313662 No.14671113
In the 80s and 90s, cartoons were treated as second class entertainment, designed only to sell toys. In a way, they still are, and have a huge assortment of primary merchandise, including toys, cards, games, etc. With gaming and otaku culture, cartoons (and anime in a sense) began to exist as their own standalone product.
With shit like pic related, is gaming going down the same path? We seem to be echoing the "demon scare" that D&D etc went through, except it'd about gender and sexual identity for some retarded reason
743f01 No.14671130
There were unique figure molds ready for FNAF merchandise within the same month it originally came out. Anyone who thinks this is an organic fad is delusional.
432ede No.14671174
It certainly feel that way anon, every year more and more devs try to launch weird merchandise with like funko shit, low quality figma clones, RC cars, etc.
91d671 No.14671214
>>14671174
i've always been conflicted about Funkos, on one hand some are so damn bad and low effort that you'll never guess what characters are they supposed to be unless you read the box they came in, on the other hand they are sometimes the only way you'll ever find merchandise of some obscure shit.
63c6d0 No.14671218
Nigger vidya was the toy for a long time. All those transformers and disney movie video games you're too underage to remember, all those licensed shat out vidya that plagued old consoles, were the toys.
9ba5ba No.14671222
This is was kinda tried in a way, in the form of physical DLC, which has already peaked and is well on the decline.
But games are very different from cartoons, in that games by themselves are significantly more profitable than cartoons, so there's less reason to use them to sell merch.
a2a5c3 No.14671227
Toys and toy stores are dying in the west nowadays because instead of making cool shit they have embraced socjus cancer.
Video game toys don't target children, they target adults pining for nostalgia.
13f814 No.14671232
>>14671218
Honestly. I kind of miss licensed games. Most of them were crap, but some good games came out of it.
35883a No.14671242
>>14671214
>obscure character
>Funko
I find that pretty hard to believe to be honest. Also shit is shit, no matter how hard it is to come by.
>>14671227
I'm not surprised since we've got far better toys than plastic crap these days, and sadly, retarded vidya merchandise started taking up plenty of space in our local game shops. There's generally an entire shelf of those Funko turds.
13f814 No.14671278
>>14671242
>better toys than plastic crap
Toy quality peaked from 2000-2012, then it took a massive nosedive in quality once Disney bought the rights to Star Wars. We went form basically fully articulate figures back to worse quality versions of 80s Kenner shit.
51b888 No.14671307
In a way yes in other ways now. Merch in vidya is now more so already established fans. The only similar practice you see today is making vidya to sell mircotranactions. Although, outside of mobile shit, mircotransactions are just tacked onto existing games to nickle and dime players.
>>14671130
>Implying it would take long to make a figure from an already existing 3D model
313662 No.14671315
>>14671278
I avoid any game or franchise related to Disney, because they are so fucking Jewish, on top of them dictating copyright law
>Winnie the Pooh (?)
>Mickey
>Marvel and DC (comics are pozzed and they own some rights to the MCU?)
13f814 No.14671366
>>14671315
It's gotten so bad you can the toys are crap just by looking at them. I don't think I've bought anything Star Wars since the Disney buyout anyway.
8e3750 No.14671391
>>14671174
Why do so many people buy those ugly thing?
313662 No.14671403
>>14671391
Normalfag gaymer xD culture
91d671 No.14671405
>>14671391
Dirt cheap compared to actual figs like nendos or whatever, there's like a gorillion and there's people that for some reason find them cute
13f814 No.14671503
>>14671467
>funko pop
>pickle rick
87908f No.14671512
>>14671467
This is the kind of figure I'd get in a promo Happy meal.
418ac3 No.14671534
>>14671503
Well at least it's not just a pickle figure. If I were quite a bit younger I'd play with a Pickle Rick with the Frankenstein parts and a fucking laser cannon, hell yeah.
d758e3 No.14671543
>>14671391
Commodification of subculture brought down to a low price. They're effectively big shiny boxes of crap, but the latent autism of modern "gamers" and soyboy faggots drives them to collect these things, because the uniformity is pleasing to their faggoty little minds.
cad4ad No.14671548
>>14671503
My flatmate purchased one the day they came out. Every time I enter the house, the first fucking thing I see is that green abomination staring at me.
