Speaking as a
hoardercollector of many strange things, I still can’t comprehend the appeal of Funko Pops. Even if you’re super into whatever franchise the model in question is from, surely there is a better way to express it than by way of deformed simulacra with dead, soulless eyes. Just saying.Thank you, I utterly despise those things. The most blatantly cynical corporate cash-in on nerd nostalgia.
Soulless mass-produced slob. The AI of the figurine world if you will. The Corporate Memphis of the physical world.
A student gifted me a Funko Pop at the end of the last school year. She designed it on their website to look like me, holding a game controller and complete with my signature long hair and fun button-up shirt. I thought that was a very cool gift. 🙂
Anything that someone personalized for you is cool by definition. But, every generic marvel or wharever funko pop is trash.
Oh absolutely. I see the limited edition ones at cons and can only think of the exclusive Beanie Babies that people used to go nuts over. Like who gives a fuck srsly.
The appeal is pretty easy. You can collect items from any fandom you can think of and have the style of the figures match each other almost perfectly and look ‘natural’ together. The style chosen has a lot of detractors, but even some that don’t necessarily appreciate it are willing to compromise if it lets them make a little action scene of thor fighting vegeta.
That’s me, I’m the one who compromised.
I’ve got only one, it’s in my PC, and it’s not a ‘proper’ funko
I own one. It’s the Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine. I saw it at Barnes and Noble and thought it was cute so I got it.
I don’t really get why people would collect tons of these things, but I didn’t understand baseball cards or beanie babies either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One of the most bizarre gifts I’ve ever been given was a random Skyrim funko pop. I don’t really do collectibles, and I hadn’t played Skyrim in a couple years at that point.
Then I found out that the person who gave it to me has a massive collection of Funkos. They can’t even display all of them because they’re stacked several layers deep all the way to the ceiling
You know how gacha games exploit the same psychology as gambling addiction? I’m convinced Funko pops are like that, but for hoarding. I don’t know what it is about the brand, but you so rarely see people with just a small collection of them. It’s either none or 500.
Oldie, but goodie:
For the uninitiated: you’re looking at a court divorce in progress, where these two fascinating individuals are splitting the perceived value of their combined Beanie Babies collection.
I mean I get your title, but it really seems like you’re at a thrift shop.
Speaking of, those Legos would be coming home with me.
McKay’s?
That’s what I thought as well! Not the Knoxville one. Must be one of the other locations.
Those Pop figures sure do look alike when you take them out of their packaging. I can’t really tell what any of them are supposed to be at a glance.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
lego blocks will never be irrelevant!
Yeah, like seriously, how are they pricing those lego bricks?
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Many Lego stores have what they call the “Pick-a-Brick” wall, big bins of loose bricks in various shapes and colors. While it’s not priced by weight, there is a flat price for anything you can cram into a provided container. Most stores are very liberal about what you’re allowed to do to fit bricks into the container, too.
they are so fucking ugly though
Excuse me sir, Lego is never irrelevant. My wife had to stop me from buying more cause I got about two Rubbermaid full of pieces and figures. I use them to make scenes for the season or holidays
Seriously. Lego will be played with even when I’m a old boomer in 2070s yelling about our AI president and being against human-bot marriage.
Don’t know about funkopops. They look like beanie babies to me.
Lego is great for the elderly as well. And patients suffering from Alzheimer’s. So yeah I’m gonna be in a retirement home doing Lego and playing video games
Me too. See you there.
