I've gotten a few nendos recently, and oh man they're so much better than any funko could be. There's so much customization and pose possibilities with all the extra parts they come with.
As a concept artist, nendoroids have a far better design/proportion and more optional parts compared to the lifeless vibe and sorely limiting articulations and part customizations of funkos. You get more out of your money from nendo.
@@EmptyDisc1 A train full of funko pops headed for a landfill derailing in a town and destroying the environment sounds like the plot to a Simpsons episode.
The next one will be a "Woolie ignites Funko pop landfill" so that no one can ever try and dig them up. Gone forever, wiped from the earth in a greasy toxic smear.
If it wasn't obvious, reactivity of the vinyl chloride monomer (an acutely toxic+mutagenic flammable liquid/gas) is completely different to PVC, which does not degrade into its constituent monomer under any reasonable circumstance. Just don't burn it or you'll end up with a lungful of HCl all the same.
I take issue with equating Beanie Babies to Funko Pops, because at the bare minimum, if you completely wipe the sentimental value that Beanie Babies hold as remnants of your childhood, they still make phenomenal projectile weapons in a pinch. You can whip a Beanie Baby twice the speed of any Funko Pop, guaranteed.
I'll never not stop laughing for Woolie's hatred for funko. He has a point. If you want something good go for the nendoroid. I rather pay extra for the premium than pay for garbage.
Hell, if you want a figure that is usually cheaper than Nendos but still a cheap price range with decent quality, the Pop-up line is infinitely better than the damn Funko pops.
It only works if Nendoroids actually have an equivalent. I'd buy three Kung Fu Panda Nendos if they actually made one, but in the meantime, Funko's all I got. *shrug*
Funko is just an excuse to get people with OCD to just empty their wallets. The fact that most Funko collections you see are walls of unopened boxes alludes to the fact that people don't care about which Funkos they get, it's about how many they get.
I first saw these pop figures sold at a trade show. They ranged from $25 to $175 $225 for the Thor version, just recently after End Game I just took one look at those plastic cheap pieces a crap and looked at the room to wonder "Who the hell would put down money for this??"
Woolie's hot take of "F*ck Funko Pops, Nendoroids are better" is probably the first time I have ever been in complete agreement with anything he's said.
The sad thing is Funko HAS THE ABILITY to make some pretty cool figurines and I have SEEN them even make a few Pop models that are cool as fuck. The problem is that that only makes up about 1% of the GARBAGE they produce
@@gordon13344 Honestly you right. The humanoid ones do often feel like they're the same, with a few differences. They kinda just blur with each other imo.
In fairness, vinyl chloride is waaaaay different in its raw form than after it's processed in any way that anyone uses it for manufacturing. If you lit those horrible Funko's on fire, it wouldn't be *good*, but it would not be the black nuke cloud of horror we got in Ohio.
Actually it's the other way around. While raw vinyl chloride is super toxic and reactive and PVC is very stable and safe, burning both produces mostly the same byproducts b/c their chemical composition is the same... except because PVC is polymerized it produces larger amounts of dangerous chlorinated organic chemicals like dioxins
I have to smile and thank my folks for getting me Funko Pops of various transformers for Christmas, even though I’ve bought and still buying proper transformers toys. Because I love my family more than Funko Pops.
I've had the same issue. I don't want to hurt my Mom's feelings when she hands me a terrible looking Sora Funko, so I just pretend to like it for her sake. But it's the thought that counts 😅
My mom who I love very much got me a xenomorph queen funkopop, and I had to admit, she threaded the needle, because it was a unique model without the same fucking dead black eyes. Felt lucky!
I hate those generic, soulless empty-eyed funkos too, but they do make some decent ones here and there, usually the ones that require them to divert from the norm. I have a xenomorph queen, balrog and reinhart and they're all pretty good. I also have a number of stormtrooper variants which are also nice and actually look different. They've always been birthday or christmas presents so I've never actually bought a funko myself, sure they're not as well-made as a nendoroid but I'm not gonna ask someone to drop that kind of money on a gift for me.
I do like my Twisted Metal one, it's the whole Sweet Tooth truck with the character hanging out the driver-side window. The character's mask also means they have to diverge a bit from the usual Funko face.
