Author Topic: Funko Pops are trash (Read 7623 times)

Great Rumbler · « **on:** July 18, 2018, 01:02:02 PM »

Who buys this garbage and why?

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #1 on:** July 18, 2018, 01:15:26 PM »

Instagram thots

benjipwns · « **Reply #2 on:** July 18, 2018, 01:42:11 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2018, 01:44:58 PM »

An amazing likeness.

HardcoreRetro · « **Reply #4 on:** July 18, 2018, 04:01:06 PM »

More like Junko Slop.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #5 on:** July 18, 2018, 04:12:19 PM »

ITT stealth attempt to get MAF to post

Tasty · « **Reply #6 on:** July 18, 2018, 04:45:10 PM »

Yes they are.

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Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #7 on:** July 18, 2018, 05:48:26 PM »

All nerd figurines are

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 18, 2018, 06:03:16 PM »

I hate them and the nerds that buy them.

Ok I haven’t watched Stranger Things. I’m sorry world, but I haven’t and because of that I don’t know the characters.

So when Target had the ST funk is I would receive tons of calls with only the sentence being “Do you have so and so”.

I’d be like wtf?

Then would come the audible “I’m talking to a filthy normie” sigh.

Which was much better then people yelling at me for not having their ugly toy that they will do nothing cool with.

Akala · « **Reply #9 on:** July 18, 2018, 06:16:32 PM »

I used to think so and kinda still do, but somehow I bought three of them last year.

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DALE COOPER LAURA PALMER VIVEC

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bork · « **Reply #10 on:** July 19, 2018, 02:26:44 PM »

Sorry, I only purchase the far-superior Nendoroids.

bork · « **Reply #11 on:** July 19, 2018, 02:31:55 PM »

bork · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2018, 02:34:03 PM »

He spent $1200 on used fucking FUNKO POPS.

Tasty · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2018, 02:46:34 PM »

Quote from: bork on July 19, 2018, 02:34:03 PM

He spent $1200 on used fucking FUNKO POPS.

Kara · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2018, 03:08:25 PM »

There's a Misfits Funko Pop?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #15 on:** July 19, 2018, 03:30:02 PM »

Their eyes (or lack thereof) are frightening.

I just buy Gundam Converge figures for my super cheap mini-nerd desk toys.

paprikastaude · « **Reply #16 on:** July 19, 2018, 03:33:06 PM »

Quote from: bork on July 19, 2018, 02:34:03 PM

He spent $1200 on used fucking FUNKO POPS.

How old is this guy, why does he put on the early 20s youtube shtick like Steve Buscemi.
He has 25k subs?
He has a patreon for this thing?
These things aren't even that cute or anything.
Up to 400 dollars for a single one of these.
He has a son??
I watched the whole video

Tasty · « **Reply #17 on:** July 19, 2018, 03:41:05 PM »

Quote from: Spieler1 on July 19, 2018, 03:33:06 PM

I watched the whole video

benjipwns · « **Reply #18 on:** July 19, 2018, 05:43:01 PM »

i didn't know this was even a thing until Jeff started complaining about them

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Funko was founded as a bobblehead company in 1998 by Mike Becker in his Snohomish, Washington home. In 2005, Becker sold Funko to its current CEO, Brian Mariotti, who moved its offices to Lynnwood, Washington and significantly expanded the company's licensed product lines. By 2012, the company sold more than $20 million worth of merchandise.

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Revenue $516.084 million (2017)

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/watch-heres-how-funko-pop-figures-get-made

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Funko Director of Marketing Mark Robben was once again on hand to explain the several points of feedback the company is looking at in order to choose which new figure or line of figure they will develop next. Those include: What does Funko want to do and what is the company's vision for a product line, followed by what do fans want to see; and for that, they look at social media feedback.

In the video above, Robben also touches on the brainstorming sessions that go down at the company in order to pick and choose which new characters or franchises they want to add to their ever-growing list of wonderful items; then Robben, Senior Sculptor Nena Lijiomah, and Creative Director Sean Wilkinson discuss the various processes that go behind creating those figures.

BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS
WONDERFUL ITEMS

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Oh, and don't forget to check out their new Wetmore Forest collection, featuring Pacific Northwest-themed monsters, and have a look at this very handy Funko gift guide that will surely help spread holiday cheer all around you.

