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00:00Coming up on Cards and Collectibles.
00:06How the internet changed card collecting forever.
00:12Legendary players and historic sets in this rugby card collection.
00:18And we check out a Lego room where everything is awesome.
00:23There's hidden treasures all over this country.
00:30Vintage sports cards, they're almost like antiques.
00:33Come on a journey with Cards and Collectibles Australia,
00:36where collectors from across the continent unite to showcase their treasures.
00:41It's got to be seven figures, it's got to be a million dollars plus.
00:45Witness the passion, the money and the stories behind Australia's most coveted collectibles.
00:51Back then they were laughing and now they call me a genius.
01:00We all remember playing with Lego as kids.
01:03But most of you likely put that aside when moving into adulthood.
01:07Today there are millions of Lego enthusiasts around the world
01:11who continue to bring their imagination to life one brick at a time.
01:21My earliest memories of Lego was when I was younger, probably seven or eight, building Lego.
01:26Creating my own builds and it started from childhood.
01:34This is my Lego room, let me show you around.
01:36So we have our Ghostbusters HQ here with our Ecto-1 just below that.
01:42And followed by our custom Ghostbusters train station with our Ghostbusters Fighting Slimer.
01:51Moving up here we've got all our Lego modular buildings, also our custom concert stage.
01:58And then when we walk around here we've got our massive Daily Bugle and pop culture area.
02:07And my favourite building, the Avengers Tower, which is the tallest building in the city.
02:13Then also we have our underground subway with our shops.
02:29In this area here we have our Santa Monica LA vibes.
02:33We've got our beach area with our apartments and shopping complex.
02:37How I've tried to give my city some sort of structure is thinking about some of the things that I actually want to include in the city.
02:49And one of those was an amusement park.
02:55So I really try to think of what I would see when I'd go to an amusement park myself
02:59and start to include that in the build.
03:02We have our roller coaster, we've got our Ferris wheel, carousel.
03:06All things that you'd see in your typical amusement park.
03:10The first time I lit up Lego was around 216.
03:14I just bought a bunch of light kits.
03:28Once you add lights it just really gives you a sense of realism.
03:32Like if you could shrink yourself, you could live in the city.
03:34So yeah, just the whole realism of it just really looks good.
03:40I've actually made my own little figure of myself in my city.
03:43At the moment he's standing on a pier fishing, which I don't even do.
03:46But I tend to move him around depending on where I feel like he should be at that particular time.
03:51One of the rarest sets, the Lego Star, was Death Star.
04:00I was able to find someone online that was selling it.
04:02And I actually didn't build it for another three years after that.
04:05And I ended up building it the year that my wife was pregnant.
04:09And I smashed it out over a weekend.
04:11So I think I sat for 20 hours.
04:17My favorite Lego set in the room is my Batwing.
04:20I'm a huge Batman fan.
04:21And when they released this set, I knew I had to get it and add it into my room.
04:25It's one of the focal points of the room when you walk in.
04:28And because it's my man cave, the most favorite part about it is I can turn it on with my phone.
04:33Because I'm Batman.
04:37I love creating.
04:38I love seeing the awesome things that can be built just by using Lego bricks.
04:42You know, sometimes I come down in the room and I just sit.
04:46I put music on and I could be building for hours.
04:49Like I don't even look at the time.
04:50Next minute I'll check my phone and it's like 3 o'clock in the morning.
04:53It just takes you away from everyday life.
05:02If I charge my hourly rate to do this over, let's say, 13 years of collecting,
05:06I would be well and truly a millionaire.
05:17Whether you're looking for singles, boxes or card accessories,
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05:30Lego, it's a brand that has spanned numerous generations, spawned reality TV shows, animated movies and ignited imaginations across the globe for decades.
05:47And when it comes to prices, Lego can certainly hold its own amongst the many other collectible categories, despite typically being a mass produced product.
05:55Would you believe though, one of the most valuable Lego items is not in fact a full set.
06:01It is the 2013 San Diego Comic Con Spider-Man mini figurine.
06:05With only 350 in total being released, these mini figs have an estimated value of around $25,000 each.
06:13For more record sales or to see the value of your collectibles, download the 130 Point app today.
06:25There's been many pivotal additions to the hobby in the last century, like autograph cards, parallels, card grading and more.