I've said it before in a conversation with a friend the most acceptable amount of Funko pops to own is zero, but if you do own some, less than three, any more than three funkos and that person is beyond saving.
funko is just one tiny part of the problem, imagine how much other PVC is being dump by other companies. Not to mention all the other interconnected chains of polluters. We're gonna die in our poison woot. Happily eating and breathing plastics
Being honest, my beef with Funkos is most hobby and game stores have become absolutely FLOODED with them. It's to the point that the local store I go to to play card games has half of the area it used to use to, y'know, sit down and play a card game, get taken up by shelves of Funkos. I was elated when this news came out cause maybe, just maybe, I can go to a hobby shop and actually enjoy a game without seeing the walls plastic figures all around me. One shelf is fine, 6 is not.
Same. I only have one that I got as a gift. But it fills me with joy knowing I can trigger Woolie just by pulling it out from where it's buried in my room.
I have to admit a sin folks. I bought my first Funko not so long ago. Not only that, I bought TWO of them. In my defense, they were a gift for my mother. When I was a kid she had a crush on Kaiba, so I got her a Kaiba and a Blue-eyes.
I have a Blood Angels Funko. But that's because I spent at least an hour in the store and felt I needed to leave with SOMETHING at that point (was killing time otherwise). Just so happened to be the one thing that seemed to make sense. And keeping hobby stores alive is like the only thing they're good for.
The one Funko I like is Toph from TLA, because it has some decent detail and her blindness affected the generic model by forcing them to change the eye colour (it was also maybe $3 which helped). The rest are just baubles to line a shelf at Gamestop and blend into the background. How anyone can collect them is well and truly beyond me.
It's a little bit misleading to claim PVC as waste is similar to the tragic Norfolk Southern disaster... considering that PVC is literally the water lines in most lower class people's homes (b/c copper is expensive A.F. to install, y'all)
Yeah, I have disagree with them on this. PVC is actually a really good plastic to recycle with. As long as it's not burned, it should be fine. Though, how fitting of a fate would be for these funkos. Only good thing to use it's to move shit.
There's the spectrum. Funkos to home model kits. I've been hooked on watching model kit vids and gahd damn do people go through effort to have a big tiddy figurine to their liking.
I hope woolie finds another funko hidden in his apartment, finding out its worth some obscene amount of money, only to film himself melting it in a fire to make a point.
Pvc. That stuff a lot of your waterlines are made of. And has been made of since they stopped using galvanized steel that would cause rust poisoning. That vinyl chloride. Nice.
Why would you ever buy funko pops when you can pay a little more and buy a Nendoroid which also markets itself on cute chibi style but lets you pose your character with included pieces and change their faces Went to AnimeNYC last year and was laughing my ass off at how many funko booths there were and how most of them were overshadowed by real figure sellers
Because some people feel like they HAVE to have more than a few characters from a show they like or the entire line for that particular show. Good Smile Company is making Edgerunners Nendoroids and I'm only gonna get Rebecca because I could not give a enough of a shit about Lucy and David to spend $50+ on them but if I did they'd be spaced out months apart so getting all three wouldn't be that bad because it wouldn't be $150+ upfront anyways. It's literally that simple but some people have particular brainworms that makes them *need* to get them all. Also in general Americans have a "quantity over quality" mindset and than get mad about how nothing is made to last. I recently commissioned a woodworker to make me a nice pen so I couldn't have to keep buying tons of cheap disposable ones and just the refills and everyone looked at me like I was an idiot. Meanwhile that pen will make a nice heirloom.
@@Royalname31 Nendoroids haven’t been anime exclusive for a long time now, they do tons of Nendoroids of characters from games, movies, cartoons, comics, etc. Also, anime is just getting more mainstream by the year, when trailers for Attack on Titan and Chainsaw Man doing numbers similar to some Hollywood blockbuster trailers, the days of saying “anime is for weebs” are well past us.
I only own 2 Funko Pops. One is a Zombie from Plants vs Zombies and, ironically, they gave it more lifelike eyes than Funko Pops of real living humans instead of just the beady black eyes. The second is a Halo Spartan I got solely because it had a code for a free Armor Coating in Halo Infinite that I like the colors of.
