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November 20, 2016

The most expensive Blood Bowl miniatures to date ?

When quickly going through the eBay offers a couple of weeks ago, I was quite exited to find a Games Day 2000 limited edition Lizardmen team on auction, including the Kroxigor ! This is a very rare event, the first time I witness one in recent years. For those not familiar with this team, Games Workshop produced 200 copies to distribute during its annual gaming fair event (called Games Day) in 2000. The models themselves are not exceptionnal, they are simple conversions from Lizardmen miniatures from the Warhammer Fantasy Battle range in 2000. You find below the pictures of the miniatures which were actually put on bid by an Italian seller in November 2016. Best pictures you can find at Stuff of Legends.

Games Day 2000 limited edition Lizardmen team
Games Day 2000 limited edtion Kroxigor


I was very curious @ what prices these would sell. I'm not a Lizardmen player so I'd only have a collector's interest , but I would take a shot at getting these legendary miniatures if the final price would be reasonable (= low ☺). My illusion at getting these in possession was quickly broken, as bids rose sharply and still several days remained for the auction to close ! As prices can easily triple in the last hours of an auction, my expectations were high and I was sure these would shatter the record of 115 € for the sales of the unreleased Human Blood Bowl coach !

When the auction finally closed, the Kroxigor went first in a separate auction for 185 € ! Approx. 1 hour later the Lizardmen team was sold for 419 € !!! The same seller also offered the limited edition Skink Cheerleader - not an official part of the Lizardmen team but a fitting company of rare and limited edition Lizardmen miniatures. It went for 47 €, which suddenly sounds quite modest ! That's a total of 651 € for a set of 13 metal figures. "It's only money", a couple of collectors must have thought - I do hope the different miniatures were sold as 1 set to 1 person, this would make an awesome addition to any Blood Bowl collection !

Limited edition Skink Cheerleader
The investment in these ultra-rare miniatures possibly is not even that foolish. Intrigued by the high prices, I did some quick research on the internet, mainly TalkFantasyFootball.org - the collective Blood Bowl memory ! I found a link to a eBay auction from April 2012 in which the team went for 220 €. Much longer ago, in a TFF.org thread from 2002 some collectors discuss the price of the Games Day 2000 Lizardmen team, including GalakStarScraper aka Tom Anderson. It appears in 2002 a price of 150 USD for the complete team was considered "expensive", as 1 auction closed even below 75 USD !

Quite a good return : from 75 USD in 2002 to +600 € in 2016 ! It also means that this team will most probably remain out of reach for those still looking for it, unless they are willing to put an indecent amount of cash for a couple of toy soldiers on the desk - if you can find one. Good hunting !

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  1. Unknown22 November, 2019 23:56

    For what it's worth, not only do I have a full team of these, but I was working for GW at the time and painted the "box art" miniatures - which are the very minis that I have.

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