How I Got Out of the "LEGO Investor" Mindset 

I’m only in this hobby for the money.

Lego is normalizing arm printing and I'm all here for it. Each day we inch closer and closer to Lego putting arm printing on Clones and Stormtroopers.

But but but, the RU-vidr with the bricklink store told me it was worth it to spend a car payment on a single minifigure!

Totally agree. I’ll never understand the group of people that treat Lego as an investment and are into it only for that reason. There are so many better things to invest in anyways.

That Boba Fett goes too hard

Yeah sometimes tell people that I’m “investing” in Lego, but that’s total bull I just love the figs.

Only complaint I have is to bring back cloth pieces but I'm sure I can get some for a reasonable price off bricklink so it's really just an inconvenience.

I am one of the people who said UCS boba is going down in value, now I do not own any bobas besides the bobf version and I can understand why it can be hard for people to see a figure they love so much be devalued but I agree with you that if you just by Lego for the worth or the collectible aspect you’ve got it wrong, I have been buying Lego since I was 3 and you’ve got to do it because you enjoy it

To add on to this. I’ve heard people say that expensive UCS sets have to have exclusive minifigures to justify the cost of the set. Which completely ignores the whole fact of the matter that the set itself should be the driving force behind the set. If you end up buying the venator just because you want a Rex… well you’ve played yourself… Grown adults getting off on their ability to gate keep other fans of the hobby just because they have more money than them is just plain dumb.

Even as a collector, who loves having high-value figures, I see cheap good-quality figures as a W for every true fan. I would much rather have all my rarest figures reduced to a couple bucks if it means awesome figures are more accessible to everyone including myself for cheap. I can't wait to have an arm-printed OT Boba in a set as cheap as these mechs. Absolutely awesome.

i just collect stuff i think looks cool lol- and if its valuable thats a nice bonus

Great words my friend, i couldn't say it better.

Honestly you literally have made me regain my hope for this community im so happy to once again rehear the voice of someone who loves the hobby for the hobby I’ve always knew there’s gotta be more collectors for the hobby for actual sets for the figures for LEGO itself and not just as you’ve said perfectly investor mind set Thank you so much MayDay Figs !!!!

This! The investbros are ruining collecting in general. I have and had figures that I always wanted, but ever since 2020ish when the investbros got involved, all of these figures skyrocketed in value. Yes, I did buy a Rebels Ahsoka, but no because I saw it as an investement, but because I genuinly WANTED the figure for YEARS. The reveal of the mechs did sting a little because I did end up buying a UCS Boba torso to upgrade my exixting fig, but if I just waited a little longer I could have gotten one for a fraction of the price. Like I said, investbros are ruining it for the rest of us, but thankfully companies like GCC are here to save us with cheap, affordable alternatives!

since i've come back to lego around 2019, i've noticed soooooo many people just talking about investing in sets and minifigs and it's just strange. i understand the mentality, but to cry about how the price plummeting on a minifigure that was due for an update anyways is just crazy. i know so many people that just think investing in lego minifigs is the end all be all of collecting lego, but from my perspective, there is no enjoyment to be had with collecting like that. it's a very greedy way of thinking, and while it's fine to want to make a little money on the side since it is getting harder and harder to afford the things we like, it's a whole other thing to only enjoy the money you can suck out of others by scalping a lego set that you've had in your basement for 10 years. it's just so ridiculous to look at lego in only a financial context, and not from how much enjoyment you get from it. i look at these mech sets as a win, because not only do they have really great looking minifigures, they also have some pretty great detail pieces. but the first thing i thought of when i saw the Boba Fett is "oh i can already hear the investors crying now."

I used to be really focused on the value of sets and figures in my collection like you, but when I started hesitating to open some sets fearing they will be worth a lot more in the future, I realized how dumb I was. The hobby became a lot more fun for me when I stopped caring about the financial value of the LEGO in it.

Lego is, and always, will be a hobby first and foremost. It's a toy/display product sold for the purpose of entertainment, relaxation, and fun. There are certainly exceptions and risks that do pay off (for now), but no one should put their focus and trust in Lego as an investment tool. It is unfortunate how many Lego collectors see Lego in this way, including some Lego RU-vidrs.

