For common pops I use the $10 20 pack on Amazon. For exclusives I use 50mm pop protectors. The best deal I've seen is the Chalice collectables 20 pack for $25 shipped on eBay.

Chalice .50 soft protectors are the way to go! Every single one of my pops gets into one of those. Haha.

I use PopShield soft protectors and they're great so far. They fit more snugly than other protectors I've tried

I just use soft protectors for my figures. Hard stacks are more for extreme Grails in my mind. Don't have one yet, but I'll know when I get one because I'll feel the need to buy a hard stack

You can also checkout, YouTube video. Search:

Dr. Applesauce, video name " What is the Best Funko Pop Protector? How To Funko 101 Funko Pop Acid Test".

He likes Shumi, but I don't like that extra tab to close the top lid.

I just got myself The Cure band 5-figure set. What’s a recommendation for protector/case for those type of sets?

I really like the quality of vaulted vinyl protectors. I highly recommend them.

https://www.vaulted-vinyl.com/

Eco tech or pop shield veteran bang for your buck as you can get 3-5 of them for the price of this

Pop shield armors are soooooo much better

Soft protectors are fine for stuff like exclusives or just your favorite pops, get the thick ones for stuff like signed or super limited/rare pops.

Vaulted Vinyl are the best in soft and hard protectors.

Malco is good for soft protectors and multi-pop packs/large Pops.

Popshield makes MOSTLY quality products. However, their soda tubes are crap. Half will show up cracked.

Buy in large quantities to save money.

Soft protectors: VaultedVinyl and the Official Funko ones are the best. The soft protectors from vaulted vinyl and funko official have UV protection (not sure if that was always the case). I'd say anything worth $15+ should be in some sort of protector. Honestly, I'd put anything in a soft protector unless it's a mega Grail ($500+)

Hard protectors: I actually don't use a single hard protector in my collection. My most valuable Pop! is $350 and while I always hear that it should be in a hard protector, it just...isn't needed? I also wouldn't be able to stack it well if it was in a hard protector like a 7bap or vaultedvinyl.

Ekotec buy on Amazon or their website.

Ekotec is good

Ecotek has been a go to for me.

Has anyone ran in to any pop protectors that would fit bigger pops such as the funko pop ride splash mountain or movie moments such as lilo and stitch in hammock or doctor strange vs scarlet witch? I have protectors for all my pops except for ones like these because I can’t find the right size of pop protector.

I love Pop shield protectors

As everyone else said, pop shield is the best on the market right now. Personally, I really recommend them for anyones grails and pop stacks for any normal one you just wanna protect.

Pop shield is definitely the most affordable and sturdy on the market

Pop Shield is my preferred brand

Retroprotection

I like Popshield Armor for their stackability and magnetic lids.

Personally I prefer PopShield Armor

I like the Funko brand hard cases. You can get them at target and they come with the logo design on the top

Vaulted Vinyl just came out with their "Legendary" series of hard stack protectors, and I've heard pretty good things about them so far : https://www.vaulted-vinyl.com/collections/premium-pop-protectors/products/the-legendary

Outside of that, I would definitely recommend the PopShield Armor as well. They feel a little higher quality than the standard Funko branded hard stacks: https://7bucksapop.com/collections/popshield-armor-hard-protectors

Good luck and happy collecting!

7Bucks a Pop. They have a lot of custom sizes as well.

Depends on the use. If you need cheap ones to put things you’re selling in etc Ecotech are fine. If you want good one for your own collection Vaulted Vinyl or Pop Fiend are really nice.

I personally like ecotech you can find them on Amazon

I use the wholesale option on ecotek

I just checked out the Ecotek protectors, I will say that Vaulted Vinyl protectors are a lot more sturdy and rigid and way less steps to get your pop in there.

I really like Chalice collectibles protectors they feel really sturdy and heavy duty and they look nice.

Was wondering this myself earlier today, also ones for a fairly decent price point.

Vaulted Vinyl or Chalice Collectibles.

Basically the same protector, but Vaulted Vinyl has 80% UV protection.

Edit: I guess I should mention they’re both .50mm. I have 500+ Pops and they’re all in either of these two. Well, I do have some in Chalice’s .70mm protectors. I prefer them over hard stacks.

EcoTEK on Amazon. Each one is wrapped in a protective cling film

https://retroprotection.com

good product, good seller

Like others have said, the 7BAP Pop Shield is the best way to go. Not to take anything away from the Vaulted Vinyl Legendary though. Its quality is superior to the Pop Shield and also offers UV protection. With that being said, I'd only go that extreme for signed pops.

Pop Armor

Vaulted Vinyl is the best but sooooo much more expensive than 7bucksapop. I would only use Vaulted Vinyl for meaningful or valuable pops that aren’t quite worthy of a hard stack.

I agree with most everyone else. IMO Vaulted Vinyl has the overall best protectors, soft and hard...lol...but are very pricey. 7bucksapop.com has the next best and alot more affordable. They have the Pop Shield Armors and soft protectors. All the other protectors out there are inconsequential.

Just found that EcoTEK now makes the .5mm thickness (with UV protection of course) the website is sold out of every quantity of the .5mm thickness (for now) and they still make the .36mm thickness ones if you need an even cheaper route. Compared to all the Soft Protecters I couldn't find any other popular on or off brand protectors that are better for me because they don't have the UV protection and .5mm thickness. If anyone finds any that are better price for thickness and UV protection, Please let me know!

Pop shield armor or swau acrylic protector.

Probably pop armors, they recently started adding mild uv protection in their mix and people were already highly recommending them before the change.
If you wanna spend the most amount of money possible on each pop then vaulted vinyls xD

7bap popshield are the best but run $10-15 per

A great budget option is Gary Plastics ($5 per) on Amazon. Any of my cheaper signed or unsigned ones get the GP cases

Thanks everybody! Appreciate all the advice. Went with the Swau. Got a free shipping deal as well, so that was cool.

The Vaulted Legendary is my favorite protector for my most expensive pops. It has UV protection and is extremely solid. Downside is that they’re a bit ridiculously expensive.

https://vaultedcollection.com/products/legendary-protector

My second choice for something that’s more reasonable in price, looks great, stacks well, does an amazing job, and is now also UV resistant is the PopShield Armor as others have mentioned.

https://popshield.shop/products/popshield-armor-hard-protectors-stackable-with-magnetic-lid