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I believe it's the Ultimate Collector's Edition Millennium Falcon (10179).
With a $500 MSRP, it was already one of the most expensive sets available when it launched in 2007. In 2012 it is rare to see it for less than $1500 used but intact, and closer to $2000 if you want it new. There may be some smaller sets that have a greater percentage gain (a set that ...
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There is an indication of the rarity of a set in the LEGO Collector's Guide.
I assume it's the same in the second edition as well, as this is what the two reviews of it on Brickset have to say:
Rarity Rating. This would be more useful if it represented actual production or sales figures instead of market trends.
The rating system is the same, ...
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the less sets there are available, the better the chances of a rising price. this implies the sets that will get more expensive with time are:
sets that are out of production
sets that are expensive when they come out (> less sales)
very big sets (expensive > less sales)
licensed sets like harry potter or starwars (short production-time > less sales / ...
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I feel I need to represent the Classic Town and Train fans with the following sets:
6399 Airport Shuttle
Bricklink items for sale
The only town monorail released by Lego and one of only a hand full of monorail sets in total.
As is the case with many classic sets that are hard to find 100% complete, it includes many stickers that easily become lost or ...
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Not sure about several years, but Brickpicker covers one full year. Here are the stats for the Green Grocer, for example:
Or the ones for the UCS Millenium Falcon:
Well, you get the idea. They have more and other stats, too. E.g., the following quick overview for every set:
They pull their data from eBay (through some third-party tool ...
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I'm not familiar with any tools that do this with eBay or Bricklink price histories. I'm pretty sure that Bricklink removes all data older than 6 months, so if this information is available, it would have to come from a third party who scraped it from the site.
I have used a tool called Tracktor to look at Amazon price histories for LEGO sets. Sadly, this ...
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