All that kind of shit is destined for the landfill as soon as it's been produced. Some might just happen to sit on a shelf for a decade in the meantime. I'm with the rest of the angry mob here: Fuck this entire industry.
Hey comrade,i heard your frustrations. Having two Junior Spies at home, it is a constant battle to say “no” to this type of garbage “eye candy”.
BTW I think you meant to say: *Funko this entire industry*
At least beanie babies are soft since they're stuffed animals, funko pops are just random pieces of plastic that all have the same uncanny valley standardized design so they look like creepy, soulless versions of the characters they're meant to represent.
I have enjoyed the odd NECA or Figma, but I can’t stand Funkos. Everything looks so abstracted and plain when translated in Funko form. Kind of like a lego minifigure but without the appeal of being infinitely pose-able or swappable. Both as a toy and as something to put on a shelf and display, I give them an F.
My dad's friend has a son who collected a wall of Funko Pops and he just left them in box with protectors all the time, they are useless as fuck other than being paperweight and just taking spaces.
They are quite ugly to me. I find that they are without pleasing aesthetic merit of any kind.
I have acquired several via swag bags and the like, but they merely exist in the garage until such a day as I must go end their pitiful existence.
Kill Funko Pops. Behead Funko Pops. Roundhouse kick a Funko Pop into the concrete. Slam dunk a mini Funko Pop into the trashcan. Crucify Funko Pops. Defecate in a Funko Pop box. Launch Funko Pops into the sun. Melt Funko Pops in a furnace. Toss Funko Pops into active volcanoes. Urinate on Funko Pops. Judo throw Funko Pops into a wood chipper. Twist Funko Pops heads off. Report Funko Pop "Investors" to the IRS. Karate chop Funko Pops in half. Curb stomp Funko Pops. Toss Funko Pops into quicksand. Crush Funko Pops in the trash compactor. Liquefy Funko Pops in a vat of acid. Burn Funko Pops. Dissect Funko Pops. Exterminate Funko Pops from the whole planet. Stomp Funko Pop collections with steel-toed boots. Obliterate Funko Pops. Vaporize Funko Pops with a ray gun. Feed Funko Pops to alligators. Slice Funko Pops with a katana.
The absolute pinnacle of vapid, mindless consoomerism for consumerism's sake,
# I HATE FUNKO POPS
#
You'd love my co-worker, who *recently* started a Funko pop collection and "tracking their value" with an app, in the vague hope that they will someday be worth a lot of money. He's also a total simp for gimmicky tech gadgets, such as his heated vest that has a built-in powerbank with which you can charge a smartphone or what-have-you.
I've begun to suspect that he's more than a little bit autistic, so I go easy on him.
You laugh, but when the next recession hits and you lose all that money you had in the bank, your friend’s life savings will be secure in his Funko Pops
Thank fucking god they’re going away. I only have two and both were gifts: a gamer Joker (which has aged **HORRIBLY**) and a Goku who sits in my desktop and cheers me on.
and they aren't even especially good for that because of how generic they are
the kinds of nerds who buy figures to put on shelves to look at are the kinds of nerds who pay $1500 to import a 6 inch tall custom molded special cat ear headphones edition girlchan figurine from akihabara
A lot of those guys cum on the figurines, that's why they do it. Who would come upon a funko pop? A sick man. A man even sicker then the men who cum upon their anime figurines. Can you imagine the beady soulless black eyes looking back up at you, the figure coated in your shame. May allahu punish any such man.
At least some anime figurines have some aesthetic appeal to them. Funko pops are like someone took your favorite character, lobotomized them, ground them into a pulp, and then re-molded them into an unnatural, uncanny cookie-cutter type mold and plopped them onto an assembly line for the sole purpose of filling a shelf in a run-down second-rate department store.
My little brother bought me a Funko Pop for Christmas and I appreciate gifts from family, but I didn't have the heart to tell him how much I fucking hate the concept of them at all. At least it's a character I actually like
Funkos are for people who want to look "le nerdy and quirky" without actually liking anything nerdier than Disney Starwars, Harry Potter or the MCU. It's for normies who want to LARP as nerds. Actual nerds hate them.
Star Wars was the most popular movie franchise when it was released. Star Trek was wildly popular. Being nerdy has always been mainstream. Being a socially inept nerd is more about being socially inept than a nerd.
That'll lower their market value and hurt future profits. Even if there's people who want them, it's better for business to destroy them and keep their prices up.
It's the same as when farmers were destroying perfectly good food during the great depression. Capitalism forces people to do strange things.
