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Sydney Opera House

Icons, 2,989 pieces. One of the sets the Brick Reserve tracks, and if the policy allows it, buys sealed and keeps.

Set 10234

The box

Our packaging design, not LEGO's. Boxes enter the vault sealed and stay that way.
Set number
10234
Theme
Icons
Pieces
2,989
Retail price
$319.99
Released
September 2013
Status
Retired

The reserve can buy this

Rule 02 of the reserve policy is scarcity: a set has to be retired, or have a published retirement date, before any fee money goes near it. 10234 clears that rule, and like every box it would be bought factory-sealed and never opened.

Brickset and BrickEconomy list availability from 1 Sep 2013 to 31 Dec 2016; no longer sold by LEGO as of 2026-09-12. Checked 12 Sept 2026.

What this box costs in trading

$23,703

of $BSTR trading volume funds one Sydney Opera House at $319.99.

  1. 2.7% of every trade reaches the fee router as creator fees.
  2. 50% of that is the reserve's share, so 1.35% of volume becomes brick money.
  3. $319.99 ÷ 1.35% = $23,703 of trading for this box.

Retail is the yardstick. A retired set usually costs more on the secondary market, and the fee split is the one published on the strategy page.

Specs

Assembled height
28 cm
Boxed weight
5.67 kg
Box
58.2 × 48.0 × 17.0 cmwidth × height × depth
Sealed value
$450.00BrickEconomy, 12 Sept 2026

In the vault

No box of 10234 is in the vault yet. Every acquisition is logged on-chain in order and appears on the acquisitions page with its receipt, photo and custody record.

The war chest is currently saving for 10307 Eiffel Tower, not Sydney Opera House. See the war chest.

Check it yourself

Piece counts, weights and retirement dates come from these pages. LEGO.com opens its search for 10234, because a retired set no longer has a live product page.

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The reserve buys sealed boxes only, under three rules: 01 Sealed, 02 Scarce, 03 Liquid. Holding $BSTR gives no claim on this box or any other, there is no redemption, and sealed sets can lose value. The sealed value above is a dated reference, not a forecast.

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