Ep. 139: Let's Chat Starkiller Drop Debacle, Funko Losing Money, Rokimoto Godzilla Collab & MORE!

Just when Funko had some hype with the Star Wars Starkiller drop, even that went south. Funko Q2 earnings aren't the best for shareholders. Thrilloy continues to crush it with their PIX line. Rokimoto Godzilla collaboration is almost here, and it's FIRE! Collecting is the Way! Now, Let's Chat!

Episode Transcript

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Everyone, welcome to Collective Chatter.
In today's episode, we're going to talk about Funko because
they're in the news again. We're going to talk about some
stuff that's coming out, some interesting drama, and some
other things have to do with collectibles as well.
Collecting is the way. Now let's chat.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to Collective Chatter.
This is episode 139. I am Migs here with Charlie.
What's up Charlie? What's going on?
Ready to talk a Heavy Funko episode, it seems like, which we
haven't really had like Heavy Funko episode in a long time.
So it's going to be interesting.Whether it's good or bad, it's
still going to be interesting. Yeah, yeah.
We're going to kind of hit both both sides of the field.

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I guess when it comes to Funko specifically, like you said,
they have been in the news again, some drama, some stuff
going on, as well as just a lot of releases and things going as
well that we do want to talk about.
Some things that interests us specifically on the Funko side
of things. And then, you know, you know,
we'll talk about some other collectibles and other companies
that we usually talk about anyways later on.

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But we will start off with Funko.
What one of the big things I want to start with obviously is
something that you're going to get a little bit more into
because it was something that one, you know, a little bit more
about and two, it also personally affected you in the
whole collective world. But it is Funko's of course,
limited reward system pops that you can get, which, you know,

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we've already had our take on how we feel about these and not
usually the best thing that we like.
Nothing has been something that we've been excited for.
But I believe you actually made a video about this first being
excited because this was something that excited you.
But then when it came out, like many other people, not just you,

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it was not as exciting. So, you know, take.
Yeah, I'll, I'll dive right intothat.
So as Mike said, we've been really critical of this new
model. Not huge fans.
I didn't think I'd ever really partake in it unless there was a
Funko Pop that I had to have, and there aren't many of those
anymore, if I'm being completelyhonest.

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But of course, they proved me wrong and made a character that
I've been asking for a Funko Popfor four years.
So I'm like, OK, this is pretty sick.
This really does feel special. It was a 750 piece, which they
consider the grail version of it, kind of pricey 4999, which
once again, we don't really agree with Funko being their own

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secondary market. But hey, it is what is like.
And I'm going to start off with the positives.
Freaking of the negatives. People were excited about this
Funko Pop. I haven't really seen people
this excited about a Funko product in a really long time.
People were talking about it, a lot of people wanted it, hence
why there was a lot of traffic on the website.

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But from there, I'm going to just go where I think this is
ridiculous. I tried to get this Funko Pop,
which once again it was a fan rewards, as if people also
aren't familiar because we don'ttalk about this that much
because we haven't been interested.
You need to have the amount of fan rewards points to get early
access and for most of these, I think almost all of them besides

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like maybe one or two have sold out within this period and no
one ever else got a chance to use them.
So this you needed 2000 fan rewards points, which the ways
you get them is mostly by buyingstuff from Funko, but they also
have like fun little things you can participate with on the
website to gain a few points. So first you're telling people

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this is the only way they can get it.
I would like to think there's a little bit of a better system,
but you went on, you had to say like click on as if you were
buying it would deduct your points.
And then supposedly, even thoughdish trackers, a lot of people
were asking him and he was just like, that's what they say.
But if I were you, I would checkout immediately.
Like, you get like a few days topurchase it, but I went on

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immediately, you know, I was on my computer, like trying to get
it just kept saying error, like contact customer service, like
technical difficulties, Yowdy. And I'm like, this is a joke.
And I did it for like 10 minutesand then finally it was like
sold out. And I just think it's such piss
poor run Funko. I know some people have said,

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oh, it's just because everyone was trying to get it.
Yeah, there was a lot of excitement.
But at this point I don't reallyfeel like Funko should site
should be crashing for stuff like that drop I feel like has
fixed that problem. I feel like a lot of these
probably went to bots. I know you have to have the fan
rewards, but a ton of those people probably have bots.

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Like it just it made I went frombeing so excited to get a Funko
pop again after that. I'm like, dude, this is a sign
from God. Like I'm done with this.
Like not to be negative, but it just put such a sour taste in my
mouth. And now that's a pop that I'll
probably will never buy because it's not the what it's going for

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right now is just like not worthit to me, especially the seesaw.
And I know this is the game, butI feel like most people who got
this Funko Pop are just flippingit.
And this was such a like Funko Pop made for this.
The fans that like, it would have been a little nicer if, you
know, most people had like, a running chance.

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So yeah. Yeah, I mean, to go off what you
said about the whole flipping thing, like instantly as soon as
I can sold out, it was already being put up on eBay and the
listings were 280 and above $300etcetera.
And it was like just tons of them.
So clearly it's like that many people just decided to be like,
oh, I'm going to sell this for almost 300 bucks like that

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quickly. So obviously, like you were
saying, whether you want to say it's bots or not, there was
obviously some type of group of people that were really like
looking to get this to flip it, like essentially, right.
But obviously we knew a lot of other people and collectors who,
I mean, diss trackers himself didn't get it.
Put a post saying like I think he had the eventually getting it

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off of someone. Asking people.
Didn't get it through there. And that was like an interesting
thing because you, you know, yousee him get everything.
Exactly right. And other people were also
complaining and there was peoplesaying that they think Funkel
didn't put up all 750, that there was supposedly not all on
there. And then like the fact that it
was just crashing and didn't give people and it like a chance

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was kind of wild. And like to be the company that
they are. And as long as they have been in
the infrastructure of their online site and stuff like
they're not brand new like you would think.
Like there has to be a way that they can figure out a way where
it's like, if it ends up being like, oh, sold out of my car, we
can't, we don't really complain about that.
We're like, oh, crap, it just sold fast.
But when the site's like crashing and you don't have a

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chance to put something in your car, that's when it's just kind
of like like really, is it really that many people on
there? Like there really was.
But I, I don't know, it just seems a little fishy.
And it is interesting because wecracked on this whole like thing
that they're doing with the, thenames and the, and the special

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like limited pieces that they'repricing higher than they should.
And every time they've had one of these, they have sold out.
A lot of times they've been trash looking pops.
People for some reason have beenbuying them.
And this one of course was 750 piece, which that's not the
lowest that they're going to make, right?
No, it's going to be like a pretty low one, but.

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Yeah, I think what's considered a grail, and I could be wrong,
is like from zero to 750. OK, so it's in that in.
That lower tier though, yes. OK, so obviously that, you know,
makes it more exciting. Like you said, I know this
specifically, I believe it's from the game, right?
And it's like a character that alot of people like and kind of
wanted. So like that part of Funko is

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great because it's like, oh, you're doing something that
people want and it's something exciting.
The pop looks great, the detailson her amazing, whatever.
Then they're going to put it into this like specialty type of
way. But you know, we have our issues
on like how the system is run with the points and whatever it
may be. And the fact that the price
points are usually higher for a pop like this, which we already

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said that's just Funko kind of gouging.
They shouldn't be doing that. But regardless, it's being sold
and then it's being flipped because that's just kind of how
the way the market is. People are excited, people are
getting FOMO and a lot of those things that were posted like
this tracker posted, those were sales.
They weren't just posts. Like I know which is crazy.
Those prices. So that was pretty nuts.
I've always this is so off topicbut I've always found it wild

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that people, especially with this amount of money, will spend
these prices for an item that these people don't even have
yet. I think this and this has
nothing to do with Funko. This is just every day and
sellers in general, like when something just gets pre-ordered
or something gets launched and then they say they have it and
you go and you spend all this money to buy it and you know
that things aren't even out yet like you got.

