Poll of the Day > The Funko Pop bubble has burst? over $30 million in Funko Pops sent to landfills

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aHappySacka
03/03/23 7:38:26 PM
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80/80

Like with beanie babies, NFTs and other such fads the value of Funko Pops has dropped like a rock, now it costs more to hold them in stock than to sell them and millions of years after humanity has nuked itself off the face of the Earth archaeologists (human or otherwise) will be mystified at finding these strange hunks of plastic perhaps once used in human sacrifices or of other such ceremonial value.

https://www.ign.com/articles/funko-is-sending-30-million-worth-of-its-products-to-a-landfill
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-not-a-place-of-honor-up-to-dollar36-million-worth-of-funko-pops-to-be-entombed-in-landfills/
https://www.kakuchopurei.com/2023/03/us30-million-worth-of-funko-pop-toys-will-be-thrown-into-the-garbage-heres-why/

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Lokarin
03/03/23 8:13:20 PM
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what's weird is that it's financially more viable for them to just throw them out than to give them away as a promotion

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VampireCoyote
03/03/23 8:40:44 PM
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The valuable ones are the rare ones like anything else

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adjl
03/03/23 8:51:40 PM
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Lokarin posted...
what's weird is that it's financially more viable for them to just throw them out than to give them away as a promotion

What would they promote, realistically? For a promotion to be worthwhile, you have to generate enough publicity for whatever's being promoted to justify the costs of creating promotional material, potentially adding extra staff, and the opportunity cost of using up store space on the free product.

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keyblader1985
03/03/23 9:04:24 PM
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I wasn't aware anyone was collecting these for any reason other than simply liking them. Doesn't exactly surprise me either though.

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rexcrk
03/03/23 10:04:11 PM
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Never saw the appeal of these to be honest. But I guess Im a bit of snob when it comes to collectibles. Ive always hated chibi type things. Give me NECA Ninja Turtles, Masterpiece Transformers, Palisades Toys Muppets, etc. Something high quality that actually looks like what its supposed to be.


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NickMullen
03/03/23 10:13:36 PM
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good, that's where they belong

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GanonsSpirit
03/03/23 11:24:36 PM
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Yeah, they've been clogging up the clearance aisle at Walmart for months. People finally realized they're worthless junk.

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ParanoidObsessive
03/03/23 11:59:02 PM
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From what I've heard it has nothing to do with the Funko bubble popping (no pun intended) and more to do with the fact that Disney is self-destructing.

Basically, Funko invested heavily in making Star Wars and Marvel themed figures, but with fan apathy for both franchises at an all-time high, none of them are selling (it's been mentioned that stores like Wal-Mart have had the same problem with Star Wars toys in general). So Disney fucking themselves into a hole is dragging multiple other companies down with them.

But anyone who thought these things were "collectible" in the first place were idiots, because there's been evidence for years that the collectible market in general has been a scam for decades. A lot of the stuff marketed as collectible as far back as the 1980s (mainly Hummel figures and Franklin Mint stuff) was kind of revealed to be worthless as older collectors died and their kids tried to sell off their collections, only to discover that literally no one was buying. The same happened when 90s stuff (like Beanie Babies) started going on the market.

Generally speaking, if something is being sold as a collectible, it will never actually have value as a collectible. The main reason why things like comic books and baseball cards and early Star Wars figures wound up selling for so much was because they weren't collectible. They were treated as disposable by most of the people who bought them, meaning surviving copies became rare, and thus in-demand and valuable. But the moment people started keeping comics and cards and toys, the bottom fell out completely and most new releases aren't worth shit. Artificial rarity can boost prices for short-term collectors, but over the long term the value decreases for almost everything (because the only people who actually want to own it already do).

The only real reason to buy a Funko Pop is if you have nostalgia for the thing it's representing, and think it would be neat to own for yourself. Which is why I have a couple (one from LotR, one from M:tG, one from Tron, and Claptrap from Borderlands), but I'd never even remotely attempt to "collect them all" or even try to buy full sets.

