:sicko-pig::yes-hahaha-yes-l: Death to the treats!
Because they’re shit an boring and there’s literally nothing interesting about them from one to the next.
If I buy a figurine I want the character I’m buying, but when you buy a funkopop you’re buying a funko with the theme of a character.
This is why Nendoroids will be around forever, they get the balance between being cheap and letting it just be a character instead of their brand. You’re buying the character not the nendo brand.
More importantly, they dont make a billion of them at once because they’re scaled for a smaller collectors and enthusiasts market.
I mean, they probably COULD make a billion at once but don’t have retailer adoption because they’re not cheap enough as far as the supermarkets are concerned. They don’t think adults would buy a toy worth more than £10. They are very very wrong though.
AFAIK anything tied to otaku and weeb culture knows it’ isn’t serving a giant industry, at least until now
Ppl only like funko pops bc they make them of literally Everything bc they are easy to make as a lump of unposable vinyl thats basically all the same sculpt So sometimes the only existing merch of whatever character the hypothetical fanboy likes is a funko pop bc they only make nendos of anime and hyper popular stuff bc obviously they take more effort to produce so GSC cant be bothered to do a figurine of Blorbo Beebus from the short lived cult classic The Plinkos that like 10 ppl in the world would shell out for, but funko can
