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    • DoNotInsertIntoMouth
      I was recently lucky enough to pick up a Back to the Future Lego DeLorean on Ebay several days before it was released (for close to retail price!) and when I got it I couldn't help but open it. So I decided to write another review so those of you thinking about picking it up would know more about it and what to expect.

      First off, the box is great. I love the darkness with the Delorean coming out of the light. The clock in the back ground is really cool looking too. Weirdly enough, this box opened up from the font which I had never seen with a Lego set. It was more like a toolbox or a kit. It was really great for pulling bags out, and when I got done it was much easier to put the leftovers away I it. The box also felt like it was made of something more sturdy than the normal Lego boxes. I may display the box behind the set because it looks so good.
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      The back of the box was also impressive as it had pictures of the different customizations and the license plates and of course the Flux Capacitor.

      It was tough to pop It open, but I just had to build this set as Back to the Future is one of my all-time favorite movies.
      This set is only a 401 piece set, and it looked pretty average pulling it out of the box. No pieces that really draw attention to themselves. But it's a DeLorean, so I am not complaining.

      The bags aren't numbered. I am not exactly sure why, but this being my first set I have ever put together without numbered bags, I feel like I am going to be searching for pieces quite a bit. It makes you appreciate how big a deal numbered bags are to sets.
      The instruction booklet is really impressive. I don't have too many collector's series or exclusive sets, but this book is the best one I have ever see. It's a very think paperback cover and inside it has a ton of Back to the Future specific information.

      The book is also in a very slick black. Things really stand out on the page. I think you could even display the instruction booklet if you wanted to as it matches the impressiveness of the box:

      Because there aren't separate bags to this set, I am taking a few minutes every time I feel like I am at a decent point and taking a picture to show the process. I just decided to dump everything into a pile and figure it out that way. I can't stand wondering if my pieces are still in a bag somewhere.
      Ha! First, we have the minifigures. Number 1 is the good old “Doc”.

      Of course, I had to put on his scared face because all of the minifigures in my room are somewhere between nervous and freaked-out terrified. The white hair and white cloths really make him stand out a lot. I love the green undershirt and the stop watch around his neck as well.
      The only other minifigure in the set is Mr. Michael J. Fox, or “Mary McFly” as we knew him in the movie. His face is a little more nervous than scared. He, of course, has the puffy red vest and the blue jeans. The skateboard is a really nice touch and I think it adds quite a bit of play-ability to the set.

      It is time to start the car (Get it? Time! and "Start the car" On fire!). The first little bit is just putting together the frame for the bottom of the car. It is pretty simple piece building and has nothing really out of the ordinary:

      Moving along, most of the build is staying very simple since we are just building up the frame of the car from the ground up. You can see in the below pictures that the peach-ish pieces are suspended for the four wheels so they can fold up and in. I always loved when the Delorean flew, so I am really happy the wheels aren't stuck like a normal car's wheels.

      The next little part of the build is finally leading us to the frame of the car. You build up the front and the back while leaving room for the seats in the middle. The steering wheel is installed along with all the little gadgets and dials that are on the dashboard of the time machine. Then the giant exhaust systems on the back of the car. I really liked these and thought they turned out really well. They are like minifigure legs that are facing the same way and pushed into a 2X2 holder back to back. This causes them to not sit flush and therefor look perfect for the Delorean as you can see below:

      Quickly after, we get to the dime-piece of the car itself: The Flux Capacitor. I was so glad this wasn't a sticker! I cannot put stickers on for anything and I didn't want to ruin the most important piece of the set!

      Finishing up the frame of the car, it is really starting to take shape. The set really captures the box-iness and the bulky-ness of the DeLorean (if you have ever seen it in real life).

      Now for the folding doors. Though they look good, this system is a little flimsy. If you don’t carefully open them, it is very easy to accidentally pull the set apart. Not a great + for playability. However, the display value is very good.

      As cheesy as it is, I really love the fender. The small exhaust pipes look good and the license-plate is great with its “Outatime”. Corny, but perfect for the set.
      http://www.brickpicker.com/forum/uploads/imgs/bp_1375320916__img_1024.jpg
      As I am getting close to the end of the set, there are quite a lot of pieces left which I figured must be for the customization. There are several different options you can go with to customize the car. First, it comes with reddish wheels you can sub in for the non-flashy gray ones as I show below:

      It also has the option for a stand to display the set on. I thought this was perfect because now I can display it with the wheels folded in:

      You can also add the “Mr Fusion Home Energy Reactor”. Everyone loves extra pieces, so I figure “why not?”

