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1488 LEGO Duplo Building Set

LEGO 1488 Building Set is a vintage Duplo set from 1987 valued at $25 for new and sealed sets, up 150% from an original retail price of $9.99. Annual appreciation has averaged 2.38% since release. On the used market, values range from $20 to $23 based on condition.

Set Value (New/Sealed)

This represents the current new/sealed value of the set Building Set since January 1987. Medium accuracy
LEGO 1488 Building Set is a Duplo Building Sets release from 1987. Designed for preschool builders, it was issued to mark the 25th anniversary of LEGO in Italy. The set offered a basic assortment of DUPLO elements for free-form building within the Duplo system. Based on current trends, this set could be valued near $26 within the next year.
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For Sale (New/Sealed)

 (US) Red Minifigure, Head Dual Sided Alien Black Eyebrows, Yellow Eye 3626pb1488
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$25.00

Sets in Duplo / Building Sets

1501 Yellow Bucket

Theme / Subtheme Duplo / Building Sets
Year 1987
Pieces 68
Availability Retired
1501 LEGO Duplo Yellow Bucket
Retail $19.99
Value $102.39
Growth  +412.2%
Annual growth 4.3%

1685 Pre-School Building Set

Theme / Subtheme Duplo / Building Sets
Year 1987
Pieces / Duplo figures 67 / 6
Availability Retired
1685 LEGO Duplo Pre-School Building Set
Retail $25.99
Value $150.11
Growth  +477.6%
Annual growth 7.8%

1544 Duplo Building Set

Theme / Subtheme Duplo / Building Sets
Year 1988
Pieces / Duplo figures 55 / 2
Availability Retired
1544 LEGO Duplo Building Set
Retail $18.50
Value $59.47
Growth  +221.5%
Annual growth 8.9%

1504-2 House Building Set

Theme / Subtheme Duplo / Building Sets
Year 1986
Pieces / Duplo figures 13 / 1
Availability Retired
1504-2 LEGO Duplo House Building Set
Retail $4.99
Value $118.00
Growth  +2264.7%
Annual growth 9.1%

1503 Car Building Set

Theme / Subtheme Duplo / Building Sets
Year 1986
Pieces / Duplo figures 7 / 1
Availability Retired
1503 LEGO Duplo Car Building Set
Retail $2.98
Value $87.18
Growth  +2825.5%
Annual growth 8.8%

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About Duplo Building Sets

Building Sets are the plain DUPLO brick sets, buckets and boxes of bricks without a story. DUPLO started in 1969, and the name comes from the Latin word for double, because each brick is twice as long, wide and high as a LEGO brick. The studs are made to fit, so DUPLO and LEGO bricks lock together and a builder can move from one to the other. For years the plastic bucket was the usual way to sell them, from the 1980s through the early 2000s, often shaped or printed as an animal, a farm or a circus, and some came as anniversary editions. Later sets switched to cardboard brick boxes with ideas for what to build on the side.

Building Sets consists of 182 sets that ran from 1972 to 2018. As of today, 10555 Creative Bucket is the most valuable Building Sets set with an estimated new/factory sealed value of $358.
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