Why I’ll Never Buy a Funko Pop Vinyl Figure (By A Compulsive Collector) | Funk's House of Geekery

Wtf did I just read?! Good god!

“Pop Vinyl does the same thing, claiming that every product is a ‘collectable’ and citing limited copies and special editions. Aside from the conventions exclusives, the implication is again that they ship in limited numbers. The reality is that they get shipped to retailers in lots of 36, so that each of the thousands and thousands of stores stocking these damned things are going to have a decent number of each available. Why do you think there are always a whole wall of them?”

You can’t just compare Funko pops with comic books because they are not the same type of collectible. Also you are in no place to tell anyone what is a collectible and what isn’t.

You do realize there are about 7 billion of us in the planet and some of us don’t want to spend a lot of money that we worked hard to pay our bills with. And here you are rambling your privileged white *** off how they don’t offer anything just because you don’t like them.

“Funko takes the fun out of collecting by creating a fake collectors market for profit. They’re not making these out of passion for the medium or for the artistry of creation, it’s only about the bank balance.”

Do you not understand the hypocrisy you’re spewing out? You’re claiming that Funko is making “fake” and its only purpose is for marketing profit, yet you worship action figures and comic books, not realizing that they too are for profit. Why do you think they make this crap? Everything is made for profit!

“I like to complete a set. It’s the most satisfying part of collecting. You get the last, rare item, add it to the display and look for the next challenge. But you will never be able to complete a set of Pop Vinyls because they are endless. They release more and more every month.”

So what?! Who cares if you’re a collector?! I’m a collector myself but you don’t see me complain about how everything is fake and just for profit! What is it with white people and their obsession with “challenges”? Again, you fail to understand that you cannot compare Funko pops with comic books. They don’t have the same marketing tactics. Also, why do you think comic books aren’t released monthly? Because they are!

“Sure, you can find expensive, ‘rare’ Pop Vinyls on ebay. And maybe you’ve got one that might fetch you $30 if you sold it. But don’t believe the myth that buying them is going to be an investment. They’re not going to increase in value as time goes on and the number of buyers is going to go down. That’s because they are going to keep making more and more sets every year and everyone is going to get bored.”

Lol what a joke! You seriously think rare Funko pops are cheap compared to action figures and comic books? Think again! There are plenty, and I mean PLENTY of Funko figures that sell for at least hundreds of dollars! How can you STILL say that Funko isn’t an investment because from how their vintage figures sell, especially if it’s from Star Wars, it sure as hell is! Here we have some random white dude who made this ignorant post back in 2016 thinking Funko’s the equivalent to the comic book industry, lol!

More and more sets every year, and everyone will get bored? Lol gimme a break! Funko pops are still being made today and have become MORE POPULAR ever since. If you hate Funko pops that much, that’s on you.

“We know this is going to happen because it happened 20 years ago with Beanie Babies. People, some smart people with a history of making good investments, bought them up as they were marketed as ‘collectables’. Suddenly the bubble burst, interest dried up and nobody would buy them. Some could argue that they’re still rare and worth something for that, but you’d be pressed to find a buyer. At best you’ll end up an online joke like the divorcing couple who had to be supervised by a judge while they sat on the courtroom floor and divided up their Beanie Baby collection.”

There are several contradictions I like to point out. First of all, Beanie babies did not discontinue by the end of the 90’s, and they certainly did not discontinue them because “no one would buy them”. They discontinued because of the 2008 recession, and the majority of consumers were in poverty. Second, the reason is not because no one “wanted” to buy them, it’s because they COULDN’T buy them! Again 2008 recession. Also learn grammar!

Pressed to find a buyer? Bro please! There’s a reason why Beanie babies are still worth buying and profitable today. Because we 90’s and 2000’s kids grew up to love them and play with them (more on that later) and we now buy them for the sake of nostalgia. And third, Funko pops were already heavily ridiculed right from the very beginning, and it’s all thanks to the internet. So what point are you even trying to make?

