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Name of the Item: Roronoa Zoro #327 2024 Reprint
Reprint has sold for $20-$25 which lowers the value of the Original print
Here’s a prime example of multiple release dates with varying values. The original release in 2018 had a value of approximately $120. The rerelease in 2020 had a value of around $25. The rerelease in 2024 is still available for retail from Funko at a value of $11.
Each release features the same box design, except for the bottom flap. I understand that we’ve merged some of these releases in the past, but in others, we’ve kept them separate.
What are your thoughts on this?
And only difference is the bottom? We saw this for example for the old Star Wars single language items, this is surprising! @Funko-Flags , invite to chime in.
It will be impossible to separate past items (one image only) and very hard to do this on an ongoing basis but we do what is right. Is this happening to more items?
It’s tricky. Personally I feel like we should be serving two purposes, documenting releases with as much information as possible for historical reference and maintaining price points. From that standpoint I feel like these variations should be separate. In some cases it’s just the production number that has changed, or the bottom of the box design. In some cases there are minor alterations to the Pop! It self, I provide this for reference:
I do not collect anime but I know in particular for those fans, things like release dates, serial numbers, etc., are important. Personally I prefer first run, but it isn’t always the most important factor. An example here would be some of the original Supernatural Pops, in particular, Dean, Crowley, Castiel. They’ve had several re-issues but people don’t seem to care much about the production dates on the after market. Dean and Crowley got reissued in a small batch last Summer which gave them the new bottom box design. Again, to no fanfare there, no one seems to see it as particularly important. I think with these changes it’s more if someone wants it added and there is a consistent price variation it is our responsibility to document and maintain. Funko is a whole world of collectors valuing different than others would. Just my long winded two cents.
I want to add to this conversation please. As a person who has done price points for Funko there are few people who use the description field to identify a pop at all and even fewer (if theree are any outside myself) that detail the difference in the description field when talking about variants and subvariants. Unless funko folks step up to the plate with this, I dont see it working at all. Just my two cents.
@Funko-Flags All comments invite. I personally would much prefer not to take “bottom differences” into account as I think they will be super hard to handle and are generally not something we have seen in other areas that make a difference (Matchbox is now 80 years old, different boxes make a difference but having a copyright icon or not does not).
This wasn’t exactly about a difference on the box. As an anime collector and reseller that first release hold value and any subsequent releases are obviously priced much lower. As for maintaining the value of that first print any release after that should be separated (at least as a whole reprint not necessarily each reprint) for multiple reasons. There are times where a 2023 reprint is being sold for the value of the original release which sucks and also the value of the original release goes down when the reprints are being sold for anywhere from $15-$30
i get that and I hate to be a party pooper but we will not be able to manage this (we just reached 59,000 Funko items in the database). There are too many of these and generally they do not create a price difference. This is similar to not separating quotes for autographed products (A Schwarzenegger signed Terminator that says “I’ll be back” should be worth more than one that says “to my local friend Marvin” but we cannot handle that).
I think the minimum for separating items for packaging difference has to be that the front shows the difference, like these (that started all of this).
We can add a comment in the description that there are small differences on the bottom of the package.
Again it’s not about the box the purpose of the picture was just to show it was a 2024 reprint and not the original release. It’s separating original release from subsequent reprints as a whole encompassing any reprint after the original release like was done for Sanji #398. Obviously these are reprinted often so it wouldn’t make sense to separate each.
I have a question for you, please. Will one know this as they use the workbench to provide price points? Unless it is written in the title in the ebay listing, I dont think this is managable. I guess, I am just not certain I woud be able to add a price point to these Funko easily. I only speak for myself, but since this is a Quest for all squad members I think its gonna be tough. Do you agree?
Considering reprint sales can be seen under the OG Zoro the data is already there and again it’s clearly something that’s been done before
Now I hate that. I checked and it clearly makes a difference for the example quoted
Will that remain? Are there many like this? @Funko-Flags calling for more opinions here!
I had the same view on this subject since back when I started collecting. There shouldn’t be any separate variants for the og and re releases. Funko has changed a lot of over the years and is only going to release more and more stuff. It’s pointless to make them separate because of the absolute sheer volume of stuff there is now. Just going to continue to make it near impossible for anything to stay updated if it does continue.
Personally I would say having every rerelease listed would be ridiculous and tedious with Funko doing rereleases whenever they want (obv not what I was asking for). Just one rerelease/reprint would suffice since they all tend to go for around the same value. If it won’t be done because clearly no one wants to it is what it is I just figured I’d ask since it is something that has been done.
What I suggest for now that we document rereleases in the description of the item.
