Funko nearing bankruptcy

[Buttmunch]

I’m torn on Mondo. They do make some nice stuff but boy are they overpriced for what they are. I can see why Funko bought them. Most of my Mondo purchases I’ve regretted because it was just not something of quality that met the price. Their 12” and 6” animated figures should be half what they’re asking for them.

 

[Mr_Saver]

I’m torn on Mondo. They do make some nice stuff but boy are they overpriced for what they are. I can see why Funko bought them. Most of my Mondo purchases I’ve regretted because it was just not something of quality that met the price. Their 12” and 6” animated figures should be half what they’re asking for them.

I feel exactly the same. The figure are cool but overpriced

 

[Schizm]

Agreed on this one. Which was a bit fun at first- walking into a store and seeing one you didn't even know existed. But then they took that to another level with the Funko Store exclusives, so they'd either show something on the back of the box that the average Joe wouldn't know was only available on Funko's site and they'd never find it, or they wouldn't put it on the back of the box, and it would sit and rot on Funko's site because nobody knew it was there other than the super hardcore fans. With a lot of releases nowadays, they don't even show the other figures on the back of the box.

Having some sort of retro cross-sell type on the back of the box showing not only all the other figures, but where to get them, would be best. They already do that when they reveal product online- show the logo of wherever it's exclusive to, so doing so on the packaging would only make sense. Not everyone is chronically online, or follows Funko-related pages.

THIS!! When they announced the new Firefly Funkos I got really excited because the whole cast was finally coming! Then I could only find info on seven of the nine characters. Turns out the other two were exclusive to Funko's website (or something) which made me just say fuck it to the whole line. That, and the fun Crazy Hair Book variant is a chase, I just don't need any of it.

Removing information on other releases from the back of the box has always struck me as shooting your company in the foot. In-hand marketing is perhaps more valuable than online. It's instantly aspirational.

I'll miss the offbeat releases whenever they stop producing. I'll keep Romy & Michele forever (because they made frickin' Romy and Michele!!!!!) and I really like that they made Wicked's Magical Wise Women so I can have Idina and Kristin in my collection (Kristin should be smaller, especially since every sculpt is unique). I'd always prefer action figures over Pops, but right now Funko is the only way to have Wiccan in my collection, along with Robin Sparkles, Winifred Sanderson, Miranda Priestly and Jack & Rose.

 

[altcunningham]

Who/what is dexerto?

They're like the TMZ of gaming news.

 

[JakeEkiss]

Good.
Funko is an absolute blight on the collecting space. They took literally everything wrong with modern collecting and distilled it into a single product that you now can't fucking escape from. Worthless junk piled up in every goddamn store, cluttering up every e-tailer interface. Fuck 'em. May their collapse be so devastating that the terror it creates echoes across the next 10 generations of worthless executive vultures.

Yeah, I'm pretty much here. Funko is the big budget version of the artist alley guys who do the "wall of faces" prints. Low-effort product that relies on cluster bombing your nostalgia. None of it is good, but hey at least there's a shit-ton of it. They've got every version of every character from every franchise for the last 70 years, so it overwhelms people into a familiarity coma.

Funko is one of the few toy things I'm just sort of irrationally caustic about. I'm always sad for folks losing their jobs, but hopefully those folks will travel on to better companies.

 

[Damien]

Funko is one of the few toy things I'm just sort of irrationally caustic about.

This is me. I actively fucking HATE Funko POPs. Just the sight of them literally makes me angry. Like I said above; to me they're just a physical manifestation of everything bad about our hobby, other collectors, and the people that use our nostalgia and collecting to get our money. Everything bad associated with what brings us all to this forum is distilled in a POP figure and Funko, as a company, can fuck off and die in a fire. Metaphorically.

 

[d2bruce]

Wow. I had no idea that so many people shared my view on Funko POPS. I really dislike that they are EVERYWHERE. So many people have bought into the hype. Tables full of them at flea markets. See a tall display at a toy/comic show and get excited to browse some action figures, but it is an insane amount of POPS. I can't buy them, because they don't look good on a shelf with anything that I collect.
They are a waste of space and resources. But, just my opinion.