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.
@@nonlamesniper The most expensive pop actually sold for $100k. There are lots of others worth $10k+ too. Those are probably even under valued because of how few were produced and how rarely they see the market.
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.
That's the value then. It will eventually become only as valuable as people are willing to pay because they want to enjoy it. I sell bad box lego, any set I get is only worth what people want to pay to build it. Not keep it as an investment. Luckily for me, Lego prices so high I can usually save money on the store price and still turn a profit, selling 2nd hand.
@User-pw3pu yeah but with lego you can make your own stuff and play with it more intricately and change things to your liking.... funkos don't move or bend they are a stiff piece of plastic with a print over the top... its a shit toy
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.
So it was you that made me trip hard one time I was under the influence and was watching a very informative Rudy video but my brain broke when I saw a random taco in the background, my gf called me and I kept telling her “why tf is there a taco on the shelf?” And laughing my ass off,
Yeah having known about nendoroids already it was really weird seeing funkos hitting the market so hard for such a comparatively inferior product It flabbergasted me when I went to Australia a few years back and how hard people were into funkos
Same here I own like 10 of them I've collected over the years. I have them spaced out. They're damaged from falling over and what have you i don't care I'm not collecting them for value I think they're neat little toys. I blows my mind how people get over these things. I'm the same about magic cards too. They hold value for me to play not to sell.
@@jasondiend4248 Life is meant to be enjoyed. You are doing it right. Collectibles have zero future protection/value, the only reason you collect things is usually because A) others are into the same hobby B) you can show off C) you enjoy X at Y moment The IV of these objects also too is guess what, generally cheap plastic and cardboard. What about fine china? Silver spoons? Porcelain dolls? Where are those now?
@@Exilitate those still have a market, its just not hip to collect fine china and creepy dolls. But the rare and expensive items there are still rare and expensive.
I've never understood it. It's the cheapest, blandest, and dare I say vainest way to show that you like a character, TV show, movie, what have you. Like if you really cared about that thing, why are you buying some blatant money grab from a company that took 0.5 seconds to do the ol' copy/paste job to slap your character's colors on a product and call it a day? Maybe if Funko Pops only existed for a handful of IPs I could overlook the generic design and appreciate that people are just trying to signal that they like some character or whatever, but buying a dime-a-dozen bland ass doll that could be mistaken for hundreds of other designs from 50 feet away is just a bizarre way of showing one's affection (using that term generously) for a character
I finally noticed this video after 5 days... I was the one who sent Rudy this Pop. I just did it as a goof for Christmas 2021, and as a thank you to Rudy for all the videos that made me want to get back into collecting Magic. He mentioned the 699 number on the Pop--I blocked out the last 9 with a trimmed white sticker so it would say 69. I was surprised when I saw it removed in the first video that it appeared on the shelf. I became a patron of his in October 2018 when he had the big Force of Will mixed lot sale. I actually have two videos as a patron: one Return to Ravnica box opening and one original Theros box opening. I was glad to see him use it in this video! Like Rudy mentioned in the video, just collect the characters that you like... and I do.
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
Beanie Baby also had entire plastic cases to display them in, not just the little tag protectors. Mom actually bought a few and I remember putting my kangaroo beanie in one.
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!!
Lore of the taco on the top right: I was on a tour with Andrew WK when he got his sponsorship deal with Taco Bell and he took us all to their corporate kitchen HQ and their master Japanese model maker happened to be there doing a commercial shoot and I bought a box of random plastic tacos and burritos off of him and sent one to Rudy
I ended up finding a copy for $150 at a local store when they were like $400 a few years ago, but didn't end up caring for the gameplay so I sold it a couple days after I bought it.
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.
Funko mass produced pop's that nobody ever wanted or asked for. Lots of boring, low detail, low effort funko pops. People want something unique in the funko world.
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 the last "Hastings" store went out of business in the Midwest (equal parts book, dvd, game/music shop. It didn't age well after the 90s and kept switching focus). I went to the one in Lawrence Kansas. There was a pile of funko pops as high as the ceiling. Some one went to a lot of effort stacking them 12-14ft high. I guess they knew those things un-sellable.