31891c No.14671553
>>14671512
All being sold at $10 a piece. This is truly a living nightmare.
13f814 No.14671567
>>14671553
I'd understand Amiibos or even regular action figure being that price
, since that's pretty much the norm,and those tend to be higher detail- but this is basically the same over and over with tiny extra pieces glued on or different paint jobs.
35883a No.14671592
>>14671568
That third thing looks more like a short-legged gondola.
87908f No.14671605
>>14671553
>>14671568
People only buy these because other people like them/buy them. Its an endless loop of faggotry. I bet some of these are essentially bought as a meme.
432ede No.14671616
What if at the moment of your death the Funko manufacturers came over to your corpse, grab your soul before it goes to the great beyond, put it into a container and then used it to make funko figurines? Maybe that's how they achieve that dead and soulless look
48c48f No.14671617
>>14671553
>>14671567
>>14671605
They are everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Even Retail chains have them. At least the Buylander fad is over. I can get them all for 200 benis tops.
0c4061 No.14671736
>>14671616
>soulless
Or they are just jews.
2d35e8 No.14671802
>>14671391
To play doubles advocate, a couple of reasons why normalfags buy these. The first is that they're dirt-cheap. Since the designs all stem from the same base model, it undoubtedly doesn't take Funko long to make some subtle alterations to the base and put it into production as a "new" figure. Even easier if they're making an alternate costume for the same character, that can be little more than a new paint job. The low design and production costs (it's just a hunk of painted vinyl after all) means they can be sold on the cheap, which appeals to people who want some lolsogeekyXD merchandise without having to spend a lot of money on it. It's harder for a normalfag to rationalize spending $50 on a well-designed figure that they might be embarrassed to own, but $10? Less of a big deal.
Second, as >>14671214 pointed out, they're frequently the only way to get a figure of some characters. The obscure, one-off characters that it doesn't make sense to make action figures/figmas/nendos of, because demand isn't going to be high enough to justify making expensive figures. In contrast, because Funkos are dirt cheap, as mentioned above, it doesn't take much to justify making a figure of Random One-Off Character #72. The people who want it will get it, and if it doesn't sell well, the much more popular Funkos will cover the loss.
And third, there's the collector's market. Just like anything else that can be collected, there will be whales that gotta have them all, speculators who buy limited editions to jack up the price later, and so on. It's dumb, sure, but people collect all kinds of dumb shit, so it's no different.
normalfags will be normalfags. There's nothing to be done about it. Just enjoy the good figures and let them devour their plastic garbage.
de0bc1 No.14672186
>tfw the bionicle MNOLG games were mostly toy promos
>tfw they were great anyway
>tfw no other games that did the early bionicle setting justice
I'd kill for a good roguelike set on Mata Nui or something.
5b743a No.14672294
>>14671467
Where's my Krotchy figure?
79ac8a No.14672318
Don't buy plastic shit made for over emotional mentally ill (that is, hyped) freaks.
And make as many normalfags stop buying it all.
As for games themselves, pirate everything.
All products can be well made and have some genuine interest growing, but mostly (and currently, probably all of them) are created from the start to be forced into fads as quickly and artificially as possible. Never fall for the forced fad machine and their marketing.
432ede No.14672441
>>14672294
I would actually buy one of these
a4f2f2 No.14672851
>>14671214
Obscure to some normalfags maybe. But those things appeal to the mass crowd by making funko pops of what everyone can identify, unless you think sailor moon or wwe wrestlers "obscure".
45f4e8 No.14672863
>>14671467
>Funko pop bob ross and mr.rogers
These are sins itself
51beb9 No.14672885
>>14671467
>funko pop Pickle Rick
13f814 No.14672933
>>14672885
>>14672886
this double post is absolutely justified
a9be16 No.14672941
>>14671278
>then it took a massive nosedive in quality once Disney bought the rights to Star Wars
Man, Disney was already cancer before the buy out of Star Wars but since that they had become an even bigger cancer. By the way, how good was the quality of those toys during the pre-Disney wars years?
e46381 No.14672962
>>14672941
I've still got mine and they haven't broken or anything as of yet. They were kind of expensive but you could get ones of rather obscure characters, for example, I got one of IG-88 and Garindan for my birthday.
