Funko Firsts Archives - Pop Price Guide https://www.poppriceguide.com/tag/funko-firsts/ Everything Funko Fri, 19 Jun 2020 01:05:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.poppriceguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-cropped-ppgfavicon-1-192x192-1-32x32-1.jpg Funko Firsts Archives - Pop Price Guide https://www.poppriceguide.com/tag/funko-firsts/ 32 32 180367954 Funko Firsts: The First Chase Piece https://www.poppriceguide.com/2018/08/funko-firsts-first-chase-piece/ Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/wwwhobbydb/new.poppriceguide/2018/08/31/funko-firsts-first-chase-piece/ While every other set these days get a chase piece, the elusive “Chase” sticker was not always so common. In the early days of Funko rarer pieces were often called “chase” pieces by collectors, but it would take 9 years before Funko would use that title officially. With the announcement of the Star Wars Wacky [...]

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While every other set these days get a chase piece, the elusive “Chase” sticker was not always so common. In the early days of Funko rarer pieces were often called “chase” pieces by collectors, but it would take 9 years before Funko would use that title officially. With the announcement of the Star Wars Wacky Wobblers in April 2007, the first chase pieces were announced too. Collectors wouldn’t get their first views of them until Funko Funday that summer where some were given out to the crowd. The first wave on Star Wars Wacky Wobblers would each come with 1-in-36 chase piece. While current Chases pieces are Painted a different color, Metallic, Glow-in-the-dark, or even a complete new mold, these first chase pieces were simply the normal Wacky Wobblers standing on a Chromed Color base instead of the normal painted Black base.

Regular and Chase versions of Boba fett
Regular and Chase versions of Boba Fett Wacky Wobbler

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Funko Firsts: The First Piece https://www.poppriceguide.com/2018/08/funko-firsts-first-piece/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/wwwhobbydb/new.poppriceguide/2018/08/01/funko-firsts-first-piece/ In 1998 T-Shirt designer Mike Becker created Funko to offer the world nostalgia based bobble heads. The first item to arrive from China was a batch of 1,000 Big Boy Bobbleheads. This first production run are individually numbered on a small piece of paper at the bottom of the display window in the box. This [...]

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Big Boy Wacky WobblerIn 1998 T-Shirt designer Mike Becker created Funko to offer the world nostalgia based bobble heads. The first item to arrive from China was a batch of 1,000 Big Boy Bobbleheads. This first production run are individually numbered on a small piece of paper at the bottom of the display window in the box. This first batch was to fulfill Mike’s wish to own for himself, since the vintage ceramic Big Boy bobbleheads were going for too much money on eBay. The next larger batch of bobbleheads went to the Big Boy restaurants’ gift shops. Funko would then decide on a name for their new line, calling them Wacky Wobblers. Additional Big Boys would come in with the lines new name on the boxes. Big Boy Wacky Wobblers can be found with Red, White or Silver Bases. There is even a special 50th Anniversary edition for the Burbank Big Boy location, this is a Silver Base wobbler with a special sticker on the box. Funko has reverted back to their origins with the POP! Ad Icons line, including Big Boy himself.

 

 

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