Best/Worst Chases

[Dsho333]

Most recent in memory: One piece Sabo chase. It was supposed to be clear but came out milky. Plus, I think any variation with single color is lazy

I was so confused because I thought there was a Sabo pop that came out that I didn't know about but you meant soba mask haha I think the clear/milky is an interesting chase, but the execution of the look is just bad. That's coming more down to quality control rather than it being a bad chase. I agree color variant are bad, like Jinbei but I had to get it since it's his first pop

[Brutesquad]

One of my favorite chases is the Jack Torrance chase! Im a huge Shining fan, and I know its the same sculpt but the chase paint job changed the figure from regular dull boy Jack to frozen Jack which was an iconic scene!

[c00kiem0nster]

Worst Chases: All die cast. They look better in their original color.

[Alanamaslama]

worst chase has to be hands down the Doghan Daguis from the movie Valerian.

best are the og metallic dc set

Honestly, I almost trace the fall off of chases to that specific one. I remember trying hard to find the walgreens chase green goblin and even the independence day alien, but after Doghan Daguis I just started losing interest.

My local comic shop always prices up chases. Usually $30-40 bucks. The owner doesn’t really know much about pops, but when he got the Doghan Daguis pop in stock he priced it at $2-3 dollars above retail. He knew it wouldn’t sell and it actually didn’t until he had an anniversary sale where pops were 50% off.

[baghramdunks]

I just saw the topic "Are Chases worth the Chase ?" and came to my mind what are the Best/Worst Chases made?

-Best Chase: Fight Club Tyler Durden and The Narrator as Chase, not only because it is a completely different version, but For the ones that see the movie It is important, and as a plus came with his Power Animal.

-Worst Chase: Sub-Zero, Just a little change in his hand with the power.

I will like to hear your opinions.

Die cast chases are by far the worst IMO

[repair-manmanmanman]

worst chase has to be hands down the Doghan Daguis from the movie Valerian.

best are the og metallic dc set

Honestly, I almost trace the fall off of chases to that specific one. I remember trying hard to find the walgreens chase green goblin and even the independence day alien, but after Doghan Daguis I just started losing interest.

My local comic shop always prices up chases. Usually $30-40 bucks. The owner doesn’t really know much about pops, but when he got the Doghan Daguis pop in stock he priced it at $2-3 dollars above retail. He knew it wouldn’t sell and it actually didn’t until he had an anniversary sale where pops were 50% off.

After a while all non-retail shops selling pops were doing that. I might justify $30 if it meant saving me the time/gas to drive around town or getting it off ebay, but it'd have to be one I really really wanted. The last time I voluntarily paid for a low-end chase was the tron gitd set.

[mikechickenhead]

Invisible man pop chase has to be one of the best

[Alanamaslama]

Honestly, I almost trace the fall off of chases to that specific one. I remember trying hard to find the walgreens chase green goblin and even the independence day alien, but after Doghan Daguis I just started losing interest.

My local comic shop always prices up chases. Usually $30-40 bucks. The owner doesn’t really know much about pops, but when he got the Doghan Daguis pop in stock he priced it at $2-3 dollars above retail. He knew it wouldn’t sell and it actually didn’t until he had an anniversary sale where pops were 50% off.

After a while all non-retail shops selling pops were doing that. I might justify $30 if it meant saving me the time/gas to drive around town or getting it off ebay, but it'd have to be one I really really wanted. The last time I voluntarily paid for a low-end chase was the tron gitd set.

Yeah, comic shops tend to look at chases as comics’ equivalents of incentive/ratio variants, which is partly why they price them up.

[Ramrod510]

Best chase: Johnny Karate! Completely different from the common (also very rare) Andy Dwyer mouse rat

[Ramrod510]

Worst chase: some of the Black Friday mystery box sets from GameStop. When chase odds are nearly 50/50 is it really a chase?! Haha

[x3r0]

Best chase: error batman
Worst chase: mr. bean

Honestly was anticipating someone would mention the notable error Batman plus the much older SDCC metallic pieces too! But also a fan of Walgreens exclusive chase of invisible man (very underrated).

Worst : …

I’m honestly having a hard time to remember —

Maybe from book of boba fett — cob vanth, pardon for my spelling though.