FunkoPops are an example of how while individual choices aren't that great for handling environmental policy... sometimes effective changes will affect those choices on the supply side of things. I used to work installing Ring Doorbells for people, so much stuff from that company was straight-up D.O.A. The factory-to-landfill pipeline is real and it's gotta stop. You buying FunkoPops isn't destroying the planet, but an economic system that doesn't destroy the planet probably doesn't produce FunkoPops either.
I never really cared that much about Funko Pops, didn't go out of my way to collect them or anything, maybe getting one or two characters from a franchise I liked and that’s about it.
Nendroid's are just chibi models, fully posable with a focus on quality over quality often with interchangeable parts, Funko's are just plastic that's there and look like that. What do you do with them? You look at them, like you would online or in a store.
The only funko pops that are detailed are the based on Monster designs (monster hunter, god of war, godzilla) because they cannot reuse the dumb design, they have to give them mouths and have actual expressions, or the ones with helmets they have really good details, the only ones that i own is Miles morales, and static shock because i cannot find good figures of those characters
I know a couple people who are convinced that Funko Pops will appreciate in value and become a rare desired collectors item. They go and buy every ugly ass rare gold one they can find and keep them in the boxes in storage, they have spend thousands of dollars and are in crippling debt yet still buy more, it's an addiction. I don't understand how people don't see the comparison to Beanie Babies even if they weren't alive back then, since its still pretty common knowledge. Funko Pops encourages this behavior and is all about that whale market with midnight limited releases or lotteries for rare Funkos. It's predatory and I hope it gets the same treatment as the infamous E.T game, buried and forgotten. Too bad those toxic collectibles will probably outlast human civilization before breaking down.
I think thats why most model kits/figures now go with the polystyrene Gunpla style stuff because the old PVC is an ecological nightmare. Some of those vinyl kits look rad but the risk of dumping large amounts of unused kits and figures isnt worth it. Funko im pretty sure was the last major toy company making PVC figures.
The problem with Funko is the most random characters get one, it's like random side characters that appear on 3 minutes in an entire season has one There's like Funko of the jazz players in the star wars cantina ffs
Pat is wrong about the magic cards found. They weren't the $1000 anniversary packs they were a bunch of containers of a VERY successful set called Modern Horizons 2. The reason they were dumped is a mystery but the theory is that the product was somehow damaged and the distributor decided to toss it all rather than put it up for sale.
The only decent looking funko pops were the ones that weren't human shaped cuz they had to make it recognizable and the body HAD to be accurate so the spyro, bakugan, yugioh and Pokemon pops were actually not bad. ALL of the human character pops are disgusting tho
Meanwhile, my friend at work sold all his stocks so he could invest $15k in funko pops, Pokemon cards, and old comic books in an attempt to get rich quick by selling them to collectors. Some people are none too bright.
why anything, really? we're all gonna die someday. and if by some chance we do exist as energy afterwards and ignoring the fact we probably wouldn't even notice, the heat death of the universe will snuff even that out someday.
You know this is the logic of those fat-cat Captain of industry. Let's just throw away all these toys we made instead of maybe give him away to kids or something.
For as annoying it is that actual figures are limited and expensive...this is the reason why because you're less likely to see them in a landfill (do some end up there more than likely but not 30 Mil worth!)
The whole thing of just dumping them directly into a landfill is what pisses me off. Like, they can’t even just give them all to a bunch of kids that’ll have with them. No, if no money is being made, destroy the planet some more
When you go to conventions they charge $50 in the guest of honor lines just to sign the funko pops sometimes because they KNOW it's just shitty resellers. And it still doesn't stop some jackass with a wagon full of them being like 'i'm still gonna make my money back' and taking 20-30 minutes in line on his own when there are people in line who actually want to MEET the guests of honor because it means something more to them than just forcing them to sit and sign your ugly funko pops so you can turn a buck. It's so disrespectful.
now to be fair to PVC (not funko because fuck them.) the dangerous chemical is a transitionary manufacturing chemical and the final product is mostly "well shit, more plastic" tier material rather than something else. It's just in America we are...transporting it...?(Which would MOSTLY be okay if the railways were not threadbear and deliberately neglected. I much rather not have these chemicals being transported by semi-truck but the rabbit hole is a frustrating terrifying thing.) Instead of doing the smart thing, like fabricating it on site in amounts that are needed at that moment. You know, the safer thing to do. Maybe once funko is truly dead the figurine market can recover into a much smaller scale but much more appealing market again.
