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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:57:02 No.11619264 View View Reply Original Report

Nihilistic toys news just dropped. Funko Pop maker admits it might not survive another year as sales crash
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/funko-pop-maker-admits-it-might-not-survive-another-year-as-sales-crash-3281056/

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:58:54 No.11619267 Report

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Good, tired of seeing this shit EVERYWHERE.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:07:17 No.11619278 Report

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>>11619264
Based. Fuck Funko Pops. NECA next.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:23:49 No.11619292 Report

Quoted By: >>11619418 >>11620029 >>11626616

>>11619264
Imagine if they refuse to sell Mondo before crashing the plane with no survivors.
>>11619278
NECA is propped up by the rich faggot that owns Graceland. It's just a vanity project for him.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 23:02:08 No.11619331 Report

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>>11619264
Good, I've been waiting for what seems forever for this garbage to stop cluttering shelves and search results when looking for actual good toys.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 23:03:26 No.11619332 Report

Quoted By: >>11619339 >>11622985

>>11619264
I'll believe it when I see it. They've been saying Pops are dying for the last 8 years, Funko stocks crash all the time but they always spring back somehow. This line is like the Energizer Bunny of the industry, it just keeps going and going and it refuses to die.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 23:10:34 No.11619335 Report

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>>11619264
GOOD

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 23:12:45 No.11619339 Report

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>>11619332
Rite Aid's bankruptcy was being predicted for maybe a decade before it happened and it did happen, it just took awhile. Likewise with toy companies like Funko. They can stretch and put things off with debt for some time, but eventually, no revenue will catch up with them.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 00:02:25 No.11619392 Report

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>>11619264
The slop picture just adds to the hollowness of the whole thing and makes a good epitaph for Pop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 00:31:44 No.11619418 Report

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>>11619292
I hope mondo makes it out, their he man stuff looks friggin amazing and id really like to get one at some point.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 00:33:16 No.11619419 Report

Quoted By: >>11619464 >>11619813 >>11621065

>>11619264
God damn it. Now I'll never get a sequel to the Godzilla boardgame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 01:09:56 No.11619439 Report

Quoted By: >>11619452 >>11619457 >>11619550 >>11619580 >>11619783 >>11619866

While I don't care for Funkos, not sure if this should be celebrated I mean if someone as popular as them is shutting down, no toy company is safe.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 01:22:58 No.11619452 Report

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>>11619264
About time.
>>11619439
>sales crash
>popular

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 01:24:44 No.11619457 Report

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>>11619439
The reason they are losing so much money is because they aren't as popular as they used to be, and they still keep pumping out 10 million FotM Fukno Poops that nobody buys.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 01:35:34 No.11619464 Report

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>>11619264
I don't want that to happen, but man they needed to pull back on production for the past couple years. They really only have themselves to blame if they do fall. Terrible mangament on the lines and franchises I enjoy. Like a Valentines variant of the Killer Klowns? Who the hell is stuff like that made for? Who?
>>11619419
They made some cool game stuff and then dropped it. Really sucks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 01:53:02 No.11619484 Report

Quoted By: >>11619956 >>11619977

>>11619464
The boardgame is amazing except there's only 4 playable characters, and the missions are bare bones as hell. If they came out with a second set, expanded missions, added errata pack to fix poor Goji's broken deck, then you would have an amazing monster smash em up that's easy to set up and fun to tear down.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 03:25:29 No.11619548 Report

Quoted By: >>11619793 >>11627271

>>11619264
What would happen to comic shops and Gamestops if Funko actually did die?

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 03:27:44 No.11619550 Report

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>>11619439
They should be glad that they managed to sell the exact same statue, lightly altered, for 15 years.

