Lego bricks outshine gold bars as investments, study finds

Parents, Don't let your kid open those boxes. Actually, don't even show them to the kids.

From CNET:

Could Lego sets be the building blocks of a stronger investment portfolio? A study has that found Lego sets may be a better investment than gold. 

Lego did better than traditional investments like gold, stocks and bonds -- yielding an average return of about 11 percent from 1987 to 2015, according to the study published recently out of Russia's Higher School of Economics.