How did Funko Pops manage to get so prevalent? 99% of them are completely hideous, yet they seem to form the majority of stock in every LCS I go to.
How did Funko Pops manage to get so prevalent? 99% of them are completely hideous...
Xavier Cooper
Michael Morales
Cheap, insane amount of licenses, better distribution than Mighty Muggs, etc.
Gavin Wood
They're worth what idiots are willing to pay and idiots have a lot of disposable income.
Christopher Harris
>Mighty Muggs
Are they still around?
Justin Watson
If a show or a comic or a game or a fucking anything that you happen to like has no other merch, it probably still has a Funko Pop. If you're desperate enough, you'll buy any shit.
Oliver Reyes
>How did Funko Pops manage to get so prevalent?
This ain't shit. At least it's a "limited edition".
OoP USED Chessex dice sets are selling to dungeons and dragons hipsters for more than this "rare" Funko, and Chessex churned those out like the cheap hunks of plastic they are.
Christian Carter
It's just a good investment.
Julian Cruz
Autism, consumer culture, "nerd culture", rampant unchecked mental illness, anti-depressants, immaturity, and lack of long term thinking/goal setting. Did I miss anything?
Gabriel Cruz
They are just little kitsch collectibles. Its not a big deal really. Like the modern kinkade tin
Michael Martin
They brought them back. This time the gimmick is if you press down on their head the face spins to change expression.
Easton Smith
Note the top listing isn't for a SET of dice, but a single d12.
Jonathan Edwards
Are we talking about Funko or Yea Forums now?
Owen Ward
Are Nendoroids just Funko Pops for pseudo-intellectuals?
Andrew Wright
We already knew that, but OP wants to know why Funko Pops sell over other shitty "le neerd xD" merchandise.
I'd chalk it up to their marketing team hitting the right chord with these retards.
>colorful, attractive packaging (at least for these piece of shit toys) with an open window for easy display
>small so you can have dozens and they'd barely take up room
>character licenses as far as the eye can see
>a clear number on the top right so those "collectors" know what they're getting and how much they have to get
>select promotional toys at conventions that sell out because the people who buy them know that mongoloids will pay top dollar on eBay to own
Dominic Morales
It all ends up in a landfill
Hunter Moore
If you're gonna spend that much on a figure toss in a few more bucks and get a Kotobukiya or something.
The super deformed style is only acceptable if it's cheap.
Michael Kelly
Everything is, if you pull back the picture far enough.
Josiah Hall
>pseudo-intellectuals?
>hitting the right chord with these retards.
There are people in this thread right now with grandparents or possibly even parents who got caught up in Beanie Babies.
Throwing stones from a glass house.
Dylan Jenkins
>dumbasses 20 years ago collected plush Funkos thus plastic Funkos aren't gay as fuck
Camden White
So he's right?
Jaxson Scott
My fifty year-old mother collects Funko Pops. That doesn't change the fact that people who buy them aren't retards. Every time I visit I question why she's got shit taste and she gives me the "their cute" spiel.
Kevin Lopez
Hudson Wright
Standard obsessive collectible syndrome crossed with geeky brand whoring in the form of vinyl figurines of passable display quality that are easy to mass-produce.
That and if your favorite character/franchise is so obscure that it doesn't get any merchandise, at least it'll get a Funko Pop.
Cameron Diaz
Do you mean "Are retards"? Be careful what you answer, because you are full of her genes. (clearly).
Jordan Davis
Morons, idiots, simpletons, and dolts all with the traits of being stupid, ignorant with an air of vapid, vacuous, and dense. Retards user, retards. The slang term for any one of these people that exercises in being foolish.
Leo Wright
>Cheap
$20 for a hunk of plastic is not cheap.
Aaron Brown
It'd cheap enough and accessible. It also has a good name that's hard to forget due to how stupid it sounds.
