Brick by Brick Brilliance LEGO bricks are the building blocks of childhood. Yet they are far from child's play. LEGO sets are fast becoming a hot commodity with collectors worldwide for fun and profit. Abundantly visual, informative and detailed, The Ultimate Guide to Collectible LEGO Sets is the definitive reference to more than 2,000 of the most collectible sets on the secondary market, illustrating the incredible value of LEGO bricks, not only from an entertainment and educational standpoint, but also as an investment. Consider a Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon, which sold at retail for $500, is now selling for more than $3,500 on the secondary market. The Ultimate Guide to Collectible LEGO Sets features: • More than 25 top themes, including Advanced Models, Batman, Ideas/Cuusoo, Star Wars UCS and non-UCS sets, Technic, Trains, and Vintage • Up-to-date secondary market prices for more than 2,000 new and used sets from 2000 to present • More than 300 full-color photos of sets in their boxes, and built models • Tips on reselling, flipping, and investing The Ultimate Guide to Collectible LEGO Sets is your brick-by-brick guide to a world of imagination and discovery.

This stunning LEGO® book is a visual history of more than 300 of the best LEGO sets, from the first Town Plans of the 1950s to today's dazzling sets. It comes with an exclusive retro-style LEGO set for you to build! Packed with stunning photography and fascinating facts, Great LEGO® Sets explores the history of LEGO sets in magnificent detail. It showcases the best-ever sets in the LEGO Group's long history, including much-loved classic 1970s and 1980s Space and Castle sets and the latest LEGO® Star Wars(tm) and THE LEGO® MOVIE sets. Follow the timelines of LEGO set history, discover how LEGO sets are made and see hundreds of LEGO sets in amazing detail, superbly captioned and annotated. Created in full collaboration with the LEGO Group, Great LEGO® Sets reveals exclusive insights from LEGO designers into how LEGO sets are made. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. © 2015 The LEGO Group. Produced by Dorling Kindersley under licence from the LEGO Group.

Showcases and details the rare, popular, forgotten, and beloved figures coveted by fans the world over.

Release your inner child and build yourself happy with LEGO® bricks. Are you failing to find inner peace on a yoga mat? Does life feel like all work and no play? Having fun and getting creative can boost your mood and your well-being. So if you're looking for ways to unwind and make time for yourself, then let this book guide you on a LEGO® brick road to happiness. With more than 50 mindful LEGO building activities, discover how you can find balance, connect with friends and family, relax and improve your sleep habits. ©2019 The LEGO Group.

Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!

This deluxe book catalogs more than 6500 LEGO Minifigures with professional photographs and indexes in superior printing quality. It uses a systematic nomenclature to easily find Minifigures and their respective heads. This is the essential guide for all LEGO Minifigure collectors and enthusiasts printed in superior color quality.

This essay sheds light on how to build a LEGO set collection, demystifies the best way to build a LEGO set collection, reveals the best type of LEGO sets for LEGO set collectors to collect for building a LEGO set collection, and delineates the benefits of building a LEGO set collection. The advent of the internet has rendered it a seamless process for a LEGO set collector to be able to expeditiously build a LEGO set collection. Prior to the advent of the internet, a LEGO set collector was pigeonholed into buying LEGO sets via brick-and-mortar retail stores. It can be eminently cumbersome to find LEGO sets to purchase at the locales of garage sales, the locales of flea markets, and the locales of estate sales since they are uncommon items at most garage sales, flea markets, and estate sales. Even though the locales of garage sales, the locales of flea markets, and the locales of estate sales are often devoid of LEGO sets, LEGO set collectors still nonetheless often visit these locales for the prospect of stumbling upon LEGO sets for sale at these locales. Buying LEGO sets at the venues of LEGO conventions from vendors at LEGO conventions is also not a viable way to build a LEGO set collection since it is expensive to attend LEGO conventions. Furthermore, the vendors at LEGO conventions sell their LEGO sets at steep premium prices that often exceed their secondhand market values. If you purchase LEGO sets via LEGO conventions, then you can expect to concede to paying the highest possible secondhand market prices for LEGO sets since the vendors at LEGO conventions are resellers who buy LEGO sets solely with the intention of reselling them at top dollar. Vendors at LEGO conventions sell their LEGO sets at enormous markups that are often significantly above their retail prices and secondhand market values. If you are keen on building a LEGO set collection, then buying LEGO sets at retail stores is often an inefficacious way to build a LEGO set collection, especially if you are highly selective about the LEGO sets that you purchase. Retail stores are typically sold out of highly desirable LEGO sets. Retailers often never restock most of the highly desirable LEGO sets that they are sold out of. When retailers receive shipments of highly desirable LEGO sets, then they not only arrive at retail stores in egregiously low quantities, but also immediately get sold out by scalpers post being stocked onto store shelves. Once the scalpers have purchased all of the highly desirable LEGO sets from the retail stores, they will then often subsequently proceed to resell them at lofty markups that are at least 50%-1000% above their retail prices. It can be ineffably cumbersome to find any highly desirable LEGO sets at retail stores since they are purchased by scalpers immediately after they are stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities. Retailers will often never restock most of the highly desirable LEGO sets that get immediately sold out by scalpers shortly after they are stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities even though there is tremendous pent-up customer demand for these highly desirable LEGO sets that remains eminently unsatisfied. It can be a highly time-consuming and expensive pursuit to drive to ample distant brick-and-mortar retail stores just to not be able to find a single desirable LEGO set that you have been eager to purchase. Frequenting distant brick-and-mortar retail stores is often deemed to be a sheer and utter depletion of precious time for most LEGO sets collectors since they are often sold out of all of the desirable LEGO sets that they have been eager to purchase. Being able to buy highly desirable LEGO sets from the retail stores at the “manufacturer’s suggested retail price” is not an option for most LEGO set collectors since the highly desirable LEGO sets immediately get sold out by scalpers post being stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities. Scalpers are able to immensely benefit from supply shortages of highly desirable LEGO sets since it allows them to be able to have full purview over the pricing of highly desirable LEGO sets on the secondhand market. Scalpers have full purview over the pricing of highly desirable LEGO sets on the secondhand market that customers have been unable to purchase in the retail stores due to them becoming sold out shortly after being stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities.