Quote: Originally Posted by 180husher And finally, the minifigures can work to your advantage...I just bought two Gungan subs at Target for $35 each and plan on putting the Amidala minifigs on Ebay since they are fetching about $20 a piece. $30 total for about a 1000 pieces of Lego ain't bad.

This can be true, but mostly for larger/more expensive sets like the one you are talking about. I was recently able to pick up another Vampyre Castle for $63 at Fred Meyer and sold 4 of the minifigs for $60. But the cheaper sets it is less true of (though Capt. America and Iron Man disagree with me on this), and at least Ackbar seems to have no value as a minifig (I know, personally sad for me)