Set 8188
Fire Blaster
Retired Nov 2010Retail price$9.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$127.00Typical sealed asking price · 6 listings
Recently sold$98.00Only 1 sale so far — too few to lean on
vs retail+1171%Worth more than it cost
Proven performer
Up 1171% on its $10 retail price since retiring. Pay under $70 to still make a margin reselling.
How much is LEGO 8188 Fire Blaster worth?
LEGO 8188 Fire Blaster is worth about $127.00 sealed right now, based on 6 live sealed listings on eBay. That's 1171% above its $9.99 retail price. It came out in 2010 with 68 pieces and 2 minifigures. It was retired in Nov 2010. We last checked it yesterday.
Price history
Value history
Oct 23$1276 listings
- Lowest
- $127
- Highest
- $127
- Change
- 0%
- Asking vs retail
- +1171%
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?
Retired 16 years ago and now 12.7× retail. The people who bought two are very happy.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$127
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$19
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$4
Shipping · est. from 68 pieces−$5
Reaches you$99
Pay no more than$76
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$98
1 sold in six monthsUsed
$26
6 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 30% more than buyers actually paid. The $127 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.
Worth more in pieces?
Parted out$37vsSealed$127
Sealed is worth 71% more. Not one to break.
- Minifigures
- $28
- Loose parts
- 77 pieces
Minifigure prices are real completed BrickLink sales. The parts figure is an estimate — the set’s own inventory at the catalogue average, not each piece priced individually. Treat it as a guide, and remember parting out is hours of work and many small sales.
Set details
- Set number
- 8188
- Theme
- Power Miners
- Released
- 2010
- Status
- Retired Nov 2010
- Pieces
- 68
- Minifigures
- 2
- Retail price
- $9.99
- Value per piece
- $1.868
- Price confidence
- medium · 6 listings
- Last checked
- yesterday
Where these numbers come from
eBay6 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $127. Last checked Oct 23.See the listings →BrickLink1 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $98 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 21.Open the price guide →Catalogue68 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $10.See the catalogue entry →
eBay links are affiliate links — if you buy after clicking, we earn a small commission at no cost to you, and that is what pays for the site. BrickLink has no such programme, so those are plain links. Neither changes what we show or what we say about it.
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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