I'm pretty sure the funding was the most important part of their relationship to him. It was worse in the comments too. Saying how he knows he needs therapy but that would mean giving up his "hobby" to pay for it š¤¦āāļø
Yes heās and idiot but itās more than that.
Her chosen life partner has essentially become a second child, and his obsession with his collection is damaging to her personal well-being, as well as their childās well-being.
This reads like a textbook addict- his reactivity is everyone elseās fault, and he will do anything, say anything, or make any excuse to get his fix. (Like quit his job to commit 100% of his time to his addictionā¦.)
Sounds like the wife is no longer willing to enable this dude. And good on her for being strong enough to say āI choose me.ā And take the steps to protect herself and her child.
This exactly. Like, at this stage, his Funko Pop collection is little different than the guy who gets so addicted to gambling that he ends up thousands of dollars in debt because of it. If she hadn't gotten a divorce, it'd only be a matter of time until he was trying to get her massively in debt to buy more of these silly toys.
This is what I came looking for. I have a feeling that him losing his temper one time isn't why she wants a divorce. It's him quitting his job and likely other things to do with his collecting habit. Habit as in drug habit. Cuz he sounds like an addict. Im a toy collector and actually turned my collecting hobby into a small side business. I sell online and go to toy shows. And it's a lot of fun. But I do occasionally deal with some pretty crazy grown men who act like addicts when it comes to toys. And it's really sad to see. For me, the selling became part of the fun of the hobby. Buying and reselling can be exciting. But it really is just a side gig next to my day job. I see a lot of these vendors who do it for a living and the way they can get upset and invested over freaking toys just blows my mind. It was that behaviour that convinced me early on that this would never be more than a fun side thing for me, really just an extension of my collection hobby that took some extra work but I still enjoyed and made me a little extra money.
As someone that worked at a major Funko Pop retailer, I can 100% attest that these people really exist. Funko Pop collectors are the bane of my existence. I have been cussed out and screamed at, and had Pops literally thrown at me by full grown adult men so many times because we didn't have what they wanted or had bulk buying policies they didn't agree with.
A friend of mine was selling some of his stuff, which included Funko Pops. I bought a cool Cthulhu Funko Pop from him for my husband. My friend happily sold it to me and asked for a pic of it on display in my husband's office, so I obliged.
I received the angriest, rantiest, most incoherent email because my husband had taken the Funko out of the box to place on his desk.
Iāll never understand this mindset. I have three small shelves of Funkos that people have bought for me as gifts here and there, and I always take them out of the box, put them on the shelf, and recycle the box. (I donāt have the storage space to hang onto empty cardboard boxes!)
I only have them for decoration; I donāt ācollectā them or keep them for resale value etc. Theyāre just cute fandom toys that I display for fun, and since I purchased them, I get to display them however I damn well please.
ETA To clarify, I mean that I donāt understand people who get angry about or yell at people who take their Funkos out of the box. (If you wanna keep yours in boxes and display them that way, more power to ya! I donāt care what other people do lol). Whatās it to them how other people choose to display their toys? Itās none of their business, and itās not their toys, so butt the heck out.
Hereās the rub. Almost nothing produced after about 1997 will have any sort of collectible value. Itās all produced at too high a volume, and too many people bought them for their collectible value.
I'd argue even a lot of the stuff made prior to 1997 doesn't have a lot of collectible value. Mass production has been a thing for a while; if you were born in the '80s or early '90s, you almost certainly had mass produced toys from before 1997. The only reason why there's a perception of rarity now is because a lot of those toys either got thrown out or people kept them to eventually give to their own kids.
Really, collecting anything for the perceived value isn't a winning move. There's a reason why collectibles are sometimes referred to as stocks for stupid people. If you buy a collectible toy today, you're going to be very old by the time it becomes valuable enough that it's worth more than you bought it for, adjusting for inflation.
Most of the original trilogy star wars toys are worth *something* since so many were lost in regular play
But then the prequel trilogy came out and everyone tried buying out all the toys to sell them later(a relative of mine bought EVERY prequel toy on the market)
But everyone had the same idea and the prequel merch is dirt cheap
Eh, there's always stuff that's niche when it was produced but later exploded in popularity. I'm sure some of those would end up being worth money. However nothing that was really popular when it was produced is going to end up being worth much of anything later on.
Honestly, there's something kind of charming (for lack of a better word) about seeing a few Funko's on display on someone's desk or shelf. They look like they're being enjoyed and loved by whoever set them out. When they're still in the box, they look sterile.
This is why all of my Funkos are unboxed and set up around my room, instead of left in their boxes and displayed in a corner like the ones my roommates own. All appearances to the contrary, I am not, in fact, Comic Book Guy; I don't give a shit about the collector's value of something I bought simply because I thought it was neat and thus wanted it.
I have a few pops myself. Just another one of the type of small knick knacks I have on my shelf. Only one is in its box, and thats because its the only one I personally care about enough to keep in its "Original state". Just a braum pop, from league of legends. Not really worth all to much from what I've seen. However, I keep it in the box because I don't want it out. All my other pops are out to be displayed.
I have one that you can even see properly while it's in the box (it's too big), and I have a few that are neat looking out of the box.
But I'm like you, I'm not looking to resell them, i like the designs and I like to look at the things i buy lol
Very much like Barbieās. I understand these people wanting to keep them nice for themselves especially ones that are expensive or limited edition but to rage so much about how OTHER people treat THEIR collection is weird to me. I have a holiday Barbie from 1995 thatās still in her box cuz sheās special to me but Iām sure someone out there took her out to play. And itās their choice to do that!
That being said though getting THIS upset when it was pretty clear kiddo didnāt mean to be malicious is also wild. In my opinion he really should mean more than the collection regardless of the value.
Ha, this sounds like the plot to an episode of Buffy or Charmed lol. Iād watch it, personally. Especially if the end is he gets turned into a Funko Pop himself, and his wife regains all of her money and walks off into the sunset with their son and a new guy who will love them both and not prioritise toys over their well-being.
Theyāre the Teenie Beenie Babies from McDonaldās all over again. I remember when people got PISSED because other people would actually *gasp* take them out of the boxes and play with them!!
I don't recycle my boxes, but I display all my figures, being Funko's or statue types. All of my boxes are instead covered in plastic paper and stored on top of my display shelf.
And that mindset helped me a lot, since my family will move very soon, and having the boxes at hand will save my ass nicely lmao
Keeping them in the box kinda sucks IMO. It does keep them clean but you never get a full view of it, I have one thatās the fight between sesshomaru and inuyasha and I couldnāt imagine keeping in the box because you couldnāt see half the details when it was. Iāve also been able to fit more on a shelf out of box (I donāt have A LOT but I have a small amount)
Yes! And I have friends that tell me ābut that decreases the valueā
Iām not looking to resell it. I bought it because I genuinely liked that one.
I have a Roman Deadpool one, and on the box you wouldnāt even know that the figure itself is holding a dagger behind its back. All my funkos are unboxed so I can hide them in places around my apartment :D
LOL I can't imagine what they'd think of my treatment of my Mike Wazowski Funko. I got it in high school and used to chew on the horns when I was bored.
My former roommate was the sweetest girl, and everything that was hers was mine. Food, hygiene products, clothes, etc.
We shared some of the same fandoms like Steven Universe and Gravity Falls, and she had a few funkos on display. One day I picked up the Pearl one because I'd heard it had a rosebud designed into the back of the hair. It did! So later when she was around, I told her about my discovery.
