Ep. 141: Let's Chat Funko Killing Droppp, Evend Whatnot Drama, Thrilljoy Skipping NYCC & MORE!

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Hey everyone, welcome to Collective Chatter.
In today's episode we're going to talk about how Funko is
getting rid of their NFT line, throw Joy is not going to be at
New York Comic Con, and a ton ofdrama with his new Goku pop and
whatnot. Can't wait to talk about all
that and more. Collecting is the way.
Now let's chat. Hey everyone, welcome back to

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Collective Chatter. This is episode 1 of 41.
I am migs here with Charlie. What is going on Charlie?
What's up, man? Man, it's gonna be a Debbie
doubter of an episode. I feel like in a not, not
because of us, but. Come on.
Come on. Yeah.
It's gonna be pretty. Yeah.
It's just it's gonna be a littlerough, but we're gonna talk
about kind of, yeah. So make sure you stay listen

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because we have good takes, but I'm just being honest that a lot
of the stuff that's going on right now in the car world is
just not, is not too Beachy keen.
No, not at all. It's been an interesting little
bit and a lot of stuff has happened recently that, you
know, we haven't been able to talk about.

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We definitely want to make sure we give our input and like
Charlie said, you know, not we're not, it's not that we're
necessarily being negative. There's just a lot of dramatic
stuff going on, a lot of negativity, and a lot of things
that are just insane. Honestly, some of this is
getting pretty intense. Like I said in the intro, most
of it has to do with Funko. One of the big things is going
to be this big leak and rumour and supposedly Funko and a tease

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and drop no longer will cease toexist.
So we're going to talk about kind of what we think about that
and what kind of has already come out.
You know, nothing's official yet, but we'll definitely get
into that as well as the Goku Pop.
That of course, was one of thosespecial editions pops that
everyone was all excited about, but it was going to come out on
whatnot. There's one page who seems to be

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some of the worst people, I think, in this community and we
can't wait to talk about that and all the craziness that's
coming out of that. But then and then we'll also go
over to the Thriller side of things because unfortunately
this is more like a sad news type of thing.
And an update where Thriller came out with a blog post kind
of about what's been going on and they've been a little bit
away from things and how they won't be at near Comic Con,

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which is something to hear. And maybe some other things as
well. Maybe some other pops and stuff
that are coming out. But we'll see kind of how the
episode goes. But we could start it off.
We'll start off with the Funko side of things.
We'll go through those two news items before we go throw joy.
But let's start off, let's startoff with the the the drop
because. That to me.

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Obviously that's a big one that kind of affects us because we,
if you guys have known us, are big supporters of that.
The Funko NFTS through Drop, we have been, I mean, Charlie for
sure has been from the original.Like back in the day, Drop and I
kind of jumped in a few drops later, but we were pretty
hardcore. It was a pretty big thing.

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We've had our ups and downs. We talk about it on here all the
time where like sometimes they didn't do so well.
We were upset with things that they did and then they kind of
changed that. The drop sometimes sucked and
they were awesome. It was so up and down.
It was a crazy roller coaster ride.
But currently, we're in a state where it seems like we may not
get any more drops at all. And I mean, I don't know what's

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your initial thought on this? And then we'll kind of just go
into most of this is coming off of the back of the Gasol cast,
who came out with a couple videos specifically talking
about some people who have come out to them and some sources
anonymously speaking about how this is going to no longer
exist. Yeah, I'm actually really upset,
kind of devastated about. It's like one of the main things

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I still collected on a regular basis in the Funko world.
It's kind of funny because some people who are fans of the
channel, we always used to put out tons of videos, really kind
of stop doing it. I know Miguel has been a little
more picky of what he would buy and the drops, myself included,
but I still have been buying them.
I just weirdly, just to be completely honest, the days the

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drops always happened was like work for home days for me.
And that kind of changed. So when they were coming out,
they were in the office and we like to open them like
immediately when we buy them. So I kind of just couldn't make
videos, but I've still been buying them and I really have
fun with those. I have fun with my wife, with
them, my kids. Like I'm really upset this is
going away. And sometimes I'm like, did they

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do it to themselves? Because if this is true, because
as we all know, we've been critical where, you know, they
were pumping out way too many, they were burning them.
People were losing trust. Pops are coming damaged.
Like we we know the whole story of it all and it's just
upsetting if that ultimately wasthe demise of it.
But I'm really upset. I had a really good, I feel like

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a niche hardcore fan base that like, and this is going to do
more damage to Funko than they probably think.
Even if it's going to help them on the bottom line, If that's
why this decision was made, I don't know.
I'm upset about it. I'm not happy.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, when I kind of heard it

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and kind of having nowhere, and even though we've had, you know,
we've seen them kind of go on little runs where maybe there
wasn't as many drops coming out,we're kind of like, you know,
what's going on, It's a little weird, whatever.
And then all of a sudden we'll get some drops.
Like clearly was something that still existed.
It's been around for a few yearsand like, we would still at
least get something. We always knew we got a regular

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holiday type ones and specific ones and then we would get
randomly a new one or maybe a wave 2 or whatever.
And it was just kind of like a normal thing.
But like you said, I, I, I became a little bit more picky
just just because of collection wise and just too much stuff and
everything. So I kind of slowed down and it
was like if I really wanted something, I kind of went to the
route of I'll just buy it later once it drops off.

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I wasn't too, too big on rippingthe packs anymore like I used to
do back in the day. Because I feel like just that
excitement kind of lost it a little bit, lost a little bit of
his luster overall for the company.
But there was still some people that were hardcore and they were
still doing this and it was still a a big means to like they
got every drop or whatever, you know, And we know that as a

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company, they had a lot of issues early on.
They had a lot of shipping issues.
They had like, you know, a lot of stuff that was.
Going on, I've explained all those issues, yes.
And we've all like whether it's boxes being damaged or not
coming on time or missing this or that, whatever, it was always
like some chaos stuff, whatever.But they fixed a lot of that.

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They fixed the, the packaging that the boxes came in, they
fixed the, you know, just getting you stuff quicker.
And then all of a sudden they didn't.
And then there was drops that were not.
And this is funny now that we'rehearing all this because then we
had a bunch of drops that just weren't shipping and we're kind
of like, what the heck is going on?
And now the backs of this news. And like this stuff, it's kind

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of makes you think like is some of the stuff maybe not even made
yet? Like now, because they're like,
we're going to shut this down. Like, it's going to be
interesting to see kind of what officially happens because of
course, all this stuff is just hearsay and stuff right now, but
a lot of signs are pointing thatmaybe they're just part, their
partnership is no longer going to exist.
And before we came on, we were kind of just chopping up like

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what we're going to talk about. And I didn't mention something I
started to think about. And I feel like hopefully this
is probably more the case than the case that, like you were
saying where it was like, they're not going to make these
anymore because they don't want to.
Obviously, one rumor is the new CE OS coming in and he's just
getting rid of the bottom. You know, like you were saying,
yeah, maybe that's the reason. But I started thinking and it

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was like, maybe it's just maybe it's drop side of things.
Maybe they're just their relationship is no longer
working. Maybe they've done too many
things that mess up things like we don't know, but I wouldn't be
surprised if it was that right, because we know the issues and
kind of the friction on certain things sometimes that they've
had. But to think that, like, Funkel

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would just stop making it when Ifeel like it's something that
probably makes some money because we've talked about
before, these cards clearly don't really cost them money to
make. And then they just redeem
whatever gets redeemed. They sent that out.
I feel like they're making moneyespecially well.
I I too. Didn't, wasn't, didn't come out
like they're making they make money off of the resale.

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Yeah, they make money off of their secondary market.
Yeah, through their secondary market.
So like they had to have been getting money, like money I
don't think had to be the issue.But no one has really come out
and said like exactly what it is.
I know Gasol cast said that a lot of their employees were
getting like laid off and stuff at like drop.
So that's what let me to be like.
Maybe it's like that end of things.

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But do you like, what is your thoughts on like?
Like what I mean, we don't really know what it could be,
but. We don't.
And you know, also maybe new leadership, new CEO like doesn't
believe in NFTS and that could be a thing.
Could be even though I feel likejust knowing his background I
don't. I just.
Feel like he would. Right.
Yeah, yeah, he. Would have thought.

