As a collector who solely deals in funko pops, I’ve slowed down a lot because of the weak characters they been coming out with and they over saturation of the market. Funko said they’re going to slow down and not produce so many, which is a good thing.
Same as video games or any other collectible. Do it because you enjoy the hobby. If you collect thinking its gonna payoff your mortgage one day you might be in trouble.
The reason why I love Funko Pops is because of the variety of franchises and characters. There are some characters, specifically animated characters, that rarely get a figure. I love the Hannah Barbera characters but I never see any action figures of them. At most, they’ll get a plushie. I love certain movies like Encanto, but the merchandise is mostly dolls. Pops allowed me to expand my collection by filling it with characters that I like, but either can’t find a figure of or the figure isn’t a part of my demographic. It was never about an investment. I leave them in the boxes, but I like the way they look in the box. I’ll open some to make space. My main problem with Funko is that there’s just too much. My Target just put out the Indiana Jones pops and I got lucky with one. It was the first Pop I bought in months. Besides that, it’s just an over-saturation of Disney brand pops and the same characters with boring-looking designs from uninteresting films. I also thought the "art series" and "UV light" pops were kind of dumb. Finding cool-looking ones are rare. I’m also running out of space lol I’ll still collect them since I find personal enjoyment out of them and I want to get all the cartoon characters I grew up with, but as with everything I’m going to be very picky. It’ll be one of those things I’ll buy every now and then.
I got into Funko Pops over the pandemic too and started going to Cons and getting them autographed and displaying in hard cases at home. I hope they keep their value.
I collect Pops for the pops. I have collected since the beginning. Just so you know, they were already big before the pandemic, during the pandemic, the greatness has fallen off in must-have pops for me.
Funko went wrong thinking that every line needed to have every character made into a figure. Reason why the breaking bad, 300, Pulp Fiction, etc are worth more is because only a handful of characters were made. Now we got every single person that had a line in every disney star wars and marvel movies and TV turned into a Pop.
You can take them out of box, no "value" is lost, people only buy for the condition of the box. So keep the box if you ever want to get rid of it, if that's you're thing.
The biggest problem is that people think they are gonna get rich off of collecting. Not gonna happen with funko pops,toys,hot toys,hot wheels....nothing. Its not the the toys from the 50s,60s,70s or even the 80s. Everything now sells because of hype,when hype is over nobody wants it anymore and price comes down. Collect because yoy like it, not because you think it's gonna make you thousands of dollars. Also you can't compare Funko to Beanies. Funko pops have had more staying power then Beanies by far. Just because they are not valued at what you want them to be dosnt mean the company is in trouble. Again people just mad they can't retire on them. Sorry people life isn't that easy.
I'm still surprised people still buy beanie babies. I have a flea market booth and sell them like crazy. Idk why their still popular unless people wanna relive what they had when they were younger?
As a collector I like the minis more. I dont think pops are going anywhere. They still sell around me, oversaturation and price increases has def not helped
Some of the non-humanoid ones look kind of neat. They just need eyes painted in. The human characters all have that bland, massively oversized blockhead. It's unappealing on so many levels.
I've been buying Funko Pops for almost a decade. I'm slowly selling some of mine on ebay because money is real tight for me right now & need the space. I'm thankful that they're selling. I only plan on keeping the ones I really want. I also planned on buying some action figures & staues this year but having too many bills & inflation has kept me from buying anything right away. Even with the clearance sale on BBTS, I can't buy anything as soon as I would like.
Same here... I won a Star Wars Yoda Pop at my work Christmas party and I had it listed at $9.99 on ebay for literally 2 years before it sold, lol. I couldn't GIVE the damn thing away (I tried 🤣)
I get the impression that they oversaturated the market because, as you say, it's what was available. They thought they were more popular than they were. Eventually, they'll come back around as a kind of nostalgia thing, but for right now, they're definitely on the outs.
My collection consists of characters from stuff I’ve watched or played or my interests. The special ones (ones people have got me as gifts) are the ones that are in cases The emotional value is the most important when collecting
Funko’s pretty big. They have so many licenses that no one makes. They’re nothing like beanie babies. They’re more like Megos. They’re also very successful right now with anime figures and they’re the only ones that still do actual limited figures and SDCC con exclusives. I wouldn’t buy any high prices grails but it’s also one of the only toy lines I like trading for. I’m not the biggest Anime fan so if I can pick up some of those limited ones I can trade for some older horror figures. Also I think the pops are a lot better now. There’s much more detail. IMO you should only buy the pops of licenses you like and you’ll never lose. It’s the guys that do it for profit that can mess up.
I've noticed that Pop figures have been slowing down a lot lately. There was a Pop Vinyl store near my house for awhile but it recently closed down. Pop figures just aren't as popular as they once were.
