
Speed Champions
RETIRED 2022-03-23 · retail $19.99 · 2020-01-02 → 2022-01-16 · ★ 4.1 (2) · owned by 12,629 · wanted by 2,316
Sealed mark is +142% against retail.
sealed: sells ≈ 5.3×/mo · 77 live asks ≈ 14.4 mo of supply opened: sells ≈ 2.3×/mo · 19 live asks ≈ 8.1 mo of supply
Track your own copy: the archive marks it from real sold comparables the moment it lands, and watches its retirement status from then on.
sc081Nissan GT-R NISMO Driver$2.11BrickLink sold guide, new condition. Figures are excluded from the parts-out figure above — they are priced separately here.
Live asks: opened n=19, median $23.56, from $10 · sealed n=77, median $60.56, from $29.9 · asks are opinions, not value.
Parted out: $17.98 gross · $-3.86 net at 87% of pieces priced.
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The build: the usual formula for Speed Champions: lots of SNOT (yay!) and lots of stickers (boo). There are one or two interesting techniques (namely for the tail lights and front ‘cheeks’), but whereas most of the eight-wide SC cars take advantage of their newfound size to make things a bit more interesting, #76896 doesn’t really have anything above and beyond an imagined six-wide version. As well as having lots of …
This was the first of the newer, larger Speed Champions sets that I purchased. I feel like the change in scale was a double-edged sword, with some benefits conferred at the cost of some compromises made. I like that the sets are now large enough to sit two minifigs side by side. While the older SC sets retain the level of detail and verisimilitude required of them, it was always a gripe that they were only large enou…
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