First Impressions: 10240 UCS X-Wing Remake

It is still very early to perform a proper and more accurate re-make impact evaluation about the UCS X-Wing, but now that we have our first month of actual eBay data I wanted to make a couple points and observations that I found interesting about both sets. Later this year, once we have several more months of data, I will be able to write a more in depth analysis.

For now, let's just take a look at the numbers presented by the "old" UCS 7191 X-Wing so far this year:

There are a couple of short comments I want to make about these graphs above:

• There was only 1 New 7191 set sold in the month of May, so the increase in the market value of the set does not tell us much about the possible impact of the new 10240 X-Wing on sealed sets.
• Most of the interesting data comes up when taking a look at sales of used 7191. In the past month of May and according to BP data the older version of the X-Wing sold 17 copies with a mean price of around $ 283. This number pulled the overall market value of used 7191 up by more than 17% relative to the past month of April.

From these two points above, we can gather that at this point there is not enough data to determine the first month's impact of 10240 over 7191 when it comes to new sets, but that there seems to be enough to make some inferences about used copies. It appears from the graphs above that at this point investors, collectors or casual LEGO fans have seen no reason to stop purchasing the old version of the X-Wing or to even to pay prices that are substantially higher than what a new 10240 currently goes for. In fact, relative to previous months, the prices for used copies increased by a substantial amount!

At first sight then, it seems that the remake has not negatively affected the interest for the old ship, and for the sake of investors let's expect things to stay the same.