>>11619457
They ran out of major franchises to make tie-ins for long ago, and the really obscure things are only going so far. Also Hollywood is not exactly inventing new major franchises either. They just keep remaking the same old 80s shit that Funko made toys for a decade ago already.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 03:53:56 No.11619566 Report

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>>11619550
>They ran out of major franchises to make tie-ins for long ago
You'd think that, but I just checked the Fukno website to see the state of things and they have recently released Poops for Charmed and Sesame Street, so they are still digging to the bottom of the barrel.
>Also Hollywood is not exactly inventing new major franchises either.
True, but they can still flog the news releases of the shit Hollywood is rehashing, like Alien Earth and Wednesday.
The franchises they seem to have started going into more is anime and vidya. The only issue is people aren't buying. The bubble burst, the fad is over, and the normies and investor fags that bought that shit are buying Lego and Labubus instead.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 04:06:46 No.11619575 Report

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>>11619264
Long time funko hater: for some reason i dont feel good about this

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 04:09:29 No.11619580 Report

Quoted By: >>11619642 >>11619644 >>11619674 >>11619783

>>11619439
This is the funny part that is worth discussion.
People here are just so blinded by their Funko hate they do not realize the economic realities we are facing or see the big picture of this. In which MAYBE the big ones like Lego or Mattel survive, maybe not, but almost every toy maker is about to go extinct when people need to buy food and survive and not Chinese plastic shit.
If Funko is going down things are going to get awful very quick for the industry.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 04:14:42 No.11619586 Report

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>>11619264
Tired of these shits taking up all the realestate in the "collector" sections at walmart and targets. Hoping that those WM islands hasbro has testing in some stores means they're finally pushing their adult focused figures to those sections instead of the kids toy aisles. They know it's adults buying them. With Fukno pops out, theres gonna be a lot of free realestate.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 05:13:05 No.11619615 Report

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>>11619264
They should make that image into an actual Pop before they go bankrupt lel

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 05:36:36 No.11619629 Report

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>>11619264
didn't they declare layoffs 2 years ago?

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 06:08:12 No.11619642 Report

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>>11619580
it's funny how people give a fuck about fuckno poops

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 06:22:37 No.11619644 Report

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>>11619580
>Lego survives
Please no, I want that shit to die already, it's worse than Funko. I hate lego with every fiber of my being.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 06:49:37 No.11619658 Report

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>>11619264
The only thing that avoided Funko pop from going bankrupt is simply being cheap and can be produced in mass quantities.I aslo blame funko for the current state of western toy industry, propping up FOMO was a mistake.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 07:27:48 No.11619674 Report

Quoted By: >>11619678 >>11619939

>>11619580
>but almost every toy maker is about to go extinct
Is every toymaker pumping out so much shit that nobody is buying that they need to send it to the same Alamogordo landfill as the Atari E.T. cartridges instead of Ross and Ollie's?
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/funko-pop-millions-trash-storage.html

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 07:38:00 No.11619678 Report

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>>11619674
They pump out shit to please the shareholders, to make the illusion there's high demand

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 07:43:56 No.11619682 Report

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>>11619644
is this bait, hoping for the downfall of other toy companies? ive seen 3 of them and no one's really taking the bait.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 11:55:20 No.11619783 Report

Quoted By: >>11619790

>>11619439
>>11619580
I don't consider Funkos to be 'toys', they are statues, and utterly soulless slop statues at that. In the same way that people realising Pogs were worthless didnt matter, the collapse of Funko just means some of these idiots might actually collect something halfway decent instead

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 12:02:23 No.11619789 Report

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>>11619264
good. Hopefully they also take down with them hundreds of shitty game/comic stores that resorted to stocking hundreds of them to survive.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 12:03:56 No.11619790 Report

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>>11619783
at least pogs sometimes had cool art on them, not a single funko is redeemable aesthetically

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 12:07:29 No.11619793 Report

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>>11619548
What should've happened to them when they stopped relying on their main produce to sell normieslop chunks of plastic.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 13:04:33 No.11619813 Report

Quoted By: >>11619897

>>11619419
>>11619464

The problem with this news is that it's a from a click bait site that's even worse than the ones that litter /co with superhero and comic news, and are on other boards like /fit and /lit and elsewhere, just shitting up their catalogues.

There's a better story here (that while not based on the recent 3Q financial reports, at least has real reporting):
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/funko-everetts-bobblehead-king-hit-by-tariffs-and-other-woes/

The Seattle TImes story basically talks about what >>11619464 essentially implies - poor management, poor decision making, bad choices, etc.

I think if they make less fucking POPs and made some other varied games, toys, etc., they could do well. They have an important thing, which is a brand name, and a distribution channel/marketplace.

