When did they stop making Hikari

[Joker3346]

Just curious cool line that didn't seem to make it

[mongoose12]

[Oatmealman]

They started around 2014 and looks like the mini hikari figures lasted until middle-end of 2018! I think the price point was a little tough on the full size hikari figures but some of them were amazing colorways

[RobertFB6SI]

I have always thought this myself, they always looked so cool with all the colors and all.
Great line, but sad see they didn't last too long.

[Sarcasticguy]

Like Oatmealman said, 2018 sounds about right for full sized Hikari. They did a small run of mini Hikari as well before the whole idea died.

The Hikari price point was really the nail in the coffin. The average US consumer (and funkos target market) are not really into "Designer Toys".

[renardchua]

Just to add - aside from the price point, full sized Hikari had different scales which makes it a bit tough to collect as well, as the boxes had different sizes (some were a bit wide - like Stay Puft - while some are a bit of a shoe box shaped) - like Deadpool or Boba Fett or Batman (top of mind).

This was my initial reaction when it first released, so this discouraged me in collecting the full sized one. But I have a handful of the mini Hikaris

[kelvinwong]

Kinda sad though. but i think hikari resembled sofubi and prob appeals more towards the asian collectors (i see more asians collecting them, that is)

Hikaris could really bring out the difficult colourways like swirling, nebula and many more compared to the normal pop line but frankly the demand for them is kinda small.

have afew hikaris and definitely my fav is the ECCC megazord glow hikari! haha

[FunkOCD]

I got all the Stitch Hikari (even the rarest colorway) after hunting them all down! The market was very specific but there's lots of sofubu collectors in the designer toy market, myself included. Also during that time, Funko Pops kind of took over in pop culture in terms of popularity.

[mohawkjones]

Like Oatmealman said, 2018 sounds about right for full sized Hikari. They did a small run of mini Hikari as well before the whole idea died.

Just curious cool line that didn't seem to make it

They started around 2014 and looks like the mini hikari figures lasted until middle-end of 2018!

IIRC The Red Huckleberry Hound from the 2017 12 Days of Christmas was the last "official" full size Hikari release. A few unproduced/unannounced samples surfaced afterwards but that was it for the big guys and official releases…

[Serch_na]

Like Oatmealman said, 2018 sounds about right for full sized Hikari. They did a small run of mini Hikari as well before the whole idea died.

Just curious cool line that didn't seem to make it

They started around 2014 and looks like the mini hikari figures lasted until middle-end of 2018!

IIRC The Red Huckleberry Hound from the 2017 12 Days of Christmas was the last "official" full size Hikari release. A few unproduced/unannounced samples surfaced afterwards but that was it for the big guys and official releases…

Nice Info thanks

[jcrook]

They started around 2014 and looks like the mini hikari figures lasted until middle-end of 2018! I think the price point was a little tough on the full size hikari figures but some of them were amazing colorways

Exactly, the full size hikari were awesome looking, iirc they ran about $80 which was a bit much for me at the time.