13f814 No.14672974
>>14672941
They were a pretty decent level of detail. The paint was good and did a good job of not looking flat or dull. The Disney ones by contrast have the problems the old ones don't, most notably in the Rebels ones.
>>14672962
Most of mine are still in good shape except for the ones I lost or swapped parts on.
432ede No.14672983
>>14672863
Anon, that isn't Bob Ross, it is Deadpool disguised as Bob Ross. A couple of months ago someone streamed on Twitch every episode of Bob Ross, after that he became some sort of epic haha reddit meme, then they used a Deadpool disguised as Bob Ross for the official Deadpool 2 trailer
13f814 No.14672988
>>14672974
My mistake, the third one's a disney figure. You can take a look at all the pre-Disney ones on this site btw:
http://jedibusiness.com/brands.aspx?brand=Hasbro#hasbro4.
4e6182 No.14673120
>>14671130
Are you sure your not confusing it with the sequels?
>>14671214
One thing I can't stand about Funko's is those black beady eyes, it works on characters like superheroes but after seeing some Nickelodeon cartoon characters (Tommy Pickles as seen in >>14671616
, Reptar, Rocko, Norbert & Dagget) which had pretty decent sculpts but were fucking ruined by those soulless black eyes.
>>14671568
The only thing that impress me about the Brickheadz line is that they seem to be a worthy challenger, their cheaper than the newly released Funko, which is impressive considering you can at least reassemble the Lego bricks into something else and get printed pieces instead of stickers.
e2b723 No.14673385
>>14671174
>Funko
Seen some new cancer beginning to metastasize in shops out where I am, apparently called "Dorbz". The cancerous template trash apparently has some other company trying to capitalize on the idea with a knockoff of their own.
>>14671214
It's just soulless template shit, for the most part. And at least for me, pretty much nothing I enjoy is going to be popular enough to get one (and even it did, I wouldn't get one). For the most part though those are made to cater to normalfags with normalfag/entry level tastes in shit in the first place, because that's obviously where the profit is going to be.
>>14671391
To be honest, I'm not sure that many do. It seems like every store that stocks them, at least where I am, has some huge rack of them that always seems full, and I rarely ever see anyone sifting through them. Best I can think is that it's pushed hard because the west hasn't really had a native nendo/figma style market (with outright action figures being a kids thing, assuming they're still around; I haven't checked), and unfortunately these shitty things are cheap enough to make that the company wants them to get real popular.
For those that do buy them, I suppose it's simply done to signal to others what they like. At least funko shit isn't exactly portable though so it should just stay in houses collecting dust, but it wouldn't shock me if some enterprising pleb has crammed a bunch into the passenger seat window of his car.
7e1f0b No.14673411
>>14671467
>Deadpool Bob Ross
what
a4f2f2 No.14673485
>>14673385
Dorbz is made by the same company that does funko pops. They are just trying to expand their business by shitting out figures with circle heads.
>Ren is too busy being a hunk of cheap plastic rather then saving vidya
e2b723 No.14673493
>>14673485
I honestly didn't notice that, probably because I saw the brand name, saw the quality of the figure inside, and 180'ed out of that section of the store. It's still cancer either way though.
101243 No.14673556
>>14671113
It depresses me as a shitty weebtrash that so many people view the art in animation as disposable, and the argument for piracy, at least from normalfags around me, is that we're supposed to view animation as advertising vehicles for said worthless plastic garbage. Why can't we actually pay the animators their due?