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NightMareBunny
03/04/23 1:03:28 AM
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i mostly have MHA Funko pops because i like them and really for a lot of characters a funko pop is the only option

i mean they even include some students from Class 1-B and i know those characters aren't getting premium figures or Mcfarlane action figures

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Count_Drachma
03/04/23 1:42:02 AM
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I feel like this is either exaggerated or uses inflated values.

Granted, a lot of companies have periodic problems unloading inventory so it's not really unique. Funko just apparently didn't plan well enough and was holding onto inventory for too long. During the 2022 Christmas season, Five Below had a reasonably large Pop! offering... but for $6, which was lame.

keyblader1985 posted...
I wasn't aware anyone was collecting these for any reason other than simply liking them.

This so hard. They haven't really ever had a thriving secondary market, certainly not like Beanie Babies.

While I know that some collectors have tried (and often failed) to sell their collections afterward, they weren't buying them for the secondary market, they just bored of them, which is like anything else.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
From what I've heard it has nothing to do with the Funko bubble popping (no pun intended) and more to do with the fact that Disney is self-destructing.

Basically, Funko invested heavily in making Star Wars and Marvel themed figures, but with fan apathy for both franchises at an all-time high, none of them are selling (it's been mentioned that stores like Wal-Mart have had the same problem with Star Wars toys in general). So Disney fucking themselves into a hole is dragging multiple other companies down with them.

That's unsurprising. The franchises that get adapted can make or break a collectibles line and, while Funko has had success diversifying, the fact that they've gone all-in on some franchises must be hurting them.

NightMareBunny posted...
i mostly have MHA Funko pops because i like them and really for a lot of characters a funko pop is the only option

i mean they even include some students from Class 1-B and i know those characters aren't getting premium figures or Mcfarlane action figures

tbh, that's always been the appeal of Funko lines -- they tend to offer collectibles from underrepresented franchises or characters from those franchises. In the case of older films, it's sometimes been the ONLY figure that certain characters have had.

...that said, most of the Pop!s, Mystery Minis, etc, I've bought have related to moderately popular franchises, many of which have collectibles. However, in some cases, the Funko version is either cheaper (Chernabog, for example) or covers a character better (ie, some of the Spidey Far from Home normal figures were garbage; Molten Man, for example, might've only appeared in a budget line and the quality was lousy, whereas Funko did great versions of Molten Man)

And, honestly, for a lot of stuff, there's a long gap between merch.


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Krazy_Kirby
03/04/23 2:24:16 AM
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about time

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NightMareBunny
03/04/23 2:55:28 AM
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Count_Drachma posted...
I feel like this is either exaggerated or uses inflated values.

Granted, a lot of companies have periodic problems unloading inventory so it's not really unique. Funko just apparently didn't plan well enough and was holding onto inventory for too long. During the 2022 Christmas season, Five Below had a reasonably large Pop! offering... but for $6, which was lame.

This so hard. They haven't really ever had a thriving secondary market, certainly not like Beanie Babies.

While I know that some collectors have tried (and often failed) to sell their collections afterward, they weren't buying them for the secondary market, they just bored of them, which is like anything else.

That's unsurprising. The franchises that get adapted can make or break a collectibles line and, while Funko has had success diversifying, the fact that they've gone all-in on some franchises must be hurting them.

tbh, that's always been the appeal of Funko lines -- they tend to offer collectibles from underrepresented franchises or characters from those franchises. In the case of older films, it's sometimes been the ONLY figure that certain characters have had.

...that said, most of the Pop!s, Mystery Minis, etc, I've bought have related to moderately popular franchises, many of which have collectibles. However, in some cases, the Funko version is either cheaper (Chernabog, for example) or covers a character better (ie, some of the Spidey Far from Home normal figures were garbage; Molten Man, for example, might've only appeared in a budget line and the quality was lousy, whereas Funko did great versions of Molten Man)

And, honestly, for a lot of stuff, there's a long gap between merch.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/9/AAM3HCAAEOPx.jpg
i don't think this my hero academia character has anything else except a funko pop

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Jkd91
03/04/23 4:24:41 AM
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Used to collect years ago, sold pretty much all of them last year mostly for profit, when first released they sell for about 10 and over time most went up, especially series like death note, one punch man etc, anime ones seemed to be the best.

