I strongly agreed 👍 💯 with you. I don’t even buy funko. hondo onaka is a funko pop collection and still not a huge fan of funko just don’t like the overproduction.
I was talking to someone the other day who has soured greatly on Funko. He was a collector for many years but has sold all but a couple of his large collection after saying Funko no longer excites him and his joy for collecting them had gone. He said they had gotten lazy (which is true to some extent) and that a lot of what came out just wasn’t great ‘like it was a few years ago’ While we talked something came out which while I can’t defend some of the things Funko has done and decisions they have made it does kind of answer some of the reasons why. We as a society worldwide (I'm UK based he is US Based) have not had something in pop culture that has gripped the world in sometime. There are 2 things we discussed that really showed this. The Marvel crazy was the 1st. During the height of Avengers (up untill Endgame really) they had a right to print money on any pop they wanted. Had that continued - had the Eternals or the Marvels been massive successes and carried on the Marvel excitment - we wouldn’t be as down on the pops they made. The last big global ‘event’ was Squid Game. But that came out of nowhere. By the time they had gotten the licence and made the pops the craze had died out and they became bargain bin pops. Will they uptick again if season 2 becomes huge maybe but don’t think it will ever quiet hit the heights of the 1st season as it was so unexpected. So while Funko has made some bad decisions and haven’t always helped themselves they are also tied in to what’s hot in pop culture. They have to plan a head so it’s hard to say what will be a hit. Cinema has hit rock bottom so that’s not helping the situation at all. Yes they can go backwards if they can get licences - the new Robocop pops are a perfect example - but unless some film or TV show becomes a world wide phenomenon again (or they get something like a Taylor Swift licence) they are handcuffed into making pops of things in the hopes that they will be the next big thing in pop culture which is part of the equation that is out of their hands. There is also something to be said that when you are running hot its very easy to do no wrong. The miniute your not everything becomes scrutinized down to every little detail. I'm not defending Funko (I'm a collector with 1.5K pops in my collection who is not as excited as I have been in the past myself) and i'm not saying this is the be all and end all of the issues within Funko but feel like its a HUGE part of it that people don't seem to want to talk about and want to just push all the blame on Funko as a company.
I'm from northern Europe, and it's gotten almost impossible to sell Pops. Over saturated market. People can't keep up. While the price of living has risen, as you mentioned. People here have an abundance of pops that they're trying to sell second hand, after months and months of having them listed for sale, they try to go half the price, and even then, people don't react and buy. Before, I used to say if you regret a purchase , you can always sell it for what you gave. But that's not true anymore. I do think that they need to make less to create a sense of urgency as you also said. No one here are willing to spend, there's always new releases which makes it impossible to buy second hand because there's not enough money. The prices for pops has risen significantly. And instead of hurrying to buy, people seem reluctant, and after a while, it turns out they had all the time in the world and get great discounts because the pops didn't sell out. Pops that you thought you'd seen the last of, suddenly goes back into production. The passion and desire has gone down, because people are drowning in a sea of Pops. Tiring even, to try to keep up. You see something you like, and the next week there's new releases you'd normally would've wanted. But the special feeling is going away for the same reason. But as people slow down, I don't believe it's wise to sell chesp. Because times will change for the better again, economically. As the desire fades, less will be produced, which in years will become desirable again. The diversity of franchises have too huge of fanbases to die out. But all the lesser franchises that they've produced, because they thought people would buy everything, probably will stay near impossible to resell. I can't describe how many pops are on sale with zero interest. I really like your take, great video.
Outstanding take ! I agree with you. I’ve always thought that over production of the lines has been the problem. Do we really need that many figures of the child holding different things? Im not as concerned about them changing the sculpts as much. but new things such as the jurrasic park dna was really cool. Well done!
Personally I have really slowed down on buying new pops. So many are Anime which I don't watch. They make so many commons that the just waste land them. I prefer going back to getting the old pops from 2012. I find that classic pop look so much better than the new over detailed pops
Same here. The last funko pop I got was the t-rex from the 25th jurassic park anniversary (which was a Christmas gift). But I've been collecting dice and jurassic park/world merch instead so I have not purchased any funkos since then. I have rarely seen any funko pops that I'm interested in that are in stores now, and all the ones I really want are sold out or cost hundreds of dollars.
