Thread 725355646

Why didn't Funko Fusion save the Funko Pop brand?

Forgot the sauce
https://archive.is/p7d6R

Chat, is this real? I'm so happy that I'll gift you 50 subs

Who could have guessed that economy going to shit and job security evaporating will collapse useless vanity spending?

>>725355885
Well trump speed running destroying the economy in 10 months has one positive if it means funko pops are gone.

Good. Funko Pops are pure garbage existing only to sell for retarded normalfags to place on shelf and pretend to "fit in". They wouldn't be able to glue scale models, figures or miniatures, wouldn't be able to figure out painting, won't even figure out how to photograph their work - all they can do and care about is to buy shit and "collect" it. Then, when they run out of space, they simply throw it away and buy new stuff.

Disgusting. Pathetic.

>>725356215
who hurt you?

>>725355646 (OP)
Nendoroids for retards.

>>725355646 (OP)
Who the fuck is buying this shit? It's fucking ugly.

>>725355885
Did the economy crashing murderkill Beanie Babies too? I get the same vibes from Funkos

what did they expect? It's a fad and the products just pile up so at some point even the biggest fans can't buy more.

>literally made every pop culture character into an ugly cheap plastic statue

Maybe they just ran out of IPs to turn into shitty toys. I mean they had fucking everything. Try searching for something absurd +funko pop, and I bet it exists.

>>725356520
>no Stoya funkopop
You lied to me

>>725356520
>Try searching for something absurd +funko pop, and I bet it exists.
Not absurd but looking up Gundam told me the exact age group this appeals to.

>>725355646 (OP)
I don't get it?
Didn't basedlords buy like bajjilion of these? How do you go bankrupt after that?

>>725356723
They all switched to Labubu

>>725356723
These corporations don't usually have any substantial treasuries where they just got cash safely conserved, they probably did a lot of bad investments and took debts, and their business suits with MBA degrees just based their financial future on presumption that Funko line would keep going up.

>>725355646 (OP)
I guess it took Funko collectors this many years to learn that the rest of humanity thinks the things are cringe happymeal toys. The cringe kid being cringe doesn't fucking realize he is cringe, that is how he falls so low in the first place.

To make funkos more hateworthy anyone looking into why they get collected realizes they simply made something of an IRL fomo/gacha system. Lububus took some elements of this idea only tweaked it to also be IRL loot boxes for maximum cancer factors.

>>725356801
Having large cash reserves is a bad sign in any corporation because you could invest that money into more business opportunities instead

>>725356584
Finally, tariffs actually did something good in bankrupting Funko collectors. Although the reality is also probably this >>725356751 but because lububus are expensive as fuck they can't collect both things at once. Especially not with the tariffs.

These guys still around? Who hasn't switch to youtooz by now.

>>725356469
As far as I know Beanie Babies died mostly of oversupply of new BB product lines, and the dawning realization that nobody was actually paying fortunes to acquire the retired BB product lines. BBs also managed to catch unique lightning in the bottle, because the Beanie Babies creator Ty Warner was an early adopter of Internet marketing and viral marketing, and that could not carry the fad forever.
Ty Warner personally always thought that the collectors were fucking nuts and used the demand of Beanie Babies to force stores to also stock his other toys if they wanted to sell Beanie Babies, and it all made him a billionaire.

>>725355646 (OP)
>AI Generated slop to lament over funko pops
the jokes write themselves

>>725355646 (OP)
They overproduced the shit out of them, there's enough of that plastic garbage to fill entire landfills, collectors got tired of them and normal people don't buy the 50th variant of whatever

Also there are more alternatives for merch right now

Meanwhile JP stuff is always out of stock because they don't produce enough

I wish that at least one company could find an happy medium

>>725357428
>consoooomer pretends he's better because he doesn't consoooom one specific slop

>>725357459
anime figs are based
>buy a metroid figma
>it's metroid in figma form
>it's a fair price
if it was a funko pop
>buy a metroid funko
>have to choose between 50 variants which also have their own "rare" sub-variants
>price is drastically different for each one
>also looks like shit and nothing like the character
cringe

>>725357695
AAAAAAA I MUST CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>>725357723
yeah pretty much. I am old, I have no wife and no kids, what else am I going to do with my money?