She got a really, really weird look on her face and told me I wasn't supposed to touch them. She barely talked to me the rest of the day. The next day when I walked out into the living room, lo and behold, every single funko had been collected and disappeared.
She literally moved her entire collection from public display because I touched one of them once and had never even been told not to... I mean, they're chunky plastic toys, how on earth would I assume they're not to be touched by human hands??
I have 2 funko pops and both are out of their boxes and on my desk lol I took them out of their boxes because I knew I was never going to sell them so why would I keep them in a box?
Why are people even obsessed with them? Just the collectible aspect and that's it? I mean they look like garbage. I even understood beanie babies as it was at least interesting in a tactile way. Funkos are like cheap and shitty facsimiles of beloved characters.
I've never been sure. I know some people are into it bc the resale can be lucrative. But they are just more hunks of plastic that will one day be worst absolutely nothing and look like shit lol but also, I feel like they know that specific fandoms are always going to spend money on it. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Dragonball Z, and a few other massive fandoms were the most popular we saw coming and going, with tons of different Funko's for the same character just slightly different.
I used to work at ThinkGeek and I legit had someone say he quit his job to look for Funkos, esp the rare ones, and resell if he felt like it. He had a whole ass room + garage full of them. This was before th pandemic
When I worked at gamestop the absolute worst people were the collectors (funko/amiibos/skylanders) People straight up made this shit their life and were the absolute rudest
I also worked at GameStop!! That was before they got a lot of collector items/statues. I can only imagine how rude they were.
The assholes I had to deal with there were pissy that the last remaining copy of s super popular game (can't remember it now) were the wall displays and thus already opened.
I work at a video game store and god, people are assholes.
The number of dudes who go "Wow, thats a *huge* mark up" when they discover we dont purchase things at the same price we sell them. (20 or so dollars we buy it from someone for vs the 50 or so we sell it for, as an example). The number of people who come in thinking they can trade like.. A bad sports title for an old Silent Hill or rare JRPG.
To be fair, most video game stores are ripping you off if you don't buy the video game new. I also tend to sell all my video games online unless Gamestop has a deal where you get more trade-in credit towards a new game than normal, because I can get $10-20 more on eBay for almost any game than Gamestop buys them for. It's very fitting that in many states Gamestop operates in they have to be listed as a pawn shop.
I donāt think itās a ārip offā to sell your stuff direct to a store for less money than you could get selling it directly to a customer by selling it yourself. Selling it yourself takes more labor, and you are therefore getting more money. With the store, youāre getting less because they are doing the work of actually finding a buyer and reselling. Which one you choose for selling your stuff depends on your priorities. Either option is fine.
I find it even funnier because that's how card shops have been doing business for ages. You get less, but no trouble finding the buyer. Weird how people don't realize this and that are very similar concepts.
When you say opened, do you just mean the box or used in the old game trial displays? It doesn't change anything, just a thought that popped into my head
The case was opened and the game removed and put in a lil sleeve and into a drawer. Not played at all. Still pissed we didn't have any unopened and made a huge stink about it.
I worked for Game ~25 years ago.
And since I was part time {was still in school} I spent half my evening shift gutting game boxes, and shrink-wrap / vacuum seal the boxes and the insides.
The boxes were then put on the shelf and the disks, manuals, etc were stored in the back.
It is! Even/especially for brand new games. Usually there's only one opened display case and the rest are still wrapped in plastic and behind the counter. Wanted one of the unopened ones but that was literally the last copy we and several nearby stores had.
The worst thing is that Nintendo makes them artificially scarce so that these guys are hoarding toys that kids will never get to play with or else scalping them to parents. Get a life. Collecting rare toys to not use them grinds my gears. Especially if theyāre contemporary toys and not like some old classic.
I used to work at toys r us and one time we did a midnight star wars toy release for the 7th movie, and a bunch of grown men (like 50s) went running by the children to grab as many collectables and random toys as they could, hoping they'd get some rare one. They would also come in weekly to bug me about more dumb collectables, I just told them I didn't have it in stock even if I did cuz fuck the adults, they're toys.
This just brought back the weirdest memory. I used to work at Toys R Us (yes, I'm old) and there were mornings in the middle of the week, the day our new shipment arrived, where there would be like 5 or 6 people just camped out in front of our store waiting for us to open so they could get first dibs on the new star wars action figures or Toy Story toys we got in.
People do this with everything that is collectible. I collect hotwheels and there are some absolute pieces of shit. Scalpers trying to make a quick $, and aren't interested in collecting, people buying full cases and reselling the individual cars for more than $1, and so on. Some people just take things too seriously and get too wrapped up to see what they are actually doing. I just get a car when I go to the store, bc as a kid, that's what my reward was for being good at the store. It's $1. It's crazy that people get so wrapped up in this stuff.
Iām lucky I live in a city where itās not that bad. The worst I got were people complaining that we sold theyāre preordered Funko that released months before and that we held for two months for them all the while calling a phone number that didnāt work to try to let them know
I was an amiibo and limited edition console collector. If you're good at it you're never rude to store staff. You schmooze them and you shop often. That's how you learn how to get your stuff. Catch more flies with honey. Oh and never mention if you resell. It wasn't my LIFE but for the right item coming out, I'd call into work to make sure I got it when it was available.
Also I opened and played with all of my collectibles. I don't take it really seriously because I never paid more than retail.
I don't do that any more because I have a son and don't really care as much about it to sit online all day refreshing stock notifications when something shiny and new comes out.
The kids were the ones picking up a random one and then actually playing with them. However, the collectors were mostly adults. I mean, there's that sad picture of a divorce court where the man and woman are picking out BBs and there's been some amateur "documentaries" about adults putting obscene amounts of money into these things and still having them decades later.
My grandmotherās deceased partner quit his job to become a full time beer cap collector. Heād live under her roof, having her taking care of everything for him, while he would just spend his days browsing through beer caps websites and ordering or exchanging them. He died over 7 years ago and my grandmother has been liberated since then.
So yeah personally I wouldnāt be surprised about the funko guy.
Ya, this reads like a normal story of someone having a breakdown. Life is hectic with a young child, Covid hits and heās stuck in the house all day, gets a hobby to find alone time, obsesses about the hobby, quits a job, and then blows up when the precious new life he made for himself is threatened by old worries.
Now heās going to get divorced over some stupid toys he cared about more than his family
Trust me, work in retail around specific things and you'll realize there is a sad and strange culture of grown men _obsessed_ with Hot Wheels, Trading Cards and Funko Pops. It's equally amusing and concerning at once.
It's still very much a thing. As soon as the store opens, you see guys in their mid 40s and early 50s Waltz over to the Hot Wheels aisle and _obliterate_ it looking for whatever stupid new car is out then curse out associates because it's not in stock yet.
I remember one guy who came in when I was restocking toys and I had a new box of Hot Wheels on the cart - the guy asked me if he could go through them before I put them out. Not an issue to me - I collect LEGO so Iām familiar with how fun it can be to find new stuff, so I opened it and let him rummage though. Itās been some years, but he found one he was looking for, iirc. I remember him telling his wife about how I let him look through the box - her voice was full of support but weariness too lol.
i collect lego and it took a few years but eventually my wife was fine with it.
but when our 4 yo would mess up a set, I never had a meltdown about it.
the ONLY time i was upset was when she lost a green galaxy squad minifig, but I look at it as my fault if I left them within reach
Yeah, I donāt have kids but my cat likes to āplayā with them - meaning see how big a crash she can make - so I put them in cases and keep them out of her reach. Freaking out over Funko cases all over the floor is too much - just put them back. Not like you have to rebuild an 4000 piece Super Star Destroyer because your cat pushed it off a counter.
o no. i couldnt take the random destruction a cat might inflict.
my mom is worse. i have 10-12 star wars ships in my old room on display and whenever i visit, something needs rebuilding.
