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 mask from Lego’s Bionicle line, which was produced within the 2000s.
Of course, 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 had been reportedly given away throughout particular Lego promotions. Lego held a number of competitions through the years with gold Bionicle masks as prizes: One contest requested youngsters to construct web sites, whereas one other was a sweepstakes with Cartoon Network. It’s not clear what number of stable gold masks got away, however Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania vp of e-commerce and know-how estimated to CBS that the quantity was round 25.
Unlike typical Lego units, the Bionicle line was extra motion figures than the rest. Still, they had been constructable into robotic figures topped off with completely 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 obtainable simply for a restricted time. The gold mask up for public sale at Goodwill is from the Tahu character. Lego gave the masks away in Lego-branded jewellery bins.
“We didn’t know what we had when we found it,” Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania spokesperson Jessica Illuzzi instructed CBS affiliate WTAJ. “It came in a box full of random jewelry from the State College store. So it had already been processed through donations there.”
It’s really the second time this explicit gold mask 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 practically $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 probably one of the costly Lego items ever bought, although it didn’t attain $33,000 this time.
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