Most expensive LEGO® Minifigure

In February 2014, Andre Hurley, of Roosevelt in New York, USA, paid $15,000 (£10,595) for a platinum LEGO Avohkii Mask of Light, the most ever paid for a Lego Minifigure. The design is part of the now-discontinued Lego Bionicle line, and the platinum piece is the only one of its kind made.

The Platinum Avohkii Mask of Light was originally awarded as a prize in the Cartoon Network’s Toonami Sweepstakes competition in October 2003. The winner, Chase Koches, from Santa Rosa in California, was only 11 years old at the time. In 2012, Koches needed money and sold the mask to Caleb Raff, the owner of The Brick Hutt LEGO® store, also in Santa Rosa. The estimated value at the time was $7,000 (£4,944). Just two years later, the price had more than doubled and Raff, perhaps understandably, decided to sell up.