      The best customization is the souped up engine. I had to put this one on. Instead of just the normal closed hood, it has the engine protruding out of the hood. I think it really adds a little variety to the set:

      So what customization did I go with? I loved the red wheels, so that happened along with the reactor and the engine. Overall, I think it is really impressive:

      The black long pipe-like pieces going along the side really make the car stand out. The set itself is pretty impressive for a small set. I will say again, though, it is really brittle. It took me four or five tries to have it perfectly put together as the pieces that make up the cabin of the car and the pipe pieces constantly come apart. I really am leaning towards this not really being a great play-set.
      The car itself is really solid, but all the add-ons don't stay together through much roughness at all. Here is a pic of the bottom of it:

      Here is a picture of how I decided to display it:


      So, can we make any informed decision about the investment potential of the set? Let's take a look:
      First, there have been 3 previous sets in the CUUSOO series. Only one of them is retired, so it is going to be hard to get a good idea of what the set will do, but we can at least see if it is something you should monitor:
      21100 Shinkai 6500 Submarine
      Retail: $49.99
      Current Value: $229.33
      CAGR: 66.16%
      ROI: 350%
      21101 Hayabusa
      Retail: $49.99
      Current Value: $65.86
      CAGR: 31.75%
      ROI: 32%
      21102 Minecraft Micro world
      Retail: $34.99
      Current Value: $47.55
      CAGR: 35.90%
      ROI: 35%
      Like I said, not a ton of data. The only one that is retired is the submarine, and it didn't do too bad... just 66% CAGR! That is extremely impressive and really sets the bar high for these other sets. Hayabusa came out the next yer and, despite being available at retail price, is selling on Ebay above retail already sporting a 31.75% CAGR. If it retires at the end of the year, I can't imagine it would for some reason go down!
      The Minecraft set is right there with it. Honestly, I think the Minecraft set could do even better that these other two because you can't just buy one of them. If all three of these continue on this pace, this will be close to unheralded performance for the first three set sin a theme.
      So how does the DeLorean compare? Well, I think it is the best looking set of the series and will appeal to more people than any of the others. Back to the Future was a tremendous movie, and one that will never die. Parents show their children and it is passed on generation to generation. Shows like Robot Chicken and Family Guy still reference the movie even though it was created almost 30 years ago!
      I think that the fact that this movie is older only helps this set. Yes, some children may not know it – but parents are going to buy it for their children because they want it. Other parents will buy it for themselves because they want it. The set is a perfect price as well – a value at less than $.10 per piece. It is well done and very display worthy.
      It is hard to really give a prediction before the set is really widely available in a retail setting, so my advice is: watch this set. Pick up one here and there and store it away. And definitely build one. It is a perfect 1 hour build and the set is very impressive. You don't want to be caught in this set's retirement without one. Judging by the others, this set may surely fly away with profits. And there isn't going to be any way to go back in time to stop it.
      Note: All of the information here are my own opinions and are pulled from my experiences. You may or may not have success with these methods.
      Thanks for reading!
    • Grolim
      This the fifth entry in a series of blogs that analyses some of the data we have available here on Brickpicker to provide some simple averages to use as benchmarks. I have done the Star Wars, Ninjago LOTR/Hobbit, and City themes and this time it’s the turn of Super Heroes!
      My aim is to provide some basic stats for the theme mainly around averages for a few simple measures relating to set sizes and value for money metrics. I’m going to leave out investment return measures such as CAGR and the various ROI time periods we have available as I think they should be a different discussion and the fact that current retail sets often muddy the results when looking at theme wide averages.
      This information should prove useful in writing other blog articles or set reviews. It also should serve as a benchmark to be able to compare a set against the averages for its theme, which may or may not be useful but the option is there. Over time as I hope to complete more of these blog posts we might also be able to compare themes against each other.
      Basic Information
      For the Super Heroes theme I gathered data on 36 sets from Brickpicker set pages. I’m only going to look at US based information in regards to retail price etc.
      For the Super Heroes theme I’m going to split the analysis into DC and Marvel subthemes. There are 18 sets in each. This may help us see if there are any differences between the two and could be useful if you want to compare a one particular set to the averages within each specific subtheme. Totals will give us the overall results for the whole theme.
      I can also tell you that of the 36 sets 4 of them had no listed retail price. So no need to exclude any from some of the later measures that require a retail price to be present.
      Pieces
      The average piece count per set is 244 pieces. When split by DC and Marvel sets there is a bit of a difference with 296 and 191 average piece counts respectively.

      The large Batman related sets help to pull that DC average up.
      Retail Price
      The 32 sets have an overall average of $30.65 for retail price. This is split to $34.40 for DC sets compared to $26.39 for Marvel sets.

      Again the larger Batman sets help pull the DC average higher.
      Price Per Piece (PPP)
      Whether you like using PPP as a measure of value for money or not I have included it here as it has become quite a common metric for people to use. Personally I don’t put much stock in it and find it quite a blunt tool.
      The overall average for the 32 sets is $0.159 per piece. That seems a little high compared to the conventional benchmark of $0.10 per piece. However, license fees for the theme probably push the budget up a bit for this Lego line.

