SortStack #507 — 2027-10-29
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- LEGO's giant Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon set $850
At over 7,500 pieces it is one of the largest LEGO sets ever sold — sealed originals of the 2007 version have resold for several times the new price.
- An iPhone Pro at launch $999
The components inside an iPhone cost Apple roughly half the sticker price — the rest covers R&D, software, marketing, and famously healthy margins.
- The cheapest new car sold in America, a Nissan Versa $17K
The sub-$20,000 new car is nearly extinct in the US — in 2019 there were over a dozen models under that line; now essentially one remains.
- The largest lottery jackpot ever won, a single-ticket Powerball prize $2B
The 2022 winner, a California man, took the lump sum of just under a billion dollars — then made headlines buying multiple mansions.
- Chelsea Football Club, in the forced sale of the Abramovich era $3.1B
The 2022 sale was forced by UK sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine — proceeds were earmarked for war victims, and it became the priciest sports team sale to date.
- The International Space Station $150B
Often called the most expensive object ever built, the ISS has been continuously inhabited since the year 2000 and orbits Earth about sixteen times a day.