[Mr Yac]

Most recent in memory: One piece Sabo chase. It was supposed to be clear but came out milky. Plus, I think any variation with single color is lazy

I was so confused because I thought there was a Sabo pop that came out that I didn't know about but you meant soba mask haha I think the clear/milky is an interesting chase, but the execution of the look is just bad. That's coming more down to quality control rather than it being a bad chase. I agree color variant are bad, like Jinbei but I had to get it since it's his first pop

He’s supposed to be invisible so it makes sense in theory, just not executed well at all. still better than the Luffy with amazing chase of “black hand”

[Hopesdenial]

Best - I would say anything that has a completely different mold. The Fight Club one was a great comparison; one of the best ones (at least for sodas) is the Keymaster with the Terror Dog as the chase. My least favorites are the ones with very minute changes such as the Luffy Fundom Exclusive.

[arnie]

Mortal Kombat had sick chases!

[LiquidTease]

Best - The Punisher holding Daredevil’s mask, or the clear Invisible Man from Walgreens

Worst - the Gilgamesh Eternals chase is coming to mind here

I agree...

Best Chase-Punisher holding Daredevil's mask. That mold is so awesome and original.

Worst Chase-Doghan Daguis

[El_PANDA]

Worst chase: some of the Black Friday mystery box sets from GameStop. When chase odds are nearly 50/50 is it really a chase?! Haha

Weren’t these the 8-bit ones?

[El_PANDA]

I’ve loved my Crota GITD chase

[MisterJ85]

For me the best chases have a different pose or completely different look. Like the clear invisible man chase. The least exciting are the ones that have very small changes like blood splatter. I still own a few of them though . That sticker hunt is addictive

[volsspongebob]

I love the OG DC chases. They started it all! Not that there was much too them outside the metallic but I remember thinking how cool it was to have chases and hunting for those at the few stores carrying Funko at the time.

[Wiselordship]

Best - lot of the Sodas/Pops that the mold is different or just a vast different mold like Carl from Up or Hades with the rage Chases. Something that makes sense.
Worst - Either slapping on a metallic or glow that makes no sense or Like the Crow Soda where you have to look closer to see the crow on his arm.

[x3r0]

I totally agree. Finding one of those would be the ultimate score and so exciting. These days they randomly put out at HQ but maybe one or two a year.

Same, I miss the good old days when you can go to a ht and just find of these there.

Different times indeed…it’s a whole different ballgame now. Hopefully it’s cyclical but I doubt it.

This is a good notable mention. Like last time they’ve done this (although it was a target exclusive) was the 2 pack of the twins from the movie the shining. Think sometimes (like Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.), pops up randomly at fedex stores or ups. No joke. I was in shock when I saw this Wonder Woman chase and this was in 2022.

I miss seeing sdcc chases. Those were simply amazing and fun. Not like I own any because it just never occurred to me that I must get them.

Bad chases, well, a chase is a chase — but bad decision idea would be Stitch that glows from EE. The common and the chase glows. Only difference was subtle of it. Unless that’s an error…?

[x3r0]

I’ve loved my Crota GITD chase

Some commons actually glower too!
But some of them barely glown.

But seen epic glows too.

[1005_echo]

I like a couple chases.

Hellboy with and with out horns
Also the Kramps series that Hot Topic got was a very cool set too. Flocked in different colors

[x3r0]

I like a couple chases.

Hellboy with and with out horns
Also the Kramps series that Hot Topic got was a very cool set too. Flocked in different colors

That’s a good one too! krampus I think it was.

[mrodr110]

Worst chase has to be HALO Sgt. Johnson with the barely there cigar stub LOL!

that is bad

[ComicsZombie]

I have a very strong opinion on what I consider to be the best chase and worst common.

Stitch with Record Player Funko Shop Exclusive.

Now hear me out. The Chase is fantastic. It's the moment Stitch plays music from his mouth when touching a record. It's perfect.

The common? Without the chase, it has very little context and is just Stitch staring at you while touching some random object. If you have the chase, fantastic, they go together wonderfully! It's each individual moment where he opens and closes his mouth. Without it? Bleh.