Any private equity who buys the rotting remains of Funco Corp is gonna go 100x harder on the soulless mass production to recoup their investment.

>>725357767
Invest

>>725357797
why? what am i going to spend the extra money on if i'm not allowed to buy anime figs?

>>725357829
real estate

>>725356723
They're trading on the stock market, so they have to keep growing at all cost

>>725357870
why? can you stop repeating financial talking points you learned from social media and explain anything?

>>725357896
>why?
So you don't lose your wealth over time, duh

>>725357919
i'll be dead before my money runs out

i'll never understand collecting funkos
they are so ugly and cheap looking

>>725357829
Spend it helping your parents live a more comfortable life, you ungrateful consoomer

>>725358041
>parents
holy underage. why is a teenager trying to give me advice on money?

>>725358067
Yeah cause your parents totally die when you turn 20. Thanks for confirming you're LARPing

>>725357428
You have to pre-order the anime figs, they only make as many as they get orders for.

>>725358117
larping what? being twice your age? sybau and go back to watching grifters explain how to waste your money lil man

>>725355646 (OP)
I guess we'll just have to skip straight to dumping toxic waste in to landfill.

>>725358151
You called me a teenager, meaning I'm at most 19. This makes you, at most, 38. Why are you pretending you don't have any parents at 38?

>>725356520
Honestly I never understood how these things took off.

Just completely soulless near identical figurines, you'd think collectors would want things that more closely resemble the character they're portraying.

So Gamestop is going to cease having literally any reasons left to exist.

>>725358221
Gamestop still exists?

>>725355646 (OP)
I prefer nendoroids. I never got the appeal of funko pops.

>>725358189
They were cheap. Good figures cost a lot more money even though these are so ugly and inaccurate nobody should've been willing to spend any amount of money on them.

>>725358241
Well, they might as well have changed the name to Funkstop by now.

>>725356751
Labubu is a femoid thing

>>725358221
Game Stops where I live carry general merchandise, they were never especially reliant on funkoshit.

>>725355885
>me being an economist, married to an economist, waking up to some foreigner on /v/ telling me the american economy is actually doing bad

>>725356520
>No Funko DQ
>Only Nendoroid and a bunch of high end figures
Feels good.

>>725355646 (OP)
Ugly. Funko pops are fucking ugly.

>>725355976
>DROOOOOOOOOOMF
Obsessed.

>>725355646 (OP)
Collecting funko pops closely tied to cuckoldry. And cucks don't reproduce. 1+1.
>>725356807
>happymeal toys
Why would you insult happymeal like this?

>>725358290
Funkofags would whine about the price of nendoroids.
They'd rather have a bunch of ugly cheap shit over a few good looking nendoroids. It's a prime example of quality>quantity.

>>725358635
Never heard of nerendroids
Looked it up, it's the exact same type of shit. You consooooomers are retarded

>>725355646 (OP)
wtf i blew my retirement fund on this

>>725358401
Okay then explain to me its current state then

>>725358978
My professor at uni taught me that if line go up economy good

>>725358978
Look at the Q2 CPI/core inflation data relative to 2022-2024 and the amount of foreign capital investment into the US economy since January.

we are pre-ordering this one

>>725358978
Economy of a nation doing good does not really have anything to do with how its citizens can afford goods and services.

and this.
/v/ will be there day one. DAY ONE.

It had to die eventually. At least they can be proud funkos lasted what... 20 years or something like that? That's a pretty long time and covered practically two decades worth of a generation. We can finally move onto the next cheap fad.

>>725358978
i can still pay for food therefore economy good

>>725359416
>funkos lasted what... 20 years or something like that
27 years

Excuse me what?

>>725360336
>27 years
I only heard about them maybe 10 years ago. They've been around for that long?

>>725355646 (OP)
Finally

>>725355646 (OP)
fake news, AI hallucination

>>725358401
> I'm such a huge success!
> On 4Chan!

the good collectibles are doing fine

>>725358189
>you'd think collectors would want things that more closely resemble the character they're portraying
They do. Funko Pops are nerd shit for people who think buying actually nerd shit is 'cringe'. They're basically tailor-made for redditors and normalfags.