06:33But nothing has changed the landscape more than the invention of the internet.
06:50Our shop being opened in the 90s before the internet, people used to come into the store with a little book or a bit of paper with all their want lists.
06:57You know, they have a checklist, the cards they needed for sets.
07:01And basically what collectors would do is go from shop to shop or a card show, trying to search,
07:06because that was the only means you had to try to fill the cards that you needed for your sets.
07:13All of a sudden, with eBay cards that you had never seen, all of a sudden they were accessible.
07:18You could see what that card looked like, that card that you'd never seen before.
07:23So the internet was great for that purpose of collecting.
07:30The internet really helped with finding what your cards were worth,
07:34because I guess there was the Beckett that we all used to look up card prices.
07:38But they were always estimates.
07:40With the internet, you would have instant sales of cards,
07:42so you could obviously track what cards were selling for.
07:45So it was a great tool to price and value cards.
07:50I can remember when eBay first started and there was no such thing as PayPal or,
07:55you know, bank transfers or anything back then.
07:58You had to physically go to your local post office and get a money order.
08:02They sent it to the US, probably takes two or three weeks to get there.
08:05The seller would get it, cash the money order, then send your item.
08:09So like the whole process would take, you know, six to eight weeks.
08:12Obviously today it's a lot easier.
08:19With collecting today, the internet's just opened up so many more things.
08:22Obviously social media is a big thing.
08:24There's lots of Facebook groups where you can buy and trade.
08:27That's a really good platform for that sort of thing.
08:29Instagram's a good way of showing off your collections.
08:32With Instagram, people are starting to share cards in their collections
08:35that you never knew were out there.
08:37And some of these collections, what you see is absolutely amazing.
08:44With buying cards off of say Facebook, you're not buying it through like an eBay format
08:48where there's lots of fees and everything.
08:50Generally they'll be a little bit cheaper than eBay because they're not paying the fees.
08:54So that's a great way of getting cards at a better price.
08:58Oh, Steph Curry.
09:01A live box break, you buy in and you get a spot in a break.
09:04So you might have a team and obviously with say NBA, there's 30 teams.
09:09So there's 30 different spots.
09:10The person breaking the box will unseal all the packets live on camera.
09:15At the end of the break, obviously if you had say the Los Angeles Lakers,
09:18any cards of the Los Angeles Lakers are yours and so forth with all the other teams.
09:23Oh my God.
09:24It's LeBron, is it?
09:25Oh my God.
09:26It's LeBron James.
09:28One of one.
09:29Wow.
09:30It's a good way, especially with really high end products.
09:33It's a good way of buying into products that you probably wouldn't go and buy a pack
09:37or a box of, but this way it gives you a shot at hitting some great cards.
09:41And there it is.
09:43The Zion logo, man.
09:45You spend maybe $25 or $50, $100 to go into a break and you may or may not hit a card.
09:53So you may spend $100 in a break and not hit anything.
09:56It's like playing at the casino.
09:58You're not always going to get something back for your money.
10:00Ja, Morant.
10:02The demand for breaks and the demand for product has really increased prices of product
10:07because there's just such a demand for it.
10:09That's probably one of the downsides of breaking being so popular,
10:12is for the general collector to walk in and buy a box or a pack of cards.
10:16It has become a bit more expensive.
10:21One of the big things with buying cards from overseas was the cost of postage.
10:26There's been some companies, and one in particular, Ship My Cards,
10:29where you buy cards in the US and it gets shipped to that US mailing address
10:34and you could sort of hold your cards there and then get one big shipment sent.
10:38Something like that has been an absolute blessing for collectors around the world.
10:42Just making things a lot cheaper to get sent to you.
10:48Whilst the internet has made it simple to buy pretty much any card they want instantly,
10:53nothing beats catching up with like-minded people and trading in person at your local card shop.
11:05After the break, we tackle the history of rugby cards.
11:08And Matt shows us some of his own Lego creations.
11:15Which jersey is Arthur Beetson wearing in his 2005 Select Power Legend Signatures card?
11:23A. Balmain
11:25B. Easts
11:27C. Redcliffe
11:29D. Australia
11:30Find out after the break.
11:37Welcome back. Did you select the right answer?
11:40Let's find out.
11:48Rugby league has long been a cornerstone of Australian sport.