I liked the 5POA First Appearance Supes they made and they could make and easily sell stuff like that.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 13:19:39 No.11619820 Report

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>>11619264
>flea markets, swap meets, comic book shops, and conventions are floor-to-ceiling with this shit
Good riddance. The toys are ugly, the people who collect them are faggots, and it really is the worst toy fad ever (even worse than Beanie Babies).

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 13:22:31 No.11619822 Report

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>>11619629
They also dumped a massive amount of inventory into landfills last year due to the crap being unsellable.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 13:57:12 No.11619834 Report

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I'm pretty sure this shit is what killed my local comic shop.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 14:18:02 No.11619850 Report

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>>11619822
so what are they worried/we happy about?

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 14:50:02 No.11619866 Report

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>>11619439
Funkos were always a gimmick. They look ugly and tasteless.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 15:08:32 No.11619875 Report

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>>11619566
>Labubu
Least those are cute.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 15:50:34 No.11619897 Report

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>>11619813
>5POA First Appearance Supes
Seems like 9POA, but who cares right?

I think you're right, they need to transition into the next phase of their company. They milked the ever loving shit out of fans for low effort statues, built and empire, acquired even more brand licenses and then they started expanding into other territories. Only the thing that they didn't keep doing was expanding, and they instead see the statues floundering on shelves, so knee-jerk reaction made them double the fuck down. It's a foolish and short sighted decsion, to believe that they can just keep printing money infinitely with minimal effort. They have built something, but are they going to do anything with it? That is the question.

The Godzilla Tokyo Clash game was incredibly well thought out and has a lot of charm; I've seen bandai & toho do a shittier job making Godzilla games than Funko for some reason. That speaks volumes to me that they know nerd culture and can do some of these IPs justice in order to 'give the fans what they want.' I wish a nigga would release another edition of this, or at the very least a tiny monster expansion set that gives you double the amount of fighters plus some updated mode rules.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 16:10:58 No.11619908 Report

Quoted By: >>11619942

>>11619264
Every experienced collector knew that this was coming, and knew that all the fags with "YO BRO CHECK OUT MY POPS" were gonna get burned in the end.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 16:16:03 No.11619913 Report

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>>11619644
LEGO will destroy itself with its unsustainable prices.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 17:20:56 No.11619939 Report

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>>11619674
>Is every toymaker pumping out so much shit that nobody is buying that they need to send it to the same Alamogordo landfill
Well Hasbro is doing that with their licenses like Star Wars and Marvel. Not to sure if Matty is doing anything that insane.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 17:23:01 No.11619942 Report

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>>11619908
worth noting that it took nearly 15 years for that to happen. I agree it was coming but holy shit they held this insanity up since 2010.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 17:55:32 No.11619956 Report

Quoted By: >>11619977

>>11619484
That sounds pretty cool. I flt the same way about their FNAF Fight Line series. It was amazing, like a light strategy game using FNAF characters, selected from a team of FNAF fans, and promoted fairly well by Funko. It was loved by the FNAF community a like, and looked a promising future. They release it and then that was it. I think they shut down their entire Funko game section because .... I don't know, screw them for making good products I guess? So dumb, so very dumb.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 18:08:02 No.11619964 Report

Quoted By: >>11620006 >>11621012 >>11626596 >>11627271

>>11619264
Nope. sorry but POP! Figures are too big to fail.

POP! Figures should retain their "value" for collectors, because they are based on things.

for example, people who collect Batman, will still be impressed by the POPs of Batman. whether the company is still around or not. some "things" got nearly NO figure merch, except for POPs. if you want a display piece for that, you'll need to seek out the POP, it's your only option.

Beanie Babies were only popular to themselves, and thus lost the value once the bubble popped (heh)

if they stop making POPs, the collections become MORE valuable. years from now, people will "miss" seeing them in stores, new movies and shows will not get characters in POP style, some other company picks up the baton.... then it starts all over again: NEW POPs vs Original POPs...

sorry for the blog post... damn I tend to over-explain myself

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 18:18:52 No.11619977 Report

Quoted By: >>11619981 >>11620014

>>11619956
>>11619484
Cant you ise the rules for Monsterpocalypse?

