Special: Top 10 Most Valuable Funko POP!

Those who know me know that I love me some Funko POP's. When I first saw them I thought they were cool but I've never been much of a toy collector so I couldn't justify the money... That all changed when I was in a liquidation store where I saw Hal Jordan sitting on the shelf priced at $5, so I had to buy it, FYI the value as of this writing of that $5 purchase is $24 American! He was my only POP for a couple months until I went to a Comic Con and decided I'd buy a 2nd one... That day Batman was added to my collection of two. A while later my girlfriend was in the states and picked me up a Deadpool and Donatello and she told me how much cheaper they were there and that's when things spiralled out of control and now here I am over the 80 Funko POP mark wondering where I would be had I started collecting right away, maybe I'd have some of the more valuable ones! Speaking of valuable ones, that's the topic of this post. I'm looking at the Top 10 most valuable Funko Pop's, ones that aren't exclusives, variants or limited, these are simply ones that at one time or another were found in any store at any time. Here's hoping I'm lottery bound so I can add some of these to my collection!

10. Misfit Elephant
Line: Holidays
Number: #6
Current Value: $110

I'm fortunate enough to have a few of the Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer POP's but this one unfortunately will elude me until I can come into some money. Since the new year 9 of these beauties were sold on eBay. The low end was $65 the high end was $220 in mid-April. Wanna add him to your collection? There's 2 up on eBay now, one at $220 the other at the steal of $149.95... Looks like this ones value will be increasing even more very soon.

9. Red Skull
Line: Marvel
Number: #7
Current Value: $125

It's surprising this one is valued so high. There appears to be a lot of sellers so clearly there is enough out there but for whatever reason it's consistently commanding over $100. For comparisons sake in April 2015 there were 11 sold on eBay. Still lots for sale though if you don't wanna wait for this one to come back to earth, there's even some around the $120 mark.

8. Purple Haze
Line: Rocks
Number: #1
Current Value: $135

#1's are worth a lot, just ask any comic collector. The surprising part about this Hendrix POP is that as late as January 2015 this was still going in the high double digits but since then it's had a couple big sales ($200 and $225) that cause it's value to shoot up. The good news? There's one up now that is for auction and the current bid is only $56... Get on that Hendrix fans.

7. Loki (Thor Movie)
Line: Marvel
Number: #2
Current Value: $140

This is the first in a couple ties that gets held down by it's low sale in the last 30 days ($93). Believe it or not there is a Loki more valuable than this one... The Avengers movie Loki (#16) is currently going for $640! Unfortunately it was a Comic Con exclusive limited to 480 pieces. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has done wonders for Loki, usually an afterthought in the comics Tom Hiddleston made Loki, and his merchandise, value's skyrocket.

6. Shazam!
Line: Heroes
Number #14
Current Value: $140

Since DC was one of the first to license their properties to Funko a lot of their early POP's are valuable especially those that have seen their stock go up since they've been retired and Shazam is the first of many you'll see. It's actually a tie in value but because there is a low sale of $102.50 in the last 30 days it gets the ow end of the tie.

5. Hawkman
Line: Heroes
Number #17
Current Value: $140

Finally the end of the $140 ties, Hawkman's low sale comes in at $115. It's actually been higher the last couple sales which could lead to Hawkman's value climbing, though if a lot of people decide to sell it could cause the opposite to happen since similar to Red Skull a lot of people own Hawkman so we'll have to see how his market plays out but right now it's sitting pretty in the top 5.

4. Greedo
Line: Star Wars
Number: #7
Current Value: $155

Want a valuable POP that you can probably find at your local comic book/toy shop? Greedo is the one for you! Funko has recently released a series of Star Wars POP's from the vault in anticipation of the new Star Wars movie later this year. These "vault editions" however carry different boxes than the original so although you can get a vault edition for $11 the original Greedo remains the holy grail of the Star Wars line though it's possible that with the vault edition Greedo's price can take a dive.

3. Martian Manhunter
Line: Heroes
Number: #18
Current Value: $185

Believe it or not this POP is on the rise... Manhunter's last 10 sales had 5 checking in between $150 and $185 and 4 between $200 and $240. A lot of people are starting to put Manhunter up on eBay but he's not that well owned so it's not likely that we see a market flood happen, it's definitely possible that this becomes the crown jewel of the Heroes line but until that happens the title belongs to...

2. Green Arrow
Line: Heroes
Number: #15
Current Value: $250

Surprisingly this one actually shot up $10 in value since I made this list a couple days ago. Green Arrow is the perfect storm of events. It was a popular enough character to warrant a POP in the early going, got retired because he wasn't THAT popular and then the TV show hit it's stride any everyone wanted the emerald archer... Recently his POP sold for an astonishing $389.95! Manhunter's gotta work!

1. A Clockwork Orange
Line: Classics
Number: #4
Current Value: $2,610

Okay so I cheated here but I wanted to point out the ridiculousness of this piece... Limited to 12 pieces this is far and away the most valuable POP in the world. The 2nd closest is another 12 piece edition, clone trooper Freddy Funko, unfortunately it's value is hard to ascertain since there has only been one sale in September 2014 for $2,025.00

Special: DC Comics Films Dream Casting Part 2 - Villains

In the last instalment I touched on potential villains for the Suicide Squad movie and my pick was Black Mask. We also know Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor is the villain in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, so I thought it would be fun to run down potential villains for the other announced films, starting with 2017's Wonder Woman...

