The 20 most expensive Lego sets of all time

For a broad sweep of fans, the Lego Space Command Center, and the rest of the nostalgia-inducing ‘Space’ line, capture the heart of what Lego is.

Offering a moonbase, astronauts, and space buggies, it’s charmingly primitive by today’s standards. However, its visual styling and theming continue to influence modern sets, with it sitting front and center of 2014’s Lego Movie thanks to the role of Benny the ‘1980-something Space Guy’.

Ask anyone to imagine a LEGO minifigure, and a good number of them will conjure up a vision of an astronaut with the planet logo on their chest; the star of LEGO Space. All of that might explain why the Lego Space Command Center is worth over $10,100 (£8,300) today. On launch in the US, it retailed at $24.99.

The 1978 Lego Castle is the most famous variant of the vibrant yellow castles released in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. It was one of the most coveted Lego Castles on release, and it’s now one of the most expensive. Brick Economy estimated in 2022 that a set in pristine condition was worth around $9,900 (£7,800).

The reason for its value? It was the first of the eight ‘classic castles’ released, and like the Lego Space Command Center, it captures many peoples’ childhood memories of Lego. Unfortunately, most of us grew into adults without a spare $9,000 to spend on nostalgia.

Not to worry! If you can bear an unboxed, played-with version with a part or two missing, you could scoop this Lego Castle for less than $360 (£300). A… bargain?

There have been many iterations of Lego Cloud City, each recreating the floating mining colony where fans first met Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back. However, it’s the 10123 set that has the most eye-watering price. Not currently available from retailers, second-hand hunters were paying about $790 (£950) in 2020.

In late 2022, the value of a like-new set had climbed to $3,270 (£2,700). By January 2023, spot prices had soared to over $9,500 (£7,609). After a thousand-dollar price dip in February, as of April 2023, the top-end price is at an all-time high of $9,762 (£7,821).

The 2009 Ole Kirk’s House set was exclusively gifted to fans who joined that year’s Lego Inside Tour. Participants were treated to a tour of the Lego brick factory in Billund and the former home of Lego Inventor Ole Kirk Kristiansen. While the tour’s exclusive set regularly changed, visitors in 2009 walked away with a recreation of the founder’s house.

All Lego Inside Tour sets are valuable since they’re limited to very small production runs. Just 32 copies of Ole Kirk’s House were produced, and it’s currently the most expensive kit of the series. A boxed copy sold via eBay for over $8,000 in 2024, according to price tracking website Brick Economy.

A very similar set was released in 2012, under code 4000007, as an employee-exclusive reward.

The Lego Skull’s Eye Schooner is a stunning ship and one of the most iconic Pirates kits from the ‘80s and ‘90s. Until the mighty Imperial Flagship came along in 2010, the Skull’s Eye Schooner was the largest pirate ship that Lego sold, weighing in at 912 pieces. Plus, its prestige means that it remains one of the most expensive pirate Lego sets of all time, even beating out the older Black Seas Barracuda, the original flagship of Captain Redbeard.

There’s lots to enjoy about this model, which features moveable cannons, three masts, and plenty of lovely minifigures – plus a shark, parrot, and monkey, the most pirate-y animals there are. Collectors enjoy the model very much, which is why a sealed copy of this kit currently sells for about $7,500.

The Lego Town Plan series was a range of municipal buildings scaled to fit alongside HO-scale ‘dinky’ toys – like metal Hot Wheels, but smaller. Each set was themed around then-contemporary modernist buildings, with structures like a police station, hotel, apartment block, and more.

This particular box featured a cardboard base board to give the city its road layout, as well as bricks to build multiple buildings. Brick Economy estimates that a new, sealed copy would be worth around $5,600.

The age of the set is a big value factor, as factory-sealed toys from the 1950s and 60s are extremely rare. Plus, the 810-2 version of the Town Plan was available in just 12 countries in continental Europe and is estimated to be “10 times harder to find in decent condition” than the British 810-4 set.

The Lego Creator Expert: Green Grocer set was the third in the Modular Building series, which gave advanced builders a realistic grocery store to put together.

Unlike the previous two Modular Buildings, the Green Grocer came with a highly-detailed interior. While the outside had railings, opening windows, a fire escape, and a courtyard, the inside boasted a fully-furnished first floor, complete with food to sell to minifig customers.

As an early entry in a popular series, the Green Grocer is naturally coveted. It’s also a beautiful, complex build that was discontinued in 2010. Scarcity, quality, and history all make this an extremely valuable find.

