he's a collector who posts his rare lego collection on insta, he went on pawn stars knowing he'd get lowballed and had no intention to sell, he was just a fan of the show and wanted to be on it
What's wrong with that, though? I'm sure a lot of people would do that. I got entertained for a few minutes and got to see some more Star Wars stuff I'd otherwise never probably get to.
That’s a lot of people that come in and ask ridiculous prices for their stuff. It’s about the exposure they will receive for when they place them in an auction.
He’s done too much drugs… speech getting blurry and he’s aged 10 years at least in the past few years. It’s actually really sad. Hopefully he realize’s to stay clean.
Just once, I'd like to see the expert ask "Can i give it a look?", guy tells him "Yeah" and then the expert claws open the original package like how an 8 year old would and just start playing with the toy.
@@thesadwolf yeah it kinda sucks being that it's the most unnatural part of the show by far and obviously just in there to keep the history channel deal
Haha the show is fake and so are their experts..... go watch the Stan Lee funko pop signed rare the expert said was fake and totally got torched in the comments. They are shit but those are not worth half a million
I mean, knowing the deep pockets of some Lego Star Wars fans, and the fact that a widely released set like the dropship and AT-OT can sell for upwards of 2k AUD, sealed, then a 1 of 1 item would be worth over 250k each to the right collector.
That guy was really shooting for the moon. There was a woman who brought in a solid gold heavy chain that belonged to Elvis & it was only worth about $75k.
Corey don't play big money for toys period. When that guy said those numbers I said forget that this is Corey. Lol it's why he didn't negotiate. If it had been a motorcycle, Corey would definitely had asked what's your best price. Poor guy I think just wanted to get it on tv to get a buyer elsewhere.
@@krismetzger4158 No all the rare ones are usually from winning competitions only. This collector has actually went out of his way to find the winners to buy off them
That’s why these 1/1s are so hard to put price tags on. I own a rare piece with only one other known instance and I paid $200 for it, but that’s because I’m a collector. To the average person, $200 for what I paid for would be insane.
Very true. May I remind everyone that money is on paper. It's worth is only what the number the ink says. People work hard to get as much of it as possible.
Yep as a car guy and a gun collector you're 100 percent correct. I have a 74 Ford Maverick Grabber, Medium Bright Blue Metallic with Medium Blue interior. of the 23,000 Grabbers made in 74' with all the options mine had And that paint and interior color, there was one. mine. It's probably a 12K dollar car after I have it repainted the original color and it's mint. Like my father taught me about gun collecting, "Just because it's rare doesn't mean it's worth a lot".
Lol this guy had no intention of selling those. Pat Contri did the same thing with his Nintendo NWC cartridges. Some people just like to flex what they have.
For a fake pawn shop show. This was probably a closer offer from a real pawn shop. Lol. If you try an liquidate. 200k item they will only offer 1/4 the value.
Alec Guinness' kids and grandkids are set for life. His original contract with Lucasfilms was a smaller paycheck in exchange for a small percentage of all licensing items sold. That's probably making who ever inherited his film rights around 20-50 million in cash every year. Possibly even around 100 million when a new movie is released. I think it was like 1.5%. I'm just gonna throw out some numbers. Let's say Disney releases a new Star Wars toy for $20, 1.5% of $20 is 0.3. So they'd be getting $0.30 every time that toy sold. Let's say 150,000 of that toy is sold. That's $45,000, minus taxes. And that's just one single toy, remember it's for the entire Star Wars franchise.
Corey totally embodies his Dad here, mannerisms are almost indistinguishable. Growing up watching the show with my dad, I’m almost certain Rick gets emotional when he watches his progression. It’s so rare these days to watch 3 generations of family (RIP Old Man) all in business together till the end.
He didn’t even ask where he got them. 2 very rare Lego mini figures in his own personal collection and he wasn’t very old either. That’s a a set up if ever I’ve seen one
Watching this show is entertaining. It's either the seller looking to make bank and retire in the bahamas only to find out they've got to keep working another decade... or Pawn Stars being like, "I see this is worth $100,000. Tell you what, I'll buy this from you for 100 bucks cash and sell it later for massive profit, sound good?"
I think Corey meant video games at the beginning, not movies. Lego Star Wars was one of the first big Lego video games, and its success basically ignited the Lego video game craze.
If I had $ 500,000 I would spend it on a nice home with some land. I can live a home, I cant live inside the figures. This reminded me when they sold the original comic book page of the first appearance the alien symbiote from the Secret Wars comic book. My dad even thought the price was too much. But, when you have so much money, dropping this kind of money means nothing. At the end of the day, it's your money, spend it on what you want.
There he would get an offer of $80 for both, while seth and ashley argue that it was $75 dollars more than they should pay, an over weight lady trying the stripper pole and les saying they had leggos back at his dads shop he used to play with while a cop got shot. Followed up by the seller getting thrown out and dropping them on the ground outside.
There’s only one way to find out what it’s really worth…put it to auction. It’s only “worth” what someone will pay for it. And since they’re 1-of-1s, that’s worth will only be determined when it meets his threshold. Pretty damn cool collectible, though-and I think he could get way more than $50K for that pair. Eventually, I bet it will sell for what he asked.
I can tell you now a million dollars worth of lego is not unheard of in the Lego market with many large sellers on Bricklink having stocks worth several times that on sale all the time so I'm sure one of them will gladly buy these from you as an investment.
The seller didn't want to sell. He wanted to go on the show and claim the figures are worth $250k each, and then send them to auction and point to the show. The expert burst his bubble.
Why would you ever sell these unless you were in urgent need of a lot of money? It's not like they even take up much space. They only get more valuable with time.
Only for as long as people are still alive who were around when the original films came out. As that generation ages out, the prices will tumble. Another 20 year opportunity window (max).
@@david05111 collectible action figures often sell for prices even above that, I agree that it's a little preposterous, however the president has been said that people are willing to pay these prices
It’s always silly because the experts are always gonna price things low so if the pawn shop buys them, they can buy them off the pawn shop right away for cheap lol
Rigged? It's not a competition.. If you mean scripted, then yes, partially. The sellers are real. They apply to be on the show with their items, and then they make a segment out of it.
I failed math classes a few times but those numbers just don't add up. Why would the dude willingly give up a gold mine for only $50k. I started collecting, building and selling legos a few years back and man-o-man. You wouldn't believe the amount of cash people are willing to spend on rare mini-figures and sets.
Tuesday January 16th, 2024 I used to own legos back in my childhood that I kept until 2018. In September of 2018 I threw away ALL of my lego sets in the trash can because I threw away their respective box when I was in elementary school.
I'm aware that the briefing of the lego history is for the viewer and not the seller - but the look this kid had while listening was hilarious! He didn't give a single SHIT
