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Rare Skylanders toys fetching over $900 on eBay

Eddie Makuch
By Eddie Makuch, News Editor

Collection of six silver and gold action figures drawing huge premium in online auction house with more than a day left to go.

How much is too much to pay for a collection of toys? eBay bidders for Activision's Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure have weighed in with their wallets and are offering close to $1,000 for rare Skylanders toys.

Bidding on an eBay listing (spotted by Game Informer) for a collection of six rare gold- and silver-hued Skylanders toys has reached $948 from 32 bids as of press time on Friday, with more than a day left to go. The characters themselves are available at retail for about $10, but not colored gold and silver.

Would you pay $1,000 for a set of toys?

Would you pay $1,000 for a set of toys?

The eBay seller is based out of the United Kingdom, with shipping fees estimated to cost around $50, before any applicable additional charges.

During its financial report last week, Activision said it had sold 20 million Skylanders toys. Additionally, a new Skylanders title--Skylanders Giants--is due out this fall. As its name suggests, that game will feature larger Skylanders characters, as well as some that light up.

For more on Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, check out GameSpot's review.

Eddie Makuch
By Eddie Makuch, News Editor

Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He lives in Connecticut, works out of the company's New York City office, and loves extra chunky peanut butter.

52 Comments

  • Killer6b9

    Posted Apr 16, 2012 9:37 pm GMT

    @ granasaberx

    Oh the one posted just shy of a month before his wonderful comment......well I posted one 4 days before he was smart enough to read the first post, he is still trying to read iamnessie's comment so I guess he will comment on my 2nd post before long and maybe even my 3rd one by the end of the year. I don't try to start arguments on a web site, but I am not going to tolerate some immature idiot calling me ignorant when they clearly have no idea who I am or simply anything what so ever about me. If people just have rude and stupid things to say they need to keep it to themselves. This is for people to comment on the article at hand and not to trash other individuals on their thoughts. The rule everyone should live by is to respect people if they want respect in return, but thank you for pointing out that I had the old post that was in all caps, I almost forgot about it! You have a great day!

  • granasaberx

    Posted Apr 16, 2012 6:25 pm GMT

    @Killer6b9 He's referring to your first post

  • FlashCharge

    Posted Apr 16, 2012 2:24 pm GMT

    Unbelieveable!

  • Killer6b9

    Posted Apr 13, 2012 4:54 pm GMT

    @ StJimmy15

    Wow I used caps on 2 words in the entire post and you want to call me ignorant.....Only a ignorant retard would even find anything at all good in this article. If all you know how to do is worry about someone using a cap on a couple of words you need to get a life and leave posts to people with some sense in there brains.

  • DitchyJ

    Posted Apr 12, 2012 4:59 am GMT

    lol reminds me of pokemon cards back in the day. My local market was selling shiney ones for like 100 quid...I remember seeing that dragon being sold for 175 quid.

    I have never even heard of this game, or what its about.

  • StJimmy15

    Posted Apr 10, 2012 2:58 pm GMT

    @Killer6b9 Using all caps doesn't get your point across. It makes you look ignorant. On topic, this is ridiculous, but incredibly awesome for the people selling.

  • Killer6b9

    Posted Apr 6, 2012 9:56 am GMT

    Yep was just in the store last night and seen almost every single one of these toys on the self including the start off pack with the game, pad, and 3 figures.........who wants to shell out a grand for them???? I will go buy them today and you will have them over night express delivery.......just what I thought NO ONE! Wish I had money to just burn on retarded nonsense....

  • playstationary

    Posted Mar 31, 2012 5:40 am GMT

    Surely an idiot WOULDNT buy ('stock up') on these figures from the high st stores and then sell them off individually on ebay... Im surprised all this is legal... XD ...until you find out that the toy company have decided to reproduce some of the rare figures, theres money to be made! Not that I could be bothered doing any of it myself. I almost feel sorry for those that are actually spending £100+ on these individual out of the box figures, used or not, just to please their kids.. or themselves, lol

  • iamnessie

    Posted Mar 27, 2012 1:07 pm GMT

    i work at Toys R Us and we gave those figures away for free when people bought the starter kit. Something free went for 2 months worth of my checks.

  • leafsfreak

    Posted Mar 26, 2012 7:06 am GMT

    @00J Your math is terrible.

  • RossRichard

    Posted Mar 24, 2012 1:39 pm GMT

    A fool and his money are soon parted.

  • Killer6b9

    Posted Mar 18, 2012 6:38 pm GMT

    I STILL SEE THESE IN MY STORES....ONLY A COMPLETE IDIOT WOULD EVEN BUY THESE IN THE FIRST PLACE LET ALONE AT 100X THE ORIGINAL PRICE, YOU PEOPLE ARE THE REASON US GAMERS KEEP GETTING FU**D IN THE A$$ THANKS A LOT YOU STUPID MORONS!

  • 00J

    Posted Mar 14, 2012 10:15 am GMT

    @SnakeEyesX80
    It's cool, the money part that is. Don't you think it's interesting how something worth only $10 can get bumped to $1000 just based on popular demand ?

    That's a 90% increase in value!

  • SnakeEyesX80

    Posted Mar 6, 2012 8:13 am GMT

    Why are adults buying these things? I was at the store over the weekend and there was two 20 somethings upset because the store hadn't received their shipment of Skylander toys. This is Beanie Babies madness all over again. lol!

