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I was at SDCC this year and I was amazed at how many booths had Funko pops, which was about 20-30% of the booths and there was a line for the Funko area, jam packed with people. I over heard people saying they found some rare ones or newly released that were hard to find.

A few years ago someone bought me a Squirtle Funko Pop, since Squirtle is the best, and I opened it and took it out of the box. They proceeded to freak out that I ruined is value by taking it out of the box...

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[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it's an unpopular opinion. It seems like a lot of people have given up on collecting them over the past couple years.

The people who never collected them to begin with probably have one or two reasons.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t collect them because they’re plastic junk that adds no value to my life.

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I meant by the second part. A lot of people just don't like the idea of collecting or Funko pops

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you made it sound like those reasons don’t matter.

No what I meant was the demand for Funko pops seems to be in decline and a lot of people share OP's beanie baby perspective.

I mentioned people not wanting then for various reasons just because they weren't really involved with the hype to begin with and it could be for any number of reasons.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bobble Heads were never really cool, and that's all Funko Pops ever were.

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think bobble heads can be kind of neat especially for niche communities but the pure volume of them combined with the artificial scarcity is off putting.

I'm also not a fan of their appearance but I think that's a separate more subjective issue.