Marvel Collector Corps is a bimonthly subscription from Marvel Comics and Funko. Boxes are $25 plus shipping and every single item is a 100% exclusive item.
This is a review for the Marvel Collector Corps Year One Super Box. This limited edition box is now sold out, but cost $125.
The anticipation for this box was absolutely crazy and the release took down the Collector Corps site for hours! Although it was supposed to be available to Founders first regular subscribers were also able to access the box. It was also on sale at SDCC.
As usual – the patch and pin!
Marvel Collector Corps Year One Patch & Pin: These are fun to commemorate your membership but they would have been more awesome with characters!
This card showed all the non-shirt items in the first year of boxes. 
The information card gives a unique spin – detailing the creation process for the items.
This box was big but it was really filled up by the item boxes. A shirt would have fit though – just sayin.
Everything in the Marvel Collector Corps Year One Super Box!
Usually I save extensive pontification for the end, but I don’t want to mention it with every item: For the most part instead of making really exclusive items they went with easy to make items and 2 exclusive molds. This box was a bit of a cop out. The base box cost five times as much as the standard and wasn’t as awesome as any previous regular box I had received. This felt more like a $50-75 box plus shipping.
Funk Pop Tops I am Groot SnapBack Hat ($10-15): I love the Poptops because they are cute and fun and since we are a hat family we use a Lot of hats.
It’s a super stylish hat and I love the style and the Pop Groot, as well as the emblem on the back. That being said, I was expecting a premium wearable above and beyond what would appear in one of the regular boxes.
Funko Hikari Gold Captain America (est $24 on resale market) Hikari is Funko’s line of handcrafted Japanese inspired vinyl figures. They’re over 10″ tall and hand numbered with runs of 500-5000.
The figure is stamped on the bottom, no numbering.
My card didn’t contain hand numbering either.
This is my 5 year old son’s very favorite item. He was delighted with it. Unfortunately it’s defective and will only stand with his shield hand all the way up.
The right foot doesn’t touch the ground. We’ve emailed Marvel for a resolution on this. I’ve had helpful customer service assistance in the past – they replaced our Harley Quinn figure when its leg fell off, so hopefully they can fix this. Otherwise Cap is going to have to get blow-dried.
Dorbz She-Hulk & Ant-Man: These characters haven’t been in the regular size Dorbz line, making them exclusive to the box. They’re currently valued at $15 and $16 on the secondary market.
They are adorable of course, and a fun addition to the box!
These were happily snapped up by my big kids for their respective collections – it’s always a win for our family to get a female superhero!
Some really nice detailing on She-Hulk’s hair!
Funko Hobgoblin on Glider Vinyl Figure: This one’s a bobble head, but his head is large and heavy, and doesn’t bobble much. In fact, if your surface tilts the wrong way, down he goes :/
This one is nutty on the aftermarket – $95! He looks great on the glider and it’s a rad figure. 
Those ears though! This is obviously the hot item of the box – and I don’t think Funko has plans to make another Hobgoblin figure.
I can’t say that I was personally in love with anything in this box for $125, except maybe Shulkie. To me Funko missed the mark on curating and creating a box for collectors – most of whom probably weren’t jazzed about 2 dorbz, a hat, and an unnumbered Hikari. This box would have been a fun extra for a much lower price point, but for the cost they really needed to nail it and they really didn’t. I would have even loved to see some Funko Home items created especially for this box.
Based on this box, I would not necessarily recommend the sure-to-follow Year One boxes for Smuggler’s Bounty & Legion of Collectors, unless they spoiler with a huge awesome item or you are purchasing for resale. FOMO is real but this was not much less than an annual Collector Corps subscription and since this seemed about the amount of 2 boxes, well, you do the math!
Did you get the Year One Box? What did you think about the items?
Comments
The Pop is going for much less on the after market now. You can find listings for about the $60-$70 range. The stuff in the box barely is selling for the cost of the box on the secondary market. Which is very sad. It feels like they charged a $100 more for an un numbered and mass produced Hikari that is barely worth $20. This box was a rip off, is an understatement.
but why is it so high? it’s crazy! FYI – they are replacing my hikari. overall this box doesn’t touch the LC sdcc box (which was less $)
It is a very popular nerdy character, people have been wanting him for a long time. And the only way to get him is in a $125 box, So him being $60-$70 expected. Other than the 1/5 PoPs in smugglers bounty the pops in these boxes normally go for about $20-$30, Which means normally they go for 2/3rds to the full price of the box. So him being that much is kinda normal. The majority of people buy these boxes for the Exclusive Star Wars/Marvel/DC PoPs. So the Pops will always go for about 60% or more of the price of the box.
Yeah, Hobgoblin just isn’t at the top of my list 🙂
My teenager opened his box last night. He keeps muttering to me that it doesn’t even have a comicbook. It’s not at all what I pictured the box to be when I ordered the box.
Wow, this box was disappinting af.