I only get funko pops of things they won’t make in main toy lines. Things like niche characters or forms in anime. They’re good for making things like that.
For sure. I just recently saw that they did Cow and Chicken and am sorely tempted, especially at those low price points. That is definitely their market.
As a casual Funko Pop collector, i got in to them because some of my friends, that don't collect action figures, where getting in to them. Recently i start finding out that they move out of collecting them. That made me lose interest. So i sold on ebay the ones that where worth more than what i paid, and keep the ones that are worth less than what i paid, in hopes to sell them some day if the go up in value. For now, i have no place to put them, so i put them behind some of my female marvel legends to help them stand.
People keep them in the boxes, so I never see them free to bobble.🤷🏾♂ Thing is turns out they were founded in 1998. They started making real money in 2012, and were publicly traded in 2017 (albeit...at the worst initial public offering in history)
The manufacturing of our clothes do more damage to the environment than any Farto Poop does. Get your head together before you go firing off at the mouth with your misaligned social justice.
You REALLY think it's Funkos filling the ocean? You realize there are "plastic rocks" in the ocean now? They sedimentary material bound together in a matrix of melted plastic.
@Sorrowdusk it's not so much about a crusade against plastic. I see a lot of value in many action figure lines, even if I don't collect them. A good example is DC or McFarlane. I don't collect those, but I can at least appreciate the artistry that went into making them. Funko Pops, on the other hand, have no redeeming value. They're just cheap blobs of plastic. Heck, there's a line called Rock Candy, which has more value. Rock Candy is Funko-esque, but it has more artistic definition to it. Funko Pops are just annoying blobs.
I think pops are nice to collect. However, the market for them has for sure gone down lately. Mainly due to inflation! People are putting their priorities more in check with their budget, than buying pops that are just taking up space. On top of that, some people invest in them in hopes to resell them, but even then, not that many people are buying them at the PPG value, so they're stuck with a large inventory of pops. Also, Funko did increase their prices and most people are just like nah, so now even the stores are stuck with an overflow of pops.
Comparing Beanie Babies and Funko Pops is apples and oranges dude. I do agree Funko has moved away from what made them so popular to begin with.....The excitement of the "chase"....I remember a time when people would line up at retailers to get their hands on that limited exclusive or even a chance at a chase. I do feel like Funko has started to listen to the community on this exact issue but they will never be the next "beanie baby" due to the fact that Funko has a license or something that somebody will want for nostalgia or just a memory of a better time in life.
Any modern collectible is highly speculative. One thing I do think Funko products (soda fan here) do have going for them that's different than beanie babies is the products are based on actual IP that is connected to culture. While I agree the company very well could go belly up I think that's also always been the case in their 25 year history, and thus far, they've defied the odds. It'll be interesting to see how things go with their new leadership.
Been collecting modern action figures since 2013 and I'm proud to say I have never once purchased a POP. I always new they were a joke. Why buy a hunk of plastic when articulated action figures offer so much more? POPs were always just Beanie Babies 2.0.
My son and I collected Funko Pops. It was something we could do together. It was fun for awhile. Now we don't pay much attention to them. We have over two hundred that we're trying to unload.
I have a whole wall of funko pops. My nephews and nieces were always excited to visit my house during the holidays to see all the characters in my collection. Now that I’ve moved they always ask about my funko pop wall. Funko Pops are a happy childhood memory for them.
Ya I took down my whole funko pop display & now its all Mcfarlane DC & Spawn. The ones they're coming out with now all look basically the same with very little detail. You can even find some of the less popular ones at dollar stores now, so ya I think they're on their way out. The only ones that are holding value are the ones they produced between 2010 - 2013. Do they even make chase pops anymore ? Haven't seen any new ones around personally.
I started buying them (Funko Pops) because I just want to surround myself with my favorite characters. My characters they are my only friends and nobody actually cares about me in real life, so I'm here just to be a Funko Pop. And all the Pops at the stores they just sit there.
I tried telling a group they were dead, and this one guy came from left field, “well I just sold one for $2,000” I said yea some still have value but over all the company is failing.
They really shoulda hid the fact that the dumped a ton of Funko pops in the trash. Completely destroyed the idea of them being worth something in the future. I'll still buy em if they release something I want but the days of collecting em just for a collection are over
I could never understand the appeal of these. I bought a few for like $5 but got bored and sold most of them. Now I only have 5 and only 3 of those I want. The other 2 I can't even give away, and have been trying to sell for over a year. I can't imagine trying to unload a ton of these..
I run a funko pop up shop and I can confidently say half of your statement is true pops are losing value buy only ones that have been mass produced as in making money off of funko pop its still thriving maybe in a few years this is something to worry about
One thing ive learned through collecting funko pops is too always try to make a connection with a seller or employee they will save the good stuff for you
When Funko deep sixed all those pops into the garbage you can pretty much figure it will tank the value. That's a pretty big signal to collectors that the ship is sinking.