Mostly agree there’s a line, I think $2,000 for cloud city boba is insane but at the same time it’s nice to collect and have the feeling that what you possess is something of value, exclusives and variants add a lot of fun to the collecting hobby but once a single minifigure starts to pass the $200 range that’s just way too much

Honestly, i'm collecting lego because its cool on the shelf, and for stopmotion, i make some stopmotions and i bought the 2013 jango, BX droid commandos and the b1 security battle droids just for animating (and for some army building stuff)

the regular investors that get into specialised markets like lego or pokemon tcg are either dumb , provocative or dont care as long as they can make a dollar . I got back into tcg and lego at 18 , i rebuilt my sets and all that . I have a p2 rex and i was shooked ti see it was like 150-200$ . Then s7 came out and it sky rocketed because investors got on it . they are destroying people passions by investing on battlepacks , emptying the shelves and sometimes encouraging stealing to get money (where i live boosters and some lego sets are under gaming consoles security locks and to have a booster you need a qr code to give at someone in the shop) . You can invest in lego , i do everytime i feel like a set is worth it or i found a good discount but please dont ruin everyone fun for a couple bucks

Yup. This is why ur on top the game. I don’t understand how people genuinely only care about the monetary value of these figs and aren’t excited that a new updated boba is coming out just because it’s going to be in a cheap set. I didn’t hear any of this uproar when Rex was leaked and that’s only because it’s a $650 set.

Most based video I've seen in a while. People are so smol-brained sometimes it's mind boggling. LEGO is a toy company, not the stock market.

i always buy a lego star wars set for two things 1- the build if it's good 2-the figure that i really desire to have selling my lego sets it's the last thing i think when buying it, cus what's the point of buying lego if you're just gonna sell it and don't even open the set ? you're just not enjoying life

I think you completely summed up my views and thought PERFECTLY in 3 minutes! Fantastic video as usual! Keep smashing it

You are absolutely correct, I appreciate this video a lot. Thank you

literally the "i bought a game release day, and now a few years later they're selling an optimized (better) version (say like all the original DLC is included with it for the same price)" "i bought a fan from this company, the fan 1.0 and now years later they release fan 2.0, I should get the 2.0 for free because i already bought the first one!"

Cant wait for the leaked mrgold mech

I come from Pokemon cards so I don't get how this will drop the price. If you have a cloud city sealed set that is worth more as a whole thing then that one figure... If you bought just one figure even then have you seen asoka? A $14 figure in a $19 set? Like How will this drop the market into the ground again? Like people will still want this figure away from the sets so they will pay a preuim for that service.

God damn your so right man. Well really I don’t see why I should buy original rex phase 2. It’s cool minifigure but it’s not worth this money, when I can buy better custom for less money.

I completely agree with what you said here. I’m not in Lego for the investment. If I make a bit of money selling my GWPs I don’t want, great! I’m not going to buy a set if I don’t like it just for the investment. I’m going to get it because I like it & if it’s worth a lot in 5 years, great! If not, I’m perfectly fine with that.

Just stumbled upon your Chanel. Your positivity is a breath of fresh air for this community that can be so toxic.

"Investors" are honestly a bit of a plague on any hobby... I'm a life-long LEGO fan and was an MTG fan for a good while there (until WotC literally priced me out, lol) and just seeing people rabidly buy up TOYS so they can sit on it as "investments" breaks my heart. Amazing LEGO themes have become incredibly hard to get hold of in recent years (Adventurers and Rock Raiders doubling or tripling in price in months), and honestly... If I can get a good "fake" Chief, I'll just be happy. Happy to be able to get something I missed out on as a kid, and that "investors" priced me out of as an adult... And yeah, if there are any customs of fave SW characters that have become "investments", I'll be happy with those too! Also that Boba Fett is so rad, omg.

Lol, am just imaging this Lego investors in wojack meme crying " NOOOOOOOOOO, My ClOuD CiTy Boba Fett WiLl NoW LoSe ValUe !!!" ahaha.😂

I absolutely hate how Figures Prices Skyrocket when there's like 1 small difference

Your goal should be to have nice figures. Not rare ones

If you want to make money, get educated, start up an investment account, and start putting your money there. Like seriously, some people are going crazy over the idea that their UCS set *might* be worth a couple hundred extra 5 years from now... Start putting money into actual investment accounts where you'll be making thousands 10 years from now. Then buy whatever sets make you happy.