  • DeViLzzz

    Posted Feb 28, 2012 11:07 pm GMT

    Skylanders should have had the figures be more like action figures the kids could play with away from the video game. The chip that is read by that light up base should have been placed in something that could be separated from the actual figure.

  • Suikogaiden

    Posted Feb 27, 2012 2:42 am GMT

    I think Activision may be tweaking the numbers just a bit.

  • SauhlGood

    Posted Feb 22, 2012 3:25 pm GMT

    another great innovation by activision!

    /sarcasmoff

  • Shadow_Fire41

    Posted Feb 21, 2012 7:05 pm GMT

    ........Acitivision, this is just diabolical genius.

    a kind of genius i do not like.

  • PheneonS

    Posted Feb 21, 2012 1:52 pm GMT

    So what happens when they get it and get bored of it?

    ...they get another one! *facepalms*

  • SadPSPAddict

    Posted Feb 21, 2012 3:44 am GMT

    My wife and eldest lad are playing Skylanders in the lounge right now while I am stuck in here "working"

  • The_Jackle

    Posted Feb 21, 2012 1:38 am GMT

    Wow... Just when you thought Activision had nothing else up its sleeve

  • quicksilver_03

    Posted Feb 20, 2012 1:59 am GMT

    I betcha out of the 32 bids...most of it was a shill bidding. I'm not going to pay a $1k for such a toy like that.

  • zzamaro

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 11:57 pm GMT



    I bet there are more collectors that have paid more than than for different stuff

  • majikninja69

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 10:40 pm GMT

    f u c k that

  • RatchetV1

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 4:33 pm GMT

    i only clicked this because i thought it said "over 9000" !!!

  • AvnKnight

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 2:30 pm GMT

    Thats why there Ultra Rare, in 10 years these will be worth 10's of thousands of dollars.... Its called an investment ppl like the ppl that pay 5 dollars for a silver quarter. The value only goes up.

  • Vicky-dragon

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 2:03 pm GMT

    My friend and I love Skylanders, but that's just ridiculous especially since they don't even look that good. What's so special about the gold and silver ones compared to the regular ones?

  • Jynxy425

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 1:28 pm GMT

    Wish I had $$$Money$$$ to burn ...

  • rsevero

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 12:55 pm GMT

    US$ 1,260.46 ... Wow! Things are what people are ready to pay for those! Wasn't me who invented capitalism... hehe!

  • Evenios

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 10:36 am GMT

    its over 900!!!!

  • anger021780

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 8:13 am GMT

    That's just it, they don't have brains...

  • Rioichi21Cooper

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 7:01 am GMT

    And to think that pokemon used to be like this on eBay *facepalm* Use your brains people! That's if you have any!!!

  • sknight175216

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 5:06 am GMT

    Can you imagine if Nintendo did this with Pokemon ha ha...

  • Wormkid_64

    Posted Feb 18, 2012 12:49 pm GMT

    Ebay. One of the world's greatest imbecile detectors.

  • abnergoinbig

    Posted Feb 18, 2012 12:14 pm GMT

    thats stupid

  • Zf21

    Posted Feb 18, 2012 8:03 am GMT

    Look at this: http://forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=44030

  • Xplode_77

    Posted Feb 18, 2012 6:22 am GMT

    :\

  • dxdevilex0

    Posted Feb 18, 2012 1:30 am GMT

    Okay.

    *Goes out to buy some paint and skylander toys*

  • shadowhunter0

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 9:48 pm GMT

    lol and from the looks of it all you use the toy for is to spawn in the character that you are going to play and you use the controller to play the game lol so really those stupid toys aren't really needed once you bring int eh character that you are going to play has so pretty much this game could have been made without those stupid toys

    I might be wrong but that is what it looks like

    and there are far better games out there for me to spend my money on and I can't see why this game is so popular

  • shadowhunter0

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 9:42 pm GMT

    and we all know that they are going to milk the franchise to death like they always do and are going to release a new version every year like what they are doing with cod

  • Alex_Thomson

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 9:32 pm GMT

    It's crazy to think about people believing any of the figures for this game are worth almost $1,000. I'm still amazed by how commercially successful this game has been, I would have never predicted that.

  • Darkmoone1

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 4:57 pm GMT

    Why? Just....why?

  • Link3301

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 2:15 pm GMT

    Supply and demand.

  • Serious

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 2:09 pm GMT

    Just goes to show you that the 1% have absolutely no idea what to do with their wealth. While the 99% know that this isn't it.

  • wurdmann

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 1:41 pm GMT

    Seriously?!?

  • noigel

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 12:15 pm GMT

    Skylander: 10$; gold paint: 5$; a brush: 1$? Seeing how dumb people can be: Priceless...

  • FatmanAB

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 12:11 pm GMT

    with 1000 dollarz i can buy an alienware pc for 600 + a ps3 and 3ds

  • minivirus2

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 10:21 am GMT

    The Pokemon of this decade... Christ some people are dumb.

  • mothboy

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 9:05 am GMT

    ....no.....

  • Grim_Reaper007

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 8:53 am GMT

    I wish I was rich enough to be able to just blow $1000 on toys.

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