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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    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.

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            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.

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        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.