11:52As the game's popularity continues to grow,
11:54so too does the demand for NRL-themed collectibles, especially trading cards.
12:06Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of Australia and this was his weekender.
12:10There's no better place to have my dance NRL Cumberland Oval bar than right here.
12:16I've got all sorts of game worn jerseys and jackets from past rugby league legends.
12:20Collect the cans, tons of autographed memorabilia, just everything.
12:27Another thing I've been collecting is the rugby league bound volumes.
12:30I love the official released bound volumes.
12:33Rugby league news only came out in 1920 and I've been trying to collect all the bound volumes to fit in my library there.
12:40As much as I love all the rugby league memorabilia, my real passion is the rugby league cards.
12:44That was the first thing that I got started to collect and it's my pride and joy.
12:47I remember as a kid, I used to give my lunch money to another student who was knocking off his father's footy cards and I was actually losing weight because I wasn't eating lunch.
13:03My mum was getting worried because I was actually getting skinnier and skinnier.
13:06What footy cards do, especially the old ones, it takes you back to when you were a child, when you were a young kid and all the memories you have of collecting those footy cards.
13:14The earliest known cards we know are 1910, so they've been around for over a hundred years.
13:22There is one set in particular that really interests me, from a lolly company back in the day.
13:27Right in front of me here, I've got a 1925 Cane Sweets rugby league card collection.
13:32I've only been able to collect a handful of those. I really love the idea that these are not tobacco cards, they're something different, they're found in a packet of lollies.
13:45To have a card that's over a hundred years old, of some very famous players, or they might have played for clubs such as Glebe or University.
13:52There's not many footy cards for those teams.
13:56We've got some famous names here, Harold Holder, Frank McMillan, Snowy Ladder, all played for Australia.
14:03The average collectors would be familiar with Scanlan's bubblegum cards.
14:08Scanlan's bubblegum cards first came out in 1963, there was 18 cards in that set.
14:14They've got a beautiful colour background with the player running or an action shot.
14:17The 1963 Scanlan's are so rare that even a very poor condition card is still going to spend $500 easy.
14:25To find a pristine card of Reg Gaznia, you're looking at $4,000.
14:36Late 80s, early 90s, rugby league card sets were basically one set of cards for the whole year.
14:42And then in 1994, Dynamic Marketing came in and the sets became something quite different.
14:52There were a lot of different chase cards, there were special gold cards.
14:56There were even gold cards with signatures on them, which are very rare and hard to get.
15:01It just completely revolutionised the collector's market.
15:03Managed to complete Dynamic Marketing in 1994, Series 1 and Series 2.
15:10Complete Master Set.
15:12That's included in all the error cards, promo cards, signature cards.
15:16And it's a great feeling, there's over 700 cards in that set.
15:22In 2008, 100 years of rugby league in Australia, Select released the Centenary set,
15:28which is the pinnacle of rugby league card collecting in Australia.
15:33There are a lot of different subsets, but the best thing about this set is the Immortals signature cards.
15:37These ones you can't even find any more and they retail for around $2,500 per card.
15:49Most of them have passed away now.
15:51Arthur Beetson, Johnny Raper, Graham Langlands, Reg Gasnier.
15:55Some of the biggest names in rugby league and all in one set.
15:58It's a fantastic set.
15:59Whilst rugby league cards are my passion, one of my prized possessions is the first ever Dally M Trophy which was issued,
16:09and that was to Percy Knight.
16:11And the reason it was issued to him first is because it was the lower ranking Dally M Trophy award,
16:17and it was issued to Balmain alphabetically, was the first team released as a favourite player.
16:21The grandeur of being the first ever Dally M and to have it in my bar is definitely a talking point.
16:32It is one of the most recognised symbols of rugby league.
16:36I'm forever grateful it sits in my bar and in pride and place on the Cumberland Oval Bar.
16:40Who remembers Yo-Yos?
16:59Yo-Yos have been around for centuries, but in the 80s and 90s they made a massive comeback thanks to brands like Coca-Cola.
17:05Coke branded Yo-Yos made by Russell became playground status symbols with tricks like walk the dog and around the world.
17:14The Yo-Yo craze had kids everywhere mastering the spin.
