How the cost of collecting a set mounts up
FOOTBALL STICKER ALBUM
Merlin’s Premier League 2017.
BUY packets of five stickers for 50p. You also need a s sticker album for £1.99 w which comes with six stickers. It takes 344 to complete an album. If you found every sticker you wanted when purchasing packs, it would cost £35.49 to complete the collection. But this is never going to happen. You can swap stickers with friends as well as buy up to 40 missing stickers from Topps Direct for 10p each with no postage charge.
SKELETON BODY
How Your Body Works magazine subscription. This enables you to build a skeleton with organs and muscles over 80 weeks.
THE first issue is 99p, the second £2.99, then £5.99. This means a total cost of £471.20 with the last part of the 1.1-metre skeleton arriving one and a half years on. Sold by National Geographic.
JAGUAR E-TYPE
Jaguar E-Type 1:8 scale model.
COMPLETE with working lights, leather upholstery, opening doors, bonnet and boot. First delivery £1.99 – including issues one and two (online only). Issue two costs £4.99 in the shops. Followed by two magazines with parts for £17.98. Thereafter, every four weeks four magazines with parts sent for £35.96 – £8.99 per issue. Takes 100 issues for all parts to be received. Total cost £888 or £883 online. Provided by De Agostini.
MILLENNIUM FALCON
This Star Wars flying machine is built to the scale of the original Empire Strikes Back movie prop.
INCLUDES working lights and detailed cockpit interior and is just under a metre long.
Initial pack comprises four issues s with parts for £9.99. Thereafter £35.96 for four magazines and parts sent every four weeks.
It is a 25-month subscription deal, costing in total £873.03. Offered by De Agostini.
R2-D2 ROBOT Build your own Star Wars robot – ‘the ultimate interactive droid’.
THE first two issues complete with parts costs £2.99. Model extras include voice recognition, projector, remote control app and an in-built camera.
Standard issue price is £8.99 and the model is complete in 100 issues. Four issues are sent every four weeks.
Total cost £884. Offered by De Agostini.A ti i