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The Conan pops are actually some of the most decent pops...except for that predator one, I don’t know what they were thinking there.
Funko Pop Enthusiasts (Beanie Babies 2.0) - Exceptional individuals who pride themselves on the amount of plastic they have accumulated
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The Conan pops are actually some of the most decent pops...except for that predator one, I don’t know what they were thinking there.
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I'll never understand the obsession with these things. Way too expensive for what you get. They're ugly as sin. They look like a consolation prize you'd win from a shady carnival barker's rigged game.
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A few years ago, when pops were just starting to rise in popularity my relative and I picked up some pops for my mom because my mom literally doesnt tell anyone what she wants, buys what she needs, and we have to guess. "Well.. she likes Tinkerbell and we literally have no idea wtf else to get her so fuck it." I assume that's the majority of people who buy pops, they vaguely know what their relatives like and buy the first thing they see in relation to it, which is always going to be pops.
Sent the tinkerbell (and dumbo I think?) with my relative to wrap, relatives pit bull tore it to shit and they reimbursed me. Even the fucking dog didnt like this shit.
I have to wonder wtf their distribution looks like and how many are just rotting away in some storage facility or something.
Sent the tinkerbell (and dumbo I think?) with my relative to wrap, relatives pit bull tore it to shit and they reimbursed me. Even the fucking dog didnt like this shit.
I have to wonder wtf their distribution looks like and how many are just rotting away in some storage facility or something.
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I have an irrational hatred of these things and I don't know why. Just looking at them pisses me off. Most of the time they don't even look like the character they're supposed to be portraying.
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Bumping because I made a trip today to the secondhand books and other media store and Funko Pops were there in significant numbers, almost all of them still in their boxes. I didn't see any priced above $12, many were $8 and $6. None of them were locked behind any kind of special case indicating higher prices. Even though it may not seem like it I say it's a pretty good indicator that they're starting to crash and decrease in popularity.
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It's called autism.
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Those ugly things take up half the space of every gamestop I've visited recently instead of the games themselves. Another reason to not go anymore to that shit store.
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They're a physical manifestation of the dumbing-down of culture.
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Shut the fuck up, idiot.
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The only thing I like about them is the sheer variety of characters, but it's just a shame the designs are so ugly.
Remember when vinyl dolls first came on the scene in the 2000s and how cool they were? To think there's now a sea of Funko Pops out there at every bookstore and Game Stop, it's taken a lot of the mystique away from the whole idea.
Remember when vinyl dolls first came on the scene in the 2000s and how cool they were? To think there's now a sea of Funko Pops out there at every bookstore and Game Stop, it's taken a lot of the mystique away from the whole idea.
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To be fair, I never understood the appeal of Beanie Babies in the 90s but every fucking kid from here to Timbuktu had them it seems.
Now I say bring those back any day, these Funko Pops are just...horrid.
Now I say bring those back any day, these Funko Pops are just...horrid.
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They've massively oversaturated the market. If Funko had a lick of sense, they would have limited quantity and variety and timed release with movies and seasons coming out. Create artificial scarcity of characters people actually want. I have no clue what half of the Funko Pops I see even are, and most of the ones I recognize are bullshit characters no one cares about.
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Stuff like this will never appreciate in value, because it’s designed to be collectible. People who buy those limited editions will keep them in their boxes and fifty years from now they’ll be commonplace. Meanwhile, things like early Star Wars merch or Action Comics #1 are worth money because at the time they were made, no one had any idea what pop culture juggernauts these franchises would become. So they threw them away or ripped them or broke them, and now the rare survivors are worth big bucks.