Funko just admitted it might not survive another year

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Finally. Can used game stores put in MORE GAME instead of these ugly fucking things taking up an entire section?
 
Those figures sell a respectable amount every year. To me this is a clear case of aiming too high and expected revenue not meeting up with the investments. They were on the news recently about having to destroy 30 million $ worth of figures because it was cheaper to destroy them then to pay for storage.

They clearly overestimated demands.
 
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Not a fan, but they make sense:

License characters popular with people who buy any old shit with those characters on them.

Price the product at a low price but with a big profit margin.

Issue limited runs.


Follow that guide and you too might suddenly be telling a factory to make millions of items destined for landfill a few years later.
 
Hookshot said:
How they even existed in the first place is mind boggling, literally just wasteful plastic tat.
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Same here, I never understood why someone would want these ugly ass figures. Why not make some high quality ones that actually LOOK like the characters, damn.

What is especially wild is some people have rooms full of the things.
 
Funkos are just Beanie Babies for nerds. They're ugly and stupid. I'm happy I've never purchased one before.

That being said, I have a Funko Pop of myself somewhere. They were made to be auctioned off for charity. I was not involved in that decision, nor do I endorse funko pops. But I do support the charity, and they made some good money.

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But I'm happy these will eventually go extinct. Always seemed like such a soulless cash grab to me.
 
I wonder if its because they flooded the market with absolute shite and people stopped wanting to get "five nights at Freddy's toy but this one has brown shoes"
 
StueyDuck said:
I wonder if its because they flooded the market with absolute shite and people stopped wanting to get "five nights at Freddy's toy but this one has brown shoes"
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Their market has probably moved onto those bear things with sharp teeth that I've seen more of lately. Funko is no longer the in thing.
 
I always thought they were ugly and in many cases I had to keep guessing what they were representing. And it seems they were targetting younger buyers recently, meanwhile kids these days don't care that much about collecting physical stuff.
 
And nothing of value was lost.
I was pretty indifferent to them, until they started taking up half of any GameStop store. Then I started actively hating them.

If anything, the success of Funko Pops shows how iconic a lot of character designs are, when so little is needed to make them recognizable on the most generic doll figure ever. And how easily people are attached to those designs.
 
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