From Pop Culture to Pop Price: Funko Collectible Sets Shocking $218,000 Price Tag

I’m sure you know what Funkos are. What the hell, I’m sure you have one of them staring at you right now if you’re reading this from home. Those dolls with huge eyes, big head, small body and covering absolutely every nook and cranny of pop culture. They’re a perfect gift for that person you barely know, a way to show modernity without spending a bundle and a reminder that, in 2023, we’ll buy anything, no matter how ugly, if it’s from a franchise we like.

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How much is the maximum you would pay for a Funko? 15 euros? 25? 40, if it is one very special? In United States, a collector just pay 210,000 dollars for a pack of two Funkos ‘Charlie and chocolate factory‘. More concretely, Charlie and an oompa-loompa yellow-colored top down. For the price of a decent apartment to renovate in Madrid you get two figurines. A good buy.

Of course, these are not just any two Funkos: there are only ten such Funkos in the world, six of which were given during the 2016 Comic-Con at a party where they gave out chocolate bars to all attendees. Only six of them took a golden one, and thus the pack in question. In 2018, the first sale of it went for $10,000, but in just five years things have gone through the roof.

Although the Internet recommends paying no more than $165,000, Grail Game decided to pay a little more because of the crazy idea of its seller, which was to include it in a “mystery box” and give it to a stranger for only $15. You have to keep in mind that the exclusivity and the franchise they belong to do a lot to drive the price up. And no, you’re not crazy: it’s just two dolls painted yellow. It’s not even gold.

If you think the buyer wants the Funkos to decorate his living room, think again, “I’m 60% happy and 40% sorry. Besides the fact that I love the doll, I just think it will sell for a lot more someday.” Aw, man. The Funkos are the new NFT, by the looks of it. One can only hope for a better future for them, for their own sake.

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