      Price Per Gram (PPG)
      PPG is in my opinion a better indicator of retail value for money. It takes into account the amount of raw ABS plastic material you get in the box and should be a closer approximation to the cost of production of the set.
      For the 32 sets the overall average PPG is $0.077. For DC sets it is $0.076 and for Marvel sets the result is $0.080.
      Minifigure Count
      Of the 36 sets 27 of them have at least one minifigure. The average across all 27 sets is 3.33 minifigures per set. DC sets average 3.69 for and the Marvel sets average 3.00 minifigures per set.

      Another interesting piece of information is that of you pay an average of $8.71 per minifigure at retail price.
      That seems pretty good value to me. Thanks for reading and I hope you find a use for some of these numbers either in your own writing or your own investment decision making.
    • comicblast
      The Taj Mahal is the biggest official LEGO product in existence, and one of my favorite LEGO models. Though the Taj Mahal doesn’t have a price tag of other large sets, such as the close rival 10179 Millennium Falcon, it has managed to keep its place piece count wise, for the last 5 years…
      The real Taj Mahal was built under the authority of “Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal,”^ and is often referred to as a great example of Muslim architecture. In the same way, the LEGO model has excellently captured the size, and wonder of the real thing. Let’s look at two of the Taj Mahal in LEGO, and in life:
      There are a few more prominent differences between the two structures, including some of the dimensions. There is a smaller gap between the 4 corner towers and the main building in the LEGO model, and the LEGO model is slightly taller in proportion to its base than it is in India. Of course, there are other differences, such as the more jagged structure of the dome that is near-impossible to re-create with LEGO bricks, but overall, we are looking at a very clever copy.
      The Taj Mahal is probably one of the proudest LEGO models in existance, and was part of the pinnacle of LEGO products, in 2007-2008, along with the 10179 Millennium Falcon. It is both huge, iconic, and probably the king of the Advanced Models theme.
      Let’s not judge a set by it’s box design, and look at the reviews of LEGO fans who have built the set. The LEGO Shop allows customers to rate sets out of 5 in the following criteria: Value for Money, and Play Experience, both fairly general, but specific at the same time. Out of the 88 reviews, there were 5 reviews giving the set 3 stars or less, a huge success on the LEGO Group’s part, with 94.3% of LEGO fans who built this set being fairly satisfied with it, giving the set 4 or more stars overall.
      The Set…
      The 10189 Taj Mahal retailed for $299.99, but was discounted, including LEGO S@H, to $249.99. Unlike many LEGO Store discounts, this sale was advertised so widely, that it made it into the Spring 2010 LEGO Catalog, a sign that it didn’t live up to LEGO’s expectations.
      LEGO Shop Product Summary/Description:
      Build the breathtaking Taj Mahal!
      The famous Taj Mahal jewel of India is known all over the globe for its incredible beauty and elegance. Now you can recreate this modern wonder of the world for yourself! Designed for experienced builders, the LEGO Taj Mahal model features advanced building techniques, rare elements and colors, and realistic details of architecture. With over 5,900 pieces, the Taj Mahal makes an awesome addition to any LEGO collection!
      Amazingly detailed model features the base, minarets, domes, finials, arches and stairs in the front Assembles in 3 sections for easier transportation The most elements ever featured in one set! Measures over 20" (51cm) wide and over 16" (41cm) tall http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Taj-Mahal-10189
      As the product description reads, the Taj Mahal can be separated into 3 parts to make it easier to move around, that is, easier to move without breaking or mutating. The three sections are as follows: square base, building, and dome.
      Investment
      Though this might not be the most exciting aspect of the article, it is very important, nevertheless. When the Taj Mahal was purchasable at S@H, it had a stunningly low Price Per Brick ratio of only $0.05. This is largely due to the sheer quantity of the same brick that is needed to construct the whole model. In fact, there are 12 pieces that are found 100 times or more in this set!
      The Taj Mahal is one of the elite LEGO sets to be worth over $1,500. Though it is very often overlooked by it’s rival for the most pieces, the 10179 Millennium Falcon, it is still a gem of gems. Let’s look at the sale prices of a new version of the Taj Mahal
      *Seller had feedback rating of 0.
      The average total sale price of a brand new Taj Mahal is ~$1627.34, and slightly higher than the BrickPicker value of $1,593.73 because the data is from May 2013. Just looking at the current trends of the 10189, a great time to pick up the Taj Mahal was in December 2012. Now that it looks like its value won’t go anywhere near $1,000, but a good price would be about $1,300-$1,400. Now let’s look at complete used sets:
      (This chart is a little small. To enlarge, click on the actual chart.)
      The average total sale price of a used 10189 Taj Mahal is ~$811.12, so a good price to pick one up would be about $800 if possible, though it is hard to come by sets at that price, including instructions. It is interesting that we see a decline in value of used sets, but then we have a very strong comeback, that is not yet on BrickPicker, to the mid-to-high $800’s.
      Predictions
      Of course, one of the most fun parts of being an investor is guessing and predicting the direction a set will take, and how far it will go. My educated guess is that a new set will see its value continue its strong journey of just about 50% per 6 months, based on the trends of the past 5 years, and used copies will hit $950 by the holidays, and increase at a rate of about 5-10% per 6 months.
      Thanks for reading!!
      ^Quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal.




