Set 8490
Desert Hopper
Retired Dec 2008Retail price$9.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$49.99Typical sealed asking price · 3 listings
Recently sold—No recent sales on file
vs retail+400%Worth more than it cost
Not enough data
Fewer than 5 listings behind this value — too thin to call.
How much is LEGO 8490 Desert Hopper worth?
LEGO 8490 Desert Hopper is worth about $49.99 sealed right now, based on 3 live sealed listings on eBay. That's 400% above its $9.99 retail price. It came out in 2008 with 92 pieces. It was retired in Dec 2008. We last checked it 4 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 24$503 listings
- Lowest
- $50
- Highest
- $50
- Change
- 0%
- Asking vs retail
- +400%
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?
Only 3 listings behind this. I wouldn’t bet money on the number yet.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$50
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$8
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$2
Shipping · est. from 92 pieces−$5
Reaches you$35
Pay no more than$27
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
Set details
- Set number
- 8490
- Theme
- Racers
- Released
- 2008
- Status
- Retired Dec 2008
- Pieces
- 92
- Minifigures
- —
- Retail price
- $9.99
- Value per piece
- $0.543
- Price confidence
- low · 3 listings
- Last checked
- 4 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay3 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $50. Last checked Oct 24.See the listings →BrickLinkPrice guideNo completed sales recorded for this one yet. Last checked Oct 27.Open the price guide →Catalogue92 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $10.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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