Getting Started

What This Site Is For

Plastic Hoarder is a catalog of collectibles with the tools to keep track of your own. You can look up what exists, record what you own and what you paid, keep a wish list with the most you'd pay, see what things are worth, and, on plans that include it, track what you sell.

What You Can Do Without an Account

• Browse Collectibles and Browse Subjects (characters, franchises and people) are open to everyone. Search, filter, sort and open any item's page. Searching for people also finds them by their other names: a ring, stage or former name. An actor's page (or anyone with signing prices) has a Celebrity Pricing button for what they charge for autographs and selfies.
• Browse Brands lists every brand in the catalog. A brand's page has its logo, a short description, links to its website and social accounts, and its collectibles, which you can narrow to one product line (and sub-line) with the chips under Product Lines. Browse in Catalog opens the same collectibles in Browse Collectibles for more filters and sorting. Clicking the brand's logo or name on an item's page opens it, and ☆ Add to Favorites adds the brand to your favorites.
• Item pages show the details, photos, what's in a set or blind box, other versions of the same item, and its value (in US dollars when you aren't signed in).
• Anything that is yours (a collection, a wish list, selling tools, preferences) needs an account.

Creating Your Account

Use Create Your Account on the home page, or go straight to the sign-up page. Already registered? Log in. Every account starts on the Plastic plan; Plans and Limits shows what each plan includes.

It's worth setting your currency on your profile early. Prices you enter, values you see and your totals all use it.

Finding an Item

• Use Browse Collectibles and narrow with the filters: brand, category, product format, subject, theme, exclusive to, and so on. The chips above the results show what's applied; click one to remove it.
• The search box matches name, brand, product line, box number, the maker's item number (Mfr. #, such as Funko's 5-digit item number), UPC (the barcode number), exclusives, stickers and production traits, so any of those works as well as a name. Each word only has to match one of them: "goku chalice" finds the Chalice Collectibles exclusive Goku, and "akuma chase" the chase. Accents don't matter: "lucio" finds "Lúcio", and "pokemon" finds "Pokémon".
• The box at the top of every page searches everything: items and subjects together.
• ↻ Refresh on Browse Collectibles, Browse Subjects and Browse Brands loads the results again without losing your search, filters, sort or page: handy after you've edited something in another tab.
• Sort by name, value and more. Switch between Grid and List with the buttons beside the sort.
• Sticker versions share a card. When the same figure, box number and traits comes with different exclusive stickers (no sticker, Funko Special Edition, Chalice Collectibles...), it's one card marked with how many versions it has (for example 3 Versions on the photo). The Stickers dropdown on the card lists each version by what's on it ("No Sticker", "Funko Special Edition", "Funko Special Edition + Chalice Collectibles") with its value, and "You Own" for ones you have. Choose one to see its picture and value; + Collection, the heart and the card's link then use that version. An item's own page lists its versions too, under Sticker Versions, each with its picture, value and whether you own it, so you can switch to the one you have before adding it. Chase, flocked, signed and other variants keep their own cards. Searching or filtering for one exclusive shows only its version. To give every version its own card again, open More Filters and choose Show Every Sticker Version.
• If you can't find something, it may not be in the catalog yet. Contact us and tell us what's missing.

Adding It to Your Collection or Wish List

• On an item's page (or its card in the catalog), + Collection opens the entry form. ♡ Add to Wish List saves it to your wish list instead.
• In your collection you record what you actually have: how many, condition, what you paid, where you keep it, photos. Your Collection goes through every part of the form.
• On the wish list you can set a target (the most you'd pay) and a note, such as "only mint in box". Click Edit and choose Fixed Price to type an amount, or % of Value to work it out from today's value (75% of a $20 value is $15), or % Off Value to take a discount off it (40% off a $100 value is $60). Whichever you choose, the amount is saved as your target and stays put while the value moves. When an item's value drops to or under your target, it gets a green Target reached badge, the Target Reached count at the top shows it (click it to see only those), and a green number appears beside My Wish List in the menu. The page totals your targets, and each item shows its current value beside the target.
• When you add a wish list item to your collection, it comes off the wish list.

Buying It New: Available at Retail

• When a store still sells an item new, its page shows a 🛒 Available at Retail pill at the top and an Available at Retail card further down, with each store's price, shipping and stock. View at Store ↗ opens the store's own page in a new tab; you buy from the store, not from us.
• Stores in your own country (the one on your profile) are listed first. Other Countries shows the rest. When you aren't logged in, only stores selling in US dollars are shown.
• Each link says when it was last checked. Prices and stock change quickly, so the store's own page is always the final word.
• Know a store selling it new that isn't listed? Click Suggest a Link on the card (or Suggest a Store Link when an item has none yet) and paste the store's link. Something wrong with a link, like sold out or the wrong item? Click Report a Problem beside it and pick what's wrong, or choose Other and describe it. Our curators check both.
• Resale sites such as eBay aren't listed here; that's what an item's value is built from.
• Some store links earn us a small commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you. The card says so when it applies.

Where to Go Next

• Your Collection: the entry form, copies, grading, prices and photos.
• Values: what things are worth and how that's worked out.
• Frequently Asked Questions: quick answers.