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Kotetsu @Kotetsu10/9/2023, 8:19 PM

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MOVED TO @VURRSYS @vurren10/9/2023, 2:41 PM

what infuriates me the most about funko pops (other than the ridiculous community around them) is that funko as a company can make some really cool shit. i owned a bunch of non-pop cuphead stuff from them back in the day and it looks Good. it rules. but then their pops are just so ugly. and there's so many pieces of media that are never gonna get any other merch other than funko pops (read: little shop of horrors) and it makes me so sad

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MOVED TO @VURRSYS @vurren10/9/2023, 2:54 PM

just to visualize what i'm talking about here: the funko vinyls are on model, with great care taken to make everything just right, while the funko pops are just... well. twilight look at least ok, kinda cute, one of the better pops i've seen, but cuphead looks just awful here

and imagine all the series that don't get a good-looking vinyl in addition to their pops, it makes me so sad. funko has the capability to make really good stuff but pops are profitable so they'll continue making them

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cute hooved girl @gaelicgalpal10/9/2023, 2:42 PM

i'm pretty sure funko made some really good mlp:fim figures too... and now its just like. hey look at all these ugly pop figures

cute hooved girl @gaelicgalpal10/9/2023, 2:42 PM

(granted SOME funko pops look decent but for the most part its like. no this looks bad)

MOVED TO @VURRSYS @vurren10/9/2023, 2:55 PM

oh yeah for sure, imo the audrey ii ones are actually really nice (probably because they dont have eyes LOL) but i still wish we got real vinyls of it

MOVED TO @VURRSYS @vurren10/9/2023, 2:44 PM

it's really funny you mention this because i was just about to reshare this with comparisons of the mlp vinyls vs pops (since a friend of mine brought them up too)

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analog ladyland @fiffle10/9/2023, 3:19 PM

funko pops r like a one-two hell punch 4 me cuz im so mad that the biggest example of smth ive wanted for years (accessible vinyl figures) is Ugly as fuck but to me they also represent like... nerd culture capitalist excess. i can think of like three stores off rip just in the mall i work at alone where whatever they originally used to sell has been downsized to shit but god forbid the walls upon walls of these shitty ass figures ever get less than a third of the store's entire retail space

MOVED TO @VURRSYS @vurren10/9/2023, 3:23 PM

oh gosh yeah :( it's so sad seeing stores that used to be full of cool and interesting things become graveyards of funko pops. who's gonna buy all of these? they're just landfill fodder at this point

Fy @fyscuit10/10/2023, 4:19 PM

Completely agreed, but also, the reason why it works is that having a standardized style collection makes it a lot easier for people to jump the gun. It's easier to buy a few things from different series when they all fall together into a single collection (funko). And Funkos exhude this aura of "just a little thing" that also makes it easier for casual people to buy when they wouldn't get a normal figure.

It sucks because they're really, really ugly.

(as a funny curiosity - some years ago a japanese figure company had a line called Beach Queen that worked in a similar way - it was a line of swimsuit figures. They were smaller than usual (1/10) and cheaper, and because of the connecting theme of swimsuits it was easy to collect characters from different series. And the same thing happened with it - a lot of minor, not popular characters started only getting figures in this line, in swimsuit, with no figure of their normal outfit. A different kind of despair lol)