Recent Craigslist Haul

JoshTX · 2013-03-17T20:04:20.000Z

As someone that's a little more interested in building than investing, I decided to take the Craigslist plunge a couple weeks back and finally saw a listing I was compelled to buy, a kid selling a 25 pound tub of assorted pieces for 100 bucks. The transaction was a good experience (rare for CL), apparently there was another buyer but they backed out. The seller was a kid who had been collecting probably since the early 2000's judging by the pieces, looked to be about 14 or so, and was trying to get money to get himself a Nintendo 3DS, so it felt like I was helping him out. As far as the pieces themselves, it wasn't too bad. They were clean for the most part, there was only a few random mega bloks mixed in, and there was a good amount of minifigures. For whatever reason though, he had taken apart nearly every minifigure, I had to fish out tons of hands, arms, and heads, and try to make sense of it all. It took 4 hours but I probably made about 30-40 minifigures out of all the loose pieces. Problem is I don't know if I put them back together correctly. I think in many cases I was "Frankensteining" it. The other bad thing is that for whatever reason, he decided to "color" a bunch of the clone minifigures from star wars with black ink/marker. But alas, kids will be kids. The 25 pound thing was no joke. I felt like it actually weighed more than that. There's a ton of stuff here, but it's going to be pretty difficult to figure out what sets alot of this is from. I can tell there's some early Star Wars pieces, some Indiana Jones, bionicle, and technic. It's kind of overwhelming, though. I found a number of pieces that look like they may be a part of the "OG" millenium falcon from the early Star Wars. There's a little from that Quest of the Pharoahs theme here as well, as I've been able to identify one of those sets. There's a general grievous minifig but it's in that older style as well, so maybe that will help me figure out what set is loose in here by what he came with. There's some pirate stuff. This could take forever, lol. Would you guys mind if I posted some pics of the more unique pieces and some of you could possibly help me ID the sets they are from? I'm sure that would help out alot.