The Best LEGO Sets to Invest in that Retire in 2024 - Version 4.0
This list has made people A LOT of money, ignore it at your own risk.
IMPORTANT: The spreadsheet version of this list is linked at the bottom of the post
We are already into Q2 and before you know it we will be in Q3.
Time is flying by as we know it.
Early hit lists like this one are equally important as the final hit list because they allow investors like myself to understand the context of every set that comes and goes.
I will invest differently in a set that has entered and left the list several times vs. a set that stuck around the entire time.
Simply ignoring what happens leading up to buying season and retirement is a mistake.
Assembling a hit list like this is a combination of:
Finding which sets are sets expected to retire
Picking which ones are expected to perform best
My favorite resource for finding which sets are expected to retire is the spreadsheet maintained by the LEGOLeak subreddit.
While the list they maintain is not official, it is as close to official as it gets.
When picking the sets that are expected to perform best, I check emotion at the door and use a set picking system that I developed myself.
This system has shown an ability to predict most of the top performing sets each year during retroactive analysis.
If you’d like to review how it works, read this post:
There will be 5 more updates to this hit list (one each month) and the final list will be published in September.
“So should I just come back in September and just look at that list instead of this one?”
No.
Like I said above, what happens during the early part of the year is just as important as the later part of the year.
Doing that means you are likely to miss out on getting some sets in the spring/summer at an insane price.
The format below is as follows:
Theme
List of sets my system likes
List of honorable mentions if they exist (system likes them but shelf life is too high)
Let’s dive in.