Is Toy worth investing? Alternative investment

What is toy?
An object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something.

Value?
This type of investment is usually based on sentimental value as the toys itself does not generate income and usually the materials used to make the toy are just cheap plastic. So for people who are looking forward to becoming a toy collector, I advise getting toys that are popular decade ago and are still going strong now. One of the example are transformer, with it endless cartoon series, comics book and movies, I doubt transformers will be out of value any time soon.

The value of the toy will also increase base on the rarity and the quality of it. A high quality and limited collection toy might double it value in just 1 or 2 years. An example of this is toy produced by “Hot Toy” who hand crafted the face of each toy and create only a limited amount of each series. But again, not all “Hot Toy” will be double in value as the value is again from the sentimental value of the buyers.

Liquidity?
The value of the toy itself is usually base on how willing a buyer is willing to fork out the monies for it as there are no international market or system to guide and process the pricing. The market itself will be quite limited due to the small size of the buyers.

Growth?
This is hard to measure as it will be based on sentimental value with no real system of gauging the toy values.

Advice?
Get limited edition, high quality, long running movie/cartoon/comics series toy and never remove it from its box. Once out of it box, the value tend to drop more than half.

Trade the toy while it there is a cartoon or a movie series on going, this will improve the liquidity.

Does it make good investment?
The value of a toy is hard to predict and usually hard to find a buyers as this is mostly base on impulse buying.

For long term predictable investment? No it will not make a sound investment but it will be fun and entertaining to explore your childhood dream of owning a Iron Man mark 3!

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