>>725357880
The line must go up?

>>725358401
>Economist

Not a real science. All of it is made up bullshit to validate the ruling class continuing to fuck everyone. You're a slave like the rest of us, just one step above. Think they called people like you house niggas

>>725358163
>guess we'll just have to skip straight to dumping toxic waste in to landfill.

Anon thats very irresponsible, you could sell miniature toxic waste barrels with fun faces and costumes based on customers favourite characters.

>>725356676
Man, those are fucking ugly. Just buy the SDs

The only funko pop I own is Zinogre that I found at a flea market for a couple of dollars.

>>725355646 (OP)
Unfortunate, Funk Pops were an easy way to determine if you were dealing with human garbage.

Video games?

>>725355646 (OP)
Funkopops are the most redd*t basedboy beta orbiter shit imaginable.
Is this proof that this terrible time is finally over?

>>725358401
Ask your "economist wife" for one core indicator the US economy is doing well in. Note: The S&P being "up" isn't a core indicator, in this case a lot of the money in the S&P is a store of wealth to mitigate inflation.

>>725355646 (OP)
I will never understand how the real world works.
>make company that sells useless crap (Funkos)
>~30%/yr margin if lucky
>or
>invest all your money into some random total market or S&P 500 tracking index fund
>~30%/yr growth
why even bother creating anything? Is this why society is collapsing? doing nothing is better than doing anything? even making and selling Funko Pops?

>>725358585
>Don't mention the guy who's made video games and food stupidly expensive with his tax hikes

>>725355646 (OP)
Funkos always looked dumb as fuck, at least pop mart has several ips to fall back on, what the fuck does funko have other than reddit losers. I hope it dies.

>>725369917
>cpi
Down
>core inflation
Down
>interest rates
Down
>fdi
Up MASSIVELY
>deficit
Being reduced
>revenue
Pojected to be up
>gdp growth
Up year ofer year
>stock market
All up
>trade deficit
Being reduced
>oil, gas, natural gas
All down

You would be hard pressed to find a single aspect of the US economy that was not worse under Biden.

>>725355646 (OP)
I don't know why those things were popular in the first place.

>>725355646 (OP)
What do them in? 3d printing?

>>725355646 (OP)
oh my sweet h*ckin' science not the fr*ckin Funko! Pops !
now all i have left is my nintendo switch, reddit community, 5 BLACKED subscriptions (to support the company) and my mothertruckin' Sony Playstation 5

>>725358585
retard

>>725355646 (OP)
make them edible

>>725374842
>biden inherited absolute shit economy
>4 years of recovery
>economy is now doing "better"
Ok, Ben.

Why are Funko pops even a thing with 3d printing being more popular than ever?
>>725376415
anything is edible if you aren't a coward

>>725356723
>How do you go bankrupt after that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zph7YXfjMhg

MACHO MACHO ECONOMY!
(YEAH)
I WANNA CRASH
THE ECONOMY~~~~~
MACHO MACHO ECONOMY
(YEAHHHHHHHHH)
I WANNA CRASH
THE ECONOMY~~~~

If nobody has any money for anything other than food (they can't afford) and rent (which they have to work five jobs for) they don't have time/money for plastic tchotchkes.

That simple.

>>725376593
Think about though, the Funkos will stay rent-free in American's heads due to constantly being tempted to eat them.

>>725358846
theyre literally the japanese version of funkos with the same issues
>overpriced
>all character designs become identical and homogeneous
>people collect because they must consoom

>>725374842
does anyone itt actually believe any of this?

>>725356520
I feel like the only decent pop figures are those that aren't humanoid characters, as they're forced to actually make a different body shape.

>>725358846
>>725376925
They're known as "Japanese Funko Pops", I do think they look better than Funko Pops but that's not a great achievement.

>>725358585
America is a major player in the global economy believe or not

>>725376593
The perfect consumers. Easily swayed by celebrity opinions. Hop onto every bandwagon imaginable. Entire self-image is based on brand products. No internal dialogue to debate whether or not a purchase is fucking stupid. Usually too dumb for DIY and will reject any alternatives for not being "true" Funkos.

