A rare LEGO minifigure of Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, has just sold in an ad hoc auction for over $15,000.
Director Peter Jackson’s minifigure counterpart has just sold at auction for over $15,000 — former LEGO Design Master Marcos Bessa hosted the auction on his Instagram page.
The auction came as a surprise to Marcos’ followers and LEGO The Lord of the Rings fans when it was posted on June 24. An auction for an ultra-rare LEGO minifigure is an uncommon occurrence to begin with, but it’s doubly so when that ultra-rare LEGO minifigure is one the public had never even heard of.
Peter Jackson’s LEGO minifigure was not something anyone outside of the LEGO Group — perhaps as narrow as the LEGO The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit design team from the early 2010s — even knew existed until Marcos posted the auction on his Instagram. Marcos claims the figure is one of just twenty ever made, none of which had ever been sold publicly before this.
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While details about this figure remain painfully sparse, it’s likely that they were made around 2012, when the LEGO The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit themes released their first sets, and were gifted to designers working on the project at the time.
The figure does share its printing style with the LEGO The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit figures of that era — the face print looks right at home alongside the likes of Aragorn and Boromir (if you can look past the glasses) and the hairpiece is the same one used by Hobbit minifigures. The torso features the One Ring on a chain, just as Frodo wears it in the film and the back has the logo for The Hobbit trilogy. The Hobbit getting the nod over The Lord of the Rings might upset those who vastly prefer the original set of films, but the figure’s extreme rarity can forgive just about any nitpicky details.
Who ended up winning the auction — and what the final price ended up being — are known only to Marcos and the buyer. But the figure did sell for at least $15,000 and is likely to remain the only one of these mysterious Peter Jackson minifigures to hit the market for the foreseeable future.
Custom versions and knockoffs will probably start cropping up on eBay and other sites now that the figure has been unveiled to the public, so if you’re shopping around for a LEGO Peter Jackson, just be aware that they are extremely unlikely to be authentic and should have a price to match that fact.
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