“When you grow bored with your collectable misshapen figures you’re going to have two options: pack them up in a box and let them gather dust dreaming of the day they’re worth selling again, or chucking them into the bin where they will add to the ever-increasing landfills of the world.”

Misshapen? What did you do, rip their heads off like you would with your sister’s Barbie dolls? Dude, if you hate Funko pops that much, just say you do! It’s that simple!

“Call me crazy, but I prefer collectables that do something. I have a huge collection of cards for Marvel Legendary but they make up a really awesome deck-building board game I play with friends. Lego bought for a collection of Lego Dimension figurines can be passed on the younger generation to add to their Lego cities. Even those ‘collectable’ Marvel comics we mentioned earlier can be read, or carries some artistic merit (not X-Force #1, obviously – it’s drawn by Rob Liefeld). Pop Vinyls do less than nothing. They take up shelf space and gather dust. I’m not going to argue that my Arkham action figures do much more, but at least they’re posable or could be played with. Pop Vinyls aren’t in any way articulate. I also have a couple of statuettes of Harley Quinn, my favourite villain, that just sit on the shelf and gather dust, but there’s something that separates them from Pop Vinyls…”

Blah blah blah, we get it! You like Marvel and Lego… so what’s new? And if Funko pops do “less than nothing”, then why are they still popular? Why does it matter to you so much that figures have to be “posable” in order for them to be good? I know plenty of collectibles that don’t do **** and yet they can still be fun to play with. Do you know why? Because they’re TOYS! Toys don’t need to be “posable” to be fun, and all toys have one purpose: to be played with!

Why do you think they’re still being made? Because consumers will buy them for their kids (or even themselves) to play with. Funko pops are toys, just like action figures! They are meant to be played with! Just because they aren’t articulate doesn’t mean they’re useless. Also that last couple of sentences you just rambled out isn’t anything special. For God’s sake, just tell us all you hate Funko pops! I beg of you!

“Now this is going to be subject to personal opinion – but they are damned ugly. They’re squat, misshapen, expressionless dead-eyed lumps of plastic. The assumption is that the giant head and big eyes make them cute, but they’re not. The limited appeal might be seeing certain characters like Walter White or Superman reduced to this state, but the novelty wears off after a billion iterations of the same thing.”

You do realize that Funko pops are SUPPOSED to look like that, right? Also other figures of super famous characters are made in hundreds to thousands, right? You’re making absolutely no sense in your argument. You think they’re ugly and misshapen? Who cares? I think you’re stupid and sound like a four year old throwing a tantrum over how they didn’t get the right toy for Christmas. Also ALL toys are made of plastic, hypocrite! Personally, I’d rather look at the “expressionless, ugly, dead eyes” and “misshapen head” of a Funko pop
than see your hideous greasy acne-filled plaque of a face any day!

“to one of the aforementioned and poorly photographed Harley Quinn statues, which is an artistically designed figure made in porcelain that captures the personality of the character.”

Are you f***ing serious?! You’re comparing the very first model that Funko made of Harley Quinn to how she looks like in the show? Bro, Funko pops are SUPPOSED to look like that! You can find many newer figures of her and other characters that reflect more on their personalities based on their poses. Your obsession with perfection is absorb and you need to get a life!

“It may cost more, but it stands out because there aren’t tens of thousands of copies in homes and shops across the world. And it looks good. If I’m going to have something that sits next to my comic collection and does nothing, I’d much rather this. It’s been on display in this house for years, and will continue to be here whilst Pop Vinyls all end up like this:

(Insert picture of truck dumping loads of garbage in landfills)”

Your first sentence screams of white privilege. You are disregarding fans of color and in poverty that are unable to afford more expensive figures all while you worship them because to you they look “good”. All you’re doing is whining and complaining about a bunch of toys made in a way that you don’t like all while ignoring the purpose of how a Funko pop is made. You can have your little fetish dreams about destroying every Funko pop and throwing them in the garbage “where they belong”, but let me rain on your parade for a moment: they’re not going away anytime soon. No matter how much you hate them with a passion. It’s never going to happen.

It’s also funny how you use an image of a garbage landfill, when all I’m seeing is that it perfectly describes you.

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