I hate FUNKO POPS. 

Funko brought this on themselves nobody was asking for for Funkos for every single character in every new show and movie ever. They made way too many and chose to produce figures that had very little market to sell to.

I think Funkos will prove to be a good example of the maxim that things that are made to be collectibles rarely increase in value over the long run. Most actually valuable collectibles were items that were made to be used or toys made to be played with, making surviving examples in good condition very rare.

Funko lack soul and heart. It's like voodoo dolls of things you love.

There is a reason why people keep them in their box. Because once you take the character out of the packaging, you are left with a boring and unrealistic blob of plastic. I 100% agree with what you said.

I always thought funko was just a desk toy. Nice to pick up your favorite characters, but not worth collecting.

Always happy when I see my taco 🌮 in the background of every video. Lore behind it is pretty cool, was on a tour with Andrew WK when he was a spokesman for Taco Bell and he took us to their corporate HQ/kitchen and I bought a box of plastic prop tacos and burritos off of their master Japanese model maker who was there for a commercial shoot and sent one to Rudy.

The lack of detail was the one thing that stopped me from buying them. I always thought that they were a boring toy.

I hate how taboo it is to remove them from the box, heaven forbid you get Finger prints on the Vinyl 💀

The person that gave Rudy this one Funko Pup must have felt great watching this :D

I love that Rudy has impeccable taste in video games and other forms of media.

I still have those evolutions packs! 😎😎

I’d watch a Rudy shelf tour. Mainly because I’m jealous of that Rule of Rose! My parents owned a copy, had to sell because of money troubles at the time. Traded it in to a Gamestop!!

I never saw a reason for me to get that plastic thing in a box to sit around and collect more dust than value.

It almost seems like they overproduced them. Who would've thought.

I actually sold my entire collection a week ago 😅 acquired more space and less stress 😎

I knew they'd jumped the shark back in 2016 when Barnes & Noble started selling protective containers for your sealed Funko Pop figures. Reminded me very strongly of the Ty Beanie Baby tag protectors that started being sold everywhere right before the Beanie Baby bubble burst

I always wondered where Funko Pops went to die when they didn't sell and a store goes belly up. After seeing the dump site for MtG cards it all became clear.

When I was working in retail, these things were the bane of my existence. The customers were obnoxious about it and I have never liked these stupid things.

My grandmother was a hoarder. I refuse to own things that don't have a functional use case to them. MTG is bad enough with all the extra chaff you have to store but at least I can justify it because I use the cards as a source of entertainment.

15 minutes and all you needed to say was "The Juice isn't worth the squeeze." Rambling Rudy is the best Rudy!

My man Rudy, One thing I hate about them the most is these things seem to be collected more then anything else while they are so mass produced they aren't collectible.

I collect ones from my favorite animes and get them signed by the voice actors when possible. Not really worried about value. Definitely not something I'd "invest" in or plan on selling for profit. But I do collect the ones I think are neat. Mostly just for funsies or nostalgia, more or less.

Never understood them as a “rare” collectable

I remember buying an almost identical little figurine from Disney when I was a kid and had to do some research because it seemed like the same company, but was actually vinylmation. The idea is nice but of course people will collect anything, and down the road not sure any of them will have real value. The beanie babies are the funniest collection item I saw people buy into. They even made a book showing the future value of them and and that was the best thing they ever made.

Ty Beanies for me are special. I still have about 80. The pursuit of these items really was really a great memory i have of my belated dad. He was a beer semi driver delivery guy, would find them on his route and stash them for me. His stops on his route who sold them would stash the rares. They had some value, but the excitement was there. Just like I have a tough time selling mtg staples, these dumb bears will probably be here til I'm not

Most expensive pallet's I've dealt with were pallets of crayfish tails, $150k a pallet. Scallops were close too. The scallops were more dense so the pallets were only about 3ft high. I like pallets.

I had to claim ignorance on these until late last year. And then, when I finally found what they were, I couldn't stop laughing. My thought at the time was "boxed Beanie Babies". I don't know how anyone could think otherwise.

I bought a couple for characters that never get action figures. Got a Chuckie Finster and a Zoidberg. They were cheap and fun to have, but man seeing them be like beanie babies years later is wild, they really are.