Another thing that funko does and pisses me off allot is that they say for some pieces they will bring them in europe also and by showing the shared sticker and everything.But in the end they won't and you preordered them and waited them for a year,and are also not something like chases or numbered just normal pops!
@RyeThePopGuy You’re one of the few people that realized the pops are no longer going to be overproduced just like they said at the end of last year. They don’t have many pops, sitting in stock most of their exclusives sell out. The only thing I want to correct is , Funko has no final say on what is made or what variant is made. It has to be approved by the owner of the IP. That’s why you don’t get a lot of Pokémon Funko pops and as you know, the most difficult is marvel/Disney. Funko has to abide by their requirements or they will lose the license. So no one can blame Funko for bringing the same stuff out over and over again.
I love funko so much and I’m definitely not stopping lol 😂. I really do agree that funko pops are the affordable option of collecting. That’s why I collect them only really (specifically Marvel funko pops, with a little DC, & a tad of Disney). I can’t really spend money on other collectibles (as much as I want them. And plus I just graduated High school, heading into college lol 😅😂🫶🏽), like Hot Toys & S.H Figuarts. But I can still collect every character I love and collect the set of the whole set for the most part lol 😅😂🫶🏽! I feel like you definitely spoke for me on this topic lol 😂. Love your content and keep achieving🥹🫶🏽!!
They will be like comics ; there may be a dump of people who have got tired of they but like comices people like me and my son will scoop them up at cheap prices
When you going and releasing me characters from a show,movie or anything which weren't so important like a freaking droid from star wars which had one millisecond of time in the background you can see where this is going!
I'm a collector of some Funko and the majority are Transformers and Marvel, Every time I see a limited edition or NFTs Funko pops of my favorite characters like Grimlock or Tracks from Transformers or anybody else from marvel is just the feel FOMO
ty babies are still being made and sold. Funko just doesn't get the collector side and rarity of collecting. The market value of pops continues to drop even for grails. They slap a new sticker on the turd and put them in different stores all over. Limited isn't so limited when they put more out after the first releases.
I do not collect funkos, but notice people always buying. Money is tight, so all collectables are slowing down.....comics.....hot wheels etc. The market is still there, but too many releases.......like McFarlane DC multivrse figures.
Another person that doesn’t know what the word literally means. I’ve never seen a Funko made of J Edgar Hoover or a catheter for example. So there’s not a Funko made for “quite literally make everything”.
I agree what you said fucker needs to pick which pops that are supposed to be flaw with the chase or an exclusive example of the two Wizard of Oz pops the fly monkey and the cow lion chase are metallic and Funko should’ve done with both of them and I said choose the characters wisely to make us pop and I hope Funko fix their mistake fully in the future and I agree a lot of pop line should get new molds
I was once a big collector (only the ones i really liked), but i realized that funko just dont excite me anymore. Something about those souless eyes just seemed a little empty and a bit of a money waste. Ill admit though, i never bought pops at full price, that was my motto, so if it was cheap id get it. But now i collect actual figures of characters, which is a bit more pricy, but theres a satisfaction at seeing the details, expression, and the pose. It makes me feel happy knowing thats on my shelf cause i paid for quality (in my opinion). Though, with recent years, people on the internet have seen Funko as cheap cash grab at IPs and harassing people who buy them, which i think is uncalled for (really depends on how much youve dunked into it cause 100+ bucks for a funko? Id judge too), and i think that factors into funko being less popular
I'm a collector / flipper. I filp to make momey to buy older / more limited pops for my collection. And FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO "HATE" FLIPPERS if we all go then the 2nd hand market dies, know what happens after that? Youll be able to get all the funko pops you could ever want, and then most of you will loose the addciton to FOMO and eventually alot of people will loose intrest and the company will have to shut down
Funko sucks as a company and I look down on funko pop collectors cause it’s just a bad brand they’re lazy they don’t do what the fans want especially with fnaf and I don’t mind if someone gets a few pops of some characters they like like I have a few but to be a full on collector of pops is concerning if I had to choose between funko pop son or thot daughter I’d rather choose thot daughter cause atleast then my bloodline would continue
Edit: tbh I put funko pop collectors on the same peg as Disney adults it’s just that cringy kiddyfiedness of the pops that makes me cringe only pops I have is fye exclusive carnage , transformers shockwave , shadow the hedgehog, itachi with crows exclusive pops that look less kiddy 😭
I agree with you, I personally collect a majority of manga, scale figures, nendoroids and prize figures, but I only collect very little funko pops as a way to add more diversity into my collection or if there is a character I want that scales and prize figures don’t have
Well Today is Friday 14th June 2024, 08: 27 am, and currently they’ve released, 2023 a whopping 13,741 unique PoP figures that have been released I don’t think there going anywhere any time soon
THANKS FOR WATCHING!