Some of these figures are going to need actual appraisals to determine if they are actually real

True words, seriously just collect for fun and for the things you like.. I get it when promo figures are like 200$+ because they are something special but the prices and this investor mentality is just so stupid rightnow..

I'm really sad about not being able to afford or find the variant fox anymore due to investors but i was thinking about how i could just sell my jonak fox torso for £400 because who would actually notice a difference? For the record I'm not going to do that I'm just pointing out how it's silly that theoretically I could and no one would even know the difference

Where does one find these pad printed copies? 👀

If people wanna only make money off of legos through investing, just go ahead and start investing into the stock market instead. Because you’re simply gonna make more money, and if people are only worried about the money and not the Lego, then they’re in the wrong hobby for trying to make money off of.

thats the risk you take if you hold onto it for too long. Old Harry Potter value plummeted after they started releasing sets in 2018. just part of the game. IMO you have to hold onto it as though youre willing to open and play with the set yourself

Im in it for the cool toys and not the "vaLuEU" i just want to build cool toys!

People forget that the biggest money hungriest investor of them all is lego themselves, if they see the opportunity to make money from figures in high demand they'll take it, new commander fox or captain rex

Yeah, I collect things because I like them and think they're cool. I didn’t get the 2002 Jango Fett minifigure *because* he's worth hundreds of dollars, I got him because he's a cool and unique minifigure that I always wanted since I first played the original Lego Star Wars video games. The fact he's worth money is just a bonus. I also got the entire Slave 1 set along with the carrying case for less than the figure by itself it going for these days. I admit I like knowing I got some rare figures or sets that are worth money, but I'm not gonna sell them so their monetary value doesn’t mean much to me besides "hey that's kinda neat I got something valuable". There are super valuable figures and sets that I don’t care enough to go out of my way to buy for the outrageous prices they go for. If I ever find a deal on them at a yard sale or marketplace post then I'll get them sure, but I'm never going to willingly drop thousands of dollars on some figures on Bricklink or Ebay.

I don’t want to see Lego become so futuristic that it doesn’t even look like Lego anymore. A bit of specialised printing on some figures is good but not on every figure. Less is more in some ways.

I try not to focus on the resale value and the ‘investing’ side of lego. I buy them because I want to, not because I want them because of their monetary value

I’m getting the boba fett mech. Upset that Star Wars is getting mechs while a dead theme like dc is still… just Batman (this is from a big Batman fan that has been collecting Batman sets since the original theme as a kid)

This video was refreshing, thank you. it's easy to start looking at just the money angle, but I got into Lego to enjoy it, not run a business.

I had no clue commander fox was valuable hahaha. He was my fave figure as a kid and I have him on display purely because I like him. Makes me think I should go through and check my figs for rare ones

Man you get subs quick, I subbed when you had 1.1K great vids!!

I totally agree with this. It seems like LEGO Star Wars has become all about investment these days. I can understand sellers wanting to make money, but this is still a toy at the end of the day. It’s cool to see LEGO give these newly updated and detailed minifigures in sets. I think all this investing attitude has taken away from the enjoyment of getting new and cool minifigures.

I wholeheartedly agree, it was so annoying seeing people complain when Rex was rumored to be in the swamp speeder just because "the 2013 one will lose value". However, I do think it's important to at least be aware of the value of certain items and how they will change. If you're able to notice when a figure's price is likely to rise, you can save a lot of money by buying it right away instead of waiting

I m just happy that I can enjoy a full printed Boba Fett fot cheap.

As someone who likes to sell parts of my current collection to fund new purchases, it does slightly urk me that my Boba will go down especially due to the insane price increases on some of the Star Wars figs lately that are being inflated due to this weird hypebeast era that Lego Star Wars has entered. I understand the argument for the custom pad printed route, but many like myself tend to stick to the official stuff only. I don’t really think everyone that is upset about this should be regarded as only caring about the value of their collection, but probably care about the exclusivity associated with the fig. But after all they are two different figures and I’m ultimately glad people can get their hands on an arm printed boba fett without selling a kidney lol.

“WAHHH! My $2000 figure is gonna go down by $10!!!” 😂😂

Well said. People put too much faith in "investing" hobbies, whether it be LEGO, baseball cards, or Beanie Babies.