I was just looking at my Funko app a couple days ago and noticed a bunch of the ones I have that are worth more than a few bucks have all dropped quite a bit, most actually. There were a some exceptions where a few rose in value but not more than five bucks. My Green Ranger with the gold vest and Jack Burton both lost $20 in value in a month
This is a very interesting topic.I used to be a big Funko pop collector not the biggest, i know a lot of collector that have way more then that but i ad 600 pops.Not only Funko pop take a lot of space but since i live in Canada no funko shop exclusive for me because the funko shop don't ship to Canada, i never understood why.Now all the new pops that come out have zero value they are mass produced the chase dont retain value and the quality control suck.Another thing that i hate about pops is the fact that collector give to much importance to the box and not the pop itself.For all these reasons i sold my entire collection.Now i enjoy building and collecting some nice Lego sets.
People still buy them because of fomo, if they miss one its probably the one that will be the rarest. I see them spending $30 on the ones clearanced at places like gamestop, walmart or 5 & below.
I agree with this statement. There seems to be a group of people purposely organizing what goes in a store and what great ones never arrive. Funko Pop betters on the same figure a month later, driving the first figure's popularity and $ of it to crash
I got a ton of Funko pops when they were newer. Collected some Dragon Ball, Power Rangers, Robocop, Predator (translucent Hot Topic variant), I even tried to start up a Marvel vs Capcom collection. The last ones I got were Atomic breath glow in the dark Godzilla and Carnage because those 2 actually looked cool.
I bought my first 6 from Entertainment Earth when they first came out in 2010. They were $34.99 as a set of 6. Now they're all retired. It was Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Penguin, Ridler, and Joker. I love Funko pops. Not all of them, but no one telling anyone to buy all of them. They blew up before the pandemic. You bought them later, but people were buying them. The ones in stores are the ones no one is buying. Unless you get therr when they put the pops out. I bought Miles Target exclusive two of them. I bought the entire new Disney line and the entire set of the new spidervers movie. I'm hoping they retire some of the Disney line. I did well with my pops. If they go out of business. They'll go up even more. You can't find a Spiderman or Wolverine Beannie baby.
@@JockoNorthernsea-rm2co no funko started with bobble heads. He didnt say PoPs are 25yrs old. The pop trend concept is a phrase and a collectible its confusing.
Funko is not like the beanie baby era. Smh. Ppl been saying the same thing with pokemon. Lol ppl think too much ahead.. n prices is always the same. Up n down. And about the dumping. That happens every year. They get credit for it. Lol you guys too funny. 😂 but it's fun watching
I think my local FYE store closed because of these things.I used to buy figures,CDs,DVDs and other stuff in there.One day I walked in and %75 of the store was Funko pops.Needless to say the store was empty of customers and a month later the store was closed.
I was never into Funko Pops though I own a few given to me as a gift 🎁 Again I urge you all to hold on to your stuff as they will become unavailable as we move forward. In time it will no longer be available and maybe it will be valuable for nostalgia customers and collectors. If not then simply keep them for the nostalgia
I collect Funko Pop’s for specific shows for when I meet voice actors and actors but not every pop that comes out is going to be bought. Folks need to limit. You don’t need to get every single Pop. I have my small collection of Pops from shows that bring that nostalgia.
I agree the market is over saturated with these plastic soulless, big headed beady eyed things, As someone who has like 30 of them I only collect what I like, mainly Superman and DC, with some Spiderman and TMNT in there. Despite me owning more Pops than Sodas I prefer the latter due to the better made and looking figures.
I have a couple of flea market booths at the local antique mall and I make quite a bit of money off funko pops. I mainly find them at thrift stores or yard sales tho. Found the scarlet witch one loose and for some reason its expensive. I believe its feom 2016? I sold it for 80 bucks
I don't see any kind of collectible as monetary value. I collect them for what they are, not how much I can make off it later. Hence why I take shit out of their boxes.
I've never understood how Funko Pops ever got so big. There are way better looking mini figs out there and many Pops are so generic you'd never recognize them if the character name weren't on the box. I keep thinking this was just another collectible corrupted by the prospectors market.
I always thought Funko Pops were dumb. I have three Pops, I got them for free but I’ve never had any desire to buy any, even at like $5. I’ve never liked those weird small black eyes that all Pops had. I might’ve been more interested in Pops if they looked more like the source material instead of goofy and cartoony.
Im a big wwe funko pop collecter right now, i dont buy grails i buy them when they release. It holds a lot of emotional value for me considering i love the wwe
Not sure why anyone thought Funko Slop was a good investment. They take up way too much shelf space for such low profit margins. There's a local store where I live that buys and sells them. It's big store and a good 10% of their shelf space has been taken over by unsellable Funko Slop. They also have to be the lamest collectibles in existence. I feel genuine disgust when I see those ugly figures vandalize characters I like.