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 18:20:52 No.11619981 Report

Quoted By: >>11620014

>>11619977
>use the rules

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 18:47:59 No.11620006 Report

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>>11619897
I own two and keep meaning to take one out of the package but haven't bothered as of yet, so you may be right.

But otherwise, I totally agree with you on your second and third paragraph, especially since they have the resources of Mondo.

>>11619964
>some "things" got nearly NO figure merch, except for POPs. if you want a display piece for that, you'll need to seek out the POP, it's your only option.
This is what keeps those souless Pops selling. If some female toy collectors wanted a Lois Lane toy from this summer's Superman movie, their own choice was the Funko Pop. Not even Imagine Next made one of her. Ditto, I think, Cat Grant. Although I'm surprised there's no Jimmy Olsen.

Boco !sCZ24qY6KY

Boco !sCZ24qY6KY Sun 09 Nov 2025 18:53:43 No.11620011 Report

Quoted By: >>11620026

With how damn many of those things there are, even if they do croak they'll still clog shelves for another decade.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 18:56:18 No.11620014 Report

Quoted By: >>11620992

>>11619977
>>11619981
MonPoc is like chess, where as the funko game is more like a traditional fighting game where you unleash combos on each other and power up super moves. I fucking love MonPoc, but the game is deader than a doornail right now and translating one into the other would be virtually impossible given their gameplay differences.

I would explain further but that falls under /tg/ knowledge more than anything, of which I'm well versed.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 19:15:08 No.11620026 Report

Quoted By: >>11620028 >>11620405

>>11620011
Lots of thrift stores and landfills were the recipients of Beanie Babies that were once worth hundreds each. This will be no different.

Boco !sCZ24qY6KY

Boco !sCZ24qY6KY Sun 09 Nov 2025 19:23:17 No.11620028 Report

Quoted By: >>11620405

>>11620026

Someday Funkos will be used as currency in a Mad Max-esque post apocalyptic landscape.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 19:24:57 No.11620029 Report

Quoted By: >>11620153 >>11632228

>>11619292
didn't NECA cover up one of the designers doing something?

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Anonymous Sun 09 Nov 2025 21:58:22 No.11620153 Report

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>>11620029
Who cares

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 02:36:42 No.11620405 Report

Quoted By: >>11621015 >>11623099

>>11620026
idiots are overpaying for Beanie Babies today, chum

>>11620028
Nope, that will be LEGOs.

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 18:52:43 No.11620910 Report

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Outside fungus poop, they made cheap figures of overwatch

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 20:25:18 No.11620992 Report

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>>11620014
Is it that different? I thought Monsterpocalypse is about monster vs monster

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 20:59:14 No.11621012 Report

Quoted By: >>11621122 >>11621272

>>11619964
oompa

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 21:07:23 No.11621015 Report

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>>11620405
Lego would also be good for measuring things.

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 22:01:37 No.11621065 Report

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>>11619419
Fucking Megalon? Why?

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Anonymous Mon 10 Nov 2025 23:34:48 No.11621122 Report

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>>11621012
Goonpa

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 02:58:58 No.11621272 Report

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>>11621012
...there is a plushie of this character too...this world is fucked

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 04:44:20 No.11621350 Report

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>>11619264
Funko? More like fuck no.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 07:23:25 No.11621436 Report

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>>11621015
>Yes, New New New New York is 48 thousand LEGO bricks from the Obama Commemorative Ballroom that was the only thing left after the White House was destroyed ...

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 12:37:42 No.11621556 Report

Quoted By: >>11621561 >>11621666

>>11619264
Funko Pops got popular around the same time as The Big Bang theory, which doesn't help their reputation as being a cultural icon for fandom tourists.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 12:49:26 No.11621561 Report

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>>11621556
>hazbin hotel

Holy Fucking Shit are you going to sit there and say that furry degenerate shit is any better

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 14:05:27 No.11621586 Report

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>>11619264
Oh no how awful. This is how I feel about it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNhqtZhM3z0&pp=ygUMS29yb25lIG1hcnJ5

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 16:36:43 No.11621666 Report

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>>11621556
>fandom tourists.
More like trend-riders who want to feel like they're "in" by collecting and doing what others deem popular, and those smug ones who want to feel like they're "alpha-cool" by having a wall of the ones deemed to be the most expensive.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 17:16:43 No.11621705 Report

Quoted By: >>11621753 >>11621790 >>11621912

>link to Funko's corporate earnings post has "chatgpt.com" in it

So Dexerto used chatgpt to write a clickbait article.