** I noticed after that some clips change color/exposure sorry about that!**
The people saying funko is dead or dying are the flippers lol.
I strongly agreed 👍 💯 with you. I don’t even buy funko. hondo onaka is a funko pop collection and still not a huge fan of funko just don’t like the overproduction.
Funko needs to be in video game 🎮.
@@lukeroberts201they have a big game coming out called funko fusion
If Funko dies, Rye becomes RyeTheGuy
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Nah rye the youtooz guy
I am only collecting the ones I really like. Funko is making too many of the same figures, etc.
I was talking to someone the other day who has soured greatly on Funko. He was a collector for many years but has sold all but a couple of his large collection after saying Funko no longer excites him and his joy for collecting them had gone. He said they had gotten lazy (which is true to some extent) and that a lot of what came out just wasn’t great ‘like it was a few years ago’
While we talked something came out which while I can’t defend some of the things Funko has done and decisions they have made it does kind of answer some of the reasons why. We as a society worldwide (I'm UK based he is US Based) have not had something in pop culture that has gripped the world in sometime. There are 2 things we discussed that really showed this. The Marvel crazy was the 1st. During the height of Avengers (up untill Endgame really) they had a right to print money on any pop they wanted. Had that continued - had the Eternals or the Marvels been massive successes and carried on the Marvel excitment - we wouldn’t be as down on the pops they made. The last big global ‘event’ was Squid Game. But that came out of nowhere. By the time they had gotten the licence and made the pops the craze had died out and they became bargain bin pops. Will they uptick again if season 2 becomes huge maybe but don’t think it will ever quiet hit the heights of the 1st season as it was so unexpected.
So while Funko has made some bad decisions and haven’t always helped themselves they are also tied in to what’s hot in pop culture. They have to plan a head so it’s hard to say what will be a hit. Cinema has hit rock bottom so that’s not helping the situation at all. Yes they can go backwards if they can get licences - the new Robocop pops are a perfect example - but unless some film or TV show becomes a world wide phenomenon again (or they get something like a Taylor Swift licence) they are handcuffed into making pops of things in the hopes that they will be the next big thing in pop culture which is part of the equation that is out of their hands. There is also something to be said that when you are running hot its very easy to do no wrong. The miniute your not everything becomes scrutinized down to every little detail.
I'm not defending Funko (I'm a collector with 1.5K pops in my collection who is not as excited as I have been in the past myself) and i'm not saying this is the be all and end all of the issues within Funko but feel like its a HUGE part of it that people don't seem to want to talk about and want to just push all the blame on Funko as a company.
WHOA WHOA WHOA.. we don't need Flocked? C'mon Rye, Flocked is probably the coolest variant ! I agree over production is the problem. FPP!
I meant to say unnecessary flocked pops lol like flocked squirtle doesn’t make any sense. Thanks for watching!
I'm from northern Europe, and it's gotten almost impossible to sell Pops. Over saturated market. People can't keep up. While the price of living has risen, as you mentioned. People here have an abundance of pops that they're trying to sell second hand, after months and months of having them listed for sale, they try to go half the price, and even then, people don't react and buy. Before, I used to say if you regret a purchase , you can always sell it for what you gave. But that's not true anymore. I do think that they need to make less to create a sense of urgency as you also said. No one here are willing to spend, there's always new releases which makes it impossible to buy second hand because there's not enough money. The prices for pops has risen significantly. And instead of hurrying to buy, people seem reluctant, and after a while, it turns out they had all the time in the world and get great discounts because the pops didn't sell out. Pops that you thought you'd seen the last of, suddenly goes back into production. The passion and desire has gone down, because people are drowning in a sea of Pops. Tiring even, to try to keep up. You see something you like, and the next week there's new releases you'd normally would've wanted. But the special feeling is going away for the same reason. But as people slow down, I don't believe it's wise to sell chesp. Because times will change for the better again, economically. As the desire fades, less will be produced, which in years will become desirable again. The diversity of franchises have too huge of fanbases to die out. But all the lesser franchises that they've produced, because they thought people would buy everything, probably will stay near impossible to resell. I can't describe how many pops are on sale with zero interest. I really like your take, great video.