Cameron Williams
casuals think they make great presents
> I vaguely know what this guy likes, this seems like a cheap good present for him
this is why I have several of these fucking things
Carter Rogers
>casuals think they make great presents
thats literally it, my grandmother got me a flash funko pop becasue i have a poster of him in my living room
i dont think anyone willingly collects funkos theyre so cheap and tacky
Isaac King
I'd be very interested in a "the top X% of Funks Pop customers spent Y% of the money spent on Funko Pops in 2018" style statistics set.
Colton Hughes
theyre are £10 in the uk which is about $13 so you do the math when some sperg buys every character from endgame in funko pops
rather lucrative if youre selling them desu
Thomas Miller
The only thing they have is like top performing brands that they put in their quarterly reports to stockholders.
Aiden Ramirez
Are you new to collectibles trends?
Brody Martin
>i dont think anyone willingly collects funkos theyre so cheap and tacky
Isaiah Lewis
>Imagine spending $20,000 on toys
>Imagine spending $20,000 on toys that you never play with
>Imagine spending $20,000 on toys that you never play with or take out of their packaging because that would decrease their value
Maybe I've seen the Toy Story movies a few too many times but that just hurts.
Christian Morales
I think it might be because the Funkos are part of a unified "set" that you can collect.
I myself won't touch the things. If I get anything it's cool statues and busts. But while they are amazing, I understand why they don't sell as much. First off, there's no real way to tell if there's any collectors value to them. None of them feel like they belong to a "set". Some of them are so unique, nothing like them are made again, so it's not really a collection. Also the better stuff is upwards into the $40-$300 dollar range.
Funkos are $5, generally. They are everywhere, almost every brand or franchise is there (hell, even Sailor Moon, Warhammer, and my favorite band RUSH). If you need a stocking stuffer or cheap ass gift for the shallow nerd, Funko Pop has you covered. They have a unified look, so that you know they are all part of a "set" for a collection.
I used to tolerate these things. Now I fucking hate them. But I understand why they sell.
Gavin Bailey
They're millennial Beanie Babies, you just have to look at their rise and fall to see where this is going.
I'll grant them this much, I admire the sheer breadth of the stuff they cover, not only the properties, but the subjects within the properties. There's a Pop for MMPR Black Ranger wearing the Dragon Shield for fucks sake.
Grayson Wright
that is fucking pathetic
Ian Nelson
It's all about marketing and visibility.
They are the only one to have the luxury of having every fucking licence at an affordable price and all those licences on a common aesthetic. And since they have the most visibility, they are the obvious to the average consumer.
The collectibles side is pretty similar to Lego or Bionicles. You start a quest of having all those characters or at least the ones you want. No way you will buy only 1 Funko Pop.
Nowadays what you consume define you, you can easily express through these objects what movies, TV shows and cartoons you like.
Funko Pops are a very accurate representation of the current context of consumption.
Luis Ward
Andrew Wood
>Imagine
"A shiny stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, inspired by a child’s inflatable toy, sold at Christie’s on Wednesday night for $91.1 million (£71.1 million) with fees, breaking the record at auction for a work by a living artist, set just last November by David Hockney.
Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit” from an aisle seat near the front of the salesroom. He was seated near Peter Brant, the collector and private museum-owner, and Jeffrey Deitch, the dealer.
Ayden Scott
Some niche characters/franchises are available only like that.
I prefer the Lego aesthetic and would gladly exchange my Martian Manhunter Pop for a minifigurine, even pay a bit more, but it was only an exclusive freebie for ordering in the official Lego shop, once, and they ran out of him after a week or two.
I want to say I also prefer Nendoroids because they're cute and posable, but after I posed my Tsukuyomi Sasami I never touched her again so she could very well just be a Pop with less soulless eyes.