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I feel like he would. I don't know, I just it's just
upsetting. Like I said, it's easy.
No funny. I think I have some drop credit
from some of their mistakes thatthey've made that now I'm never
going to get to spend. I'm just thinking about that
right now. If.
You can if you have. Dude they only let you buy packs
with it. Oh, oh, there you go.
Yep. Well, there's one more job
coming out, right? The villains won.

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Or did it just? No, the villains won't already
happened. That just happened.
That was the last one that's. That's the other thing that I
really bothers me about this is finally the Gasol cast kind of
made a comment like everyone always loved the Funko Ween.
I think that's like one of your favorites, mind.
Like we're not. It's always in a staple that's
right around the corner. If this really is true, which
once again, I mean, I believe the Gasol casts and their

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sources to just like end it thatway.
I also feel like it's just like an F you to the fans and they've
been doing a lot of stuff like that to their fans, which is
other stuff we'll talk about later in the episode.
But to just go out like that, itwould be nice if we could have
one more drop if it's truly done.

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But. Yeah, just it's, it's just, it's
funny that you said that, the Funko wing thing.
So this just came in the mail. I'm so really mind you got it.
Yesterday this is the only one Ihave.
This is literally. Another Jude part of the
problem. The Judy and This is Funk Queen,
obviously Series 2. We're obviously in September,

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next month's October. So clearly if there was going to
be one, that would be a Funko wing next month, right?
Yeah. But yeah, that that I wanted to
talk about that because that still is one thing that was a
big issue because I know a lot of people in the comments, a lot
of big creators, a lot of, you know, influencers and all that
kind of stuff. They this was a very, what's

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that word? It was like a it was a line and
a segment of Funko that was super like split on like people
that loved it and people that hated it.
And this is like from the beginning and up until now.
It wasn't like just out of nowhere.
Now, yeah, some people jumped off the bandwagon throughout.
Maybe some people jumped on it, but it was very up and down.

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Like there was both sides and the side of where the heat was
or just a dislike of it mostly went around kind of like the
process and how you actually. Do.
Things and you only got 30 days,like why is it only 30 days?
And then even though when you doit within 30 days, then you
gotta wait like this other time.And then then they're like, all

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right, then they're going to ship it out and it's coming out
this season, which was always ridiculous.
Like whatever, you had to kind of guess.
And then you randomly got an e-mail saying like, oh, this is
on its way. And it was always like a year
later. And we always said that that
turn around was like pretty crazy for like a fan to like
really be excited about these things because 1 like you forget

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you even had like I forgot even had, you know.
They were getting really good about the turn around part of
the problem and I I'm pretty sure the Funko wings were this
way, which I appreciate it 'cause in the beginning they
wouldn't care. And this could be another thing.
This is where they could be wasting money for Funko.
Like I wasn't thinking about this, but I'll talk out loud.

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If Funko gets some of their product that comes in their
warehouse and their boxes are messed up, they don't care.
They still sell them. They give them to retailers.
They they shit, they ship them to you from Funko Shop drop has
gotten to a point where they understand their consumers.
These are the hardcore collectors.
They're spending a lot of money on these drops.
When they get these pops mailed to them, they want them to be in

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pristine condition. And I'm pretty sure the Funko
wean some of the holiday, the like Christmas ones trying the
other drop that may have happened too.
I think a few more they've all come damaged and they came
damaged again and they don't want to send the product.
That's where the whole relationship with Funko drop.

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And I know once again, Chris andHeather kind of said this and
their relationship has always been weird.
Like they're like Funko doesn't they're a partnership with
Funko, but I, I don't think Funko actually owns them, but
they kind of work for Funko. It's the whole thing is weird
because I also find it funny. Do you remember that one time?
Now I'm going off a little bit of tangent, but it's interesting
what could happen with Drop. Remember they came out with

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their own monsters line and thenall of a sudden they made those
and they never did anything off brand again.
We lost our boy Max token head. He recently actually just showed
up though again in some of the NFTS Just thought was super
weird. He's in the latest fun of me
ones. But like I wonder if that just

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goes back to like you were saying before.
The relationship between the twocompanies is just is strained.
Yeah, that's, and that's kind ofwhat part of the reason why I
said that I completely agree, because it just got to a point
that it seems like there was like a lot of little issues and
like you said, like they didn't necessarily own them.
They were like kind of their ownthing.

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They partnered with them, you know, they obviously use them to
create these or whatever it was that they use for the NFT side
of things that say, right. And it just seems like that
probably is what maybe is leading to a lot of this and
maybe that company itself just can't keep up with this anymore.
Like who knows? It's like it could be a few of

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those things. But yeah, it is a sad thing
because it that's why I feel like out of nowhere they
wouldn't just be like, we're gonna stop making these because
we just feel like, you know, we feel like it.
But as I said that out loud, I literally want to contradict
myself now because they did thatwith sodas, they've done that

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with other products, right? So like, it just kind of makes
you think I like, there's obviously someone making the
decision that doesn't think it'sgoing to be helpful for them to
continue on with this, let's say.
And a lot of us disagree with it.
But like I said, there's some people that don't like NFT.
So they're kind of like, oh, this should have happened a long
time ago. So like, you're going to get

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that part of the community, but I just think overwhelmingly it's
just kind of strange and a little weird that it's happening
this way. And then another thing just to
say one more part and then you can kind of finish up if you
want is the whole arcade thing. Like they obviously released
this whole new thing and it was like drop arcade.
It's coming out. It was like season 1.
I was like, whatever. And obviously like the top

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people were kind of getting rewarded and it was like this
whole fun thing, whatever. Now all of a sudden it's just
kind of like, is that just goingto stop?
And then like you said, like youhave these these certain credits
that you can use and it's like now you can't even use them if
they're not going to come out with a pack.
So like you're going to get money for that.
Probably not. But then it's like, what
happens? Like are they going to fulfill
the rest of the drops? Is it just going to be like

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sorry, like you know, it's goingto be it's going to be kind of
crazy because I feel like they have to.
But then in that case, like they're going to still be around
at least for a year and we're not going to get drops,
obviously, But it's just a really weird like a really weird
scenario with that. Like whereas their own product
like a soda or like Betty, if they ever got rid of whatever,

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they could just kind of be like,we're not going to make these
anymore. If you see them in the stores,
obviously you sell through whatever you have, but that's
it. This is like a little different
because it's like you, you used to have drops, used to have a
marketplace that you can buy stuff like that marketplace is
just going to suddenly be gone. Can you still buy old
marketplace stuff or is it strictly just like we're just

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not making any more going forward like new?
Stuff, Yeah. I mean, there's no way, yeah,
there's no way our NFTS are going away.
Like, I know some people are like, when are we going to lose
all the. Some people are like, no, it
lives on the blockchain. That's the whole point of it.
And he lives there in you know, I'm going with what you're
saying. It's probably just yeah, no more
drops. They're gonna maintain what they

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gotta do. And but maybe something new will
come out of it and they should partner with Throwjoy gets a new
pads. But I'm I'm upset about it,
like. It's even though like even
though I slowed down, like it was still something that was fun
to see and especially if there was a drop that like, you know,

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really got me or you excited, wewould definitely talk about it.
And you know, on here now, we'regoing to lose a segment that we
like to always talk about like this drop scope now this week,
whatever it was. Further demise of what we say a
Funko. Yes, yes, yes, yes, exactly what
we're going. To get some more another thing
we're. Going to get some more things
that we'll talk about specifically with Funko, but it

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is like on that side of the checklist on the negative like
downhill for Funko type of thing.
And it definitely is that. We've had multiple ones
recently. We got a new leadership coming
in, but it just seems like kind of there's too many of these
just coming out now and just getting piled on.
So the next one is a little different, but it's still on the

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negative side of things where it's kind of like we're starting
to look at this company kind of more like it's just a mess.
Like what are the decisions thinking?
Like who are these decision makers?
Who really was running things? Now we have all this, obviously
it's been in transition, but like who's making the decisions

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of certain things like what we're about to talk about right
now? Like was this old leadership?
Was this because it was in the middle when it wasn't really
like higher ups? Or is it this new leadership?
Right. And it of course is, if you
haven't seen, of course, is the huge drama that has to go on
with hip hop. That release has their special

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edition. There was a Goku Pop, but this
one was one of those ones that they were going to release to
like a specific person to make it like a special exclusive
through them. It wasn't through Funko's going
to be through them. And it was of course this
company. I don't know if you want to call
them a company, whatever event who obviously is very, you know,

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known on the what not side of the collecting world.
And they have a, you know, big following big page on what not
to do auctions and drops and stuff all the time.
And obviously Funko Pops is one of the things that they really
they do and Funko decided to choose them.
No idea why as like their partner in this, because I knew

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nothing about them before this. I know there's other people who
have and suppose it was a lot ofnegativity.
There was not a lot of good press around them beforehand.
And they kind of lived up to that.
Because after getting a hold of this Funko Pop and doing these
drops, it just has been completemayhem.