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.
@@theboringchannel2027 tails mate. Not the whole crayfish. Exported to China, the most lucrative market in the world. $150k a pallet was the cheapest it gets my friend, once she starts shipping overseas and you start adding taxes and tariffs and illegal labelling it only gets higher. Way higher. Love how you think the whole world works in imperial still. 10kg boxes at $100/kg, 16 to a layer, 12 high per pallet. I was being conservative with my $150k. And before you go on about exchange rates, this was when we were at parity with you. There is a lot of money to be made in quality seafood if you did even the tiniest bit of research into the asian market. Especially pallets of quality seafood. I like pallets.
@@theboringchannel2027 clearly you realise there are 8 grades for tails too, each one having a different value depending on the specific holidays and festivals the market is trying to cater to at the time. Things like Chinese New Year et al 🐲
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.
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.
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 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.
@@PokemonHolo same from yugioh. And their values are well established. Btw beanie babies can't even do holofoil figures which are only ideal for cardboards.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 :)
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
I have no idea what beanie babies are, but it sounds like they lost a lot of monetary value. But whatever makes you happy is worth every penny and every minute spent! I have a passion for collecting all variations and all languages of cards of my 3 favorite Pokémon (Magikarp, Politoed and Obstagoon). Most of them are considered "worthless garbage". But I like them. What is a 2 cent bulk card for someone else is a prized possession in my collection 🙂
@That Obstagoon Guy lol the term "worthless garbage" is just so harsh, but i know what you mean. Thats what special about these collectibles is that we can collect them for whatever reason we want and thats what makes them special
@@mebinici Same could be said for Magic by that logic. Yeah there are a lot of Funkos worth big money because they are rare, but similar to MTG the majority of cards hold no value
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.
Yep, pretty much, they will likely hold some more value since they are based off actual characters where as BBs were just random animals with no nostalgia. I just hope they get taken off shelves, they take up so much retail space in so many stores it gets sickening to see walls of random characters no one gives two fucks about, like oh look its randy in a cowboy hat from that one show, randy showed up for all of 5 mins in the show but thank god this store has 50 copies of this randy character. Like i get shit like batman and joker but my god did it ever get totally out of hand.
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.
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.
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
@@kingragnork as someone who collects a lot of things including figures I'm gonna be real and say they aren't "useful" while I love them to death they don't really do much
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.
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.
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.
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.
I just like to collect funkos for the series I love 😅 I'll take my shame and embarrassment! It is just a personal collection thing. And since I like to go to cons, it's neat to get signatures on them from the actors/actresses.
@@cindrillionvillain2705 Honestly, I think that's the best way to enjoy them: As purely collectibles of your favorite series/characters. Personally I am partial to most based on dragon characters. Would LOVE to get one of Red Eyes Black Dragon especially.
@@KreuzDrache yes! My wife has some of the game of thrones dragons and my brother has all the Yugioh ones. I know a lot of the human funkos are really basic with black lifeless eyes, but many of the monsters or dragons or whatever are pretty decent.
@Thumbtack Jake I don't have a dragon yet! D: my first one will probably be Bolas tbh lol The POPS! aside, turns out the Nissa figure a buddy of mine got me for Christmas turns out to be made by Funko too. I thought that was neat when I realized it
@@cindrillionvillain2705 The Turbo Man figures they released last year or the year before from the Jingle All the Way movie we’re also made by Funko. First time I realized they did stuff outside the Pops.
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
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 also dislike Funko pops. Too expensive and such low quality. Uninspiring simple designs. I’m a collector of a few things. But toys that don’t do anything? My toys are for playing with.
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 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.
Although they both serve no purpose, Funkos exist and reflect reality. It's rich in merch and culture. Beanie Babies are literally just bears. Both worthless but at least one is "cool".
Only FUnko's I've considered buying is the Hokage series from Gamestop because they can all connect and form iconic MT Rushmore version of the Hokages from the show. That's dope af, but all the rest I agree, are just cheap Chinese plastic lmao
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.