Actually tucked into Funko's reports, its not dire, just down from last year. There's nothing at all in the article that says they wont survive another year.

Also looks like the Dexerto article isn't available any more. Here's the earnings report link
https://investor.funko.com/news-and-events/press-releases/Press-Releases/2025/Funko-Reports-Third-Quarter-2025-Financial-Results/default.aspx

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 18:25:52 No.11621753 Report

Quoted By: >>11621790 >>11621912

>>11621705
Crazy that even what seem like legit news sites are starting to spread misinformation like this one about Funko. Which could actually impact their figure sales and stock if enough people read it. The internet really is degenerating quickly now that it has caught on widely that lies spread faster and get more clicks than truth and there is not much oversight.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 19:11:37 No.11621790 Report

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>>11621705
>>11621753
>even what seem like legit news sites

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 19:19:21 No.11621797 Report

Quoted By: >>11621845 >>11621947 >>11623050

If Funko actually dies, I will be unironically upset.
Funko is the only toy company to make literally every character from anything. Not even Nendo or Youtooz comes close.
I just buy the characters I like, I don't care.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 20:10:19 No.11621845 Report

Quoted By: >>11621947

>>11621797
When you buy funko, you're not buying an accurate likeness of that character though, you're buying an abomination that is advertised as that character

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 21:53:29 No.11621912 Report

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>>11621705
>>11621753
Yeah, the news hasn't really been reliable for years now with everyone inserting their bias into it, but now you've got AI assisted/entirely AI written articles muddying the waters even more. You've got to be double and triple checking everything.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 22:43:31 No.11621947 Report

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>>11621797
>Funko is the only toy company to make literally every character from anything.

>>11621845
>you're buying an abomination that is advertised as that character

I would personally like if POP! Figures looked more like Nendoroids, but their strength is the vague-ness, if that makes sense

you can put characters from wildly-different things next to each other, and they look like they go together. no matter what: anime, live-action, cartoon, real-person, they all maintain a simple design style that matches. (Nendoroid is similar)

and it ironically, usually, requires them to be displayed IN the package. while there are tons of iconic character designs that are recognizable by visuals alone, you often need the box to help tell you where the Funko POP is from. so in this case, box collectors have an advantage (double here, since the figures are not pose-able) they were designed to BE collectibles

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 23:59:40 No.11622985 Report

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>>11619332
>Funko stocks crash all the time but they always spring back somehow
Has anyone ever cut a Funko open to see what's inside? I have a theory...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 01:06:21 No.11623050 Report

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>>11619264
Thank fucking god, I am praying for the day these finally become irrelevant. Fucking tasteless godawful "figures" and even worse fanboys. A true "collectible" toy earns its worth based on its actual merit as a toy, these are sold as smugly self proclaiming that value upfront, and only braindead normalfags fall for it. If you were to find a real, say, MotU action figure still in the box, its added CiB worth is because the original toy was actually worth playing with and was unboxed and beloved in its time. Can't fucking believe the culture of these things, the whole mindset is completely ignorant of what a toy is supposed to be, "Oh no don't damage the box on this, it'll hurt the resale value like ten years from now when these are definitely gonna be worth a lot more money! It's a collectible because it says so!", these things are an insult to toys.
>>11621797
>Oh wow look! it's Character from Brand!!
If you had any respect for the characters you want toys for, you wouldn't settle for this ugly dogshit. Make a custom if you really can't find anything else. You are tasteless and also an idiot.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 02:29:44 No.11623099 Report

Quoted By: >>11623104 >>11623173

>>11620405
Post any proof at all of anyone overpaying for beanie babies in 2000+25 retard

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 02:36:21 No.11623104 Report

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>>11623099
NTA, but here you go.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=beanie+babies&_sacat=0&_from=R40&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=16

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 03:25:54 No.11623173 Report

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>>11623099
I saw a bunch for sale at the fair for cheap.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 17:17:53 No.11623914 Report

