The 5 Best LEGO Investments Over the Last 5 Years
The ultimate highlight reel that shows just how powerful this game is.
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LEGO investing is like no other type of investing.
To participate, you have to deal with an asset that takes far more time to buy/sell than buying some stock on your Robinhood app.
Not just that, but you have to receive, store, and ship the physical boxes of LEGO when creating or exiting your positions (unless you pay someone else to do it).
If you can handle all of that, you are rewarded with a return on investment that no other asset class comes close to providing.
There are only two things that return well over 20% annually for decades on end:
Ponzi schemes
LEGO sets
Ponzi schemes usually don’t last decades, so that leaves us with LEGO and only LEGO.
Truthfully, LEGO investing isn’t really investing. Boxes of LEGO are not registered securities.
What we are doing instead is form of long-term e-commerce.
You buy, hold for a year or two, and then sell.
Once your portfolio is large enough, you start to increase that hold time beyond a couple of years.
I want to take a look at the highest performing LEGO sets over the last 5 years. Why?
Because it’s fun.
LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS
MSRP: $299.99
Retirement Date: December 31st, 2019
Price now: $1,150
Return on investment today: 221%
Return on investment 1 year post-retirement: 65%
While this isn’t the highest return on investment that you can find dating back to 2017, what you should focus on instead is dollar amount.
One of these sets is locking in over $650 in profit per unit today. Insanity.
LEGO Star Wars Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive 75191
MSRP: $99.99
Retirement Date: June 31st, 2019
Price now: $500
Return on investment today: 317%
Return on investment 1 year post-retirement: 64%
$100 to $500 in less than 4 years. Mind-boggling.
LEGO NINJAGO Dawn of Iron Doom 70626
MSRP: $59.99
Retirement Date: November 2017
Price now: $580
Return on investment today: 708%
Return on investment 1 year post-retirement: 64%
This is the ultimate example of a set that almost everyone overlooked at the time.
NINJAGO as a theme is not the best for LEGO investing and LEGO clearly produced less of this theme at the time.
Even more interesting is how the return on investment has continued to scale over time.
Most sets spike during the first 0-24 months post-retirement but then start to taper.
This set just hasn’t done that.
LEGO Star Wars The Phantom 75170
MSRP: $29.99
Retirement Date: December 31st, 2017
Price now: $276
Return on investment today: 663%
Return on investment 1 year post-retirement: 8.5%
This set is a perfect example of how cheaper sets behave different than more expensive sets.
It barely provided a return a year into retirement and didn’t explode until mid-2020.
While you would think cheaper sets are better for beginners, it’s often not the case.
The hold time is longer and you often can’t get enough quantity to do any real damage.
Impressive overall returns though, you can’t ignore that.
LEGO Minecraft The Mountain Cave 21137
MSRP: $249.99
Retirement Date: December 31st, 2018
Price now: $2,420
Return on investment today: 716%
Return on investment 1 year post-retirement: 360%
While this set is the outlier of outliers, it shows how well more expensive LEGO sets perform during that 0-24 month timeframe after retirement.
It hit $900 on the secondary market within 12 months.
While no one saw this coming, you won’t see the cheaper sets doing this.
Just incredible.
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This post is not financial or investment advice.
It is written for entertainment purposes only by a bum who gave up his job as a prestigious Aerospace Engineer to talk about parking money in things like sealed boxes of plastic.
Is the LEGO Porsche 42096 just as interesting? Or different situation? Sorry if I ask too many questions but trying to learn as much as possible.