I have a small collection of specific ones that I like. My wife has a sickness when it comes to these though. She has over 100 Batman/various Batman characters. Its a joke, they change one thing about one and sell it as a variant. Some of these sell for a lot too, its ridiculous. $1000+ for a metallic Riddler?! Kiss my ass.
I have a small collection of specific ones that I like. My wife has a sickness when it comes to these though. She has over 100 Batman/various Batman characters. Its a joke, they change one thing about one and sell it as a variant. Some of these sell for a lot too, its ridiculous. $1000+ for a metallic Riddler?! Kiss my ass.
Yeah I've been helping a co-worker with selling off her collection, and they're going for $100-400 depending on the figure. Ridiculous for what are actually pretty goddamn ugly little things.
Yeah I'm not worried about variants, I just want one of each iteration. The Terrance and Phillip Funkos have "Chase variants", where they are holding Canadian flags. I have one of Terrance with a flag and one of Phillip without, and that's fine for me. I'm not gonna worry about variant completion at all.
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Youre 100% accurate in calling them the new Beanie Babies. I fear Amiibo are going down the same path, but only because I have a shitload of them already lol.
I hate the eyes on them as they come off like soulless zombies or maybe someone who has been hitting too many shroom which Sonic gives that vibe with up there in that first post. I won't touch the stuff unless they lack those creepy eyes.
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Youre 100% accurate in calling them the new Beanie Babies. I fear Amiibo are going down the same path, but only because I have a shitload of them already lol.
The difference to me is funkos dont have a function. Amiibos being a nintendo product and a small function will help them be somewhat collectable. When Amiibo starts slowing down I see nintendo stopping producing them. Nintendo hates flooded store shelves of not selling product.
I have about 200 pops at this point but I've run out of room for them in the house. I don't like the design of the regular human characters, I prefer the monstrous looking and video game based one's. I do admit owning a few comic ones as well but I don't plan on purchasing many more at this point.
Agreed.. Don't understand it. Amiibos are borderline just as annoying. And boxed Pop collectors are the strangest. Why do you want your house to look like the toy section of Barnes N Noble or Hot Topic? To each their own I guess.
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
They're more like this generation's Hummel figurines
Much like the massive amount of junk accumulated by baby boomers, the next generation is going to resent us for having to deal with massive stockpiles of Funko Pops
I own one Funko Pop figure (Jack Burton of Big Trouble in Little China) which sits in my cubicle at work. I have some coworkers though that have gone nuts with them; cubicles filled with dozens of those figures.
I buy them now and then. I have a few from shows I like (Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, MLP...) and some from movies (BTTF), some from games (Fallout) and then anime ones (Sailor Moon).
They're really cute...but the exclusives...oh man the exclusives just kill me. Like the Comic Con exclusives...I hate that. I can't go to Comic Con so I end up having to pay after market prices which are stupid. Or there's the rare ones...like the Monster Cereal ones (look up those babies!).
I have the Mega Man ones set up next to my other Mega Man stuff (Buster gun, the games, misc figurines, etc). Don't really care much about the others, though the fiance snags some Disney ones here and there, which will look good next to the Lego Cinderella's Castle.
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Youre 100% accurate in calling them the new Beanie Babies. I fear Amiibo are going down the same path, but only because I have a shitload of them already lol.
I actually think amiibos will rebound a little. There are a lot I haven't seen in a long time in store and go slightly above retail online. Not saying someone is gonna cash in, but I see some climbing over time.
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Some of the exclusive valueable ones are pretty slick though
I have a small collection of specific ones that I like. My wife has a sickness when it comes to these though. She has over 100 Batman/various Batman characters. Its a joke, they change one thing about one and sell it as a variant. Some of these sell for a lot too, its ridiculous. $1000+ for a metallic Riddler?! Kiss my ass.
Yeah I've been helping a co-worker with selling off her collection, and they're going for $100-400 depending on the figure. Ridiculous for what are actually pretty goddamn ugly little things.
Planet Arlia Vegeta
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Youre 100% accurate in calling them the new Beanie Babies. I fear Amiibo are going down the same path, but only because I have a shitload of them already lol.
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Planet Arlia Vegeta
God damn. I love that OG paint job though, but I wouldn't pay a cent over retail for it.
*Hits BIN*
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Youre 100% accurate in calling them the new Beanie Babies. I fear Amiibo are going down the same path, but only because I have a shitload of them already lol.
The difference to me is funkos dont have a function. Amiibos being a nintendo product and a small function will help them be somewhat collectable. When Amiibo starts slowing down I see nintendo stopping producing them. Nintendo hates flooded store shelves of not selling product.
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
They're more like this generation's Hummel figurines
Much like the massive amount of junk accumulated by baby boomers, the next generation is going to resent us for having to deal with massive stockpiles of Funko Pops
They're really cute...but the exclusives...oh man the exclusives just kill me. Like the Comic Con exclusives...I hate that. I can't go to Comic Con so I end up having to pay after market prices which are stupid. Or there's the rare ones...like the Monster Cereal ones (look up those babies!).
Not a fan. Its so cliche to compare things to the " new beanie baby" but i swear this is it. If i had valuable ones of these id sell them today without hesitation. These things are going to pollute flea markets for years. Its already started if you find an overpriced "nerd culture" themed booth. Where they got some of these liquidated. Those booths always have these and store liquidated/ gave to goodwill and bought to flip force awakens stuff.
Youre 100% accurate in calling them the new Beanie Babies. I fear Amiibo are going down the same path, but only because I have a shitload of them already lol.
I actually think amiibos will rebound a little. There are a lot I haven't seen in a long time in store and go slightly above retail online. Not saying someone is gonna cash in, but I see some climbing over time.