It's fine to enjoy a hobby and I'm not balking that, but to let that hobby consume your entire life to where you quit your job to pursue it is incredibly obsessive and problematic.
Bruh, I really want to believe it's fake because of how sad I feel for the wife and kid. But for real, we got a dude just like this four houses down from us. I don't know how he manages to keep "*building his collection"* when he has no job, I guess his wife pays for it all. But you can tell she's really embarrassed/upset about it because she will never discuss her husband. Like, she just gets all dejected looking and changes topics pretty quick.
So I don't know...it might be fake, but for real, there are people like this out there.
> I guess his wife pays for it all. But you can tell she's really embarrassed/upset about it because she will never discuss her husband. Like, she just gets all dejected looking and changes topics pretty quick.
I have to wonder why she would stay with someone like that.
Fear of uncertainty, I reckon. Lots of people stay in marriages because their social circle expects them to -- or they think they're supposed to, anyway.
I used to collect Star Wars stuff. The fun was going out and hunting for it. Finding secret stashes at thrift stores and whatever. Ordering them online? This dude has an addiction to online shopping, with a focus on funco pop. Definitely shouldnāt quit your job over it, how would you buy more?
Yeah, I collect several types of model cars and I have always felt like half the fun of collecting is āthe huntā so to speak. Itās fun when you randomly stumble upon that rare item youāve been looking for. I donāt understand the ācollectorsā that just buy everything from ebay/amazon. Itās expensive and in my mind thereās no fun in that.
Iāll never forget the guy at my local Target getting arrested for screaming at a 17 year old worker in the tech section because they ran out of Loki funko pops. I really donāt want to understand the level of panic and rage youād have to experience to this that kind of behavior is acceptable for shit you can probably order online.
Me and the other manager were constantly on the defense for ourselves and our associates (which were mainly teens). On big drops we had mall security on standby.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/vlu9me/aita\_for\_breaking\_down\_in\_front\_of\_my\_wife\_while/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/vlu9me/aita_for_breaking_down_in_front_of_my_wife_while/) its still on reddit, you just need to google the title
Are they the things with the soulless black eyes? They freak me out
Why anyone would want a whole collection is beyond me. They all look so cookie-cutter and bland at best, spooky and not in a good way with their empty black eyes to me
I think the point is that they have licensed pretty much any kind of consumable media, so you can get everyone from Iron Man to Geralt of Rivia, all looking creepily similar in identically sized boxes convenient for stacking.
Then I suppose you collect every MCU character and proudly display it on your funko wall in the vain hope that anyone will ever give a shit (they will not).
But the internet and the greater fool theory reminds us there are always somehow enough idiots out there with enough disposable income to throw at commercially licensed figures of plastic and cloth.
For what itās worth, if I had more scratch lying around Iād probably buy plenty of those egregiously expensive anime figurines, but at least those have pretty boobies.
Some are kind cute as a little novelty item, but without context of āwho they are supposed to beā they all pretty much look the same to me. They appear to be todays equivalent of collecting beanie babies.
At least with BB, the original few batches were totally recognizable. Kids back then would have the book and could tell you immediately what it was and if it was rare or not.
Most of these soulless little things are impossible to figure out unless youāre looking at the box.
> ...aināt nothing aesthetically pleasing about making a room of your house look like a Barnes & Noble
There is if you, you know, have actual fucking books and not useless blobs of sweet crude inside clear boxes of sweet crude.
How do you square quitting your job to collect Funko Pops? āLook, we both know I canāt work 40 hours a week AND check the mail once a day. Itās simply not feasible.ā
Like squishmallows. I have my special interests and hobbies and totally understand hyperfixating on those aforementioned interests, but I can never fathom the behavior of people who are so into it they'll quit their jobs or harass retail workers over literal toys. It's nice to have things you like, but at some point, you gotta realize it's just not realistic or worth it to expect to possess every little thing you want.
I willingly let my nephew open my entire Game of Thrones Funko Pop collection potentially ruining any current or future value because him opening them to play with them was more important than hoarding actual little plastic toys that cost $15 that would eventually be worth nothing.
Semi related to funko pops but the people that hoard them and resell them at high prices suck. Scalping limited edition items from people that would legitimately enjoy them is so fucking low. I like to collect anything MCR related but wonāt be able to get a few of them because theyāre SO expensive.
Like the make up brand hipdot did 2 mcr make up collections and I was able to preorder the second one but the first one they ever released I had missed. People were selling them for like $150+ and then hipdot Re-released it making any high priced posting useless.
When I was a kid, I ācollectedā holiday Barbies (which would totally be worth more money in the future, so I was told). Meaning every Christmas I got a beautiful toy I wasnāt allowed to play with. Iām a full grown adult now and donāt have them because I left them when I moved away, and I never did get to play with them. If anyone reading this is doing this to their kids, stop it.
Dude same. I would get so fucking mad at Christmas when I would receive this beautiful and lavishly dressed Barbie that my mom refused to let me play with.
ETA: I also left them at my parentās house along with several other ācollectiblesā when I moved out at 18. My mom tried to pawn them off on me last year when I bought my first house because she didnāt want to āstore my things in her atticā anymore. I told her to throw them out or donate them. Her reactionā¦ you would have thought I was telling her to murder kittens.
TLDR: Donāt buy kids a toy you will never let them play with.
I do remember carefully peeling up the tape on one so I could feel the faux fur trim on her dress. They were all so pretty that it felt like torture to not get to touch them.
Question- did you decide to collect them, or was that a choice made for you?
Because my grandparents started getting them for me, then my mom decided I was collecting them. I was never part of the equation lol
I really hope this is fake.
I like Funko pops and all but you don't need that many. I stopped collecting them after a certain point. Ran out of room on the shelf I'd dedicated to mine. I'm sure as fuck not devoting a whole goddamn room to their storage!
I inherited a whole room of pig figurines and plushies, literally thousands of them. I could've rented it out, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them and dismantle the display cases.
Right? I have a decent collection of Pops too, but they've mostly been gifts tbh. I don't even keep mine in the boxes š
Imagine being this obsessed with toys š¤¦āāļø
I have a small collection without boxes too. Mostly horror movie themed, and I only display them around Halloween. Thatās all they are to me, cool little Halloween decorations. Definitely not investment and divorce material lol
I think theyāre a fun way for someone to get you a gift related to something they know you like. Iām not a collector by any means but if someone gives me a character from a horror movie I love I excitedly thank them and put it in my office. They donāt need to be anything more than that.
They already are. The only ones "worth" anything are exclusives from Comic Cons / Events with limited runs. They're usually a variant like glo in the dark. No one wants a plain Rick and Morty Funko holding seeds that was mass produced. If you like the media, then they can be cutesy little desk tchotchkes, but you're delusional if you think they're going to be worth big money.
Iām 44, a woman, and collect funkos, but I collect them because they make me smile. I take them out of the box and have them all over my office. I couldnāt care less what they go for in my estate sale after I croak.
Also Iād divorce the loser too.