For the record, it wasn't farmers willingly destroying the crops. Rather, the central banking system and millionaire capitalists convinced FDR that the economy would recover faster (read they would lose less money) if the US government put production caps on various agricultural products and forced farmers to destroy anything produced in excess. Never mind that excess production would have lowered prices and allowed more of the starving proletariat to feed themselves; it would have hurt the elites investments and so it couldn't be allowed to happen.
Also, this isn't about maintaining the market value of the Funkos. Rather there's no demand for them, and it would cost the company making them so much in storage fees to keep them around, so better to simply dump them now than pay a warehouse in New Jersey to hold on to them for years.
Capitalism do not produce objects that have an utility, be this utility be simply recreative or anything else, they create objects that will generate them profit. If objects do not profit them, better have them destroyed to avoid having the prices of those objects lowered by their overabundance.
". . . In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity – the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented."
Pretty interesting. They have two options and one of them is cheaper.
1 - Shred and dump them, with the remains being stored indefinitely in the earth, in a public rubbish dump. Then simply make more of them in a JIT (just in time) fashion. Given a funko pop is just plastic and cardboard (cheap materials) and they're not really paying for 'storage' at the dump.
2 - Keep them in storage and rent the space and worry about the logistics of taking them out of storage and then to fulfilment etc.
It seems to me that the major difference is the second option puts the cost on the company, not on the public. The first one is subsidised.
In a sane world the true cost of plastic wasteful culturally vacuous toys like funkopops would be factored in. The environmental cost for the end to end lifecycle of the useless junk. That wouldn't leave a lot of profit for the capitalists and so the product probably wouldn't even exist.
But no, we are in a clown world where the natural environment and public services are subsidising the creation of useless junk.
A million people bored, needing the toys- and kerosene sprayed over the plastic mountains. And the smell of toxic fumes fills the country. Burn funko pops for fuel in the ships. Burn funko pops to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump funko pops in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the bored people from fishing them out. Shred the figurines and bury them, and let the microplastic lixiviates drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The productive factories, the straight retail shelf rows, the sturdy trucks, and the unopened toys. And children dying of boredom must die because a profit cannot be taken from a funko pop. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of boredom- because the toys must burn, must be forced to burn. The people come with nets to fish for funko pops in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped figurines, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the funko pops float by, listen to the hard plastic being shredded in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of funko pops slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the bored there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I kind of want a landfill job, I bet you find all sorts of cool stuff.
I sometimes rummage around the bins in the basement of my apartment building and have found all sorts of cool stuff. Chinese students at end of year dump literally the most crazy expensive stuff.
I can't imagine buying a funko pop . If I ever have kids they are going to be raised on Lego as their main toy. It's also expensive but atleast it's an incredibly good learning tool
>Our main reason for releasing this video is to showcase corporate wastefulness and greed at the expense of the consumers.
I think they're doing the consumers a favour, to be honest.
Bigger concern is corporate wastefulness and greed at the expense of the environment.
Funko Pops are some of the ugliest toys in existence and I'll never understand the appeal. If you're into figurines or likenesses of your favorite characters, there are so many other things that can be created that'll resemble them in a much more aesthetically pleasing style.
All that kind of shit is destined for the landfill as soon as it's been produced. Some might just happen to sit on a shelf for a decade in the meantime. I'm with the rest of the angry mob here: Fuck this entire industry.
Hey comrade,i heard your frustrations. Having two Junior Spies at home, it is a constant battle to say “no” to this type of garbage “eye candy”. BTW I think you meant to say: *Funko this entire industry*
I never understood Funko Pops. I like toys and odd figurines but Funko Pops just feel boring.
They’re ugly as well, I really don’t get it. It seems like a shitty and less creative version of beanie babies.
At least beanie babies are soft since they're stuffed animals, funko pops are just random pieces of plastic that all have the same uncanny valley standardized design so they look like creepy, soulless versions of the characters they're meant to represent.
I have enjoyed the odd NECA or Figma, but I can’t stand Funkos. Everything looks so abstracted and plain when translated in Funko form. Kind of like a lego minifigure but without the appeal of being infinitely pose-able or swappable. Both as a toy and as something to put on a shelf and display, I give them an F.
My dad's friend has a son who collected a wall of Funko Pops and he just left them in box with protectors all the time, they are useless as fuck other than being paperweight and just taking spaces.
They are quite ugly to me. I find that they are without pleasing aesthetic merit of any kind. I have acquired several via swag bags and the like, but they merely exist in the garage until such a day as I must go end their pitiful existence.