Outstanding take ! I agree with you. I’ve always thought that over production of the lines has been the problem. Do we really need that many figures of the child holding different things? Im not as concerned about them changing the sculpts as much. but new things such as the jurrasic park dna was really cool. Well done!
Also losing part of their FNAF license one of the most popular selections from Funko Fnaf merchandise is action figures but they are losing that
Personally I have really slowed down on buying new pops. So many are Anime which I don't watch. They make so many commons that the just waste land them. I prefer going back to getting the old pops from 2012. I find that classic pop look so much better than the new over detailed pops
Same here. The last funko pop I got was the t-rex from the 25th jurassic park anniversary (which was a Christmas gift). But I've been collecting dice and jurassic park/world merch instead so I have not purchased any funkos since then. I have rarely seen any funko pops that I'm interested in that are in stores now, and all the ones I really want are sold out or cost hundreds of dollars.
I think funk should make there own lines like lego does (ninjago, Dreamz ect.)
They have Fantastik Plastik!
Wont ever die just like beanie baby. They will still be around just not as crazy during its peak years
Another thing that funko does and pisses me off allot is that they say for some pieces they will bring them in europe also and by showing the shared sticker and everything.But in the end they won't and you preordered them and waited them for a year,and are also not something like chases or numbered just normal pops!
@RyeThePopGuy
You’re one of the few people that realized the pops are no longer going to be overproduced just like they said at the end of last year. They don’t have many pops, sitting in stock most of their exclusives sell out.
The only thing I want to correct is , Funko has no final say on what is made or what variant is made. It has to be approved by the owner of the IP. That’s why you don’t get a lot of Pokémon Funko pops and as you know, the most difficult is marvel/Disney. Funko has to abide by their requirements or they will lose the license. So no one can blame Funko for bringing the same stuff out over and over again.
I love funko so much and I’m definitely not stopping lol 😂. I really do agree that funko pops are the affordable option of collecting. That’s why I collect them only really (specifically Marvel funko pops, with a little DC, & a tad of Disney). I can’t really spend money on other collectibles (as much as I want them. And plus I just graduated High school, heading into college lol 😅😂🫶🏽), like Hot Toys & S.H Figuarts. But I can still collect every character I love and collect the set of the whole set for the most part lol 😅😂🫶🏽! I feel like you definitely spoke for me on this topic lol 😂. Love your content and keep achieving🥹🫶🏽!!
I have a very small collection, and if they get cancelled I will never get more pops!
I love that Funko is doing new things but that being said the bitty pops are so dumb
They will be like comics ; there may be a dump of people who have got tired of they but like comices people like me and my son will scoop them up at cheap prices
I doubt that very much, they keep announcing more and more new funko pops, so it doesn’t seem to like it’ll be going away anytime soon.
I’m worried
Same bro
They need to stop making marvel side character funkos not a lot buys them
When you going and releasing me characters from a show,movie or anything which weren't so important like a freaking droid from star wars which had one millisecond of time in the background you can see where this is going!
I'm a collector of some Funko and the majority are Transformers and Marvel, Every time I see a limited edition or NFTs Funko pops of my favorite characters like Grimlock or Tracks from Transformers or anybody else from marvel is just the feel FOMO
Shops hardly stock them now
Groceries!! I’m getting that funko pop. Top ramen will be my best friend for the week.
I liked flocked, personally. I agree that we do need better sculpts. Luckily for me, I mainly collect anime so I’m up
To be honest I collect them when I find them at a yard sale, theft shop or 5 below but I mostly go for fan made stuff or just get video game
I love your videos my bro
Thanks my bro
ty babies are still being made and sold. Funko just doesn't get the collector side and rarity of collecting. The market value of pops continues to drop even for grails. They slap a new sticker on the turd and put them in different stores all over. Limited isn't so limited when they put more out after the first releases.