I used to be a Funko Pop investor collector and I started in 2012 orso That went very well allot of them gained allot of value, but I sold all my Funko Pops by the year of 2017 because fakes started hiting the market and I didn't like that. Seemed nothing was being done against it so I sold what I had left and moved fully into Pokemon. It was fun to collect them and the community was nice. As far as Funko Management go's. It was known to me that they are bad at it so I flipped the stock many times and got out fully last year, because the Management is bad. Clearly they should have known that demand would decline after the 2020 boost.

they are collectibles, not investments. so i agree with your thought on that. what makes them different than beanies is the allure that they are of your favorite characters of your favorite show/movie/game vs beanies that are mainly animals. they are making way too many and way too many characters. lots of commons sit on shelves and the only ones people want are the ones hyped by secondary sellers and price gougers

Nothing dries up the ladies like a shelf of Funko Pops, I tell you whut

I bought one then realized they released them for every property and a million variants in high supply and decided I'd stop at one

I have like 15-20 Funko Pops, mostly items from the 80s-90s like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Destro, Megaman. Just a few characters I always liked. But you are right, they seem to overproduce a lot of new pops for any new show/band/athlete and at some point this will become like 90s Pro Set sports cards

I bought a case of sleeved evolutions off you too Rudy, your price at the time was very fair. I opened them all, got 3 base reprint charizards out of 144 packs. I was a Timmy back in 2017

Funko had to learn a hard lesson, and unfortunately Hasbro gets to learn the same lesson.

I tried to flip funko pops in the past and I agree with you. The only value they have on the secondhand market is if you sell them in lots or mystery bags.

I still have my old Beanie Buddy Tracker that was my childhood teddie bear and I still have him sitting on my bookshelf that's really the only "collectable" sold as a collectable I have any love for

"I REMEMBER YOU SCOTT, BUYING FROM ME!" XD KKKKKKK Love it!

The only time I liked Funko Pop was when I sold the small collection I had from the ones gifted to me. I had a Homer 01 and the prices on eBay range from $200-$500. There's not even a stable secondary market

The reason I liked (some) Funko pops was because of the massive brand diversity. I’m a huge sitcom fan, and Funko had cheap memorabilia for my favorite shows (Seinfeld, The Office, etc.). Many shows and movies don’t have much in the way of collectibles outside of rather expensive on set items, scripts, autographs, etc. That said, there was just TOO many. I mean there’s a funko for everything and their grandma now. Over saturated the market and you could hardly find the ones you wanted while shelves sat full of garbage ones that nobody wanted.

Rudy I'd love to see your take on the comic book market and maybe action figures too.

I also hate Funkos. If you're going to collect nerd figures go into like Figma/BellFine/Good Smile or something high quality.

When I first saw this, I thought it said "I have funko pops" along with the picture... I figured you bought like a whole warehouse of them.

I agree Rudy, I have 2 of these - both gifts. I love the ones I have because of who gave them to me.

funko pops are definitely a bit artificial with their scarcity but calling it the modern beenie baby I feel just doesn't work. Inherently funko pops are going to be more collectable because they are of characters from already established ips, beenie babies were just unbranded animals.

My lgs had like 200 of the alien SE ones with the tshirt, as somebody who collects in inordinate amount of magic cards I couldn't imagine storing these things in a home or an apartment let alone the amount of dust that would collect on them if you just have them sitting out

I have a few Funkos of favorite musicians and IPs just because they look cool on a shelf with other random stuff I've collected over the years. They're not an investment, and don't stay in the box.

I eagerly await your take on the 1 of 1 Ring Rudy

I 100% agree with you I just have a problem and to me pops are easier to not spend so much if I buy a few boxes of magic or yugioh even Pokémon I can easily hide those boxes and boom my money is gone but pops it’s hard to make them disappear so I don’t go over board.

I own a few Funko Pops that actually mean something but they went way too far with producing every conceivable thing for them. I'm surprised the Funko Pop crash didn't happen a long time ago.

Good point about the physical space to value ratio. Now im definitely going to buy one and not worry about it. Just open it up and have it display in my pc tower or something

Lego should be a fun video for you to do and can't wait to see it. I been a collector of Lego for a long time and they are definitely hitting the adults with money. The Lego Ideas sets almost always hold their value and increase when retired. The Lego Mini-figure Series line I could see Rudy treating like the TCG card boxes, difference being is while the poly bags themselves are blind, the distribution of the figures in the box are all the same. Which to me helps the value in the future; a person buying a sealed box of Lego Mini-figure Series can either open what they want or split the sets with others. Reprints are rare and even then the new one will almost always have a change from the Original.

I ended up with a sizeable funko pops collection by picking up some for flipping every time i got a bye in a magic event at my LGS. At most i had around 150 of them, and the total value at that time was around 4000$, and they were taking up alot of space. Luckily i have sold most of them, and i guess i turned a proffit, but for time spent the proffit was almost nothing.

Great additional video about Funko Pops... Shawn from Reserved Investments said the same thing about Funko Pops being Beanie Babies 2.0.

I 100% agree, "investing" in these will only bring ruin. I only own 1 funko, a Dr. Doom, open and out box which i have as a desk decoration.