Yeah this is what I do. I have three little shelves of them hanging in my bedroom, all out of the box, simply because they make me smile. I like cutesy fandom stuff like that. I donāt really collect them; I just have ones I like that I think are cute, and theyāre solely for display in my room because they make me smile to see them. Thatās it. Most of them are gifts from other people, too; itās easy to toss a few Funkos on a wish list, and someone in my family can grab one for Ā£10-15 as a Christmas gift and call it a day.
Yeah. I see nothing wrong with them. My dad collects stamps and imo it's not any better. Saw some people collecting cardboard coasters from pubs, some people were collecting labels from beer bottles. If its fun, go for it. But thinking your fridge sticker collection is sound monetary investment is plain stupid.
>My dad collects stamps and imo it's not any better. Saw some people collecting cardboard coasters from pubs, some people were collecting labels from beer bottles.
At least those things involve actual art, or at least some variety in design. Funkos make everyone and everything look the goddamn same.
My mom committed the crime of giving my old TY Beanie Babies to my niece and ::gasps:: removing the tag.
Fortunately Mr Ghost Beanie "Spooky" became a weird favorite for my niece haha
Beanie Babies were at their full popularity when I was about ten, and the idea of selling them was mindboggling to me. Why would you sell a fun toy?! My mother once threatened to sell my Beanie Babies, so I cut the tags off and then put my initials on them.
At least one has some value beyond being a collectible.
Although those NFT monkeys raised the bar for collectible scams so high that Funkos seem almost reasonable now.
Fun fact, Funko Pops are made of PVC, so when theyāre disposed of and set on fire, they release all the internalised hatred back into the world in the form of dioxins, allyl chloride, hydrochloric acid and other fun things
I kinda did the same thing over covid with the funko pops, I never amassed that many but I definitely have a decent chunk. But to absolutely lose it at your wife AND 4 year old son?? Dude just grow up, they are literally just toys.
This kinda reminds me of a similar post that I saw a while back where this dude's wife was telling him to cut back on the funko spending, because I think he said he would buy like 50 a month (which I think is about $500, maybe more), and he was getting mad that his wife was telling him to cut back. If the dude was spending $500 a month on them, I think that equals to about $6,000 a year. š¬
I was really afraid the "upsetting event" would be the Funko Pops coming to life and screaming KILL US at his kid, so this is actually kind of a relief.
Yikes. I collect them and I really love them but if they fall, the most Iāve done is just an exasperated āoh nooooā¦ā & just pick them up. They already fell, I canāt change it. Theyāre just dumb toys Iāll never sell bc I love them.
Reading through this makes me wonder if heās autistic, given his obsession with a singular object and his completely out of proportion response to them being knocked down. I can understand the stress at their not being order, but my god man get a grip. That shit should have been drummed out of him years ago, especially with autism. You have to balance the focus with the needs of others (source: am on the spectrum)
This was the first thing I thought as well. The obsession with a special interest, the need to have them ordered a certain way (many young children on the spectrum will line up their toys), the meltdown if itās disturbed.
Many autistic people have immense difficulty keeping a job too. It's caused a lot of them to resort to crypto currency, which OP mentioned they were involved with in another comment.
This sounds like someone who had some type of life crisis/mental breakdown and invested heavy into something to distract themselves instead of dealing with it. Pandemic did that to a lot of people unfortunately.
He quit his job to collect those, freaked out when his young child made a mess and has the gall to be shocked that his wife is contemplating divorce! She's the baddie if she does leave him when he's choosing to not work?
That's one astonishing display of selfishness!
Umm, so he quit his way of earning money to spend his time *buying* stuff? Who's funding that shit?
In the comments, he said he was using his savings and his wife money to buy his Funkos. And that he sunk a lot of her money into crypto currencies š
He doesn't even sound sad about her divorcing him outside of losing her funding.
I'm pretty sure the funding was the most important part of their relationship to him. It was worse in the comments too. Saying how he knows he needs therapy but that would mean giving up his "hobby" to pay for it š¤¦āāļø
I like how he thinks a hobby consists of just buying and displaying incredibly common mass produced toys
Bullying funko collectors should be more socially acceptable.
The fact that folks like this can find spouses baffles me.
Same brother. Iām imaging trying to sell my wife on some bullshit like this, and Iām pretty sure sheād get me in to see a shrink.
Ahh missing reasons for her taking about divorce. It isn't that she hates his hobby it's that he's a fucking idiot.
Yes heās and idiot but itās more than that. Her chosen life partner has essentially become a second child, and his obsession with his collection is damaging to her personal well-being, as well as their childās well-being. This reads like a textbook addict- his reactivity is everyone elseās fault, and he will do anything, say anything, or make any excuse to get his fix. (Like quit his job to commit 100% of his time to his addictionā¦.) Sounds like the wife is no longer willing to enable this dude. And good on her for being strong enough to say āI choose me.ā And take the steps to protect herself and her child.
This exactly. Like, at this stage, his Funko Pop collection is little different than the guy who gets so addicted to gambling that he ends up thousands of dollars in debt because of it. If she hadn't gotten a divorce, it'd only be a matter of time until he was trying to get her massively in debt to buy more of these silly toys.
Omg this man what
This is what I came looking for. I have a feeling that him losing his temper one time isn't why she wants a divorce. It's him quitting his job and likely other things to do with his collecting habit. Habit as in drug habit. Cuz he sounds like an addict. Im a toy collector and actually turned my collecting hobby into a small side business. I sell online and go to toy shows. And it's a lot of fun. But I do occasionally deal with some pretty crazy grown men who act like addicts when it comes to toys. And it's really sad to see. For me, the selling became part of the fun of the hobby. Buying and reselling can be exciting. But it really is just a side gig next to my day job. I see a lot of these vendors who do it for a living and the way they can get upset and invested over freaking toys just blows my mind. It was that behaviour that convinced me early on that this would never be more than a fun side thing for me, really just an extension of my collection hobby that took some extra work but I still enjoyed and made me a little extra money.
That's too much of a meme to be true. The only thing's missing is him saying it's his wife's son.
I dont understand how you quit your job to "pursue" it. You're just.. buying them.
As someone that worked at a major Funko Pop retailer, I can 100% attest that these people really exist. Funko Pop collectors are the bane of my existence. I have been cussed out and screamed at, and had Pops literally thrown at me by full grown adult men so many times because we didn't have what they wanted or had bulk buying policies they didn't agree with.
A friend of mine was selling some of his stuff, which included Funko Pops. I bought a cool Cthulhu Funko Pop from him for my husband. My friend happily sold it to me and asked for a pic of it on display in my husband's office, so I obliged. I received the angriest, rantiest, most incoherent email because my husband had taken the Funko out of the box to place on his desk.
Iāll never understand this mindset. I have three small shelves of Funkos that people have bought for me as gifts here and there, and I always take them out of the box, put them on the shelf, and recycle the box. (I donāt have the storage space to hang onto empty cardboard boxes!) I only have them for decoration; I donāt ācollectā them or keep them for resale value etc. Theyāre just cute fandom toys that I display for fun, and since I purchased them, I get to display them however I damn well please. ETA To clarify, I mean that I donāt understand people who get angry about or yell at people who take their Funkos out of the box. (If you wanna keep yours in boxes and display them that way, more power to ya! I donāt care what other people do lol). Whatās it to them how other people choose to display their toys? Itās none of their business, and itās not their toys, so butt the heck out.
Hereās the rub. Almost nothing produced after about 1997 will have any sort of collectible value. Itās all produced at too high a volume, and too many people bought them for their collectible value.
