What was the original issue price?
$1200 plus approx. $600 for Postage and Import Duty, it needs to be impressive.
Unfortunately a little too much for me.
This Castle and the Abbey are probably two of the hardest ones to find at a "reasonable" price. Reasonable is all in the eyes of who is buying. If you are looking for a centerpiece to the favorite part of your collection, then does the price matter???:smile2: In all seriousness, when buying something, you have to look at it as what you are going to enjoy, not necessarily its resale value.
TD
That's the rub isn't it, what is reasonable to one collector is not for another.
That said; 1,200.00 for that castle IMO is bat **** crazy, that's four times the original retail, which tells me either the original retail was way too low or it's extremely hard to find, ie, supply and demand.
I had a complete castle as part of a collection I bought about four years ago, I sold it for 600.00 and thought at the time that was a bit high, basically double the retail price, the problem is shipping it, it's very expensive to do so.
I guess we all have to make individual decisions as to what works for us.
For 1200USD + shipping you could get one made up with nowadays technology there would have to be some company out there that could do it and have change for one for your mates I reckon.^&grin
Actually, not sure how true this is in reality. When I talked to Ron in Chicago, I thought one of the headaches towards the end before his retirement was production challenges.
All of that said, I don't know what the castle is worth, but I do know that there was never a huge amount of sets made, they always sold out and fast. I kept this castle and got one of the later years add on Duke's keep. It is a neat piece.
Think about his other stuff, when is the last time you saw the full scale Pirate Ship Mint in the box ? for under $800?
This kind of large pieces are truly seemingly harder to make nowadays.
Like I said, I don't know if $1200 is worth it or not, that has to be an individual decision as you are the one who is "stuck enjoying" it! I just have different thresholds when I am buying for my own collection or buying to resell, you have to have 2 different takes.
TD
Tom I don't mean this exact one but a 1/32 or 1/30 scale castle could be made cheaper even as a one off.
Its only foam.
Tom are you talking about the red or blue pirate ship Ron made a few years back goes for 800.00?