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Tried digging a bit, but still quite lost. Who or what is Funko? The collectibles company?


Yes expensive landfill merchant.


They fucking suck too, I miss when the collectibles shelf at game stores was filled with a bunch of cool looking action figures, now it's a wall of funko pops and maybe 10 non funko figures somewhere else.


The first 500 results, without exception, when you google the word, is the collectibles company. What made you second guess your hunch?


Because the post said "Funko called my mom" and it sounded like someone's internet alias. I guess that was more believable than the company doing it, which speaks for itself.


Maybe he was living in Antarctica for the last 24 years and thought it might be the defunct video game retailer, FuncoLand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuncoLand


Yes, the collectibles company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funko


Kinda funny that they're doing this over "brand protection" when their entire "brand" is just regurgitating worse versions of existing brands' characters.


I don't like them but I'm sure they're licensing the content because you don't poke The Mouse on the national stage like that.


Yes.




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