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Yeah, craziness. I mean complete mayhem.
I think it's piss poor judgementon decision by Funko.
I look at it as Funko probably looked at them as like the
middleman to do business for them on whatnot.
And they're just happened to be the seller that they chose.
Because I'd look to they had some like Ranky crabby website

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that just looks like who's goingthere to buy any pops or other
collectibles. But I'm assuming they do well on
like Funko salt, they have a presence on whatnot and instead
of just setting up their own, which personally my take is that
is probably something they should be doing.
We talk about this all the time.Even though one has been around

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for a decent amount of time now,it's gained this new sense of
popularity and urgency when theykind of, I think, made it a
little more easier for anyone tosell on there.
And other brands have really been using it and live shopping
has kind of exploded so companies can do it.
It's not just like random peoplelike me or Migs selling our

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collections on there. I mean, Thrilljoy's done it.
Rocky Moto, they made a deal with eBay.
So they've done it with eBay because eBay has like the same
feature like Funko, correct me if I'm wrong.
They've never done this. Quite frankly, I think I
wouldn't be shocked if, you know, a few months down the road
we do see Funko selling their own stuff through their own page

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because I think this made them look really bad.
They pissed off a lot of loyalists especially people are
still really into the hobby because as you say, some like we
talk about all the time, a lot of people have left.
It makes haven't left, but it doesn't excite us the way it
used to. And they really pissed off the
people it excites because once again they didn't do their
homework and these just look like scammer shady what not

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people. Which there's plenty of them out
there and Funko should not have done business with them.
I could go on and rant about this all day, but it really,
really is a bad look. Yeah, yeah.
That's like the biggest thing islike the, the, this, you know,
seller, obviously now that they're even bigger out in the

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forefront because of this, this news is really getting exposed
and people are starting now comeout and like speak about other
instances and like clearly this is not new.
So this this seller obviously has done shady practices in the
past and they've kind of been called called out on this thing.
And it just seems like you said like fungal really didn't do

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their due due diligence and actual like homework and really
vet this company clearly. That's why I go back to what I
said earlier was like, who, who were these decision makers?
And who are these people that are like, like, was it the
cousin of one of these guys thatworks for you even?
Because it's like, why would someone so easily as company as

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big as Funko like hand over something like this?
And it's going to be such a big hype, you know, and have them
just completely destroy the reputation like essentially.
And it was just weird to see. That's why when we saw the name,
we were like confused. Like that's kind of random
because like, I know, I know what not has other, you know,

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big companies and big pages and stuff, right?
And clearly stuff happens sometimes and we hear things
here and there. But like, for instance, like the
company child's collectibles, right?
Everyone kind of knows them. They're they're a very big
company. They sold stuff.
I think they even sold maybe something special or an
exclusive and it was a little bit of a mess, kind of more like
the product, like they just, it didn't go well.
Wasn't necessarily like that. They were shady and they were

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like, whatever. But like they're known.
And that to me made more sense. Like, OK, if uncle's in a
partner or something like this, that's fine.
But when we see this and then you go into these live streams
and you see kind of just even the way they speak and handle
themselves, it's just like such a shady practice.
I don't know, it's weird, but they were just being really,

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really weird. They had these pops, It was
what, 1200 total? They were only selling like a
very few. Yeah, MSRP, like very, very,
very limited to get them. Well, that's let me get to that.
Hold on. Because they were actually just
selling them first, which is whatever, OK, You can sell them.
If you don't get it, you don't get it.
But guess what? Someone got it.
That's great. That's the way what that should

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be, right? If it's not like the auctions,
the side of things, because we know there's the buy now and
there's the auction side of things by now wise,
realistically, this wasn't this.This is what's crazy.
This pop was an exclusive to them so that it realistically
the 1200 should have been by now.
It should have just been sold bythem because they're the ones

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doing it and that's it. Now if they want to take some
aside, do some giveaways, even better.
Now you're really going to get love from the company because
like now you're selling them outwhat they're supposed to be and
you're doing your little giveaways.
But the second that they even decided to do any type of
auction style thing was already kind of shady because it's kind

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of like now you're taking this, you're going to clearly resell
it for hire because people are going to start going crazy.
People aren't kind of nuts and now you're profiting off of
this. You're flip.
You're essentially essentially aflipper right at that point and
you're doing it with this exclusive quote UN quote.
And it's like it's crazy. It'd be different if like
another random page just happened to buy them themselves

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and then go and do auctions and flip them, whatever that's we
know that that happens. But guess what?
Somebody bought them originally at the at the regular price,
right? And they didn't do that.
They did this stupid like crazy chance like that was even worse.
There was people paying thousands of dollars and they
were literally giving people 5/10/12 dollar pops and acting

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like it was totally normal. Oh cool, let's move on and say
oh, you got this one. Literally pops are not even, you
can't even buy them. Like you can't like Funko can't
even sell them. They have to give them away the
goodwill and stuff. And that's when it started
getting shady, when it was like,clearly they're just trying to
make money and they were making money because people were
paying. A lot of money.
A lot of money and this also didn't just go on once.

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This was days, like they have days of these things going on.
And it's just very, very, very disappointing because it really
tarnishes a lot of like the fun aspect and like what we'd like
Funko and love Funko for. And to know that it seems like
they're not doing anything aboutit is really what makes them

(26:39):
look bad. Not even just this company doing
all that shady stupid shit because it can happen, but they
should have shut that down. Like there's so many things they
could have done where we as a community I guarantee would have
been way more on Funko side. And right now, a lot of people
aren't, and it's because of how they're reacting to this and not
that they need to come out and do a, they're probably not going

(26:59):
to. Do a they should like.
But like, what the hell are theydoing?
That's, I mean, you're right, they don't have to, but to go
off of that, they should. Like this has actually been
Funko's biggest problem. They have no idea how to manage
their brand, their PR and marketing is terrible.
Their social is non existent. That shit is important in

(27:21):
today's day of age. Like come on like and we joke
all the time they'll never have a face again like Mike anymore
Brian. They kind of need to get someone
though in this future that can just be their face on the social
media aspect of it all. Like obviously, once again, we

(27:41):
use all these brands all the time because like they're just
they're forever, at least for me, and I think makes agrees
they're going to be linked. Thrill Joy, Chris, at this
point, we know Chris is the faceof the marketing for thrill joy.
She's had whatnots. She's the person who did it.
You know, I like I said for whenFun Maker Inc with Rocky Moto

(28:02):
when they did their eBay live, you know, Mike, Dave and Gabby
are the ones who did it V friends and we'll talk about
that. I mean they believe in what not
live shopping like nobody's business.
Gary does it and he has a team. Funko needs that.
They did the half ass way. Again, like I said earlier, by
doing it through this like this was easy.
OK, we'll give you a product. I'm sure they got a decent cut

(28:24):
from all the stuff that was soldfrom them.
They're a little nobody shop. Yes, they have a presence on
whatnot, but like this is amazing.
We're getting a product that people need to only come to us
for. They were loving it.
Funko took the easy way out. But you know what it kind of
shows where you shouldn't do that because it's really bit
them in them in the ass. And I just this whole situation

(28:49):
is terrible. Going off the drop topic and now
this just it's another thing to check off on the box of Funko.
What are you doing? Yeah, I know.
And it's just like, it's so crazy because like the way they
were doing things was clearly shady and messed up, whatever.
But like I'm like reading a lot of comments and stuff as we're
like going through this and justlike things that are coming up

(29:10):
is also like they clearly like you're not really supposed to
like I'm assuming like, you know, gambling, whatever, like
what not why is it not supposed to happen?
So in the sense of like you can do auctions, you can things like
that, but like the way they weredoing these like tickets and you
had a chance for this, whatever,like that already seemed kind of
like shady practice, even like let's go now I'm just Funko like
why is what not allowing some ofthis stuff to happen?