SPREAD CHEER ALL AROUND YOU

bork · « **Reply #19 on:** July 19, 2018, 07:39:39 PM »

When did these things start becoming popular, anyway? And hasn't that popularity faded?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20 on:** July 19, 2018, 07:54:36 PM »

Quote from: bork on July 19, 2018, 07:39:39 PM

When did these things start becoming popular, anyway? And hasn't that popularity faded?

I guess they've been really big for about 4-5 years. I don't get their popularity either, they're so aggressively ugly.

bork · « **Reply #21 on:** July 19, 2018, 08:54:12 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 19, 2018, 07:54:36 PM

Quote from: bork on July 19, 2018, 07:39:39 PM
When did these things start becoming popular, anyway? And hasn't that popularity faded?

I guess they've been really big for about 4-5 years. I don't get their popularity either, they're so aggressively ugly.

They remind me of cheap Nendoroid knock-offs, but props to the guy who realized he could make millions off of selling shitty 'chibi' clones of various pop-culture characters.

But if I want to throw money away on nerd shit, gimme this:

Over this:

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #22 on:** July 19, 2018, 09:04:05 PM »

Beanie Babies for Manbabbies: Coming soon to a landfill near you

bluemax · « **Reply #23 on:** July 20, 2018, 03:02:25 AM »

One of my co-workers has stacks of them on his desk, and those are just the ones he keeps at the office. Apparently he gets them on Wednesday's so the other people in his department refer to it as Waifu Wednesday.

Also GIRLS love these things for some reason.

Hot Slice · « **Reply #24 on:** July 20, 2018, 03:32:43 AM »

I like some of them, but I am picky. If I ever own more than 20 at a given time, remind me to an hero.

Coax · « **Reply #25 on:** July 20, 2018, 06:37:30 AM »

Quote from: bork on July 19, 2018, 02:26:44 PM

Sorry, I only purchase the far-superior Nendoroids.

Inevitably I end up typing Nintendroids since I can never remember what the things are called

'Did you mean Nendoroids?'

nudemacusers · « **Reply #26 on:** July 20, 2018, 06:58:23 AM »

Quote from: Kara on July 19, 2018, 03:08:25 PM

There's a Misfits Funko Pop?

Why are you surprised? The band only exists now in hot topic T-shirt form thus is a perfect chose for the developmentally challenged disposable pop culture semotic trinket collecting manboy/skatergrrl demographic.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #27 on:** July 20, 2018, 09:32:03 AM »

Quote from: Coax on July 20, 2018, 06:37:30 AM

Inevitably I end up typing Nintendroids

I think those are called Amiibos.

bork · « **Reply #28 on:** July 20, 2018, 10:05:35 AM »

Quote from: bluemax on July 20, 2018, 03:02:25 AM

Waifu Wednesday.

help

Kara · « **Reply #29 on:** July 20, 2018, 11:15:17 AM »

Quote from: nudemacusers on July 20, 2018, 06:58:23 AM

Quote from: Kara on July 19, 2018, 03:08:25 PM
There's a Misfits Funko Pop?
Why are you surprised? The band only exists now in hot topic T-shirt form thus is a perfect chose for the developmentally challenged disposable pop culture semotic trinket collecting manboy/skatergrrl demographic.

attitude, u got some fukken attitude

bluemax · « **Reply #30 on:** July 21, 2018, 12:14:05 AM »

Quote from: nudemacusers on July 20, 2018, 06:58:23 AM

Quote from: Kara on July 19, 2018, 03:08:25 PM
There's a Misfits Funko Pop?
Why are you surprised? The band only exists now in hot topic T-shirt form thus is a perfect chose for the developmentally challenged disposable pop culture semotic trinket collecting manboy/skatergrrl demographic.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #31 on:** July 21, 2018, 06:10:54 AM »

Surely I can go to hot topic and get me some invader Zim and jack skellington funkos

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #32 on:** July 21, 2018, 07:52:02 PM »

Akala · « **Reply #33 on:** July 24, 2018, 03:17:33 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #34 on:** July 24, 2018, 03:44:15 PM »

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Great Rumbler · « **Reply #35 on:** July 24, 2018, 04:58:04 PM »

Quote from: Akala on July 24, 2018, 03:17:33 PM

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That's clearly not a Funko Pop.

But it is trash.

