The value of LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean’s new gift-with-purchase is skyrocketing on the aftermarket, while the shipping date for the set itself is getting increasingly further away.
Over on BrickLink, sales of 5009609 Captain Jack Sparrow’s Compass have steadily risen in price over the past few days, starting at £36.99 and topping out most recently at an eye-watering £81.22. You’re looking at a similar bill if you head to eBay instead, where recent copies have sold for around the £85 mark on average, but several have reached three figures. One copy sold yesterday for a remarkable £135.
That’s getting close to half the value of
You don’t need to do that, though: unlike the GWP, the set will eventually be restocked at LEGO.com, and you can still place an order in most regions at the time of writing. It is on back order, mind, so you’ll have a bit of a wait on your hands. In the UK, the current shipping date is November 7, while in parts of Europe and the US the model will simply ‘ship in 60 days’ – which from publication date of this story is November 15.
As of September 14, the Black Pearl was back-ordered to only October 7 in the UK, so it’s jumped another month in the past few days. Mad as it sounds given it’s only September, now is probably the time to pull the trigger if you want to secure your copy of
Check out our review of 10365 Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship here.
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