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Maybe it's the fact that I've lived in apartments my entire adult life but I don't understand wanting to spend any amount of money on stuff that just sits there.
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Palpek posted:Nevermind, this is them: That dude must be funny or something.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:12
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Palpek posted:Nevermind, this is them: Jesus Christ. They’re in rows three deep! Whyyyyyyy?! I own two, both were Christmas presents from my brother.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:16
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What the gently caress
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Apr 19, 2018 14:20
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Palpek posted:I own 1 funko pop, I'm so sorry. I own 2 because they came free with something. My 3 year-old plays with them, and also the Amiibo I have, because loving hell they're toys people.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:24
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of course he's into wrestling
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Apr 19, 2018 14:25
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funkopops are especially dire because they all look the fuckin same. like its lovely anime weaboo's first art class chibi notebook but people pay for it 
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Apr 19, 2018 14:29
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I think a lot of it is that they've become easily available, cheap and relatively acceptable toys, partly because they're easily availaible merchandise for franchises that often get little to none otherwise.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:32
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They were designed specifically for adult nerds to collect them right? Because they don't look fun to play with.
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Solice Kirsk posted:They were designed specifically for adult nerds to collect them right? Because they don't look fun to play with. Yeah they don't have any movement to them other than bobble-headedness. I'm pretty sure my son has played with the Amiibo more. I have that set of Super Mario Odyssey wedding Amiibo and he re-enacts confrontations from the game.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:35
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Absolutely, yes. They also come in standard sizes and neat boxes. And some are rare. Basically Beanie Babies with marketing tie-ins. At least Amiibos have personality and are pretty durable. (and some are pretty neat; the Mr Game and Watch Amiibo has different poses you can switch out)
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Apr 19, 2018 14:36
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Palpek posted:Nevermind, this is them: They are way more thin and normal looking than I was imagining.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:36
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I despise funko pops. your kunstkammer is supposed to have loving kunst.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:43
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They’d be fat if they could budget for plastic trash and food.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:They were designed specifically for adult nerds to collect them right? Because they don't look fun to play with. Basically. My wife and I have probably 10-15 of them in total, she thinks they're cute and they made some for some shows/movies we love so we accumulated them over time since we do a lot of shopping at Target. We haven't bought any in a long time because we've run out of ones we give a poo poo about. Most of them are in boxes still from when we moved and we'll probably end up only putting half of them back out. Like most things, they're harmless and fine unless you go off the deep end like that dude did.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:45
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I thought about starting a collection of something as a sort of hobby, but everyone I know with collections are pretty weird. I think I'm weird enough without adding collections to it. But it would be cool to have just a ton of something. Maybe I'll collect old tape measures or something. Speak endlessly about tape measures to people and bring out "special" tape measures or "famous" tape measures during parties. Have tape measure themed wall paper and a room that's totally dedicated to tape measures. Frame my favorite tape measures and put them around the house and start a blog about tape measures filled with thousands of pictures and hundreds of thousands of words about the history of each tape measure I have.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:50
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I know a guy who collects the bones of dead animals. He boils animal corpses in acid or something to get them. You should try that.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:52
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Jim Barris posted:I know a guy who collects the bones of dead animals. He boils animal corpses in acid or something to get them. You should try that. You can just boil them in normal water. If you need to degrease it that's one thing but a lot of people don't.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:52
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He could make serious cash selling those to the ABI, no squirrel bones though they don't take those.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:55
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I'd sell them to dogs.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:56
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If you want to collect anything, don't make it a one-note collection like a retard. It has to be a Renaissance style curiosity cabinet. Preferably in a mahogany tiled room.
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Apr 19, 2018 14:57
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought about starting a collection of something as a sort of hobby, but everyone I know with collections are pretty weird. I think I'm weird enough without adding collections to it. This would be a much more interesting collection than funko pops
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Apr 19, 2018 14:59
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I agree that would be pretty cool.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought about starting a collection of something as a sort of hobby, but everyone I know with collections are pretty weird. I think I'm weird enough without adding collections to it. How about collecting money instead of random crap?
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Apr 19, 2018 15:00
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Collections are fine when you don't let a marketing department define them for you and collect whatever. I used to know a family friend we called 'the owl lady' because she had a collection of owl-themed stuff from all over the place. I gave her a little owl Pokemon figurine I had as a kid. Not that I'm much to talk there, but eh well.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:01
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Theophany posted:How about collecting money instead of random crap? What's the point of that lol? So I can put it in a money cabinet?
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Apr 19, 2018 15:03
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Theophany posted:How about collecting money instead of random crap? Why not both?
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Apr 19, 2018 15:03
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I'm [400lb] am collecting your girl [23F pillow]
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Jeza posted:What's the point of that lol? So I can put it in a money cabinet? You can keep it in a bank and free yourself of the burden of having a cabinet full of random crap nobody wants you to bore them with in one fell swoop!
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Apr 19, 2018 15:05
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Theophany posted:You can keep it in a bank and free yourself of the burden of having a cabinet full of random crap nobody wants you to bore them with in one fell swoop! John Tradescant the elder NOT spotted!!
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Apr 19, 2018 15:08
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Theophany posted:You can keep it in a bank and free yourself of the burden of having a cabinet full of random crap nobody wants you to bore them with in one fell swoop! A bank is a money cabinet
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Solice Kirsk posted:They were designed specifically for adult nerds to collect them right? Because they don't look fun to play with.
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Jeza posted:A bank is a money cabinet woah
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Solice Kirsk posted:But it would be cool to have just a ton of something. Maybe I'll collect old tape measures or something. Speak endlessly about tape measures to people and bring out "special" tape measures or "famous" tape measures during parties. Have tape measure themed wall paper and a room that's totally dedicated to tape measures. Frame my favorite tape measures and put them around the house and start a blog about tape measures filled with thousands of pictures and hundreds of thousands of words about the history of each tape measure I have. I have a small collection of old glass bottles and even that can take you down a crazy internet hole: https://sha.org/bottle/machinemadedating.htm Ooh look at the owens suction scar on that beverage bottle.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:18
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Pick posted:John Tradescant the elder NOT spotted!!  the reason nobody likes pick is you basically need a master's degree to understand their posts
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Apr 19, 2018 15:21
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I like uranium glass but I don't exactly have a huge collection, just a few bits They're pretty neat though, put those suckers under a blacklight and watch em glow 
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Apr 19, 2018 15:28
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:
No, it's because of the constant low-grade trolling and self-mythologizing.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:31
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oh does GBS not like self mythologizing? i'll go tell 50 foot ant.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:33
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:oh does GBS not like self mythologizing? i'll go tell 50 foot ant. Please don't. We don't need that back on the forums.
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I thought a Funko Pop was some kind of food or drink item, for which I can kind of understand having a continous weekly budget. I do not understand why anyone would spend any amount of money on hideous Bobbleheads-but-uglier, let alone a gallery of horrors of them.
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