There's one fun thing you can do with Funko Pops: collect a bunch of pictures of Funko Pops of white guys outside of their boxes and play the game of "who the fuck is this?"
I have a Funko pop of Sesshomaru and Monster Sora, but that's enough Funko for me. If I somehow find a Ren and a Stimpy maybe I'll get it, but no more lol
Pat finding out PVC means Poly Vinyl Chloride is fucking great
Man with immense amounts of cursed scientific knowledge finds yet another horror lurking in every day life. A real lovecraft protagonist.
I’m also flabbergasted that they’re dumping them in a landfill. When will we the people rise up against the machine?
Ahh yes. Putting funko pops in a landfill. Truely cause for rebellion.
@@SG-bp4lg The earth doesn't deserve funkopop trash. Throw it at the sun.
@@locdogg86 weed people are overrated
The soulless eyes have already left their mark on history, we will never forget that darkness stained in our memory, even as the last funko melts away
I've gotten a few nendos recently, and oh man they're so much better than any funko could be. There's so much customization and pose possibilities with all the extra parts they come with.
As someone who got converted to Nendos cause of their poseability, I love watching Funkos getting dunked on
First it's the Nendos, and then discovering a billion original character blind box series' coming from hugely talented Chinese studios.
As a concept artist, nendoroids have a far better design/proportion and more optional parts compared to the lifeless vibe and sorely limiting articulations and part customizations of funkos. You get more out of your money from nendo.
I never thought my environmental objections to Funko Pops would manifest in this way
@@EmptyDisc1 A train full of funko pops headed for a landfill derailing in a town and destroying the environment sounds like the plot to a Simpsons episode.
The boundary between reality and fiction gets thinner every second.
Haven't had a Woolie destroys Funko Pops video in awhile.
The next one will be a "Woolie ignites Funko pop landfill" so that no one can ever try and dig them up. Gone forever, wiped from the earth in a greasy toxic smear.
Cause he loves them so much
And on that day, Woolie's heart and smile grew 10 times in size.
and his dreads
He’s gotta big Cheshire Cat grin.
If it wasn't obvious, reactivity of the vinyl chloride monomer (an acutely toxic+mutagenic flammable liquid/gas) is completely different to PVC, which does not degrade into its constituent monomer under any reasonable circumstance. Just don't burn it or you'll end up with a lungful of HCl all the same.
I take issue with equating Beanie Babies to Funko Pops, because at the bare minimum, if you completely wipe the sentimental value that Beanie Babies hold as remnants of your childhood, they still make phenomenal projectile weapons in a pinch. You can whip a Beanie Baby twice the speed of any Funko Pop, guaranteed.
I'll never not stop laughing for Woolie's hatred for funko.
He has a point. If you want something good go for the nendoroid.
I rather pay extra for the premium than pay for garbage.
Hell, if you want a figure that is usually cheaper than Nendos but still a cheap price range with decent quality, the Pop-up line is infinitely better than the damn Funko pops.
“My toy for children is better than your toy cause I can build mine.” Okay let’s make collecting competitive for some reason?
@@nyxranobody3690 This! while i totally see where people are coming from, it's sounds so weird seeing people get almost elitist over plastic dolls.
you can also go the "get one beautiful nendoroid instead of 10 shitty gross funko pops" - it's environmentally better too lmao
It only works if Nendoroids actually have an equivalent. I'd buy three Kung Fu Panda Nendos if they actually made one, but in the meantime, Funko's all I got. *shrug*
Funko is just an excuse to get people with OCD to just empty their wallets. The fact that most Funko collections you see are walls of unopened boxes alludes to the fact that people don't care about which Funkos they get, it's about how many they get.
I first saw these pop figures sold at a trade show. They ranged from $25 to $175
$225 for the Thor version, just recently after End Game
I just took one look at those plastic cheap pieces a crap and looked at the room to wonder "Who the hell would put down money for this??"
