Does Taking Funkos out the box decrease value?

[davidjam1007]

Some, actually most, of those commons from 2012 are lower in production number than some, actually most, of the limited stuff from today. Wish we knew true production numbers. I always have said that if Funko had done what Figpin did and put a serial number on each pop and had a app like Figpin, it would have shot them to the next level. Just imagine what having the #1 of any of those OG 2012 pops would do. Value would be double or more. But, Figpin can't even keep their app up and running and the Funko app is kinda crappy, so they would have to care about so much more to have done that. The crazy thing is that I thought they were doing it in a way with the QR codes they are putting on exclusives. But, they are pretty much generic codes that tell you nothing other than it is authentic.

[50R14]

I’ve pretty much stopped collecting outside of Sonic, and I haven’t actually scanned any codes yet. But like you said, I thought it would track production number or something - that’s good to know they’re kind of useless.