Would love to see a full length video on your thoughts of yugioh I know we got a little sample at the end but I've never seen you talk in major depth about it. Thanks!

Oh lord secret of mana. That is an epic old school game. I shudder to think of the hours spent leveling up weapons. Now Rudy, your not that old. If you remember Pong and intelivision then your old.

Yes. I agree 100%. Not only are they ugly but if you are going to fill empty shelves with figures get something halfway decent to good or even great looking. Make our shelves great again.

I'm still sitting on 3 10X12 storage units packed full of Beanie Babies from the 90" I can't wait to cash out next year

The part when Rudy pointed to the camera calling out Scott and the look on Rudy’s face😂😂😂😂5:30

As far as toys go, I collect original Star Wars > RotJ stuff, early Dr Who, and pre-2000s (esp 70s and 80s) Marvel figures. I have been buying some McFarlane figures, because I like how he runs his toy line, and they look amazing, but there's nothing else being made today that I have any interest in. IMO, any toy that's specifically made to be collectible never will be, because so much of the attraction is scarcity. Older toys solely existed so that kids could play with them, and because of that very few survived in one piece.

I don't understand Funko too Rudy. Though I did watch a you tuber set em up as bowling pins. Great ten minutes of entertainment.

I dabbled with the Game of Thrones pops for a few months. I actually dumped that collection in '18 to get back into playing magic. Roughly the time I started following you actually. I really haven't thought about them since then.

Totally agree. I do collect series that I really enjoy simply because it makes me happy. But they, like magic, totally went insane and tried to go into everything and ruined the brand to a degree. Hopefully they will pull their head out of their backside at some point because I do see value in them at some point. But if they don't go up oh well, I will still like the ones I got.

Are you ever going to put the pokemon base set booster boxes back on the shelf behind you? Or are you just done with the messages about it?

You're 100% correct about that crap product funko line. Just like beanie babies. I can't stand theres nothing to do with them. They just sit there. At least with magic cards theres a game to play and they just don't sit around and collect dust. I like stuff to have a use, something that can be done with it beyond just putting it on a shelf.

There was some good profit in them up until around 2018/19. I was making decent money buying them and selling them. Then people on ebay started getting return friendly so I quit selling. It was easy to find the stores that people were not going to for new releases and making a trip once a week to pickup all the new ones and throw them online. I cant number the times I would update my ebay inventory while in Walmart and have most of the items in my cart sold before I even got to the cash register to pay for them. They are more of a short term profit item, not an investment. I do have several sets from 2015/16 that I am sitting on watching them gain value, but I only do that with low print run characters from the most popular franchises.

Pretty spot on...another thing I don't like about funkos is that the collectors will only buy 1 of any SKU (a majority of the time). So if you carry 1000 of a specific SKU, you'll have to have 1000 customers. Compare that to MTG, Pokemon, or any other TCG...guessing there will be a huge difference. Just dont think the effort is worth it for funkos...sure there are some rare or limited ones but good luck getting those in bulk.

The gold price is 61.8 USD per gram right now. A magic card weighs 1.8 grams. So when a MTG card is worth more than 111.24 USD, it is worth more than its weight in fine gold. About the funko pops... LEGO did a few collectible bubble head figures, almost the same size, you have to assemble these from maybe around 200 LEGO pieces each. Assembling them is fun and these actually look cool and very detailed considering its lego bricks. Did not sell, got discontinued.

I only have one funko pop the Cara Dune one, I bought it back when they were pulling all her merch from the shelves after The actress that plays her was cancelled and fired from the Mandolorian. I doubt they are gonna remake that one. and I bet alot of them were sent back from stores after they were pulled. I doubt there are a bunch of baby yodas sent to the landfill its more likely those cara dune ones were.

Sometimes you see a video title that is completely relatable. This is one of those moments.

AS a toy collector, I can tell you at one time it was considered artsy to have a few POP figures. Minimalism.

My friend had a little Shelf full of them. He kept talking about what they were worth and how are they were going to go up in value and I literally gave him the same talk about them being modern-day Beanie Babies. I told him the crash of them was coming soon and here we are they've been destroying stock like crazy nobody wants them

Crono Trigger- classic. Good throw back Rudy

Can confirm on loads of these going in the trash. Found a sealed box collection of DBZ mini funko pops at my work while loading a dump truck lol. Now they are in my background for videos/channel streams 😂

Its wild that the props in the back have so much history, the stop tape scandal the "rudy almost gets extorted" lotus fiasco to the rudy is an evil investor greed sign. all good times

yeah, you are right. Honestly, I wouldn't ever want them unless I get them because they are part of a package deal or as a gift.

