>>7839407>Do you think someday those big Funko Pop collectors will be able to sell their collection on Ebay for a profit or will they be lucky to break even?They will never be able to offload their entire collections on eBay for massive profits. No one is going to decide 20 years from now that he suddenly wants 20-30 of these shitty bobbleheads all at once. As other anons have said, the more niche ones will wind up being the most collectible. Common ones like Star Wars, Batman, etc. aren't really going to be valuable in the future. This is especially true if you consider how much the Star Wars brand has been devalued since Disney took over.
>>7839513I think they will be more successful than Beanie Babies in the long run, because the Internet wasn't ubiquitous during the Beanie Baby fad. It's much easier for people to buy and sell these types of things now. That being said, cheap items that are designed to be 'collectible' usually don't end up being worth that much down the line, because people hoard them, and keep them in pristine condition. In the 90's, it was Beanie Babies. In the 80's, it was Cabbage Patch dolls. This type of fad started back when nerds thought they could get rich buying cheap comics, and selling them years later. Now people can read out-of-print comics online for free, so vintage comic books aren't worth that much except to extremely hardcore collectors. The only toys that retailed for cheap, and wound up being super valuable years later, were things like vintage Barbies and G.I. Joes, because nobody thought to preserve them back in the 60's and 70's. They were just considered disposable children's toys, so not many of them survived to this day. At least the Fukno Pops are starting to get more unique and less creepy.
