LogFAQs > #907509390

On that whole rare-for-the-sake-of-rare RNG nonsense, I think I'm about done with Funko's Mystery Minis (or at least heavily curtailing again). Was looking at some of the sets and there a mess of 1/36, 1/72, etc (for reference, a display case of Funko's Mystery Minis contains 12 figures -- so you could conceivably buy multiple display boxes and not get rares).

I was looking at the most recent Harry Potter set and the only thing in there I really cared about was Nagini... a 1/36 where, while it looked larger, there was little guarantee I'd get him. Then there was a Star Wars set with *multiple* Bounty Hunters... but again, most of it was 1/36. (And then some of it was exclusive to one retailer or another.)

https://www.cardboardconnection.com/funko-star-wars-empire-strikes-back-mystery-minis

Honestly, if all the choices were just 1/12, I'd probably buy 3 or 4. However, given that the odds are kinda stacked against me, even buying one is a waste. (And, for reference, B&N sells them at the $6 MSRP whereas other retailers range $7-9, with Hot Topic being the highest although they routinely run weird discounts which knocks it down a little bit.) It's probably a little scary to think about how much money I've spent on these things, although it was obviously broken up over several years.

I still kinda need to build a display case of some kind for these. I'm thinking either shallow shelving or tiered shelving. Going to have to just make it myself because I'm not sure who would make that kind of a thing at a reasonable price.

Oh, and on a quasi-interesting note, while the Disney Infinity games are dead, the thing apparently lives on in another form. Disney Stores still carry articulated figures based on the style (called Disney Toybox). Had seen them at a Disney Store in the past, but learned that they were still doing new ones including a kinda junk-looking Jack Skellington (and only him from NBC so far).
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