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WizardofHoth
03/04/23 5:07:59 AM
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Recent newer Funko pop ive seen at Walmart are the ones of E.T.

Just last month i bought the Funko pop of Elliot's sister Gertie from the E.T. movie
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TomNook
03/04/23 5:14:56 AM
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Article doesn't really have to do with bubbles or secondary market. It's just about the company making more than what is selling. The collector's market for rare Funkos is still there. Typical modern clickbait.

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Nade_Duck
03/04/23 6:23:14 AM
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as someone who has a few.. thank god, it's been at least a decade and i'm so sick of seeing these things fucking everywhere.

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captpackrat
03/04/23 9:04:50 AM
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Funko Pops are just a way to get us accustomed to the idea of big-headed aliens.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/9/AAQwHjAAEPbZ.jpg

Personally I think they're all hideous. The only ones that were any good were the MLP ones that looked like actual MLP toys.
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argonautweakend
03/04/23 9:31:56 AM
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i know a guy who has at least 50 or 100. As far as I can tell he likes his display of them, and just likes em. I don't think he is out to resell, many are taken out of the box. He just likes 'em like any media themed action figures.
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shadowsword87
03/04/23 9:33:13 AM
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I do find it interesting star wars has been basically juiced for good will and money.
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WizardofHoth
03/04/23 10:10:32 AM
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There's now a new Cocaine Bear Funko pop coming soon
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myghostisdead
03/04/23 10:13:38 AM
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I never saw the appeal of them.

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Rotpar
03/04/23 11:05:27 AM
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I'm not surprised. There are so many Pop figures for anything and everything and as a whole I'm not a big fan. I own a few that I like; classic Harley Quinn and LoL's Jinx, Great Cthulhu, Fuchi the shark-woman, a few others.

Disney bringing everything down? I'm not surprised, especially since they seem committed to their shitty ideology, damn the consequences. Nothing is going to change since Disney has infinite money that they apparently don't care about.

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BADoglick
03/04/23 12:01:43 PM
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shadowsword87 posted...
I do find it interesting star wars has been basically juiced for good will and money.

Disney is milking both star wars and marvel dry and it's killing the cash cow. Mcu offerings have ranged from downright terrible to good but flawed at best. Star wars has andor and Rouge one that were good, the mandalorian is ok not great, and then everything else has been a steaming pile of poo. I used to look forward to new offerings in each respective franchise and now I'm like 'ill wait for reviews'

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Metalsonic66
03/04/23 12:10:41 PM
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I only have a few
Kevin with Chili Pot is my prized possession

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Tails_64
03/04/23 12:15:12 PM
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Interesting. I only have a few figures, mainly of old-school Nickelodeon characters -- ones that don't have any decent alternatives. I've never understood the obsession some people have for them.


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WizardofHoth
03/04/23 12:16:56 PM
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last year or so i was lucky to find a Barbara Funko from the Beetlejuice movie at Walmart.

Most o the time at Walmart they still occassionally have Mikey and Data Goonies Funko Pop while the rest of the Funko are all Marvel Movie crap

Even those oversized jumbo Funkos that take up alot of space on the end cap shelf of aisle in the movie area
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rexcrk
03/04/23 3:05:51 PM
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Star wars has andor and Rouge one that were good, the mandalorian is ok not great, and then everything else has been a steaming pile of poo.


lmfao


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Muscles
03/04/23 3:32:21 PM
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rexcrk posted...
Never saw the appeal of these to be honest. But I guess Im a bit of snob when it comes to collectibles. Ive always hated chibi type things. Give me NECA Ninja Turtles, Masterpiece Transformers, Palisades Toys Muppets, etc. Something high quality that actually looks like what its supposed to be.
I agree, though I don't collect things like that. I have a pretty solid book collection going and got over 120 CDs and a small but pretty decent movie collection

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Lil_Bit83
03/04/23 3:39:09 PM
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The little assholes could at least recycle it, instead of polluting.

