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You know what they are, for those who don't know, they look like this some sort of rejected Sackboys who abandoned their sack skin and instead went for a plastic body Anyway, I always see them in stores, particularly in comic book stores. I feel they're kinda tacky, and the forced, "copy paste" body makes them look uninspired. Oh but you will say "super deformed!" and "chibi!" Well no, they can still be varied in designs despite that. Compare one to say, a nendoroid.  And I'm not even going for figma or figuarts. They're not even huggable like plushies!
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They're cute. Look at Vegeta. His head is big like a baby's.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:16
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it's so you know immediately who the children inside adult bodies are.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:19
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the large surface area makes them easier to hot glue if you're an oozer
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Aug 7, 2020 07:22
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I don't know, OP, I would've never seen them if it wasn't for your post? Check out the dildong store instead next time.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:23
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they cost like ten cents to make so they just need to sell one of them to make money off making 200 of them.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:25
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They are like beanie babies but for Millennials OP. HTH.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:29
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What's a beanie baby?
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Aug 7, 2020 07:31
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Because they are cute. They don't have IT Crowd ones so gently caress em tho
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Aug 7, 2020 07:37
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I wonder if anyone ever shoved one up their butt hole??? Could you imagine?????????
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Aug 7, 2020 07:40
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It's so people whose lives revolve around the media they consume can buy things that give them isolated moments of joy
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Aug 7, 2020 07:41
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I think it's like Stargate Atlanta in that you have to be on the spectrum to enjoy funkopops. They have the same goddamn booth every year at NY Toy Fair and I hate them and Doctor Albert Funko can go gently caress himself. There's nothing so lovely that they won't license and jam into their horrible aesthetic. Also I think we did this thread at least once before.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:41
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fucko poop
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Aug 7, 2020 07:42
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it feels like if this was the early 2000s there'd be multiple sites devoted to elaborate funco pop figure torture dioramas or are they too expensive? are these things more than like 5 bucks?
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Aug 7, 2020 07:45
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kntfkr posted:I think it's like Stargate Atlanta in that you have to be on the spectrum to enjoy funkopops. They have the same goddamn booth every year at NY Toy Fair and I hate them and Doctor Albert Funko can go gently caress himself. There's nothing so lovely that they won't license and jam into their horrible aesthetic. Also I think we did this thread at least once before. I buy nothing ever and never will but I assume they are literally designed specifically to twang the "babycute" spot in human brains. Big head compared to body, big wide apart eyes, frail neck. So it's something we have a preconceived visual image of made infantile. That's it, but it's genius enough to work
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Aug 7, 2020 07:46
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I bet the devlopment of Funko Pop looked something like this:
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Aug 7, 2020 07:55
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Signifiers of an incurious mind.
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Aug 7, 2020 07:59
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My funko collection consists of Dustin and Barb from Stranger Things and Deneyeryiys Targheriran from GoT. They’re the small sized ones. I don’t really know where they came from I just have them somehow.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:02
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They look so horrible, there's a store in the mall my gym is in that has just huge stacks of them taking up like a third of the display space, it's insane. They must sell pretty well but I can't see any appeal whatsoever to them. I feel like nobody is stupid enough to think it's going to be another beanie baby thing where they're worth a lot to a small specific group of lunatics some day but that's the only explanation i can think of.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:03
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They also perform a social good in that if you don't collect them you get a small self-esteem boost.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:04
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no one is safe from the funko pop menace not even video games reviewers: 
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Aug 7, 2020 08:06
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They're $10 and there are a zillion of them, I'm kind of jealous of people who actually like the way they look. Some characters don't really have eyes so they can't just do funkoface.3ds and those always end up being the least offensive to look at.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:08
