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Yawgmoth posted:How much do you make that $30 for an ugly chunk of vinyl that only vaguely resembles the thing it's advertised to be is cheap? They're like  , which is like perfect zero effort present range?
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Nov 8, 2017 16:20
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GrandpaPants posted:They're like They have be dirt cheap to produce since 90% of them are just different colors. E: I'd say most of the cost in producing a new one is acquiring the licensing rights.
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Nov 8, 2017 16:23
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JB50 posted:LOL if you dont think some people see them as investments. They make special editions that you can only get if you attend a Con. But yeah, in 10 years they will be worthless and 25 years from then they will popular again because of nostalgia.
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Nov 8, 2017 16:58
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Bonzo posted:They make special editions that you can only get if you attend a Con. But yeah, in 10 years they will be worthless and 25 years from then they will popular again because of nostalgia. So only applicable as a long term investment strategy is what you're saying.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:05
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The "Comic Con" exclusives get sold nationwide in normal retailers anyway. Those Pops are a plague. A woman in the next office over has a bunch, including one for dead Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks wrapped up in the tarp. Why would anyone want that!?
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Nov 8, 2017 18:17
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Nerds weird hatred of funko pops will never make sense to me.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:30
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CharlestheHammer posted:Nerds weird hatred of funko pops will never make sense to me. Same reason they hate anything, it's taking something that's "theirs" and making it for everyone.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:34
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CharlestheHammer posted:Nerds weird hatred of funko pops will never make sense to me. I'm rather indifferent honestly. I have no desire for them and I think they're just bland and/or meh at best. If anything my biggest gripe is that I'd much rather have something a bit less homogenized if I wanted to display something pop culture on my work desk.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:34
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I've bought my share of plastic crap. Funko Pops are just bland and ugly.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:40
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Funko is kinda annoying overexposed and so painfully generic I can see why there's people sick of them. Also they've made some less than stellar choices like Twin Peaks getting a Laura Palmer....'s corpse wrapped in plastic...figure and all.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:41
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Do people still buy McFarland action figures? At least those had articulating joints. Funkos just look so weird. Like if you wanted all your favorite characters to look like they had fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:44
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Krispy Wafer posted:Do people still buy McFarland action figures? At least those had articulating joints. Plus they were detailed as gently caress, that reminds me I have a Good Ash and a Bad Ash somewhere in a box.
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Nov 8, 2017 18:51
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CharlestheHammer posted:Nerds weird hatred of funko pops will never make sense to me. Do non-nerds really get into funko pops? Anyway, there was a thriving inde scene growing around vinyl figures and funko pops totally crushed it.
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Nov 8, 2017 19:55
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CharlestheHammer posted:Nerds weird hatred of funko pops will never make sense to me. It's more apathy coupled with a mild bafflement over what people choose to spend their money on 
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Nov 8, 2017 20:01
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CharlestheHammer posted:Nerds weird hatred of funko pops will never make sense to me. Glazier posted:Same reason they hate anything, it's taking something that's "theirs" and making it for everyone. Look at these two acting like theyre not the nerds theyre talking about.
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Nov 8, 2017 20:25
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there wolf posted:Do non-nerds really get into funko pops? well I've never heard of them before this thread. 
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Nov 8, 2017 20:29
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Burt Sexual posted:well I've never heard of them before this thread. Living a life free of Gamestop is probably a happier path.
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Nov 8, 2017 20:59
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there wolf posted:Living a life free of Gamestop is probably a happier path. Speaking of, it surprises me that Gamestop exists, like who really shops there? I don't think I've set foot in one for at least 6 years, and it's not like there was anyone else there.
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Nov 8, 2017 21:03
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I walked by the toy department of a supermarket just yesterday where the pops were on heavy display. I noticed among them were ones for Cars 3. Which yeah okay, that's a viable line I suppose, but they're cars, not people, without even heads separate from bodies to make into the super deformed shape that those figures are. I didn't examine them too closely but they were just...toy cars in a funko box. Like to the point where I wonder if they just rebranded a set of toys into the line to sell them to fools.
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Nov 8, 2017 21:06
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Iron Crowned posted:Speaking of, it surprises me that Gamestop exists, like who really shops there? I don't think I've set foot in one for at least 6 years, and it's not like there was anyone else there. I don't know who these people are, but they exist.
