"Funko just admitted it might not survive another year."
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I understand collecting stuff. If I had the space and money I'd probably go nuts collecting old camera equipment. But Funko Pops or Labubus... sorry but I don't get it.
It always felt like shit fake people buy. I’m a resident evil fan because I like resident evil vs I’m a resident evil fan because I own a bunch of stupid toys and I’m going to pile them up on my web cam and talk about how much better ugly bitch RE3 remake Jill is because girl power. And you can’t say I’m not a fan because I have a bunch of ugly low effort toys!
It's like people who have twenty guns they never shoot vs someone who has two.guns they shoot religiously. One likes to shoot guns. The other likes to collect guns.
Guns are the men's version of ladies' shoes.
Funko literally copied what the undergroud scene was doing in the early 00s. Japan of course started the trend of vinyl toys with things like Kubriks, which was born out of their capsule toy culture.
Places like Tower Records would import these, soon mall stores caught on like FYE and Suncoast. Then vinyl toy makers like Kidrobot popped up, leaning on the graffiti scene. Once this hit the mainstream, Funko copied the trend and mass produced toys while securing license after license.
Unlike Lego who responsibly judges the market, Funko flooded stores with its tat, thus the clock was ticking as cool things like real collectibles are not easily found and bought by normies at the local Target. Funko made its money, but it would never last because there isn't and never has been any cool factor to the brand.
As we've seen with comics, you need the nerds to drive sales to normies, else the sales dry up, which means the quality has to be on point, and that's something Funko never even once offered. Funko was always normie bait for fake nerds, the Big Bang Theory of vinyl toys.
You're not a reddit bugman who makes that face that they all do.
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My life is like a video game, trying hard to beat the stage, all the while collecting Funko pops
I collect ancient Roman coins. It's a wild feeling holding an item that's millennia old. These funkos and all the other plastic crap won't last 5% that long.
That’s pretty cool. Where do you find them?
I mostly buy them from old dudes whose children don't want to inherit them. Most of the old dudes got them from Littleton in the nineties or whenever.
We need to inherit Rome.
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Careful of which ones you accept.
Right? What's the fun in collecting things that are made specifically for collecting...and don't even have any additional use?
Like CCG stuff is one thing; it's still predatory, but you can use it in a game you also enjoy. But, yeah, Funko/Labubu...ACTUALLY WTF. It's literally just loot boxes for the sake of loot boxes.
The funny thing is, if the company actually goes out of business: it'll halt production. Thereby introducing scarcity, and in a few decades some of them might actually be worth something. As legitimate collector's items.
I'm still salty about selling my first edition holographic charizards, in pristine condition, for $20 when they were worth nothing.
I don't think that's how Funkos or trading cards work. The moment the company goes out of business they lose all value. Without new products the "community" dies. People don't invest into something that has no future.
The Pokemon card mania and the price inflations started only after Youtubers started hoaxing the thing. They also tried to do the same with NES games.
It would be one thing if they were visually appealing and high quality... but its funkos....
At least you can do SOMETHING with old camera equipment that still works. Build up a photo album of pictures you took with it. Maybe even share them with enthusiasts or people who are just curious.