I think it will become artificially 'rare' just like the first one. Although, just like the GTs, Monaros, Beetles, Coopers etc, they're just 'try-hard' re-releases of a classic item, but designed only to be bought, riding off a name that was popular with real fans, rather than investors.
You people will get way more out of actually opening your lego and building with it, than hoarding it for years to sell to other hoarders. Or in lego-terms: hoarding it for a month until it becomes 'retired' and so, somehow ten times as much as it was yesterday.
The only people who want the sets, are not willing to pay stupid prices for it (because to them, the bricks can be found in any other set) and the only people even holding this weeks flavour-of-the-week sets (because they cleared the shelves out) are people who'll never open them. If all you want is lego boxes, you can have mine. I started keeping them last year when I realised that there were idiots out there actually looking to buy them, hahaha. Empty boxes! What a joke. Probably scammers looking to 'complete' a rare set with bricks they have cobbled together from other sets, who actually know that lego is just lego. You can make whatever you want, if only you're willing to open the box!
To me, this is like the 'COA' crowd. A kilo of gold coins aren't worth anything without the piece of paper saying how awesome it all is, and lego sets aren't worth having unless it's in a sealed box. I get the idea of investing, (money is everything, etc) but does nobody see how ridiculous this is?
Please don't take this as an insult, even though it might sound like one, it is just information:
In the lego world, investors are considered to be absolute scum.
They are thought of as scalpers at the footy. Tickets are all sold out, but there is no shortage of them at the gate at double or triple prices. Some customers may go, "Oh, you saved the day" but most will go, "If the scumbags didn't buy up all the tickets, there would've been plenty of normal priced ones to go around for the actual fans of this stupid game".
