How much would the Obsidian Spike be worth? Your thoughts.

[The Architect]

The title says it all.

[ZCerberus]

Well Mr. Architect, first off, we probably shouldn't assume anyone knows what an Obsidian Spike is.

I assume you are referring to the MOC in this topic.

If that is the case, the next question would be how are you planning to value the spike?

Do you want to know what it would cost as an official Lego product? Or are you curious how much it would cost to acquire the bricks on Bricklink? Maybe what you really want to know is how much it would cost to buy if someone were to make an offer to the builder.

I guess the title doesn't say it all!

[Captain Settle]

I guess the answer to all of those would be "A helluv a lot!"

[Fugazi]

I'm acting on the assumption that this topic is related to the MOC ZCerberus mentioned above, and am moving this to the Guilds forum.

[Gideon]

I dont want to make any assumption for this particular build in question and its builder, but disregarding the specifics you could do the following calculation to get an idea of the answer:

What's the hourly rate for commissioning a MOC expert to do a build? Multiply that with the number of hours to complete the build (cheaper if you assume it's a copy and that no or limited iterative process is needed) and add the cost of the pieces involved (e.g. new or used in good condition from BL)

[Legonardo]

What's the hourly rate for commissioning a MOC expert to do a build?

As next year ill be selling mocs and taking commissions it would be good to find out that, though ill probably end up using some other pay method anyway

[The Architect]

I stand corrected. The title does NOT say it all.

And lets say what would it be valued at as an official Lego product.

[mrcp6d]

Roughly 0.10 USD seems to be the standard bar for AFOLs to use to determine if a set on the shelf is good for parts in the LEGO room. Now you need to figure out how many pieces the builder used...

[Deathleech]

Easily $250, possibly as much as $400? I would guess somewhere in the 300-350 range though.

[Captain BeerBeard]

If it was my moc and someone wanted to buy it, we'd be talking between eight and ten grand for that. I say that because you have to think of every expense and all the personal time it takes to make such an epic piece of art.

Individual parts I would guess at the least 800 dollars as a low estimate.

[The Architect]

If it was my moc and someone wanted to buy it, we'd be talking between eight and ten grand for that. I say that because you have to think of every expense and all the personal time it takes to make such an epic piece of art.

Individual parts I would guess at the least 800 dollars as a low estimate.

Id agree with roughly 4 thousand dollars considering the effort and time put in.

Id be guessing the price of the parts would be closer to 1500 dollars however.

[ZCerberus]

Easily $250, possibly as much as $400? I would guess somewhere in the 300-350 range though.

Easily indeed. There are several towers of Orthanc worth of parts in there, and probably a few thousand just in the rocky base as well. I don't think it is terribly obvious, but the MOC is pretty darn tall.

I don't know the exact amount of time. It was built relatively quickly if you take out all the baby time, though as Gideon suggests, there were a few stops and starts along the way.

The biggest issue with displaying it would be all the black though, without something reflecting on it or lots of light, it sort of looks like a blob. Considering that, I don't know if it would be worth buying for anyone other than the builder.

If it was my moc and someone wanted to buy it, we'd be talking between eight and ten grand for that. I say that because you have to think of every expense and all the personal time it takes to make such an epic piece of art.

Beery is probably right that it would really have to be purchased as a piece of art in a sense and that mean there would probably be value in it as art which wouldn't be included in the time or pieces value.

Individual parts I would guess at the least 800 dollars as a low estimate.

I think if you were hoping to get the pieces by parting sets it would be extremely low, though on Bricklink this might be a closer estimate. Taking out the figures, there aren't a ton of super rare parts in this one, just a lot of them!

[Louie le Brickvalier]

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Edited October 19, 2017 by Louie le Brickvalier

[Niku]

On a sense in character of GoH, and supporting the right of a defender of the true Nocturnus side, the Obsidian Spike is not more worthy than a single fraction of a brick of Abyssian.

Now seriously on value of pieces my guess is there are like 700 dollars worthy of pieces.

And giving it a value of art is only chosen by the author and the buyer, so I dont dare to calculate it on that matter.

By any perspective is an ellaborated moc and impressive indeed.

[Legonardo]

Well lets see.

you need to factor the time, the cost of the bricks (and if your a bricklink user the shipping of peices) size and composition. then keep in mind the builder would probably need to either glue or create some sort of instructions for the model, its lego, having something arrive shattered wouldnt be surprising. it's ALOT of time, and really its up to the artist, for example ill be selling 4 wall houses similar to those in my signature, they arent big, easily fitting on a 32* baseplate, and are hardly very tall. the bricklink value would be around 200USD i estimate, id be selling something like that for about 300 then, plus shipping. for this, id say you'd be paying over 1000, and shipping it would be sad part of your life. .

I will be looking forward to that! Having Master Builder under your belt wouldn't be a bad start to resume, eh?

I hope

Edited November 16, 2013 by Legonardo

[The Architect]

So 700 USD postage?

[Infernum]

What an interesting question. Lots of good opinions here. Personally I have no idea.

[The Architect]

You fear your beard? Hmmm .