Someone desperate for a rare collectible or someone hoping that their will be a bigger idiot to buy it from them
Woolie's hot take of "F*ck Funko Pops, Nendoroids are better" is probably the first time I have ever been in complete agreement with anything he's said.
Someone send woolie a vergil funko pop so he loses his shit
They never made dmc ones , or atleast I've never seen them
No, no, no, send him some Hunter x Hunter funkos
@@jadedragon216 Funko in 60 Seconds
The sad thing is Funko HAS THE ABILITY to make some pretty cool figurines and I have SEEN them even make a few Pop models that are cool as fuck. The problem is that that only makes up about 1% of the GARBAGE they produce
Yeah, I admittedly like a some of the non-human ones.
Like the yugioh dragons or songbird from Bioshock.
@@KreuzDrache monster hunter monster's are cool too. Basically chibi versions with decent detail
@@CykaBlyatAlex ohhhh, I gotta check them out.
@@KreuzDracheit's almost like they actually have to do something different about unique monsters and can't just slap some paint on a "human" model.
@@gordon13344 Honestly you right. The humanoid ones do often feel like they're the same, with a few differences.
They kinda just blur with each other imo.
Props to Minh to end the video just like that.
In fairness, vinyl chloride is waaaaay different in its raw form than after it's processed in any way that anyone uses it for manufacturing. If you lit those horrible Funko's on fire, it wouldn't be *good*, but it would not be the black nuke cloud of horror we got in Ohio.
Actually it's the other way around. While raw vinyl chloride is super toxic and reactive and PVC is very stable and safe, burning both produces mostly the same byproducts b/c their chemical composition is the same... except because PVC is polymerized it produces larger amounts of dangerous chlorinated organic chemicals like dioxins
@@HuoShengdi Well damn, the more I know. Thanks dude!
This vid is just Woolie doing the peace sign pose at the funeral meme
I have to smile and thank my folks for getting me Funko Pops of various transformers for Christmas, even though I’ve bought and still buying proper transformers toys.
Because I love my family more than Funko Pops.
I've had the same issue. I don't want to hurt my Mom's feelings when she hands me a terrible looking Sora Funko, so I just pretend to like it for her sake. But it's the thought that counts 😅
My mom who I love very much got me a xenomorph queen funkopop, and I had to admit, she threaded the needle, because it was a unique model without the same fucking dead black eyes. Felt lucky!
It's German for "The Funkos The".
Was looking for this exact comment.
No one who speaks German could possibly be evil.
We need a remake of The Crazies where a train drails in Ohio buts it's full of Funko pops
Give it a week and it might just happen for real!
A movie with a train wreck in Ohio with a big spill might be a problematic right now.
We all knew It was gonna happen eventually, but it's kinda surreal when its happening right Infront of your face
I hate those generic, soulless empty-eyed funkos too, but they do make some decent ones here and there, usually the ones that require them to divert from the norm. I have a xenomorph queen, balrog and reinhart and they're all pretty good. I also have a number of stormtrooper variants which are also nice and actually look different. They've always been birthday or christmas presents so I've never actually bought a funko myself, sure they're not as well-made as a nendoroid but I'm not gonna ask someone to drop that kind of money on a gift for me.
I do like my Twisted Metal one, it's the whole Sweet Tooth truck with the character hanging out the driver-side window. The character's mask also means they have to diverge a bit from the usual Funko face.
Tell me where the toy hurt you?
Nature is healing
The Funkos have returned to the water. Nature is healing.
I've said it before in a conversation with a friend the most acceptable amount of Funko pops to own is zero, but if you do own some, less than three, any more than three funkos and that person is beyond saving.
I can't believe that the Funko pops are going to be what kills us all
funko is just one tiny part of the problem, imagine how much other PVC is being dump by other companies. Not to mention all the other interconnected chains of polluters.
We're gonna die in our poison woot. Happily eating and breathing plastics
Saw it coming. All the signs were there.