Lego star wars 'fans' are entering Disney adult territory

Based; wish the boba figure had a cape

bro’s speaking straight facts

I been saying this. I know of at least 2 people that t making the original cloud city Boba and it looks exactly like the real one. Definitely isn't worth $2000

I don’t collect, I buy cool toys and build custom creations. I turned my Oola figure into Hera cause she’s too expensive, I don’t care that I don’t “have them all”. Customs are still very expensive but I’m fine with purist custom figures.

My complements good sir, you have more cents in your head than most star wars fans have in their wallet. ( Hopefully you get the joke 🤣) but thank you so much for saying something that needed to be said.

Agree fully. I’m really glad Jangbricks gave a positive look at the mechs. They’re just toys, they’re not really for the adult market. Then you look at communities embarrassing themselves like mandr whining about LEGO not considering investment. I’d rather they didn’t??

Cloud City Boba Fett 10123 is one of my all time favorite minifigure. I love that it has a very old nostalgic feeling because I grew up with the LEGO games with my little sister, and my big brother. Boba Fett in that old 2000’s style with awesome legs and arms printing is insane. Obviously it is way too expensive for me and I try every way to find one for cheap, but that figure always has a special place in my heart. Collecting it for only its price is what I would refer to as bad.

Exactly I whole heartedly agree I’m super exited to get the boba fett Lego including amazing figures in cheap sets is the best!

I don’t care about value I just care about the sets and minifigures I only try to sell stuff if I don’t care about. I always wanted the arm printed Boba Fett and I finally have my chance. I always found the old Cloud City Boba Fett price baffling since the new mini figure is cheaper and better than the old version since your paying more for a worst figure same with misprints. I agree some that some rare figs look cool but I don’t have any point to get them. The set I always wanted was the 2012 Jabba’s Palace and nothing else. Just wish people can experience what they wanted instead waste their money on something that they don’t care about.

Minifigures are for collecting. If you’re investing, it should be in sealed sets that people will want in the future. In a way, you’re preserving the hobby, and that’s respectable. I can’t imagine buying up dozens of individual minifigures and sitting on them for years. It’s just silly.

It’s people like that, causing Lego to both increase in price, and release exclusive minifigs in expensive sets, because Lego can hike up the price of a set, just so people will pay excess on something that takes the same amount of money to produce as a standard Clone Trooper minifig. I think Lego releasing these sets is giving modern kids access to figures that I had to wait for something like Christmas to get, for cheap, which is just great. And yeah, if I want to exploit those cheap prices to pick up toys built for children, in my mid 20s without heavily affecting my paycheck, well that’s a win too.

No joke I came home from school today, sat down and was like I wanna a new MayDayFigs vide 😂

one of my favourite figures i own is my boba fett from the anniversary slave 1 and im just happy i can finally get one with arm printing without paying upwards of £100

not just all that, but i feel people should be happy if lets say the spongebob theme came back for example. im not gonna sit here and get mad that the old figures might lose value- more people get to own and enjoy lego figures that theyve wanted for years! why would i complain lmao

Finally someone said it

Im definitely buying bobas mech and alot of those stormtrooper mechs, not a cheap army builder, but its a nice feeling to have alot of storm trooper figures

Earl Sweatshirt W

I also almost made this mistake. I mean $200-$300 for a figure just doesn't make sense. I literally picked up a Sabine wren with helmet pad printed on official lego for $7 and I couldn't be happier with her. Saved me over $170. Buy the figs to enjoy!

Men wanting a minifig only cause its expensive are like women liking a man only cause hes rich..

Honestly amazed at how fast you have grown, here before 1k subs, now you have 9k

Get a grip Be real guys I’m just going to wait for the fake to come out🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🙅‍♂️😂

If the quality goes up and the price goes down, I’m happy.

Honestly Im happy if my for example AT-TE largely appreciates in value thats cool. But if it doesnt I now still have 2 amazing AT-TEs on my shelve and some 212th with them.

