Release the plums - lol! I know that sentiment. I love this list. For me it was the yellow construction helmet - only in two obscure train sets in 1978 - then brought back in 2010. I had paid $30 for mine and you can get them for less than 5 cents now. Fortunately though - I know mine are the actual 70s version which has a very minor mold difference.
Oh wow! That's so interesting! I love learning stuff like that! You would think a yellow construction hat would have been very common! I know what you mean about the mold differences. I marked my yellow 1x2 channel bricks from the Public Works Center as vintage in my BL Store so people would know they are the 80s version and not the 2020s version.
Hello there. Have you ever seen the Lego cone piece #6039 in blue? I was going through a bin of used Lego bricks and came across this piece wrapped in a ziplock bag.
Really interesting how pieces can go decades between releases in certain colors. I wonder if set designers are ever aware of these rare part/color combos and try and find a way to work them back into newer sets?
I love videos like this! I wish they had re-released the 1x8x2 arch in Dark Blue. I just paid $42 for 3 so I could finish parting together Market Street (10190)
I have heard designers were aware of AFOLs obsession with goats and tried to find a way to bring them back. I think it took a couple years but they managed it!
I don't know about parts in a specific color, but I know lego destroys moulds every 5 years if they're not used, and designers will work in closer-to-end-of-life parts if they can to keep them alive so to speak.
I'm reconstructing sets from the childhood in the 70's and it's amazing how some parts that seemed ubiquitous back then are rare, and I pay through the nose for them now!
Cool List! It's interesting how LEGO does part and color combinations. So if a part in a color is in "Stock" or currently being produced then production of that part is cheaper. If the part existed in that color but not in stock or in production, then it cost LEGO more, sort of. And parts that where never produced in a color means they have to create a new ID number, more "COST"? OR so I have been told, and gets a meeting at LEGO to get approved. So a part brought back to life after decades of not being in that color probably generated a meeting at LEGO, and that makes me smile... LOL
Every company want's to reduce it sku count. Each sku requires an additional color change in production and inventory space. Adding another sku requires someone to justify adding the new part. If a company keeps adding sku's, then at some point they have to add another warehouse to store them. For every person at Lego trying to get a new part/color combination added, there are most likely two people trying to eliminate a part.
I own the Black Pearl from 2011 and for the longest time the Part 64647 Plume Feather in Black was exclusive to that set. I remember the price of it being anywhere between $12-$15. They rereleased it in 2022 and it devalued it significantly to like $0.20! Such a bummer but the use of that part now is great, especially for the Madam Pince figure for Harry Potter.
Partsing things together... I wanted to make a stargate display, complete with jaffa, and I found lego 'Anubis' minifig parts... I got a few heads and torsos, not cheap, and the legs were $10 a piece I think? Might have been more.... and the print on the legs was so basic... I just got plain black legs. You really can't tell the difference. Hope you find your blue feather at a good price some day 💙
Two of them for me were the white lightsaber hilt and inquisitor hilt. Both used to command fairly high prices being exclusive to only a few sets - sets including Jek-14 and Inquisitor minifigs, respectively. Now they've released them in a lot more.
Dark blue 4x8 and 6x8 plates used to be crazy expensive. I gave up piecing together a 10187 VW Beetle years ago because of it. Now they're back I finally got it finished lol.
I recently was putting together a 6989 mega core magnetizer, and needed the black dish. I didn’t realize this part was rare at one time. By the looks of the scuffed up one I ended up with it must be original from the early 90’s. The reason I got a 6989 was because of you and a video you had of one, thanks.
I always love it when I'm happily building in BL Studio and go to look at the cost only to find that some piece is $23 because it was only in one set in the 90s. A 1x1 clear cone and some 1x6 green tiles were the latest to bite me. But getting 26604 in reddish brown last year was amazing for recreating brick buildings. The Lego overlords give and they take...
This is happening currently with the 1x6 tile in green! It only came out in one very uncommon set in 2009, and then wasn’t seen again until just this January when it showed up in the new Technic Mack electric garbage truck. The Bricklink price guide tells a story of the value dropping a lot since January.
For those of us who focus on sets and minifigs that contain bricks found in light gray, dark gray and brown, rather than the bluish grays and red brown, the reissued pieces are a headache. There are a lot of sellers out there that don’t know, or just don’t care, about the correct color or casting marks. I’ve got a bins of hip and leg assemblies and torsos that were sold as both “vintage and correct” and were neither, and don’t get me started on the yellow construction helmet or seamless legs. I appreciate you helping educate the community.