It's strange how some peoples quirks are shared. I also thought the secret to beany babies was in the tag (like a story), and I also looked at funkos and was like... yeah thats way too big to collect.

The Beanie Baby you own, My wife had as a kid. We call her Mrs. Princess, she is a Nurse who helps snuggle you and take care of you while your sick. She is married to Mr. Bear (another beanie), and they have 1 son Mr. Bear Jr who enjoys Car Rides :)

Shipping is about 7 bucks 8×6×4 box 2 sheets of bubble wrap. 8oz to 13oz easy money.

They do take up a Ton of space and also the second there get's a dent in that box then it becomes a $3 piece of crap that no one wants. People who open them just take all the value out of it but keeping all of them in their boxes takes up alot of space. Each one is a massive Cube.

You’re right. Things like that you need to buy out of personal interest and not because you think they’ll bring you a lot of money. I have a few, but they’re characters I like because it is out of my own personal interest. They’re something to put on a shelf and enjoy looking at. I don’t plan to sell them and I certainly don’t attack anyone who’s not into Funko (I can understand very well why a lot of people wouldn’t be). Years ago I watched a video with a Hot Topic employee telling how a customer was mean to her about a Funko Pop delivery (If I recall correctly, the customer had the figure mailed to her address, then demanded to pick up the figure in the store after it had already been shipped. She yelled at the worker even though the issue wasn’t her fault). I noted that it would be funny if the rude customer bought the figure thinking it would be worth a lot of money and then it turned out not to be worth anything.

Interested to hear your take on sealed Lego investing.

I'd love to hear you talk about Figpin it reminds me of funko but the digital value attached to each pin is an interesting gimic.

The beanie baby company literally has another fad already that sells just like mid nineties beanie babies called Squish Mellows. Some of them take up all the space.

Did Rudy's 10-minute camera alert not go off? 18 minutes on funko pops, solid!

I've been telling people for years that I view funko pops as the current beanie baby craze. I had a conversation with a guy last week about it. Hes like you don't understand. I'm like that's what people were telling me about beanie babies.

Funko Pops are modern day beanie babies. Edit: oh he says this in the video lol

That was a brilliant assessment of greed and stupidity!

As a former collector, I definitely agree with you on that. I only bought the ones that I liked at first, but then the flipping got so out of hand in my area that it destroyed any enjoyment I once had for them.

This is EEEESSSSS EEEMMMM PRATTE Big shout out to Scott! Never heard Roody mention him. But def the other way around

I bought a funko before, I regret not just getting a highly detailed pvc statue of the character instead. Quality of the product was on par of a low end kids/dog toy.

Oh man, this is pretty much EXACTLY what I always thought about those things. They're so cheap, ugly, and I tried to explain to kids how they're just as much of a temporary trend as fidget spinners. Hilarious!

I have never seen the allure of actually getting a FUNKO pop. One of my coworker buddies is trying to get rid of his FUNKO pop things and can't seem to get rid of them cause he cannot find anyone to buy them from him..

I feel like it's very weird that the box is the one that that needs to be not beat up, but really as what's in the box. Like I have two of them but I do see them as toys or something just be apart of my Alien/Aliens collection.

The other RU-vidr (his name escapes me) who talked about Funko Pops referred to them as “the new Beanie Babies”, which is both apt but also an insult to Beanie Babies. Ty Warner at least crafted those Beanie Babies with a strange aura to them that made people lose their damn minds with how precious they were in their simplicity. In a way, they were both just toys and cabinet decorations that anyone could appreciate. At least they went about selling them in a holistic fashion (via Mom and Pop Gift Shops & Small Businesses) versus…what Funko does 😒 Funko Pops are basically the bastardization of what Kidrobot and other premium (all caps) figure makers were doing but with a twist: Making them the most mainstream and inoffensive/unremarkable “vinyl figures” imaginable while making new ones whenever they see a trailer or just scrape the bottom of the barrel for a new figure idea.

Rudy said a sliver will be going up in price. Clearly this means I should go buy all sliver cards to corner the market

The last time I was looking for a funko pop (Galactus), I went to several different stores trying to find one. Nowhere. Not only that, but all of the characters that they did have were all of these odd characters nobody cared about. No one would be interested in buying any of them. I felt nothing but sorry for each store I went into. Funko having problems doesn't surprise me at all.

Also imagining having a wall of funko pops, so unpleasant to look at

I only own 1 Funko Pop as well. The chase glow-in-the-dark Uglydoll Wage. Apparently it’s worth a ton of money now, but I’m not selling it because it glows orange. I mean, when’s the last time you saw a thing that glows orange? Usually stuff that glows just glows green. But orange? That’s awesome!