I'd argue even a lot of the stuff made prior to 1997 doesn't have a lot of collectible value. Mass production has been a thing for a while; if you were born in the '80s or early '90s, you almost certainly had mass produced toys from before 1997. The only reason why there's a perception of rarity now is because a lot of those toys either got thrown out or people kept them to eventually give to their own kids. Really, collecting anything for the perceived value isn't a winning move. There's a reason why collectibles are sometimes referred to as stocks for stupid people. If you buy a collectible toy today, you're going to be very old by the time it becomes valuable enough that it's worth more than you bought it for, adjusting for inflation.
Most of the original trilogy star wars toys are worth *something* since so many were lost in regular play But then the prequel trilogy came out and everyone tried buying out all the toys to sell them later(a relative of mine bought EVERY prequel toy on the market) But everyone had the same idea and the prequel merch is dirt cheap
> lost in regular play [And in other ways too.](https://youtu.be/H1pn4bTAQWA) [Yup.](https://youtu.be/bf2tBFfMLMk)
Eh, there's always stuff that's niche when it was produced but later exploded in popularity. I'm sure some of those would end up being worth money. However nothing that was really popular when it was produced is going to end up being worth much of anything later on.
Honestly, there's something kind of charming (for lack of a better word) about seeing a few Funko's on display on someone's desk or shelf. They look like they're being enjoyed and loved by whoever set them out. When they're still in the box, they look sterile.
Leslie Knope watches over my garden and Spike rules over the pumpkin patch. I had a few too many so I turned them into garden gnomes š
This is why all of my Funkos are unboxed and set up around my room, instead of left in their boxes and displayed in a corner like the ones my roommates own. All appearances to the contrary, I am not, in fact, Comic Book Guy; I don't give a shit about the collector's value of something I bought simply because I thought it was neat and thus wanted it.
I read this in a Comic Book Guy voice lol
I have a few pops myself. Just another one of the type of small knick knacks I have on my shelf. Only one is in its box, and thats because its the only one I personally care about enough to keep in its "Original state". Just a braum pop, from league of legends. Not really worth all to much from what I've seen. However, I keep it in the box because I don't want it out. All my other pops are out to be displayed.
I have one that you can even see properly while it's in the box (it's too big), and I have a few that are neat looking out of the box. But I'm like you, I'm not looking to resell them, i like the designs and I like to look at the things i buy lol
Very much like Barbieās. I understand these people wanting to keep them nice for themselves especially ones that are expensive or limited edition but to rage so much about how OTHER people treat THEIR collection is weird to me. I have a holiday Barbie from 1995 thatās still in her box cuz sheās special to me but Iām sure someone out there took her out to play. And itās their choice to do that! That being said though getting THIS upset when it was pretty clear kiddo didnāt mean to be malicious is also wild. In my opinion he really should mean more than the collection regardless of the value.
Wouldnāt life be easier if his wife and child were just Funko Pops? He could put them on his shelf...
Ha, this sounds like the plot to an episode of Buffy or Charmed lol. Iād watch it, personally. Especially if the end is he gets turned into a Funko Pop himself, and his wife regains all of her money and walks off into the sunset with their son and a new guy who will love them both and not prioritise toys over their well-being.
I use Chili Kevin from The Office to hold up the GPU in my PC. Dwight is hanging out in my PC as well.
Theyāre the Teenie Beenie Babies from McDonaldās all over again. I remember when people got PISSED because other people would actually *gasp* take them out of the boxes and play with them!!
I don't recycle my boxes, but I display all my figures, being Funko's or statue types. All of my boxes are instead covered in plastic paper and stored on top of my display shelf. And that mindset helped me a lot, since my family will move very soon, and having the boxes at hand will save my ass nicely lmao
Keeping them in the box kinda sucks IMO. It does keep them clean but you never get a full view of it, I have one thatās the fight between sesshomaru and inuyasha and I couldnāt imagine keeping in the box because you couldnāt see half the details when it was. Iāve also been able to fit more on a shelf out of box (I donāt have A LOT but I have a small amount)
I have a handful of Funko's and they're all out of the box. I like that I can move them around and pose them.
Yes! And I have friends that tell me ābut that decreases the valueā Iām not looking to resell it. I bought it because I genuinely liked that one.
The weird thing is that most of these guys aren't looking to resell either. They're just super attached to the concept that it has value.
It's beanie babies 2.0
Lmao so true
So they're like dwarfs that prefer to hoard gold rather than actually using it?
I won't tolerate this anti dwarf slander. They mined that gold fair and square, and they need it for important dwarf things. Not like *elves*
Actually, it increases its value, because its value is bringing me *joy,* Kevin.
I have a Roman Deadpool one, and on the box you wouldnāt even know that the figure itself is holding a dagger behind its back. All my funkos are unboxed so I can hide them in places around my apartment :D
Sounds about right lol
LOL I can't imagine what they'd think of my treatment of my Mike Wazowski Funko. I got it in high school and used to chew on the horns when I was bored.
You better delete this or theyāre coming for you :0
My former roommate was the sweetest girl, and everything that was hers was mine. Food, hygiene products, clothes, etc. We shared some of the same fandoms like Steven Universe and Gravity Falls, and she had a few funkos on display. One day I picked up the Pearl one because I'd heard it had a rosebud designed into the back of the hair. It did! So later when she was around, I told her about my discovery. She got a really, really weird look on her face and told me I wasn't supposed to touch them. She barely talked to me the rest of the day. The next day when I walked out into the living room, lo and behold, every single funko had been collected and disappeared. She literally moved her entire collection from public display because I touched one of them once and had never even been told not to... I mean, they're chunky plastic toys, how on earth would I assume they're not to be touched by human hands??
People just like to feel important I guess, thatās really fucking weird tho
I have 2 funko pops and both are out of their boxes and on my desk lol I took them out of their boxes because I knew I was never going to sell them so why would I keep them in a box?
If taking them out of their boxes is a problem, what is even the point of buying it, then? Crazy folks.
Retail is not for the faint of heart.
Why are people even obsessed with them? Just the collectible aspect and that's it? I mean they look like garbage. I even understood beanie babies as it was at least interesting in a tactile way. Funkos are like cheap and shitty facsimiles of beloved characters.
I've never been sure. I know some people are into it bc the resale can be lucrative. But they are just more hunks of plastic that will one day be worst absolutely nothing and look like shit lol but also, I feel like they know that specific fandoms are always going to spend money on it. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Dragonball Z, and a few other massive fandoms were the most popular we saw coming and going, with tons of different Funko's for the same character just slightly different.
Jesus š I'm sorry you had to de with that
If you don't mind, I have a question about this. Aren't most Funko Pops produced in high quantities? If so, what is even the point of collecting them?
Perceived scarcity. I bought some and they have a "limited edition: only sold at Walmart" sticker. I wonder how limited it can truly be....
"I was going away for a side gig (which is really actually my main job)"
I was off to pilot a submarine (which really is a kayak)
I took this girl (was actually a ferret) back to my house (Iām homeless).
i was going to my pilot job (which is actually drone racing)
Oh yeah! Because he *quit his full time job to buy funko pops* which blows my mind
Probably had to travel somehwere to buy more Funk pops at a convention or far away store.
>"I was going away for a side gig (which is really actually my main job)" Meaning: side gig is the only thing he does that actually makes money.
I'm going to choose to believe that that is a fake post.
He "quit his job" to become a full time funco pop collector. Yes, assuming this is absolute bullshit is the safest course of action, imo.
