New York Comic Con turned 20 this year, and Funko treated the anniversary like a checkpoint. The show ran October 8 to 11 at the Javits Center, with Funko at booth #4515, and the exclusives list is one of the most interesting the company has published in a while: a six-figure Lantern line-up in which the rarest variant is capped at 100 pieces, a light-up Doctor Doom at $100, and a brand new way of buying that started days before the convention doors opened.
This is the full checklist with the announced edition sizes and prices, a walkthrough of the new purchase system, and a look at what convention stickers mean on our own shelf of 741 listings.
What just happened at NYCC 2026
Three things defined this year’s Funko presence. First, the volume: DC, Marvel, horror and animation all got exclusive figures, most of them carrying the 2026 Fall Convention sticker. Second, the edition sizes were unusually small for a show of this scale — several of the headline figures were announced at 400, 500 or 1,000 pieces. Third, buying one no longer meant queueing on the day. Every limited item went through Funko’s credit card pre-authorization drawing, with entries open October 5 to 7, before the show started.
Booth access also needed a reservation, with a virtual standby queue alongside it — and even with a reservation, entry did not guarantee a purchase.
The Lantern line-up: six Hal Jordans, one weekend
The DC side of the booth was a single character wearing six costumes. All six Lantern variants were announced as Funko booth only, with a staggered daily release schedule:
- Green Lantern Hal Jordan — $40, Legendary, 2,000 pieces, available all four days
- White Lantern Hal Jordan — $40, Legendary, 1,000 pieces, Thursday October 8
- Red Lantern Hal Jordan — $40, Legendary, 1,000 pieces, Friday October 9
- Yellow Lantern Hal Jordan — $50, Grail, 500 pieces, Saturday October 10
- Green/Blue Hybrid Lantern Hal Jordan — $60, Mythic, 100 pieces, Saturday October 10
- Black Lantern Hal Jordan — $60, Mythic, 400 pieces, Sunday October 11
Read that as a spread, not a list: the same sculpt runs from 2,000 pieces down to 100, and the price only moves in $10 steps while the edition sizes fall by a factor of twenty. The timing mattered too — Saturday put two of the four rarest variants on sale the same day. If you collect DC figures beyond this line-up, our DC Comics Funko Pops category is the closest thing on our shelf.
Marvel: Doom, Miles and Wolverine
The Marvel exclusives leaned into the same structure — one headline piece and three numbered companions:
- Pop Super Grail SFX Sorcerer Supreme Doom — $100, 500 pieces, light-up effect, pre-packed in a UV-resistant protector, booth only
- Sorcerer Supreme Doom (standard) — $15, available at the booth and on Funko.com
- Vampire Miles Morales — $40, 1,000 pieces, in a UV protector
- Ultimate Wolverine — $50, 500 pieces, unmasked, in a UV protector
The Doom timing is not subtle. With Avengers: Doomsday due in December, the character is entering his biggest stretch in years, and Funko gave him both a $15 version everyone can get and a $100 light-up version almost nobody will. The $100 piece is the most expensive convention Pop in this year’s list by a wide margin.
Horror and animation picks
The horror reveals were aimed squarely at the season:
- Erica Slaughter (Something Is Killing the Children) — Royalty, 3,500 pieces, blood-spattered, chainsaw included
- Art the Clown (Terrifier 2) — with his flamethrower and a sculpted blast of fire
- Samhain (The Real Ghostbusters) — Legendary, 1,000 pieces
- Pottsfield Pumpkin (Over the Garden Wall) — Grail, 500 pieces
- Finn and Jake (Adventure Time) — glow-in-the-dark ghost two-pack
- Husk (Hazbin Hotel) — edition size not announced
Erica Slaughter is the one to note if you follow the comics side of Funko’s catalogue. Something Is Killing the Children has been a perennial fan request, and a 3,500-piece Royalty release is a substantial run for a license that spent years in that “always requested, never made” column.
The new way Funko sold these: the pre-authorization draw
The biggest operational change of the show was not a figure at all. For limited exclusives, Funko opened a drawing entry window from Monday October 5 to Wednesday October 7. You selected the items you wanted, pre-authorized your card, and if you were randomly selected your card was charged automatically. Anything left after the drawings went up on Funko.com and Loungefly.com on the morning of October 8.
Funko’s stated goal is managing demand for limited items. The practical effect is on how you shop: under this system you commit your card before the show opens and find out later whether you won, which is close to the opposite of the old booth queue. It also means the online leftovers window on October 8 became the real starting gun for anyone who skipped the draw.
The packaging changed too: Octane5 authentication
The high-end limited pieces ship in UV Premium Plastic Pop! Protector packaging with Funko’s new Octane5 authentication — micro-optic security elements and an individual item code that can be verified. All of the convention exclusives carry the 2026 Fall Convention sticker.
That last part is worth understanding if you buy convention figures second-hand. On the shelf today, the sticker is how you tell a convention release from a standard one, and the edition size — when the run was announced — is printed information you can check. We keep coming back to this in our own catalogue notes: a vaulted Funko Pop and a convention exclusive earn their scarcity in different ways, and the box tells you which is which.
What our own shelf shows
This section is an observation about our own 741 listings, not a prediction about the NYCC figures above. We do not sell the 2026 convention pieces. But we do hold a spread of older convention and retailer exclusives, and their price pattern is worth seeing before you decide how to value anything with a convention sticker:
- 01Robin #674 and Steve #675$899
- 02Baby Milo #19$888
- 03Universal Monsters 4-pack, Metallic$888
- 04Freddy Funko #43$768
- 05Zack Ryder #44$599
Two patterns. Every one of these listings states its run size somewhere — 300 sets, 400, 500, 1,800 pieces — and the prices cluster in a $599 to $899 band. Retailer stickers such as Gemini and BAIT sit at the same level as convention stickers in our data. That is all we will say about it: it is what one mid-sized catalogue looks like, and it is the context we use when we price our own exclusives.
Where to look now
The show is over, so the practical question is where the remaining stock lives. Leftovers from the drawings went to Funko.com and Loungefly.com on the morning of October 8, and Funko has said some exclusives will also reach retail partners — but several of this year’s pieces, including the whole Lantern line-up and the $100 Doom, were announced as booth only, so their online availability is a waiting game rather than a promise.
If you are buying any of these from a third party now, check three things on the box: the 2026 Fall Convention sticker, the announced edition size, and the Octane5 authentication code on the protected releases. And if you want to see how a convention sticker looks a few years down the line, that is exactly what the listings above are.
More context for the numbers in this article: what makes a Funko Pop expensive, based on all 741 prices in our catalogue, and our Freddy Funko exclusives if the convention side of the hobby is your lane.
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