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Nov 8, 2017 21:55
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I went to a Gamestop to get one of the Pokemon download codes they had as store exclusives last year and there were like five people in line ahead of me all buying at least one actual new video game. People with bad internet? Edit: Wait nevermind I forgot that Amazon was a thing for a second there. I got nothing.
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Nov 8, 2017 22:07
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I like to have the actual discs because my stepson and I trade games. But now that half the store ....poo poo...3/4 of the store, is not games I rarely stop in.
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Nov 8, 2017 22:12
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Gamestop is about to launch signups for a rental service. $60 for 6 months, you get one used game at a time and trade it out whenever you want, and apparently you get to keep the last game you have when your 6 months expires. I'm kind of intrigued but probably not enough to actually sign up. RIP Gamestop, you were always bad.
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Nov 8, 2017 22:32
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Fumaofthelake posted:Gamestop is about to launch signups for a rental service. $60 for 6 months, you get one used game at a time and trade it out whenever you want, and apparently you get to keep the last game you have when your 6 months expires. I used to do this, using their return policy
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Nov 8, 2017 22:33
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MacheteZombie posted:I used to do this, using their return policy I bet whatever marketing guy came up with this got a firm handshake and a half chub.
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Nov 8, 2017 22:35
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pr0zac posted:So only applicable as a long term investment strategy is what you're saying. hodl
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Nov 8, 2017 22:39
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JB50 posted:Look at these two acting like theyre not the nerds theyre talking about. I don't hate funko tho? They are trinkets that I wouldn't buy but a lot of nerds act like concerned parents from the 90s about. Like nerds of all people being surprised other nerds like useless trinkets.
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Nov 8, 2017 23:19
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one thing I've learned in the last few months is don't question anyones addiction to cheap ugly funko toys. if you don't get it, you never will, NERD!!
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Nov 8, 2017 23:34
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:People with bad internet? (they have had bad blood between them and Nintendo for some time now, and while it's improved it's not that good)
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Nov 9, 2017 00:19
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DACK FAYDEN posted:In fairness, Amazon has been really bad with release-day shipping for specifically Nintendo games for the last year or so. The only things that kept Gamestop afloat this long are selling overpriced used games(which are slowly dying out along with physical copies of games) and pushing subscriptions to their stupid gaming magazine. No wonder they're scrambling at anything vaguely game-related to keep the money coming in.
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Nov 9, 2017 00:45
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It’s not so much that Funkos exist, more that no one knows what a reasonable number are. Like you never see just one Funko. It’s always an uncomfortably large nest of Funkos. I’d feel similar even if it was something cool like LEGO. Also I have to keep reminding myself that Funko heads don’t bobble and it disappoints me. Like that might be cool.
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Nov 9, 2017 01:03
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Sir Lemming posted:The last time I was in a K-mart they were definitely playing '90s music. Went to a K-Mart last Black Friday in a harebrained scheme to avoid the mobs. They were playing Christmas songs like most department stores but they were all instrumentals and seemed to be performed on an outdated 90's era MIDI machine like when you opened up a geocities site. There was also a giant tire-tread skidmark in the main aisle as if a pick-up truck had come through. That K-mart closed 2 months later.
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Nov 9, 2017 01:15
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The Gamestop rental program is nearly the same thing Blockbuster tried before I quit in 2006.
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Nov 9, 2017 01:15
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Krispy Wafer posted:It’s not so much that Funkos exist, more that no one knows what a reasonable number are. Like you never see just one Funko. It’s always an uncomfortably large nest of Funkos. I’d feel similar even if it was something cool like LEGO.  Look at that poo poo, WTF?
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Nov 9, 2017 01:18
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At least b9 of those boxes have who I assume to be Spiderman on them 
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Nov 9, 2017 01:24
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Iron Crowned posted:At least b9 of those boxes have who I assume to be Spiderman on them The 6 in a row are Deadpool, and I think the ones below and to the left are maskless Deadpool, for a combined total of 10 different deadpools.
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Nov 9, 2017 01:42
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Count Uvula posted:The 6 in a row are Deadpool, and I think the ones below and to the left are maskless Deadpool, for a combined total of 10 different deadpools. Actually the correct pluralization is 10 Deads Pool.
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Nov 9, 2017 02:55
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Funko is an autistic thing right? I guess all collections of weird obscure things are to a large degree tho.
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