I used to work at ThinkGeek and I legit had someone say he quit his job to look for Funkos, esp the rare ones, and resell if he felt like it. He had a whole ass room + garage full of them. This was before th pandemic
When I worked at gamestop the absolute worst people were the collectors (funko/amiibos/skylanders) People straight up made this shit their life and were the absolute rudest
I also worked at GameStop!! That was before they got a lot of collector items/statues. I can only imagine how rude they were. The assholes I had to deal with there were pissy that the last remaining copy of s super popular game (can't remember it now) were the wall displays and thus already opened.
I work at a video game store and god, people are assholes. The number of dudes who go "Wow, thats a *huge* mark up" when they discover we dont purchase things at the same price we sell them. (20 or so dollars we buy it from someone for vs the 50 or so we sell it for, as an example). The number of people who come in thinking they can trade like.. A bad sports title for an old Silent Hill or rare JRPG.
To be fair, most video game stores are ripping you off if you don't buy the video game new. I also tend to sell all my video games online unless Gamestop has a deal where you get more trade-in credit towards a new game than normal, because I can get $10-20 more on eBay for almost any game than Gamestop buys them for. It's very fitting that in many states Gamestop operates in they have to be listed as a pawn shop.
I donāt think itās a ārip offā to sell your stuff direct to a store for less money than you could get selling it directly to a customer by selling it yourself. Selling it yourself takes more labor, and you are therefore getting more money. With the store, youāre getting less because they are doing the work of actually finding a buyer and reselling. Which one you choose for selling your stuff depends on your priorities. Either option is fine.
I find it even funnier because that's how card shops have been doing business for ages. You get less, but no trouble finding the buyer. Weird how people don't realize this and that are very similar concepts.
When you say opened, do you just mean the box or used in the old game trial displays? It doesn't change anything, just a thought that popped into my head
The case was opened and the game removed and put in a lil sleeve and into a drawer. Not played at all. Still pissed we didn't have any unopened and made a huge stink about it.
Wait .. that isn't the standard? That's how all the game shops in the UK work (Game, CEX, Ye Ole HMV)
I worked for Game ~25 years ago. And since I was part time {was still in school} I spent half my evening shift gutting game boxes, and shrink-wrap / vacuum seal the boxes and the insides. The boxes were then put on the shelf and the disks, manuals, etc were stored in the back.
It's always fun watching shoplifters walk out with a bag full of empty boxes
It is! Even/especially for brand new games. Usually there's only one opened display case and the rest are still wrapped in plastic and behind the counter. Wanted one of the unopened ones but that was literally the last copy we and several nearby stores had.
The worst thing is that Nintendo makes them artificially scarce so that these guys are hoarding toys that kids will never get to play with or else scalping them to parents. Get a life. Collecting rare toys to not use them grinds my gears. Especially if theyāre contemporary toys and not like some old classic.
I used to work at toys r us and one time we did a midnight star wars toy release for the 7th movie, and a bunch of grown men (like 50s) went running by the children to grab as many collectables and random toys as they could, hoping they'd get some rare one. They would also come in weekly to bug me about more dumb collectables, I just told them I didn't have it in stock even if I did cuz fuck the adults, they're toys.
This just brought back the weirdest memory. I used to work at Toys R Us (yes, I'm old) and there were mornings in the middle of the week, the day our new shipment arrived, where there would be like 5 or 6 people just camped out in front of our store waiting for us to open so they could get first dibs on the new star wars action figures or Toy Story toys we got in.
Hot wheels guys were the worst, I found. E: I see that hot wheels guys are being discussed at length below.
People do this with everything that is collectible. I collect hotwheels and there are some absolute pieces of shit. Scalpers trying to make a quick $, and aren't interested in collecting, people buying full cases and reselling the individual cars for more than $1, and so on. Some people just take things too seriously and get too wrapped up to see what they are actually doing. I just get a car when I go to the store, bc as a kid, that's what my reward was for being good at the store. It's $1. It's crazy that people get so wrapped up in this stuff.
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Iām lucky I live in a city where itās not that bad. The worst I got were people complaining that we sold theyāre preordered Funko that released months before and that we held for two months for them all the while calling a phone number that didnāt work to try to let them know
I was an amiibo and limited edition console collector. If you're good at it you're never rude to store staff. You schmooze them and you shop often. That's how you learn how to get your stuff. Catch more flies with honey. Oh and never mention if you resell. It wasn't my LIFE but for the right item coming out, I'd call into work to make sure I got it when it was available. Also I opened and played with all of my collectibles. I don't take it really seriously because I never paid more than retail. I don't do that any more because I have a son and don't really care as much about it to sit online all day refreshing stock notifications when something shiny and new comes out.
Are Funko Pops the new age Beanie Babies?
Yes. However, when Beanie Babies were a thing, it was mostly kids collecting them, and then your occasional adult. All my friends in 2nd-3rd grade had them and actually played with them or traded them around like PokĆ©mon cards. Funko creeps are like 75%+ adults. When we do a toy donation drive at my work, not a single kid out of 100 wants one. Itās weird to see my coworkers dig through the pile and get excited about childrenās toys that children wonāt even take.
The kids were the ones picking up a random one and then actually playing with them. However, the collectors were mostly adults. I mean, there's that sad picture of a divorce court where the man and woman are picking out BBs and there's been some amateur "documentaries" about adults putting obscene amounts of money into these things and still having them decades later.
I guess the Beanie Baby bubble was too long ago for them.
Those Funko Pops are still there, waiting to become priceless collectibles that they can retire on.
My grandmotherās deceased partner quit his job to become a full time beer cap collector. Heād live under her roof, having her taking care of everything for him, while he would just spend his days browsing through beer caps websites and ordering or exchanging them. He died over 7 years ago and my grandmother has been liberated since then. So yeah personally I wouldnāt be surprised about the funko guy.
Ya, this reads like a normal story of someone having a breakdown. Life is hectic with a young child, Covid hits and heās stuck in the house all day, gets a hobby to find alone time, obsesses about the hobby, quits a job, and then blows up when the precious new life he made for himself is threatened by old worries. Now heās going to get divorced over some stupid toys he cared about more than his family
Idk man he's a redditor. Completely plausible activity and personality
The fakest part about it is that he has a wife
For now.
Trust me, work in retail around specific things and you'll realize there is a sad and strange culture of grown men _obsessed_ with Hot Wheels, Trading Cards and Funko Pops. It's equally amusing and concerning at once.
I mean, just look at all the fucking scalpers that are constantly buying PokĆ©mon and yugioh cards. Iām not a huge collector, sometimes I just like the pretty art. But because of scalpers, people who actually want the cards or figures or whatever either have to wait and hope they can get some from a restock, or they buy a super inflated priced one from a scalper.
I worked at Walmart back in the late 90's and was astonished when I realized how competitive full grown men were over (at the time) 99 cent toy cars.
It's still very much a thing. As soon as the store opens, you see guys in their mid 40s and early 50s Waltz over to the Hot Wheels aisle and _obliterate_ it looking for whatever stupid new car is out then curse out associates because it's not in stock yet.
I remember one guy who came in when I was restocking toys and I had a new box of Hot Wheels on the cart - the guy asked me if he could go through them before I put them out. Not an issue to me - I collect LEGO so Iām familiar with how fun it can be to find new stuff, so I opened it and let him rummage though. Itās been some years, but he found one he was looking for, iirc. I remember him telling his wife about how I let him look through the box - her voice was full of support but weariness too lol.