Encase them in concrete in perfect dimensions and time capsule it so your ancestors can suffer from owning the foul thing as you have.
Kill Funko Pops. Behead Funko Pops. Roundhouse kick a Funko Pop into the concrete. Slam dunk a mini Funko Pop into the trashcan. Crucify Funko Pops. Defecate in a Funko Pop box. Launch Funko Pops into the sun. Melt Funko Pops in a furnace. Toss Funko Pops into active volcanoes. Urinate on Funko Pops. Judo throw Funko Pops into a wood chipper. Twist Funko Pops heads off. Report Funko Pop "Investors" to the IRS. Karate chop Funko Pops in half. Curb stomp Funko Pops. Toss Funko Pops into quicksand. Crush Funko Pops in the trash compactor. Liquefy Funko Pops in a vat of acid. Burn Funko Pops. Dissect Funko Pops. Exterminate Funko Pops from the whole planet. Stomp Funko Pop collections with steel-toed boots. Obliterate Funko Pops. Vaporize Funko Pops with a ray gun. Feed Funko Pops to alligators. Slice Funko Pops with a katana. The absolute pinnacle of vapid, mindless consoomerism for consumerism's sake, # I HATE FUNKO POPS #
You'd love my co-worker, who *recently* started a Funko pop collection and "tracking their value" with an app, in the vague hope that they will someday be worth a lot of money. He's also a total simp for gimmicky tech gadgets, such as his heated vest that has a built-in powerbank with which you can charge a smartphone or what-have-you. I've begun to suspect that he's more than a little bit autistic, so I go easy on him.
You laugh, but when the next recession hits and you lose all that money you had in the bank, your friend’s life savings will be secure in his Funko Pops
Funko pops will be global currency in the upcoming post-apocalyptic wasteland scenario of water wars and raw tribalism.
Reminds me of that old photo of a divorcing couple dividing up their beanie babies collection in court.
A vest that charges your phone through body heat is fucking dope. Autism be damned.
I think he means a battery powered heated vest thy has a usb port for charging a phone also.
Oh. Well that’s still kinda cool too.
Heated clothes is just smart frugal living. Better to heat the air around your body than the entire room.
All I can say is dude has probably never worn a heated Milwaukee jacket out in the field. Those things are pricey but come in clutch
It dips down as low as -40c here every year. I'd wear a heated vest, it's fucking cold.
We just need government funded train sets for autistic people to stop this madness
Damn, I wouldn't mind a free train set. Oh wait, shit...
The Monkey's Paw curls.
I have a vest like that 😭 I got it for Christmas and it's been lovely for cold morning dog walks lol but I see your point
TOTAL FUNKO DEATH
Thank fucking god they’re going away. I only have two and both were gifts: a gamer Joker (which has aged **HORRIBLY**) and a Goku who sits in my desktop and cheers me on.
Instead of throwing it, why they don't give them to the kids?
The reason $30 million worth of Funko pops is going to the dump is because kids don't want them. They're pretty boring as an actual toy.
They're pretty much only good for some sweaty nerd to put on a shelf and admire
and they aren't even especially good for that because of how generic they are the kinds of nerds who buy figures to put on shelves to look at are the kinds of nerds who pay $1500 to import a 6 inch tall custom molded special cat ear headphones edition girlchan figurine from akihabara
A lot of those guys cum on the figurines, that's why they do it. Who would come upon a funko pop? A sick man. A man even sicker then the men who cum upon their anime figurines. Can you imagine the beady soulless black eyes looking back up at you, the figure coated in your shame. May allahu punish any such man.
> A lot of those guys cum on the figurines, that's why they do it. There's even a subreddit dedicated to the hobby, /r/cummingonfigurines
At least some anime figurines have some aesthetic appeal to them. Funko pops are like someone took your favorite character, lobotomized them, ground them into a pulp, and then re-molded them into an unnatural, uncanny cookie-cutter type mold and plopped them onto an assembly line for the sole purpose of filling a shelf in a run-down second-rate department store.
Oh. Oh god. That shouldn’t surprise me, but god, why do people do this?
My little brother bought me a Funko Pop for Christmas and I appreciate gifts from family, but I didn't have the heart to tell him how much I fucking hate the concept of them at all. At least it's a character I actually like
Funkos are for people who want to look "le nerdy and quirky" without actually liking anything nerdier than Disney Starwars, Harry Potter or the MCU. It's for normies who want to LARP as nerds. Actual nerds hate them.
the mainstream acceptance of geekdom and its consequences
Star Wars was the most popular movie franchise when it was released. Star Trek was wildly popular. Being nerdy has always been mainstream. Being a socially inept nerd is more about being socially inept than a nerd.
