There are only five different kinds of ewok LEGO mini-figs. They are sold buy hundreds of dealers on bricklink.com. I’m thinking of buying all the LEGO ewok mini-figs under $10 and start selling them for ten bucks each. People gotta have their ewok mini-figs!
Right now there are 705 ewoks for sale under ten bucks on bricklink.com. It would cost me $5,257.37 to buy them all. (that’s an average of $7.45 per ewok).
I’d have to sell 525 ewoks to break even. And if I sold all 705 ewoks, I’d make $1,180. Hmmm. Doesn’t seem like it’s worth it for all the work.
Looks like the new ewok lego mini-fig currency is not going to happen.
FYI. There are 705 ewoks currently under $10 and there are 426 ewoks over $10. Those 426 in total would cost $5,730.80. So if I really wanted to dominate the market, I could buy all 1,131 ewoks for $10,988.18. Then sell them for like $50 each. Who would buy an ewok for $50, though? I’d have to sell 220 of them to break even.
Can you imagine photographing 1,131 ewoks? That’s worth $11,000 right there.
aww. they’re cute! but i’m not paying fifty dollars for one… sorry! did you also factor in shipping & packaging or is that a customer expense?
another flaw in this strategy: the demand for ewok toys in general.
Yeah, I’m not into this idea, because it’s too mean to monopolize the market. It’s just kinda funny thinking about it with ewoks. Moose, people love ewoks. There’s even a twitter account for an ewok: http://twitter.com/EwokLumat
Wow! There are new ewok minifigs since I wrote this blog post in 2010, Logray and Tokkat. In 2010 there were 705 ewok minifigs for sale under $10. Now there are 620.