>funkoslop finally dead after more than a decade
gone but thankfully forgotten

>>725376925
i'm not an animefag but I've always had a weak spot for chibis. God I love those little bastards.

>>725376925
Japan fucking loves consoooming it isnt uncommon for some to dump $50 worth of yen on a shitty FOMO acrylic keychain

>>725377717
Based. They're all single men, what else would they do with their money?

How many Funko Pops would it take to build a cheap house? You could just stack and melt them together with a flamethrower, right?

>>725355885
People tend to waste their money on cheap bullshit more when the economy is doing bad though. When people are depressed and have zero hope of even being able to save up for anything they will instead try to feel better by vanity spending on less expensive luxury goods.

In other words I'm happy to see Funko dogshit is soon to be gone despite the fact that they should be doing better. I assume Labubus took the tasteless normalfaggot market now from them.

I cringe every time my coworker turns his webcam on. Hundreds upon hundreds of funkoshit, and the worst, at a distance they all look the same.
Seriously, the point of action figures is to show off, show that you can spend a thousand dollars on an Asuka limited figure and funkos can only serve as visual noise

>>725378280
That's true, but the implication is that we are way past the point of vanity-spending.

>>725357797
Invest for what? The economy is about to shit itself for the fifth time in a generation. He has no kids, there is no reason to hold onto his money. Are you Elon Musk? Do you have Brain Damage and not understand that money isn't the end goal?

>>725377106
A lot of that shit is all true
it just doesn't material impact anyone's lives and wages are still suppressed

>>725358290
Nens look better, but they aren't as cheap and half the time they don't do Western I.P.'s like Funko (which are the Western version of them).

That's it.

>>725358401
Hi, Will Stencil. Don't you have tweets (formerly: Tweets) to be writing about how us working poors are totally wrong that the economy has been terrible since Obummer?

>>725378947
Like, this is literally all Gyakuten Saiban has in the West and it's nearly $110 each:

https://www.goodsmileus.com/collections/nendoroid?filter.p.m.custom.fandom=gid%3A%2F%2Fshopify%2FMetaobject%2F126514561200&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=&sort_by=manual

Just Edgeworth and Wright. No Gummy, no Kay, no Maya, no Mia. No Pearl. No Larry or Franny or Godot.

Hell, throw in Apollo (main character in 4-6!) and whatsherfacein5-6 (literally who?).

Just two characters from the I.P.

Funko will do generally 5-6 characters for an I.P. or more if it's really popular.

It's part of the reason they're going to hell: They overstock and burn money.

imagine all that useless plastic dumped into the ocean. Maybe humanity does deserve to go

>>725374842
>>stock market
>All up
>Fake money
>Up
Yeah, no shit. Because they're huffing AI's farts despite Sam Altman going "we're losing money. Please 2008 bailout us so we can lose more money!"

Stock Market folks are retarded. Just like (YOU). Economy is shit. The first time home-buyer age is now 40 (and rising). That's not a sign of a good economy, you retard. Neither is investing everything on a goddamn bubble (see: Japan, 1980's).

>>725376925
>>all character designs become identical and homogeneous
There's lots of different faces in your image though. Unlike the Funkos with their signature lifeless black eyes the characters here still look like themselves, just with chibi proportions.

>>725355885
women never got the memo they still spend like water on shit they don't need

>>725358635
>Funkofags would whine about the price of nendoroids.
That's fucking nuts. I buy scale figures and Nendoroids are like a little add on for my monthly PO. If I was just a Nendo collector I would have a lot more money for other shit.

>>725355646 (OP)
>Lose 1 million dollars
>Already doing the paperwork for bankruptcy
Honestly speaking, how the hell don't they have a single cent in their bank accounts?
Did they really just wasted everything in coke and hookers for the CEO or what?

>>725361463
Sounds pretty self-explanatory to me

>>725361717
Like Youtooz, they were a small company that catered to niche pop culture.

>>725380426
The people who commissioned the sculpture and the one that made it should be in prison and sentenced to pay a million dollars each for wasting the taxpayer's money.

>>725376593
>3d printing being more popular
Because it's more affordable.
Also, only resin 3d printer can do good looking figures, but the machine are more expensive than the plastic ones.

>>725376925
ah.... I kind of want the yunyun one....