(29:33):
Because that also seemed like anissue.
So it's it's really just seems like it's a lot of them like
what's going on, but there's a lot of word and like like things
going out around there that supposedly like this company is
very tied to whatnot, so much sothat they may have stake in
whatnot. This is another comment that I'm
seeing now that kind of is bringing this up and it really

(29:55):
makes you think like this is crazy if that's the case,
because then that just takes whatnot and their reputation and
they now will become like we already had its issues in the
past, right where where people kind of were like what not seems
a little shady is whatever, but it kind of seemed more like it
was the seller just kind of getting by doing stupid shit and
like, you know, they would kind of try to police it as much as

(30:16):
they could, right, Because obviously sometimes they can't
do it. There's a lot of sellers now at
this point, like what not has gotten pretty big, but I'm
seeing like multiple things now.Like something about whatever
event is maybe somehow connectedto this.
Look at sorry, they're legitimately on what not right
now. Selling tickets again for this
pop. Oh yeah, they've been doing it

(30:38):
for days. Like still.
Going on, I'm sorry, I did. But how many people are on
there? Almost 600.
OK, because it was a day not that long ago.
I suppose it was a very low number because remember it was
like thousands that first. It's funny too, I once again, I
didn't necessarily do all my homework on this.
That's why I went on here real quick.

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I've been saying this whole time, I know they're a big
seller, but like they are prettybig.
I mean they've sold almost 900,000 product items on their
channel. They have a pretty big
following. It's clearly why Funko picked
them. They probably like, OK, they
probably sell more Funko as a brand out of anyone on what not.

(31:20):
Let's just go to them. And that does make me feel like
you're probably right. They there could be something
going on with what not with themas well.
Yeah. Especially but The thing is, is
like that also, it's crazy as towhere we live in and it's kind
of the way it is. But like a like a seller like
that who obviously puts up salesand it's getting the company
money, right? Like a company like Whatnot or a

(31:42):
company like Funko, who is, you know, providing these things.
It gives them the opportunity tojust kind of turn the other
cheek and just kind of, yeah, we're gonna make money.
You know, it's whatever how they're gonna do it, right?
And it's just like, that's a whole another issue.
And that just kind of like throws it back to again, where
Funko itself is really in a weird state where they're making

(32:04):
crazy decisions that to me just do not make sense and are not
helping them and are really ruining a lot of their fans and
their loyal people who have spent tons of money.
And they're losing a lot of that.
They already have been losing a lot of that with other stuff
that has happened changing and what they're, you know,

(32:25):
releasing and not doing this andissues with that.
And it's just like there's too many on this list now.
Like we talked about from the last first segment of this is
like, this is another thing on that negative side of the list
now. And it's just like, what the
heck is going on? And I'm starting to lose faith
because it's just does not seem like they really care.

(32:48):
That's honestly no like kind of what it's coming down to and
it's really messed up. It's crazy.
And there's a lot of people thatare disappointed by this.
And you know, putting that company aside and obviously they
have, like you said, they still sell a ton of stuff.
Like granted, like I went on to one of the days I went on for me
like 1520 minutes just to kind of see what's going on.

(33:09):
I was not going to try to buy anything, whatever, but I went
on just to see and they were, you know, auctioning off just
tons of pops, nothing to do withthe Goku.
Obviously, that was still a thing.
They would randomly throw it in as a as a giveaway, but there's
like thousands of people on there.
So, you know, the chance is ridiculous.
But they were putting up pops and the pops were going for
cheap, decent prices, you know, because they were just random

(33:30):
comments or random some, you know, some stuff that was a
little bit better than common. But most of the people were in
there really for this pop, right?
So like probably got a chance tobuy something pretty cheap.
So clearly they sell and they have tons of products like now
that makes you think like, whereare they getting this all this
inventory from? But like it just makes you seem
like there has to be a connection to exactly like you

(33:50):
said, to what not or to or whatever it is.
But if you guys know any of thisor know if there is like
definitely let us know because again, I'm just going off of a
few comments and I've seen something similar multiple times
that ties this person and somehow being connected to
whatnot. Then again, I don't know who
like really runs even I've seen like two different people during

(34:15):
these like little streams, so I don't know who they're like main
people are, but but a quick thing to kind of just throw it
back onto them and how shitty they are is that like when
people are going on because theywere upset.
Anyone that was basically sayinganything that had to do with
like how this was kind of shady and those are messed up was
being banned instantly. And it's kind of like what, what

(34:38):
are you doing like? Where?
Where is that vibe? Why can't people just say things
and then, you know, if they wantto just speak the truth and kind
of that comes and you can't takeit.
Yeah, you can't take that. Like you shouldn't be doing
those stupid shady shit because now you're making it seem worse
by like just banning people and kicking people out.
And it's, it's crazy. Because I hopped in it too, like

(34:58):
one of them. And like, they are everything I
hate about whatnot. Like there's a lot of love, but
like, their channel as a whole reminds me a lot of like crappy
shady card Breakers that I don'tlike.
Like that's was their vibe they were giving off.
They're laughing on the other end of the camera.
They know they're screwing the people over who are buying them.

(35:21):
And like, once again, that's notsomething Funko should want to
be associated with. I will tell you that I'm pretty
sure they learned their lesson from this.
I don't. Yeah.
I don't think they'll repeat this mistake unless they've
already made a deal. Like, yeah, they clearly have a
deal because now they're also going to drop a General Grievous
pop, which is going to be through them.

(35:41):
It's going to be crazy. It's going to be annoying, it's
going to be stupid. And now the Goku was 1200, the
General Grievous is 9500. So like, how are they going to
get rid of that? Yeah, they're only going to do
like 2 at a time and it's going to last freaking months or
something. Like it's going to be
ridiculous, but a lot of the community, especially the ones
that are against this and are really upset with what's going
on, are really trying to boycottit and like, don't buy from

(36:04):
them, don't do this, whatever. And it seems like especially
from that first day till now, like there does seem to be a lot
less people, you know, buying and like and actually doing it.
So maybe that's working, but whoknows where that's going to go
from here. But yeah, it's it's craziness.
But definitely comment down below.
Let us know what you guys think on both of these Funko topics,

(36:26):
specifically with the drop and what do you think's going on
with that? Are you upset about if they do
happen to, you know, no longer, you know, and cut ties with with
drop and not make any tease. And then obviously this set of
things in the chaos and the craziness with this Goku pop and
what's going on and you know, it's like now can't even get
that pop out. It's being sold for like the

(36:47):
ridiculous prices out there now just based off of this.
It's crazy. But yeah, let us know down
below. And if you haven't already,
please make sure you like this video as well before we get into
anything else. Really appreciate you guys, but
let's switch things up. We're going to go into Thrill
Joy because this is again, sad news.

(37:08):
Kind of kind of really didn't want this to be a reality.
You know, me and Charlie talk everyday and back while back we
kind of started hearing rumors and we started talking about
like, you know, what's going on with like throw joy and New York
Comic Con specifically. And there was rumors that they
weren't going to be there. And we're like, that's doesn't

(37:28):
make sense. That's crazy.
And you know, they just had their block party in San Diego
and we of course are going to New York Comic console.
We were excited for like, maybe it's going to be an event here.
There has to be something, right?
Their booth, their booth has been amazing.
One at the launch and New York Comic Con, which we were at
least able to go do, which is great last year.
And then they had the same, you know, type of booth at San Diego

(37:50):
and it looked great again. And they were, they were like
the talk of the town type of thing where we knew like Funko
didn't look so great. Little Joy's booth looked
amazing. Brian was killing it over there.
Crystal was out there. They have tons of people out.
And it was just, it was fun. And we were hearing rumors.
And now they officially did comeout with a blog post.