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A lot of worse. There for these people because
it's a little crazy. But yeah, either way it is a it
is a crazy thing. It's putting Funko back into the
news, is getting people talking about him, whatever it is.
It's going to be interesting to see kind of what goes forward
with more of these, you know, special limited edition drops
and stuff that they do, especially with the rewards

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points and programs. I feel like how a lot of people
are like really loving it. Obviously they're selling, but
there was a lot of people specifically for this pop, I
know a lot that were really upset because they weren't able
to get it and it was just kind of essentially near impossible
like you said. And it just kind of makes you
think if any other pops that come out with this like 750 or
lower number, it's like, do you even bother trying to get it?

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Like realistically they should make this more of like a raffle
style, like the EQL type of thing. 100%.
Because that's usually a little safer because you get everybody
in there put in your bids and then they just go and pick
somebody like that just, to me, seems safer.
And I'm surprised they're not doing that because they already
do that with, you know, some of the products that they sell,
even if they're not the greatestproducts, they do that.

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So yeah, interesting. I know.
That's 100. That's 100% how they should be
handling this. I know you need to use the the
rewards points, but there's got to be an integration that they
could do where you can just enter.
The still come your from exactlycan still come from your rewards
points if they really want to stick to that whole rewards
points thing where if you're in there, the problem is is then

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EQL is kind of like a third party and you have to have a
card and then that card gets charged.
Like we've kind of seen where some people can't even use
certain cards through EQL. That's happened.
So that's probably why they don't do that.
But there should be some type ofsystem, I feel like that they
can do a little better than justoh, just going to drop at this
time. And then like The thing is too
is like they give you a window be like, it's going to close at

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this time. It's like for like 10 minutes
later, that's already like gone.And it's just like, wow, what's
the point of that window, you know?
And it's and it's another last thing you know.
Let us know in the comments if you agree.
I feel though like Funko had such a good moment with this,
but the way it got executed got more people talking crap then
they were excited about it. And if it didn't go down this

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way, and I think it's totally justified, I don't think it's
people being like, you know, babies about it or jealous of
other people who got it. Like, I'm none of those things.
I'm just like, the site shouldn't be telling me to
contact customer service error. I just thought that was just
comical in itself. But like I said, let us know in
the comments. What do you think?

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Yeah, yeah, I don't know, we'll see what's what's going on.
We didn't talk about this beforehand like bringing this
up, but I just see it in now andI didn't want to cause kind of
ties to this whole reverse thing.
They do have a post and a diss tracker put it up on their site
where it's like we're planning something special one in on the
fun join fan rewards or trying to really push for people to get

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the fan rewards. So it's like what is exactly
what that's going to be is goingto be interesting to see.
But I just, I don't know. I know like some of these
limited ones have been odd. I don't think they've been
exciting. This one obviously you thought
for sure because it's more up your your alley.
But yeah, the way they're kind of doing it and if it's going to

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be like this going forward, it'sgoing to be a mess, definitely a
hot mess. But yeah, them as a, as a
company, they're kind of in a weird state.
And we did want to mention something else that they were in
the news for essentially. And it's, you know, the company
itself of what it's doing, how it's doing, and it's clearly not
doing really well. You know, stock, everything's

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going down, losing lots of money.
There was actually a report thatcame out of their second
quarter. The last thing was like 41 or
so, $1,000,000, which sounds pretty wild.
Like when you think obviously a lot of these big companies do go
through these losses and they make it back because they make a
lot of money sometimes. So even if it's in the millions,
to us that's like, holy crap. You know, sometimes it's not the

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craziest debt to them. But with this company kind of
being where they're at, where they're, we already knew for the
last year or so, they haven't been doing well on that front.
And then obviously CEO gets let go, there's a change.
We have an interim guy now kind of just trying to clean things
up. And right in the beginning of
him doing all this, we get thesereports that clearly they're

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losing tons of money and it's just not good.
So the reason why I wanted to bring it up is because obviously
we talk about this type of stuffwith all the companies in
general, especially with Funko, But because we were just talking
about something that, you know, just happened with them and
we're going to talk about some other stuff and some things
they're going to be releasing. But it's just just get you

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thinking of like where really isthis company going to go?
Because it just has not been going upwards like they have
been going down for quite a while now.
Whether it's been slow or a big plummet, there's not much peaks
going on in this company in the last few years.
And this just kind of points like obviously the money is not

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also because that's what we, we used to think we're like,
they're not doing great things, we're not happy, whatever, but
they're still making money. So like, you know, they're going
to do whatever they want, but then you see something like this
and it's like we're not really making money maybe.
And yeah, there's some reasoningbehind it.
You can talk about it kind of like what their interim came out
and said to, you know, which I believe some of it.

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Obviously there's been a lot of craziness going on with like
companies and getting things overseas, etcetera.
But it just seems a little too like, yeah, I don't know,
coincidence? It's kind of convenient.
I mean, he basically blamed the,you know, bad market that we
have right now, blaming tariffs,you know, people not spending.

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Also contributed A lawsuit that Funkos Funko has been a part of.
Just all are, you know, things the point why this happened.
I get that's his job, but my, I mean, I, I don't think he's
lying about any of those. Yeah.
No, I agree. Yeah, but the one thing that,
you know, me and Mick talk aboutthis all the time, and it's kind

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of why it's hurt our super, super love for Funko is it's
just way too mass produced now. There's just way too many
things. That's why they are in the
predicament that they're in. Like they need to stop making.
And I've said this before, like Star Wars just talking about the
star that is my #1 fandom. My number one thing I've always

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and always will collect. I stopped buying the Funko pops.
I used to like get them all. I don't need a million of them.
I don't need They even ruin a character like Ezra Bridger.
There used to be 1 Funko pop from Rebels which is super cool.
Was in the original set and theymade another.
I'm like, OK, if he became more popular because he was in
Ahsoka, there's a lot of new Star Wars fans who like, you

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know, Rebels. So give people a chance, okay,
I'm fine with that. Then they came out with another.
Then they came out with another.Like that's just like an example
that I want to point out, which they just did that wrong.
I was OK with two the original and then like the repeat, which
once again, many moons ago, we would talk about that when that
was Funko strategy. He gave people the opportunity

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to own the quote UN quote Grail or the Ogs and they give them
another one. They can maybe mass produce a
little, but I don't need then another version that looks the
same. But he has a loathe cat, another
one where he has a scar. The other one he's like pointing
his hand out. It's just like enough is enough.
That's in my opinion. And I do think you'll you agree.
Like that's why we're at where we're at with Funko.