Honestly, I've never fallen victim to a trendy toy. I've seen them come and go from Cabbage Patch to Funko and everything in between, and I've never gotten on the bandwagon. Trendy toys always scare me. I tend to shy away from things like beanie babies, while I stay focused on my original obsessions. 😂 the funny side of this is, by staying focused on the time-tested toys that were popular before a toy-fad, the prices will skyrocket when the trend subsides.
They do have marketing problems and production problems. Also fired their best artists and want to cheap out by paying people in other countries to design them while also charging more for their product. Lastly they are not making normal limited numbered they want you to gamble pulling digital cards. nfts they take forever to get to you and they don’t ship them the way they should.
I never liked their big square heads and soulless eyes on a 2.5 inch body! I do like that they covered about every licensed property. I heard months ago that funko can't afford to warehouse them or transport them to closeout stores and may landfill them. Gamestop is clearancing a bunch and lowered non clearance prices. I agree with you about opening them and enjoying them, I think people could put them in their windshield area like Jeep owners and their rubber ducks and maybe give pops another life, but as collectibles they're dying off.
They’re fighting very hard with social media and word of mouth. I remember beanie babies and when those things went…they WENT. I can see Funko and Funko Pops sticking around and staying popular way longer than TY and beanie babies. If all funkos are about to crash….I may buy a bunch of the ones I’ve wanted for a while!
Unless you want to feel hurt, don’t ever sell your funkos to Book Off. I’m having trouble selling mine on Mercari and the value has gone down drastically.
I love Gijoe and have loads of their 1/6 figures and 1/4 statues, but I can't bring myeslf to buy the Pop version. I think for pop's, certain characters, especially cartoony looking animals work very well. For characters like GIJoe soldiers, they just end up looking for generic. Terrible for anything with a human face I should say. I agree with you, the duck characters actually look amazing. The biggest plus, is the price. I mean $10-$15, it's not like I'm not buying it because of the price, it's more like the clutter and I just won't end up displaying them. Every time I want to get into collecting them, I just realize how they end up all looking the same. I'm with you, might end up just buying a few of the characters I like. Having walls of unopened pops is just weird.
I'm really glad to see how the channel is growing, Unc
Thanks
@@uncletimrantingsreviews some says funko pop is ugly version of nendoroid 😁 nendoroid cutism looks way better than funko cubism
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As a collector who solely deals in funko pops, I’ve slowed down a lot because of the weak characters they been coming out with and they over saturation of the market. Funko said they’re going to slow down and not produce so many, which is a good thing.
thank fuck funko pops used to be cool when fans only had like 1 or 2
Same as video games or any other collectible. Do it because you enjoy the hobby. If you collect thinking its gonna payoff your mortgage one day you might be in trouble.
Amen brother
The reason why I love Funko Pops is because of the variety of franchises and characters. There are some characters, specifically animated characters, that rarely get a figure. I love the Hannah Barbera characters but I never see any action figures of them. At most, they’ll get a plushie. I love certain movies like Encanto, but the merchandise is mostly dolls. Pops allowed me to expand my collection by filling it with characters that I like, but either can’t find a figure of or the figure isn’t a part of my demographic. It was never about an investment. I leave them in the boxes, but I like the way they look in the box. I’ll open some to make space. My main problem with Funko is that there’s just too much. My Target just put out the Indiana Jones pops and I got lucky with one. It was the first Pop I bought in months. Besides that, it’s just an over-saturation of Disney brand pops and the same characters with boring-looking designs from uninteresting films. I also thought the "art series" and "UV light" pops were kind of dumb. Finding cool-looking ones are rare. I’m also running out of space lol
I’ll still collect them since I find personal enjoyment out of them and I want to get all the cartoon characters I grew up with, but as with everything I’m going to be very picky. It’ll be one of those things I’ll buy every now and then.
Funny I think if it doesnt glow or has uv its just silly and dumb to buy. To each its own.
I got into Funko Pops over the pandemic too and started going to Cons and getting them autographed and displaying in hard cases at home. I hope they keep their value.
Autographed Funkos hold their value well
That's a lot of shelf space for such low profit margins
I collect Pops for the pops. I have collected since the beginning. Just so you know, they were already big before the pandemic, during the pandemic, the greatness has fallen off in must-have pops for me.
I never saw saw the thrill in those things but oh well
Hey unc, Can you do a room/collection tour?
Funko has more licenses than Hasbro can ever dream of, and they can get product on the shelf
Funko went wrong thinking that every line needed to have every character made into a figure. Reason why the breaking bad, 300, Pulp Fiction, etc are worth more is because only a handful of characters were made. Now we got every single person that had a line in every disney star wars and marvel movies and TV turned into a Pop.