>>725362082
LLMs are for subhumans

>>725356334
Obviously someone who bought funko pops, they probably took his money as well.

>>725380426
>public artwork
>sticking something to it will damage it
what where they expecting?

>>725380426
the aussie spirit will not be contained

>>725380426
honestly an improvement

>this is what the elite think of (You)

former funkopopper here.i pivoted to Tubbz vinyl ducks and labubus. I still hold my collection of 500 funkopops in rented storage (my girlfriend moved in)

>>725355646 (OP)
Okay Reddit, this one is pretty tough. These little guys meant so much to me (36m). My SO's (56mtf) boyfriend (25m), let's just call him Tyrone, used to buy them for me all the time. Mr. Whiskers absolutely loved the shit out of them. They were the light of my shitty life. I remember when Tyrone first gifted me one. It was of one of the coolest fucking characters (Rey Skywalker) and it really helped me get through a dark time in my life. If it weren't for Funko Pops, I'd have unalived while I was having to deal with my narcissist bigoted family. Hearing that they could be gone soon, it brings me to a dark place again. It is like when Voldemort took over Hogwarts (trans rights btw). It only makes a shit year worse. I can't help but shed manly tears hearing about all the brave federal workers fired and proud Latinx deported. If I can't even find peace in these wholesome little guys, I don't know what I'm gonna fucking do. How are y'all coping out there?

I walked by the Funko HQ a few months ago when I was up in Everett, WA for jury duty, and it was like all boarded up and sketchy looking. I thought it was just because I was in Everett but now it's all making sense

>>725355646 (OP)
Mildly disappointed to see thumbnail is AI slop and not some loser's gravestone who wanted a Funko funeral

>>725358401
>Waaah foreigners are telling me about my own country
Like how you spout utter bullshit about other countries because /pol/ insists its clickbait sources are correct? Sit down and shut the fuck up.

It makes me sad that I won’t see anymore balding 30 year old men with walls full of funko pops but it also makes me happy to see them in despair

>>725382289
don't worry anon, they'll find some other line of collectible plastic crap to fawn over, they always do

>>725382194
/pol/ is 90% thirdworld and globalist anti-American spam. Even reddit can't compare anymore.

>>725367037
As ugly as they are, they still work a lot better with the funko format than 99% of the stuff they make funkos off.

>>725358187
They're selfish boomerats who sold real jobs to women and Indians while demanding I mop panda express toilets, they deserve shit

>>725358401
>economist
Might actually be the most bullshit job in the fucking world, anyone who actually understands what it is you do would agree that you should be killed before the politicians, journalists, and other assorted traitors.

this was a meaningless publicity stunt, it worked because you're thinking about their crap brand now

>>725384154
ok, but I'm still not buying any though

>>725355646 (OP)
Im glad we never got a Duke funko.

>>725355646 (OP)
How did it get big in the first place? How do people look at them and think they're cute, much less cute enough to drop money on and put on your mantelpiece?

>>725355885
It's less the economy going to shit and the company trying to create some kind of super elite high value cheap collectable while simultaneously spamming the everloving fuck out of any IP willing to get some cash. Basically Beanie Babies but the company itself set out to make them popular and failed to get anything truly special.

>>725385873
There is a certain demographic that essentially worships ugliness. These same types are also why most modern entertainment is so bad.

>>725358189
The majority of pictures you'll see from "collectors" are in-box figures, so it was all this idea that they were somehow an investment.

>>725366243
>>725383235
Economics is the only field where two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying the exact opposite things.

>>725358585
The first rule of being a leader: everything is your fault.

>>725358585
>state plain fact
>OBSESSED

>>725386139
Zoomers?

The truth is that Funkos are too expensive. You can sell a relatively expensive piece of shit for a while, but it usually doesn't take long for the mystique behind it to evaporate.
Hotwheels sells horrible cars too, super low quality, but they cost what? $1?

>>725386661
Zoomers are the ones fed up with the ugly worship and finally pushing the opposite direction again. The ones who worship ugliness tend to be in their 40s and late 30s.

>>725355646 (OP)
DIE MONSTER, YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD!