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Yeah, yeah, that's a a huge reason why I just got it got too
overwhelming. It got 22, like you said, mass
produce. And you know, some people maybe
like that because it's easier for them to go and grab
something like we we've kind of argued that end of it as well.
But there needs to be a happy medium.
And it's just kind of seems likethey went from zero to a. 100

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and level. It was just not what it used to
be. So the passionate people like
us, like, you know, we can't just have 567000 pops, you know,
and just be OK with that. Like it's just not going to make
sense. So that's kind of like where it
was going and it's just slowed alot of, we're not the only ones
slowed a lot of collectors down.And they just haven't been doing

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a lot of the right moves. They haven't been doing things
that are exciting anymore. And if they do, it's here a few
and far between and it's just not, it's not worth it.
So this was another situation where we see something kind of
cool and it's like still not executed right.
And then we get into more of a mess.
But yeah, they're clearly losingmoney and it's just going to be

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a wild rest of the year. I would assume, you know, going
into the holidays, see what's happening because even on years
that they've done well, they usually do have a lot of
overstock of stuff and they get rid of things and they dump
stuff. And it's like it's going to be
quite a year to kind of see what's going to happen for them
to end this year. And then obviously, hopefully we

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start getting news. I'm like, OK, who's really going
to start taking over? And is there going to lead to
more of a change specifically based off of who that person is
going to be, which we had a whole episode talking about like
who we think the type of person should be who takes over this
company who can get it back to where it was.
But who knows if that's even going to get there.
But yeah, so Funko in the news again.

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For some not not good. Stuff like they're.
Definitely not. They're not holding up their end
of the bargain. I'm sure it's the shareholders
either. So like, it's not good as a
company, but that is not your thoughts.
Obviously, you know, if you guysstill really have love for Funko
and what you guys think and if things are going well or not on
your end, what do you think about it?
But you know, comment down belowif you haven't already on this

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one, but we'll get into some stuff that like I said, they
still are coming out with some things that we do.
Like we're excited in the sense of like it's something new or
something we do like. And you know they'll do that
because there's so much that they have out there.
Chances are, you know, you throwa dart and hit the bullseye once
and it's just kind of like what's happening right now.
But. Great analogy, yeah.

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We have, I wanted to start off with this because we've talked
about this countless times on this, on this sorry not episode
on this channel. And it has been a little while
that we've kind of have not seena new one that has gotten a lot
of excitement behind it. But they are still making and
this is kind of interesting thatthey still actually at this
point do this, but they are still making Funko NFTS like

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this still is a thing. I know for a while we thought,
OK, maybe it wouldn't work out. And then we're like, oh, this is
going to be the greatest thing they ever do.
But then I feel like it kind of got back to where I'm like, they
might just stop doing these because like who knows what's
going on, but they clearly are. And this is probably something
that's helping their margins andgetting them some money if they
need. So I'm sure they'll keep pumping

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these out. But we have the latest Funko NFT
drop, which is actually Disney villains.
So interesting thing about this one.
I know you probably are really excited and passionate about
this one, but it is a smaller. Smaller set, so we're getting a
small set through Disney. It's going to be 9500 standard

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and 8500 premium. The big thing is there's only
going to be 4 redeemables. It's actually technically three
actual redeemables and then the royalty.
So quite interesting. We're not getting a Freddy,
which I still think there's no Freddy's in Disney, right at
all. We're getting a Franny, which is
interesting, but it's still havea Freddy, right?
Because. I think they haven't had

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anything, it's always only been character.
There's never been a royalty. Yep, until now.
So now we're getting a Franny asa royalty, which has pretty
cool. It's a good one.
Obviously, you know, fits into the villains, but a couple
things about this. So one very niche.
They went super, super, super niche.
I mean, Maleficent, obviously a pretty popular character, but I

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would say the other three, like if you're not really into Disney
or you know too much about Disney, I agree.
You may not even know who they are a or you may not realize who
they are. But we're getting, if you want
to run through, you can run through the characters that
we're going to get. But I did want to point that out
because that does kind of make it one of those sets that both
you and I, I'm sure you agree, tend to gravitate towards more

(21:25):
than the mass produce huge ones with a bunch of packs and a
bunch of like to redeem bulls. A. 100% I mean, I actually I
think this that's awesome. So now I am happy with Funko for
this small second because like you said, we're getting kind of
neat. I mean, yeah, they're they're
niche villains. We're getting Sheng Yu from

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Mulan, which another thing on purpose, we've never got a Funko
Pops of any of these, which is another thing I really like.
And before I continued telling everyone the rest of the
characters, another thing that Funko needs to stop doing if
they want to continue making their fans happy.
These should be the only time weget these these characters.
I like I, I, I think you agree with that.

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Like I don't want now to get like maybe another one of these
where it's a different pose. So then we're getting the big
bad Wolf, which is so awesome. We're getting Nessus from an
obscure Moore villain from Hercules.
Obviously it's not Hades. That's another awesome thing.

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And then like, make. So we're getting Franny Funko as
Melissa. I mean, small set, super cool,
brand new molds. The boxes look sick.
Yeah, boxes are really like, everything about this looks
awesome. High.
That's a small. There's 9500 standard, 8500
premium. I would like to think hopefully

(22:51):
this will sell out. One thing I do know, some of the
hardcore NFT collectors don't like the Disney drops because
they're drop exclusive. At this point.
I feel like people just get overthat.
But I think this one, I, I'm going to go after these and I
haven't been like going nuts over the NFTS in a while.
Yeah, yeah, there's, there's obviously still some excitement

(23:11):
out there. People are kind of like, wow,
this is cool with this and the and the niche end of things or
like, oh, finally we're getting this big bad wolf.
Finally we're getting Shan. You like things like you said
like that don't exist already inPunko.
It is exciting. This is what we said.
This should be like they should be dropping stuff that's like
hasn't been dropped before. And then just leave it at that.
Like that's the perfect way to do it.

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That'll get people really into this and get them thinking like,
oh, this is the only way I'm going to be able to get it
unless I buy it on the resale market, et cetera.
I did see some stuff in the comments and I keep forgetting
that this is actually a thing. But overseas people can't get
these like Funko NFTS, which kind of sucks because it does
kind of limit, you know, your your reach out there and there

(23:52):
are fans of these of these characters and these type of
drops that have been coming out and they're not unable to get
it. So like it kind of does suck for
them because they don't have theopportunity to do it.
So that's one thing, but I thinkthey have had sets like this
that we've gotten really excitedabout.
And this is just kind of anotherone.

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It is a little bit like I, I I've met niche more in a sense
of like, yeah, like you don't see these people that much,
right? Like they don't get products.
Yeah, like you don't really get much chant use, like obviously
like a you know, the big feelingof the of the movie, but you
don't really see much about him.And then like taking Ness is
like this, not like the main one, which obviously we have
tons of Haiti stuff. We have tons of Hercules stuff.

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We don't have that character like, and that's a cool mold.
Like he's obviously like a who'scalled like Sinatar or whatever
they're called, like the part like horse or whatever.
So like, yeah, so that's like awesome.
Like obviously we have Maleficent.
We've had plenty of Maleficent. We've had different versions of
Maleficent. But like putting Frannie in that
is perfect because we've alreadykind of said if Frannie came out

(24:58):
as Leia and Freddie came out as obviously the Wonder Woman one
came out like those like big female characters, even though
we've had them and they made tons of them, if they put friend
in it, it still would be cool because we don't have any of
those. So this is like kind of a
situation where where I'm okay with her being Maleficent.
We're still getting Maleficent, you know, even though we have
it. Yeah, overall, definitely good.