    • comicblast
      One of the many tabs on the BrickPicker homepage is a drop-down menu titled “Tools & Data”. There are 4 sub-menus: Compare Sets, The BrickIndex, Bulk LEGO Data, and CAGR By Theme. We will be visiting all of these, in no particular order in this guide.
      BrickIndex
      “The BrickIndex is a chart that displays the top performing LEGO sets on eBay over the past six months. By utilizing the licensed eBay Terapeak data, we are able to show the LEGO investor and collector the current hot LEGO sets and popular trends in the LEGO secondary market. This data helps a LEGO investor and collector make intelligent investment choices when purchasing new and retired LEGO sets. We have separated the BrickIndex charts into the main LEGO themes and an "overall" Top 20 performing LEGO set page.”
      ~Quote from the BrickPicker BrickIndex page.
      BrickIndex is one of the many handy tools of BrickPicker. As the quote above reads, the BrickIndex shows the elite: the best of the best. Almost every month, the BrickIndex creates a list of sets that have appreciated the most over the past 6 months. By going to the main BrickIndex page at http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/brickindex.cfm, you see the top performers of all themes, or in other words, the Top 20 Performing sets over the past 6 months. These ranks are given based on percentage gains rather than dollar gains. You can also change the theme that you wish to see, by going to the dropdown menu, located right above the chart of sets. See below:
      There are 56 themes and 57 options for the BrickIndex (since option is of all LEGO themes). Some themes do not have sets because there is not enough data on the sets, or no set in the theme has moved in the past 6 months. This is the case for very new sets, and very old sets.
      The BrickIndex is not only used to find the fastest growing sets, but is also helpful to see what growing heroes might be gaining momentum, and whether or not it is too late to jump on the appreciation train.
      Compare Sets
      In this section, you can compare up to 6 sets against all of the criteria of a set, both basic and in-depth, that BrickPicker has to offer. This is an extremely useful tool because it allows for side-by-side comparison, without the normal mess or hassle.
      The Compare LEGO Sets section helps not only with investment, but also with choosing sets to build or part out. You can compare Price Per Brick ratios, which is a great tool for resellers of individual parts, or random lots.
      You can visit the Compare LEGO Sets page by going to http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/compare.cfm.
      CAGR by LEGO Theme
      CAGR is an acronym for Compound Annual Growth Rate, and gives you a brief overview that a LEGO theme as a whole has taken over the past 6 months. This is often used as a foreshadow of the performance of sets of the future. Not only is this a cool tool, it is surprising, and might tickle your investing bone. For example Star Wars is often referred to as one of the strongest LEGO themes, but is behind over half of the LEGO themes listed, including LEGO City, LEGO SpongeBob, and LEGO Hero Factory.
      In addition to having the calming color of green percentages, which signify the CAGR of a LEGO theme to be 11% or more, and red if it is below 11%.
      Bulk LEGO Listings Report
      Lastly comes the Bulk LEGO Listings Report. In this section is a brief overview of LEGO lots sold on eBay that are considered “bulk”. These listings are made out of loose bricks. To find the bulk price from a certain theme, you select the theme, possibly color, and weight, though you only have to choose one...or none.
      Finally, all listings that have the key wC’s, or resale.ords that you have specified are put into your results. For example, if I put in the specification “Star Wars, 40 lbs”, a possible listing would be “Lego lot of 40 lbs Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Bionicle and 5 lbs of minifigures”. This is helpful for buying lots of LEGO bricks for MOC’s, or resale.
      These 4 tools as a whole, make up the Tools & Data section of BrickPicker. They are useful for general buying and selling, and messing around!
      I hope this was helpful to you in some way, and thanks for reading!!


    • Grolim
      This is the Fourth entry in a series of blogs that analyses some of the data we have available here on Brickpicker to provide some simple averages to use as benchmarks. I have done the Star Wars, Ninjago, and LOTR/Hobbit themes and this time it’s the turn of the City theme. The City theme is one of Lego’s ‘evergreen’ themes, meaning it is never retired and there are always new sets in the theme available. The current iteration of the City theme began in 2005 and took over from the World City theme. It’s this current City line from 2005 onwards that I’ll be looking at.
      My aim is to provide some basic stats for the theme mainly around averages for a few simple measures relating to set sizes and value for money metrics. I’m going to leave out investment return measures such as CAGR and the various ROI time periods we have available as I think they should be a different discussion and the fact that current retail sets often muddy the results when looking at theme wide averages.
      This information should prove useful in writing other blog articles or set reviews. It also should serve as a benchmark to be able to compare a set against the averages for its theme, which may or may not be useful but the option is there. Over time as I hope to complete more of these blog posts we might also be able to compare themes against each other.
      Basic Information
      For the City theme I gathered data on 180 sets from Brickpicker set pages. I’m only going to look at US based information in regards to retail price etc.
      For the City theme I have split the analysis into subthemes, pulling out the major ones and grouping the rest into an Other category. This may help us see if there are any differences between the subthemes and could be useful if you want to compare a one particular set to the averages within each specific subtheme. Totals will give us the overall results for the whole City theme.
      I can also tell you that of the 180 sets 10 of them had no listed retail price. So they need to be excluded from some of the later measures that require a retail price to be present.
      Pieces
      The average piece count per set is 271 pieces. When split by subtheme there is a bit of a difference with the 13 trains sets having the highest average at 471 and the 18 accessory grouped sets the lowest average of 136 pieces.