The 1x1 sand blue plate was MIA for 20 years from 2003 (Knockturn Alley, 4720) to 2023, when it came back in the Disney Castle, Ninjago City Markets, and Fantastical Tree House. It is also available on PaB now. These used to be going for like $5 each (!!). Also the 2x4 tile in Dark Green was exclusive to the Owen & Blue BrickHeadz set (41614) in 2018 but randomly showed up in PaB in 2023. These also used to be like $5+ on Bricklink.
Apart of enjoyments I got form whathing your vintage LEGO sets and get to know about LEGO befor I start buy them , your videos gave information and knowledge and always learning something new. great video 👍🏼 thank you Stacey 👋🏼
Part 43888 (Support 1x1x1x6 Solid Pillar) in Dark Blue just came back in a Ninjago set after more than a decade. A lot of AFOLs will be happy, since that piece is needed to build the Café Corner.
The 2 x 2 inverted dish in transparent yellow. First appeared in two Classic Space sets from 1986, two parts packs from 1989 and 1991, then was not seen again until last year (2023) in some Star Wars set. That's a 37 year hiatus between official sets. Was commanding a price of between 5 to 6 USD. Now the cheapest one can pick it up for is USD 4 cents!!
The light bluish gray lever from the 1st UCS Falcon was one such piece for quite awhile. Now they are readily available. I vaguely recall them being in the $4-8 range.
I'm not a seller, but I buy a lot of Lego parts, and this video was very interesting! I am very impressed with your Lego knowledge! Super nice video! 👍
This is a cool idea for a video. When I first got back into LEGO I was fascinated by the color and price distributions. I have some of those lil sand green stud pieces, it’s a nice color I can imagine it demanding a high price once upon a time.
I wish LEGO would bring back 2466 Panel 3 x 2 x 6 in transparent yellow. It's essential for Blacktron as well as Classic Space. I could really go for an abundance of these cheap. MOCS > Collecting
I would love for more plumes to be released lol. Another example of a part is the 2x2 corner plate in sand green. It was only released in 5 sets between 2000-2011, and most of them came in the Statue of Liberty and UCS Yoda sets, so a rare part. I was finishing completing a UCS Yoda and needed a few to complete the set, paid almost $2 per piece! Now it’s since been released in many sets since 2020 with the reintroduction in the Boba Fett helmet set and more. 😅 they also lost about 90% of their value
Great, I love videos like this. Thanks for expanding my part knowledge. Even a basic piece like Plate 2x12 in yellow Part (2445) seems very rare in these days.
@@merijnvanschaik4989 Yeah, which makes the potentially very valuable. 1x16 Technic yellow bricks are at least 14 years by now, and could be about 25+ from when they were abundant
The minifig construction helmet (part 3833) in yellow was rare after the original release in two trainsets in 1978 and already discontinued in 1980 until rereleased in many different sets since 2010. I remember prices on Bricklink up to $75.00 a piece in (compared to $0.02 a piece in red). Now the price for a yellow piece have dropped to as low as $0.03
As an avid collector of knights and pirate sets in the late 80's and early 90's I had soooooo many of those white feather plumes. Had no idea I was sitting on a goldmine!
How about the 1x1 technic brick with hole in orange... needed two to improve a city recycle truck, but not for $1 each! Ended up buying new Gobricks parts, they are a 100% replacement.
There's the dark blue pillar that was only found in the Café Corner, a spongebob set and a bionicle set, I got them for like 9€ a piece I think but this year they re-released it in a Ninjago temple so the value might have dropped.
Nice video. I bought the forestmen set 6066 and it came without the black feather :( Some parts that i could finally get because they were remade : part 3685 slope 75 2x2x3 dubble convex in black part 30044 Window 1 x 2 x 2 2/3 with Rounded Top in black, just returned in 2023 ! Remember when the stone masonry 1x2 brick in light bluish gray so expensive I could just affort to buy a few :) Still hoping for part 3688 (Slope 75 2 x 2 x 2 Quadruple Convex in black) to return...
Good video and interesting topic! My strange discovery is the UCS General Grievous set. There are white parts unique to the set that seem like they'd be extremely common.