Being honest, my beef with Funkos is most hobby and game stores have become absolutely FLOODED with them. It's to the point that the local store I go to to play card games has half of the area it used to use to, y'know, sit down and play a card game, get taken up by shelves of Funkos. I was elated when this news came out cause maybe, just maybe, I can go to a hobby shop and actually enjoy a game without seeing the walls plastic figures all around me. One shelf is fine, 6 is not.
The vinyl grapes of wrath
I wanna buy like 300 funko pops or rescue 300 from the landfill and mail them all to woolie
No, no, RUclips, the title is in German. It says The Funkos The.
Poyo Funkos Poyo
"No one who speaks German can be an evil man."
Bury the Funko Pops to make the ground as lifeless as the eyes of the Pops.
Earth is the final Funko Pop.
I’m glad my one funko pop I’ve gotten as a gift is enough to send woolie into an absolute frenzy.
Same. I only have one that I got as a gift. But it fills me with joy knowing I can trigger Woolie just by pulling it out from where it's buried in my room.
I have to admit a sin folks. I bought my first Funko not so long ago. Not only that, I bought TWO of them.
In my defense, they were a gift for my mother. When I was a kid she had a crush on Kaiba, so I got her a Kaiba and a Blue-eyes.
Someone bought woolies old house and find the funko's they couldnt find
The best thing about Nendroids is that maybe one day your favourite V-tuber will get one, cos Goodsmile understands the assignment
I wasn't interested in funko pops until I found out there were people that really hated them
The only reasons i have funkos is because a friend gave them to me as a gift
What an EXCELLENT ending by Pat. 10/10
I bought one Funko Pop (Sly Cooper) and that’s all I need.
Never understood why people buy walls and walls and walls of Funko Pops.
I have a Blood Angels Funko. But that's because I spent at least an hour in the store and felt I needed to leave with SOMETHING at that point (was killing time otherwise). Just so happened to be the one thing that seemed to make sense.
And keeping hobby stores alive is like the only thing they're good for.
The one Funko I like is Toph from TLA, because it has some decent detail and her blindness affected the generic model by forcing them to change the eye colour (it was also maybe $3 which helped). The rest are just baubles to line a shelf at Gamestop and blend into the background. How anyone can collect them is well and truly beyond me.
That sounds like they just used a different paint while still using the same model that they use to make all the other funkos.
There were Funko walls around the big trade hall stalls at this weekends convention. Someday, they too, will pass.
It's a little bit misleading to claim PVC as waste is similar to the tragic Norfolk Southern disaster... considering that PVC is literally the water lines in most lower class people's homes (b/c copper is expensive A.F. to install, y'all)
Yeah PVC does not just turn into liquid Vinyl Chloride through degradation. It'll turn into microplastics, yes, but not an incredibly toxic chemical.
Yeah, I have disagree with them on this. PVC is actually a really good plastic to recycle with. As long as it's not burned, it should be fine. Though, how fitting of a fate would be for these funkos. Only good thing to use it's to move shit.
There's the spectrum. Funkos to home model kits. I've been hooked on watching model kit vids and gahd damn do people go through effort to have a big tiddy figurine to their liking.
I hope we get to see Woolie’s reaction the the funko piss story
Funko pops returning to their natural habitat
I hope woolie finds another funko hidden in his apartment, finding out its worth some obscene amount of money, only to film himself melting it in a fire to make a point.
Pvc. That stuff a lot of your waterlines are made of. And has been made of since they stopped using galvanized steel that would cause rust poisoning. That vinyl chloride. Nice.
I remember seeing a Finding Dori funko pop. It literally just looked like a bar of soap with eyes.
At last, the evil is defeated.
I wish we got Sopranos Nendoroids instead of Funko Pops
inb4 funko pops invade Woolie's home again.
Why would you ever buy funko pops when you can pay a little more and buy a Nendoroid which also markets itself on cute chibi style but lets you pose your character with included pieces and change their faces
Went to AnimeNYC last year and was laughing my ass off at how many funko booths there were and how most of them were overshadowed by real figure sellers
Because some people feel like they HAVE to have more than a few characters from a show they like or the entire line for that particular show. Good Smile Company is making Edgerunners Nendoroids and I'm only gonna get Rebecca because I could not give a enough of a shit about Lucy and David to spend $50+ on them but if I did they'd be spaced out months apart so getting all three wouldn't be that bad because it wouldn't be $150+ upfront anyways. It's literally that simple but some people have particular brainworms that makes them *need* to get them all. Also in general Americans have a "quantity over quality" mindset and than get mad about how nothing is made to last. I recently commissioned a woodworker to make me a nice pen so I couldn't have to keep buying tons of cheap disposable ones and just the refills and everyone looked at me like I was an idiot. Meanwhile that pen will make a nice heirloom.