Finally someone said it. I hate RU-vidrs who are only in on the money and make videos about "SeTs YoU NEeD tO InVEsT iN". Lego is a fucking toy, and those people are exactly the reason why some sets like the Clone Figure pack are sold out constantly because they're buying them in bulk to sell them off at a higher price later on. sad little creatures, really

Hot take, but LEGO investors actually ruin LEGO. They buy new sets, LEGO sells out, and hard working Joe who wanted to buy the set to build together with his son is either forced to wait until LEGO MAYBE gets back in stock, if he isn’t too slow to purchase then, or resort to buying it from someone who is going to upcharge. It’s so ironic how these are treated. Cars that drive off the lot go down in value. Never mind being test driven, just the fact that it’s been purchased and leaves the perimeter, it goes down in value. An unopened box of plastic? Oooh, now that’s better after leaving the store. If anything, it should be less valuable since some clown breathed on it, making it more of a heath risk than getting it from a store where an entire company is liable, not just one person who can fake an identity with ease and avoid consequence. Of course, its thanks to supply and demand that LEGO sells for as much as it does in the aftermarket. As long as people keep seeing how much some sets or parts have sold for, they want to try their luck at catching a desperate buyer.

Marvel fan here. I’ve loved LEGO for longer than I can remember. As a teen, I spent time reading Marvel comics and buying the sets and figures I liked for my enjoyment. I didn’t do it to resell on some grossly, falsely over-inflated market. It’s still a toy at the end of the day, I don’t see a reason to justify spending thousands on older figures when the brand new $16 sets come with better, overall more accurate ones.

Earlier this summer when rumors of a new jabba’s palace started circulating I saw a ton of comments of people complaining that their 2013 jabba was going to decrease in value. Absolutely pathetic.

Bro cooking with this one

To be fair, every once in a while, there’s a one off set of something that you just know it’s gonna be worth something in the future, like the Tallneck, I bought it for 80$ and got it shipped from Amazon, two weeks later it was worth $200 and people were selling their Aloy figures for the base price of the set, unless they ever release a horizon set again (which is pretty unlikely) the worth of that figure and that set in general will never go down, but you can’t be buying Star Wars sets and expect to get anything out of it in the long run, unless you had sets from the early 2000’s

I never understood the monetary focus of collecting or the idea of wanting certain figures to not be updated or remade because it preserves that perceived "value" of the "rare" one you have. I honestly wish every LEGO fan had the opportunity to own the figures that they desire most. It's the love of the artful nature of LEGO. These mechs are great for the child who wants a Darth Vader (who rarely appears in cheap sets these days), and the adult who gets a very detailed Boba Fett. Like, these are just plastic toys at the end of the day. They degrade, they break, and they get remade so that other people get a chance to own something they missed out on in the past, to better fill out their collection. Plus, if you REALLY care about the uniqueness of your figures, remakes of figures are almost never the same as the old.

Ive always found investors who only do such for its own sake to be nothing but leeches on whatever hobby theyre in. Lego, tcgs, tf2 hats, any collectible, if you arent actively enjoying what you buy for its own sake, but instead for its monetary value, i actually hate you. You make cool things prohbitively hard to get. I actively laugh in glee when something gets printed that reduces the value for investors, especially if its something in favor of casual fans, because it always makes things healthier overall.

considering I got the new cloud city boba fett for 100$, I still think that the fig would be worth that much regardless of this new variant. I only care about the value as long as the figs I buy for a certain amount don't suddenly just drop in value to way less than what I bought them for, and I got that boba no less than a few weeks ago so i'd prefer it doesn't just suddenly drop. I doubt that will happen since the simple fact is that this new fig isn't a carbon copy and the new CC boba's rarity won't change, thus meaning its price isn't gonna drop.

Had to leave one more comment, forgot to say this but is funny you come out with this cus just last week I was sitting down holding my P2 Rex and I was like when they come out with the new one your value will go down, I was sad but then I was like hay I own this minifigure because I think he is cool and not cus of his value, that was a big reality check for me.

2:52 THIS

Preach

More importantly, if you are focusing on the value of LEGO only, you are taking the fun out of LEGO!

Great video, just curious why has Mexico changed the perception of the value of figures?

Most of this behavior is like a drug addiction, jumbled with greed and pride. No matter if its Lego or some other collecting hobby.

The whole fun in lego investing is that even if the set value tanks, you're still left with a pretty cool Lego set. I think a lot of collectors forget that and only buy sets that they think are good investments, not stuff they actually want.

The head is different anyways, it’s pretty clear from the pics.

True, this is good for me, who just wants to animate lego for fun

So I SHOULDN’T buy an extra republic tank to resell later? 🤔