A 14-karat gold Lego piece bought for $24,501 at Goodwill’s on-line public sale home on Wednesday. The Lego piece is the golden Kanohi Hau masks from Lego’s Bionicle line, which was produced within the 2000s.
After all, that is no peculiar Lego piece — the corporate produced a bunch of plastic variations of the varied Bionicle masks, however solely a pair dozen of the golden items, which have been reportedly given away throughout particular Lego promotions. Lego held a number of competitions over time with gold Bionicle masks as prizes: One contest requested youngsters to construct web sites, whereas one other was a sweepstakes with Cartoon Community. It’s not clear what number of stable gold masks got away, however Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania vp of e-commerce and expertise estimated to CBS that the quantity was round 25.
Not like typical Lego units, the Bionicle line was extra motion figures than anything. Nonetheless, they have been constructable into robotic figures topped off with totally different masks. The Bionicle line was retired in 2005, introduced again in 2015, retired once more in 2016, and partly returned in 2023, with a small Bionicle set accessible only for a restricted time. The gold masks up for public sale at Goodwill is from the Tahu character. Lego gave the masks away in Lego-branded jewellery packing containers.
“We didn’t know what we had once we discovered it,” Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania spokesperson Jessica Illuzzi informed CBS affiliate WTAJ. “It got here in a field filled with random jewellery from the State School retailer. So it had already been processed by means of donations there.”
It’s truly the second time this specific gold masks has been up for public sale. Earlier this month, Goodwill bought it for $33,000, however the winner by no means paid up. The gold alone is price almost $1,000. The public sale has been operating since Feb. 16; with 5 hours to go, the value was as much as $16,000 earlier than leaping to the ultimate $24,501. It’s possible one of the costly Lego items ever bought, regardless that it didn’t attain $33,000 this time.