Check your stashes - Woolies and Coles collectibles are selling for $500 a piece

That new pile of cardboard clutter in your child’s room could be hiding a very valuable paycheck that you didn’t know existed.

It feels like only the other day that we were still finding random Woolworths’ Disney Worlds of Wonder cards between pillows on the couch and in the back seat of the car - and now completely new collectibles have already replaced them.

Just four months since kids (and let’s face it, a lot of adults) went mad for those cards, Woolworths and Coles have sent us all scurrying and swapping yet again - my household included.

Woolworths’ offering is Minecraft Cubeez: a collection of 40 cardboard element blocks of characters from the popular game, such as Enderman, Steve and Alex.

Coles, meanwhile, is serving up a series of 72 Harry Potter Magical Discs - plus four special editions and one rare one for the lucky few. 

Both the Coles and Woolworths promos - which give customers one Cubeez or Harry Potter Magical Disc with every $30 purchase - end March 11 (or while stocks last).

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The hype is real

With hype for both collections now at its peak, those who’ve managed to score complete sets already and even more luckily, some ultra rare pieces, are cashing in online, just as many have done with all the supermarket freebies that preceded them.   

A quick Google search, however, has left us gobsmackingly shocked at just how much some of them are apparently worth, so much so that we’re rifling through any spot the kids may have left one in the hope that it’s worth a pretty penny - if they can bare to part with it, that is.

According to sellers on eBay, there are two collectibles that are generating some serious moula.

One is an ultra rare Minecraft Cubeez 112/150 Gold Helmet Makena, which is being auctioned off for $500 on this listing. That’s right, five hundred big ones.

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Not to be outdone, there’s a Coles collectible that’s just as coveted. A seller in this listing has also put a $500 price tag on a super rare Year 1 Harry Potter Magical Disc. A rare Dumbledoor disc is also fetching $500. Holy Hogwarts!

If your crew has collected an entire set of standard blocks or discs, then that could fetch a tidy sum, too.

Listings such as this one are selling them for a whopping $149 - oh and you get the album included, too. What a bargain … not!

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Image: eBay

You can get the whole set - very easily!

This Harry Potter set is slightly more er, affordable at $130. If you’re after the full set, there are listings which are far less greedy, but the going rate seems to be a minimum of $90 or so.

Given that opportunists are selling stacks of unopened packs for anything from $20 to $50 (and in some areas, much less on Facebook Marketplace), the value of rare ones, much less the collections, may not hold are potentially more sellers flood the market with their finds in the three weeks left of the promotion. There are also plenty of Marketplace ads willing to trade for free. 

But hey, in a cost-of-living crisis, who would begrudge anyone for getting Mine-crafty trying to make some easy cash from a lucky score at the supermarket. 

Originally published as Check your stashes - Woolies and Coles collectibles are selling for $500 a piece