expert in this area, but I'm pretty sure this started to become more evident when the first series of AFOL-targeted sets started to retire (e.g. Star Wars UCS & Cafe Corner) and more and more adults got back into Lego, especially around 2014 with the first LEGO Movie, and it's still the case nowadays, but people are more aware about it. I'm not surprised at all that this is news. It's mostly licensed themes that are the main investment, sometimes more specifically minifigures - there are some cases with newly released sets where you can buy the set and almost make back the money by selling the minifigs alone; but there are a few other lines that are also highly sought after their retirement (big sets tend to stay on the shelves for around 3-4 years), like the modular buildings.
I'm amazed at how many Lego products there are to cater to adults. My mom knows I'm a big Lego person so her Christmas presents often include more adult lego things like this Block calendar on my desk. I kind of don't have the guts to tell her I'm a manchild who would prefer Star Wars spaceships and anime style mechs instead.
It was actually only recently (~ early 2000's) that Lego found out that there is potential in the adult consumer market - it all started with mindstorms, then moved on to start making the large, detailed sets like the UCS Falcon.
Welp, I should complete my Unikitty collection while I still can.
selling gold is a good investment.
Gold has been a great investment for the past 4,000-6,000 years and it will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
How long till we start investing in waifu anime figurines. So that one day I could say that I've bought my two-story house from chibi megumin and skimpy shimakaze figurine stocks.
I have a few hundred dollars in factory sealed sets from 2000-2002, and a more recent 2015 set. It's not a bad investment. Even as pieces go out of production, not just sets, they can get very valuable.
Wait a minute. will this mean legos will go the way of graphics cards and become so hilariously overpriced because of investors tying up their portfolios into them? depriving a kid of legos is like kicking puppies or clubbing seals and I could unfortunately see this happening.
I've been investing for years, apparently.
You joke but people have already been doing that for years with figurines. You can make serious bank off older 40K stuff as well, to a degree I don't even understand how little unpainted figures can be worth that much to someone because as soon as they touch them in any way, the value instantly goes poof.
Good thing they can always buy Megabloks instead!
How dare you speak of what should not be spoken of.
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