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doshindude
03/04/23 5:06:07 PM
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The Beanie Babies of the 2010s except even more worthless

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ParanoidObsessive
03/04/23 5:22:36 PM
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shadowsword87 posted...
I do find it interesting star wars has been basically juiced for good will and money.

What's really interesting is how Disney managed to take a franchise entirely built around intensive merchandising that thrived for 35 straight years and managed to wreck it so badly in only 10.

It's an amazing achievement (in ineptitude).



BADoglick posted...
Disney is milking both star wars and marvel dry and it's killing the cash cow.

Hence the joke:

"What's the best way to make a million dollar franchise?"

"Sell a billion dollar franchise to Disney."



Lil_Bit83 posted...
The little assholes could at least recycle it, instead of polluting.

That costs money, though.

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shadowsword87
03/04/23 5:36:18 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
What's really interesting is how Disney managed to take a franchise entirely built around intensive merchandising that thrived for 35 straight years and managed to wreck it so badly in only 10.
It's an amazing achievement (in ineptitude).

It's also starwars fans. I know someone who bought every single star wars book, brought it with him through multiple moves, and loved it from when he was a kid and watched the original series. Will talk about the Yuuzhan Vong for as long as someone lets him. It's deeply personal and deeply precious to him, passing it onto his kids and everything.

He'll watch the shows, and is slowly losing interest.

It's god damn wild that it's that far and that much goodwill has been juiced.
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ParanoidObsessive
03/04/23 5:50:59 PM
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shadowsword87 posted...
It's god damn wild that it's that far and that much goodwill has been juiced.

I mean, I've been reading comic books since I was 7 and I don't think I've ever missed a single comic book movie ever (no matter how bad) prior to 2020. I mean, I watched 80s Punisher and Captain America for fuck's sake. And I'm one of the handful of people who actually liked Green Lantern. And Superman 3. My standards aren't that high.

But I honestly have no interest in any of the Disney+ shows, and no real intention of watching any of the new MCU movies. For me, the franchise ended with Phase 3 (with Far From Home and No Way Home being the only post Endgame movies I've bothered with).

If you'd told me 10 years ago that they'd be releasing Marvel movies that I had no interest in seeing, I'd have thought you were insane. Especially if you told me I'd be skipping Doctor Strange 2 and Guardians 3. But that's where we are now.

And it's not even "Oh, you're older now so you've outgrown it" or "Well, your tastes have just changed, that's all". I was literally rereading old comics about a day ago, and I was absolutely hyped when they announced they were coming out with an Avengers game (until it turned out to be absolute shit). I was even interested in the idea of Midnight Suns (until it turned out to be a shitty card-based X-Com clone).

The part of me that loves comics and wants to love comics is still in there. They've just done such a catastrophically bad job that that part of me can't even rationalize the new stuff being worth it.

It's pretty much how I feel about most of my childhood nerd love intellectual properties though. LotR? They ruined that. Doctor Who? Ruined that. Star Wars, Marvel, DC... pretty much ruined as well. Tabletop RPGs? Mostly shit these days.

About the only thing left that I loved as a kid that they haven't managed to ruin somehow is the concept of Choose Your Own Adventure. And I'm sure someone somewhere is trying to figure out a way to ruin that too.

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GastroFan
03/04/23 7:23:16 PM
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captpackrat posted...
Funko Pops are just a way to get us accustomed to the idea of big-headed aliens.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/9/AAQwHjAAEPbZ.jpg

Personally I think they're all hideous. The only ones that were any good were the MLP ones that looked like actual MLP toys.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/7/0/AAQwHjAAEPba.jpg

