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The drinks are pretty pointless to own and don't do much, their just drinks with the characters name/image slapped on. ITs often the case with a lot of food even elsewhere in the world, like the Flintstones cereal and all that. Even wine eventually spoils, though good wine should in theory last 100 years or so, eventually its going to expire regardless.

Your better off with figures and while they will eventually discolour over time or degrade (white paint turns yellow for example, plastic and rubber can become brittle), they have a longer life. A Plastic figurine if looked after carefully will last in theory several hundred years. At the end of the day, food and wine are food and wine and no matter what its called it doesn't change its a consumable or that its not any more special because Fred Flintstone is on the box or Luka is on the bottle. The main purpose is to consume these products eventually so sooner or later you either have to drink the wine or eat the food because it all goes to waste otherwise. And recently it has now has been proven that even in small quantities is really bad for you and damages organs, so that particular product is pretty toxic. A lot of those buying it were likely either fans or wine collectors (people who buy wine with the intention of selling it years later for a profit, in short its an investment and there is no intention to drink it).

The best value merchandise tends to be the music if its a legit purchase, providing conditions are suitable you should be able to transfer files to computes, meaning you buy the CD/file once and can use it indefinitely. If a computer breaks, you can still get another and use it on that. While there are ways to loose files indefinitely (CDs are quite fragile for example) there are multiple ways to presume what you have invested in making them the best option. Unfortunately this makes its resale value worthless for this reason unlike the wine. As a fan this is better, as a collector perhaps not.