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Not a huge 1, so it's good. Packs will be less and like, I
agree, the boxes are amazing. The artwork on this is great and
I'm glad that they didn't reallyoverdo it.
It's just kind of like, are theygonna have a, you know, a Wave 2
later or maybe drop some more, you know, maybe if they do it in
small batches like this, I'm OK with that.
Especially if they stick to a lot of these types of characters

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and don't just go with the big, big ones that, you know, exist
out there already. Like kind of overdone, but.
One thing I will say too, we're completely forgot we did get our
first Freddie Disney. We got Freddie S Sid from Toy
Story. Oh yeah.
But two sick ones that they've done, I would say actually two
of the best shops that we've hadin a long time, that one and now

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this. So yeah, it's cool that they can
now do that. So I'm assuming going forward,
that's what we will get for Disney.
Where do we go? Yeah, yeah, definitely exciting
in a sense of like, if you like these and you still have been
collecting them, this is a good one to kind of add to the rest
of the collection. You know, on the NFT side of

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things. This will be dropping the 19th,
which is not this week. It'll be following week.
So I mean, it seems like they'vebeen pretty light and slow on
drops when we're back there was like 2 months, three months on
time. They're not doing as well.
Yeah, yeah, has to be. So they're definitely a little
Taylor push, pull back a lot on on.

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Some they haven't been checking this.
They went from being so good. They're so behind on sets.
It's out of control. Yeah, it's happening again.
That happened that one time and then they kind of cleaned it.
Yeah, fix it up. And now we're back on that on
that same wagon again. But there was a few lines we did
want to kind of talk about. So they're like I said, we used
to do this all the time and kindof kind of moved away from it,

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especially because it hasn't been too much stuff that has
been super appealing to us. But a few lines that I didn't
want to bring up. One of them is obviously we're
getting some more wicked pops. So obviously, you know, in time
for the new movie, of course, the second one that will be
coming out, we did have a few pops from the first set.

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So obviously, you know, it made sense that we go into this one,
but what's cool is we're going to get the, you know, the
general Alphaba and Glenda ones.I mean, maybe a little bit of a
spoiler here with them showing like the, you know, of course,
the Dorothy and Wizard of Oz style characters.
We do know, obviously if you know this storyline or if you've
ever seen Wicked the musical, you know, you know, this kind of

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happens. But we're going to get those
characters that are usually fromthe classic like Wizard of Oz
movie in this one. And we've only seen like a quick
teaser of them and the latest like trailers and stuff that
have come out they. Don't show their faces the.
Don't the only one you kind of see the most of is probably the
lion. So now we're going to get the

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lion, which lion looks pretty cool, is interesting, but like
Scarecrow, I don't even rememberseeing him in the trailer much.
And like now you're going to seeexactly what he's going to look
like. Tin Man.
Obviously he's going to be a tinman, but it's interesting that
they did that. But either way, it's still going
to kind of raise some hype up for for this movie, I'm sure.
And people that are excited, there's gonna be multiple
versions of El football. They're coming out with

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different glitters and stuff like that.
But I think it's it's a cool setand like, I'm glad they did.
The lion obviously flocked like these are like the smart things.
Realistically, the Tin Man should be metallic.
They didn't do that. But like, sometimes they they
make sense and then sometimes you just don't.
It's just weird when it comes tothose like specialty stuff.

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But I don't know what you think about the set.
Obviously I'm excited for the movie, so it's cool to see.
Yeah, I mean, I think this set'sawesome, actually.
And, you know, back in the day Iwould have bought all these.
I just don't buy like I used to and I love, like you said, the
lions flocked and hopefully that's the only one we get and
like there doesn't need to be any other versions.

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I think these yeah, I think these are all great.
I think we'll probably get another wave once the movie kind
of comes out. This is like the pre launch for
the pops for the new movie. But I I think this is a home run
for Funko. And I think this also hits a
market that I feel like they've always wanted to get into, like

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a new, like branch of a fandom that they don't normally get.
I think these will be big for them.
So I, I, I do like this line. Yeah.
Another line that they came out with which.
Oh, my God, sorry. Excuse me, I'm getting over a
little bit of cough, but you know, the new Tron line, which I

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love Tron, but they already makethese like we already have Kevin
Flynn pops. They're cool and I like I once
again, I want them, but I'm not going to get them.
The Tron and the light cycle, once again, super sick.
But those pieces, I just don't get those anymore.

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And we're getting a Yuri pop, which I don't believe they make.
But I just bring these up once again because, like, I think
these are awesome as Tron is actually.
I love Tron. I think it's criminally
underrated. And I think Tron Legacy came out
at a bad time before, like, big blockbusters like that were huge

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again. Then we went into the superhero
craze. It's a very underrated movie.
If you ever watch it, I recommend it.
And the score is absolutely sick.
But yeah, I don't think we need repeated characters.
So that's why like, I'm like iffy on this one because it's
not even like the original Tron Pops.
They're not old pops. They didn't come out that long

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ago. Like anyone who wanted them
could get them. Yeah, and the and, but these are
like the OG. From the OG.
Movie, yeah, which is which is also what's kind of weird and
interesting because the new one's coming out yeah and it's
like why not just make ones for the movie that's going to be
coming out and the new, you know, sequel and everything and
it's like. It's just weird.

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Do I go back to these like OG ones?
A little strange, but like, yeah.
I mean, do they have one on the life cycle at all?
They don't. OK, because that that's cool,
like. It is, It is cool, it's very
cool, but it is a. Little.
I just look at it as like when Funko was in their absolute

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hype, these would have been fire.
Now when we're asking them to get back on track and trim, like
I'm not trying to be hypocritical because like I do
like these. And if I was, I have more space
and I was collecting the way I used to, I would get them.
But I yeah, that's that's my issue with them.

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Yeah, very interesting. Another one that's kind of
interesting actually is we're getting more Marvel zombie pops.
So I do know actually in storageI have like almost every single
Marvel zombie pop from the first, like a couple waves and
stuff because I thought it looked really cool.

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Obviously you kind of fit into like the horror genre that I
like and clearly Marvel as well.But, you know, we started
getting some of these charactersin the What If show and now
we're gonna get like a Marvel zombie show like on Disney Plus.
So like, kind of seems like the timings there where like, maybe
these fit into that, but who knows?

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Like, 'cause if it is, they're kind of spoiling as well.
Like, 'cause we don't have know anything about that show yet.
Yeah, but we got like a zombie Captain America, like kind of
like just his upper body, kind of like going to the ground and
stuff. There's a there's a Hawkeye one
and then we got a Bleed Knight. So that kind of goes to show you
like that's maybe a character that they're going to go with

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where we haven't really seen. I think I even saw like there's
another Wolverine zombie one that's going to be coming out as
well. So just a little interesting.
I actually kind of forgot about that the show was going to be
coming out. When I first saw these, I kind
of was just like, why? Why are they coming out?
Why are they doing this? But even if it fits the show, I
guess it's still a little randombecause again, we don't know

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much about that show, just that it's gonna come out eventually.
But yeah, just kind of weird because a lot of these sit
around, they don't really sell super well.
So it'll be, it'll be love to see kind of what happens with
with these if they do sell or not.

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Yeah, I mean, I completely agreewith you.
Like I feel like yeah, we didn'treally need them, even though
they look cool. They just, like you said, they
kind of sat around at one point.Another thing though, talk about
Biddy. Which now I'm starting to think
Biddy, Biddy definitely ain't doing as well for them as I I
thought they were. So makes you're probably
definitely right about that. But they're still doubling down

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on it, I'm sure. I'm curious if it'll slow down,
but they're now making kind of hanger packaging packs, I think
to probably do appeal maybe moreto people like yourself or just
more hardcore collectors who thought they were probably
silly. And they they're doing them in 2

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packs, like 2, like a couple or an iconic pair.
So you're getting like 11 in theDemagogue and from Stranger
Things you're getting Miles and Gwen from, you know, Spider Man,
we're getting Han and Leia from Star Wars, like stuff like that.
I mean, I think they look prettycool, but it's just interesting.

