[IzzyTipsy]

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Originally Posted by captain mal

I seriously do not understand POPs. From the looks, to the obsession, to the retail prices, to the perceived values. None of it makes a lick of sense to my mind.

They're so odd and people randomly get into them.

My 72 yo aunt suddenly started collecting POPs last year. Like SERIOUSLY collecting them. I don't get it - she doesn't even know who 95% of these characters are!

[Snakeeyesisposh]

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Originally Posted by TheSteelBrigade

This might not warrant a whole new thread but can someone explain BATTLE CORPS to me? What is the point of that sub team?

If we're being real, the real point was to sell oversized giant
spring launchers and guns.


Pew pew pew.

[Snakeeyesisposh]

Well I sometimes wonder how people also get into stuff like Neca toons


https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Produ...ils/286147?o=4
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Produ...ils/241389?o=4


Clearly someone is buying stuff this niche of products.

[IzzyTipsy]

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Originally Posted by Snakeeyesisposh

If we're being real, the real point was to sell oversized giant
spring launchers and guns.


Pew pew pew.

Firefly's spinning top thing was hilarious. As dumb as his Scorpion maneuver crap from the comic

[JeepJedi]

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Originally Posted by Trigger2K

I sort of like the Mindbender POP. Too bad they're not bobbleheads. I had a bobblehead collection as a kid and POPs are just a tease.

The Star Wars Pops! are bobble heads, and also the only ones with bases. So for some maybe a little bit of that Bobble Head itch gets scratched still.

[JeepJedi]

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

They're so odd and people randomly get into them.

My 72 yo aunt suddenly started collecting POPs last year. Like SERIOUSLY collecting them. I don't get it - she doesn't even know who 95% of these characters are!

I'm fine if anyone wants to make fun of me, but at one point I had over 1800 Funko Pops. I was in the door on day one almost. It became more about collecting them than liking them at some point so I made myself move on.

I can be a bit OCD about sets of things... so I had to complete every set.. I mean I never missed a chase or a limited edition or anything. But the flip side of that is.. if I break up a set of something I have.. then it no longer matters to me.. so as soon as I started seeing some of the prices of the older ones I had.. it was pretty easy to just stop collecting and start unloading. I made almost $50K selling off that collection (way more than I invested). None of the new ones will ever catch that type of value since the market is beyond saturated.. but there was a small window these things were inadvertently a gold mine (somewhere around year 3 or 4 they took off and people were trying like mad to backfill). Some of the early ones I sold for over $1K.. it was honestly madness.. lol.

They're ugly.. no real disputing that.. but they covered a lot of ground that other lines weren't covering at the time.. it was an easy way to express fandom at $9 a pop (pun intended).

Luckily in my older age that "must collect them all" mentality is no longer an issue. I just buy what I like and have no weird deep rooted desire to prove my fandoms by owning tons of something.

I also have a very firm.. No Funko Pops! rule now.. although I'll admit I broke it recently when they released the shirtless Jason Kelce from that Chiefs game (Go Birds!). I have less than 10 Funko Pops now.. and they're ones that have special meaning.

[JeepJedi]

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Originally Posted by captain mal

I seriously do not understand POPs. From the looks, to the obsession, to the retail prices, to the perceived values. None of it makes a lick of sense to my mind.

The weird thing about collecting/selling them is it's one of, if not the only collectible that comes in unsealed boxes. So selling something mint in the box (which could very easily have been removed.. displayed and put back without anyone being the wiser just makes that market very different for the rest of the collectible world.

[Snakeeyesisposh]

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

Firefly's spinning top thing was hilarious. As dumb as his Scorpion maneuver crap from the comic

That thing was hella fun.
You could set up a whole bunch of figures and go Action figure bowling with that thing.


Ah the age of Spring Loaded missiles and Flagg's Rubber band Catapults.


Busy year though, totally forgot they also released Dino Hunters,
Streetfighter 2 figs and MonstroViper at the time.

[RedAlert Rescue]

Ice Cream solder gets all the PR.
But i'd kinda like this guy at some point for Classified :
https://www.3djoes.com/mega-vipers.html

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The only Pops I think I'd personally actually 'want-want' rather than 'casual want' is Ladybug & Cat Noir, other wise I have occasionally picked up a Transformers or Gi Joe one or very rarely a loose one for silly cheap 2nd hand. But I otherwise left them well alone... I am lucky the eyeless look creeped me out a little I guess. I know people who only really stopped buying Beanie Babies when they transitioned over to huge eyes and huge heads as the default look.. for them, that was a good place to stop.

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As for Battle Corps I did give that some thought before Now, and decided I was happier seeing it more as a "toy-sub-line" than as any kinda of team within a team.

When I do think about it the thorny issue of Accessories often comes to mind though : for example what should be done when a 1990's version was stripped of its accessories.. do you strip it again.. or admit they made a mistake the 1st time and put them back in with the repaint...

I.e.
https://www.3djoes.com/targat-v2.html
https://www.3djoes.com/astro-viper-v2.html
https://www.3djoes.com/cobra-eel-v3.html

[DFender]

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Originally Posted by JeepJedi

I also have a very firm.. No Funko Pops! rule now.. although I'll admit I broke it recently when they released the shirtless Jason Kelce from that Chiefs game (Go Birds!). I have less than 10 Funko Pops now.. and they're ones that have special meaning.

Yoooooooo Go Birds.