And yes, I did some heavy hunting for it and just turned up a bunch of commons of Stitch giving me a dirty look while touching something, as if to say "Go on, try me b--ch."

The common should have been open mouth Stitch, and the closed mouth chase adds more context to the whole thing.

Lol, sigh.

On another note, I'm thinking about taking a couple and cutting the record player off and making him touch other things...

[JRJones92]

Best - Any of the older metallic Chases (I'll go with the Walgreens Green Goblin since I own it)
Worst - Sgt. Johnson from Halo where the only difference is a cigar in his mouth

I agree! I feel they could of done something a little better for a Sgt Johnson chase.

[mastakimchi]

all you guys are hating on the Doghan Daguis chase.. but its my favorite chase.
its the first chase i ever found in the wild.. but i remember debating for like an hour if it was worth buying or not.

[CaseyJones14]

all you guys are hating on the Doghan Daguis chase.. but its my favorite chase.
its the first chase i ever found in the wild.. but i remember debating for like an hour if it was worth buying or not.

That Pop had a lot of sticker problems too so lots of times the Chase sticker was on the common.

[ComicsZombie]

all you guys are hating on the Doghan Daguis chase.. but its my favorite chase.
its the first chase i ever found in the wild.. but i remember debating for like an hour if it was worth buying or not.

Yeah, those ones were weird. From the fact that it was 2 chases in a box, to the fact that they were very similar in look, to the fact that the chases were mis-stickered iirc, so the common was the chase . Not to mention how mediocre the movie was, .

[x3r0]

I have a very strong opinion on what I consider to be the best chase and worst common.

Stitch with Record Player Funko Shop Exclusive.

Now hear me out. The Chase is fantastic. It's the moment Stitch plays music from his mouth when touching a record. It's perfect.

The common? Without the chase, it has very little context and is just Stitch staring at you while touching some random object. If you have the chase, fantastic, they go together wonderfully! It's each individual moment where he opens and closes his mouth. Without it? Bleh.

And yes, I did some heavy hunting for it and just turned up a bunch of commons of Stitch giving me a dirty look while touching something, as if to say "Go on, try me b--ch."

The common should have been open mouth Stitch, and the closed mouth chase adds more context to the whole thing.

Lol, sigh.

On another note, I'm thinking about taking a couple and cutting the record player off and making him touch other things...

This is very well said. I sadly don’t own this chase. By all means it’s a damn good one too.

I’m curious how you’re going to customize it..

[AnyGivenFunko]

I get the chase and it’s cool, but the worst chase to me is the Chubbs Peterson chase variant from Happy Gilmore. It’s just him missing a few fingers. Lol At least, change the outfit to when he did lose fingers.

The best chase to me is the Georgie Denbrough from the movie “IT”. Not only does the chase variant has severed arm and a slight color change, but it has a bloody window on the box.

[Blaze1981]

Is it me or does some chases look terrible versus the common ? I just got a Sabo mask chase and I rather have the common funko..

[runtodere]

Is it me or does some chases look terrible versus the common ? I just got a Sabo mask chase and I rather have the common funko..

This happens a lot. A lot of chases are just trying too hard IMO

[jagpop]

Worse chase has to be Doghan Daguis. That had 2 different chase variants and both were terrible. Really any chase that has one thing changed or altered is just cringeworthy.

I have to agree with this being the worse Chase.

The best Chase...metallic Batman for sure. There are sooo many good ones though.

[Meowmix4]

Gear 2 Luffy is pretty bad in my opinion. The difference is hardly noticeable.

No specific favorite comes to mind right now but I'm a sucker for anything that glows

[DrunkoPop]

Worse chase has to be Doghan Daguis. That had 2 different chase variants and both were terrible. Really any chase that has one thing changed or altered is just cringeworthy.

I have to agree with this being the worse Chase.

The best Chase...metallic Batman for sure. There are sooo many good ones though.

What about the Metallic Superman Chase. How shiny the S looks on this chest.

[Dave17251]

Whatever happened to the bloody chases? I thought they were some of the best ones

[FlinksPoppinPics]

Best - Skeleton Freddy Funko Soda
Worst - Jasmine chase

[DrunkoPop]

Funko got the Batman Robot Common & Chase all backwards.