Astolat Dollhouse Castle
The first place on the list of the most expensive toys and games is Astolat Dollhouse Castle (additionally called Astolat Castle or Dollhouse Castle). It is a museum-first-rate dollhouse, which changed into appraised as "the maximum precious dollhouse withinside the world", at $8.5 million in 2015.
Its super cost is due to its hand-made tricky 800 pounds (360 kg), nine feet (2.7 m) tall, 29 room structure, and its good-sized series of wonderful miniatures together with extravagant furnishings, with operating fireplaces, stained glass panels, and 10,000 handmade miniature portions that encompass unique works of art, gold chandeliers, and the smallest vintage Bible withinside the world. Many of its miniatures, together with a few made from gold, and sterling silver, are vintage and one in a kind. Few different museum first-rate dollhouses meet such criteria.
This masterwork took thirteen years to finish and weighs between 815 and 890 pounds. Its $8.five million rate tag works out at $24,425 a rectangular foot which makes it extra high priced than actual flats in posh localities in New York and London. The Astolat dollhouse is known after the citadel withinside the poem “The Lady of Shallot” penned via way of means by Alfred Lord Tennyson withinside the nineteenth century. The proprietors of this high-priced collectible show off it in numerous famous places to elevate finances for kids’ charities.
Cost: $8.5 million