Wonder Woman (2017):

Right off the bat I want to say Dr. Psycho would be the best choice to be Wonder Woman's first nemesis, he's a deadly telepath which would be the perfect balance to Wonder Woman and her lasso of truth. However I don't believe they go this way. Really depending on what they do with the script comes down to the villain. I think if we are getting an origin story similar to her New 52 origin you can go with either First Born or, more likely, Ares saving First Born for a latter movie perhaps starring the Injustice League. If we're not getting an origin and Wonder Woman is already loose in the world, which would make sense since I doubt in Dawn of Justice Bats and Supes go to Amazonia, the perfect villain would be Cheetah. As long as you're doing your first solo super hero film with a female lead, you might as well give her a female arch nemesis at the same time, couple this with WB scouring for female directors to lead the film, this has an opportunity to be the best girl power movement since the Spice Girls broke up.

Cast: Emily Blunt as Cheetah

Justice League (2017):

If you ask anyone who the first villain for the Justice League to face, and presumably come together to face is, you'd get a nearly unanimous Darkseid vote, that being said I don't think Darkseid is the best place to start, similar to what Marvel is doing with Thanos, I think it's best to build up Darkseid's destruction by using Brainiac in the first JL film. Not only is Brainiac an excellent villain, but he's from the cosmic side of the DCU so he can make reference that he needed to escape Planet X to avoid Darkseid and perhaps do a further buildup in Green Lantern (more on that later). I also support Brian Cranston as Brainiac, everyone wanted him to be Lex but I agree they needed to go younger with a younger Superman, however we can have Cranston be Brainiac's deep and intimidating voice in alien make-up/costume just fine.

Cast: Brian Cranston as Brainiac

The Flash (2018):

I think with The Flash, a lot depends on what works with the TV series, I think if they introduce The Rogues or Reverse-Flash/Zoom and they are popular that the film will use them. Another option is to avoid whoever the series uses, for example it may be possible that DC is forbidding The Rogues from forming until after the film was released so although people know the characters they're most likely flock to see them all together in a group taking on Barry... And yes it will be Barry, sorry West fans. I expect this to tie-in with Suicide Squad as one of the rogues will be cast in that film for sure. Not sure about the rest of the cast since I don't know many younger actors which DC is sure to fill the team with since they're going up against a young Ezra Miller as The Flash

Cast: ???? as Mirror Master, ???? as Captain Boomerang, ???? as Weather Wizard, Logan Lerman as Captain Cold.

Aquaman (2018):

Without knowing what happens in Justice League it's hard to know whether Arthur will start off fighting the Justice League or fighting with them to know if the "villain" from Aquaman will be a leaguer or an actual villain. Assuming that they listen to my dream casting Aquaman will be a leaguer from the start and in this solo film he'll return to the ocean to find out his father died and his mother is being held prisoner by Ocean Master, Arthur's brother. With help from the future Black Manta, Aquaman defeats his brother and takes the crown that is rightfully his, but not without Black Manta losing someone he cares for which sets in place Black Manta's future spot in the Injustice League.

Shazam (2019):

We already know The Rock is Black Adam... So let's just move on...

Justice League 2 (2019):

I've talked about the Injustice League, well here's where it comes to fruition headlined by Jared Leto's Joker (rumoured) and Eisenberg's Luthor while also featuring Black Manta (Aquaman), the Suicide Squad Rogue, Lerman as Captain Cold in my perfect world (The Flash), First Born (Wonder Woman), Black Adam (assuming Shazam is included), Deathstroke (Cyborg) and a human Green Lantern enemy, possibly Vandal Savage and he could conceivably start the team,

Cast: Viggo Mortensen as Vandal Savage, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jared Leto as The Joker, The Rock as Black Adam, Logan Lerman as Captain Cold, Sean Bean as Deathstroke, Karl Urban as First Born and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Black Manta.

Cyborg (2020):

Cyborg doesn't have any real archnemesis outside of the Teen/New Titans world, so they could skip comic book lore altogether here, but I hope they don't, as you might have guessed after reading my Justice League 2 casting I'm hoping Deathstroke. It'd be simple enough to do, after being thwarted (presumably) in JL2 Deathstroke, usually a mercenary for hire, can come after Cyborg for ruining his business, or maybe you have someone bigger (Trigon?) pulling the strings only to be discovered in the last scene where Raven shows up and informs Cyborg that her father was behind it, and it's time to get the Titans back together (yeaaaah!)

Cast: Sean Bean as Deathstroke

Green Lantern (2020):

Now this is where I'm torn, if you're doing a Lantern movie it needs to be Sinestro as the villain right? But if we want Darkseid in JL3 we'll want to allude to him in this film. Perhaps Mongul comes looking for a planet for Darkseid to conquer settling on Korugar (Sinestro's homeworld). Sinestro and Hal are forced to team up (Green Lanterns must protect worlds, Sinestro wants to protect his) after Mongul is defeated, Darkseid decides to take revenge by destroying Hal's homeworld Earth as he heads here Hal asks for Sinestro's help and Sinestro declines leading to a sequel along the lines of the Sinestro Corps War and into JL3 where Darkseid finally hits earth. Tough to cast the two villains here since they'll mostly be CGI (especially Darkseid), but I'll try anyway.

Cast: Ron Pearlman as Mongul, Javier Bardem as Darkseid.