Exactly.
I was big on funko, then scalpers came along, prices went up, and that was it for me
I'm the proud owner of 0 Funkos but if I ever do buy any, there's no way I'm keeping them in the box! Buy, display enjoy! ✌️
I have a gold vault Hogan still in the box probably the only one I will keep in there
You can take them out of box, no "value" is lost, people only buy for the condition of the box. So keep the box if you ever want to get rid of it, if that's you're thing.
As a collector myself. I keep gathering "Only" the favorites. Especially if its TMNT.
Funko collectors haven't o wont stop.
The biggest problem is that people think they are gonna get rich off of collecting. Not gonna happen with funko pops,toys,hot toys,hot wheels....nothing. Its not the the toys from the 50s,60s,70s or even the 80s. Everything now sells because of hype,when hype is over nobody wants it anymore and price comes down. Collect because yoy like it, not because you think it's gonna make you thousands of dollars. Also you can't compare Funko to Beanies. Funko pops have had more staying power then Beanies by far. Just because they are not valued at what you want them to be dosnt mean the company is in trouble. Again people just mad they can't retire on them. Sorry people life isn't that easy.
Funko pop is just a modern day beanie baby.
How so?
I'm still surprised people still buy beanie babies. I have a flea market booth and sell them like crazy. Idk why their still popular unless people wanna relive what they had when they were younger?
Ugly toys to start with.
@@SrJonAnthony Buy If you like them, but they will never be worth anything
@@CAM941one just sold for 200k for a numbered funko
As a collector I like the minis more. I dont think pops are going anywhere. They still sell around me, oversaturation and price increases has def not helped
Some of the non-humanoid ones look kind of neat. They just need eyes painted in. The human characters all have that bland, massively oversized blockhead. It's unappealing on so many levels.
I've been buying Funko Pops for almost a decade. I'm slowly selling some of mine on ebay because money is real tight for me right now & need the space. I'm thankful that they're selling. I only plan on keeping the ones I really want. I also planned on buying some action figures & staues this year but having too many bills & inflation has kept me from buying anything right away. Even with the clearance sale on BBTS, I can't buy anything as soon as I would like.
I only ever bought Godzilla Funkos, thats my fave character. Im chillin!
Yea, I'm the same. I love marvel characters. So I just focus on the certain characters that I want and keep on going haha
I could never get into Funko Pops and I'm happy I didn't. The only reason why I have one is because I was gifted it.
Same here... I won a Star Wars Yoda Pop at my work Christmas party and I had it listed at $9.99 on ebay for literally 2 years before it sold, lol. I couldn't GIVE the damn thing away (I tried 🤣)
fuzzy lumpkin case protector worth more than the figure lmao
Lol seriously.
Peoria Target had a Walter Payton Pop. I say only get Pops that speak to you.
I get the impression that they oversaturated the market because, as you say, it's what was available. They thought they were more popular than they were. Eventually, they'll come back around as a kind of nostalgia thing, but for right now, they're definitely on the outs.
I’m kinda just done with collecting stuff in general just more money wasting
My collection consists of characters from stuff I’ve watched or played or my interests. The special ones (ones people have got me as gifts) are the ones that are in cases
The emotional value is the most important when collecting
Funko pops have no soul
Everyone had extra pandemic funds to blow, thus the only reason funko pops blew up. Thankfully I’ve only ever bought one, the Transformers Grimlock.
Funko’s pretty big. They have so many licenses that no one makes. They’re nothing like beanie babies. They’re more like Megos. They’re also very successful right now with anime figures and they’re the only ones that still do actual limited figures and SDCC con exclusives. I wouldn’t buy any high prices grails but it’s also one of the only toy lines I like trading for. I’m not the biggest Anime fan so if I can pick up some of those limited ones I can trade for some older horror figures. Also I think the pops are a lot better now. There’s much more detail. IMO you should only buy the pops of licenses you like and you’ll never lose. It’s the guys that do it for profit that can mess up.
I've noticed that Pop figures have been slowing down a lot lately. There was a Pop Vinyl store near my house for awhile but it recently closed down. Pop figures just aren't as popular as they once were.
I only get funko pops of things they won’t make in main toy lines. Things like niche characters or forms in anime. They’re good for making things like that.
For sure. I just recently saw that they did Cow and Chicken and am sorely tempted, especially at those low price points. That is definitely their market.
You right.....started selling my funko collection a while back.....getting rid of pops and focusing on my action figs
As a casual Funko Pop collector, i got in to them because some of my friends, that don't collect action figures, where getting in to them. Recently i start finding out that they move out of collecting them. That made me lose interest. So i sold on ebay the ones that where worth more than what i paid, and keep the ones that are worth less than what i paid, in hopes to sell them some day if the go up in value. For now, i have no place to put them, so i put them behind some of my female marvel legends to help them stand.