      Retail Price
      The 170 sets have an overall average of $34.25 for retail price. As you would expect the larger sets in the trains subtheme push it well above the rest to have the highest retail price average.

      Price Per Piece (PPP)
      Whether you like using PPP as a measure of value for money or not I have included it here as it has become quite a common metric for people to use. Personally I don’t put much stock in it and find it quite a blunt tool.
      As mentioned there were 10 sets without a retail price that need to be excluded here, but I’ve also excluded 5 other sets that I deemed as outliers. These were set like baseplates that have a high price for essentially 1 piece and they distort the averages too much.
      The overall average for the 165 sets is $0.141 per piece. That seems a lot higher when compared to the conventional benchmark of $0.10 per piece. There are no license fees to be paid in this theme and it uses plenty of normal conventional pieces so you would expect the PPP average to be lower.

      The train sets definitely push the averages up a little but I’m surprised to see the other sets all relatively high as well.
      Price Per Gram (PPG)
      PPG is in my opinion a better indicator of retail value for money. It takes into account the amount of raw ABS plastic material you get in the box and should be a closer approximation to the cost of production of the set.
      Again removing the 10 sets without a retail price there is also 2 more sets removed as I couldn’t find a weight for them. So for the 168 sets the overall average PPG is $0.062.
      Minifigure Count
      Of the 180 sets 171 of them have at least one minifigure. The average across all 171 sets is 2.71 minifigures per set.