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But then we're getting tons of accessories too.
Some of these had leaked before,but one that I do think is kind
of cool because as everyone who's been a fan knows, I love
Christmas. They're making ornaments that
you can put the bitty pops in. I mean, I think that's kind of
cool because they're interchangeable.
They're coming out with a like apretty big like case that you
can put them all in like a collector's case and then you

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can also put in some of those vehicles for the town.
Then they're also coming out with these kind of, I mean, to
me they look kind of like, I will call them starter packs.
I don't know if they have an official name for like the whole
city thing, like for let me looklook for Harry Potter.
You're getting the Hogwarts Express, you're getting a few

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Harry Potter's characters. You're getting all of the
Vanders like you're getting likea ride a a town I need.
To put them all. Like they're, they're cool.
I just I kind of wishes this is what they started Biddy with in
the very beginning. But the only thing is, and you
know, let me, I'm pretty sure I I know this even though I don't

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have them. And if you do, let me know in
the comments whether I'm right or wrong.
They're like towns. They should have made the cars
actually work. Like none of them have real
wheels. So if I thought this was going
to be great for like my son, butit really is just for like old
nerdy people who like to build models of stuff.

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They don't move. I I think that's like another
they didn't test this correctly or didn't really think about who
this should have been for like no kid is actually going to want
that. They can't really do anything
with her. They just stay.
So I'm curious what I I'm prettysure you hate all of this, but

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what? Let us know what you think.
Well. No, I mean to go off the first,
the last thing you just said, actually interesting because
they they really show you like you.
I've never thought about this. But when it comes to like, like
you said with the car thing, right, that they're not really
like a toy and then they're theyare really pushing the collector

(37:12):
and they'll put it up and don't move that type of thing because
every single Funko ride doesn't move.
I have F1 car ones, the wheels on move, like all that kind of
stuff. And like they clearly that's not
what they want. They just want it to look like
this and it's just a display, like you're not supposed to move
and play with it, etcetera. That's kind of like what it

(37:33):
seems like. And then obviously the same
thing with these bitties and thesmaller versions and they're
just kind of just put them here and there.
Like you said, just build something quickly on the
ornaments thing is an interesting thing.
Like, yeah, it's it's it's cool for the Christmas thing.
They obviously go pretty OD withChristmas when it comes to like
other like different things thatthey do in the Funko world.
So obviously Biddy's was going to kind of jump into that.

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The packs, the 2 packs is is a is a better way to kind of
present this. It is looks better.
It's also packaged perfectly that if you don't want to open
it and you're really like a hardcore like don't let me keep
that plus pack the way it is. Like you can do that.
You can't really do that with the other packs.
It just didn't look well, didn'tdisplay well.
You couldn't put it anywhere besides maybe on a shelf.
This you can hook, hang it up a lot easier.

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And then the big sets, like I'm OK with that in a sense of like
this, what they should have done.
It's just funny because like allthese things exist.
So it's like you, maybe you already got that ride or maybe
you got one of these and it's like, why do you want to get
that? Just to get all of them, you
know? So like they shouldn't have from
the beginning. Clearly they're just kind of
working backwards. It's just very, very, very
strange when it comes to Biddy. And then that case is actually

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like pretty cool. Like I don't mind that where you
can kind of display a lot more. You can carry them, bring them
somewhere if you want to bring them to do trades or whatever,
you know like that which. Gears that gears towards kids
too as well it's weird they. Don't feel like it does.
It does. So it's kind of like that world
and that realm, which I don't hate.
So it's just like, it's just Bitty's been round long enough

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that it's kind of is what it is,and now they're kind of throwing
a bunch of skews and things at us.
It's almost like too late, I guess you could say.
Yep. But yeah, I'm never, I really am
just not gonna be a fan of this.I still am not at all.
And even by saying that like there is a wave and there's a
line that's coming out, which isgonna be really cool.

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And I know we both are fans of and it is one piece.
So they are gonna have one piecebiddies.
So they did show some first looks.
They have some pre-orders out there.
But a couple of cool things about this, like one, obviously
we're fans of this characters are all great or cool.
Speaking of, obviously the trailer just came out for the
season, which looks awesome. So second and third season is

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gonna be coming out. Actually all of those.
But what's good about this or interesting is that we're
getting a lot of like charactersand molds that don't exist.
I get all in Funko, which is kind of a little strange.
That baby is where you want to unveil them and reveal these.
Like just come out the damn pops.
Like, you know, they sell and these are popular and exciting,

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but they clearly have made a mold or a design so they know
that they can make it in a bigger version, I'm sure because
they have any small ones. So that was kind of a an
interesting thing to see. But yeah, just another set of
and it's the old school way where it's the four and you can
get a chase and whatever, but I'm just not a fan of these at

(40:30):
all, honestly. And yeah, I don't know what you
think because this is kind of like have you been purchasing
any of of these since the beginning or you just kind?
Of I have not bought. These lately, right?
I have not bought these in forever weirdly enough I just
bought a few for my son for his birthday 'cause he like he so
thinks they're cool but once again like they just end up all

(40:50):
over the place. His little my like my younger
son then got like it's I wanted to love these and I I don't hate
them like it's funny. I actually may get that
collector's case and me and my son put all of ours in it and it
is a nice way to keep it organized.
But once again, like not to repeat myself and I'm happy you
agreed like all this stuff. They should have launched with

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us. The whole product line would
have seemed cooler and more thought out.
It reminds me of a which you know, some people will laugh at
me for this, but how they did the Star Wars sequel trilogy,
they just did it as they went. Like they should have had more
of a plan with these biddies because I do think they would
have been much cooler if it all launched like this.

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But like the One Piece ones, I think they're cool again, I
probably won't get them. And I also agree with you.
It's kind of a weird way like tointroduce some characters that
don't have pop form yet to tell people like, pardon me is like,
Oh, is this a cool Easter egg byFunko?
No, it's just this is what firstcame out and like, it's just

(41:56):
it's weird. Like I and I don't know if it's
really getting people excited ornot.
Like let us know in the commentsif you think that's cool or it's
kind of lame or you know, whatever, you don't even think
about it. It's just it's interesting to
me. And I really think not to change
the bitty topic, but Funko needsto find a new product SKU And
this I sound crazy that goes into the true blind box mystery

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craze that's going on right now.I don't want them.
They're they'll probably do it once it's not popular anymore.
But like I know they've had mystery stuff before, but like
the biddies don't count those minis that they make don't
count. Like they need a premium product
that like at like soda. Soda, dude, you remember?
Imagine if they made something like a soda, they put it in a

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can, you didn't know what it was, and then if you had a
chance to pull a chase. Wild.
That would be awesome. They should do that.
Excuse me, dude, It's kind of comical to me now it once again,
Funko is actually ahead of it and you know, Brian's killing it
right now with Throw Joy. I mean, let's be real.

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That's why that's why Throw Joy's being talked about now it
I even like that community, eventhough it's still small.
I look at some of the money thatsome of these people are
spending. Oh yeah.
And I do know, like there's a lot of like, especially in the
origins of where a lot of this is super popular in China.
Like they consider this like a gambling addiction.

