:sicko-pig::yes-hahaha-yes-l: Death to the treats!
Very cool that these funko pop catacombs will exist for thousands of years
Yeah this is just the depressing end of something that shouldn't have happened in the first place
I can’t wait in 200 years when a civilization of corvus sapien dig up this shit and think that the homo sapien worshipped that vinyl religious totem that bears the name of zelensky
The stock price cratered last November when Funko slashed its financial outlook for the year, and fell by another 25 percent this week as the company revealed it would also lay off 10 percent of its employees.
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Send them to Ukraine, they can launch them at the Russians after the ammo runs out next week.
If Funko Pops finally lose relevance, another collectible fad will take it's place. Like Beanie Babies and others before them.
:yea: The next big thing will probably have a wasteful NFT component, too, won't it?
They can just make a collectable jpeg of 20mb in size. with today hard disk storage, you can literally collect them in masse and it would be probably less wasteful
I love all the infrastructure and labour that went into pumping oil out of the ground, transporting it to be refined, shipping those materials to a factory, forming them into shitty plastic figures, packaging those up, shipping them yet again across an ocean, only to be buried because there's no profit in selling the fucking things.
Clearly there's no way to use all those resources to better humanity, people need their twelfth detective Pikachu Funko pop that won't even be taken out of the packaging.
Destroying all the Funkos in the warehouse to drive up the collector's price of my SSJ Goku shitting on a toilet chibi
Systematically tracking down and murdering the other 1246 owners of the limited edition Anton Chigurh FunkoPop to increase the value of mine.
Highlander, but it's Funko Pop collectors protecting their market share.
Ah yes, the market being very efficient yet again. There truly is no alternative.
I mean ya just know some people are gonna try to dig 'em up like they did with the E.T. cartriges. These things will show up at auctions and fetch exorbitant prices from elite funko collectors.
Yeah but weren't there multiple attempts to find the ones that got dumped in a hole in the desert?
Can’t wait for the documentary about these being excavated 30 years from now after we forget about it and dismiss it as an urban legend
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
so dumb. just announce on reddit you have a fucking giveaway and let people get their kids free christmas/birthday presents upon pickup.
excuse me my investment portfolio is 60 percent funkos how fucking dare you
Because they're shit an boring and there's literally nothing interesting about them from one to the next.
If I buy a figurine I want the character I'm buying, but when you buy a funkopop you're buying a funko with the theme of a character.
This is why Nendoroids will be around forever, they get the balance between being cheap and letting it just be a character instead of their brand. You're buying the character not the nendo brand.
More importantly, they dont make a billion of them at once because they’re scaled for a smaller collectors and enthusiasts market.
I mean, they probably COULD make a billion at once but don't have retailer adoption because they're not cheap enough as far as the supermarkets are concerned. They don't think adults would buy a toy worth more than £10. They are very very wrong though.
AFAIK anything tied to otaku and weeb culture knows it' isn't serving a giant industry, at least until now
The Japanese market are super behind on what the scale of the market for merch is outside of their domestic sales. It's a little odd how difficult it is to get them to commit to anything at scale.
my impression is they kinda dont really care much for foreign markets, being how big their economy got until the 90s maybe they're like that for a reason
Ppl only like funko pops bc they make them of literally Everything bc they are easy to make as a lump of unposable vinyl thats basically all the same sculpt So sometimes the only existing merch of whatever character the hypothetical fanboy likes is a funko pop bc they only make nendos of anime and hyper popular stuff bc obviously they take more effort to produce so GSC cant be bothered to do a figurine of Blorbo Beebus from the short lived cult classic The Plinkos that like 10 ppl in the world would shell out for, but funko can
Also no one can afford a living space that allows you to hoard them
Meanwhile I'm just enjoying the Gundam I put together. Doesn't look creepy, and I feel accomplished that I put it together.
I sit here with my collected anime posters, which came from small artists at conventions and actually look like the characters from the shows.
Depolymerize them and use them as a highly carcinogenic “green” fuel.
It's cheaper and easier to just chuck 'em into a landfill, and most plastic isn't actually recyclable.
