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• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, I owned that exact set as a kid.

  Stings a bit knowing I could have sold it for a down payment on a house 30 years later.

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  • CrystalRainwater@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    To be fair this is a random listing not an actual sale. Just looked it up and there are far cheaper listings

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    • CrystalRainwater@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The real price seems to be like 600

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  • RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. Might have to call my Dad. He probably still has all my old Lego in a big plastic treasure chest. If he still has the boxes he might have some actual treasure.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  i still have all my old lego. not the instructions tho. or the ones my dog chewed up. damn dog.

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• Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had that one. It was amazing.

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mine had blue sails. Still have it somewhere.

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    • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yarr be an Imperial scum says i

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    • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think that was the stuck up English navy one, not the pirate cool one.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was gifted this by a family friend as a kid. It was super fun. My brothers had this and a castle. Now the parts are mixed in across 2 buckets of Lego that I’ve rescued from my parent’s storage room last year and kept for my kids.the cycle continues.

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate keeping sets together.

      All my sets get built, enjoyed, then completely disassembled and mixed into a big bin for all the fun of making our own creations.

      I keep the build manuals. So I can rebuild them again if I ever wanted to. But the fun is in the building, not the having of completed sets.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. Until i took it into the bathtub and the. It started to smell real funky after a few month

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    • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Every kid who owned this set tried to take it into the bathtub and realized immediately that it did not float 😅

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    • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It truly did not float.

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• LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I got myself a mega blocks pirate ship, about 20 years ago, give or take. I still have it. All my kids and nices and nephews and now grandson has played with it (and trashed the shit out of it, but meh) I still rig it up as a nightlight on top of my wardrobe. It still makes explosion noises with flashing lights, and launchable cannon balls. (I should probably check those batteries…) Doesn’t look like mega blocks, looks like a ghost / ghoul type pirate ship model. Came with treasure, a heap of peg leg pirates, and a giant killer octopus. I still have the octopus. One of my top favourite possessions.

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• Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  BrickLink ‘new’ average sold for the last 6 months is 340~ retail was 200. its a retired set of a beloved 80’s set updated, so deff not going to find a new set for less than that. (i have one in my collection, yeah i’d prob let go for 340+you cover shipping) but definitely cover shipping for 19k! lol

  and yes you to can list anything on ebay for whatever absurd price you want. but even ebay has a sold filter/tracker you should be checking…

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Counterpoint, Chinese brick manufacturers will sell you the appropriate bricks for less than $60

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For $19k, I would personally hand deliver it within the US.

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would personally deliver it anywhere in the world that isn’t at war, so no the US

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• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The trauma of having grown up getting pirates, castles, and OG space sets for Christmas and birthdays, then finding out your mom gave them to the bratty neighbor kids while you were in college is real. I’ve reacquired some as an adult, which cost me about the same as my college tuition.

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It bewilders me how anyone could give their kid’s stuff away without asking, and yet I’ve heard it from so many people.

    I guess the thought process goes like “They’re grown up and don’t need ‘toys’ anymore!” and so they give the toys away to someone they think ‘wants’ them, and they’re ‘doing you a favour’ getting rid of it.

    But even if they thought that’s true - which it often isn’t - those things were given to you as gifts. They were yours! They didn’t belong to your parents anymore to give away! And that really feels like a violation of trust.

    When I came back from college my room was exactly as I left it. And when I moved out I decided on my own time what I wanted and what I didn’t. So thank you Mum and Dad for respecting my space and my person.

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  • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The one from OP goes for about $70 on AliExpress

    /r/Lepin

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Twchnically your mom owes you a lotta money

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ruining various subcultures of hobby collecting has really become a hobby for the unhealthy-wealthy

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• Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wish I had the space and money to buy some of the bionicle sets I never got to have, like the bohrok, and the piraka

  Unfortunately bionicle sets are ungodly expensive and I do not have space to hold them all lol

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• cymor@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I saw it in a local store for about $200. You could take it apart and rebuild it. There are also a lot of companies making really cool plastic brick stuff.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is just for insane people who want a thing that is in the box because it’s rare. Not because they enjoy it

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And then they never take it out of the packaging to even look at it.

      I don’t get it either.

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No amount of money will buy new Micronauts to match the beloved ones from my childhood my Mom threw out when I went to College (WHAT WERE YOU THINKING MA?!)

  The originals are now faded and cracked and even those are expensive

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait, those few bricks cost a whoping 110$?

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  • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You say “those few plastic bricks” but that set was 909 pieces, that’s about 12 cents per brick

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And still looks like one with 100 pieces?

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