(38:12):
This was a couple days ago now kind of talking about what's
been going on, why they've kind of been a bit Mia and you know,
social media and that kind of thing and what has happened and
what's going to happen when it comes to specifically like New
York Comic Con and kind of theirdrops and stuff going forward.
So we'll kind of go through the through the what's it called the

(38:35):
the blog. I don't know.
Do you have it pulled up? I have it pulled up.
I don't know if you. I don't, but I'll pull that up.
OK, So I I could start up a little bit here and then we'll
kind of run through some of the stuff.
So, you know, I'll read a littlebit of what what they said.
So we know it's been quiet sinceSTCC and you've been patiently
waiting for updates on the next pics drop, you know, because
they really didn't say much about that.

(38:56):
The block party and NYCC, it wasn't our intention to keep you
in the dark. We've been doing everything
possible behind the scenes to lock things in so we could bring
you good news. But unfortunately, today's
update is a mix through the realities and Silver Linings,
tough realities and Silver Linings.
So basically one of the biggest things is kind of the fact that

(39:20):
they stated they're not going tobe under your Comic Con.
They will not be a booth, they will not be an event like the
block party that's here, right? Very specific to why is because
after San Diego Comic Con, therewas very bad natural disasters
and weather that kind of hit a lot of Asian countries and it so

(39:44):
happened to be kind of where their biggest like factories
were. And the people that they
partnered with specifically in China who are making a lot of
these products. It's not the first time that
we've kind of seen an issue withlike production in China and
things like that. The first time was obviously
with the Megapix. You guys don't remember first
Megapix came out and then they weren't able to really get them

(40:06):
in time. Then the prices went up because
pricing was going to be higher. Brian heard all the backlash,
said now I'm screwed up and bring it back down.
But then they kind of disappeared and they stopped
making the Megapix. So it kind of sucked, right?
So now they're kind of back intothat.
So that we had a lot of severe flooding that supposedly like
damaged a lot of stuff, whether it's a product or things like
that. But it was mostly like a lot of

(40:28):
their stuff was OK, everyone wasOK.
Most importantly, that's a big thing.
Obviously the people that work there and everything, but
they've kind of lost a lot of what they were getting ready to
bring to new Comic Con. The biggest thing was obviously
their boxes of stuff for what they like to call an October
block party. So clearly they were gonna have

(40:49):
another one. This was gonna be their thing.
It wasn't like really officiallyannounced about that until now.
We finally started seeing like, yeah, they were gonna do that,
which kind of sucks to hear thatthey are not able to do it.
Another big thing was that New York Comic Con is also their
birthday, right? Because that's when they were
first created and came out and it was going to be their year

(41:10):
anniversary. To have a party for blue.
Exactly. We're going to do a party for
Blue that we do a lot of stuff like it was going to be big and
it seems like now because of what happened with the disaster,
they're not able to do it. But you can go on with the rest
kind of like what is going to happen till now because they're
obviously not going to do that. Yeah.

(41:31):
So what they're going to be doing now is, you know, Kristen
and Brian are still going to be there.
They're going to have a whatnot stage.
They're going to be on there. They're.
On that stage, yeah. They're going to be on there
talking Thursday at the console.We'll definitely going to be
there to watch that. But they did say, and they're
not necessarily saying if it's going to be new stuff or just

(41:52):
other things, we're going to have giveaways and signings and
they're going to be at some other partners at 7 bucks a pop
and toy temple. So throw Joy is going to have
some sort of a presence there. But obviously as it makes that,
it's just not going to be what it was supposed to be, what we
were really hoping for. This is like major bummer of

(42:14):
news. Like for us, like I can't even
I'm like upset. I'm like thinking about dear
Kyle, kind of like we were excited for this, this, this,
this. Yes, I.
Know. Nothing that we were excited for
seems to probably be happening, which really stinks.
And I hate to say this like it'sI know this is out of their

(42:37):
control. It's great.
Everyone's safe and OK. I think this is going to be like
a major buzzkill for Thrill Dry as a brand.
Like they need. They needed this.
Yeah, speed bump for them. Yeah, like one that really would
hurt. Because this is where they
thrive. We say this every time after

(42:57):
they've been in an event. They're electric.
They know what they're doing. It works.
Their new product with it being mystery style people are ripping
them like crazy. Everyone's talking about it.
They're walking, you know, we haven't gotten to experience
that yet because we only guess the the original pixels were
mystery was it's not the same. No, and like yes, do do a lot of

(43:21):
people who go to San Diego ComicCon also go to New York Comic
Con? Yes, but excuse me, think about
like me and Megs who are huge collectors.
I mean, we do this podcast, but we're not necessarily just going
to travel there. We have families of other stuff
going. It's not our job.
So like we don't have to do it. There's plenty of people like us
who this is going to be their experience with throw joy and

(43:43):
like it's just not going to be there.
So yeah, it's a bummer. Yeah, it sucks.
It it sucks because getting backto the way you said, and I
completely want to double down on it, is that, you know, we
were, we're so excited obviouslyfor New Comic Con, but we were
really excited for New Comic Confor a lot of specific things and
this was one of them. There's a few other ones, but

(44:05):
like this was one of them and itwas like getting to experience
the booth again, getting to see Brian Krista, you know, everyone
that will be there, tons of content creators, people that
were cool and friends with specifically with thrill, joy
and being able to, you know, RIPover things.
And like you said, we, we went there for the inception of this
company essentially when they had the original big frame

(44:28):
versions and people were still ripping those open and getting
them signed and like it was a bit tough to do, but we were
still doing it. Right.
So cool. And it was still like a fun
thing. These are like perfect way to
like, quickly open it up, do a little mystery thing, tear, you
know, tear into the thrill, do all that kind of stuff.
Like being a part of that was going to be massive.

(44:49):
And to me, I mean, I'm a little biased because we're on the East
Coast, but like, to me in New York Comic Con is where it's at.
Like, obviously I know San Diegohas its its people and its
thing. We've never actually been there.
But like, to me, New York Comic Con is great.
And they fit the New York Comic Con and they that's kind of
where they started. So we knew this was going to be
another good one. And that's just them having a

(45:11):
booth. That's not just the event thing,
right? Yeah.
The event, obviously, we know weobviously had an episode talking
about that and it was those positives, those negatives.
There was a lot of, I'm sure they were gonna fix a lot of
those things maybe that went wrong in this one and, you know,
make this an even better event. So I was kind of excited for
that aspect. We were making it was like we
were going to this event. So I was like, this is gonna be
even better because they're gonna, they're gonna make sure

(45:32):
they don't do the same stuff that happened, right?
And it was gonna be even doubling down on it being great.
But but the fact that I'm gonna be at a booth is kind of tough.
Now, obviously, like you said, they're gonna they're gonna have
their product there. They're gonna be partners.
They're still going to be there.So, you know, still a chance to
meet them. It's just it's a little.
Not the same. It's not what we really wish and

(45:52):
I'm sure it's not what they wisheither.
Obviously, you know, we're not the only ones here that are
hurting from this. Of course they are.
You know, this hopefully is not losing them a lot of, you know,
money and like, really, really hurting them where like, they're
going to have to take a step back.
I hope that doesn't happen, but it does seem like it kind of
like you said, it's something that will definitely slow them

(46:15):
down and stuff like it's a big wall that you just hit.
Now they're like, damn, their momentum was really growing and
now they're going to have to probably get it back again,
right. And not that they can't do that
without an event or or being at Comic Con, like clearly they
can, but like you said, they killed it when they were at
events and had comic cons. So like that was always when the

(46:36):
biggest hype of throw joy was. So with that being said, there
still are coming out with products and they still have
some stuff down the pipeline. And obviously like a big one is
they're really doubling down on like the horror side of things.
They've kind of already always been a pretty big on the on the
horror thing, of course, but Conjuring specifically is like
something that they clearly really want to.

(46:58):
I'm assuming Brian really loves Conjuring's series.
I do as well. Of course, one of my favorite
movies is the first conjuring of, you know, of all time.
But they're going to come down with some more characters.
They are. They did announce, because I
don't want to say they did announce the Crooked Man.
They announced the Bathsheba andthey announced the nun to kind
of go inside with the Annabelle that they already have.