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>>11623173
anything can be anecdotally true
that doesn't make it factually relevant generally

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 00:14:12 No.11626314 Report

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I really hope Funko makes it out alive. I collect Funko pops because they're the last remaining toy company who offer their products at a reasonable price point. One of my favorite movies of all time is Zootopia. While I love Zootopia, I do not love it enough to justify spending upwards to $150 for some fancy articulated figure I'm probably going to forget about in two weeks.Which why I am grateful for Funko as they're currently offering a cute and adorable Judy hopps funko pop for the reasonable price of just $15 plus tax and shipping. I can have it, put it on my shelf and forget about it at no extra cost! I get reasonable bang for a reasonable buck. This is why Funko has lasted as long as it did. Normal people with jobs and stuff don't want to blow over their paycheck for some toy, if they see a smaller and cheaper alternative they'll obviously go for that instead.
Without Funko, us financially conscious tight wads would basically be screwed. The common man will have to blow their recent paycheck for flashy bullshit they don't have room in their apartments for or the great and terrible satans known as the labubus.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 00:56:59 No.11626352 Report

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>>11626314
While I get your point in general about low cost investment and there are plenty of times where I'll buy a cheaper figure for something I merely like because I want to see it represented in my collection without breaking the bank, I feel like a movie you love and consider one of your favorites of all time warrants a little more than a $15(when that'd happen? I remember them being $10 then $12)POP. Not sure if you're aware of these new ones that came out, but you can get the set for $120 so about $60 per figure.

But, yeah, we all know the more casual collectors are what's allowed Funko to thrive. It's also acted as a gateway to more serious collectibles for some and has helped make the hobby more socially acceptable in general, so even though they're not my thing, they don't deserve the hate they get imo.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 06:06:37 No.11626596 Report

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>>11619964
>some "things" got nearly NO figure merch, except for POPs. if you want a display piece for that, you'll need to seek out the POP, it's your only option.
Are people both autistic and desperate enough for this model to work? I feel like the sort of obsessive collector’s autism is a bit at odds with the low standards needed to get into POPs. Would enough people really have some hideous, standardized slop instead of nothing?

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 06:43:26 No.11626616 Report

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>>11619292
It’s vanity project and yet the prices are & QC are still that shitty? That’s bizarre

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 06:55:46 No.11626623 Report

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>>11619264
Why do Funko products get so much hate? I actually like a lot of the Pops, and the Bitty Pops are adorable. My main issue is the pricing—many of them feel overpriced—but if you’re patient, you can usually find good discounts. Plus, sometimes Funko is the only company willing to produce figures for certain movies or characters that would otherwise have no merchandise at all. That’s great for bringing new fans into a franchise.

Personally, I think Funkos look best displayed out of the box. I’m not a fan of the “keep it in the box” culture, though that’s something you see in most collector communities.

And why do so many want it gone? Funko existing doesn't hurt your life. There are lots of people who love it, why do you wanna take it away from them?

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 08:57:50 No.11626672 Report

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>>11626623
Because frankly Funkos are just a perfect summation of overproduced hyper capitalist spending (yeah yeah I say this on fucking /toy/ but bear with me)
They flood store walls with product pushing out things a lot of people would rather want, they all look the same which a lot of people do not like, yes its great for a display but at the same time a lot of people hate how generic they are and how they barely look like the character in some cases, and it's really just how Funko licenses literally every thing including shit no one actually wants outside of people that have decided to collect every single Funko, and the collectors are just like the beanie baby collectors of the 90s.
This overproduction of things people dont want did lead to them dumping millions worth of product in a landfill and that shit wont degrade so thanks Funko you're fucking the environment too.

In the end people just find them soulless, even normies and not just the loud people online who will always have a bias towards anime figures, but really theres a point there, many who are more serious collectors would probably just save up for a Nendo of their favorite character.

>Plus, sometimes Funko is the only company willing to produce figures for certain movies or characters that would otherwise have no merchandise at all. That’s great for bringing new fans into a franchise.
this is nice but some are also annoyed that the only thing they can get is a funko, I know many non toy collectors including normie family members that buy lego and even they dont like funkos.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 12:27:53 No.11626735 Report

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>>11626672
beanie babys and Funko are fundamentally different though. Beanie Babies are an original ip and stand by themselves. Funko pops are mostly obscure licensed stuff. Let's just say 10 years in the future someone discovers a show and the only product of their favorite character is an old Funko Pop?