I wonder if they re-release the goat this the nougat patches. It's in white in that mini figure series now, but in the other colour it's still 50 CHF used.
Yeah, Lego needs to re-release the mini plumes in black and the dragon plumes in white. I refuse to pay $35 for a single plume but would love to make my 6086 complete.
I found this video interesting too. I wonder though if I should get my prototype bricks PSA case sealed and dated before they're released in official sets.
Release the plums - lol! I know that sentiment. I love this list. For me it was the yellow construction helmet - only in two obscure train sets in 1978 - then brought back in 2010. I had paid $30 for mine and you can get them for less than 5 cents now. Fortunately though - I know mine are the actual 70s version which has a very minor mold difference.
Oh wow! That's so interesting! I love learning stuff like that! You would think a yellow construction hat would have been very common! I know what you mean about the mold differences. I marked my yellow 1x2 channel bricks from the Public Works Center as vintage in my BL Store so people would know they are the 80s version and not the 2020s version.
Hey @ jaabo
I think I may have bought from you over the years. The name sounds familiar. Cool to see a face behind the store for once.
Hello there. Have you ever seen the Lego cone piece #6039 in blue? I was going through a bin of used Lego bricks and came across this piece wrapped in a ziplock bag.
Really interesting how pieces can go decades between releases in certain colors. I wonder if set designers are ever aware of these rare part/color combos and try and find a way to work them back into newer sets?
That would be interesting to know! I definitely think if I was a designer I would do that! 😂😂
I love videos like this!
I wish they had re-released the 1x8x2 arch in Dark Blue. I just paid $42 for 3 so I could finish parting together Market Street (10190)
Oh my goodness, that is expensive! But worth it for such an iconic set! @@yesiKenn
I have heard designers were aware of AFOLs obsession with goats and tried to find a way to bring them back. I think it took a couple years but they managed it!
I don't know about parts in a specific color, but I know lego destroys moulds every 5 years if they're not used, and designers will work in closer-to-end-of-life parts if they can to keep them alive so to speak.
I'm reconstructing sets from the childhood in the 70's and it's amazing how some parts that seemed ubiquitous back then are rare, and I pay through the nose for them now!
i wanna see more weird parts vids lol this was fun
Lol! Awesome, I’ll get to work! 😂
Cool List! It's interesting how LEGO does part and color combinations. So if a part in a color is in "Stock" or currently being produced then production of that part is cheaper. If the part existed in that color but not in stock or in production, then it cost LEGO more, sort of. And parts that where never produced in a color means they have to create a new ID number, more "COST"? OR so I have been told, and gets a meeting at LEGO to get approved. So a part brought back to life after decades of not being in that color probably generated a meeting at LEGO, and that makes me smile... LOL
Every company want's to reduce it sku count. Each sku requires an additional color change in production and inventory space. Adding another sku requires someone to justify adding the new part. If a company keeps adding sku's, then at some point they have to add another warehouse to store them. For every person at Lego trying to get a new part/color combination added, there are most likely two people trying to eliminate a part.
I own the Black Pearl from 2011 and for the longest time the Part 64647 Plume Feather in Black was exclusive to that set. I remember the price of it being anywhere between $12-$15. They rereleased it in 2022 and it devalued it significantly to like $0.20! Such a bummer but the use of that part now is great, especially for the Madam Pince figure for Harry Potter.
I have 4195 Queen Anne's Revenge. The plume feather in dark tan is still $50+. It's the entire value of the Angelica minifig.
Partsing things together...
I wanted to make a stargate display, complete with jaffa, and I found lego 'Anubis' minifig parts... I got a few heads and torsos, not cheap, and the legs were $10 a piece I think? Might have been more.... and the print on the legs was so basic...
I just got plain black legs. You really can't tell the difference.
Hope you find your blue feather at a good price some day 💙
Two of them for me were the white lightsaber hilt and inquisitor hilt. Both used to command fairly high prices being exclusive to only a few sets - sets including Jek-14 and Inquisitor minifigs, respectively. Now they've released them in a lot more.
Dark blue 4x8 and 6x8 plates used to be crazy expensive. I gave up piecing together a 10187 VW Beetle years ago because of it. Now they're back I finally got it finished lol.