(47:22):
All super cool, great, awesome looking chases they're up on
like pre-order. A couple of them aren't out yet,
but actually the Crooked Man already sold out.
So like a lot of people are veryexcited about that one.
Clearly those all went on like the pre sale that they do this
past Friday last week. And then now like they're trying

(47:45):
to hype up this big like the next picks drop, which is going
to be September 19th. So September 19th is where I
think we'll start getting reveals throughout that week
where it's kind of one of those bigger drops that we've been
seeing them do where we see likemaybe 5 or so different ones
come out actually on their page.They're already hinted towards 1

(48:07):
and it's Bryant's favorite, yes,Which of course is like Hannah
Barbera style stuff. And I think it's like a Wacky
Racers, Yeah, specific characterthat I think they're going to be
doing, which is kind of cool. And it makes sense.
Obviously, you know, we know that he loves that.
So like if we start seeing some of those, hopefully it's not
just only those. I feel like now it's on the

(48:28):
mixture. But most of the time they do the
mix. So yeah, hopefully we get some
other stuff that's also pretty cool and exciting.
But they've been doing great stuff.
Their products have been great. This, this design is perfect.
The pixels are great too. Like they're both like awesome.
They're actually going to do conjuring pixels as well.
Which is awesome. Which I didn't mention, which is
cool. It's like they've been hitting

(48:48):
out of the park with the products.
They're doing great stuff with that.
These are great and the ones that they've been announcing
have all been really cool. They're different.
They're like kind of all over the place on the on the
collecting scale and like fandoms and stuff.
But this just is still such a bummer.
And it's just really hard to, like, be excited when you know

(49:09):
that part is going to be missingwith like the booth and with
like the event and experience and everything.
But I'm sure it'd still be great.
I mean, if you get a chance to still speak to Byron again at
all, like we did the last time, I'm sure it'll still be, we'll
still probably be like, wow, this was still a great Comic
Con, etcetera. Yeah, yeah.
But it's not, it's just a hard one.

(49:31):
And obviously they, you know, they're taking it, you know, as
well as they can. I'm sure they haven't really
been big on social media since then.
It's been pretty, pretty quiet. But then they announced a couple
of these conjuring things. And, you know, they're just
gonna kind of say, you know, we're gonna get get back to
where we're gonna, you know, hopefully everything works out
that they're able to really figure out, you know, what
happened with everything that's over in China and doesn't affect

(49:52):
more of their, like, product lines and stuff.
Like I hope that doesn't happen,but you know, they're kind of
looking forward to this whole September 19th drop 1 pop pop.
I call it pop one pics that did get it seems like did get
affected is one that they announced that like Alistair 1.

(50:12):
Yes. It's being pushed back.
So that does seem like somethingthat specifically was maybe, you
know, I don't know if it got ruined or whatever it was, but
they're still obviously going tomake it.
But it does look like it's delayed right now,
unfortunately, which kind of is like I said, that happened with
the Megapix. We had that situation when
something was delayed and then so it kind of sucks.

(50:34):
That's the world we live in whenyou got to go overseas to just
make product because it's kind of the way it is, especially
with collectibles and toys and stuff.
It's just the cheaper option. You just kind of have to do it.
But unfortunately this, these kind of things also happen.
But yeah, what do you think? Kind of like, I mean, besides
the fact obviously we're both bummed about this, but hopefully

(50:56):
this doesn't really hurt them. And I will say I like that they
and we always used to crack on their blogs and like the way
they said things and whatever. But I like that they do come out
right away and talk about things, whether it's good, bad
or indifferent there, they're onit and they're about their
community, they're about their fans, and they do what other

(51:18):
companies should all be doing. And that I will say I have to
hand it to them. Doorjoy only keeps getting
better and better. Like we say this all the time
and I agree with you like yeah, we just joke around the blogs,
but like, this blog was good. I feel like they've they have
actually found their voice, they've worked around it,
they've changed some things. Obviously I'm I love that I'm

(51:42):
not the the harder guy like you are, but these new products, I
love that they're coming out they're coming out around the
right time as well, which I likepeople get excited for
Halloween. I like that they, you know,
strategically did that. But yeah, I'm just like I'm I'm
not at a loss words. I'm just really am upset about

(52:03):
this genuinely, because yeah, it's just gonna it's gonna I
feel like this Comic Con, not tonot talk about Dojo anymore, but
this Comic Con in general got all this Funko issues.
We got all these little joy problems.
Now we're not sure what's going on with Rocky Moto.
Like, I don't know if you've even noticed.

(52:24):
Like, we we know we did talk about this like Diss Tracker
showed the map of New York ComicCon.
Like, yeah, First off, Funko is not where they normally are.
And they split themselves from lounge fly and from a little
mondo. Obviously it used to be when
they weren't like super dominant.
It's weird. Like I I Comic Con is going to

(52:46):
be different this year, I think.Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
Yeah, they they obviously put that post because like a big
thing with like Walmart's going to have like a massive that's
very random, but like they're going to have a massive booth
and you know a lot of the other big regulars will be there.
Obviously what not it's also going to have a booth.
Clearly we saw that. I'm sure like eBay will and 7
bucks a pop always has a big booth and stuff like that.

(53:06):
But yeah, it's going to be weird.
I mean, we kind of already, you know, we spoke on the side kind
of like, you know, what our expectation was like, kind of
like what we plan on doing when we go to Comic Con and what kind
of our goal is to get out of this Comic Con.
Like as, you know, as collectivechatter and as content creators

(53:28):
and stuff like that. Like we already kind of were
going to take a little bit different of a of an approach to
the con than we usually do. But now this is kind of making
it seem like it's gonna be easier to do that because we're
not gonna be so gun hoe on. Like, I gotta buy this.
I gotta get this. Like now we're gonna gotta just
be able to just chill. I was just.
Thinking I was joking, it's not a bad thing because it's always

(53:49):
good to not spend as much money.But I'm like.
Scores. I don't really know what I'm
gonna want to buy here this year.
I think be friends Booth. That's probably really it, which
is kind of funny, which I'm curious if they're going to
announce a partnership with any of these collectible brands or
the new figure, maybe Funko and I know, I know.
And they would have seen something, but now I feel.
Like, yeah, you would think, yeah.

(54:11):
But yeah, it's true. It's going to be, it's going to
be different, which I mean, we're still going to enjoy, it's
going to be fun. And so a lot of other things,
clearly it's not only Funko onlyto enjoy etcetera, but these
were our big fandoms. These were big things that we
did really get excited for getting and buying and, you
know, collecting or whatever. Like you said, Rocky Moto, you

(54:31):
know, we don't really know what's going on Rocky Moto
specifically, like will they have a booth or will they not?
But you know, hopefully get moreinformation on that.
But they have been a little quiet.
So that is something that kind of worried us a little bit on
kind of like, you know, what's kind of going on in there.
And more recently they've been posting a few things and
actually just got their T-shirt in the in the mail the other
day. The one that we ordered, the

(54:52):
plaque one that was it's really cool.
So that was fun, but I'm hoping to see more of their products
out. That's kind of the only thing I
haven't really seen a lot of those waves out.
So it's kind of interesting to see why the mini sales aren't
really all picking them up yet, but hopefully we start seeing
that out in the wild. And Speaking of Rocky Moto, they
did announce the the snoopy where and that's will.

(55:15):
I was supposed to be like starting to hit mini sales now.
So definitely check them out, your local 1 if you have one,
because they should be getting those.
But they do have an interesting drop.
I don't even want to talk about which kind of out of nowhere.
And yeah, like they haven't talked about it.
It's only like the diss trackersand the Funko finders and those
people over the world. But yeah, I don't even want to

(55:37):
talk about that because that's that's that's an interesting
one. Well, it's funny they did.
So this is one that they did announce.
They teased it at one of their panels.
Like this will come becoming a type of thing.
Which yeah, which I didn't thinkit would be like for a pretty
long time. Like I didn't think we'd be
like, OK, you can go buy these already.

(56:00):
Yeah well they're on pre-order. So no, I know they're on
pre-order, but I'm trying to pull up the post.
So if it says like when they areavailable to get.
No, it doesn't. So it's Domo like I I don't it's
hard to explain. You know those little for people
who aren't familiar with what they are like those little

(56:21):
monster looking guys and they. Yeah, I don't know much about
them, but I've seen. Them Yeah exactly seen these
this isn't one of their licenses.
They like I said they announced this.
I think this got first announcedat anime con OK, I could be
wrong with that. It could have been their first
event at Warner Con, but I thinkit was anime.

