Set 40557
Defense of Hoth
Retired Mar 2024Retail price$14.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$18.45Based on 137 recent sealed sales
Asking now$22.00Typical price on 35 eBay listings
vs retail+23%Worth more than it cost
Holding value
23% above its $15 retail price. Steady rather than spectacular.
How much is LEGO 40557 Defense of Hoth worth?
LEGO 40557 Defense of Hoth is worth about $18.45 sealed right now, based on 137 recent sealed sales. That's 23% above its $14.99 retail price. It came out in 2022 with 64 pieces and 3 minifigures. It was retired in Mar 2024. Over the last 82 days its typical asking price has fallen 12%, from $24.99 to $22.00. We last checked it 8 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 18$2235 listings
- Lowest
- $20
- Highest
- $25
- Change
- -12%
- Asking vs retail
- +47%
26 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily
Should you buy it?
Sellers want $22, but it’s actually been going for $18. Offer low.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$18
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$3
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$1
Shipping · est. from 64 pieces−$5
Reaches you$10
Pay no more than$7
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$18
137 sold in six months · $13–$35Used
$15
2 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 19% more than buyers actually paid. The $22 figure above is a ceiling; this is the floor to negotiate toward.
Completed BrickLink transactions over the last six months. Real sales, not asking prices.
Set details
- Set number
- 40557
- Theme
- Star Wars
- Released
- 2022
- Status
- Retired Mar 2024
- Pieces
- 64
- Minifigures
- 3
- Retail price
- $14.99
- Value per piece
- $0.344
- Price confidence
- high · 35 listings
- Last checked
- 8 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay35 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $22. Last checked Oct 18.See the listings →BrickLink137 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $18 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 24.Open the price guide →Catalogue64 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $15.See the catalogue entry →
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How to read this. The value is the median of live sealed listings, after removing instructions, empty boxes, used sets, multi-set lots and implausible outliers. Real sale prices usually land below asking, so the buy-below figure is deliberately the conservative end of the range.
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