Nowadays, you can pick one up for anywhere between $800 and $4,000, depending on condition. Our current price estimate is based on a sale made on eBay in September 2023.

The Lego Arla Milk Delivery Truck is certainly the strangest item on this list. It was made in collaboration with Swedish dairy giant Arla, and it was only available in Sweden, so the supply of quality kits is limited. While used companies come cheap by comparison, pristine versions of the vehicle can fetch a steep price.

Oddly, this set was released just one year after another promotional Lego milk truck, this time from Danish company MD Foods. Norway’s biggest dairy company, Tine, also commissioned a Lego milk truck a decade later, but it never became a collector’s item or commanded a price tag comparable with Arla’s.

Lego wooden toys are a series of sets rather than just one product. These were produced from 1932 to 1960, before the company moved on to making toys from plastic.

The gorgeous wooden toys of this era include everything from fixed axle yo-yos to absurdly stylish VW Vans. There’s also the beautiful Lego Chevrolet Bel Air Car Nr 600, which in 1957 set a new standard for the toy firm’s wooden line, even featuring real rubber tires.

However, the most famed set is probably the 1935 Lego Duck. Multiple Lego ‘Quacking Duck’ toys were made in the 1930s and 1940s, but it is the 1935 version that was and is the most iconic, pushing its value today to $2,000 (£1,649). It’s so distinguished that in 2022 Lego released a plastic brick version, set 40501.

There are few pieces of Star Wars memorabilia more iconic than the legendary 75192 UCS Lego Millennium Falcon, which Lego calls “the largest, most detailed Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon model we’ve ever created”. As a result, it’s permanently among the top-priced sets you can buy.

When it is available from the Lego Store, it’ll cost you $850 (£735) – already tied for the most expensive production set – but even then it’s generally listed as “hard to find”. And when stocks run out, scarcity drives the used prices up to well above $1,000. We’ve regularly seen the boxed set sold on eBay for anywhere between $500 and $1,750. Heck, we’ve seen people try to sell the instructions alone for $60.

Read our list of the best Star Wars Lego sets for more like this.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled bricks yearning to build free.” Okay, so maybe that isn’t exactly what it says on the Lego Statue of Liberty, but it probably would if it was large enough to have a readable plaque. This is a symbol of freedom that you can fit on your table without having to take a trip to New York.

Once again, there are multiple Lego sets designed to imitate the great American landmark. The 21042 model from Lego’s Architecture series is still available from the Lego shop for a meager $118 (£90) – while the 3450 Lego Statue of Liberty sold for a whopping $1,661 (£1,366) at the close of 2022.

Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy introduced The Tumbler as Bruce Wayne’s off-road vehicle of choice, and this Batmobile stole the hearts of superhero fans everywhere. It’s unsurprising, then, that there are so many versions of Lego Batman: The Tumbler in the brick-i-verse.

The more common sets can easily be picked up for around $260 (£200). However, the rarest of the rare is The Tumbler: Joker’s Ice Cream Surprise, which comes with a sugary escape vehicle and the Clown Prince of Crime himself.

Second-hand sales of The Tumbler: Joker’s Ice Cream Surprise prove that crime does, in fact, pay. Unboxed, this version of The Tumbler goes for around $300 on eBay – but boxed, like-new sets crop up far less often and fetch $1000 minimum; one sold for around $1,500 (£1,146) on eBay in 2022.

For more like this, check out our guide to the best Batman Lego sets.

The Lego Imperial Star Destroyer recreates a certified sci-fi icon, the primary warship of Star Wars Galactic Empire in the original movie trilogy. Given the ship’s fame, this massive 4,784-piece Ultimate Collector Series Lego set is highly sought-after by fans.

This spectacular, dagger-shaped display piece remained on shelves for only three years before being retired from production in 2022 in favor of the comparatively titchy, 630-piece Executor Super Star Destroyer set. As a result, Lego Star Wars lovers wanting to add it to their collections are forced to seek out the set on the used market, where it sells for far more than its original RRP of $700.

The Lego AT-AT was pretty expensive when it first hit retail, selling for $849.99 (the same price as a Millennium Falcon). After the set retired in 2024, dwindling supply meant prices climbed even higher. As of February 2025, sealed kits are selling on eBay for between $900 and $1,100.