I didn't realize until I bought my first a few months ago *that they were bobble heads* for the modern age.
People keep them in the boxes, so I never see them free to bobble.🤷🏾♂ Thing is turns out they were founded in 1998. They started making real money in 2012, and were publicly traded in 2017 (albeit...at the worst initial public offering in history)
The creator of Funko Pops should be tried for crimes against the planet. All that wasted plastic. Ridiculous.
The manufacturing of our clothes do more damage to the environment than any Farto Poop does. Get your head together before you go firing off at the mouth with your misaligned social justice.
Lol so are many manufacturers out there making things out of plastic, are we putting everyone in jail duh.
You REALLY think it's Funkos filling the ocean? You realize there are "plastic rocks" in the ocean now? They sedimentary material bound together in a matrix of melted plastic.
@Sorrowdusk it's not so much about a crusade against plastic. I see a lot of value in many action figure lines, even if I don't collect them. A good example is DC or McFarlane. I don't collect those, but I can at least appreciate the artistry that went into making them. Funko Pops, on the other hand, have no redeeming value. They're just cheap blobs of plastic. Heck, there's a line called Rock Candy, which has more value. Rock Candy is Funko-esque, but it has more artistic definition to it. Funko Pops are just annoying blobs.
I think pops are nice to collect. However, the market for them has for sure gone down lately. Mainly due to inflation! People are putting their priorities more in check with their budget, than buying pops that are just taking up space. On top of that, some people invest in them in hopes to resell them, but even then, not that many people are buying them at the PPG value, so they're stuck with a large inventory of pops. Also, Funko did increase their prices and most people are just like nah, so now even the stores are stuck with an overflow of pops.
Inflation + oversaturated market = crash
Comparing Beanie Babies and Funko Pops is apples and oranges dude. I do agree Funko has moved away from what made them so popular to begin with.....The excitement of the "chase"....I remember a time when people would line up at retailers to get their hands on that limited exclusive or even a chance at a chase. I do feel like Funko has started to listen to the community on this exact issue but they will never be the next "beanie baby" due to the fact that Funko has a license or something that somebody will want for nostalgia or just a memory of a better time in life.
Any modern collectible is highly speculative. One thing I do think Funko products (soda fan here) do have going for them that's different than beanie babies is the products are based on actual IP that is connected to culture. While I agree the company very well could go belly up I think that's also always been the case in their 25 year history, and thus far, they've defied the odds. It'll be interesting to see how things go with their new leadership.
They aren't going anywhere and 5 hundred dollar Funko pops and never going to be 5 bucks lol
Been collecting modern action figures since 2013 and I'm proud to say I have never once purchased a POP. I always new they were a joke. Why buy a hunk of plastic when articulated action figures offer so much more? POPs were always just Beanie Babies 2.0.
My son and I collected Funko Pops. It was something we could do together. It was fun for awhile. Now we don't pay much attention to them. We have over two hundred that we're trying to unload.
I have a whole wall of funko pops. My nephews and nieces were always excited to visit my house during the holidays to see all the characters in my collection. Now that I’ve moved they always ask about my funko pop wall. Funko Pops are a happy childhood memory for them.
Ya I took down my whole funko pop display & now its all Mcfarlane DC & Spawn. The ones they're coming out with now all look basically the same with very little detail. You can even find some of the less popular ones at dollar stores now, so ya I think they're on their way out. The only ones that are holding value are the ones they produced between 2010 - 2013. Do they even make chase pops anymore ? Haven't seen any new ones around personally.
Confusion is a hell of a drug...
I started buying them (Funko Pops) because I just want to surround myself with my favorite characters. My characters they are my only friends and nobody actually cares about me in real life, so I'm here just to be a Funko Pop.
And all the Pops at the stores they just sit there.
I tried telling a group they were dead, and this one guy came from left field, “well I just sold one for $2,000” I said yea some still have value but over all the company is failing.
Never collected the regular ones, but on deep discount the new Funko scenes pops r really nice big size with more detail
Funko scalpers and NFT physical funko are very expensive. I no longer buy them because they are just for display and stationary.
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I sold all mine. I didn't even get retail for most. I had a lot of rare exclusives. I also had about 250.
They really shoulda hid the fact that the dumped a ton of Funko pops in the trash. Completely destroyed the idea of them being worth something in the future. I'll still buy em if they release something I want but the days of collecting em just for a collection are over
You should only buy the pops you personally like. And don’t expect them to be worth more than you paid
Factual, I think I need one more and I'm done! only have about 10 of'em anyway
I could never understand the appeal of these. I bought a few for like $5 but got bored and sold most of them. Now I only have 5 and only 3 of those I want. The other 2 I can't even give away, and have been trying to sell for over a year. I can't imagine trying to unload a ton of these..
