If your investment horizon is long enough and your secure storage space cheap enough, Lego might be a more prudent investment.
Basic strategy: buy and hold unopened copies of the 'flagship' sets of each Lego theme. If a theme is small enough, get complete sets of sets. For instance, the Muppets minifigs were sold in blind bags, but every case was guaranteed to hold three complete sets, so buy a whole case, not random bags. The Speed Champions line, after the switch to 8-stud wide models, had a dozen or so sets over two years (so far).
At your time horizon, decide whether you want to sell as parts or sets.
In 2000, the UCS X-wing (7191-1) was about $150 new. There appears to be one incomplete set on the open market for $831. The parts are worth about twice that if sold individually. I suspect an unopened set would go for about $2000, implying a return rate of about 12.5% APY.
Side note re: Lego, I have fond memories of the first Lego X-Wing and Snowspeeder. I’ll never forget losing pieces in the grass outside and calling up Lego. They asked me for the page number and sent me more pieces than I needed.
Basic strategy: buy and hold unopened copies of the 'flagship' sets of each Lego theme. If a theme is small enough, get complete sets of sets. For instance, the Muppets minifigs were sold in blind bags, but every case was guaranteed to hold three complete sets, so buy a whole case, not random bags. The Speed Champions line, after the switch to 8-stud wide models, had a dozen or so sets over two years (so far).
At your time horizon, decide whether you want to sell as parts or sets.
In 2000, the UCS X-wing (7191-1) was about $150 new. There appears to be one incomplete set on the open market for $831. The parts are worth about twice that if sold individually. I suspect an unopened set would go for about $2000, implying a return rate of about 12.5% APY.