Popinthebox – Pop Vinyl Subscription Service – Review

Pop in the Box – Review

Pop in the Box is a company that offers a subscription service where you receive Pop Vinyl’s in the post each month.  For those that don’t know what Pop Vinyl’s are they are Vinyl figurines of pop culture characters, they are made by a company called Funko and there are over 1000 to collect. They made characters from Marvel, DC Comics, WWE, HBO, Bethesda Games, Disney and many others.

I’ve not been aware of them for very long, I only really started considering them about 4 months ago when my partner decided to subscribe to loot crate, which I will also write a review about at some point.  One of the things you can get in loot crates are Pop Vinyls, hence the connection.

So anyway, I started looking at getting some as I thought they were quite cute, but once I realised how many there were I got a bit overwhelmed as I didn’t know where to start. Then I came across pop in the box, which sends you random pop in the boxes each month. At first I was dubious because I thought I would end up with loads of rubbish once I don’t want, but then I realised there was a feature to go through all the Pop Vinyl’s on the site and mark them as want, don’t want, or have. Popinthebox will then only send you ones you have marked as want.

At this point I was sold. So, I started looking at the options.

You can have either 1,2,3,6 or a massive 12 Pop Vinyl’s per month. The more you get the cheaper each Vinyl is and you also save on postage. Here is the breakdown:

1 – £8.49 + £2.99 postage – £11.48 Total – £11.4 per pop vinyl

2 – £16.99 + £2.99 postage – £19.98 Total – £9.99 per pop vinyl

3 – £25.17 + £2.99 postage – £28.16 Total – £9.39 per pop vinyl

6 – £49.44 + £2.99 postage – £52.43 Total – £8.73 per pop vinyl

12 – £84.99 + £2.99 postage – £87.98 Total – £7.33 per pop vinyl

So as you can see the savings made by getting 12 a month is quite substantial, but as I had never bought one before I decided to start small and went for 2 a month. Also, because there is no way I can afford or justify spending nearly £90 a month on a novelty treat for myself. Maybe one day lol.

So I placed my order and waiting. It took about 2 weeks to arrive which was a bit of a surprise but as I would be getting them once a month I guess it doesn’t really matter how long the first box takes to arrive as you will be getting them roughly the same time each month.

My first two arrived and they were Belle from Beauty and the beast and Jared from the Labyrinth so I was more than happy with the selection. I wasn’t so overwhelmed by the quality and when I looked into them a few people had similar issues but that is no reflection of popinthebox but more of Pop Vinyls in general the quality can vary. I was also surprised that the boxes aren’t sealed but again this is normal.  My second box had Willy Wonka and Puss in Boots so I was equally happy with those selections.

My only gripe with the site is that it is meant to update your collection with whatever Pop Vinyl’s it sends you so that it doesn’t send them to you again. This hasn’t worked so far so I had to go on and update it myself, which is fine as I only have 4 but I could imagine that would be annoying if you were getting 12 a month as they chance of duplicates would be a lot higher.

So far I am really happy with the service and am going to upgrade mu subscription to 3 a month so I can build my collection a bit quicker.

Disclaimer – I am in no way affiliated with Popinthebox or Funko I am just a customer who wanted to share their experience.