You said the secret words secret of evermore. There was definitely a time in history when we were both kids simultaneously playing s.o.e at the same time. I miss the 90s.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
It all depends on which ones he’s collected. I bought a dark knight joker for $12 it’s worth over $300. I didn’t buy for investment just liked the character.
@@bigmac9439 that’s why it’s worth so much, because you liked it, you are probably not gonna sell it unless you are in money trouble, the problem is the mass production and artificial scarcity. Making a product because people want it is different than making a product because people think it’s valuable.
@@mouseofscorpio right and the rare and collectable funkos will still be worth something, the issue is funko insisted on mass marketing a figure for my aunt, a figure of my dog, a figure of your cat and a figure of a rock that no one asked or cares for. Their goal seemed to be to flood the market so heavily that their product took up half of all the stores they were in… well it worked and it just seems like all it did was make people hate them lol. Like i would walk into a gamestop, and 1/3 of the store is covered in funko pops. There was almost more funko than videogames… in fact theres more garbage in a gamestop than videogames, 1/3 of it is funko, 1/3 is literal junk toys that no one buys and “gift” ideas. The last 1/3 might be videogames.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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 😂
I had beanie babies growing up And yes, they do have Utility, Battle Royale Illegal Animal Fighting Rings in the Sandbox at school. None of them survived, good times
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.
Collecting in general has just become shitty, its been taken over by people flipping and buying with the sole purpose of making s buck. Ive mostly stopped collecting anything popular because its just so inflated and overpriced.
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.
I just listened to a minute of video with no audio thinking Rudy was up to his old tricks . . . Turns out my audio was actually turned off. What a Timmy.
I've never liked funko pops due to their design and how they've taken up a significant amount of shelf-space in a lot of shops which pushed out other products. I've never grudged anyone who gets happiness from collecting the things but I'll be glad to see the day when they go the same way as beanie babies.
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
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.
I’m one of those individuals that bought a lot of Funko..and I gotta say, I just liked picking up pops that gave me nostalgia bc it helped reminisce on a simpler life. That feeling can be rare, and funko pops helped me experience that with the characters and stories I loved as a kid. Idk if many other people think of it like this, but that’s my rational to having them
I dont know how this video showed up in my feed, but I'm glad it did. You're preaching what I've felt for a long time. Now that pops are so cheap I purchase them and destroy them for fun. My loathing is deep 😆
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.
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.
It was retailers who screwed them and said they didn't want the inventory
Damn... so you're I shouldn't have spent $8 on this dakota wolf Funko Pop? 😉
sounds pretty familiar with what wizards is doing :D
@@wallywest4274 Not 8 no should've bargained it down to 2 😉
@@hieinh no it’s honestly a bad product
I hate Funko pops more than stepping on lego.
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.
there are plenty that are worth 100+ especially the older ones. most of the OGs are worth thousands, and they are the worst looking things out there
There are pops that are worth thousands
@@tonytedford8719 are there?
@@nonlamesniper The most expensive pop actually sold for $100k. There are lots of others worth $10k+ too. Those are probably even under valued because of how few were produced and how rarely they see the market.
@@nicholasnocera2496 Crazy bro. I stay with shiny cardboards😅
I hate how taboo it is to remove them from the box, heaven forbid you get Finger prints on the Vinyl 💀
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.
That's the value then. It will eventually become only as valuable as people are willing to pay because they want to enjoy it.
I sell bad box lego, any set I get is only worth what people want to pay to build it. Not keep it as an investment. Luckily for me, Lego prices so high I can usually save money on the store price and still turn a profit, selling 2nd hand.
@User-pw3pu yeah but with lego you can make your own stuff and play with it more intricately and change things to your liking.... funkos don't move or bend they are a stiff piece of plastic with a print over the top... its a shit toy
Funko lack soul and heart. It's like voodoo dolls of things you love.
Don't judge me! LOL!
Legit
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.