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I'm sorry. I mean, I'm definitely obviously
seeing that now in the States and even in this collectible
world. But Funko needs to, you know,
take advantage of that. They really do.
And now is the time to do it. They had that with with soda.
Like that was literally what it was.
Quite frankly, I would even Funko if I were you, you know, I
would even RIP off, throw joy atthis point if you needed to,

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like your product's already made, put a thing around it and
see what you get. Like they need like I'm, I
don't, I hope you don't mind that I'm bringing this up
because I'm curious of your opinion.
Like I think this could really help and not say Funko.
They need something like that and they need it now.
Yeah, no, I mean, I I agree because in the so I don't even

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know if it would save them rightnow because of where they're at.
But yeah, like, yeah, it's something that definitely they
should have already been on and they kind of already were.
And that's what's the most frustrating thing is that like
they had this. They had it before other people
like, yeah, blind boxes, the binny cells are like you're
right, existed, whatever. But they had this already.
They already they already did their great pops.

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You had a chance of chases here and there.
OK, that was cool. Which I feel like now that's
kind of gone. Like you don't really have the
excitement of even a chase pop anymore.
Like those, yeah, are so few andfar between, but it's like non
existent. But then soda was their way of
like always running into that because clearly there was one or
two here and there that didn't have a chase.
But pretty much most of the timethey did.

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And it got people excited. It got people buying more than
one. Like that was a thing.
People were buying cases or people were buying 2-3 at a time
because they wanted to pull it. It was exciting.
You ripped it open. You had no idea what was inside.
You had to RIP a bag and then you saw it or they've wanted to
look at the pog. You look at the POG and you
figured out what it was like. That's literally what is

(45:16):
dominating collecting toys, kidsand everything in the last year.
Like hands down, like is this look at the Lil Boo Boo craze.
Look at it's kind. Of all of these collectibles in
their entire life. People that are 50 and people
that are 5, Like it's literally got every single one of them in
this and no one is doing that now with Funko.

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Like that's they're nowhere nearthat.
And it was as soon as they got rid of soda is when everyone
else decided to just blow up even more.
And it was just kind of like you're an idiot for this move.
Like what were you doing? And not that they need to bring
soda back, like maybe they do something different and new, but
like they had it like it's just crazy.
And we got to keep going ranting.

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But like we spoke about, you know, maybe it was aluminum,
maybe they just didn't do it right.
And it could have switched up. Maybe they could have went to
plastic, they could have done something, but they easily could
have switched. And it just it's it's like so
obvious that the brain trust thepeople that were up there were
idiots because the mic and the Brian of the world that did that

(46:22):
while they were there are still doing it.
They're just doing it completelyoutside of Funko.
And no one in Funko is like, we need to do this.
Like it's a wow, we had no like idea that we're going to go down
this route with this episode, honestly.
But it just gets you thinking like, what the hell are they
doing? Who is running this thing?
And like, how are they not? And like you said, they have the

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minis and there's like little things that they have, but those
were so trash and it just did not make sense.
And they're not a mini aspect does not make sense either
because I know they have this small little bag.
Like no, that is not what you need.
You need like a legit figure, which is like a pop essentially,
or soda, which they already had,which was a legit figure that
you can collect and have that betheir mystery or do whatever it

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is or some kind of blind bag, whatever.
There's so many they can come upwith so many names.
They could do so many different things and it's just wild that
they haven't done it yet. Like there's so far behind that
even if I feel like they start to do it, yeah, it might be way
too late. No crazy crazy because I know I
don't know if you had something you want to bring up, but I.

(47:29):
Want to bring up because I knew we could roll into something.
Because I do want to talk about something else.
I don't know, this is the same thing you were thinking about,
but it's just, it's just Funko going backwards.
And I do want to bring it up because it's like, why they
still making this? So this is random, but they're
still making die cast. And that's an interesting thing
that I want to bring up because I love the die cast.
We both actually really love. And they first came out, it was

(47:51):
amazing. Kind of started to hate it when
they did the whole chase where it was like silver and
everything like that. Wasn't too cool, but it is what
it is. But that kind of disappeared and
we made sense. It was expensive and expensive I
wanted it to make. I'm sure no one was buying them.
They were putting them on crazy sales or probably losing a lot
of money, but they're making another one.

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So this is kind of weird becausethis makes this thing like
they're clearly still out there and still making them.
They're going into like the anime world, which is
interesting. We're getting a Demon Slayer,
we're getting a Tangaro, TangaroKamado.
It's obviously like one of the main characters and there's
gonna be a die cast of this. And it's just like, I just don't
know, like what they're thinkingin a sense of like if they

(48:37):
thought like this was something they had and they're just like,
oh, we're finally going to release it.
Or if they were like, you know what we need to make, we need to
make a die cast. We haven't done one of those in
a while. Let's throw this item up there
for $50 when our like our fans aren't even buying our freaking
$1518 pops. Let's see if they'll buy a $50
one. And it's like, it's just like
such dumb decisions. And it's crazy because like this

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is good. Like I, I think it's cool.
It looks great, but it's just like the way they do things is
what's odd. And someone commented just, like
a hilarious one. And they're like, again, they're
like, what's next, soda? Like we're gonna get over Team
Sarasota announced, You know, like, it's just seems like their
work. I don't know.
It's so messy, bro. I don't know.

(49:20):
I can't, I can't keep going on this.
But yeah. What do you think?
I mean I agree like I don't really think I can add much is
the only thing that's funny is Ijust went to funko.com to see
what they still have and they have a banner on all the diecast
left I've never seen before. It says web exclusive.
Yes, so web exclusive is a new thing.

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I God, you brought that up not just on on what's it called on
diecast. I noticed because I was looking
at some sports pops and there's a few that say that I don't know
what the hell that is. I don't know what.
That you can't get him in there in the Funko HQ.
And Thor, I guess. Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, that's definitely
something new. I did see that.
It's just interesting, but you can only get the Yoda, which is

(50:03):
funny. That's the only one.
You can get Yoda, Jordan and theJoker and to even show you once
again a place I never thought I'd be in with Funko.
Yoda is my all time favorite character.
I don't have that. You didn't get it.
Because I'm just like, I ain't spending 50 bucks for that.
It's insulting. All the money you and I gave to

(50:25):
them, they're still $50. They don't even.
Market down on a sale? Not even on a sale, though they
will always be part of their crazy sales.
Yeah, but I'm like, how am I gonna in good conscience buy
this? Even though I love the character
and I like, it's funny, I do want this for my collection, but
a year I'm I'm probably around Christmas time.

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I'll go get it at Marshalls for 15 bucks.
Yeah, because that's pretty refining them.
Yeah, makes sense. It's just like it's wild, wild,
wild, wild. Yeah, it's a Wild West out
there. It's chaos, craziness, uncle
just I don't know. Then they're doing things that
are make you scratch your head and then they don't do things

(51:06):
that make you scratch your head.So it's just like it's just it's
it's a thing. But yeah, they have a lot of
interesting stuff out there. Another thing was I did want to
mention real quick was that the making Friends, they have a
pretty funny set K Pop where it has the Mickey characters as
like if they were in a band, basically kind of cool, funny,

(51:29):
cute. Obviously that's a big hype
right now. K Pop Demon Hunters is massive
right now and supposedly they'regoing to make those as pops like
they need to. Like that's a huge huge Ave.
that they should run after. But they're going to pull a
Squid Game. They're going to come out when
no one wants them. Well, that's the problem is like
if they can figure it out and get these announced right away,

(51:50):
like great, but it's way too long.
It's going to be like an awkwardpart when it's like, why didn't
you know all these before? But yeah, I don't know.
So that that that's strange, butI don't know anything else on
the Funko side that you had. No, I mean, well, actually.
Besides the bin. Yeah, the bin.
It's like, do I even want to do even want to talk about It's
just a nail in the coffin. It's looking like Target instead

(52:14):
over a bunch of their exclusivesthat no one wants over to
Goodwill. Yeah, which answers our question
of how is goodwill? Getting all these, it's just
like, if I worked for Funko whenI saw this picture, it'd be just
so demoralizing. Like I, I really want to know
what Mike and Brian think of allthis stuff.
Like, boy, would I love to pick their brain.
They'd probably never really sayanything bad.

