Funko Pop! in Trouble

[Parmandur]

Wonder when MagicTG will reach the oversaturation limit. The new releases and pace of release seems a far cry from where they started. I guess there are the collectors and players. Since it is still a game to play with might be a longer lasting thing than just something like the Pops that sits on a shelf. Although I have a large dragon mini that was only used once.

The thing about Magic is that they do innovate new game pieces that add more toa. Game: FunkoPops are cute, but they only take up space as decoration. Also, Magic mostly makes their moneybfrom casual players, primarily buying at big box or drug stores...

 

[Scribe]

Wonder when MagicTG will reach the oversaturation limit.

They are lucky EDH was invented, thats for sure.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wonder when MagicTG will reach the oversaturation limit. The new releases and pace of release seems a far cry from where they started. I guess there are the collectors and players. Since it is still a game to play with might be a longer lasting thing than just something like the Pops that sits on a shelf. Although I have a large dragon mini that was only used once.

Anecdotally, there are people I know who only drop in to pick up Universes Beyond sets that they are interested in, and then play it essentially like a completely separate TCG. If those people are typical -- and I have no idea if they are -- then WotC might feel they can do those forever without harming the core game.

If, on the other hand, regular MTG players feel compelled to get everything, then they're clearly going to hit a breaking point sooner or later.

 

[Deset Gled]

I had definitely seen memes claiming Funkopops are the current generation's version of Precious Moments figures. This has always felt pretty accurate to me. This latest news seems in line with that assessment.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I had definitely seen memes claiming Funkopops are the current generation's version of Precious Moments figures. This has always felt pretty accurate to me. This latest news seems in line with that assessment.

Millennials' grandkids are going to be pissed when they inherit dozens of these things one day.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The funny thing is there are always people who want to collect something.

This is absolutely true.

I sometimes refer to myself as a meta-collector: in a very real sense, I collect collections. Some I’m VERY serious about, others are casual.

(Never caught the bug for Funko Pop, Beanie Babies, and the like.)

When I went looking for books about evaluating the monetary value if what I owned AND pricing on things I wanted to acquire, I was surprised to find ones on things I had no idea were collectible. Like barbed wire.

And FWIW, my advice to anyone considering collecting anything, I tell them not to do so based on monetary speculation. All collectible markets have some kind of “bubble cycle”, and predicting them is virtually impossible.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If, on the other hand, regular MTG players feel compelled to get everything, then they're clearly going to hit a breaking point sooner or later.

My personal break with M:tG was about redefining the ways cards or even mechanics worked.

If they hadn’t mucked around with how the game played, I’d probably still be buying all of the mainstream releases. The only releases I saw that I wouldn’t even consider buying were the ones that seemed unconnected to the main game in any way.