So it was you that made me trip hard one time I was under the influence and was watching a very informative Rudy video but my brain broke when I saw a random taco in the background, my gf called me and I kept telling her “why tf is there a taco on the shelf?” And laughing my ass off,
@@mouseofscorpio 🤣
The lack of detail was the one thing that stopped me from buying them. I always thought that they were a boring toy.
the people pops have horrible detail. the non people pops have great detail IMO
Try Nendoroid if you are fine with Anime/Manga faces. They look way better and you can modify them.
Yeah having known about nendoroids already it was really weird seeing funkos hitting the market so hard for such a comparatively inferior product
It flabbergasted me when I went to Australia a few years back and how hard people were into funkos
@@egnaroelprupBecause they have really good detail and have a ton of licenses and no offense not everyone collects anime stuff
@@ricardoflores4910 you probably need a good look at what there is because there isn't just "anime stuff" anymore, hasn't been for a few years
I love that Rudy has impeccable taste in video games and other forms of media.
Those games he listed. A true man of taste indeed
That's cuz we're all old farts
@@isaacgibbs5832 we are old farts, but not everyone back then was playing those games.
I always thought funko was just a desk toy. Nice to pick up your favorite characters, but not worth collecting.
Same here I own like 10 of them I've collected over the years. I have them spaced out. They're damaged from falling over and what have you i don't care I'm not collecting them for value I think they're neat little toys. I blows my mind how people get over these things. I'm the same about magic cards too. They hold value for me to play not to sell.
@@jasondiend4248 Life is meant to be enjoyed. You are doing it right. Collectibles have zero future protection/value, the only reason you collect things is usually because A) others are into the same hobby B) you can show off C) you enjoy X at Y moment
The IV of these objects also too is guess what, generally cheap plastic and cardboard. What about fine china? Silver spoons? Porcelain dolls? Where are those now?
@@Exilitate those still have a market, its just not hip to collect fine china and creepy dolls. But the rare and expensive items there are still rare and expensive.
@@TheHollowBlade collections are only ever based off the present, like you said they are not hip nor cool.
I've never understood it. It's the cheapest, blandest, and dare I say vainest way to show that you like a character, TV show, movie, what have you. Like if you really cared about that thing, why are you buying some blatant money grab from a company that took 0.5 seconds to do the ol' copy/paste job to slap your character's colors on a product and call it a day?
Maybe if Funko Pops only existed for a handful of IPs I could overlook the generic design and appreciate that people are just trying to signal that they like some character or whatever, but buying a dime-a-dozen bland ass doll that could be mistaken for hundreds of other designs from 50 feet away is just a bizarre way of showing one's affection (using that term generously) for a character
The person that gave Rudy this one Funko Pup must have felt great watching this :D
No doubt
Honestly they probably feel honored to have a historic video on rudy's channel because of them.
💀
I finally noticed this video after 5 days... I was the one who sent Rudy this Pop. I just did it as a goof for Christmas 2021, and as a thank you to Rudy for all the videos that made me want to get back into collecting Magic. He mentioned the 699 number on the Pop--I blocked out the last 9 with a trimmed white sticker so it would say 69. I was surprised when I saw it removed in the first video that it appeared on the shelf. I became a patron of his in October 2018 when he had the big Force of Will mixed lot sale. I actually have two videos as a patron: one Return to Ravnica box opening and one original Theros box opening. I was glad to see him use it in this video! Like Rudy mentioned in the video, just collect the characters that you like... and I do.
@@CJsComicsandGamesyou’re awesome! 🎉
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
.... you mean like card sleeves?
Beanie Baby also had entire plastic cases to display them in, not just the little tag protectors. Mom actually bought a few and I remember putting my kangaroo beanie in one.
@@dissrapsI’ve been using card sleeves for 25 years though so…
I still have those evolutions packs! 😎😎
Nice! I was hoping you would comment haha.
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!!
