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LEGO The Hobbit (Bilbo Baggins Minitoy Edition)

XBOX ONE
LEGO The Hobbit (Bilbo Baggins Minitoy Edition)
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment4/11/2014Europe

Sometimes the smallest collectible in the box is the entire reason you buy it. The LEGO The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins Minitoy Edition on Xbox One packages the base game inside a sturdy cardboard box alongside an exclusive Bilbo Baggins LEGO Mini Toy that you won't find in any standard LEGO set.

This was a UK GAME stores exclusive, which means the supply was limited to a single retailer in a single region. That kind of distribution makes surviving copies genuinely uncommon, especially when you consider that plenty of buyers ripped the minifigure out and tossed the rest. Finding one sealed, with Bilbo still nestled in his box, is the collector's equivalent of finding the Arkenstone.

LEGO game editions with exclusive minifigures occupy a strange and wonderful corner of collecting. They sit at the intersection of two massive communities, LEGO builders and game collectors, which means demand comes from both sides while supply stays fixed. The sturdy cardboard box gives it decent shelf presence too, standing taller than a standard case. For anyone building out an Xbox One LEGO collection or a Middle-earth display, this Bilbo edition is the kind of piece that ties a shelf together.