Set 42602
Space Research Rover
Retired Jan 2025Retail price$49.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$52.50Typical sealed asking price · 14 listings
Recently sold$42.00Only 1 sale so far — too few to lean on
vs retail+5%Worth more than it cost
Flat since retirement
Still trading near its $50 retail price. Retirement alone hasn't moved it.
How much is LEGO 42602 Space Research Rover worth?
LEGO 42602 Space Research Rover is worth about $52.50 sealed right now, based on 14 live sealed listings on eBay. That's 5% above its $49.99 retail price. It came out in 2024 with 514 pieces and 2 minifigures. It was retired in Jan 2025. Over the last 89 days its typical asking price has risen 7%, from $48.99 to $52.50. We last checked it yesterday.
Price history
Value history
Oct 27$5314 listings
- Lowest
- $49
- Highest
- $53
- Change
- +7%
- Asking vs retail
- +5%
27 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily
Should you buy it?
Retired, but it never really took off. Some sets just don’t.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$53
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$8
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$2
Shipping · est. from 514 pieces−$13
Reaches you$29
Pay no more than$23
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$42
1 sold in six monthsUsed
$30
1 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 25% more than buyers actually paid. The $53 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
- 42602
- Theme
- Friends
- Released
- 2024
- Status
- Retired Jan 2025
- Pieces
- 514
- Minifigures
- 2
- Retail price
- $49.99
- Value per piece
- $0.102
- Price confidence
- high · 14 listings
- Last checked
- yesterday
Where these numbers come from
eBay14 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $53. Last checked Oct 27.See the listings →BrickLink1 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $42 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 24.Open the price guide →Catalogue514 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $50.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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