If Funkos are dying then how come a lot of people are still buying them 😂
I’ve only ever had 3 in my life but ima buy ah lot of my childhood favorite video game character
I do not collect funkos, but notice people always buying. Money is tight, so all collectables are slowing down.....comics.....hot wheels etc.
The market is still there, but too many releases.......like McFarlane DC multivrse figures.
Great video, awesome take. I think all of your poits are dead on .😊
I saw a chase captain America with the silver shield
People who think rye is 1 of the best Funko CZcamsrs
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@@RyeThePopGuyrye is about to become RyeTheGiy
Where's my ash ketchem pop?
Another person that doesn’t know what the word literally means. I’ve never seen a Funko made of J Edgar Hoover or a catheter for example. So there’s not a Funko made for “quite literally make everything”.
I agree what you said fucker needs to pick which pops that are supposed to be flaw with the chase or an exclusive example of the two Wizard of Oz pops the fly monkey and the cow lion chase are metallic and Funko should’ve done with both of them and I said choose the characters wisely to make us pop and I hope Funko fix their mistake fully in the future and I agree a lot of pop line should get new molds
Funko doesn’t care about the consumers
You love them or not. You buy them for yourself and not for selling them for money
I mean it's selling if it's not 20$
Show us your sonic funko sodas
Awesome CZcams video today on your CZcams channel today #ryethepopguy.
The clear plastic pops were lame
I was once a big collector (only the ones i really liked), but i realized that funko just dont excite me anymore. Something about those souless eyes just seemed a little empty and a bit of a money waste. Ill admit though, i never bought pops at full price, that was my motto, so if it was cheap id get it. But now i collect actual figures of characters, which is a bit more pricy, but theres a satisfaction at seeing the details, expression, and the pose. It makes me feel happy knowing thats on my shelf cause i paid for quality (in my opinion).
Though, with recent years, people on the internet have seen Funko as cheap cash grab at IPs and harassing people who buy them, which i think is uncalled for (really depends on how much youve dunked into it cause 100+ bucks for a funko? Id judge too), and i think that factors into funko being less popular
I don't think they are.
To save your time the answer is no
Great video BTW, your take on this is stop on
Thanks! I appreciate it!
How many days have you been mewing my guy💀💀💀💀💀
my whole life
Respect🤫🧏
Like 10:10 games.
Short answer; No.
First of all, why are you yelling in your video. Funky is a fad, it will die like Beanie Babies.
no
I think it is
How am I so early
In my opinion funko is dying.
I'm a collector / flipper. I filp to make momey to buy older / more limited pops for my collection. And FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO "HATE" FLIPPERS if we all go then the 2nd hand market dies, know what happens after that? Youll be able to get all the funko pops you could ever want, and then most of you will loose the addciton to FOMO and eventually alot of people will loose intrest and the company will have to shut down
Good video! But you need to shave before I subscribe. Will you? 😊
😂 Probably not, hold out on your subscribe for now
Hi
Day 70 l bet my captain Rex pop that you don't have number 501
Pop guy plss pin me cause ive never pinned by a youtuber and you are my favourite
HI CAN U PLS PIN ME IVE NEVER BEEN PINNED BEFORE BTW FUNKO NEVER DIEESSSS !!!!!!!!!
Funko sucks as a company and I look down on funko pop collectors cause it’s just a bad brand they’re lazy they don’t do what the fans want especially with fnaf and I don’t mind if someone gets a few pops of some characters they like like I have a few but to be a full on collector of pops is concerning if I had to choose between funko pop son or thot daughter I’d rather choose thot daughter cause atleast then my bloodline would continue
Edit: tbh I put funko pop collectors on the same peg as Disney adults it’s just that cringy kiddyfiedness of the pops that makes me cringe only pops I have is fye exclusive carnage , transformers shockwave , shadow the hedgehog, itachi with crows exclusive pops that look less kiddy 😭
I agree with you, I personally collect a majority of manga, scale figures, nendoroids and prize figures, but I only collect very little funko pops as a way to add more diversity into my collection or if there is a character I want that scales and prize figures don’t have
@@ColorShardzz fax they’re good for diversity but as the only part of a collection they just are off putting
Well Today is Friday 14th June 2024, 08: 27 am, and currently they’ve released, 2023 a whopping 13,741 unique PoP figures that have been released
I don’t think there going anywhere any time soon