Blog

Funko POP! UK: What You Actually Get for £13.99

Here is the thing nobody mentions about Funko POP UK listings: two figures at exactly the same price can be very different sizes. In our range, the Miles Morales 2020 Suit is 8.3cm and Kiba with Akamaru is 12.2cm. Both are £13.99. Both are just called “POP!”.

That is because POP! is not one product. It is a family of lines, and the line name is the part that tells you what you are getting.

The POP! lines, and what each one means

LineWhat it meansOur price
POP! Animation / Marvel / GamesThe standard figure. Roughly 9–12cm depending on the character’s shape.£13.99–£17.99
POP! SuperOversized. Around 15cm, for characters that need the bulk.£23.99
POP! DeluxeStandard height, but sculpted as one bigger piece with an effect or scene built in.£29.99
POP! Rides DeluxeCharacter plus a vehicle or a second figure on one base.£29.99
POP! JumboThe big one. 25.4cm — roughly two and a half times a standard POP!.£34.99
POP! 8-BitA retro pixel-styled deco on a standard body.£13.99

Where the money actually goes

Moving up a line does not buy you more articulation — POP!s do not pose, and none of them ever will. It buys size or a sculpted extra.

The Deluxe Gojo at £29.99 is the clearest example of the Deluxe idea: the Hollow Purple sphere is part of the sculpt rather than a clip-on accessory, so it cannot be lost or misaligned. The Jumbo Luffy at £34.99 is the same figure logic at 25.4cm — a shelf centrepiece rather than one of a row.

At £23.99, POP! Super Hulk exists because a standard-size Hulk next to a standard-size Spider-Man looks wrong. Super is a scale fix, not a luxury tier.

Matched sets are the best value in the range

Funko releases characters in waves with a shared deco, and buying the wave rather than the character is where the format is at its best. Our five Demon Slayer Sumi-Ink POP!s — Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu, Inosuke and Rengoku — are £13.99 each and share an ink-wash finish, so the five together read as one piece rather than five.

The number on the box is more useful than it looks

Every POP! carries a number, and it is sequential within its line. That is worth knowing for two reasons.

First, consecutive numbers mean a wave. Our Demon Slayer Sumi-Ink figures are #2190 Tanjiro, #2191 Nezuko, #2193 Inosuke and #2194 Rengoku — a block, released together, designed to sit together. The two Daredevil: Born Again POP!s are #1578 and #1579 for the same reason. If you are buying more than one, buying within a number block is how you get a shelf that looks deliberate.

Second, the number tells you roughly how old a release is. Miles Morales 2020 Suit is #769. Jogo is #2127. Those are years apart in the same line, which matters if someone is trying to complete a set — the older the number, the harder it gets.

What a POP! will not do

Worth being plain about, because it is the most common disappointment. A POP! does not pose — the head turns and that is the extent of it. It is not a likeness of the character; it is a likeness of the POP! of the character, and the stylisation is the point rather than a compromise. And the box is part of the product for a lot of collectors, so it is worth keeping even if the figure comes out.

Is a POP! worth it?

For £13.99, it is the cheapest way to put a character someone likes on a shelf, it survives being knocked over, and it does not need a display case. What it will not do is pose, and it will not look like the character so much as look like a POP! of the character. If that matters to the person you are buying for, a Nendoroid at around £46 is the next step up.

Twenty-one of our twenty-three Funko POP! figures are in stock now and ship the same day if you order before 2pm.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *