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GanglyKhan posted...

I hate those Funko Pop things with a goddamned passion.

I've got a few of them. I started by getting Claptrap from Borderlands and Chandra from Magic: the Gathering, then picked up Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China and The Dude from Big Lebowski. And then recently I bought Sark from Tron and Saruman from LotR.

I limit myself to ones that are significant to my personality or personal history in some specific way, though. So I'm not going to buy 200+ figures from games or movies or shows simply because they're pop culture references I recognize (and unlike my one friend, I'm never going to buy all four Golden Girls figures), but I might buy a few more if I happen across some that appeal or speak to my identity in some specific way.

(I'd probably buy a Doctor Who one if they made the Sixth Doctor or Peri, but they mostly cater to the New Who audience, so fuck 'em.)

I don't really go out of my way to look for them, though, so unless I see them in Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble, I usually have no idea which ones have been released out of the 70000+ out there.



GanglyKhan posted...

Go spend the same amount and get a Nendo that actually moves about some and has faceplates and accessories.

To some degree, having accessories is more of a negative than a positive - that just means more crap that can get lost, or eaten by pets or small children. I still have some of my action figures from when I was a kid, but in almost every single case, if they came with accessories of any kind (be they added outfit gear, or weapons, or detachable parts), every single one of those parts are now missing forever.

A similar problem crops up with moving parts - the more points of articulation any given figure has, the greater the odds of that figure breaking at some point. So while it's a selling point for some, it can be discouragement for others.

But all of that sort of misses the entire point of Funko Pop figures anyway. They're designed as an overly stylized design that can incorporate almost any aspect of pop culture. They're basically nostalgia in plastic form. They're not really supposed to look like exact replicas or complicated models of what they're referencing, as much as they're supposed to look like simplified representations that have a similar style (allowing them to all relate to each other), while still being recognizable as the thing they're based on, and even potentially being abstract enough to border on being modern hipster art. They'd actually lose a lot of their appeal if they were far more detailed or complex figures.

As for Nendo specifically, as far as I can tell, Nendo figures are apparently obscure as fuck (I literally never heard of them before this post) and 95% anime-based (as far as I can tell from what the Internet is telling me), so it would be kind of understandable why most people wouldn't necessarily consider them an alternative.


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