When my daughters were young, I learned that if they went to a birthday party for a boy I didn’t know well, a Bionicle was always a good gift. I did not know they were made by Lego. The toy line ran from 2001 to 2010, and again from 2015-2017. Bionicles were fictional characters, a type of action figure you built with small pieces that fit together. For a giveaway in 2001, the company manufactured 30 Kanohi Hau masks, which were special because they granted magic protective powers to Bionicles. The masks were an inch tall and made of 14-karat gold. Only 25 were given to the public.
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Somehow, one of these rare Lego pieces ended up in a Goodwill store in Pennsylvania, donated in a bag of jewelry by someone who didn’t know how rare they are. They listed the Kanohi Hau mask on the store website for $14.95, but quickly got offers up to $1,000 for it! They pulled the mask from the website and scrambled to find out what they had. The piece went up for auction in February and sold for $18,101!
See, it pays to know what’s in your toy box. Read about the journey of the $18K Lego piece at Smithsonian.
(Image credit: Goodwill)
Source: neatorama