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The fate of all things is alike. Irrelevance. (lemmy.world)

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 211 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Speaking as a ~~hoarder~~ collector of many strange things, I still can't comprehend the appeal of Funko Pops. Even if you're super into whatever franchise the model in question is from, surely there is a better way to express it than by way of deformed simulacra with dead, soulless eyes. Just saying.

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago

Thank you, I utterly despise those things. The most blatantly cynical corporate cash-in on nerd nostalgia.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Soulless mass-produced slob. The AI of the figurine world if you will. The Corporate Memphis of the physical world.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

A student gifted me a Funko Pop at the end of the last school year. She designed it on their website to look like me, holding a game controller and complete with my signature long hair and fun button-up shirt. I thought that was a very cool gift. 🙂

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 53 points 1 month ago

Anything that someone personalized for you is cool by definition. But, every generic marvel or wharever funko pop is trash.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Oh absolutely. I see the limited edition ones at cons and can only think of the exclusive Beanie Babies that people used to go nuts over. Like who gives a fuck srsly.

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[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Definitely, I would cherish that forever. But overall Funko Pops are so unbelievably dumb. I mean I still have some pogs somewhere, but I was 10 and they were cheap cardboard.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

I still have my tubes of pogs. I even have a few "OJ in the slammer" slammers.

[-] vext01 6 points 1 month ago

Pogs were on a different level

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Tbf, Pogs is a game and we often played for keeps, to me that puts it in a different category than funko pops. You need to collect just "more" to pad your losses (unless you're killing it, but taken pogs are trophies), and they didn't make them "plain," so you might as well get the ones you like more than the ones you don't.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

At my elementary school we hardly ever played the game, we just had tubes or binders of them and traded. I remember some kids had slammers that were like ninja stars and I definitely wouldn't play with them because they would destroy the pogs.

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 47 points 1 month ago

One of the most bizarre gifts I've ever been given was a random Skyrim funko pop. I don't really do collectibles, and I hadn't played Skyrim in a couple years at that point.

Then I found out that the person who gave it to me has a massive collection of Funkos. They can't even display all of them because they're stacked several layers deep all the way to the ceiling

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know how gacha games exploit the same psychology as gambling addiction? I’m convinced Funko pops are like that, but for hoarding. I don’t know what it is about the brand, but you so rarely see people with just a small collection of them. It’s either none or 500.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Funko pops are the modern lawn flamingo or garden gnome. They’re tainted things, too corporate to be kitschy, and far too uninteresting to be worth calling a knickknack. I instantly judge anyone who owns one for their future contribution to a far-off landfill.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

I put my foot in my mouth once, because my sister had gotten me one. I held onto it for a bit but got rid of it, forgot she had given it to me, and at some point voiced how they’re just garbage 😅

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

As someone who essentially uses their mouth as a shoe, I feel your pain. Bright side, you won’t receive any more garbage of that specific variety!

[-] vext01 8 points 1 month ago

They really are extremely tacky.

Wait... I know that username!

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, but in addition to being hideous it’s also expensive and made of plastic! 😬

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm a Halo ~~hoarder~~ collector, and I think I only have 4 of those ugly Pop vinyls. They're all Halo ones but they don't have the dark soulless beady little eyes the rest of them do. Two of them were gifts anyway so I didn't give them much money.

They're ugly and tacky to me.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I've got only one, it's in my PC, and it's not a 'proper' funko

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The appeal is pretty easy. You can collect items from any fandom you can think of and have the style of the figures match each other almost perfectly and look 'natural' together. The style chosen has a lot of detractors, but even some that don't necessarily appreciate it are willing to compromise if it lets them make a little action scene of thor fighting vegeta.

That's me, I'm the one who compromised.

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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 98 points 1 month ago

Oldie, but goodie:

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For the uninitiated: you're looking at a court divorce in progress, where these two fascinating individuals are splitting the perceived value of their combined Beanie Babies collection.

Source

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna tell my kids this is how we used to play Pokemon before video games exist.

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[-] m_f@midwest.social 46 points 1 month ago

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

No thing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Ozymandias

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

I mean I get your title, but it really seems like you're at a thrift shop.

Speaking of, those Legos would be coming home with me.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Yeah, legos might have some kits that are themed based on fads but the underlying concept is timeless and they are made to last.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I spy some good pieces in there as well. I’d certainly be digging through that bin.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

All Bionicle pieces would be mine

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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

But there's so much LEGO there! D:

But screw the funko pops. Never saw the point of them. You can't do anything with it than put it somewhere, and they aren't made in a particularly high quality either.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can't really do anything with the super high detailed figurines of Solid Snake and the like, either. They're just decorations. But those good ones are hundreds of dollars. A Funko pop is, what? $6-10? If you don't think they're ugly as shit like I do, I could see why they would sell.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Huh, so their price dropped. Over here in Denmark they costed almost as much as a full price game at one point. Bought a couple as a Christmas present one time, which was many years ago.

I've bought cheaper toys with better quality. I'm not talking about their style or design, but more like areas of slightly misaligned printing, parts here and there where pigment/colour bleeds into each other, parts glued on with too much glue. They certainly are a quantity over quality product.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Over here in Denmark they costed almost as much as a full price game at one point

That sounds insane... They're mass produced vinyl and plastic bullshit lol

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

The whole point was to put this in your cubicle so you could pretend you had a personality that was more than being a cog in the machine. Then the pandemic happened.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

lego blocks will never be irrelevant!

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, like seriously, how are they pricing those lego bricks?

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Based on the fact that they have used hot wheels for full retail price, there is a reason the Lego bin is still full.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Excuse me sir, Lego is never irrelevant. My wife had to stop me from buying more cause I got about two Rubbermaid full of pieces and figures. I use them to make scenes for the season or holidays