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There is a VICE doc about a guy who's like $100,000 in debt because he predicted homies as the next beanie babies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORE2kqA1HD8
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drat, was just about to post that vid. Great mini-doc on the rise and fall of Homies.
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Aug 19, 2020 06:19
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Would you funko me? I'd funko me. Those boxes must be stronger than I thought for the bottom ones to not be squashed, I assumed they were as cheaply made as the model itself.
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Aug 19, 2020 08:15
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Doug Sisk posted:Those boxes must be stronger than I thought for the bottom ones to not be squashed, I assumed they were as cheaply made as the model itself. i imagine they weigh nothing.
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Aug 19, 2020 08:23
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Would you funko me? I'd funko me. Wow now that's dedication. Building a whole house so he walls are exactly high enough to store your Funko Pops.
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Aug 19, 2020 08:25
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That's what we can see, but how many layers deep does it go?
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Aug 19, 2020 08:30
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I hope OP is happy because I've placed a bid on ebay for a Guy Fieri Funko I'm a monster
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Aug 19, 2020 08:35
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PinheadSlim posted:I hope OP is happy because I've placed a bid on ebay for a Guy Fieri Funko How much did that run you lol
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Aug 19, 2020 09:16
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TheMostFrench posted:That's what we can see, but how many layers deep does it go? drop a coin in it and wait until you hear it hit the bottom.
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Aug 19, 2020 09:21
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The_Continental posted:There is a VICE doc about a guy who's like $100,000 in debt because he predicted homies as the next beanie babies. "Such is da' life of da' fuckin' vendin' machine guy." Ah I love him If you wanted a funko even uglier than usual, here's a special 8-bit doll of popular video game character "Freddy Krueger" 
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Aug 19, 2020 09:22
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My first car was a stick
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Aug 19, 2020 09:24
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I'd buy a funko pop of Duke Nukem (and I did check and it doesn't exist) and thought there should be funko pops of other 90s PC game characters because they're already making them for everything else.
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Aug 19, 2020 13:45
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Tim Whatley posted:Montresor is about to show Fortunato his comic con exclusive Pickle Rick Nemo me fornicate lacessit
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Aug 19, 2020 14:09
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Flannelette posted:I'd buy a funko pop of Duke Nukem (and I did check and it doesn't exist) and thought there should be funko pops of other 90s PC game characters because they're already making them for everything else. I'm quite surprised given Gearbox would almost certainly shell out for Funkos of every possible Borderlands character.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:24
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bandaid.friend posted:"Such is da' life of da' fuckin' vendin' machine guy." Ah I love him this is loving genius "hey you insufferable nerds with NES controller belt buckles, you know all those funko pops you already own? Now you can re-buy them but in pixel form! Like your video games! Isn't that epic?"
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Aug 19, 2020 16:32
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load bearing funko wall
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Aug 19, 2020 16:41
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Our shameful society banned plastic bags and plastic straws but allow funko pops to be sold. At least the former plastic garbage had a useful purpose.
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Aug 19, 2020 17:23
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The_Continental posted:How much did that run you lol If no one outbids me it'll be 10 bucks. If I win he's going in my kitchen and to shower me in imaginary praise every time I cook
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Aug 19, 2020 17:50
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TheMostFrench posted:Anyone who plays Warframe is probably aware of Floofs - you can get soft toys as a reward in the space ninja game, and use them to decorate your ship. Some people have naturally collected so many that you can't really move without having one in your face. It gets to the point that it lags your PC or console almost to death but at least you don't have to spend real money on that collection. Those balls actually came from a limited summer event where getting one took an hour or two. That person spent probably 8 hours every day grinding a boring event just to make that happen.
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Aug 19, 2020 18:47
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PinheadSlim posted:If no one outbids me it'll be 10 bucks. If I win he's going in my kitchen and to shower me in imaginary praise every time I cook Sounds like too much carrot and not enough stick. You'd better buy a Gordon Ramsay (custom) Funko Pop to balance things out. https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/839415210/gordon-ramsay-custom-funko-pop
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Aug 19, 2020 18:56
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PinheadSlim posted:If no one outbids me it'll be 10 bucks. If I win he's going in my kitchen and to shower me in imaginary praise every time I cook st fieri should be in all kitchen to bless us with the provenance of flavortown
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Aug 19, 2020 18:58
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Testvan posted:Our shameful society banned plastic bags and plastic straws but allow funko pops to be sold. It's fine they are vinyl, a material that is almost never recycled. It also doesn't have rings to strangle fish!