I recently was putting together a 6989 mega core magnetizer, and needed the black dish. I didn’t realize this part was rare at one time. By the looks of the scuffed up one I ended up with it must be original from the early 90’s. The reason I got a 6989 was because of you and a video you had of one, thanks.
I always love it when I'm happily building in BL Studio and go to look at the cost only to find that some piece is $23 because it was only in one set in the 90s. A 1x1 clear cone and some 1x6 green tiles were the latest to bite me. But getting 26604 in reddish brown last year was amazing for recreating brick buildings. The Lego overlords give and they take...
This is happening currently with the 1x6 tile in green! It only came out in one very uncommon set in 2009, and then wasn’t seen again until just this January when it showed up in the new Technic Mack electric garbage truck. The Bricklink price guide tells a story of the value dropping a lot since January.
*Clutches my stash of Sand Blue 1x4 tiles* 😦😨 Don't do it, LEGO!
Lol! You just never know! 😂😅
the tan 30165 was very expensive because was only in the 5986, but now they are everywhere
For those of us who focus on sets and minifigs that contain bricks found in light gray, dark gray and brown, rather than the bluish grays and red brown, the reissued pieces are a headache. There are a lot of sellers out there that don’t know, or just don’t care, about the correct color or casting marks. I’ve got a bins of hip and leg assemblies and torsos that were sold as both “vintage and correct” and were neither, and don’t get me started on the yellow construction helmet or seamless legs. I appreciate you helping educate the community.
The 1x1 sand blue plate was MIA for 20 years from 2003 (Knockturn Alley, 4720) to 2023, when it came back in the Disney Castle, Ninjago City Markets, and Fantastical Tree House. It is also available on PaB now. These used to be going for like $5 each (!!). Also the 2x4 tile in Dark Green was exclusive to the Owen & Blue BrickHeadz set (41614) in 2018 but randomly showed up in PaB in 2023. These also used to be like $5+ on Bricklink.
Apart of enjoyments I got form whathing your vintage LEGO sets and get to know about LEGO befor I start buy them , your videos gave information and knowledge and always learning something new. great video 👍🏼 thank you Stacey 👋🏼
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching! 😊
Part 43888 (Support 1x1x1x6 Solid Pillar) in Dark Blue just came back in a Ninjago set after more than a decade. A lot of AFOLs will be happy, since that piece is needed to build the Café Corner.
Super interesting video -- would love to see more cool and obscure parts/facts/bricklink oddities 👍
Thank you! I’ll definitely try to make more! 😊
The 2 x 2 inverted dish in transparent yellow. First appeared in two Classic Space sets from 1986, two parts packs from 1989 and 1991, then was not seen again until last year (2023) in some Star Wars set. That's a 37 year hiatus between official sets. Was commanding a price of between 5 to 6 USD. Now the cheapest one can pick it up for is USD 4 cents!!
Great video, more, please! 👍
Thank so much! I’ll start making more lists! 😂
@@ForBricksandGiggles Splendid! 😉
The light bluish gray lever from the 1st UCS Falcon was one such piece for quite awhile. Now they are readily available. I vaguely recall them being in the $4-8 range.
The light bluish gray rigging used to be $100 each for many years. They're on PAB now for $2.25.
I'm not a seller, but I buy a lot of Lego parts, and this video was very interesting!
I am very impressed with your Lego knowledge! Super nice video! 👍
I’m glad you found it interesting! Thanks so much for watching! 😁
this is awesome! Hopefully they continue to bring back bricks so everyone can have the bricks they want
This is a cool idea for a video. When I first got back into LEGO I was fascinated by the color and price distributions. I have some of those lil sand green stud pieces, it’s a nice color I can imagine it demanding a high price once upon a time.
I wish LEGO would bring back 2466 Panel 3 x 2 x 6 in transparent yellow. It's essential for Blacktron as well as Classic Space. I could really go for an abundance of these cheap. MOCS > Collecting
Well let’s not be mean to people who enjoy collecting sets! MOCs and collecting are equally fun 😭
@@ForBricksandGiggles I should have said for me*
I would love for more plumes to be released lol. Another example of a part is the 2x2 corner plate in sand green. It was only released in 5 sets between 2000-2011, and most of them came in the Statue of Liberty and UCS Yoda sets, so a rare part. I was finishing completing a UCS Yoda and needed a few to complete the set, paid almost $2 per piece! Now it’s since been released in many sets since 2020 with the reintroduction in the Boba Fett helmet set and more. 😅 they also lost about 90% of their value
That's crazy! I don't know why but I always find stuff like this fascinating!