(56:42):
But yeah, these look awesome. This is going to go back with
like we've joked like which do we like better?
Do we like knowing It's either the normal or the surprise or
this one is kind of like the popmarts of the world are many, so
with their own figures, you don't know what you're going to
get in it like. Multiple options.
I think that's the better way togo.

(57:03):
I actually think it's Better Business for for them as well
just because I feel people will buy more.
But yeah, like I found it weird that dish trackers posted this,
but I mean, I guess it's on entertainment Earth.
Yeah, which is where the pre-order is through.
It's like like not exclusive to them, but that's where they're
gonna get. But it's.
Weird that like Rocky Moto has talked about it.

(57:25):
Yeah, like pre-order, it'd be different if dish trackers, yes,
dish tracker, post stuff before all the time post like coming
soon, like the Dome or whatever.And then you'd be like all
right, cool. And then Rocky Moto obviously
announced it or something like that, right.
Yeah. But yeah, that is strange.
But I mean, I'm excited for these even though once again,
like I just like their product. We talk about it all the time.

(57:46):
Yeah, I do though wish and you know, maybe it's going down the
pipeline. Maybe it's going to be this way
for a little. I wish they would be a little
more readily available. I've even had some people
message me basically being like,I don't really know where to get
them. I don't have them any so by me

(58:06):
and you know, I know on their website it does say Rocky Motors
website like collectibles are coming soon and you know I don't
know if they can't. Buy anything.
Yeah, we can't buy anything yet.I'm assuming once again we've
talked about this. We don't know this, no ones ever
told us but they probably did a first run.
Like first look first run of distribution with mini.

(58:29):
So now it's obviously branching out because you can get some
from entertainment earned. I think toy temple has had them
a few other but I do personally wish they were a little more
easier to get. Don't hate me for saying this,
but getting from Amazon or Target or something or I don't
know, like I feel like you're getting more hands of people.
I agree because I because it's not as easily accessible in mini

(58:53):
so I just wish like because miniSO doesn't do this that they had
like an online. Presence Agree, because then
that would be fine. It'd be.
Fine, because I don't know if I would love it being at the
Amazons of Worlds and Targets and Walmarts and stuff like
that. Because I kind of liked a little
bit more of an exclusivity to it.
I. Wish Benicio had a website.

(59:13):
But yeah, exactly which which they do, but it's very just
like, OK, it's weird. We have these products.
Whatever you can't combine anything through there.
Whatever it tells you where the where the nearest one is type of
thing. So, but I do want to I want to
point something out. I mentioned this before, but
this kind of really double S down on that.
And you mentioned like how you like this whole like mini so
style, you know, blind box stylething where you know, it really

(59:35):
is 1 cup. You can get anything and it's
like multiple variants and like like, you know, rarities, But I
I'm pretty sure the last time wespoke about this, I mentioned
and now seeing this, it's almostlike guaranteed not at this
point. The IP stuff is all like this.
Yep, the original character stuff is the ones that's like

(59:58):
that one character will have oneand a surprise that one
character have one and surprise,and it seems like that's what
you're doing. If it is, that's perfect.
I think that I do agree the way it should go.
I don't think the original character should have because,
you know, it's cool to see different versions of them.
You think they need to be all inone kind of cup.
Yeah, you can kind of just get them all and whatever's a little

(01:00:18):
easier. But these so far, like obviously
the Godzilla 1, specifically theSnoopy 1, and now we're seeing
this Domo one. That's the way they're doing it.
It's One Cup. You have a chance to get some
look kind of like normal. Some look sitting down, like
surprised. This one's kind of cool because
they all have like the ramen noodles, just some are standing,
some are sitting put different colors.

(01:00:38):
There's obviously variations to that.
There's that clear looking one, which obviously Snoopy did that
as well. So even actually that seems like
it's gonna be all of them too. Yeah, Godzilla one has so well,
so it does seem like that's whatit is.
And so far, 3 for three. I mean, come on, at your point,
I feel like I didn't even think of it to do but but yeah, I did.
I did want to mention that because I I know we have talked

(01:01:00):
about that for sure in the past and it kind of does seem like
it's it's something that is is happening.
So hopefully it is because that's I like that it's.
Definitely, Yeah, I completely agree to do these jobs.
And you're right, the more I think about it, I shouldn't have
said that. I don't want to have as our
targets in the world to get down, but I just want them more
readily available. Yes, I like that because even at
my mini so like it still was only wave 1.

(01:01:21):
It's I didn't see any of the newer ones yet.
They are very limited. They kind of put them at the
bottom shelf like I don't know if that's just something that's
store by store type of thing, but I would love them to have
like a display like mini. So has Great Wall displays and
and certain tables that have like nice setups and stuff like
they, you know, clearly other products that they sell do that
like bracket motor deserves something like that.

(01:01:42):
Like you're kind of out there, you know, which is really cool
or even maybe it might cost a little money, but it'd be cool
is getting like that little vending style machine thing that
it did at Comic Con, like in oneof the.
Stores. Because there's like a whole cup
of fun ramen like, you know, like I'm sure I've never been to
Japan, but I'm assuming I think I've seen in movies or shows.
Yeah, that like they have those like couple no vending machines

(01:02:04):
and things like that, right. So like it should totally be
that thing. Like that'd be so really cool.
Actually, yeah, it would be instead of just being on a small
little box on a random table with bottom shelf.
Because I think, I mean, now, the more I think about it,
Minisa's done a little dirty. Yeah, that's what I'm done.
So I'm saying. And again, this is like ours.
Like again, there's other minisa's out there and clearly
maybe their setups are differentat bigger flagship stores or

(01:02:27):
something. I don't know.
But. But even like I've been like the
flagship New York City store wasgood for like a few weeks, and
that was like when that launch happened.
Yeah. Then it's the problem is they
just have so much product comingin and out.
So many different types of blackbox things, but it's wild.
More of the stories we're excited.

(01:02:48):
We just want these to be more early available.
But like, I mean, I have pushed some people.
I told them like entertainment Earth go because they did have
excuse me, they had the Snoopy, they had the Domo ones down.
But it's funny, one thing that they're doing, which I this I do
not like. And I'm curious if you saw this.
I do want to talk about this real quick.
If you were to order a Wave 2 onEntertainment Earth, you have no

(01:03:13):
idea what character you're getting.
Like at all. No, you're buying but you just
wave 2. Products.
Oh, that's kind of weird. Yeah.
So like, OK, that's like the blind thing.
I guess it's kind of cool, but like.
It's but then it would be like. That doesn't make it is weird,
like you're not going to get thesame character, at least a
different character, you know? You would hope if you bought

(01:03:33):
multiples they wouldn't do that to you, but then it's almost.
Like the same one? They're treating it then as if
they all were a mystery and you don't know which one you're.
Going to get it just seems weird, I guess.
Not the way it was supposed to be.
So yeah, kind of kind of a strange, but yeah, I don't know.
That's definitely something to think about.

(01:03:54):
But yeah, Rocky Moto we're excited for, of course.
Hopefully we get some more stuffcoming from them for sure,
because we love everything that they they've been doing.
We love that company. We love everyone that's running
that everything social media side of things.
They have been very, very great across the board.
That is for sure very supportiveof us as well as we always say,

(01:04:17):
which we love that as well. Thank you guys.
Thank you. And then I did want to go to a
pop thing before we end here just cuz you know, it's all
everyone's talking about. It's the big thing.
And we talked about it last timebecause it was, it was announced
that there was going to be a bigdrop.
Funko did like a post specifically saying like we're
going to be dropping the line for this.