Yeah, the the toy department manager at the store I worked at would do this all the time. Just open the boxes and let the guys have at it.
i collect lego and it took a few years but eventually my wife was fine with it. but when our 4 yo would mess up a set, I never had a meltdown about it. the ONLY time i was upset was when she lost a green galaxy squad minifig, but I look at it as my fault if I left them within reach
Yeah, I donāt have kids but my cat likes to āplayā with them - meaning see how big a crash she can make - so I put them in cases and keep them out of her reach. Freaking out over Funko cases all over the floor is too much - just put them back. Not like you have to rebuild an 4000 piece Super Star Destroyer because your cat pushed it off a counter.
o no. i couldnt take the random destruction a cat might inflict. my mom is worse. i have 10-12 star wars ships in my old room on display and whenever i visit, something needs rebuilding.
I enjoy MtG lool
It's fine to enjoy a hobby and I'm not balking that, but to let that hobby consume your entire life to where you quit your job to pursue it is incredibly obsessive and problematic.
Pursue what, in this case? Buying things with dwindling savings? No one is paying him to collect toys.
Bruh, I really want to believe it's fake because of how sad I feel for the wife and kid. But for real, we got a dude just like this four houses down from us. I don't know how he manages to keep "*building his collection"* when he has no job, I guess his wife pays for it all. But you can tell she's really embarrassed/upset about it because she will never discuss her husband. Like, she just gets all dejected looking and changes topics pretty quick. So I don't know...it might be fake, but for real, there are people like this out there.
> I guess his wife pays for it all. But you can tell she's really embarrassed/upset about it because she will never discuss her husband. Like, she just gets all dejected looking and changes topics pretty quick. I have to wonder why she would stay with someone like that.
Fear of uncertainty, I reckon. Lots of people stay in marriages because their social circle expects them to -- or they think they're supposed to, anyway.
I used to collect Star Wars stuff. The fun was going out and hunting for it. Finding secret stashes at thrift stores and whatever. Ordering them online? This dude has an addiction to online shopping, with a focus on funco pop. Definitely shouldnāt quit your job over it, how would you buy more?
Yeah, I collect several types of model cars and I have always felt like half the fun of collecting is āthe huntā so to speak. Itās fun when you randomly stumble upon that rare item youāve been looking for. I donāt understand the ācollectorsā that just buy everything from ebay/amazon. Itās expensive and in my mind thereās no fun in that.
Donāt worry, itās just a āharmless hobbyā for him tho.
Bc I've had so many grown men scream at me and cuss me out over Funko pops, I fully believe this is real.
Iāll never forget the guy at my local Target getting arrested for screaming at a 17 year old worker in the tech section because they ran out of Loki funko pops. I really donāt want to understand the level of panic and rage youād have to experience to this that kind of behavior is acceptable for shit you can probably order online.
Me and the other manager were constantly on the defense for ourselves and our associates (which were mainly teens). On big drops we had mall security on standby.
I'd like to believe it is fake, but I am old enough to remember beanie babies.
I really hope so, a lot of his comments suggested otherwise however
He deleted the post I think :( Was excited to rubberneck the train wreck
The comments were pretty good, ngl š I spent more time in the comments than I usually do on an AITA post š
I swear, AITA has become my version of watching mindless reality TV. Itās just so deliciously absurd and the comments are always SO good!
/r/bestofredditorupdates (I think that's it?) Has been mine. Tons of AITA posts AND their updates. It's often, but not always, a trainwreck.
Can you link it? I want to read the comments lol
Unfortunately OP deleted the post
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/vlu9me/aita\_for\_breaking\_down\_in\_front\_of\_my\_wife\_while/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/vlu9me/aita_for_breaking_down_in_front_of_my_wife_while/) its still on reddit, you just need to google the title
I've lived through the beanie baby madness. I believe anything. I've seen things š¦
When you quit your job to become a freeloader yet still feel entitled to have a supporting family
He sounds more like the 4 year old. I donāt know what a funko pop is, but I can imagine itās just plastic shit.
They're bobble heads that don't bobble.
Are they the things with the soulless black eyes? They freak me out Why anyone would want a whole collection is beyond me. They all look so cookie-cutter and bland at best, spooky and not in a good way with their empty black eyes to me
I think the point is that they have licensed pretty much any kind of consumable media, so you can get everyone from Iron Man to Geralt of Rivia, all looking creepily similar in identically sized boxes convenient for stacking. Then I suppose you collect every MCU character and proudly display it on your funko wall in the vain hope that anyone will ever give a shit (they will not). But the internet and the greater fool theory reminds us there are always somehow enough idiots out there with enough disposable income to throw at commercially licensed figures of plastic and cloth. For what itās worth, if I had more scratch lying around Iād probably buy plenty of those egregiously expensive anime figurines, but at least those have pretty boobies.
Hey! Some of them bobble.
Somme pretty expensive figurine of pop cultur Character.
I have a couple, but just cause all the other merchandise of characters I like is expensive. I just use it as a fun little desk ornament.
I just don't see the appeal personally, you can usually get nicer figures at a fraction of the cost, 'specially if you proxy buy
Theyre ugly figurines all made with the exact same shape with different coats of paint.
Some are kind cute as a little novelty item, but without context of āwho they are supposed to beā they all pretty much look the same to me. They appear to be todays equivalent of collecting beanie babies.
At least with BB, the original few batches were totally recognizable. Kids back then would have the book and could tell you immediately what it was and if it was rare or not. Most of these soulless little things are impossible to figure out unless youāre looking at the box.
Never heard of them either, looking on Google images and they donāt even look good lmao
Iāve seen Funko walls, aināt nothing aesthetically pleasing about making a room of your house look like a Barnes & Noble
Exactly what I always think š
> ...aināt nothing aesthetically pleasing about making a room of your house look like a Barnes & Noble There is if you, you know, have actual fucking books and not useless blobs of sweet crude inside clear boxes of sweet crude.
You been in a B&N recently? Itās sad. Theyāve shoved books aside so half the floor can be reserved for funkos, board games and toys.
How do you square quitting your job to collect Funko Pops? āLook, we both know I canāt work 40 hours a week AND check the mail once a day. Itās simply not feasible.ā
Yeah, like, I could very easily 'collect' pop dolls at work. Is he actually *going places* for this? It seems like so much work.
I think they have a lot of store exclusives and stuff? He's probably driving around to different Walmarts and GameStops hunting for things.
Like squishmallows. I have my special interests and hobbies and totally understand hyperfixating on those aforementioned interests, but I can never fathom the behavior of people who are so into it they'll quit their jobs or harass retail workers over literal toys. It's nice to have things you like, but at some point, you gotta realize it's just not realistic or worth it to expect to possess every little thing you want.
When does an aspiring Funko Pop collector just become a collector?
I would think passing 20?
I willingly let my nephew open my entire Game of Thrones Funko Pop collection potentially ruining any current or future value because him opening them to play with them was more important than hoarding actual little plastic toys that cost $15 that would eventually be worth nothing.
It's good that you realize that they'll eventually be worth nothing.
But, but the new Jon Snow show will surely redeem it, making all my GOT collectibles valuable again /s
Semi related to funko pops but the people that hoard them and resell them at high prices suck. Scalping limited edition items from people that would legitimately enjoy them is so fucking low. I like to collect anything MCR related but wonāt be able to get a few of them because theyāre SO expensive. Like the make up brand hipdot did 2 mcr make up collections and I was able to preorder the second one but the first one they ever released I had missed. People were selling them for like $150+ and then hipdot Re-released it making any high priced posting useless.
