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| sworddude:
--- Quote from: marvelvscapcom2 on September 05, 2021, 09:04:33 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on September 05, 2021, 09:20:12 am --- --- Quote from: shawndude82 on September 04, 2021, 10:23:09 am --- --- Quote from: undertakerprime on September 03, 2021, 09:59:35 pm --- --- End quote --- Like Beanie Babies or Pogs. Us real collectors are still gonna be around after the posers move on to the next big thing. I have to believe that, or I'll lose my mind. And then who'll look after my Tick pogs? --- End quote --- Can we really compare it to those fads beanie babies or pogs have no substance it's pretty much only to collect. aside from the looks what's so memorable about them. What are you going to do with those aside from looking at them. With games you can play them, gaming in general is one more fun passing times. Looking at pogs and beanie babies gotto be near the bottom of the list of having a fun time aside from collecting them. Games have music fun gameplay multiplayer in some occasions excellent stories wich result in pretty in nice memories. Heck 2d games today are even playable among the younger generations that didn't even grow up with it. I don't think there is a comparison because games where never there to be a collectable. It ain't even their main thing. Games have to much going for them to be compared to actual fads like beanie babies. Iconic mascots from Nintendo definitely help aswell. --- End quote --- Agreed. I get the sentiment of people who say this but the "Funko pops and Video Games are the next beanie baby" argument I always hear doesn't hold weight. I mean beanie babies were heavily commercialized and pointless stuffed animals that have already existed for millenia. Once the intial fun wore off you were left with nothing. Video games fall more into the comics and vinyl territory. When they become less desirable in collectibility like you said their will always be a old man wanting to listen to a vinyl for sound alone, a geek wanting to relive his childhood through comics and a e reader just wont do :) If not for money or collecting. Video games have a physical significance and can be played. Pogs were literally cardboard circles lol. Although pogs have gone up in desirability so I wouldn't sleep on their nostalgia factor. --- End quote --- I'd say funko pops are in the beanie babies pogs fad. The only thing that is probably keeping it afloat atm is that the pops are based on iconic series. so you will probably always have some demand for those. But if you ignore that they just look nice on the shelves. |
| emporerdragon:
I maintain that the beady-eyed abominations that are Funko Pops are popular because for many franchises/characters they're the only collectible in town. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: emporerdragon on September 07, 2021, 01:18:46 pm ---I maintain that the beady-eyed abominations that are Funko Pops are popular because for many franchises/characters they're the only collectible in town. --- End quote --- Didn't think about niche series with almost no merch. But that's a solid thing in the case of funko's aswell. |
| marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: sworddude on September 07, 2021, 10:43:49 am --- --- Quote from: marvelvscapcom2 on September 05, 2021, 09:04:33 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on September 05, 2021, 09:20:12 am --- --- Quote from: shawndude82 on September 04, 2021, 10:23:09 am --- --- Quote from: undertakerprime on September 03, 2021, 09:59:35 pm --- --- End quote --- Like Beanie Babies or Pogs. Us real collectors are still gonna be around after the posers move on to the next big thing. I have to believe that, or I'll lose my mind. And then who'll look after my Tick pogs? --- End quote --- Can we really compare it to those fads beanie babies or pogs have no substance it's pretty much only to collect. aside from the looks what's so memorable about them. What are you going to do with those aside from looking at them. With games you can play them, gaming in general is one more fun passing times. Looking at pogs and beanie babies gotto be near the bottom of the list of having a fun time aside from collecting them. Games have music fun gameplay multiplayer in some occasions excellent stories wich result in pretty in nice memories. Heck 2d games today are even playable among the younger generations that didn't even grow up with it. I don't think there is a comparison because games where never there to be a collectable. It ain't even their main thing. Games have to much going for them to be compared to actual fads like beanie babies. Iconic mascots from Nintendo definitely help aswell. --- End quote --- Agreed. I get the sentiment of people who say this but the "Funko pops and Video Games are the next beanie baby" argument I always hear doesn't hold weight. I mean beanie babies were heavily commercialized and pointless stuffed animals that have already existed for millenia. Once the intial fun wore off you were left with nothing. Video games fall more into the comics and vinyl territory. When they become less desirable in collectibility like you said their will always be a old man wanting to listen to a vinyl for sound alone, a geek wanting to relive his childhood through comics and a e reader just wont do :) If not for money or collecting. Video games have a physical significance and can be played. Pogs were literally cardboard circles lol. Although pogs have gone up in desirability so I wouldn't sleep on their nostalgia factor. --- End quote --- I'd say funko pops are in the beanie babies pogs fad. The only thing that is probably keeping it afloat atm is that the pops are based on iconic series. so you will probably always have some demand for those. But if you ignore that they just look nice on the shelves. --- End quote --- Funko pops are licensed pop culture icons, no matter who you are their is something to love from Schitt's Creek to a can of spam. So the liklihood of them being a fad is about as much as the thriller jacket or nostalgia itself being a fad lol. Just because you don't play with it doesn't mean its pogs. Tom McFarlane with less market saturation and way more niche categories has stood on every comic geek shelf with a figure for years. Hot wheels anyone? These things hit the fornula give them commons for the casuals. Rares for the nerds and then if all else fails? Bring them to comic con Ahhh comic con. Where over a 4th of a million geeks show upndressed like Tom Holland and buy anything that isn't bolted to the ground with chains and restraints. Oh and they're numbered. They have sticker variants and exclusives to like 50 stores. Have been around for like a decade and have literal theme parks in their likeness. Pops are as forever as games and comics. But that's just my opinion :) |
| Cartagia:
--- Quote from: emporerdragon on September 07, 2021, 01:18:46 pm ---I maintain that the beady-eyed abominations that are Funko Pops are popular because for many franchises/characters they're the only collectible in town. --- End quote --- |
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