(52:35):
Maybe you can get them on, you know, the down low, but it's
just, it's just it's so sad. It is becoming like that thing.
Yeah. And it's funny because like,
this is a little little random, but it kind of puts it into
perspective of like what's goingon with Funko, where you find
these things are just out there randomly.
A friend of mine is actually, you know as well, Jimmy, he went

(52:57):
to, I forgot where it was somewhere down by maybe by the
boardwalk or something. They were at like arcade style
place whatever and playing gamesand things like that, whatever.
And he posted a picture and it was his son was whom they
remember what he was doing. But he was in the back of like
the trunk of his car and in the top corner I see a Funko Pop box
and I comment to him and I was like, oh, I see a Funko Pop and

(53:20):
it was a Spider Man. And he's like, Oh yeah, he
wanted on some game or whatever.So it's like, like that's what
they're becoming now. They're just like throwaways and
giveaways and things like that you could just find at random
places. And it's, I know it's just
really especially like Spider Man Friends is right.
Like these masked crazy producedones that clearly are not
selling and like they're so likeyou look at this bin, there's

(53:41):
something there like, oh, that'skind of cool.
Like, oh, that's interesting. Your boy Ezra's on there.
Yeah, but like, there's some ones that you're like, like the,
the, the 8 bit captain, right? Like why would they even make
that? Clearly that's not gonna sell.
Like you see stuff like that andyou're like, obviously this
stuff wasn't gonna sell and. It's funny.
Another possible I'm saying herenow is an Omega Star Wars pop

(54:02):
when that first came out that was a sick pop to get couldn't
get it anymore. Then that was one of the ones
that Funko like 2 years later was like oh let's make this same
exact pop again and reprint it. So it went from being, I mean
was by no means a grail, but it was a cool pop that came out
when the show was popular and this character has no other

(54:23):
Funko pops and instead of just leaving it alone, they had to go
do this. And now no one wants it anymore.
Which ones? Again?
Like, I know we're not, we say this all the time.
We don't collect for value, but it's always fun when some of
your pops do have value or they're scarce, yada yada, yada.
But like, dude, yeah, once again, like you can't.

(54:43):
I really, I always wanted the best of both worlds, but you
can't make a product line and a company a toy and a collectible.
It's like another thing they do with Funko.
Funko should have made another line that was their quote UN
quote toy line and Pop was theircollectible line.
That's another thing I think at this point I, you know, commend
them for trying, but it clearly screwed them.

(55:09):
Yeah, it's, it's messy, man. It's messy.
It's not, it's not good. But we'll, we'll switch up.
Lovers are going to hate us. Yeah, I hate us too much.
We'll just spin facts. And it's, it's exactly, there's
some stuff that we did like and.We were.
Excited for, obviously we were talking about most of those

(55:29):
lines because they are stuff that we do.
Like yes, it's just there's certain interesting things that
we just cannot not comment on and it's whatever quickly just
over and over to throw joy. We did talk about I think we
talked about some of these things, but I did want to just
bring it back up just in case because we are officially seeing
some of the actual like hero pieces chases, super chases of a

(55:50):
few of the new waves. One of them is SpongeBob great
because they have a SpongeBob that Patrick and then have a
skeleton SpongeBob like the Super chase TMNT.
Obviously we know they've already kind of been doing this
where they mix feelings and things like that and doing it
again with Raphael one, we get aBaxter as a chase and then like
kind of like shiny looking version of Raphael as like one

(56:12):
of those super chases. So again, great job by them
doing some of these sets. The last one I think was a Lord
of the Rings one, which we did speak of, but I don't know if we
talked about specifically this chase option and super chase,
but it's kind of like more the villain side of stuff.
So it's like Gollum done Herald King is is like the chase and

(56:32):
then the twilight ring wrath, which is going to be like a
really cool looking. These are.
Ultra or super chase, whatever you want to call it, because I'm
because they have dead. So that makes this correct.
So there's super chase and there's ultra chase, right?
Is it like when it's 48 versus 24 or whatever I'm assuming?
And there's also a 96 pieces they've done.

(56:53):
Yeah, I don't know the terminology well enough yet, but
I'm also so I'm not sure if they're considering like a super
chase and an ultra chase. Like the number there isn't a
specific number. It could be whatever it is, if
that makes sense, because like once.
Yeah, you guys are a little more.
We do have a lot of listeners until they're like very specific
to those details. Definitely let us know.

(57:14):
And then the last one's Articon one, which I didn't talk about
last time. Interesting because the Hero 1
is the one I think looks a little better than the Chase.
So I kind of would be a little happier with that one with
glasses. I think that's really cool.
They both look awesome now. So that's something when I will
want to get. And I believe it'll be at the
scare fair, like drop that they do at Hot Topic.

(57:36):
But yeah, just kind of throwing those out there.
I don't know if you have just kind of an overview, what you
think of some of those. I mean, I think they're awesome.
They're doing everything that like, it's just so funny.
I every episode I can say the roller coaster of Thrilljoy.
They're at a spot right now thatI think is, is amazing.
Their pieces are cool. They're limited, they're not

(57:56):
overwhelming. I love that they've tapped into.
I mean, I, I, the more I think about it, the way they change
the pics line, not just to be inboxes like this, but did the
chase element of it is brilliant, like brilliant,
brilliant, brilliant. Like, I can't believe how smart
it was because they could have just came out and had them be

(58:19):
like the Funko 2.0 that I still say they are, but just sit on
the shelves and you've got these.
Yeah, it's making them money. They're growing faster because
of it and all their molds are sick.
The details are incredible and Ithink they're pretty.
They look higher end than their price tag.
Yeah, no, yeah, the price tag isperfect, but I totally agree.

(58:43):
Like the fact you can get something that's 24 pieces, only
48 pieces, only 96, like that's exciting alone.
And at that price point and the chases and these ultra chase,
super chase type options have all been great.
I think I would say maybe like 98% are amazing on the chase
front 'cause there's a couple chases that are a little, you

(59:03):
know, not the best, but it's very few.
Like they really, really usuallyhit it out the park with the
chases. And it's mostly, it's not only
this reason, but it's mostly also because they switch up the
bold to a completely different thing.
And we talked about that from the beginning.
That's something that Punkle never did and it was a miss.
And Brian has really taken that and really ran with it and it

(59:25):
looks it. Looks one thing I would like to
think, and if anyone from Thiljoy is listening, I would
love for them to continue down apath that Funko doesn't do.
It's like this is the SpongeBob like mold that we have and like
we don't need another SpongeBob for a very, very long time.

(59:45):
Like I think that's another thing that's going to make these
super cool. You can collect a bunch of your
fandoms, but like you don't needto have like SpongeBob is such a
great example. There's so many Spongebob's for
like Funko Pops. It's ridiculous.
It's too excessive. They don't need to.
These are just these are just awesome.
Yeah, completely agree. Great job.

