[Condiment King]

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Originally Posted by T0ySick

That's why if you have kids or children in the family you have to get them into collecting. It really is something passed down through generations. Collecting is sometimes learned sporadically but most times it happens by being involved in the life of someone who collects. Like any addiction..you gotta start em young!

Funko..love em or hate em, is the perfect company to expand the collectors market. They are cute. The properties are varied. They appeal to all ages. And becuase they do kids love em, collect em, and ask for them. This type of collecting goes from a few to many to oo i like these too. Then I didn't know these were made i gotta collect those. The collecters market will never die this includes toys. Unless we all do. The market is experiencing the same thing it did in the 90s. Too many companies releasing too much at the same time and this will cause the bubble to again burst and crash the toy industry. Some will survive some will be.. remember them..

I've played video games since I was a child, atari to ps5 and now vr. I never thought wow these video games make me not wanna own a figure.

Ive been buying my 2 year old son little figure sets from stuff he likes, such as Bluey and In The Night Garden, plus he has a massive animal and dinosaur figure collection, he plays with them daily, and recently he’s been looking through a toy catalogue for stuff to ask Santa to bring at Christmas, and has asked for quite a few ‘fibbers’ as he pronounces it, I’ll be doing the same for my baby daughter as well when she gets old enough.

My son has no idea that I collect, I have nowhere to display my stuff, so mostly I store it in the attic and take some down now and again to admire them, also I’m an in box collector, I know for a fact that if I shown my son my collection today his first words would be ‘let’s open them’, and if I agreed his second thing to say would be ‘let’s play with them’, and he would be right, these are toys after all, but I don’t know how I would explain this particular figure is worth X amount, this one was an exclusive etc etc blah blah blah. I’ve got a lot of years before he and my daughter are ready to view my collection, but 100% I’m sharing this passion with them, and I’ve already got some pretty cool shit to show them.