Brutal
Lore of the taco on the top right: I was on a tour with Andrew WK when he got his sponsorship deal with Taco Bell and he took us all to their corporate kitchen HQ and their master Japanese model maker happened to be there doing a commercial shoot and I bought a box of random plastic tacos and burritos off of him and sent one to Rudy
I'd watch that and maybe a tour of his vaults of other non-cardboard collections.
I ended up finding a copy for $150 at a local store when they were like $400 a few years ago, but didn't end up caring for the gameplay so I sold it a couple days after I bought it.
I never saw a reason for me to get that plastic thing in a box to sit around and collect more dust than value.
I think he stole the idea for this video from my recent one XD!
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.
They're the absolute worst. Pieces of crap. I do own one but it's the bioshock set which were made well and look like actual figures.
Funko mass produced pop's that nobody ever wanted or asked for. Lots of boring, low detail, low effort funko pops. People want something unique in the funko world.
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.
“The dump site for MtG”… don’t talk about Rudy’s Taco Warehouse like that!
Same thing for any unsold plastic toy, such a waste
If you haven’t been to a dump in awhile it’ll break your heart. You’ll instantly be reminded where 99% of this crap goes in less than a year.
When the last "Hastings" store went out of business in the Midwest (equal parts book, dvd, game/music shop. It didn't age well after the 90s and kept switching focus). I went to the one in Lawrence Kansas. There was a pile of funko pops as high as the ceiling. Some one went to a lot of effort stacking them 12-14ft high. I guess they knew those things un-sellable.
15 minutes and all you needed to say was "The Juice isn't worth the squeeze." Rambling Rudy is the best Rudy!
Crono Trigger- classic. Good throw back Rudy
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
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.
This is an underrated comment
@@theboringchannel2027 tails mate. Not the whole crayfish. Exported to China, the most lucrative market in the world. $150k a pallet was the cheapest it gets my friend, once she starts shipping overseas and you start adding taxes and tariffs and illegal labelling it only gets higher. Way higher.
Love how you think the whole world works in imperial still.
10kg boxes at $100/kg, 16 to a layer, 12 high per pallet. I was being conservative with my $150k.
And before you go on about exchange rates, this was when we were at parity with you.
There is a lot of money to be made in quality seafood if you did even the tiniest bit of research into the asian market. Especially pallets of quality seafood.
I like pallets.
@@theboringchannel2027 clearly you realise there are 8 grades for tails too, each one having a different value depending on the specific holidays and festivals the market is trying to cater to at the time. Things like Chinese New Year et al 🐲
@@theboringchannel2027 YOUR crayfish aren't worth that much, no.
Yeah pallets are sweet
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.
95 $5 funko pops and 5 $100 dollar funko pops. Mystery bag 15 a piece
Nothing dries up the ladies like a shelf of Funko Pops, I tell you whut
Or finding out you play Magic......
The PS Triple makes the girls wild though!
Painted army of warhammer 40k
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.
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 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.
Good pokemon cant get faked :P
@@Domekarl hurrhurr :P It's allot easier to tell fake from real when it comes to Pokemon
@@PokemonHolo same from yugioh. And their values are well established. Btw beanie babies can't even do holofoil figures which are only ideal for cardboards.
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.
And as bookmarks.
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
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.
I actually sold my entire collection a week ago 😅 acquired more space and less stress 😎
Best thing you ever did!
Any tips for getting rid of a large collection?
@@henrye3935 Goodwill
@@henrye3935 WhatNot or eBay bundle lot!
Another addiction upcoming
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.
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 :)
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
I have no idea what beanie babies are, but it sounds like they lost a lot of monetary value. But whatever makes you happy is worth every penny and every minute spent!
I have a passion for collecting all variations and all languages of cards of my 3 favorite Pokémon (Magikarp, Politoed and Obstagoon).
Most of them are considered "worthless garbage". But I like them. What is a 2 cent bulk card for someone else is a prized possession in my collection 🙂
@That Obstagoon Guy lol the term "worthless garbage" is just so harsh, but i know what you mean. Thats what special about these collectibles is that we can collect them for whatever reason we want and thats what makes them special
Never understood them as a “rare” collectable
Because there are a lot of rare ones
@hieinh that are worthless...