(01:04:38):
And then we got some concept barand whatever.
And then finally now we have theofficial stuff.
So through Funko, through entertainment, through your
lovely Amazon, you can actually order you can order the K pop
Demon Hunter pops. So now we've actually seen them.
So I did want to just just mention it because, you know, I

(01:04:58):
want to just keep saying K pop demon hunters.
Let's put us into an algorithm Kpop demon hunters.
So hey, you gotta try, you know,you got I agree.
But yeah, I actually since the last time these ball demon.
Hunters. Yes, since the last time we
spoke, I actually did watch K pop Demon Hunters on Netflix and

(01:05:22):
actually finally was able to like fully watch it.
I tried to start actually watch it.
Yeah, you need to. I I started it with my wife and
my daughter who my daughter's six and she knows all the songs.
She already knew all the songs and listen to all the songs, but
never watched a movie. I tried to watch it with her and
it was a little too scary for her.
I mean, it's not really scary, but like she just was a little

(01:05:43):
weird with the demon stuff and she just didn't want to watch
it. So then we stopped and the
music's obviously everywhere andI was like, I'm getting into
this catchy, I've known the words and I'm like, I gotta
watch this though. And so then I watched it and you
know, me and my wife watched it and loved it.
I loved it, loved it, loved it. Very, very good, very catchy,
very stories amazing. Like it was, it was really, it

(01:06:06):
was done really well. And I wanted to see these pops
because the characters are cool.So I was again the three, you
know, 3 girls, Zoe, Rumi and Mira all kind of in like a
typical like look of them from like early on.
And then we also got Jinu who's one of the like the main guys.
He's essentially is the main guy, but there's a boy band as

(01:06:29):
well, but he's only one of them they have but there's a chase
option of him, which is really cool.
Obviously, if you don't know, the movie won't know exactly
what's going on there, but like,trust me, it's awesome.
And then even that other character, the Derpy, which
glows in the dark and that scenespecifically because it also has
a little flower pot next to it. It's very specific to the part
that's hilarious and it's just really cool.

(01:06:51):
They killed it. And this is what's crazy is the
people I'm in Funko, like they can come out with something
sometimes and you're just like, this is so trash.
And like, why did you make this where it looks bad or whatever?
But then they'll do stuff and it's like they killed this.
Like this is great. This is exactly what we needed.
The only thing is I wish I did chase options of the girls
because there's definitely otherversions and other things of

(01:07:11):
throughout the movie that like you can see them doing, but I
also see them probably milking this and maybe just coming out
with another wave. And it seems like they can't
lose this right now. It's freaking massive.
I mean, no, you know, biggest movie on Netflix history.
And the movie came out in theaters after because it was so
big. Like that's crazy.
They made more money than certain movies, the.

(01:07:33):
Cop TV hunters. Yeah, on Netflix.
The question is, are you gettingthe pops things?
So I really haven't been buying pops.
Yeah. Exactly, And you know this bro,
and I've been on a couple art the clown pops.
It's like a month ago or whatever and I was actually last
pops like purchased. Obviously, like I showed you

(01:07:55):
guys, I got the Judy Funko Wien one in, but that was clearly
from a year ago. But but like my daughter
obviously seen these so I know she kind of likes them, but she
knows the girls and she knows everything.
She actually said she wanted to be one of them for Halloween.
Just seen the movie. That's how crazy it is.
It's probably again we saw the first like.
Costumes. Yeah, we saw like 20 minutes, so
she knows about it, but I don't know, maybe for her.

(01:08:18):
But my wife would kill me though, because she doesn't even
have room. Like her shelves are now stocked
with like mini silk characters and Rocky Moto characters and
things that we've like I've kindof gotten for her.
Like I've been collecting through her now because like, I
don't have my shelves and stuff set up.
So now I'm going to use her little bookshelf to get cool
stuff. Right.
That's kind of what's been goingon, but I don't know.
We'll see. They're worth it though.
Like if you definitely like to show it all, like these are

(01:08:40):
great. And I think they killed it.
I know. Like I said, you haven't watched
it yet, so you don't know too much about it, but a watch this,
you need to watch it. Even if you watch it on you
alone. I don't know, figure it out.
You need to watch. No, I'm definitely well, it's
funny because I mean, it's not not that they all need to know
about our personal life. Totally.
I did the same thing try to sit down watch with my wife and my
sons date. My 6 year old was kind of in the

(01:09:03):
beginning was a little like thisisn't for me.
Yeah. And which I, if I'm being
honest, I was surprised. But I know you're saying.
I mean, it's also we're adults. It's not scary to us, but I was
like, I'm surprised this movie is being pushed to that audience
like it's. Yeah, so I think it's being
pushed a little bit older 910 year olds, I think it's kind of

(01:09:26):
where they're really pushing. OK.
I think our kids are a little young.
Yeah, if I'm being honest, that's kind of I'm granted our
kids our age and know about it. There's no songs, right?
But I do think it's more like that 910 kind of almost into the
teens then obviously adults. That's a probably really push
into because it yeah, Netflix. It'd be different if it was like

(01:09:47):
on Disney, maybe then you kind of like why, you know?
But yeah, it is a. Little, but we are.
I will. Watch Demons about that.
But it's not, it's not that bad.It's good.
Yes, I I'm disappointed in myself.
I have not watched this movie yet.
Yeah. Definitely watched very, very
good. I would.
I definitely would watch it again multiple times, I'm sure.
But the music is amazing. I know all the music, yeah.

(01:10:09):
I've heard the music too, I. Love music, but yeah, if you
guys are fans out of some cuz what do you think about this set
if so? Cuz I do feel like everyone that
has at least been commenting about this, it's like pretty
hyped up stuff has been selling out fast.
Everyone's very excited for it. I'm sure there's gonna be a ton
more stuff come out of it and they really should do it
because. It's, it is funny though, one

(01:10:32):
thing too, I want to talk about this because I was, I thought
Funko was going to do such a Funko thing, but then they
redeemed themselves because theyalso have a pop yourself option.
I thought when they were teasingthat they were coming out with
something that that's what it was.
And I was like, Oh my God, like they really just missed the bar.
I think it's kind of cool that they actually came out of Pops

(01:10:54):
and then they also did the Pop yourself.
Whether you think it's blame or not, it seems like if you're a
pretty big fan of the movie, youmay wanna do the pop yourself.
Would you concur? Yes.
OK, so I hate the pop yourself, so it's very hard to say.

(01:11:14):
I will say like what they did. I mean like not trying to like
spoil things or whatever. So I'll try to like tread light
here. But I will say what they did is
smart because the whole big thing is like, you know, there's
obviously, you know, I'll say this.
So there's obviously like two sides.
There's the girl group and there's a boy band and you know,

(01:11:37):
clearly they whatever. So there's fans of both, there's
the fans of the girl group and there's fans of the boy group.
And like the summer, I turn pretty.
We'll get that in the algorithm too.
You got. So you got yeah.
So like so, so there is, but it's like crazy fandoms.
So like, imagine like, you know,Backstreet Boys in *NSYNC or One

(01:12:02):
Direction. Like, yeah, those super hardcore
fans, like go to their concerts,they're dressed like them, they
got T-shirts like them, whatever.
So like, you know, being that itis like the anime ish Japanese
style where it's like over the top and very you know, like, you
know, the eyes pop, all that crazy stuff that happens in this
movie. They also have this whole like
little thing that they hold on to that has like a like lights

(01:12:25):
up and whatever. And that's what's part of the
popular self. And they have like a symbol that
is like the logo of who you're afan of essentially.
So what's cool about it is that like, OK, if you're a fan of
Huntrix, which is like the girl group, you're gonna get the one
that has a little Huntrick sign,you know, whatever.
If you're the fan of the boy band group, you're gonna get the

(01:12:45):
boy band One, which I think was Sun Sun D or something like
that. Forget the name.
So that's kind of like that Partof it is like, yeah, it's cool,
but it's still to me just looks kind of lame and cheesy.
There's AT shirt. It's like, you know, it's.
What the same exam that they do with the but.
That's because we also really don't like the project.
Served ads for to get that MLB one like everything I'm like,

(01:13:08):
yeah. No, I don't see that.
I will say I don't want to keep going around here because we
should be ending. But yeah, I will say I do get a
lot of ads from Thrilljoy on YouTube specifically been really
in Fed ads from Thrilljoy, so which is good.
You spent some money doing that,I guess, Yeah.
So. But all right, Yeah, so.

(01:13:30):
We ended on a good note though, which is good.
Yeah, come on, K Pop Demon Hunters on Netflix.
We haven't checked it out. Check it out and we are AK Pop.
Channel. We need some help people here.
Come on. We need some.
We need subscribers. We.
Can imagine we just I get a bunch of K pop fans subscribing

(01:13:50):
like what the hell, you know what?
I mean put it in the thumbnail. But all right, guys.
So yeah, that's going to be it. Thank you to everyone.
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And yeah, hopefully we get another good week of some good
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(01:14:11):
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