But that's just me, I'd rather value a 5D data crystal with every annotated concept art piece and genga from every great animator ever over mass-produced painted hunks.
e5d7d8 No.14673574
>>14671174
Pop figures are absolute trash
>>14673120
Agreed, it's the eyes that turn me off from them, along with some getting the shitty square heads but others not for no apparent reason
e5d7d8 No.14673577
>>14672294
Agreed
Instead we'll just have to get these
432ede No.14673590
e5d7d8 No.14673591
>>14671405
I know a middle aged childless woman who has a whole room devoted entirely to POP figures, it's so sad
She's not even trying to move out of her parents house and she's 30 now, just collecting more POPs and anime posters
I know another chick who's addicted to those tsun tsun plushies, atleast those are sometimes cute and by disney so they'll be resellable later on as collectors stuff
POPs are normalfag weebfigures, nothing more
432ede No.14673620
>>14673591
I kind of understand when they collect pokemon shit and other stuff like that but I don't get the point of funkos, they are easy to find, they aren't soft, they can't be posed, they all look the same and they have to be kid friendly since they are sold in toy stores
88dd6b No.14674024
>>14672318
>As for games themselves, pirate everything.
How are good developers supposed to earn their bread?
476878 No.14674065
>>14671214
>i've always been conflicted about Funkos, on one hand some are so damn bad and low effort
All of them. You mean all of them are so damn bad and low effort.
>they are sometimes the only way you'll ever find merchandise of some obscure shit.
So? Who cares? How fucking pathetic are you that you must buy a retarded vinyl figure? Is letting kikes fleece you in exchange for useless merchandise the only way you can tolerate life? You're a disgrace.
6473f4 No.14674071
>>14674024
By having a real job.
476878 No.14674076
>>14673591
>I know a middle aged childless woman who has a whole room devoted entirely to POP figures, it's so sad
>She's not even trying to move out of her parents house and she's 30 now, just collecting more POPs and anime posters
You know what to do
88dd6b No.14674082
>>14674071
Its a real job though
>>14674076
What if shes a slut?
6473f4 No.14674088
>>14674082
It's a real hellhole, that's what it is
fd6e93 No.14674094
>>14674065
>All of them. You mean all of them are so damn bad and low effort.
For 15 bucks, this one isn't too bad. Granted it's a shitty overwatch character.
fd9aab No.14674109
>>14674094
> talk trash in Overwatch
> get banned for 'being toxic'
>D.va talks trash by default
> thousands of white males masturbate to images of her every hour
I don't know what the term for this insanity is.
476878 No.14674112
>>14674082
>What if shes a slut?
Her devotion to vinyl figures and anime posters suggests she can't even remember the last time she touched a real dick.
>>14674094
>One funko with some effort put into it
>Still not worth buying for a variety of reasons
wew
3f9813 No.14674158
>>14674082
>>14674076
>>14674112
>newfags don't know who pixieterry is
fd6e93 No.14674169
>>14674112
I think it funny how they did the mech right, but the little slut is still just a generic rounded cube.
90288e No.14674203
>>14674109
>Use in-game voice lines after kills
>Reported for BM (Bad Manners, yes I know how gay even that term is)
>Get banned
But muh toxicity though
ccb68e No.14674403
>>14674158
>newfags don't know who pixyteri is
It's been ages since I've heard of that cow
4e6182 No.14675538
>>14673620
I think there is one (unintentional) design advantage to Funko's. With their big square box with flat top and bottom plus the large view window stores and collectors can just stack them on top of one another. Since they lack articulation (and won't be "played" with) I think collectors don't even bother taking them out of the box because the window gives a good look at the figure without taking it out.
>>14674203
>Meanwhile in TF2
>Still retains that Pyro achievement BarbeQueQ for making a dominated player leave the server (as in rage quit)
>Scout still has the domination line of Yeah, I dare ya, rage quit. C'mon, make us both happy!
>Also a mute button for any abusive voice chat as standard if someone does happen to get annoyed
>Don't ever have to worry about getting banned outside of hacking/cheating
c4c2ae No.14675553
>>14671113
>In the 80s and 90s, cartoons were treated as second class entertainment
As they should be, you pleb ass bitch. I bet you're a fucking fatty.
354575 No.14675798
>>14675538
Don't forget these demo achievements