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How to identify and value LEGO® minifigures and sets
Plain-English guides to working out what your minifigures and sets are actually worth — how photo scanning works, how market value is calculated, and how to get a whole collection catalogued without typing a single part number.
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The Best AI Tool to Value LEGO® Minifigures in 2026 — and How to Judge One
Everyone with a camera can now claim to "identify LEGO with AI". Very few tools survive a shoebox of seventy mixed figures. Here are the six tests that separate the two — and honest answers for how Brick Loupe does on each.
ValuationWhat Are My LEGO® Minifigures Worth? Point a Camera and Find Out
You have a box of minifigures and no idea what is in it. The slow way is a part number and a search box, four hundred times over. The fast way is one photograph.
IdentificationHow to Identify Any LEGO® Minifigure From a Photo — No Name, No Number
You are holding a figure you cannot name, and searching "blue knight with gold crown" gets you nowhere. Here is how a photo becomes an identification — and how to take a photo that works first time.
Bulk scanningHow to Value a Whole Pile of Minifigures at Once (Not One at a Time)
One figure at a time is an arithmetic problem: seventy figures times two minutes is a lost afternoon. The whole point of photo scanning is that a pile is one job, not seventy.
SetsWhat Is My LEGO® Set Worth? How to Price Sets, Boxes and Their Minifigures
A set is a different valuation problem from a minifigure, and the answer often turns out to be counter-intuitive: the figures inside can be worth more than the box they came in.
Collection valueHow Much Is My LEGO® Collection Worth? Track the Total in Your Own Currency
A collection total is a genuinely useful number — for insurance, for estate planning, for knowing whether that shelf is a hobby or an asset. It is also the number people get most wrong.
CataloguingHow to Catalogue a LEGO® Collection Fast — an Afternoon, Not a Winter
Most people who start cataloguing a LEGO collection never finish. The reason is almost never the collection — it is a workflow that costs two minutes per figure and never gets faster.
SellingHow to Price Minifigures Before You Sell — and Spot the One Worth Keeping
Pricing to sell is a different exercise from valuing to know. One wants an accurate number; the other wants a number that attracts a buyer without leaving money on the table.
RarityHow to Tell If a Minifigure Is Rare or Valuable — 7 Signals That Actually Matter
Age is not rarity, and rarity alone is not value. Here are the seven signals that genuinely move a minifigure's price, and the two that people reliably mistake for them.
Getting startedLEGO® Minifigure Scanner: Phone App, Browser, or Extension — Which Should You Use?
The same scan, four places. Which one you want depends on where the figures are — in your hand, in a folder on your desktop, or in somebody else's listing photo.
MethodologyHow LEGO® Minifigure Prices Are Calculated — Our Valuation Methodology
A valuation you cannot interrogate is a number you should not act on. This page sets out where our figures come from, how often they change, and where they stop being reliable.
Inherited collectionsHow to Value an Inherited LEGO® Collection Without Getting Taken Advantage Of
Somebody has handed you boxes of LEGO and an offer. The offer is almost always made before you know what you have — which is precisely why you should not answer it yet.
InvestmentAre LEGO® Minifigures a Good Investment? An Honest Look at the Evidence
The research that gets quoted is real, but it studied sealed sets over three decades — not minifigures, and not the ones in your loft. Here is what it does and does not support.
AuthenticityHow to Spot a Fake LEGO® Minifigure — 8 Checks in Under Two Minutes
Reproductions concentrate on exactly the figures worth counterfeiting. Every check below is physical, which is precisely why no scanner can do it for you.
CMF seriesWhat Are Collectible Minifigures Series Figures Worth? A CMF Value Guide
Collectible Minifigures are the most tradable minifigures there are, and the most commonly mispriced — because three quite different things all get called "a CMF".
ThemesWhich LEGO® Themes Hold Their Value Best? What Drives a Theme's Resale Price
Theme tier lists go out of date the moment a franchise gets a new adaptation. The underlying mechanics do not — and they are what you should actually be reading.
SellingWhere to Sell LEGO® Minifigures — 6 Routes Compared
There is no single best place to sell minifigures. There is a best place for the top three figures in your collection and a different best place for the other two hundred.
InsuranceHow to Insure a LEGO® Collection — What Insurers Actually Need From You
The moment to find out how your collection is documented is not after a flood. Documentation is the whole of insurance for collectibles, and it is an afternoon's work.
CareHow to Clean LEGO® Minifigures Without Destroying Their Value
Printing is where a minifigure's value lives, and printing is exactly what the wrong cleaning method removes. Most damage happens in the first five minutes of good intentions.
StorageHow to Store and Organise a Minifigure Collection So It Keeps Its Value
Sunlight is the expensive one. Everything else on this page is tidiness; light exposure is the difference between a collection and a faded collection.