RARE LEGO STAR WARS YODA 1999 TARGET PROMO 14" TALL

[cflannagan]

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lego-star-wars-yoda-1999-target-promo-154520284 We were talking about our childhood LEGO experience and how I have recently started to buy sets for investment purposes. A friend of mine mentioned he won this in a contest hosted by Target way back in 1999 - when Star Wars Episode I came out. He had to guess # of pieces in this set and he won it, was only off by 7 pieces. I was like wow, it could be worth something today. I doubt he plans on selling it (he had it for a long time), but we were indeed curious as to what kind of value it would be to a collector (theoretically). Any ideas how much this would be valued?

[comicblast]

I would guess that it is worth more than $500 but it is kind of hard to tell from the pictures. Definitely a valuable item to own!! Please tell us if the pieces are glued or not. It does affect the value! Man, I so wish I were you right now!!!!!

[cflannagan]

I'd have to ask him, but from what little I can gather via Google, my understanding is there's only 1,200 of those such figures. And I also believe they come preassembled, glued together. But I would imagine that shouldn't affect value too much - because that's how they are handed out anyway - preassembled and glued together. What do you think? I'd love to see it too! Unfortunately it's not in our homecity - he has it back in his childhood house on the other side of US.

[comicblast]

hmmm.... That changes things. My guess that it is worth more than $1,600, though I am not giving the best answer that could be given. I am sure than a bunch of people on this site would like to get their hands on it, though!

[cflannagan]

What do you mean it changed things? I thought you were going to say the LEGO pieces being glued together was going to devalue it! Or was it the fact that you just learned those (only 1,200 made) are normally handed out preassembled and glued together - thus it shouldn't devalue? (I'm thinking the latter perhaps?)

[Ed Mack]

I have both the Yoda and R2-D2 Frito Lay displays. They are quite rare and I haven't seen one in awhile. I would say they are probably worth around $300, give or take...especially the Yoda.

[jmpkcp]

Bought one for $200 and sold for $250 a few months later. Just two years ago. Ed's $300 sounds about right to me.

[Julio frausto]

one seald yoda sold for 15000$ july 2023 on ebay