1 month ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)2 children
I inherited a half dozen footlockers of unopened topps bricks from the 80s and 90s that my dad and uncle thought would set me up for life. Literally boomer nft's.
Usually things become valuable when they begin to be sought after after they're out of production. When everyone buys them thinking they're gonna appreciate everyone ends up with a surplus.
Fun fact, Arthur Shorin (juden) was the Topps ceo directly responsible for the massive overprinting of ball cards while claiming that they were only printing a few and was directly responsible for the collapse of the ball card market in what was known as the "junk wax card scandal".
They destroyed themselves when they made ridiculous "nft" items and made collecting their shitty plastic lines to completion impossible without dropping thousands. Even consumers have a limit.
1 month ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Here's another issue they have...
https://www.yeggi.com/q/funko+pop/
I bought a 3d printer a few months ago, then got so into it I bought a second much better one. If you have an AMS you can print multi-colored stuff like this no problem, or print one color and paint it yourself. 6-8 hours and I have a funko pop if I wanted one instead of paying them. From what I can see they vary in price from 10-20 euros with some special edition ones costing much more, but the printing it might cost maybe 1,50-2 eur in filament.
They do kinda look like them. In most cases you can immediately see who it is. I actually did buy a few funko pops just as desk decorations a few years back - I bought the whole A-Team. You can definately tell who they are and which is who.
WIth that said, when we are talking about funko pops of footballers or f1 drivers or something then I would imagine it starts getting really hard to tell who is who.
1 month ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Yeah, but can you still tell you’re a man when you look in the mirror? 😁 I’m just fucking with you, I have a couple of deskcorations like a lose faggot too.
I never understood these particular “collectibles”. If they were like a dollar and sold at the dollar stores for a small treat for kids, I’d maybe understand, but when I found out how expensive these things were, I couldn’t believe it.
It is insane how many characters that no one wants they made. And there's so many versions of the same characters. Did they really not realize nobody gives a shit about the new star wars garbage that nobody is watching? This was stupid consumerism from the start but at least it was characters people liked.
Corporations used to have a charter, a goal and a time limit, that had to get renewed to allow it to keep functioning as long as it was for the good of society. This needs to come back.
just like your dusty 1990 topps baseball cards, sucker.