Also because anime is for weebs.
People really be hating on anything anime or even japanese
@@Royalname31 Nendoroids haven’t been anime exclusive for a long time now, they do tons of Nendoroids of characters from games, movies, cartoons, comics, etc. Also, anime is just getting more mainstream by the year, when trailers for Attack on Titan and Chainsaw Man doing numbers similar to some Hollywood blockbuster trailers, the days of saying “anime is for weebs” are well past us.
I only own 2 Funko Pops. One is a Zombie from Plants vs Zombies and, ironically, they gave it more lifelike eyes than Funko Pops of real living humans instead of just the beady black eyes.
The second is a Halo Spartan I got solely because it had a code for a free Armor Coating in Halo Infinite that I like the colors of.
FunkoPops are an example of how while individual choices aren't that great for handling environmental policy... sometimes effective changes will affect those choices on the supply side of things. I used to work installing Ring Doorbells for people, so much stuff from that company was straight-up D.O.A. The factory-to-landfill pipeline is real and it's gotta stop.
You buying FunkoPops isn't destroying the planet, but an economic system that doesn't destroy the planet probably doesn't produce FunkoPops either.
I never really cared that much about Funko Pops, didn't go out of my way to collect them or anything, maybe getting one or two characters from a franchise I liked and that’s about it.
Nendroid's are just chibi models, fully posable with a focus on quality over quality often with interchangeable parts, Funko's are just plastic that's there and look like that. What do you do with them? You look at them, like you would online or in a store.
The only funko pops that are detailed are the based on Monster designs (monster hunter, god of war, godzilla) because they cannot reuse the dumb design, they have to give them mouths and have actual expressions, or the ones with helmets they have really good details, the only ones that i own is Miles morales, and static shock because i cannot find good figures of those characters
No good figures of Static existing is a goddamn tragedy.
@@psykomancer4420 Static Shock would be cool to bring back into other media.
The Kirby Funko is the only acceptable Funko to own
I know a couple people who are convinced that Funko Pops will appreciate in value and become a rare desired collectors item. They go and buy every ugly ass rare gold one they can find and keep them in the boxes in storage, they have spend thousands of dollars and are in crippling debt yet still buy more, it's an addiction. I don't understand how people don't see the comparison to Beanie Babies even if they weren't alive back then, since its still pretty common knowledge. Funko Pops encourages this behavior and is all about that whale market with midnight limited releases or lotteries for rare Funkos. It's predatory and I hope it gets the same treatment as the infamous E.T game, buried and forgotten. Too bad those toxic collectibles will probably outlast human civilization before breaking down.
I really want pat and woolie to read that NY post article about the average length going up and possibly why.
Average length of what?
@@AngryHomunculus manhood
@@darkturnwabler OK
What was the possible reason?
@@DemonFireRain that some pesticides and other hazardous materials could be a factor in the increase
The only time I get nendroids is when people gift them. Even then I leave them in my closet. Now I get to learn I have a biohazard in my closet
MMMMMMMMMMM MICROPLASTICS from my funko pops
And you could have it all, my empire of vinyl chloride
What a mic drop way to end the clip 👏🏿 👌🏿
funko got so FULL of themselves they thought the stupid way they made them was the appeal XDDD
I swear, if this clip doesn't continue with Pat explaining to Woolie what the jar meme is...
I think thats why most model kits/figures now go with the polystyrene Gunpla style stuff because the old PVC is an ecological nightmare. Some of those vinyl kits look rad but the risk of dumping large amounts of unused kits and figures isnt worth it. Funko im pretty sure was the last major toy company making PVC figures.
The problem with Funko is the most random characters get one, it's like random side characters that appear on 3 minutes in an entire season has one
There's like Funko of the jazz players in the star wars cantina ffs
Seeing those walls of unsold Funko Pops in Hot Topic, GameStop and similar stores is pretty fucking sad.