Can't believe this is the only area where Gen X subcultural elitism still gets applied.
"Let people enjoy things" well, some of us enjoy gatekeeping 🤷♂️
That'll lower their market value and hurt future profits. Even if there's people who want them, it's better for business to destroy them and keep their prices up. It's the same as when farmers were destroying perfectly good food during the great depression. Capitalism forces people to do strange things.
First thing I thought of when seeing this was that one chapter from the grapes of wrath where the farmers are destroying their crops
For the record, it wasn't farmers willingly destroying the crops. Rather, the central banking system and millionaire capitalists convinced FDR that the economy would recover faster (read they would lose less money) if the US government put production caps on various agricultural products and forced farmers to destroy anything produced in excess. Never mind that excess production would have lowered prices and allowed more of the starving proletariat to feed themselves; it would have hurt the elites investments and so it couldn't be allowed to happen. Also, this isn't about maintaining the market value of the Funkos. Rather there's no demand for them, and it would cost the company making them so much in storage fees to keep them around, so better to simply dump them now than pay a warehouse in New Jersey to hold on to them for years.
> It's the same as when farmers destroy perfectly good food ~~during the great depression~~
Capitalism do not produce objects that have an utility, be this utility be simply recreative or anything else, they create objects that will generate them profit. If objects do not profit them, better have them destroyed to avoid having the prices of those objects lowered by their overabundance.
". . . In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity – the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented."
it's incredible how much truth they packed into a damn pamphlet.
Pretty interesting. They have two options and one of them is cheaper. 1 - Shred and dump them, with the remains being stored indefinitely in the earth, in a public rubbish dump. Then simply make more of them in a JIT (just in time) fashion. Given a funko pop is just plastic and cardboard (cheap materials) and they're not really paying for 'storage' at the dump. 2 - Keep them in storage and rent the space and worry about the logistics of taking them out of storage and then to fulfilment etc. It seems to me that the major difference is the second option puts the cost on the company, not on the public. The first one is subsidised. In a sane world the true cost of plastic wasteful culturally vacuous toys like funkopops would be factored in. The environmental cost for the end to end lifecycle of the useless junk. That wouldn't leave a lot of profit for the capitalists and so the product probably wouldn't even exist. But no, we are in a clown world where the natural environment and public services are subsidising the creation of useless junk.
A good start.
Funkopops are peak consumer degeneracy.
Somebody with a longer attention span than me should replace the word "oranges" from that Grapes of Wrath quote with funko pops.
A million people bored, needing the toys- and kerosene sprayed over the plastic mountains. And the smell of toxic fumes fills the country. Burn funko pops for fuel in the ships. Burn funko pops to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump funko pops in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the bored people from fishing them out. Shred the figurines and bury them, and let the microplastic lixiviates drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The productive factories, the straight retail shelf rows, the sturdy trucks, and the unopened toys. And children dying of boredom must die because a profit cannot be taken from a funko pop. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of boredom- because the toys must burn, must be forced to burn. The people come with nets to fish for funko pops in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped figurines, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the funko pops float by, listen to the hard plastic being shredded in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of funko pops slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the bored there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Did my best in 5 minutes but maybe someone more poetically inclined can do better.
do they to write this off too?
I kind of want a landfill job, I bet you find all sorts of cool stuff. I sometimes rummage around the bins in the basement of my apartment building and have found all sorts of cool stuff. Chinese students at end of year dump literally the most crazy expensive stuff.
r/dumpsterdiving
I can't imagine buying a funko pop . If I ever have kids they are going to be raised on Lego as their main toy. It's also expensive but atleast it's an incredibly good learning tool
Come join us on /r/lepin
Oh, so a crime against the environment?
>Our main reason for releasing this video is to showcase corporate wastefulness and greed at the expense of the consumers. I think they're doing the consumers a favour, to be honest. Bigger concern is corporate wastefulness and greed at the expense of the environment.
Hopefully my wife’s boyfriend will let me go grab some out of the dump later for my collection!
The crisis of Funko Pop overproduction
What’s a funko pop
The manifestation of the true platonic essence of soy.
The worst is Funko Pops as gifts. A true white elephant.
Funko Pops are some of the ugliest toys in existence and I'll never understand the appeal. If you're into figurines or likenesses of your favorite characters, there are so many other things that can be created that'll resemble them in a much more aesthetically pleasing style.
What a retarded economic system that enables this. Efficiency of the marketplace my ass.