Guest eightbrick Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 First of all, congratulations! I would sell it now, as the others have said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Sell it now and use the $300 to buy a real set (or 2) to open or to invest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadowsk1 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 We just returned from vacation in Florida where we went to Legoland one day while there. Most every shop had one or more large bins full of series 10 Minifigures and some had shelves full of the cartons. In one of the shops the employees were talking about a family which had just left who had bought and opened some and found Mr. Gold and how they didn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolos80 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 If your daughter found Mr. Gold and you were letting her pick out a minifigure for herself I would let her decide. I don't think there is any way to lose in this situation aside from letting her open up and play with it unfortunately because you run the risk of losing all of it's value. I was just about to ask, what does your daughter want to do? I know if my son found a mr gold, there's no way i could convince him to part with it. And if Wit is right about the price eventually dropping, and I think he is, I'll probably end up buying one and presenting it to my son for a bday or xmas. If you decide to sell, try a local site like Craigslist. You never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshTX Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Sell fast seems to be the consensus. I'd tend to agree on a novelty item like this. Right now there is a fever for this thing because of all the marketing blitz, but once the series goes OOS and kids forget about Mr. Gold, a chunk of the audience is going to drop off. Die-hard collectors will still be wanting them, but the demand won't be as high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wholovesboo Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Hey what's this smoosh test I keep hearing about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshTX Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Hey what's this smoosh test I keep hearing about? Here you go: http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/3130-a-smooshers-guide-to-minifigures/?hl=smoosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunMan3 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 There is no question he belongs to my daughter and she will make the decision of when to sell. I was just trying to get some feedback so I could give her some ideas of what others think. Thank you all for your comments. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wholovesboo Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Here you go: http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/3130-a-smooshers-guide-to-minifigures/?hl=smoosh Thanks for the link! Very helpful. I'd still feel weird going into a store to smoosh a bunch of bags. I already feel self conscious enough trying to check every single My Little Pony blind bag for the figurines I want! (Unlike Lego, the MLP makers give you a break...there's a code printed on the seam of each bag. If you know the number for the one you want you want you can find it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eightbrick Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Thanks for the link! Very helpful. I'd still feel weird going into a store to smoosh a bunch of bags. I already feel self conscious enough trying to check every single My Little Pony blind bag for the figurines I want! (Unlike Lego, the MLP makers give you a break...there's a code printed on the seam of each bag. If you know the number for the one you want you want you can find it.) Interesting. Lego had a similar thing in the first couple series' of figures where you could tell by dots on the side of the package or the barcode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolos80 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Interesting. Lego had a similar thing in the first couple series' of figures where you could tell by dots on the side of the package or the barcode. They still do have dot codes, but they are not 100% reliable. I think Lego uses different codes for different shipments, but I'm not sure. Anyway the dot code for Mr. Gold, which several sites have claimed is legit, is the same code I have on my Roman soldiers. Make of that what you will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowestFormOfWit Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 I've tried the "dot code" method on every series since I started buying these in series 7, and they are 100% unreliable by my personal experience here in the US. My suspicion is that LEGO realized dots codes identifying the figures (assuming this ever actually worked) would be caught onto fairly easily, and making the bags opaque and thus random would be pointless. My theory is that the dot codes are just identifiers of the regions the shipments originated in, or the regions in where they are going. Or they could mean absolutely nothing at all and are just machine marks akin to mold lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskers1236 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 The ridiculous part is Lego doing this to us. What is your ballpark estimate on number of people trying to get a complete set of all the collectable minifigures? I bet it's more than 5000. I don't believe that Lego considers Mr. Gold part of the series. We have had the discussion ad nauseum about the ethics about buying, smooshing, and returning, I won't revisit it. I feel that Lego dropped the ball on this as much as anybody else, it was a poor way to do a lottery such as this, but it is what it is. They could have very easily just inserted a different leaflet with the normal minifigure that said you had won a Mr. Gold and that they would send it to you. Would have been much simpler and the sour taste that everyone has over this fracous wouldn't be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOrcKing Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 The current count of Mr. Golds found is 1,069. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQRZztAB8tE This was the first thing that came to mind for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agp548 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Sorry for any confusion I caused with my drive-by comment: The first line is all true. The second line is pure irony, meant for comedic effect. If you actually try to picture what I claim to have done, it's ridiculous, right? buying a box feeling all packs then returning it when you don't find what you are looking for.....SHADY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondorian Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 buying a box feeling all packs then returning it when you don't find what you are looking for.....SHADY! It's Tesco's Refund policy. I had heard of others doing it with previous series - rather than feel up the packs in the store, just do it at home then return the ones you don't want. It's an ethical grey area, and Huskers1236 is right when he says this shouldn't be discussed again here. So, I'm sorry for the derail. To answer the original question: I think Mr Gold will be worth $500 or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_rockefeller Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 It's Tesco's Refund policy. I had heard of others doing it with previous series - rather than feel up the packs in the store, just do it at home then return the ones you don't want. It's an ethical grey area, and Huskers1236 is right when he says this shouldn't be discussed again here. So, I'm sorry for the derail. To answer the original question: I think Mr Gold will be worth $500 or more.Huskers didn't say it shouldnt be discussed here, he said he won't revisit it. Bottom line is you don't want someone to call you shady, don't bring up shady behavior in the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seapotato Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 does Mr. Gold feel different in the packet than the others?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOrcKing Posted July 7, 2013 Author Share Posted July 7, 2013 does Mr. Gold feel different in the packet than the others?!I would imagine his top hat and cane makes him stand out from the rest of Series 10 seeing how none of the other characters have those parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 does Mr. Gold feel different in the packet than the others?! I wonder? A little off topic, My wife and I really liked the Vinylmations at Disney World. We really loved looking for ones. We weighed them in store between eachother and it actually worked very well. We were able to get the obvious lightest and obvious heaviest really easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicblast Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 does Mr. Gold feel different in the packet than the others?! Yah. Top hat and cane. Also there's a diamond on top of the cane that you can feel for. Several people have said that there is a second bag inside of the initial Series 10 bag that you can feel for because it has a slightly different crinkle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Yah. Top hat and cane. Also there's a diamond on top of the cane that you can feel for. Several people have said that there is a second bag inside of the initial Series 10 bag that you can feel for because it has a slightly different crinkle. You think you might look weird feeling through pack after pack of minifigures? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkness Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 One just sold on ebay Australia for $1045!!!!!!! A second is up to $898!!! Sheer craziness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOrcKing Posted July 9, 2013 Author Share Posted July 9, 2013 The current count of Mr. Golds found is 1,125. Well, at least it is starting to pick up again a little. The numbers were slowing down to a crawl for a while there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolos80 Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Fluctuating frequencies of discovery, registry, and resell... Anyone else get the feeling TLG knows exactly what it's doing? Not just in the primary market, mind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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