Cameron Ramirez
>The Caballeros so undermerchandised they can't even get one of these things
Zachary Russell
Funko Pops are for people who want to think they're nerds (but in a cool way) so they collect them and brag about it because it's cheap and readily available, but they're not even remotely nerdy enough to actually seek out good quality merchandises like Nendoroids because it's more expensive and you have to order online. Exactly the same type of people who think they're huge nerds for watching Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory or Harry Potter and thinking that literally everything is inspired by these very popular shows. Basically it goes like this:
>Fashion designer plagiarizes traditional north African dresses for a fahsion show? Oh no that's actually inspired by Game of Thrones! >Fire Emblem releases a new game soon about dragons and medieval armies trying to kill each other for the 1000th time since the 80s? lol it's like Game of Thrones!
>By the way did I tell you I collect Funko Pops? I have all the GOT characters and I want to have more HP characters!
Can't deal with these people, they're obnoxious. I'd rather have normies or real otaku talk to me about these shows and franchises because they actually enjoy these things for what they are without showing off.
Jason Brown
Pure, undiluted marketing. Funko Pops are the eerie, plastic face of the lowest common denominator. They're the Big Bang Theory for collectible figurines, and for everything, not just ostensibly nerd things circa-2007.
In every given era, there are a few trends that are looked back on as cringe and unworthy. Sometimes this is swift, and othertimes it takes a while. A few may be reinterpreted as being bad in a good way, or gradually fixed by genuine development. Then there are the Funko Pops of an era, which will be seen as a tragic plague we are glad to see the back of, and frankly horrified that they were allowed to happen at all. Gruesome ancient-world execution methods, human sacrifice, terrible plagues, treating wounds with poultices of dung. These things are on a level with the existence of Funko-Pops.
John Moore
My family was largely unaffected by Beanie Babies, although my grandma did by a few. But a close friend of mine's mother still has an enormous annex of her house full of the damn things, each on their own compartment of a huge honeycomb shelf.
Beanie Babies are not as ghastly or unoriginal as FPs, but they share the same problem from a "muh collectable" perspective. Where FPs shine is in their "oh I'm not going to ever sell them, they're just neat :)" potential for suckers.
Gavin Perez
>Being sad that your beloved characters haven't been besmirched through an ugly vinyl cast
The hell is your problem?
Jeremiah Adams
I wonder how many people it get this reference
Aiden Collins
honestly a lot of the modern funkos look pretty nifty these days. Its kinda tempting to get some of the more extravagant looking ones, like the hercules/pegasus one or the one of Sora riding the Heartless
Zachary Reed
>virgin funko pops
>cuck nendoroids
Only few giga Chad's tap into SH Figuarts line
>lots of US & Jap IPs
>chiseled figures
>multiple articulations
Ayden Edwards
>comparing nendos to pops
i'll literally never get this. i could buy one nendo for the same price as 3-4 funkos
and why would I want to spend 80 dollars on a figurine the same size as a 20 dollar funko when i could get something... actually good?
David Ramirez
>and why would I want to spend 80 dollars on a figurine
Nigga 80% of figuarts are like $20-$40
Also I'm not to say for every one but nendos aren't dynamic and they have that chibi-uguu-kawaii face that I want to throw at a weeaboo. pops are already retarded as is
I tend to like scale figures, figmas or figuarts
Kevin Price
Fucking this
>and why would I want to spend 80 dollars on a figurine the same size as a 20 dollar funko when i could get something... actually good?
Must suck being poor and an incel
Adrian Stewart
You do have a point but Nendroids at least looks good.
Parker Gutierrez
That looks pretty bad tbqh senpai
If you're gonna blow ~50 on a Funko Pop, just get a Nendo or put in a bit more and get a Figma.
Ethan Brooks
Gavin Brown
>tfw you keep getting them as presents
David Cook
Because nendroids at least looks good.
Michael Peterson
Cheaper that other vinyl figures.
Benjamin Johnson
CUTIE
Dominic Diaz
Because they're all so ugly and easy to make, the markup on them is something like 1000%. Pretty much any time someone buys one, it gives them enough money to make a store display. Those weirdos that collect them are the reason they're everywhere.
Mason Edwards
Think you misread
I'm sad that even the ugly figures that include every property known to man won't touch them. I want nicer things then that, but they are neglected enough to not make step 1