billyconard wrote:Jezter wrote:WestIsLeft wrote:
Agree, the process is pretty simple. There are also some streamers (CSSully) who can walk you through the process too! Sure, it's not as simple as walking into a store and buying the one you want, but it's not as complicated as it used to be either.CaseyJones14 wrote:
All the Legendary Pops should be under $50 and Royalty probably in the $75-100 range. The Grail on the other hand is normally a lot more expensive.
Thank you all for your replies, I really appreciate it.
I don't know how it works and the difference between legendary, royalty and grail works, but if I'm honest, I rarely if ever spend over retail for pops, I don't do ebay or spend anything crazy for pops, nor do I have the funds to do so. I'm quite disappointed I won't be able to get characters like Q for $15, or even something like $30 on a site like EE or some other website. Those are the ranges I'm willing to buy pops for...and after almost 10 years of being a collector of pops, it's pretty disheartening to know they are only releasing certain characters in NFT form without any common variants so we can still get the characters. Chases and hard to get con versions were bad enough, but these are just ridiculous and makes me pretty sad that I simply won't be able to get them.
I'm very aware this is a me problem and NFT pops aren't a new thing...just seeing TNG characters I've been hoping would get made for a very long time only coming out as NFTs really makes me unhappy and kind of depressed realizing we probably won't get the characters in regular common $15 form ever. /shrug
I am sorry of this annoys anyone or brings you down, I'll see myself out of this thread, so the rest of you who are down with nfts and don't mind the cost can enjoy it. Thanks again for the replies and confirming what I was afraid of. Still a Funatic at heart...but it sure is difficult sometimes.
I think at the core of your frusrtration is something every collector deals with - of any thing. The balance of creating stuff for the masses vs. the few. Supply and demand. Scarcity vs. ubiquity. Its a balance every creator and company is making decisions about because audiences and people are different. Some people like to receive an award for being part of a group (like winning a gold medal, or owning a limited edition Funko Pop) while others want everyone to be able to get a medal or by a Funko pop...
I understand and I get it, but I'm coming up on 10 years of collecting Funko Pops, and it just bugs the crap out of me that we FINALLY get new additions to the Star Trek TNG collection and they are not easy to get commons like the original line was. Really disheartening to feel the joy of seeing new versions, but then sadness knowing I won't own them because I don't do NFTs and that I won't pay crazy amounts for them on a secondary site down the road. I collect solely for the fun and happiness of having characters that I love, not for the plan to sell them later or to have something no one else has. My collection are almost all entirely characters that mean something to me, so it's a bummer when pops come out that are hard to get or overpriced later with resellers. I've come to accept this fact over the years and I'll deal, I just completely hate the NFT way of doing things and every once and awhile they release pops I'd love to have as NFTs and not even release a variant as a common, it's not a practice I am happy about.
I'll just move on and buy other things, as I always do.
