Set 42027
Desert Racer
Retired Dec 2015Retail price$19.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$33.50Typical sealed asking price · 20 listings
Recently sold$18.55Only 2 sales so far — too few to lean on
vs retail+68%Worth more than it cost
Holding value
68% above its $20 retail price. Steady rather than spectacular.
How much is LEGO 42027 Desert Racer worth?
LEGO 42027 Desert Racer is worth about $33.50 sealed right now, based on 20 live sealed listings on eBay. That's 68% above its $19.99 retail price. It came out in 2014 with 149 pieces. It was retired in Dec 2015. We last checked it 4 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 22$3420 listings
- Lowest
- $34
- Highest
- $34
- Change
- 0%
- Asking vs retail
- +68%
2 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily · early days — a line drawn through 2 readings shows what we measured, not a trend
Should you buy it?
Up 68% on retail since retiring. A proper hold.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$34
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$5
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$2
Shipping · est. from 149 pieces−$9
Reaches you$18
Pay no more than$14
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$19
2 sold in six months · $17–$20Used
$9
4 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 81% more than buyers actually paid. The $34 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
- 42027
- Theme
- Technic
- Released
- 2014
- Status
- Retired Dec 2015
- Pieces
- 149
- Minifigures
- —
- Retail price
- $19.99
- Value per piece
- $0.225
- Price confidence
- high · 20 listings
- Last checked
- 4 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay20 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $34. Last checked Oct 22.See the listings →BrickLink2 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $19 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 25.Open the price guide →Catalogue149 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $20.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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