I run a funko pop up shop and I can confidently say half of your statement is true pops are losing value buy only ones that have been mass produced as in making money off of funko pop its still thriving maybe in a few years this is something to worry about
This is the test of time these boyz been around for minute.
One thing ive learned through collecting funko pops is too always try to make a connection with a seller or employee they will save the good stuff for you
People waiting for clearance prices now
Funkos are a concept that is so dumb but they are so addicting. I only buy the ones that I have a con to.
When Funko deep sixed all those pops into the garbage you can pretty much figure it will tank the value. That's a pretty big signal to collectors that the ship is sinking.
I started collecting Funko (oob collector) around a year and a half ago but now I'm done with it and moving onto Action Figures
I was just looking at my Funko app a couple days ago and noticed a bunch of the ones I have that are worth more than a few bucks have all dropped quite a bit, most actually.
There were a some exceptions where a few rose in value but not more than five bucks. My Green Ranger with the gold vest and Jack Burton both lost $20 in value in a month
This is a very interesting topic.I used to be a big Funko pop collector not the biggest, i know a lot of collector that have way more then that but i ad 600 pops.Not only Funko pop take a lot of space but since i live in Canada no funko shop exclusive for me because the funko shop don't ship to Canada, i never understood why.Now all the new pops that come out have zero value they are mass produced the chase dont retain value and the quality control suck.Another thing that i hate about pops is the fact that collector give to much importance to the box and not the pop itself.For all these reasons i sold my entire collection.Now i enjoy building and collecting some nice Lego sets.
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People still buy them because of fomo, if they miss one its probably the one that will be the rarest. I see them spending $30 on the ones clearanced at places like gamestop, walmart or 5 & below.
I agree with this statement. There seems to be a group of people purposely organizing what goes in a store and what great ones never arrive. Funko Pop betters on the same figure a month later, driving the first figure's popularity and $ of it to crash
Covid was when everyone got out of Pops. Market is so dam saturated and they abandoned the appeal of a “designer toy”. Now its just junk
I got a ton of Funko pops when they were newer. Collected some Dragon Ball, Power Rangers, Robocop, Predator (translucent Hot Topic variant), I even tried to start up a Marvel vs Capcom collection. The last ones I got were Atomic breath glow in the dark Godzilla and Carnage because those 2 actually looked cool.
This is 1000% nothing like beanie babies and for those of you who says it is obviously don’t collect either …..
I bought my first 6 from Entertainment Earth when they first came out in 2010. They were $34.99 as a set of 6. Now they're all retired. It was Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Penguin, Ridler, and Joker. I love Funko pops. Not all of them, but no one telling anyone to buy all of them. They blew up before the pandemic. You bought them later, but people were buying them. The ones in stores are the ones no one is buying. Unless you get therr when they put the pops out. I bought Miles Target exclusive two of them. I bought the entire new Disney line and the entire set of the new spidervers movie. I'm hoping they retire some of the Disney line. I did well with my pops. If they go out of business. They'll go up even more. You can't find a Spiderman or Wolverine Beannie baby.
FUNKO POP Has been around for 25 years It's the 25th Year Anniversary
They won’t make it to 30
@@shawnpahl 😄ok...
Way late on this but Pops didn’t come out until 2010 so they are nowhere near 25 years old.
@@JockoNorthernsea-rm2co no funko started with bobble heads. He didnt say PoPs are 25yrs old. The pop trend concept is a phrase and a collectible its confusing.
The comment I replied to specifically says Funko Pops are 25 years old.
Funko is not like the beanie baby era. Smh. Ppl been saying the same thing with pokemon. Lol ppl think too much ahead.. n prices is always the same. Up n down. And about the dumping. That happens every year. They get credit for it. Lol you guys too funny. 😂 but it's fun watching
I think my local FYE store closed because of these things.I used to buy figures,CDs,DVDs and other stuff in there.One day I walked in and %75 of the store was Funko pops.Needless to say the store was empty of customers and a month later the store was closed.
Who buys DVD's and Cd's anymore... I was surprised FYE didn't go out of business before Funko came out...
One of my favorite stores to go into.. I could be in there for a while making a wish list
I was never into Funko Pops though I own a few given to me as a gift 🎁 Again I urge you all to hold on to your stuff as they will become unavailable as we move forward. In time it will no longer be available and maybe it will be valuable for nostalgia customers and collectors. If not then simply keep them for the nostalgia
Believing that Funko Pops would ever be a "good investment" seems absolutely *insane* to me
I collect Funko Pop’s for specific shows for when I meet voice actors and actors but not every pop that comes out is going to be bought. Folks need to limit. You don’t need to get every single Pop.
I have my small collection of Pops from shows that bring that nostalgia.
