Collector guides

Funko Pop collector guides

Plain-English answers to the questions collectors ask most: Chases, stickers, vaulted Pops and spotting fakes.

• What is a Chase Funko Pop?
  A Chase is a rarer variant of a regular Funko Pop, packed at random alongside the common. What Funko says about the odds, what the Chase sticker looks like, and how to tell one apart.
• How to spot a fake Funko Pop
  Nine practical checks for spotting a counterfeit Funko Pop: box print, codes on the foot and box, paint, stickers, Funko's Octane5 authentication stickers, barcodes and seller red flags.
• Funko Pop stickers explained
  What the sticker on a Funko Pop box means: retailer exclusives, convention and shared convention stickers, Chase, numbered Limited Edition, Pops! With Purpose, and Funko's newer Octane5 authentication stickers.
• What does “vaulted” mean for a Funko Pop?
  Vaulted means Funko has retired a Pop from production. How to check if a Pop is vaulted, whether vaulted Pops can come back, and what vaulting does (and doesn't) mean for collectors.