East Palestine was turned into a bio-hazard so that the funko pops could flow.
The Monkey Bomb continues to be the only good Funko Pop because it having soulless dead eyes is the point of the original character design.
saw a pile of kos at 5 bellow. it has begun
Pat is wrong about the magic cards found. They weren't the $1000 anniversary packs they were a bunch of containers of a VERY successful set called Modern Horizons 2. The reason they were dumped is a mystery but the theory is that the product was somehow damaged and the distributor decided to toss it all rather than put it up for sale.
The only decent looking funko pops were the ones that weren't human shaped cuz they had to make it recognizable and the body HAD to be accurate so the spyro, bakugan, yugioh and Pokemon pops were actually not bad. ALL of the human character pops are disgusting tho
Meanwhile, my friend at work sold all his stocks so he could invest $15k in funko pops, Pokemon cards, and old comic books in an attempt to get rich quick by selling them to collectors. Some people are none too bright.
Woolie will finally have his vengeance
I blame the Hulk Funko. It’s bigger than the rest.
I never understood why anyone would buy a terrible version of something they liked. Why are you filling your shelves with garbage.
why anything, really? we're all gonna die someday. and if by some chance we do exist as energy afterwards and ignoring the fact we probably wouldn't even notice, the heat death of the universe will snuff even that out someday.
You know this is the logic of those fat-cat Captain of industry. Let's just throw away all these toys we made instead of maybe give him away to kids or something.
We need to regulate concentration of Funko Pop particles in the air, to prevent any long term health issues in population.
For as annoying it is that actual figures are limited and expensive...this is the reason why because you're less likely to see them in a landfill (do some end up there more than likely but not 30 Mil worth!)
The next arch of the anime is here
Isn PVC safe unlike just the CV? Isn pvc what some water pipes are made of?
Oh no, this is terrible. I'll never recover, how could this happen.
FunkoPoison
They should dump funko pops in the backyards and water tanks of whoever bought them. Not like they were gonna have kids anyway.
thee funkos thee
4:20 what did pat say?
Good year for landfill workers. Tons of free stuff.
The whole thing of just dumping them directly into a landfill is what pisses me off. Like, they can’t even just give them all to a bunch of kids that’ll have with them. No, if no money is being made, destroy the planet some more
When you go to conventions they charge $50 in the guest of honor lines just to sign the funko pops sometimes because they KNOW it's just shitty resellers.
And it still doesn't stop some jackass with a wagon full of them being like 'i'm still gonna make my money back' and taking 20-30 minutes in line on his own when there are people in line who actually want to MEET the guests of honor because it means something more to them than just forcing them to sit and sign your ugly funko pops so you can turn a buck. It's so disrespectful.
now to be fair to PVC (not funko because fuck them.) the dangerous chemical is a transitionary manufacturing chemical and the final product is mostly "well shit, more plastic" tier material rather than something else. It's just in America we are...transporting it...?(Which would MOSTLY be okay if the railways were not threadbear and deliberately neglected. I much rather not have these chemicals being transported by semi-truck but the rabbit hole is a frustrating terrifying thing.) Instead of doing the smart thing, like fabricating it on site in amounts that are needed at that moment. You know, the safer thing to do.
Maybe once funko is truly dead the figurine market can recover into a much smaller scale but much more appealing market again.
There's one fun thing you can do with Funko Pops: collect a bunch of pictures of Funko Pops of white guys outside of their boxes and play the game of "who the fuck is this?"
I have a Funko pop of Sesshomaru and Monster Sora, but that's enough Funko for me. If I somehow find a Ren and a Stimpy maybe I'll get it, but no more lol
Man couldn't they like heat and press those unsold funkos into bricks?
I'm gonna give credit to Cruelty Squad and Civvie 11 for making people hate Funko Pops even if that's not true in any way.
I like both. I like how adorable some of the Funko look. The bobbles are flimsy though. I hate em
Nendroids look horrible too. Don’t point those on a pedestal cause funko pops suck worse
Are funkopops the microplastic I've been hearing about.
Better landfill vs burning them.