BBC article on lego investment

threepwood1138

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150204-why-collectors-love-this-toy

Interesting that it was written for BBC Worldwide.

CCC

So the hard core collector / investor is 20-50, male (with a growing number of females), and located in the western hemisphere and Australia (with increasing interest in Asia).

That's narrowed it down.

prevere

I love the focus on Market Street and USC MF as "examples" of high profit margins. Such entry-level writing with no depth. Reading just a few articles on Brickset or Brickpicker about today's investment is such a different story.

madforLEGO

So.. Does this mean LEGO 'investing' is getting on step closer to 'jumping the shark'?

CCC

They will always use MS and the UCS MF as examples, it gets more traffic to brickpicker, and hence more ad revenue. If they used Construct-a-Zurg, then probably not so much.

prevere

^What, the Death Star is still available? I need to buy a hundred of those!

LostInTranslation

I like how the guy featured has "about 172" sets :-)

LostInTranslation

Ugh. "about 172 sets of Legos" :-(

Shib

^ I got that far and lost the will to read any more.

CapnRex101

Why do any of us read articles written by people who obviously don't know the first thing about LEGO? We insist upon putting ourselves through agony every single time!

WookiePajamas

^ but could you imagine if they sent in the article here to proof... they just wouldn’t be prepared for that onslaught...

mountebank

To be fair, I have never seen an article in the mainstream media covering any of my areas of knowledge that wasn't completely full of howlers. I'm not entirely convinced it was that different in the past either.

77ncaachamps

You never invest on anything new unless it's really limited or you flip it immediately after buying low.

Otherwise, like most hobbies, the iconic and older sets will always hold value.

Norlego

mountebank said:

I'm not entirely convinced it was that different in the past either.

This reason for this is that articles get republish again and again. I read a magazine from the 1930s and it contained an article that was published in a magazine in the 80s. The only thing that was different was the article in the 80s was modernized.

Pitfall69

^Wow, you actually got your Lego DeLorean Time machine to work?

luckyruss

^ 1880s? How old are you?

Norlego

A clue for @Pitfall69 age is in his username...

scotty12

Side note and off topic:
I was walking thru Barnes and Noble today and out on one of the aisle display stands was Popular Science magazine with a picture of the Lego Hazmat Guy on the cover from Series 4. Was in a hurry so I didn't look for any related article.

matticus_bricks

^In the hallway outside my college's photography classrooms, where student photos are hung, is a really nice photo of that Hazmat guy. I would like to know the student that took that photo. This comment is now entirely irrelevant. Sorry.

Legoboy

Norlego said:

A clue for @Pitfall69 age is in his username...

Ohhhh, his age. How wrong was I?

cheshirecat

I figured it was something to with his love of my little ponies

CCC

77ncaachamps said:

You never invest on anything new unless it's really limited or you flip it immediately after buying low.

Otherwise, like most hobbies, the iconic and older sets will always hold value.

But then how do you get hold of older sets? You buy them new and hold them.

Legoboy

cheshirecat said:

I figured it was something to with his love of my little ponies

vitreolum

That's just what lego investment needed, more advertising.