Akala · « **Reply #36 on:** July 24, 2018, 05:15:38 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 24, 2018, 04:58:04 PM

That's clearly not a Funko Pop.

bork · « **Reply #37 on:** July 24, 2018, 05:25:16 PM »

Quote from: Akala on July 24, 2018, 03:17:33 PM

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My favorite unused emoticon!

Atramental · « **Reply #38 on:** July 25, 2018, 10:11:27 AM »

Quote from: bork on July 24, 2018, 05:25:16 PM

Quote from: Akala on July 24, 2018, 03:17:33 PM
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My favorite unused emoticon!
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bork · « **Reply #39 on:** July 25, 2018, 10:30:06 AM »

Quote from: Atramental on July 25, 2018, 10:11:27 AM

Quote from: bork on July 24, 2018, 05:25:16 PM
Quote from: Akala on July 24, 2018, 03:17:33 PM
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My favorite unused emoticon!
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Missed that meme, but OK, let's give it a try!

MMaRsu · « **Reply #40 on:** July 25, 2018, 10:43:58 AM »

what have you done

Kara · « **Reply #41 on:** July 25, 2018, 11:14:08 AM »

Damaged

Akala · « **Reply #42 on:** July 25, 2018, 12:23:52 PM »

Yeah I’d figure :damaged as well but joker works

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #43 on:** July 25, 2018, 04:41:45 PM »

I'M NOT A MONSTER I'M JUST AHEAD OF THE CURVE

Straight Edge · « **Reply #44 on:** July 25, 2018, 05:01:17 PM »

Quote from: Kara on July 19, 2018, 03:08:25 PM

There's a Misfits Funko Pop?

There's a Misfits everything. Jerry Only makes Gene Simmons blush when it comes to selling out.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #45 on:** July 25, 2018, 05:34:05 PM »

I saw a guy at Gamestop picking up his latest order of at least a dozen POPS, and consulting the preorder chart to see which ones he needed to order next.

zomgee · « **Reply #46 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:12:10 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #47 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:20:34 PM »

I'd rather have this:

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #48 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:26:04 PM »

No wait, this one:

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bork · « **Reply #49 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:28:08 PM »

Bottom one looks emoticon-worthy.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #50 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:46:21 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on July 25, 2018, 05:34:05 PM

I saw a guy at Gamestop picking up his latest order of at least a dozen POPS, and consulting the preorder chart to see which ones he needed to order next.

Kara · « **Reply #51 on:** July 26, 2018, 10:00:42 PM »

Quote from: Straight Edge on July 25, 2018, 05:01:17 PM

There's a Misfits everything. Jerry Only makes Gene Simmons blush when it comes to selling out.

I'm not qualified to talk about Kiss (though it's worth mentioning they tried to cash in on disco in the 70s) but the Misfits were always a punk band for kids in the suburbs who could relate to meatheads whose brains had been poisoned by decades of pop culture consumption but not, say, upstanding Scottish lads singing "fuck the USA." If early Aughts Hot Topic had existed in 1984 it absolutely would have been full of Misfits merch.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #52 on:** July 26, 2018, 11:37:47 PM »

I'll admit my wife and buy these as joke gifts to each other. We used to do with with Pez dispensers, we'd give to each other with some awful pun. But then we got to the point where we had all the Pez disepnsers you could easily buy. So we moved onto Funko figures as our joke gift now. There's a shop in town that sells nothing but funko pop figures. I have no idea how in the world they stay in business. When the wife and I buy something it's always what's on sale and a gag. Can't imagine people pre-ordering these things. That's insane.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #53 on:** July 27, 2018, 01:58:41 AM »

What are you supposed to DO with them

benjipwns · « **Reply #54 on:** July 27, 2018, 03:43:51 AM »

be in the same room with them from what i can tell

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #55 on:** July 27, 2018, 04:33:02 AM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1022575071703916544

bork · « **Reply #56 on:** July 27, 2018, 08:29:06 AM »

Atramental · « **Reply #57 on:** July 27, 2018, 10:08:37 PM »

https://www.amazon.com/Funko-Television-Palmer-Plastic-Action/dp/B01N10MHOI

I thought this was a fake then I looked it up. Wow.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #58 on:** July 28, 2018, 12:47:44 AM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #59 on:** July 28, 2018, 12:57:26 AM »

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