@@mebinici Same could be said for Magic by that logic. Yeah there are a lot of Funkos worth big money because they are rare, but similar to MTG the majority of cards hold no value
@@mebinici worthless huh?
I bought 5x eccc vaporeon @ $15/each, sold for $200/each. ez 10x.
Worth nothing to you personally.
@@mebinici my collection is worth a lot so lol
It almost seems like they overproduced them. Who would've thought.
Exact same problem that the Fed Reserve has with USD!
"almost"....how are you kidding. There's more of those things than there is DIRT.
Funkos are like opinions. Sooner or later they all go to a land-fill.
I also hate Funkos. If you're going to collect nerd figures go into like Figma/BellFine/Good Smile or something high quality.
I agree Rudy, I have 2 of these - both gifts. I love the ones I have because of who gave them to me.
"I REMEMBER YOU SCOTT, BUYING FROM ME!" XD KKKKKKK
Love it!
I had to claim ignorance on these until late last year. And then, when I finally found what they were, I couldn't stop laughing. My thought at the time was "boxed Beanie Babies". I don't know how anyone could think otherwise.
Yep, pretty much, they will likely hold some more value since they are based off actual characters where as BBs were just random animals with no nostalgia. I just hope they get taken off shelves, they take up so much retail space in so many stores it gets sickening to see walls of random characters no one gives two fucks about, like oh look its randy in a cowboy hat from that one show, randy showed up for all of 5 mins in the show but thank god this store has 50 copies of this randy character. Like i get shit like batman and joker but my god did it ever get totally out of hand.
I had one of these in my gaming bag! XD
When I first saw this, I thought it said "I have funko pops" along with the picture... I figured you bought like a whole warehouse of them.
I ended up with a sizeable funko pops collection by picking up some for flipping every time i got a bye in a magic event at my LGS.
At most i had around 150 of them, and the total value at that time was around 4000$, 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.
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.
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.
No it's actually very easy to play the pop game
Great additional video about Funko Pops... Shawn from Reserved Investments said the same thing about Funko Pops being Beanie Babies 2.0.
Love Shawn....even if he states he is a Liberal....although I don't believe him.
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
Rudy I'd love to see your take on the comic book market and maybe action figures too.
Both of those are more useful and take up less space
@@kingragnork as someone who collects a lot of things including figures I'm gonna be real and say they aren't "useful" while I love them to death they don't really do much
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.
Beenie babies way less toxic in a landfill or incinerator
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.
And how many people that buy magic cards play with them? On a Rudy video? Lmao
Sometimes you see a video title that is completely relatable. This is one of those moments.
"Not a fan of beanie babies & funko pops" *thumbs up and runs away*
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.
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.
I just like to collect funkos for the series I love 😅 I'll take my shame and embarrassment! It is just a personal collection thing. And since I like to go to cons, it's neat to get signatures on them from the actors/actresses.
@@cindrillionvillain2705 Honestly, I think that's the best way to enjoy them: As purely collectibles of your favorite series/characters.
Personally I am partial to most based on dragon characters. Would LOVE to get one of Red Eyes Black Dragon especially.
@@KreuzDrache yes! My wife has some of the game of thrones dragons and my brother has all the Yugioh ones. I know a lot of the human funkos are really basic with black lifeless eyes, but many of the monsters or dragons or whatever are pretty decent.
@Thumbtack Jake I don't have a dragon yet! D: my first one will probably be Bolas tbh lol
The POPS! aside, turns out the Nissa figure a buddy of mine got me for Christmas turns out to be made by Funko too. I thought that was neat when I realized it
@@cindrillionvillain2705 The Turbo Man figures they released last year or the year before from the Jingle All the Way movie we’re also made by Funko. First time I realized they did stuff outside the Pops.
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 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 also dislike Funko pops. Too expensive and such low quality. Uninspiring simple designs. I’m a collector of a few things. But toys that don’t do anything? My toys are for playing with.
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 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.