I agree the market is over saturated with these plastic soulless, big headed beady eyed things, As someone who has like 30 of them I only collect what I like, mainly Superman and DC, with some Spiderman and TMNT in there. Despite me owning more Pops than Sodas I prefer the latter due to the better made and looking figures.
I'm only really collecting blacklight pops anymore
I have a couple of flea market booths at the local antique mall and I make quite a bit of money off funko pops. I mainly find them at thrift stores or yard sales tho. Found the scarlet witch one loose and for some reason its expensive. I believe its feom 2016? I sold it for 80 bucks
I listen to your videos while driving to work. I really enjoy it!
Never bought 1. Couldn't understand the appeal.
I don't see any kind of collectible as monetary value. I collect them for what they are, not how much I can make off it later.
Hence why I take shit out of their boxes.
I've never understood how Funko Pops ever got so big. There are way better looking mini figs out there and many Pops are so generic you'd never recognize them if the character name weren't on the box. I keep thinking this was just another collectible corrupted by the prospectors market.
Now they are. Wasnt like that at first. And they were super cheap when they first hit.
I always thought Funko Pops were dumb. I have three Pops, I got them for free but I’ve never had any desire to buy any, even at like $5. I’ve never liked those weird small black eyes that all Pops had. I might’ve been more interested in Pops if they looked more like the source material instead of goofy and cartoony.
Im a big wwe funko pop collecter right now, i dont buy grails i buy them when they release. It holds a lot of emotional value for me considering i love the wwe
I agree with this. Funko isn’t entertaining anymore.
Not sure why anyone thought Funko Slop was a good investment.
They take up way too much shelf space for such low profit margins.
There's a local store where I live that buys and sells them. It's big store and a good 10% of their shelf space has been taken over by unsellable Funko Slop.
They also have to be the lamest collectibles in existence. I feel genuine disgust when I see those ugly figures vandalize characters I like.
Honestly, I've never fallen victim to a trendy toy. I've seen them come and go from Cabbage Patch to Funko and everything in between, and I've never gotten on the bandwagon. Trendy toys always scare me. I tend to shy away from things like beanie babies, while I stay focused on my original obsessions. 😂 the funny side of this is, by staying focused on the time-tested toys that were popular before a toy-fad, the prices will skyrocket when the trend subsides.
Here's your cookie 🍪 you were anxiously fishing for one
True, very true.
They do have marketing problems and production problems. Also fired their best artists and want to cheap out by paying people in other countries to design them while also charging more for their product. Lastly they are not making normal limited numbered they want you to gamble pulling digital cards. nfts they take forever to get to you and they don’t ship them the way they should.
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I never liked their big square heads and soulless eyes on a 2.5 inch body! I do like that they covered about every licensed property. I heard months ago that funko can't afford to warehouse them or transport them to closeout stores and may landfill them. Gamestop is clearancing a bunch and lowered non clearance prices. I agree with you about opening them and enjoying them, I think people could put them in their windshield area like Jeep owners and their rubber ducks and maybe give pops another life, but as collectibles they're dying off.
Funny when you brought up supernatural I’m rewatching it as I write this
Never got into those
I only have the Killer Klown From Outer Space Pops and will buy more if they make anymore of the Klowns or other characters from the movie.
🤣🤣🤣 more for me but you’re hilarious
The next time Funko sees their value hit highs will be way in the future 2-3 generations from now.
They’re fighting very hard with social media and word of mouth. I remember beanie babies and when those things went…they WENT. I can see Funko and Funko Pops sticking around and staying popular way longer than TY and beanie babies. If all funkos are about to crash….I may buy a bunch of the ones I’ve wanted for a while!
Funko pops on the rebound ..
Yo Fam, you just said, "I foresee in the unforeseeable future,"..... I'm not a hater. I watch ya channel all the time. Just thought that was funny.
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Unless you want to feel hurt, don’t ever sell your funkos to Book Off. I’m having trouble selling mine on Mercari and the value has gone down drastically.
Wow
Good thing I only bought 30 POPs. I usually only buy one if I can't find an Action Figure of that character.
I love Gijoe and have loads of their 1/6 figures and 1/4 statues, but I can't bring myeslf to buy the Pop version. I think for pop's, certain characters, especially cartoony looking animals work very well. For characters like GIJoe soldiers, they just end up looking for generic. Terrible for anything with a human face I should say. I agree with you, the duck characters actually look amazing. The biggest plus, is the price. I mean $10-$15, it's not like I'm not buying it because of the price, it's more like the clutter and I just won't end up displaying them. Every time I want to get into collecting them, I just realize how they end up all looking the same. I'm with you, might end up just buying a few of the characters I like. Having walls of unopened pops is just weird.
I know of a funko collector and I think his sales has stalled
I suggest one last challenge. Reverse engineer the funkopop and carve a giant funkopop of yourself from a tree trunk.