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 12:30:06 No.11626736 Report

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>>11626735
you are a fucking retard, 3D printing will replace fuck no shit

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 15:38:43 No.11626834 Report

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>>11626623
>>11626672
I do not like Funko myself, I agree with the view that most of them are too same, bit I don't understand the people who view it as a sign of moral decay

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 17:59:23 No.11626900 Report

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>>11626735
>Let's just say 10 years in the future someone discovers a show and the only product of their favorite character is an old Funko Pop?
This is like asking, “if you were stuck at home bored out of your wits and all you had was the Dick Smashing Machine, wouldn’t you use it to relieve your boredom?” No, I’m not smashing my dick just because there’s nothing else to do — likewise, I’m never buying an ugly, generic, off-model representation of a character just because it’s the only merch available. I’d rather have nothing than something with negative utility.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 20:12:32 No.11626966 Report

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>>11626735
>Let's just say 10 years in the future someone discovers a show and the only product of their favorite character is an old Funko Pop?
Then they should not buy anything related to the show. I have tons of old anime I like with no figures, but you don't see me desperately looking for funko pops of them.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 22:22:55 No.11627063 Report

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I’ve only purchased and owned ONE Pop: Starship Troopers Arachnid. Why? I plan to cut it up into sections and use Hobby Base joints to make a custom articulated chibi arachnid. Sadly the figure is packed in a box/container somewhere in my house because I’ve moved twice in the last two years.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 03:55:07 No.11627271 Report

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>>11619548
They'll probably fill the space they currently dedicate to rows and rows of Funko Pops with something at least slightly less soulless.

>>11619964
>some "things" got nearly NO figure merch, except for POPs. if you want a display piece for that, you'll need to seek out the POP, it's your only option.
Not having a figure is better than having a Funko Pop. It might be a figure of the character you're looking for, insofar as their name is on the box, but their design is stripped of all its appeal and personality. If I had something like that on my shelf, I'd just feel bad every time I looked at it.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 05:23:01 No.11627325 Report

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Woops asked in the wrong thread, sorry. I'm not really a fan of Pops though I'm not here to crap on them. Most look odd to me is all. The upcoming Jeff the land shark looks cute and not far off on his normal look so I want it. Think he'll still come out?

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 14:04:23 No.11627563 Report

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>>11627271
>but their design is stripped of all its appeal and personality
I think that's the #1 issue I have with pops

it isn't merely that they have their appeal and personality removed, it's been replaced with the pop one

It's not a funko pop of that character, it's a funko pop cosplaying as that character

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 14:06:27 No.11627565 Report

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Post Pops that look good

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 16:34:36 No.11627666 Report

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only speculators like the funko brand. They're the ones eating up the unsellable ultra rare con exclusive poop colored variant of existing molds.
Normies only like the IPs behind the ugly toys and will buy something else if given the chance. Then there's the rampant bootlegging which they couldn't stop
hell even the Funko game was so unwanted not even IGN could pretend it was good.
Good riddance, should've happened sooner

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 01:11:40 No.11628010 Report

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>>11627565
This actually looks good because of the spikes and red eyes. Otherwise, it's just a generic souless Pop.

Funko really needs to add a line of similar vinyl figurines, like what Culture Fly and Cryptozoic make, that isn't so uniform, and that would be a huge improvement.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 01:16:12 No.11628015 Report

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>>11627565
Okay, I'll play.

PICREL actually looks good because of the spikes and red eyes. Otherwise, it's just a generic souless Pop.