Dr. Whooves is the only Funko that I've collected since it was released to celebrate Dr. Who's anniversary (I believe 50th) and David Tennant's time as the eleventh incarnation of the Dr. Who character. In fact, MLP did an episode with Dr. Whooves and another pony who represented Rose Tyler: it was kind of cool.
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captpackrat
03/04/23 9:11:42 PM
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GastroFan posted...
Dr. Whooves is the only Funko that I've collected since it was released to celebrate Dr. Who's anniversary (I believe 50th) and David Tennant's time as the eleventh incarnation of the Dr. Who character. In fact, MLP did an episode with Dr. Whooves and another pony who represented Rose Tyler: it was kind of cool.
The MLP manga had a hilarious story with Dr. Whooves and Derpy.
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Tag365
03/04/23 9:43:23 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
About the only thing left that I loved as a kid that they haven't managed to ruin somehow is the concept of Choose Your Own Adventure. And I'm sure someone somewhere is trying to figure out a way to ruin that too.

Have you heard of Jumpchain? It is a series of choose your own adventure documents you might be interested in.

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adjl
03/05/23 10:42:51 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
But I honestly have no interest in any of the Disney+ shows, and no real intention of watching any of the new MCU movies. For me, the franchise ended with Phase 3 (with Far From Home and No Way Home being the only post Endgame movies I've bothered with).

My issue with the post-Endgame stuff isn't necessarily that I don't expect it to be good, it's that there's just too bloody much of it that any time I think I might want to explore it I get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content I'm interested in and just go do something else instead. It's pretty much impossible to keep up with everything worth watching if I only watch it casually, a problem that gets worse with each passing month as new things are released for me to be behind on.

I want to watch No Way Home, but for that, I've got Homecoming and Far From Home to get through. I want to watch Dr. Strange 2, but for that I've got all the Spider-man stuff, and I believe also Wandavision and Loki. I want to watch Quantumania, but I haven't seen any of the pre-Endgame Ant-man movies and I believe Dr. Strange 2 also provides important background. Even the more stand-alone stuff like Moon Knight or Eternals, I end up feeling bad about watching instead of working toward stuff that I'd consider higher-priority, so I put them off until I can catch up on the rest of the backlog. There's just so much coming out all the time and all of it is billed as an investment into a bigger picture, so even though I'd like to check out that bigger picture, it's just more than I can keep up with without treating it like an obligation. It also doesn't help that I've outright stopped going to movies since the pandemic hit, so any hype around a movie's initial release has died down by the time I could stream it.

The modern MCU is basically falling into the same trap that comics themselves have, in that I'm interested in exploring it, but doing so "properly" involves such a large investment into previous material to help understand and appreciate what's going on that I just don't. I'm sure I'd enjoy it if I did force myself to dig into it all properly, but that's just more of a hurdle than I'm really motivated to get over when I have plenty of other entertainment options that are equally enjoyable but much more accessible. There's still plenty that can be milked from the MCU, but when I'm sitting here with 27 empty glasses of milk and the table keeps filling up with more, I'm just going to walk away and get some water instead.

Rotpar posted...
Disney bringing everything down? I'm not surprised, especially since they seem committed to their s***ty ideology, damn the consequences.

Which ideology is that?

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SKARDAVNELNATE
03/05/23 12:18:45 PM
#39:


aHappySacka posted...
mystified at finding these strange hunks of plastic perhaps once used in human sacrifices or of other such ceremonial value.
The bobbing head motion of these religious idols signified that the worshiper had pleased their deity.

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Zareth
03/05/23 5:23:16 PM
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adjl posted...
Which ideology is that?
Dunno what he means, but in my opinion it's their incredibly bland, designed by committee, apeal to the widest audience possible approach to everything. It just feels soulless. Like Ubisoft games.

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Count_Drachma
03/05/23 7:50:52 PM
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captpackrat posted...
Personally I think they're all hideous. The only ones that were any good were the MLP ones that looked like actual MLP toys.

That's not even a Pop!. There are MLP Pop!s, though.

WizardofHoth posted...
There's now a new Cocaine Bear Funko pop coming soon

I might put it next to my Sharknado Pop!

ParanoidObsessive posted...
What's really interesting is how Disney managed to take a franchise entirely built around intensive merchandising that thrived for 35 straight years and managed to wreck it so badly in only 10.