This is EEEESSSSS EEEMMMM PRATTE
Big shout out to Scott! Never heard Roody mention him. But def the other way around
Although they both serve no purpose, Funkos exist and reflect reality. It's rich in merch and culture. Beanie Babies are literally just bears. Both worthless but at least one is "cool".
Did Rudy's 10-minute camera alert not go off? 18 minutes on funko pops, solid!
I eagerly await your take on the 1 of 1 Ring Rudy
The part when Rudy pointed to the camera calling out Scott and the look on Rudy’s face😂😂😂😂5:30
thank you so much for the time stamp, came just for that
Only FUnko's I've considered buying is the Hokage series from Gamestop because they can all connect and form iconic MT Rushmore version of the Hokages from the show. That's dope af, but all the rest I agree, are just cheap Chinese plastic lmao
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
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.
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.
You said the secret words secret of evermore. There was definitely a time in history when we were both kids simultaneously playing s.o.e at the same time. I miss the 90s.
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.
Interested to hear your take on sealed Lego investing.
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!
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
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.
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
It all depends on which ones he’s collected. I bought a dark knight joker for $12 it’s worth over $300. I didn’t buy for investment just liked the character.
@@bigmac9439 are people paying $300 for these regularly or are they all just listed at $300 on ebay. There's a huge difference
@@bigmac9439 that’s why it’s worth so much, because you liked it, you are probably not gonna sell it unless you are in money trouble, the problem is the mass production and artificial scarcity. Making a product because people want it is different than making a product because people think it’s valuable.
@@mouseofscorpio right and the rare and collectable funkos will still be worth something, the issue is funko insisted on mass marketing a figure for my aunt, a figure of my dog, a figure of your cat and a figure of a rock that no one asked or cares for. Their goal seemed to be to flood the market so heavily that their product took up half of all the stores they were in… well it worked and it just seems like all it did was make people hate them lol. Like i would walk into a gamestop, and 1/3 of the store is covered in funko pops. There was almost more funko than videogames… in fact theres more garbage in a gamestop than videogames, 1/3 of it is funko, 1/3 is literal junk toys that no one buys and “gift” ideas. The last 1/3 might be videogames.
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.
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.
Beanie babies 2.0 is a great way to put it
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
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.
Can there be a series where we ask Rudy what he’d rather have more? A pallet of Funko or a pallet of.. bacon? Ranch dressing? XXS bike shorts??
Shipping is about 7 bucks 8×6×4 box 2 sheets of bubble wrap. 8oz to 13oz easy money.
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!
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 😂
To be fair no one likes the pocket pops people only collect the original line
Also imagining having a wall of funko pops, so unpleasant to look at
I had beanie babies growing up
And yes, they do have Utility, Battle Royale Illegal Animal Fighting Rings in the Sandbox at school.
None of them survived, good times
That was a brilliant assessment of greed and stupidity!
Funko Pops are modern day beanie babies.
Edit: oh he says this in the video lol
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.
Collecting in general has just become shitty, its been taken over by people flipping and buying with the sole purpose of making s buck. Ive mostly stopped collecting anything popular because its just so inflated and overpriced.
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.
I just listened to a minute of video with no audio thinking Rudy was up to his old tricks . . . Turns out my audio was actually turned off. What a Timmy.
I've never liked funko pops due to their design and how they've taken up a significant amount of shelf-space in a lot of shops which pushed out other products. I've never grudged anyone who gets happiness from collecting the things but I'll be glad to see the day when they go the same way as beanie babies.
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
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.
I’m one of those individuals that bought a lot of Funko..and I gotta say, I just liked picking up pops that gave me nostalgia bc it helped reminisce on a simpler life. That feeling can be rare, and funko pops helped me experience that with the characters and stories I loved as a kid. Idk if many other people think of it like this, but that’s my rational to having them
I dont know how this video showed up in my feed, but I'm glad it did. You're preaching what I've felt for a long time. Now that pops are so cheap I purchase them and destroy them for fun. My loathing is deep 😆
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.