: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.
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
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
