Set 8494
Ring of Fire
Retired Sep 2008Retail price$29.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$29.99Typical sealed asking price · 17 listings
Recently sold$40.00Only 1 sale so far — too few to lean on
vs retail+0%Worth more than it cost
Flat since retirement
Still trading near its $30 retail price. Retirement alone hasn't moved it.
How much is LEGO 8494 Ring of Fire worth?
LEGO 8494 Ring of Fire is worth about $29.99 sealed right now, based on 17 live sealed listings on eBay. That's right at its $29.99 retail price. It came out in 2008 with 268 pieces. It was retired in Sep 2008. We last checked it 4 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 24$3017 listings
- Lowest
- $30
- Highest
- $30
- Change
- 0%
- Asking vs retail
- +0%
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, but it never really took off. Some sets just don’t.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$30
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$5
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$1
Shipping · est. from 268 pieces−$9
Reaches you$15
Pay no more than$12
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$40
1 sold in six monthsCurrent listings sit 25% below recent sale prices — unusual, and worth a look.
Completed BrickLink transactions over the last six months. Real sales, not asking prices.
Set details
- Set number
- 8494
- Theme
- Racers
- Released
- 2008
- Status
- Retired Sep 2008
- Pieces
- 268
- Minifigures
- —
- Retail price
- $29.99
- Value per piece
- $0.112
- Price confidence
- high · 17 listings
- Last checked
- 4 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay17 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $30. Last checked Oct 24.See the listings →BrickLink1 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $40 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 27.Open the price guide →Catalogue268 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $30.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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