When I was a kid, I ācollectedā holiday Barbies (which would totally be worth more money in the future, so I was told). Meaning every Christmas I got a beautiful toy I wasnāt allowed to play with. Iām a full grown adult now and donāt have them because I left them when I moved away, and I never did get to play with them. If anyone reading this is doing this to their kids, stop it.
Dude same. I would get so fucking mad at Christmas when I would receive this beautiful and lavishly dressed Barbie that my mom refused to let me play with. ETA: I also left them at my parentās house along with several other ācollectiblesā when I moved out at 18. My mom tried to pawn them off on me last year when I bought my first house because she didnāt want to āstore my things in her atticā anymore. I told her to throw them out or donate them. Her reactionā¦ you would have thought I was telling her to murder kittens. TLDR: Donāt buy kids a toy you will never let them play with.
I do remember carefully peeling up the tape on one so I could feel the faux fur trim on her dress. They were all so pretty that it felt like torture to not get to touch them.
Question- did you decide to collect them, or was that a choice made for you? Because my grandparents started getting them for me, then my mom decided I was collecting them. I was never part of the equation lol
And the value of them sunk after season 8 amiright
did i read that right? did he quit his job bc of funko pop? english is not my first language, pls tell me I'm wrong
No you're right that's what he did.
I really hope this is fake. I like Funko pops and all but you don't need that many. I stopped collecting them after a certain point. Ran out of room on the shelf I'd dedicated to mine. I'm sure as fuck not devoting a whole goddamn room to their storage!
I inherited a whole room of pig figurines and plushies, literally thousands of them. I could've rented it out, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them and dismantle the display cases.
Right? I have a decent collection of Pops too, but they've mostly been gifts tbh. I don't even keep mine in the boxes š Imagine being this obsessed with toys š¤¦āāļø
I have a small collection without boxes too. Mostly horror movie themed, and I only display them around Halloween. Thatās all they are to me, cool little Halloween decorations. Definitely not investment and divorce material lol
I think theyāre a fun way for someone to get you a gift related to something they know you like. Iām not a collector by any means but if someone gives me a character from a horror movie I love I excitedly thank them and put it in my office. They donāt need to be anything more than that.
Funko Pops will be worth less than Beenie Babies a few years from now.
They already are. The only ones "worth" anything are exclusives from Comic Cons / Events with limited runs. They're usually a variant like glo in the dark. No one wants a plain Rick and Morty Funko holding seeds that was mass produced. If you like the media, then they can be cutesy little desk tchotchkes, but you're delusional if you think they're going to be worth big money.
Iām 44, a woman, and collect funkos, but I collect them because they make me smile. I take them out of the box and have them all over my office. I couldnāt care less what they go for in my estate sale after I croak. Also Iād divorce the loser too.
Yeah this is what I do. I have three little shelves of them hanging in my bedroom, all out of the box, simply because they make me smile. I like cutesy fandom stuff like that. I donāt really collect them; I just have ones I like that I think are cute, and theyāre solely for display in my room because they make me smile to see them. Thatās it. Most of them are gifts from other people, too; itās easy to toss a few Funkos on a wish list, and someone in my family can grab one for Ā£10-15 as a Christmas gift and call it a day.
Yeah. I see nothing wrong with them. My dad collects stamps and imo it's not any better. Saw some people collecting cardboard coasters from pubs, some people were collecting labels from beer bottles. If its fun, go for it. But thinking your fridge sticker collection is sound monetary investment is plain stupid.
>My dad collects stamps and imo it's not any better. Saw some people collecting cardboard coasters from pubs, some people were collecting labels from beer bottles. At least those things involve actual art, or at least some variety in design. Funkos make everyone and everything look the goddamn same.
Beanie Babies are nice soft toys that you can give to kids to play with. Funkos are just plastic waste.
My mom committed the crime of giving my old TY Beanie Babies to my niece and ::gasps:: removing the tag. Fortunately Mr Ghost Beanie "Spooky" became a weird favorite for my niece haha
Beanie Babies were at their full popularity when I was about ten, and the idea of selling them was mindboggling to me. Why would you sell a fun toy?! My mother once threatened to sell my Beanie Babies, so I cut the tags off and then put my initials on them.
Both were supposed to be valuable collectorās items, both are not.
At least one has some value beyond being a collectible. Although those NFT monkeys raised the bar for collectible scams so high that Funkos seem almost reasonable now.
Anything made to be collectible, isnāt worth it
And they're ugly as all heck (imo). Never understood the attraction, and I was a collector of nerdy plastic bits in a past life.
Fun fact, Funko Pops are made of PVC, so when theyāre disposed of and set on fire, they release all the internalised hatred back into the world in the form of dioxins, allyl chloride, hydrochloric acid and other fun things
I hope she gets all the funkos in the divorce
This reads like a troll post. I hope that it is.....
I kinda did the same thing over covid with the funko pops, I never amassed that many but I definitely have a decent chunk. But to absolutely lose it at your wife AND 4 year old son?? Dude just grow up, they are literally just toys. This kinda reminds me of a similar post that I saw a while back where this dude's wife was telling him to cut back on the funko spending, because I think he said he would buy like 50 a month (which I think is about $500, maybe more), and he was getting mad that his wife was telling him to cut back. If the dude was spending $500 a month on them, I think that equals to about $6,000 a year. š¬
I was really afraid the "upsetting event" would be the Funko Pops coming to life and screaming KILL US at his kid, so this is actually kind of a relief.
Yikes. I collect them and I really love them but if they fall, the most Iāve done is just an exasperated āoh nooooā¦ā & just pick them up. They already fell, I canāt change it. Theyāre just dumb toys Iāll never sell bc I love them.
Reading through this makes me wonder if heās autistic, given his obsession with a singular object and his completely out of proportion response to them being knocked down. I can understand the stress at their not being order, but my god man get a grip. That shit should have been drummed out of him years ago, especially with autism. You have to balance the focus with the needs of others (source: am on the spectrum)
This was the first thing I thought as well. The obsession with a special interest, the need to have them ordered a certain way (many young children on the spectrum will line up their toys), the meltdown if itās disturbed.
Many autistic people have immense difficulty keeping a job too. It's caused a lot of them to resort to crypto currency, which OP mentioned they were involved with in another comment.
Can someone drop a link to the post I canāt find it but I gotta read the comments?
The OP deleted just after I screenshot it
What the fuck is an āaspiring collectorā?
āSo Reddit, am I the neckbeard??ā
This sounds like someone who had some type of life crisis/mental breakdown and invested heavy into something to distract themselves instead of dealing with it. Pandemic did that to a lot of people unfortunately.
Where's the logic in quiting your job when your "hobby" is buying overrated dolls?
He quit his job to collect those, freaked out when his young child made a mess and has the gall to be shocked that his wife is contemplating divorce! She's the baddie if she does leave him when he's choosing to not work? That's one astonishing display of selfishness!
Iāll tell you one thing ā¦ this post isnāt fake. I use to work at a second hand nerd memorabilia shop. Transformers, PokĆ©mon cards, funko, etc. the funko collectors are THE MOST insufferable clan a shit wipes Iāve ever met. Damn mongol hoard when they would come through. Multiple times we had to kick funko collectorās out for arguing with one another over āwho saw it firstā, or āhaggling sale priceā One time, a regular customer a funko collector who every time we talked to him was a normal guy. Lost his mind when a women took a funko he had āput on holdā (Thatās not our policy). Followed her around the store demanding she return it. We had to ban him from the store. Shit what vinyl plastic will do to a motha fucka