Fucking hell, this dweeb should've just wired the 30 bucks a month to me, I could've come up with way more fun and or useful ways to burn that cash
EDIT: WHAT THE FUCK, 30 BUCKS A WEEK. It pains me to see that there are people around with 120 US dollars to piss away this callously every month
There are some things people do that I don't personally take joy in, but at least I understand them on some level.
Like, football. I don't enjoy watching football, but I understand that it's fun to watch people with skills do something well and that there is excitement and suspense in watching people compete to achieve some goal.
Or cocaine. I don't do cocaine myself, but I've had enough medical treatment in my life to have first-hand experience of how drugs can change a person's state of consciousness, and how that might be enjoyable or addicting.
I could even understand buying one or two Funko pops. They're not my cup of tea, but I understand why a person would buy a figure of a familiar character they enjoy looking at.
But this? This I don't understand.
Uhhh sir I'm sorry but this is a COLLECTIBLE FIGURINE and NOT A TOY, thank you very much
And in twenty years, it will probably be bought for a hundred and fifty dollars
The buyer will weep a single tear before the Amazon Hunter/Killer Drones obliterate his home with a volley of hellfire missiles for taking a sick day
It's likely that the Funko Pops will be worthless when this stupid fad finally comes to an end. All of the figures are so bland and lifeless looking with soulless eyes and big heads.
The figures that have held up in value typically have some level of uniqueness to them or they were produced rarely with limited quantity.
A lot of vintage Star Wars figures aren't really all that valuable cause they made so many of them.
The one toy that seems to never lose it's value is Lego, and I think it's because they usually retire sets within a year or two. Then scalpers will sell them massively overpriced on used markets.
You can find way cheaper knockoffs on Aliexpress if you search for lego, I've always wanted to order one of the big Star Wars sets I'd always go over in the catalog as a kid, but since they use old molds discarded for not meeting conformity standards, or have different plastic mixtures and painting methods. I ordered a bunch of knock off minifigs, and some were actually pretty close on quality. Definitely better than any of the "legally distinct" variations you find in the US.
Definitely better than any of the “legally distinct” variations you find in the US.
Lol I remember trying to put together a Megablox model of a battleship as a kid, following the directions, and one of the final pieces was extremely tough to get in place. About two seconds later the whole ship literally tore itself apart and burst into like 10 pieces, I guess from the compounding tension due to their poor tolerances of the blocks (long 1/3 height ones especially)
That's true. There's one particular brand that Lego fans were obsessed with a few years ago, a Chinese knockoff called 'Lepin'. They re-produced many highly sought after Star Wars sets that fans had been begging to come back for years. Among them was the Jabba's Sail Barge set and the original Star Destroyer.
My issue with Lego is how they never lower their prices. In the past few years, they've upped the Disney tax for Star Wars sets. We used to pay $20 a set before 2018 and now they are up to $30 for the smaller sets and they definitely are not worth it. I have to hand it to them though, cause that recent Cantina set was beautifully made and if I were rich, I'd blow $350 on it and have a blast building that with all the alien mini figures. Lego does make great Star Wars sets from time to time, but they really bleed you dry of cash for them.
Legos are also fully compatible with new and old sets no matter what.
LEGO is also just consistent quality, those things will literally last through generations, and probably still be compatible, too. That quality comes at the cost of lower manufacturing quantities (comparatively LEGO still manufactures a fuckton of shit, but compared to funko pops it’s not even comparable) coupled with constantly changing and rotating sets, it can make sets really valuable. Price per brick is always gonna remain the same, since there’s only one source, so if you wanted to reconstruct a set from buying bricks individually online it’s almost always gonna come to more than buying the set outright, or at best be comparable to buying the set outright. They’ve really gone and created an incredibly self sustaining market in that regard.
Eh, Funko Pops don't really rustle my jimmies like alot of people here.
They're basically just this generation's Beanie Babies.
At least beanie babies were just fabric and whatever they're filled with. We're pulling oil out of the ground for this shit.
Probably the only good Funko Pop because it doesn't have those creepy eyes.
Hot take:
Funko Pop toys are this decade's "Television/Movie Collectible Cards"...
I remember buying the crap out of the TMNT cartoon cards way back in the day.
You could fit your card collection in an old shoebox under your bed, though. And while you could definitely burn money on overpriced pointless cards, I would wager they'd be way less expensive on average.
There also were way less legal adults dumping insane amounts of cash into them
Like spending hours on Twitter and shit posting on chapo.chat