17:18I remember having Yo-Yos back in primary school and I remember one day we had a group of, I guess, professional Yo-Yos came to our school and was trying to show us all our tricks.
17:27I wasn't very good at it, but I tried.
17:30Head to our socials and tell us what you remember about Yo-Yos.
17:35Earlier in the show, Matt took us on a tour of his impressive Lego city.
17:44Above ground, it's home to many of Lego's most important sets.
17:48But beneath the surface lies some incredible builds, not from an instruction booklet, but instead from his boundless imagination.
17:56Mock building, for anyone that doesn't know, is called my own creation in Lego terms.
18:05I saw people doing it and I thought, you know what, I want to give this a try.
18:08The two things that I actually really wanted to, once I started figuring out that Mock buildings, I needed to do a Batcave and I really wanted to do a Ninja Turtles.
18:18That were like my two top builds that I had to do.
18:21Under the city, we have our Batcave Mock.
18:25We've got the Bat suit room, we've also got the Bat gear and a trophy room where Batman collects all his villains items.
18:37I wanted to have villains breaking into the caves and then followed by this area here where the Batmobile will be coming through the entrance.
18:44I thought, you know what, I'm not just going to have Lego pieces as a Bat computer.
18:50I need to step it up.
18:51So I added a little screen, housed it to make it look like a Bat computer.
18:56When I'm creating something on my own, I really try to first research on what I'm trying to build so I can try to make it as accurate as possible.
19:03So when you look at it, you can relate to it.
19:06Oh yeah, I've seen that in the movie.
19:07How I place all my Mocks in the city, I try to make them fit where that makes sense.
19:12Obviously, Ninja Turtles is a no brainer.
19:14They live under New York City.
19:16So we've got the sewer hatch on the city level, which leads you down to the lair.
19:26Certain elements I wanted to include in it.
19:27I grabbed some inspiration from the 1987 Ninja Turtle cartoon that I grew up watching.
19:33And then obviously the 1990 movie that is one of my favorite movies of all time.
19:38I wanted to have their rooms where they sleep and I had to have them color coordinated.
19:45I know Donatello has like a lab, his own little lab.
19:48So I've made a lab specific for him.
19:50Then a training pad because Leo and Raf, they're always, you know, going at it.
19:54So I had to have a training mat for them.
19:56Mikey being the chilled one, I'm like, you know what?
19:58I need to have like a table with pizza.
20:00And he's got like a little PlayStation control chilling on a couch.
20:04And I decided to house a screen in the Lego.
20:07It looks like they're actually watching TV.
20:09One of my favorite movies is Empire Strikes Back.
20:12So I had to do the battle on Hoth.
20:14We've got the rebel base with all the different rooms.
20:18Then we've got our snow speeders flying through to attack the AT-AT.
20:23And then I also added a Wampa Cave, another scene from the movie.
20:27Trying to just capture key elements from the movie that when you look at the build,
20:31you're like, oh yeah, oh my God, I remember that.
20:33He got stuck in the cave.
20:34Or yeah, he's climbing up there trying to like, you know, destroy the AT-ATs.
20:38I am a big Fast and Furious fan.
20:46Lego released Paul Walker's GDR, which is my favorite car of all time.
20:50And then the Dodge Charger.
20:51So when I bought those, built them, added lights to them,
20:54I was like, all right, I need to start getting all the rest of the cars.
20:59There was a couple of custom builds that I found online.
21:02And I custom lit them up because obviously they all had neons.
21:05It was a big thing back in the early 2000s.
21:07There's some cars that I want to include in the collection,
21:10but Lego don't have the right color piece.
21:13So that's when I decided to build and paint one of the R34s
21:18in the original base side blue that the actual car came out in.
21:24It turned out amazing.
21:25Like it looks exactly like you would see in real life.
21:29Then I'm like, you know what? I need a garage.
21:31I've got to make it look like they're hovering around like Toretto's garage.
21:34I've got someone welding, so it's sparking, so they're welding the exhaust.
21:39A little office where Jesse's sitting there designing the Supra.
21:43Anything that I could think of that is supposed to be in a garage, I included.
21:47When I create it or when I design it and then I see it being built and put together,
21:52it just makes me feel really happy that I can actually come up with something like that
21:57and add it into my collection.
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22:10What is it?
22:11And how much can it increase value of your cards?
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