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Aug 19, 2020 22:08
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Testvan posted:Our shameful society banned plastic bags and plastic straws but allow funko pops to be sold. I don't think you understand, people aren't just going to throw these away! You would have to be some kind of crazy person! 
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Testvan posted:Our shameful society banned plastic bags and plastic straws but allow funko pops to be sold.
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Aug 20, 2020 03:23
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Would you funko me? I'd funko me. Are there two of every one, so they can display both the front and the side of the box? Good lord
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Aug 20, 2020 04:20
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Are there two of every one, so they can display both the front and the side of the box? Good lord Looks to be a mix. Found the hi-res original, looks like Burt and Super-Grover are duped, but Cookie Monster and The Count aren't. Repeat ad-nauseam across the entire horrid wall. 
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Aug 20, 2020 04:30
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when I was a kid I had a friend whose mother collected pez dispensers and had a special locked room in their house dedicated to them with shelving on all 4 walls all filled with them, with duplicates going back deep. she was a lawyer and a state government official
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Aug 20, 2020 04:38
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Easy to clean too
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Aug 20, 2020 04:46
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roomforthetuna posted:You're onto something there. Funko Pops made of recycled plastic - it's like a landfill in your house, that you pay for! Apparently they over produce them and many end up in the landfill. Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm quite surprised given Gearbox would almost certainly shell out for Funkos of every possible Borderlands character. Yeah you can get funkos of borderlands people and gears of war, halo etc but I want Duke or Caleb or the bad guy from Riven. Probably better to hand make something these days then there's no waste and I get what I want.
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Aug 20, 2020 05:10
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The_Continental posted:There is a VICE doc about a guy who's like $100,000 in debt because he predicted homies as the next beanie babies. During the Beanie Baby craze, my best friend's mom was deep into it and convinced they would pay for his college later on. She fought tooth and nail to get every single Beanie Baby, and had them in glass display cases. I'll never forget being at his birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. His mom handed him a few small gifts and said to open one of them last. That one turned out to the the Princess Di special limited edition (it was a purple bear with a white rose on it) , which she had paid $100 for because they were extremely hard to find. He opened it, kind of gave a confused look, and she yanked it out of his hands. "I don't want it to get dirty." It went in the display case with all the others. Three years ago we were going through a bunch of stuff he had in storage from his mom. Sure enough, we found several containers full of all of those beanie babies. She had never sold any of them. The Princess Di Beanie Baby was tossed in with all the others. I believe he sold off the entire collection (literally hundreds of them) for a few hundred bucks at most.
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Aug 20, 2020 08:08
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Probably been said before, but anything that's actually sold as a limited edition collectible from day one is usually worth jack poo poo down the track because everyone who'd actually be interested in them and has money to spend already has them all by the time the craze ends. It only takes one or two of the big collectors to cash in and suddenly whatever demand there was is filled. There was a CatDog episode about it of all things.
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Aug 20, 2020 08:17
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no one has emailed me back about my budd dwyer request
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Aug 20, 2020 09:25
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Is there one of Hitler, and followup question, is there one from a movie of someone playing Hitler that is indistinguishable from one of Hitler? Trying to figure out where they draw a line, if anywhere.
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Aug 20, 2020 10:00
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My Lovely Horse posted:Is there one of Hitler, and followup question, is there one from a movie of someone playing Hitler that is indistinguishable from one of Hitler? Trying to figure out where they draw a line, if anywhere.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:28
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A custom made one I guess, looks kinda cute 
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Aug 20, 2020 12:33
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Of course even hitler is cute when he has big head like baby.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:38
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The profit/roi ceiling seems really bad considering how many of these are out there, how much space they take up, yellowing of the clear plastic over time, and potential of getting gunked up with handling since you can put it back in the box after opening easy peezy. Sports cards seems like a much better investment.
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Aug 20, 2020 14:12
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wide stance posted:The profit/roi ceiling seems really bad considering how many of these are out there, how much space they take up, yellowing of the clear plastic over time, and potential of getting gunked up with handling since you can put it back in the box after opening easy peezy. IIRC the bottom's dropped out of sports cards partly because of the usual problems but also because literally no one under 50 cares about them and all it takes is a few kids selling their dead dad's collection on Ebay to flood the market.
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I loved trading sports cards as a kid in the early 90s. There was a Beckett price guide that was a weird sort of fake stock ticker for card prices. I once had a kid give me his whole hockey card collection for a few Detroit Tigers cards, especially Cecil Fielder and Alan Trammel. I told my mom about the great deal and she made me give them back.
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