Public Works center was my first lego as a kid. Now I am gonna have to piece that back together. Thanks for the memories.
Super interesting!!
I’m glad you thought so! 😁
Great, I love videos like this. Thanks for expanding my part knowledge. Even a basic piece like Plate 2x12 in yellow Part (2445) seems very rare in these days.
I love these videos with some history on off the wall parts/topics! That 80's child in me gets giddy!!
1x16 Technic Brick in Yellow. Not released since 2010. Value going up
Quite often used in early technic sets, though.
@@merijnvanschaik4989 Yeah, which makes the potentially very valuable. 1x16 Technic yellow bricks are at least 14 years by now, and could be about 25+ from when they were abundant
The minifig construction helmet (part 3833) in yellow was rare after the original release in two trainsets in 1978 and already discontinued in 1980 until rereleased in many different sets since 2010. I remember prices on Bricklink up to $75.00 a piece in (compared to $0.02 a piece in red). Now the price for a yellow piece have dropped to as low as $0.03
Oh no. Now, I have to sell my rare plumes before Lego takes Stacey's advice 😀
Hahaha I don’t think you have anything to worry about, they don’t care about my ideas! 😂😂
As an avid collector of knights and pirate sets in the late 80's and early 90's I had soooooo many of those white feather plumes.
Had no idea I was sitting on a goldmine!
How about the 1x1 technic brick with hole in orange... needed two to improve a city recycle truck, but not for $1 each!
Ended up buying new Gobricks parts, they are a 100% replacement.
Very interesting. I'd never seen the black barrel before. Definitely have a few ideas for that now
Bring back the black feather from the Forestmen cap! No reason why they can’t use it for quills in HP
Dark tan feather ploom is extremely expensive too. From Radagast and one woman from Pirates of the Caribean.
There's the dark blue pillar that was only found in the Café Corner, a spongebob set and a bionicle set, I got them for like 9€ a piece I think but this year they re-released it in a Ninjago temple so the value might have dropped.
Great video thanks for the info have a great weekend 😁
not a reseller myself but i loved this video and i hope there’s a follow up soon :D
Nice video.
I bought the forestmen set 6066 and it came without the black feather :(
Some parts that i could finally get because they were remade :
part 3685 slope 75 2x2x3 dubble convex in black
part 30044 Window 1 x 2 x 2 2/3 with Rounded Top in black, just returned in 2023 !
Remember when the stone masonry 1x2 brick in light bluish gray so expensive I could just affort to buy a few :)
Still hoping for part 3688 (Slope 75 2 x 2 x 2 Quadruple Convex in black) to return...
Yes! Release a plumes pack!!!
Good video and interesting topic! My strange discovery is the UCS General Grievous set. There are white parts unique to the set that seem like they'd be extremely common.
agreed on feather plumes. also if we're saying things we'd like to see come back, please restore the OG castle doors!
I wonder if they re-release the goat this the nougat patches. It's in white in that mini figure series now, but in the other colour it's still 50 CHF used.
I was parting out a brickheads disney beast set lastnight, check out the price of his ears. dark orange 1x1 plate with tooth.
Cool list
Yeah, Lego needs to re-release the mini plumes in black and the dragon plumes in white. I refuse to pay $35 for a single plume but would love to make my 6086 complete.
What a cool idea for a video!
Really interesting content well presented
Hallo from the Czech Republic ❤️
I found this video interesting too. I wonder though if I should get my prototype bricks PSA case sealed and dated before they're released in official sets.
Thank you! And it probably couldn’t hurt 😅😅
That 1x2 with channel now in black or dark bluish gray… 6$ each -_-
Hey I have that boat and that castle bridge in the background
When we will make a petition for plums? 😀
This is the kind of information I need
It should be called a tanana. 😁
Interesting information. Didn't know that. Greetings from Germany
yet there have been _no_ other sets with any dark tan 2 x 10 plates since 2014...
This hair is amazing.
They sorta shoot themselves in the foot doing this right?
Then again considering the prices of certain sents that my son could never afford...
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What??? LEGO and worthless in the same sentence? Blasphemy! 😂
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