Funko Warns The End Could Be Near for Them as Massive Debt Grows

Quantum Surge wrote:That one Funko Pop game flopping was a warning of things to come for these dead eyed bobbleheads lol

Do the heads on those stupid things even bobble?

Emerje wrote:

Brokebot wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:That one Funko Pop game flopping was a warning of things to come for these dead eyed bobbleheads lol

Do the heads on those stupid things even bobble?

Not for a long, long time.

Emerje

Some of them do, it depends on the demands of the master toy license holders. Funko made a pop for everyone and everything, without thinking about whether people really wanted them. Golden Girls, great to have ONE set of them, not multiple sizes and styles. Personally, none of my viewers have ever shown an interest in Funko, and I end up feeling regret after buying them.

"It's clear how powerful the (hate towards the) Funko brand is and how much growth opportunity (the ridicule) lies ahead."

Fixed it for Funko's CEO.

I don't really care for it as collectibles. I can count only a handful of Funko Pops that I do want but never bought even one because I have better things to display on my shelves. Honestly the products are OK... really hard for any decent human being to hate the figurines as they range from "meh-to-cute," not "meh-to-WTF!?-ewwwww." The hate is mostly coming from trolls so who cares.

But the ridicules for the company though, that for me is well deserved. It just amazes me the company still exists with its business strategy. Digging into their mission of having a Funko for every character in every IP possible that they can get their hands on as licensee. It's madness how unselective they are with IP licensing, year-after-year, lost-after-tremendous-financial-lost.

I just don't want to sound like an a-hole, as I collect Transformers plastic cracks so I don't deserve to "virtue signal," but it seems the only party that benefits from Funko's continued existence is the landfill industry at this point, and no one wants that for the environment. So many other plastic crack, from Lego, Transformers to Marvel/DC/SW figures, etc., can "spark more joy" and last much longer - even passing them down through generations -- to make them worth it.

Funko POP! was an inevitable result of the long trend of various "block figures" picking a style and then formatting as many established characters into it as feasible. While it is neat that they do some properties which otherwise get no toy representation, the part of their format that always bothered me was the eyes usually being all black, making it appear as though Funko's evil plan was to hand thousands of celebrities and fictional characters over to the witch from Coraline.

There was a b&m toystore one town over from me that carried so many online TF exclusives that it seemed too good to be true, yet their bread and butter seemed to be the sale and trade of sealed POP!s. Like one previous poster, I don't want to sh!t on the brand since it has more inherent merit than what I'm about to dredge up, but something about this setup carried persistant shadows of Beanie Babies; an overhyped toy bubble destined to POP in tragedy. The store went under mostly due to pandemic supply-chain issues, but whenever I drive past the dispensary where Throne of Toys used to be, I keep remembering the abyss staring back at me through each unseeing button and shudder.

Maybe Funko will come up with some game-changing innovation, but it'd better not be some new format of figure that would try to compel longtime POP! collectors to start over, since that would be instant suicide.