u/Professional-Fault32

I just bought 53 minifigs off ali express for around $65. These were all characters that lego has never made, versions of characters they have never made, or minifigs too expensive in the after market for me personally to justify buying.

Listen, I know it’s not real lego, but for me this is the most excited i’ve been for packages to arrive since I was a kid. I genuinely have no idea if they will be of quality, and that’s part of the excitement. If they are quality, even better. This was a fun discovery for me.

I grabbed most of the available invincible characters, and a wide range of marvel characters such as knull and silver surfer. God emperor doom also made the list. I have an unbuilt ucs daily bugle that will be the home to these figures if their quality is worthy enough!

Anyone tried any of these out? I figure there is a reason they are so cheap beyond them being unofficial lego, so we shall see.

I think we are all feeling the nostalgia wave right now. On top of a lot of us who grew up playing the OG game and yearning for those original 2006 sets now having our own income to to start collecting, the new game is dropping soon so I understand the demand for these figures, especially the clayface.

My question for this sub - were these prices for the OG killer moth, Clayface, etc. always this high? Is it purely the demand driving them up, or the fact that they require specific custom molds/prints? I’m assuming the machinery to make these isn’t cheap, so maybe it’s the sellers trying to break even on that?

I’m only asking because these are figures I will eventually have in my possession, I just want to know if I should wait it out for when there is an abundance of custom figures. I mean, if I had the machinery, I would be making as many clayface figures as possible before LEGO finally gives us what is probably the most popular mini figure that was never officially made.

There are listings for the mad hatter for $30 for a solid custom - why doesn’t that figure align with the pricing of killer moth and clayface?

PS: joining this sub has been awesome and viewing it daily always gives me a blast from the past. Picked up the arkham asylum set a couple weeks ago and i’m just looking for time to build it now. Rant over!

Ali Express Figs?