While owning Lego is already a pretty expensive hobby, one piece in particular will blow your mind. A 14-karat gold Lego piece donated to a Pennsylvania Goodwill store ended up selling for over $18,000.
Goodwill officials said workers at the store in Du Bois, Pennslyvania, were sorting through a bag of jewelry transferred from the State College Goodwill store when they found a small Bionicle Lego mask.
“You wouldn’t think anything of it. It came in a little old-looking Lego box,” Chad Smith, the vice president of e-commerce and technology for Goodwill in North Central Pennsylvania, said.
The price for the piece was initially listed online for $14.95. “We didn’t know it was worth anything until people started asking if they could buy it for $1,000,” Smith said. When workers researched the piece a bit more, they discovered it was an extremely rare “Kanohi Hau” mask. According to Smith, Lego created only 30 of the gold masks.
“It was a giveaway, and there were 25, I believe, that were given away and five remained for people who actually worked at Lego. So 23 years later, one of these resurfaces and it’s really unique,” Smith said.
Goodwill auctioned the piece and it ended up being sold for $18,100 to an anonymous collector. The gold mask is now believed to be the most expensive Lego piece ever sold, going for more than a 14-karat solid gold 2×4 brick that sold for $15,000.