      The 8 sets in the advent calendar subtheme stick out with a high of 7.88 minifigures per set.
      Another interesting piece of information is that of you pay an average of $12.26 per minifigure at retail price.
      Thanks for reading and I hope you find a use for some of these numbers either in your own writing or your own investment decision making.
    • MartinP
      The 9465 The Zombies is a medium sized set comes from the Monster Fighters theme. The set has 447 pieces. The set has a retail price of $39.99 USD. This means the Price Per Piece (PPP) ratio for the set is nine cents ($0.09 USD) per piece. There is another ratio that I use and it is called the Price Per Gram (PPG) ratio. This set has a weight of 0.725 kilograms, or 725 grams. This means the PPG ratio is about six cents ($0.0551 USD) per gram.
      The set has four minifigures. They are Jack McHammer, a Zombie Bride, a Zombie Groom, and a Zombie Driver. In this set, the Zombie Bride and Groom are exclusive to this set, making the set more valuable.
      According to brickset.com, the set was released on July 23, 2012 and was retired on October 23, 2012. The set was on the primary market for only three months. That is a very short period of time for a Lego set on the primary market. This is one of the factors on why the set is valued so much and has such a high value.
      Currently, the set has a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 188.40%. That is an astonishing CAGR for a set after one year. The CAGR for the Monster Fighters theme is 40.91%. This set has a CAGR that is 147.49% above its own themes CAGR. The average CAGR for all the themes is 11.36%. This set has a CAGR that is 177.04% above the average CAGR. The comparisons of all the CAGR are amazing. The set is way above many other CAGR too. Now, let's look at a chart showing the monthly sold listings for the set new.
      June 2012: 1 July 2012: 3 August 2012: 29 September 2012: 26 October 2012: 31 November 2012: 56 December 2012: 126 January 2013: 72 February 2013: 43 March 2013: 56 April 2013: 41 May 2013: 49 According to the chart, there were 533 new sets sold in the past year on eBay, which is about forty-four (44) per month. Even though the set was only available on the primary market for about three months, there still were a lot of sets selling on eBay for a higher price, which makes the value of the set go up. Here is another chart showing the monthly sales trend for the set.
      June 2012: $70.00 USD July 2012: $53.33 USD August 2012: $55.90 USD September 2012: $55.04 USD October 2012: $57.23 USD November 2012: $57.95 USD December 2012: $66.65 USD January 2013: $93.08 USD February 2013: $103.74 USD March 2013: $114.59 USD April 2013: $112.17 USD May 2013: $115.33 USD According to the chart, the set has stayed above the retail price for the whole year. Usually a set has a value above the retail price before the set is released. For this set, it was June 2012 when the set has a value of $70.00 USD. Then the set lost $16.67 USD in value. The set stayed in the fifty dollar price range until December 2012. In December 2012, the set jumped in price to $66.65 USD. After that, another significant jump happened. The set went to $93.08 USD in value. It only took about three months for this set to double its retail price. Now, the set continues to grow, but at a slower pace. Soon, the set will have a value three times its retail price.
      Currently, the set has a value of $115.33 USD. Since the set has a retail price of $39.99 USD, the Return On Investment (ROI) would be 188%. The set has increased $75.34 USD from its retail price.
      I would recommend to buy this set. The set has a CAGR of 188.40% and an ROI of 188%. Also the set is on an upward trend in value. Overall, I think that this set has many great investing factors.
      Thanks for reading!
    • Ed Mack
      By popular demand, I moved the up to date stats and blog contest data to the Community Blog to simplify matters for members and contestants. Please feel free to add comments or correct mistakes that I have made. The Blog Contest will end August 1, 2013. As with the Review Contest, there will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner with some Honorable Mentions thrown in. The winning blogs/writers will be based on content quantity and quality...with an emphasis on creativity, accuracy and originality. Thanks...
      These are the articles and blogs that have been submitted for the Content Contest ending August 1, 2013. The color designations are as follows:
      green(Evaluation Corner article) orange(Brickvesting Blog article) blue(Personal/Community Blog) red(articles ready to be published) purple(ideas for potential articles) Veegs: EC article on Creator Houses(500 BrickPoints)
      Quacs: EC article on Legends of Chima(500 BrickPoints)
      Strylr: BB article on Parting Out sets(500 BrickPoints)
      Mikeur86: Avengers EC article(500 BrickPoints)
      Quacs: LEGO Truths and Myths Blog BB article(500 BrickPoints)
      Fcbarcelona101: Personal Blog on December price swings(200 BrickPoints)
      Quacs: Personal Blog on Sydney Opera House(150 BrickPoints)
      MartinP: Personal Blog on 10240 X-wing(50 BrickPoints)
      Alcarin: Personal Blog on Europe LEGO price difference(150 BrickPoints)
      Quacs: Beginner’s Guide to Investing…LEGO Style BB article(500 BrickPoints)
      Quacs: Personal Blog addition to above BB article(50 BrickPoints)
      Darth Lego: CUUSOO Personal Blog(200 BrickPoints)
      Grolim: Discounts Personal Blog(200 BrickPoints)
      Darth Raichu: Personal Blog(25 BrickPoints)
      Fcbarcelona101: Sopwith Camel short EC Article(150 BrickPoints)
      Lowestformofwit: Personal Blog(PB) on box condition(100 Brickpoints)
      Quacs: Personal Blog on new LEGO factory(100 BrickPoints)
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    • Grolim
      This the second entry in a series of blogs that analyses some of the data we have available here on Brickpicker to provide some simple averages to use as benchmarks. Last time I focused on the Star Wars theme and this time it’s the turn of Ninjago.
      My aim is to provide some basic stats for the theme mainly around averages for a few simple measures relating to set sizes and value for money metrics. I’m going to leave out investment return measures such as CAGR and the various ROI time periods we have available as I think they should be a different discussion and the fact that current retail sets often muddy the results when looking at theme wide averages.
      This information should prove useful in writing other blog articles or set reviews. It also should serve as a benchmark to be able to compare a set against the averages for its theme, which may or may not be useful but the option is there. Over time as I hope to complete more of these blog posts we might also be able to compare themes against each other.
      Basic Information
      For the Ninjago theme I gathered data on 79 sets from Brickpicker set pages. I think I got most of them included but I can’t guarantee I didn’t miss 1 or 2 here and there. I excluded the bundles of sets that show up in the listings (they have no real data anyway) and just got proper single set only information. I’m also only going to look at US based information in regards to retail price etc.
      Of the 79 sets only one set, the 850632 Samurai Accessory Set didn’t have at least one minifigure. Minifigures obviously rule here! For the Star Wars theme I split the analysis into sets with and without minifigures, but obviously I can’t do this with Ninjago. What I will do though is split the sets into two groups: Spinner sets and Other sets. Spinner sets are quite different to “ordinary” Lego sets and seeing the differences could prove useful, especially if you want to compare a one particular set to the averages within each spinner/other grouping. Totals will still give us the overall results for the whole Ninjago theme.
      I can also tell you that of the 79 sets there were 5 with a retail price of $0 or being not available. These sets are some of the exclusive giveaways and promotional sets that are not sold at retail. As such these 5 sets are excluded from some of the later measures that require a retail price to be present.
      It may also be of interest that of the 79 sets there were 71 sets that have had a Brickpicker review written for them, including all the 38 Spinner sets. Of these 71 the average overall review score was 8.29. The 38 Spinner sets average review score was 8.51 and the 33 Other sets averaged 8.04.
      Pieces
      The average piece count per set is 182 pieces. When split by Spinners and Other sets there is a marked difference with 31 and 352 average piece counts respectively. That is something you’d expect as the Spinner sets are not focused on a traditional Lego build and have few parts.
      Retail Price
      Of the 74 sets with an available retail price the overall average is $24.21. This is split to $10.12 for Spinner sets and $39.96 for Other sets.
      The majority of the Spinner range retail for $9.99 with a few larger arena type environment sets at $19.99 and some $4.99 “Booster Packs” cancelling each other out. The non-Spinner set range from $4.99 up to the $119.99 mark for Fire temple and Epic Dragon Battle.
      Another interesting piece of information is that of you pay an average of $12.34 per minifigure at retail price.
      Price Per Piece (PPP)
      Whether you like using PPP as a measure of value for money or not I have included it here as it has become quite a common metric for people to use. Personally I don’t put much stock in it and find it quite a blunt tool. The overall average for the 74 sets is $0.264 per piece. That seems very high compared to the conventional benchmark of $0.10 per piece. However the main reason for that is the PPP on the Spinner sets is $0.401, the Other sets have a more respectable $0.111 average.

