{"id":981,"date":"2008-12-15T23:35:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/?p=981"},"modified":"2008-12-18T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T01:56:08","slug":"lego-as-collector-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/12\/15\/lego-as-collector-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego as collector items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a kid always a kid&#8230;. I have liked Lego&#8217;s ever since I can remember getting my first set way long time ago.. So I was out looking at amazon to see what they have come up with now days. To my surprise I saw a couple of sets that I have gotten recently. It seems that they are no longer sold by lego, and therefore are extremely expensive collector items&#8230; The plane I got at a local Target a year or so ago, at the time it was $49.99.. Now it is selling on amazon for yes, $329.99.. The train set, I recieved as a gift&#8230; It is now $300.00. I thought amazon was screwed up so I went around and looked at some other sites, and they too list these items for that much. and to prove it seeing is believing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LEGO-4283140-LEGO%C2%AE-Passenger-Plane\/dp\/B000A32OCO\/ref=sr_1_44?ie=UTF8&amp;s=toys-and-games&amp;qid=1229397605&amp;sr=8-44\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-983\" title=\"picture-4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-4.png\" alt=\"picture-4\" width=\"805\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-4.png 805w, https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-4-300x105.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LEGO-4511-High-Speed-Train\/dp\/B0006N8X6E\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=toys-and-games&amp;qid=1229398577&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-982\" title=\"picture-5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-5.png\" alt=\"picture-5\" width=\"804\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-5.png 804w, https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-5-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>not even done looking yet, and found the same plane offered by the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/7893-LEGO-City-Passenger-Plane\/dp\/B000BVKSAK\/ref=sr_1_295?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A2FKHJLY04N3SH&amp;s=toys-and-games&amp;qid=1229399016&amp;sr=1-295\">third party people for $699.99<\/a> wow, just wow&#8230; $700.00 for something that not a year ago was $49.99. And in the 2 minutes it took me to type this and do another search for the train, it went up almost $200. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LEGO-4511-High-Speed-Train\/dp\/B0006N8X6E\/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A2FKHJLY04N3SH&amp;s=toys-and-games&amp;qid=1229399254&amp;sr=1-18\">It is now $499.99.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a kid always a kid&#8230;. I have liked Lego&#8217;s ever since I can remember getting my first set way long time ago.. So I was out looking at amazon to see what they have come up with now days. To my surprise I saw a couple of sets that I have gotten recently. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/12\/15\/lego-as-collector-items\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lego as collector items&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[484,82],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff","tag-random-stuff","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}