>>725355646 (OP)
I just remembered reading a paper about how archeologists can identify the spread and evolution of ancient cultures from pottery shards and their particular style and construction. I'm imaging 1000 years from now some anthropologist in a fuzzy sweater giving a lecture on the millions of funkos they've dug out of ancient landfills and speculating that they had spiritual significance and that ancient peoples would pray to "The Batman" for good luck.

>>725358585
You are responding to obvious bait anon. It is why the guy samefagged so many times trying to bait another response. Do not reply to these derailers.

>>725386983
Here, I saved the company for free. Now they just need to do this with all models.

>>725387106
archeologists do that because no writing survives to go along with those pottery shards
future archeologists are gonna have (you)r posts calling funkopops faggot shit to reference

>>725356520
Mario and Nintendo IPs in general, besides Pokemon, never did Funko Pop.

The most disturbing part is thinking about how there is likely a couple dozen people who work on the design of each Funko Pop. Pride crystal ballerina Tom Holland Spiderman has to go through multiple teams and meetings.

>>725387638
>company has 1284 employees to churn this shit out
christ

>>725385873
exploits an instinctual desire to collect things
humans are not all that far off evolution wise from foraging
wild berries and dried wood can be collected en masse as they bring you value
>i can eat the berries when i'm hungry, i can burn the wood when i'm cold
your monke brain may misinterpret these signals as these things may bring sentimental or MONETARY value
but everyone knows deep down if something creates sentimental value then you're not actually going to sell the shit
making things limited or one of a set of [number that seems attainable] just exploits another retarded psychological thing where if collecting 1 didn't fulfill me then surely completing the set will.
it's the same experience across literally every single toy craze

also fucko is publicly traded and i'm sure they're not actually in any trouble (not looking it up), they just do this negative publicity thing every so often to fight to stay relevant

>>725387106
this is cracking me up and making me desperate at the same time. what are we even doing here

>>725358401
>>me being an economist, married to an economist, waking up to some foreigner on /v/ telling me the american economy is actually doing bad
are you retarded?
have you even seen the tarrif shit?
no one is going to move all chinese factories to usa.
its the whole fucking reason shit like funko was cheap in the first place.

>>725358041
Imagine giving the boomers even more money

>>725387191
>trumptards actually think like this

>>725356562
Ahem.

>>725356520
Checked project moon, heroes of m&m, unreal, quake, blood. Nothing. Got one for wacraft, doom and duke nukem

>>725390395
ahem it's ai slop. Ahem my balls

>>725357796
There's nothing more soulless than Funko though. You say this like it wasn't already the biggest fucking stain. If you already avoided it as slop, oh no it's still fucking slop. It's like saying cheap Chinese mobile games are about to become more cheap and Chinese.

>>725355885
>vanity
It's an investment.
Do you also think buying Paganini cars is vanity?

Isn't the normal cattle just buying labubus now?

>>725392707
Do it yourself, nigga.

>>725387475
that bowser is beyond fucking horrible
who thought that looked good?

>>725393707
nvm noticed it was AI

>>725355646 (OP)
should i buy their stocks? seems like a good investment

>>725381924
Would

>>725381924
That looks like that one Silent Hill enemy

>>725380676
>>725381924
>He likes baroque monstrosities
I bet you think the new White House looks amazing instead of tacky

>>725377246
they predate funko by like 4 years you fucking retard

>>725355646 (OP)
I never understood Funko Pops, those things are ugly as hell, at least something like Nendroids look cute

>>725388493
TPBP. Boomers should be Onions Green by now.

>>725376925
I wish Funko would look like that

>>725393803
They're bootlegs

>>725379831
>>725379890
he's just like me

>>725358401
>AI bubble totally isn't real bro the singularity is right around the corner!
Sam go take your copium

>>725386983
>>725387334
I'll stick to the amiibo.
And that's another thing. Amiibo don't make every desired character. But when they make literal whos, it's a disaster. I got most of the Animal Crossing amiibo at 5 Below, except for that fucking otter.
I think if Funko did amiibo type figures I would had bought a few.

>>725393707
Reminds me of the Bowser face from that one Mario Party minigame.

>>725358401
I'm guessing both of you must be homeless then with all the time you spend on 4chan with your 'great' Economics degree.