      Price Per Gram (PPG)
      PPG is in my opinion a better indicator of retail value for money. It takes into account the amount of raw ABS plastic material you get in the box and should be a closer approximation to the cost of production of the set. For the 74 sets the overall average PPG is $0.089. For Spinner sets it is $0.112 and for Other sets the result is $0.063.

      Minifigure Count
      In terms of minifigures the average across all 79 sets is 1.94 minifigures per set. Spinners generally only come with 1 minifigure although the larger starter sets have 2, bringing the average up to 1.08 for the spinner range. Other sets average 2.73 minifigures per set.
      It’s fairly obvious that the Spinner sets do not fit with the conventional comparisons to normal Lego sets. They aren’t really Lego sets in my opinion and sit within more of a play toy area alongside the Chima Speedorz. The usefulness of the metrics presented for them is really limited to benchmarking one of the Spinner sets to its peers rather than putting it up against other Lego sets.
      Thanks for reading and I hope you find a use for some of these numbers either in your own writing or your own investment decision making.
    • Grolim
      I’d like to start a series of blogs that analyses some of the data we have available here on Brickpicker to provide some simple averages to use as benchmarks. Focusing on one theme at a time my aim is to provide some basic stats for the theme mainly around averages for a few simple measures relating to set sizes and value for money metrics. I’m going to leave out investment return measures such as CAGR and the various ROI time periods we have available as I think they should be a different discussion and the fact that current retail sets often muddy the results when looking at theme wide averages.
      This information should prove useful in writing other blog articles or set reviews. It also should serve as a benchmark to be able to compare a set against the averages for its theme, which may or may not be useful but the option is there. Over time as I hope to complete more of these blog posts we might also be able to compare themes against each other.
      First up lets have a look at the Star Wars theme.
      For this analysis I gathered data on 264 sets from Brickpicker set pages. I think I got most of them included but I can’t guarantee I didn’t miss 1 or 2 here and there. I excluded all the bundles of sets that show up in the listing and just got proper single set only information. I’m also only going to look at US based information in regards to retail price etc.
      Basic Information
      Of the 264 sets there were 196 sets that included at least one minifigure, leaving 68 sets that had no minifigures included. This split is useful as I’m going to use it to differentiate sets with or without minifigures in some of the later measures. Of the 196 sets with a minifigure present the average amount per set was 3.9 minifigures, with the highest being the 22 included in the 10188 Death Star. We can view this split easily in the diagram below:

      I can also tell you that of the 264 sets there were 14 with a retail price of $0 or being not available. These sets are some of the exclusive giveaways and promotional sets that are not sold at retail. As such these 14 sets are excluded from some of the later measures that require a retail price to be present.
      It may also be of interest that of the 264 sets there were 121 sets that have had a Brickpicker review written for them. Of these 121 the average overall review score was 7.06.
      Pieces
      The average piece count per set is 463 pieces. When split by minifigure and non-minifigure sets there isn’t much difference with 466 and 462 average piece counts respectively.

      Retail Price
      Of the 250 sets with an available retail price the overall average is $51.91. This is split to $49.90 for non-minifigure sets compared to $52.50 for sets with minifigures.

      I was expecting the differences between minifigure and non-minifigure sets to perhaps be a little wider thinking that small polybag mini builds would drag the non-minifigure average lower. But upon reflection there are a lot of smaller cheap sets with minifigures like the battle packs and quite a few of the other polybags have a $0 retail so are excluded. There are also plenty of large UCS sets with no minifigures to pull the average up.
      Another nugget of information is that of the sets with minifigures you pay an average of $13.58 per minifigure at retail price.
      Price Per Piece (PPP)
      Whether you like using PPP as a measure of value for money or not I have included it here as it has become quite a common metric for people to use. Personally I don’t put much stock in it and find it quite a blunt tool. Quacs has written an excellent blog post on the merits of PPP that can be found HERE
      The overall average for the 250 sets is $0.117 per piece. For non-minifigure sets the average is $0.099 and for sets with minifigures it is $0.122.

