LogFAQs > #971943793

I feel like this is either exaggerated or uses inflated values.

Granted, a lot of companies have periodic problems unloading inventory so it's not really unique. Funko just apparently didn't plan well enough and was holding onto inventory for too long. During the 2022 Christmas season, Five Below had a reasonably large Pop! offering... but for $6, which was lame.

keyblader1985 posted...

I wasn't aware anyone was collecting these for any reason other than simply liking them.

This so hard. They haven't really ever had a thriving secondary market, certainly not like Beanie Babies.

While I know that some collectors have tried (and often failed) to sell their collections afterward, they weren't buying them for the secondary market, they just bored of them, which is like anything else.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

From what I've heard it has nothing to do with the Funko bubble popping (no pun intended) and more to do with the fact that Disney is self-destructing.

Basically, Funko invested heavily in making Star Wars and Marvel themed figures, but with fan apathy for both franchises at an all-time high, none of them are selling (it's been mentioned that stores like Wal-Mart have had the same problem with Star Wars toys in general). So Disney fucking themselves into a hole is dragging multiple other companies down with them.

That's unsurprising. The franchises that get adapted can make or break a collectibles line and, while Funko has had success diversifying, the fact that they've gone all-in on some franchises must be hurting them.

NightMareBunny posted...

i mostly have MHA Funko pops because i like them and really for a lot of characters a funko pop is the only option

i mean they even include some students from Class 1-B and i know those characters aren't getting premium figures or Mcfarlane action figures

tbh, that's always been the appeal of Funko lines -- they tend to offer collectibles from underrepresented franchises or characters from those franchises. In the case of older films, it's sometimes been the ONLY figure that certain characters have had.

...that said, most of the Pop!s, Mystery Minis, etc, I've bought have related to moderately popular franchises, many of which have collectibles. However, in some cases, the Funko version is either cheaper (Chernabog, for example) or covers a character better (ie, some of the Spidey Far from Home normal figures were garbage; Molten Man, for example, might've only appeared in a budget line and the quality was lousy, whereas Funko did great versions of Molten Man)

And, honestly, for a lot of stuff, there's a long gap between merch.