A 14-karat gold Lego piece offered 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.
In fact, that is no atypical 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 children 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 vice chairman of e-commerce and know-how estimated to CBS that the quantity was round 25.
Not like typical Lego units, the Bionicle line was extra motion figures than the rest. Nonetheless, they had 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 obtainable 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 bins.
“We didn’t know what we had after we discovered it,” Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania spokesperson Jessica Illuzzi instructed 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 way of donations there.”
It’s truly the second time this specific gold masks has been up for public sale. Earlier this month, Goodwill offered 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 working since Feb. 16; with 5 hours to go, the worth was as much as $16,000 earlier than leaping to the ultimate $24,501. It’s seemingly one of the crucial costly Lego items ever offered, although it didn’t attain $33,000 this time.