An incident that will make you jealous!!

[crown_knights]

I missed the best opportunity of my lego related life today by a few hours. I was driving down to Pennsylvania to meet a friend and stopped by this little hobby store as it looked kinda interesting. I was not thinking of lego when I entered this store. Looking around I was browsing trough their model trains when I see a Lego box among the train boxes. It was Lego 6086: Black Knight's fortress. The box was a little beaten up and dusty but overall in good condition. Still factory sealed and without a price tag. I immediately go up to the cash register and it rang up at $49.99 !!! These guys had no idea how much it was worth. It was still on some sale these guys had like 3 years back LOL . But the casheir notices that there is a little yellow mark on the right hand corner of the box. Someone came in yesterday night and reserved the item and would be back to pay for it and pick it up today. I was nearly in tears
The guy said to call later and ask if it was picked up or not. I did and sure enough it was bought. I will have to live my life with this regret.

Did any of you guys see these old old sets in crazy stores somewhere?

[crown_knights]

For those of you who do not remember the set:

http://brickset.com/detail.aspx?Set=6086-1

[Anaxamander]

6086 was my first (and still favorite) Lego Castle.

[lil Jon]

That is a great set, and that was a great price.

I picked up the set off ebay a few years ago, it was pretty much complete, some of the not so rare figures were missing the correct color legs... etc...

Sorry to hear your story.

[MarioDAlessio]

Crown Knights be happy for who ever purchased this set.

You know they may not have been an adult collector and the set may have been purchased for a child with no knowledge of its collection worth and will soon be experiencing some 1992 LEGO fun.

As far as story’s of old toy shop finds there have been previous posts of members going back to shops from their childhood and I think in England and asking about Lego castle displays which they remembered. In the case I am thinking of it was still retained by the shop and was given over for free? Sorry I can’t give you a link but here is another old Lego display to cheer you up.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=127069

regards Mario

[Count Blacktron]

You should have offered him $75 to forget the other guy would ever want it.

[Lord Tyler II]

Lucky guy! Who "Reserves" LEGO anyway? Unfortunately, I'm to young to know it's worth myself... Looks like a cool set though! The oldest set I've seen in a store was from 2003... not quite 1992.

[Tower of Iron Will]

I had a similar experience but for me it had a happier outcome. I had been in a Toys R Us about ten or so years ago (mid-ninties) and saw set 6103 Castle Mini-Figures in with the lego sets. My jaw dropped when I saw it and when the shock wore off I bought it. I still have it, un-opened. I used to buy a lot of these when they were available so I don't really need to open it.

I guess they were cleaning up the store room and found it, or someone could have been saving it and forgot about it-who knows? I didn't ask, I guess in hindsight I guess I should have.
-Tower

[Sir Kohran]

I had a similar experience but for me it had a happier outcome. I had been in a Toys R Us about ten or so years ago (mid-ninties) and saw set 6103 Castle Mini-Figures in with the lego sets. My jaw dropped when I saw it and when the shock wore off I bought it. I still have it, un-opened. I used to buy a lot of these when they were available so I don't really need to open it.

I guess they were cleaning up the store room and found it, or someone could have been saving it and forgot about it-who knows? I didn't ask, I guess in hindsight I guess I should have.
-Tower

Good Lord I'm in total envy. Why don't I ever stumble on these thing?!

Anyway, congratulations to anyone who does find any relics from the golden age.

- Matt

[Dr. J]

I missed the best opportunity of my lego related life today by a few hours. I was driving down to Pennsylvania to meet a friend and stopped by this little hobby store as it looked kinda interesting. I was not thinking of lego when I entered this store. Looking around I was browsing trough their model trains when I see a Lego box among the train boxes. It was Lego 6086: Black Knight's fortress. The box was a little beaten up and dusty but overall in good condition. Still factory sealed and without a price tag. I immediately go up to the cash register and it rang up at $49.99 !!! These guys had no idea how much it was worth. It was still on some sale these guys had like 3 years back LOL . But the casheir notices that there is a little yellow mark on the right hand corner of the box. Someone came in yesterday night and reserved the item and would be back to pay for it and pick it up today. I was nearly in tears
The guy said to call later and ask if it was picked up or not. I did and sure enough it was bought. I will have to live my life with this regret.

I'm gonna laugh when that person is a user here.

[Saaz]

I had a similar experience very soon after coming out of my dark ages. I happened to stop at a Service Merchandise that was out in a bit of a rural area, and must not have gotten much traffic. They had a huge pile of old sets that I had missed out on during my dark ages... and because some of them had been sitting on the shelf for so long, they had been repeatedly marked down!

I got one each of anything that caught my eye... a few castle (including a couple of the big original forestmen sets) and a few pirates. Of course in hindsight I should've cleaned them out, but back then ('93 or so) there were no web-sites with set listings or anything (well, no web-sites, period ) so I didn't even know what years these sets had been released in, or what sets I had missed out on, or anything. And I was still fresh out of my dark age, and not buying mass quantities of Lego. It was years later before I realized what a great score this had been.

[crown_knights]

You should have offered him $75 to forget the other guy would ever want it.

LOL I actually offered $ 89.99 to the guy
He said it was not his call, he was a 16 year old manning the store.

[crown_knights]

I missed the best opportunity of my lego related life today by a few hours. I was driving down to Pennsylvania to meet a friend and stopped by this little hobby store as it looked kinda interesting. I was not thinking of lego when I entered this store. Looking around I was browsing trough their model trains when I see a Lego box among the train boxes. It was Lego 6086: Black Knight's fortress. The box was a little beaten up and dusty but overall in good condition. Still factory sealed and without a price tag. I immediately go up to the cash register and it rang up at $49.99 !!! These guys had no idea how much it was worth. It was still on some sale these guys had like 3 years back LOL . But the casheir notices that there is a little yellow mark on the right hand corner of the box. Someone came in yesterday night and reserved the item and would be back to pay for it and pick it up today. I was nearly in tears
The guy said to call later and ask if it was picked up or not. I did and sure enough it was bought. I will have to live my life with this regret.

I'm gonna laugh when that person is a user here.

That may well be very true. So if you(whoever you are) have the set, I am willing to pay $120 for the set shipped Seriously!!

[crown_knights]

Crown Knights be happy for who ever purchased this set.

You know they may not have been an adult collector and the set may have been purchased for a child with no knowledge of its collection worth and will soon be experiencing some 1992 LEGO fun.

As far as story’s of old toy shop finds there have been previous posts of members going back to shops from their childhood and I think in England and asking about Lego castle displays which they remembered. In the case I am thinking of it was still retained by the shop and was given over for free? Sorry I can’t give you a link but here is another old Lego display to cheer you up.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=127069

regards Mario

Thank you. Those were awesome.

[JPinoy]

ARGH!

Lucky you! I would've been overjoyed by such luck.