The AT-AT has been designed to minifigure scale and comes with nine minifigures: a team of five Imperial snow troopers, the pilots and officer of the AT-AT, and Luke Skywalker himself. It’s an absolute monster of a kit once built, over two feet tall and two and a half long. The movie-accurate design and detailed interior will please your inner model maker, but the grey coloring means this isn’t the most appealing display piece.

Lego’s latest ‘engineer’s dream’ option, the gigantic Liebherr Crawler Crane is a three-foot-tall, fully motorized, app-controlled construction vehicle par excellence, and well in the running to be named the best Lego Technic set ever released.

Billed as a “tribute to one of the world’s most powerful cranes”, this behemoth is a complex build project aimed at adults – not one for the kids’ Christmas present. But the result is a completely realistic, electronic working model, able to drive around freely on its caterpillar tracks, accurately extend its articulated crane arm, and pick things up – all via remote control from the included smartphone app.

With over 9,000 pieces, the majestic Lego Titanic is a truly herculean build challenge worthy of the famous ship’s name.

Both externally and internally, the Titanic set has been designed as an authentic replica of the real ocean liner that went down in 1912, down to every deck, staircase, and porthole. The ship detaches into three vertically sliced cross sections, letting you see below-deck areas including the famous grand staircase shown off so memorably in James Cameron’s movie.

And, in a glorious touch of interactivity, the piston engines in the engine room are mechanically linked to the propeller at the back – so spin the prop, and the engine starts going. This set is vast, incredibly heavy, and eye-wateringly expensive, but, for ship-loving history buffs, it’s all but essential.

Star Wars fans went wild for the Lego Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser when it was released, and with good reason: it’s a gigantic, super detailed recreation of a fan-favorite (or perhaps cult classic) Star Wars ship.

The Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, and AT-AT may be household names, but the Venator – a warship that was a prequel-era precursor to the Star Destroyer – is better known to fans of the Clone Wars animated series. The UCS Lego set version pays tribute to that with a design carefully tuned to the ship seen in the show (and fleetingly in Episodes II and III). All the surface details are on point, down to the tiny Republic Gunship in the side hangar.

The Venator only includes two minifigures, and it has very little interactivity compared to other big-money mega-sets. However, hardcore Clone Wars lovers might forgive the static display piece for these few faults.

For us, the Lego Eiffel Tower is the king of architectural Lego sets. At over 10,000 pieces, it’s the second-biggest Lego set ever made and the tallest set. While its $630 (£555) price tag makes it among the most expensive sets, it’s arguably one of the best-value giant sets, simply for the colossal amount of Lego you’re getting for the price, compared to similarly priced sets above that have around half the pieces.

It’s not all about piece count though; the Eiffel Tower set is a famously challenging, four-stage building project designed to mirror how the real Parisian tower was built – and buyers should beware that a huge proportion of those 10,000 bricks are near-identical grey struts. This is a high-price set, and what you’re paying for is a mechanically satisfying marathon build, to get a huge, classy display piece – not a breezy family fun-time.

When The Mandalorian hit Disney+ in 2019, it introduced fans to three unforgettable characters: The Child (Grogu); Mando himself; and his ship, the Razor Crest. Three years and another TV season later, the Lego Razor Crest was added to the Ultimate Collector series to commemorate Mando’s modified ST-70 Assault Ship.

This 6,187-piece beast is loaded with details from the show, including an interior fully modeled with blaster racks, escape pod, and carbon freezing chamber – but the main draw is the scale and fidelity of the overall build. It’ll take you 18 hours to build, but the resulting model – like all the UCS sets – is an impressive display piece.

Also like its fellow UCS sets, the Razor Crest will cost you nearly half a month’s rent, retailing at 600 bucks. Based on similar models in the past, it’s likely to be due to retire in late 2025, which will push prices much higher.

When Lego released its brick-built recreation of the House of Elrond in 2023, we initially assumed two things: it wouldn’t be quite accurate to the movie version, really – and it would cost a bomb. We were only half right.

At $500 (£429) the Lego Rivendell set is indeed among the top ten most expensive Lego sets currently in production – but it’s also stunningly true to the Rivendell we see in The Fellowship of the Ring. We get detailed sections for Bilbo’s writing room, Arwen’s ornate white gazebo, the reliquary where the shards of Narsil were kept, and – of course – the courtyard that plays host to the fateful Council of Elrond.

A whopping 15 minifigures including the entire Fellowship are the icing on an already mouth-watering cake. Rivendell may be an expensive Lego set, but it’s been on our Christmas list for a long time now.