Funko really needs to add a line of similar vinyl figurines, like what Culture Fly and Cryptozoic make, that isn't so uniform, and that would be a huge improvement.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 06:40:28 No.11628219 Report

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>>11627565
I actually have a folder for this

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 06:41:30 No.11628220 Report

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 06:43:56 No.11628222 Report

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 07:30:18 No.11628258 Report

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>>11627565
Recently got this one. You can't even see its eyes because of the mask.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 07:32:44 No.11628260 Report

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>>11627565
Recently got this one. You can't even see its eyes because of the mask.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 17:23:01 No.11628601 Report

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 17:26:37 No.11628605 Report

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 17:32:15 No.11628608 Report

Quoted By: >>11628626

based on all of these the trend seems to be if it’s a nonhuman character they do a decent job with it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 17:51:39 No.11628626 Report

Quoted By: >>11628744

>>11628608
The less it looks like a funko pop the better it looks (and the better it represents the actual character in question). Any design that obscures or does away with the ugly block head and dead black eyes is a significant step up from the more standard slop

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 19:47:25 No.11628697 Report

Quoted By: >>11628878

Ive been in the funko fandom since the beginning. This is debilitating to be quite honest, ive cried more tears over this than any of my grandparents or pets passing. It was fun(ko) while it lasted.

Should i hold onto my funkos and pray the value goes back up after they shut down for real or just flip em now before they lose more value?

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 20:33:02 No.11628744 Report

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>>11628626
I wonder if they would be doing better today if that was the standard from the beginning

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Anonymous Tue 18 Nov 2025 20:35:42 No.11628749 Report

Quoted By: >>11629402

I'm surprised these even had the Funko Pop branding, they literally don't seem to stylize or compromise the typical sprite used in marketing at all.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 00:08:04 No.11628878 Report

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>>11628697
If you just bought what you actually wanted you wouldn't be in this mess.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 01:47:23 No.11628947 Report

Quoted By: >>11630624

>>11628601
Completely disregarded the format

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 08:38:06 No.11629206 Report

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Poop

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 11:32:29 No.11629276 Report

Quoted By: >>11629277 >>11629381 >>11629415

>>11619264
Funko Slop
>dead eyes
>items stuck to their hands
>only head bobbles
Nendoroid
>expressive faces with multiple alt faces
>multiple hands and items it can hold
>fully posable
No wonder

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 11:35:15 No.11629277 Report

Quoted By: >>11629305

>>11629276
>weab shit is superior
Pedo

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 12:24:51 No.11629305 Report

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>>11629277
>noooo you can’t admit jap shit is superior to talmud pops
Good goy.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 14:56:57 No.11629381 Report

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>>11629276
>Figures 5x the price are higher quality
Shocking.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 15:36:39 No.11629402 Report

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>>11628749
Taito has to show the world they own these specific pixelated aliens or else anyone will bootleg them with impunity

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 15:56:57 No.11629415 Report

Quoted By: >>11630361

>>11629276
>4 inch figure, 20 bucks
FUK NO FUNKO SLOP FUNKO STOP
>4 inch figure 90 dollars
TAKE ALL MY MONEY, I LOVE BJC HNNGGGHHHH YESSSSSS KIMOCHIIIII

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Anonymous Thu 20 Nov 2025 16:31:07 No.11630361 Report

Quoted By: >>11630711

>>11629415
I'll pay more for quality, well sculpted/designed toys any time anon

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Anonymous Thu 20 Nov 2025 22:45:48 No.11630624 Report

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>>11628947
And that's a good thing

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 00:35:17 No.11630711 Report

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>>11630361
>pay for more quality
They break way easier, because theyre lower quality
>better sculpt
Has nothing to do with their quality as toys and no one is impressed by fucking nendoroid sculpts lmao

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 00:58:31 No.11630721 Report

Quoted By: >>11631117

after the company dies will these things become incredibly expensive on the secondhand market someday?

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 15:33:14 No.11631117 Report

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>>11630721
Yeah, thats why im investing why the markets falling because itll go back up like bakugan and bionicle did. Its not cool to like funkos right now but therell be a nostalgia wave around the corner. Think about it, funkos were huge in the early 2010s, so once the 2000s nostalgia dies, you can make huge bank off of these little zoomer retards once they have disposable income as young adults.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 01:29:22 No.11632228 Report

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>>11620029
One of necas product designers, Blainer Things, was accused of sending inappropriate photos to a minor.

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2025 04:01:46 No.11633043 Report

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>>11619264
Watching used toy areas in shops succumb to the creeping cancer of Funko Pops was depressing. I'll be glad when this shit dies for good.

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