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The sponge one is also going to be a Hot Topic exclusive.
So like that exclusivity that you're doing with Hot Topic as
well, that's a like a perfect partner for them when it comes
to some of these. And then the last thing we'll
switch over to our other favorite new collective company,
and that is Rocky Moto. I did want to talk about this
specifically because we mentioned it, but we didn't have

(01:00:28):
as much details. And I feel like, you know, they
deserve us really talking about this and shouting out, you know,
how cool of a set this is for a couple of reasons.
One, because I said it last time, this is going to kind of
be their first one where they it's no longer just like 1
character in a cup and you can get to Chase like you're going

(01:00:51):
to have One Cup and there's eight different versions that
you're going to be able to get. But this Godzilla, you know, cup
of the ramen, they're going to do monsters ramen collectible,
they're going it is going to be really cool because of all the
different versions and the rarities and everything have
just all come out been announced.

(01:01:12):
So I think it's cool. The cup looks great.
Godzilla there's obviously huge in the Japanese and Asian
culture. These are awesome.
This is going to be pretty sweet, but we have obviously a
regular Godzilla. That's the one that's going to
be one in four. So of course that'll be pretty
common to pull that. It is him with the tongues, the
canal, which is cool, eating theramen, so that's great.

(01:01:35):
We have a Mechagodzilla, which is also a one in four so cool
that like it's such a different 1 is going to also be something
that you most agree will be ableto pull much more often.
And then we jump into like a onein six chance.
One in six chance obviously is kind of more of the chase realm
that we're used to. We have a little Godzilla, which
is such is like a baby version, doesn't have the Robin, but that

(01:01:57):
one's really cool. And then we have Mothra, which
is this where we start getting into some of these other
characters outside of Godzilla itself.
And that's also like a 1/6. That one's gonna be eating the
noodles. So they are mixing it up with
like some have the noodles. Which is cool.
Not exactly, which is really cool.
And these are really cool ways so you can run through the the
bottom, so the more rarest. Yeah, so then we're getting rude

(01:02:20):
in and these one out of 12. So I mean, once again, it's only
going up from being, you know, more rare from here.
We're getting in the Jet Jaguar and that's also 1 to 12.
And now both of them are the slur prize sitting down with the
noodles. And I know you kind of
mentioned, but I love this that has a mixture of everything.

(01:02:41):
So it still has that, you know, Rocky model look that we love.
Yeah. But then there's a few
characters in there that don't have that, especially if there's
some people who are like, aren'tinto that.
You can get a mixture of both. Then the one out of 48.
I mean this one is one of the best ones.
I think this entire set, which me obviously it's one out of 48

(01:03:01):
and it's burning Godzilla and he's holding the ramen standing
up and it has the like Rokimoto logo on it.
Yeah, and it looks like a it's like a spicy ramen if you look
at the colour compared to all the other ones.
You're right. Yeah, it's, Oh my God, I love
these. And then we're getting, which

(01:03:23):
we're now, we're seeing this a little bit now.
Yeah, the Snoopy had this like the Woodstock, for example, or
some of the Snoopy's. We're getting a translucent this
one's blue of Godzilla, and it'sone out of 96.
Yeah, it's holding the ramen in that one too.
Yeah, I think this line is amazing.
It also says it's a limited dropand I'm not 100% sure what that

(01:03:44):
means. You know, they haven't been and
I this doesn't bother me at all.I don't think it does you
either. They haven't been in your face
about the piece counts. But I know we mentioned this in
a previous episode on their new website.
You can actually go and see how many are made, but I wonder if
this is kind of like they're making a smaller amount and then
they're done. It's that they're available

(01:04:07):
later this fall. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's cool.
Later fall is gonna be it's gonna get exciting to see when
these come out. And hopefully because I only
thing I will say like so I have not even seen this like second
wave yet. So we're still waiting for those
to come out. So like hopefully we start
getting more of those because mymini so stores pretty big and

(01:04:27):
obviously when the first launch of the initial ones came out,
they were all over it. And for the most part they
usually have a decent amount of just those.
But I haven't, you know, haven'tgotten them Apache, haven't been
able to get the yeah, Yuki, likeany of those.
So like definitely want those because I'm looking to at least
get one of every character. That's definitely something I've

(01:04:48):
been trying to do with me and mydaughter.
But yeah, these these look awesome.
And they actually say like each cup is comes with a surprise.
So essentially, like almost all of these literally have ramen.
So they would be considered surprise otherwise, the little
Godzilla and the Mechagodzilla. But those are still, you know,
different than like a regular version.
So it's a great like, I hope they do this more often.

(01:05:12):
I don't want them to only do this.
I like the mixture that they've started with.
This is cool that they did switch to this option because
this is going to make people want to buy more of these.
You're gonna it's gonna be more exciting to grab multiple cups.
Like now you're kind of just like, do I want one or the
surprise? Maybe I'll get one or the other.
I can maybe grab 2, but you don't.
You're not really going crazy of1 figure usually, especially

(01:05:34):
'cause there's only two you can get and then if you pull it,
you're pretty much set this, youhave 8 different ones that you
can go, you're going after. And it kind of like makes things
way more exciting. Like in the sense of like what
we love about collecting, especially with these blind box
stuff. Like you know what we were just
preaching and saying that Fungo is not doing like this is what

(01:05:55):
we love. This is where this is where like
the collecting is right now. This is what's exciting.
Thrill of Joy is also on this with like UC and we follow many
of people who collect so many ofthem because of that thrill.
Pulling a chase, a super chase. Like now you're getting this
essentially has that as well. Like you have a one in 96
chance. That's pretty rare.

(01:06:16):
So it's like really awesome. But yeah, that, yeah, that for
sure is great. I completely agree because I do
love, I would love for them to keep doing a mixture of both
what they're doing with what thecurrent, you know, is whether
you get the common or the surprise.
But I do love this. I do.
And just speaking from a business perspective, I think

(01:06:37):
these will move more for them, which is, you know, obviously
awesome because we want Rocky motor to be successful as
possible because people aren't really going to know what
they're getting. They're going to be more on the
chase and like. Who doesn't?
And they're a major IP. Exactly.
No, they're really going to openit up to you're gonna maybe they
didn't like their original characters and they want to go

(01:06:58):
after this. 100% I mean, even like Super 7, for example, one
of their their main activation at San Diego Comic Con was their
new Godzilla product. Just to like give you an example
of like, maybe you're not a Godzilla fan, but in the
collectible world, like this hasa really big niche.
I mean, I used to work with a guy who only collected Godzilla

(01:07:20):
figures and he had like vintage,vintage ones that want to get
the most current ones. I'm going to send him this.
I'm going to be like, dude, you got to get these for your
collection. And I think it's really going to
open up an amazing door for for Okimoto.
Yeah, it's exciting. It's definitely something to
it's definitely a good place to end our episode as well, because

(01:07:42):
I was on a high because it's it's something that we're really
excited about. Rocky Motors are just continues
to kill it. They just dropped a fire T-shirt
recently too and also went afterit and we're excited and it was
only printed once and then that's it.
They're not going to do it. Just I love that aspect of what
they're doing because I will sayI don't want to keep coming back
to this kind of stuff and comparing whatever, but like I

(01:08:03):
like that aspect of of apparel more than like what Thrilljoy
did was like, oh, this is an exclusive limited share an
account, whatever. Like they should just drop it
like this print something gets printed once more, kind of like
a quick thing flash sale. If you get it, you get it, you
don't and that's it. Fee friends does that a lot too.
Quick flash sale boom is coming out and that's it.

(01:08:23):
We're not making it again. We're done.
Like I love that. So that's that's a cool way to
do it. I'm happy you brought that up.
Because IA. 100% agree. Everything Rocky Moon is doing
is right in our opinion so and we can't wait to see what.
They have Mike, Yeah, Tabby and just everybody.
Dave. Dave, you guys are killing it.
Yeah. They've shown us a lot of love

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