      Price Per Gram (PPG)
      PPG is in my opinion a better indicator of retail value for money. It takes into account the amount of raw ABS plastic material you get in the box and should be a closer approximation to the cost of production of the set.
      For the 250 sets the overall average PPG is $0.068. For non-minifigure sets it is $0.070 and for sets with a minifigure the result is $0.067.

      That’s a closer spread of results than I anticipated. I did expect the sets with minifigures to be higher. The difference is almost negligible though and I would suspect a proper statistical analysis of the results may not find a statistically significant variance, but I’ll leave the hypothesis testing for another day or another author to have a crack at.
      Thanks for reading and I hope you find a use for some of these numbers either in your own writing or your own thoughts when comparing some basic set information to factor into your investment decision making.
    • Grolim
      This the third entry in a series of blogs that analyses some of the data we have available here on Brickpicker to provide some simple averages to use as benchmarks. I have done the Star Wars and Ninjago themes and this time it’s the turn of Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit. Technically LOTR and the Hobbit are separate themes but many people lump them under one overall theme and consider each of the two branches a subtheme and that’s what I’ll be doing here.
      My aim is to provide some basic stats for the theme mainly around averages for a few simple measures relating to set sizes and value for money metrics. I’m going to leave out investment return measures such as CAGR and the various ROI time periods we have available as I think they should be a different discussion and the fact that current retail sets often muddy the results when looking at theme wide averages.
      This information should prove useful in writing other blog articles or set reviews. It also should serve as a benchmark to be able to compare a set against the averages for its theme, which may or may not be useful but the option is there. Over time as I hope to complete more of these blog posts we might also be able to compare themes against each other.
      Basic Information
      For the LOTR/Hobbit theme I gathered data on 22 sets from Brickpicker set pages. I’m only going to look at US based information in regards to retail price etc.
      Of the 22 sets all of them have at least one minifigure. Minifigures obviously rule here! For the Star Wars theme I split the analysis into sets with and without minifigures and for Ninjago I split the sets into two groups: Spinner sets and Other sets. For LOTR/Hobbit I’m going to continue the same methods and split the overall group into the respective LOTR and Hobbit Subthemes. This may help us see if there are any differences between the two and could be useful if you want to compare a one particular set to the averages within each specific subtheme. Totals will give us the overall results for the whole LOTR/Hobbit theme.
      I can also tell you that of the 22 sets all of them had a listed retail price. So no need to exclude any from some of the later measures that require a retail price to be present.
      It may also be of interest that of the 22 sets there were 21 sets that have had a Brickpicker review written for them (only 10237 Tower of Orthanc is missing one). Of these 21 the average overall review score was 7.50. Surprisingly, the Hobbit sets have a review score average of 7.86 compared to LOTR averaging 7.27, personally I have felt that LOTR sets have been slightly superior to date so that was unexpected.
      Pieces
      The average piece count per set is 472 pieces. When split by Hobbit and LOTR sets there is a bit of a difference with 336 and 549 average piece counts respectively.

      The large piece counts of Helm’s Deep and Tower of Orthanc have really pulled the LOTR average up.
      Retail Price
      The 22 sets have an overall average of $49.72 for retail price. This is split to $38.74 for Hobbit sets compared to $55.99 for LOTR sets.

      Again the larger LOTR sets help pull that average up.
      Another interesting piece of information is that of you pay an average of $11.39 per minifigure at retail price.
      Price Per Piece (PPP)
      Whether you like using PPP as a measure of value for money or not I have included it here as it has become quite a common metric for people to use. Personally I don’t put much stock in it and find it quite a blunt tool.
      The overall average for the 22 sets is $0.122 per piece. That seems a little high compared to the conventional benchmark of $0.10 per piece. However, license fees for the theme and the high minifigure count probably push the budget up a bit for this Lego line.

      Price Per Gram (PPG)
      PPG is in my opinion a better indicator of retail value for money. It takes into account the amount of raw ABS plastic material you get in the box and should be a closer approximation to the cost of production of the set.
      For the 22 sets the overall average PPG is $0.093. For Hobbit sets it is $0.104 and for LOTR sets the result is $0.087.

      Minifigure Count
      In terms of minifigures the average across all 2 sets is a whopping 4.36 minifigures per set. Hobbit sets average 4.00 for and the LOTR sets average 4.57 minifigures per set.

      Obviously the LOTR/Hobbit theme relies heavily on minifigures and it will be interesting down the road to see if it tops the theme lists for average minifigures.
      Thanks for reading and I hope you find a use for some of these numbers either in your own writing or your own investment decision making.


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