It's an amazing achievement (in ineptitude).

Yeah, it's been fucking insane, although sadly predictable given the overall arc. How could anybody expect anything except failure given who they wrote out after EG?

adjl posted...
Which ideology is that?

Personally, I don't believe it's so much that Disney itself believes in an ideology -- although maybe many of its content creators subscribe to far-left social issues -- but the fact that it's trying to pander in a socially progressive direction because it assumes that's the market's direction. However, it's driving off existing fans and -- as we saw with CW -- the more overtly "woke" content is often niche.

And sure, going overboard on social issues is probably hurting Disney, but there are a lot of other problems, too. The SW sequel trilogy was a soulless, focus-grouped attempt to remake the original trilogy. Most of the films in the MCU are kinda spotty at best, and have involved talent who probably shouldn't be in the superhero-media industry at all (including the heavily problematic Joss Whedon).

On top of that, MAYBE the frequency is another issue.

Whatever the case, I haven't been excited to hear a new Marvel project announced since Avengers and whatever hope I had for SW was quashed by TFA.

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adjl
03/06/23 3:13:16 PM
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Zareth posted...
Dunno what he means, but in my opinion it's their incredibly bland, designed by committee, apeal to the widest audience possible approach to everything. It just feels soulless. Like Ubisoft games.

I wouldn't call that an ideology, though. That's just a business strategy. The obvious assumption is that "ideology" is a dog whistle for "not sending gays to concentration camps," but I like to give people the opportunity to answer the question for themselves.

Count_Drachma posted...
Personally, I don't believe it's so much that Disney itself believes in an ideology -- although maybe many of its content creators subscribe to far-left social issues -- but the fact that it's trying to pander in a socially progressive direction because it assumes that's the market's direction.

Do you have examples of "far-left social issues" and the "socially progressive direction" in which they are pandering?

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03/06/23 3:27:40 PM
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The amount of plastic waste from Funkos alone is staggering

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GanonsSpirit
03/06/23 6:52:16 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Especially if you told me I'd be skipping Doctor Strange 2 and Guardians 3.
Doctor Strange 2 was a failure in every respect, to almost an impressive degree. I'm still hopeful James Gunn can pull one more good movie out the rotten husk that is the current MCU though.

Also, Shang-Chi was surprisingly good. It helped that it was more of a martial arts movie than a superhero one.

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Metalsonic66
03/06/23 7:47:48 PM
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Doctor Strange 2 was one of the best. Way better than the first movie

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FrozenBananas
03/06/23 7:52:34 PM
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I liked Doctor Strange 2 a lot. I didnt have high expectations though

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Nade_Duck
03/07/23 10:38:50 AM
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i really wanted to like doctor strange 2. i still don't hate it as much as others, but it was such a waste. they finally have a chance to do something badass involving non-spiderman properties and they just waste it for a mediocre pseudo-horror movie. they absolutely butchered wanda, and everything involving the illuminati was a sham.

potentially the last time they could have patrick stewart as picard and they treat it like that. what the fuck. used to think there couldn't be a more wasteful use of perfect casting than kelsey grammar as beast in x3, but disney managed to top even that.

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DragonClaw01
03/07/23 11:00:50 AM
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Lokarin posted...
what's weird is that it's financially more viable for them to just throw them out than to give them away as a promotion
They don't want to weaken thier brand by selling them at a fire sale. It is best to make them seem "limited", so you can maximize FOMO. Plus it costs absolutely nothing to make one, probably cents on the dollar, a buck at most so it is not exactly like they are losing millions, that is just retail, not costs of goods. Shame they are too cheap to recycle them though.

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GanonsSpirit
03/07/23 12:52:27 PM
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Nade_Duck posted...
picard
I don't know if that's a mistake, but it's true either way.

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Krazy_Kirby
03/07/23 3:14:20 PM
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Nade_Duck posted...
used to think there couldn't be a more wasteful use of perfect casting than kelsey grammar as beast in x3, but disney managed to top even that.


what about Patrick Stewart playing a literal

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