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Yeah these are lame af like kitsch but for dumb millienizoomers. I was talking to this girl I went to high school with and she was saying how her and her husband have a living room wall of these tacky things and I’m like WHY??? I’d be mortified. cheap plastic pop culture junk is like fucjing catnip for nerds
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Aug 7, 2020 08:09
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In another thread there was mention of one worth $2500 so I looked up what the most valuable ones are and now I'm depressed.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:09
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They are just another pointless waste of money just like beanie babies. You can hug them as you die lonely I guess? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo
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Aug 7, 2020 08:20
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Flimf posted:no one is safe from the funko pop menace Whoa they really nailed it on making a lookalike.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:22
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 I have no idea the appeal of these goddamn things either. They're the kind of thing that I could see putting on my desk or a shelf if I got it for free with a videogame or something, but I would never ever pay actual, could spend on food or alcohol or rent, dollars for one. Fill Baptismal fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Aug 7, 2020 08:36
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some people have poo poo wrong with their brains thats real bad OP
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Aug 7, 2020 08:44
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Their Rock Candy line is cute, but they don't make nearly as many as the regular, ugly ones. Space Robot fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Aug 7, 2020 08:59
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Funky See Funky Do posted:In another thread there was mention of one worth $2500 so I looked up what the most valuable ones are and now I'm depressed. Share with the class you tease
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Aug 7, 2020 09:14
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You have plenty of nerds earning upwards of 100k per year, what else are they gonna spend their money on
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Aug 7, 2020 09:18
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Ugh I have too much spare money and it goes off so quickly
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Aug 7, 2020 09:20
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DickParasite posted:Share with the class you tease Well I guess it mostly involves feelings of really low self worth and hopelessness about the future. There's a general lack of motivation which has a physical aspect to it. Like I don't want to do anything because I don't have any energy and I don't have any energy because I don't want to do anything. I kind of withdraw into myself and stop going out as much. When it gets really bad there are thoughts of self harm. It's something I've dealt with to some degree since I was a teenager but I usually have it pretty under control. Except when I see things like little plastic pieces of garbage that are worth thousands of dollars and I just can't understand it. It's like I'm an alien or something. Like wtf is going on is anything even real?
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Aug 7, 2020 09:23
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They aren't actually cute, they are butt loving ugly, BUT they're collectible AF and cheap so you can pick them up often, anytime you need a seratonin boost from retail therapy. That's pretty much it. People buy them because it makes them feel good.
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Aug 7, 2020 09:25
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they were created so GBS posters can have yet another target to focus a weird amount of energy on hating with every fiber of their being
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Aug 7, 2020 09:26
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Flimf posted:no one is safe from the funko pop menace That guy sure looks like he gave up.
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Aug 7, 2020 09:26
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StrangersInTheNight posted:They aren't actually cute, they are butt loving ugly, BUT they're collectible AF and cheap so you can pick them up often, anytime you need a seratonin boost from retail therapy. Then these people vote and you end up with someone like Trump. Because they are idiots.
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Aug 7, 2020 09:28
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Well I guess it mostly involves feelings of really low self worth and hopelessness about the future. There's a general lack of motivation which has a physical aspect to it. Like I don't want to do anything because I don't have any energy and I don't have any energy because I don't want to do anything. I kind of withdraw into myself and stop going out as much. When it gets really bad there are thoughts of self harm. It's something I've dealt with to some degree since I was a teenager but I usually have it pretty under control. Except when I see things like little plastic pieces of garbage that are worth thousands of dollars and I just can't understand it. It's like I'm an alien or something. Like wtf is going on is anything even real? You know what makes you briefly forget that gaping hole inside of you? Buying things. Get on it champ. DickParasite fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Aug 7, 2020 09:31
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lalaland posted:You have plenty of nerds earning upwards of 100k per year, what else are they gonna spend their money on Security. I'm a jock so I'm always knocking the funko pops out of nerds' soft hands and then stuffing them into lockers(the nerds not the dolls). Also I know a designer who went to go work at Funko Holdings LLC and if you're wondering if he has a tri-force tattoo......WELL, GUESS WHAT!
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Flimf posted:no one is safe from the funko pop menace Not even dead royalty 
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