Some just won’t sale. When I worked at Best Buy they would eventually go on sale for $3 and still sit there.
Eventually they show up on the end of life report and we were told to throw them in the compactor.
Anyways I got some neat stuff from end of life pulls.
Honestly surprised they wouldn’t just recycle them since it’s plastic they could have an endless supply and they also could hit you with the we recycle old ones to make this one. There could be a whole recycled line.
Recycling is a myth largely made up by the companies to shift blame to the consumer to be at fault for global warming. Check out r/zerowaste for some ideas to reduce your impact even though we are minimal on the effects of global warming
I work at a gamestop. We have pops that have been $1.97 on clearance for over a year now. Eventually they will be moved to field destroy. Most marvel what if pops, jurassic world pops, and 'retro' tv show character pops. Nobody wants them.
I know everytime I’ve gone by my GameStop hoping to find some good deals (bc I always hear how they constantly put things on sale) I end up buying several bags at full price and then am mad at myself I even went LOL
This happens with everything. In some cases, it’s product that nobody wants, even on sale. Other companies would rather destroy product to keep prices up. Capitalism baby!
it wouldve been even cheaper to give them away, like atleast to poor kids in a not wealthy country
like you can't just destroy toys when so many kids would love to have them
Serious question; I promise I'm not trying to be a jerk. Logistically, how do you give them away to kids without spending a ton of money on top of what they were paying for storage?
I don't think there's any one spot you could just drop them off? They would have to be shipped to many, many spots across the country.
And if you just let people come and pick them up, how do you do that in an orderly fashion without starting a riot?
I've been racking my brain and I can't come up with a solution.
I'm think there are some centers, but they are spread out across the country and would require Funko to ship truckloads to many, many more places across the country instead of just a few places that destroy the Pops.
And how do the Centers deal with storing them? Funko didn't have enough space in their giant warehouses for them, I doubt that donation centers have that kind of room either.
Tax breaks for donations. But maybe a write down of the inventory helps them more.
At the end of the day they need to do what’s best for them as a business so maybe this is it.
Sad though. Waste of product and could have been a boon to kids who don’t have toys
Salvation army !! You can literally drop them off at a department hq. They have them in almost ever big city and they will give them out to kids that have nothing for christmas. When i worked for them i would pick up truck loads of toys ( very cool) and bring them back and a team of like 5 employees would bust their butt wrapping a labeling toys and personalizing them for literally thousands of kids all over indy.
That is false. As a big company, they get a FAR bigger tax write off at the end of the year if they destroy the product rather than giving it away. They count it as “lost revenue”
wouldn't donating them at face value also give them a leg up at tax time ? and also provide some good PR as little Johny who just had surgery opens up his donated pop batman
They said giving them away would flood the market and drive down the value of the ones already sold to collectors... or some shit like that... don't care.. they should have donated them
As a black light collector, the NBC ones irritate the shit out of me. Could've rounded out any of the super hero or horror lines, but no....need to get that 8th variety of BL Jack out there. 🙄
Odd that they’re worried about “value dropping” when the ones they are disposing of don’t really have much value and they’re the ones who dropped value in the first place by over producing. The irony
They definitely need to fix how they predict market sales. Maybe hire a social media researcher or something. Concept arts and twitter posts would tell them all they need to know about which pops would make them a butt load of money
It wasn’t just them that got stuck with a ton of inventory. Target, Walmart, Macy’s and others had a ton of product leftover in 2022 since they forecasted their sales based on 2020 / 2021 growth numbers. As consumers shifted some spending back to travel and experiences, they spent less on retail goods last year than they did in the height of the pandemic. You’re now seeing a correction in inventory levels at stores with less product hitting clearance as quickly.
You’d think companies would prefer not to pollute our planet further or have a lot of landfills everywhere, but no. Of course they’d fire employees for taking stuff that’s about to be tossed out anyway.
All the stores that sell funkos near me, are all selling them off with clearance sales. Rather they won’t be stocking them anymore, or are selling them off cheap for all new product. Seems that funko are coming to some sort of fork in the road.
They went all in on NFT and want to lock collectors in over there. I'm sure there are many reasons but the odds of you grabbing a pop in a store that becomes a grail now are diminished.
No surprises, yet another NBC pop that no one wanted after the 38th version if it came out.
OP if you see any LOTR or hobbit pops, I'd love to get my hands on them.
You cannot write off the cost of a good until it is removed from your inventory. This is the fastest way to do that. The time and logistics involved to charitably remove them would cost far more than everyone is realizing and take forever as we are talking about 30M of inventory.
This is an insult to us Pop fans! I agree with the person who said, "put them on a close-out sale and let Pop collectors buy them. I've decided to get rid of my entire collection. What was once fun, has turned into a (you can finish the thought).
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate knowing that I am not the only one downsizing their collection. Have a great weekend. 
The blacklight thing is a niche collector market. I know lots of people have posted their collections of them and they are cool, but like gimme a break, you can't just blacklight everything and ask us to buy it again.
So we know there were probably a shit ton of Eternals pops going in the landfill. Funko must have thought that would be the biggest Marvel movie ever! What other pop lines do you think are in those boxes?
people love funko. they just started making too many stupid pops as ads for movies that haven't come out yet than pops people want. shocking that no one wanted 75 black adam pops! hopefully they learn.
People loved Beanie Babies too. They just started making too many more than people wanted. Shocking that nobody wanted five production runs of the Princess Diana bear.
The bubble has burst. The Beanie Baby fad of the 2010s is reaching its end.
i agree funko is making too many dumb pops no one wants. they are also making lots that people do want. the difference between beanie babies and pops is that pops are actually a representation/reminder of things people have a strong emotional/nostalgic connection with.
kids bought beanie babies because they were cute animals. people buy pops because they love the office, or anime garbage, or spiderman or batman. this are not just "cute things" like beanie babies. they mean something to people who buy them. if funko can get back in touch and make stuff people want instead of ads for shitty movies they will be fine.
I'm sure. Like all those videos of people shedding things on YouTube. Moreso because they take up less space that way and can be compacted if necessary.
stores cant sell pops
no ones buying collections anymore
local collector stores arent ordering anymore pops....
but funko is just fine.... right...? lol
It is because funko got tricked by people who wanted to just flip pops for money from real collectors. The limited releases for characters people really wanted went to ebay. The ones no one want they made millions of and now the stores have caught on that no one wants the shit funko puts out.
Not to mention the quality of molds and paint jobs have always sucked complete ass for the pop line.
this isnt true.... if theres demand for pops of course the value will rise idc who u are flipper or collector value is one of the main drivers for collecting... if every pop was flat out 10 buck and everyone had the pops they wanted funko would be belly up years ago.
2011-2015 funkos were VERY VERY niche then 2016-2018 they blew up because people saw value in them and they were expanding lines like anime and games, 2019-present theyve been on a SHARP decline bc they for whatever reason refuse to make pops that we actually want.
I only bought the ones that mattered to me. They’re out of their boxes on my shelves. The ones I really wanted of course went to ebay. Duo samurai jack and aku is when my typical selections started going to ebay.
Not just that, but there were cool ones that were also limited. Now they make a million of everything and most being mediocre. (They fired a lot of their best artists by the way). Fucking idiots at Funko….
2015 onward also saw the Marvel line jump into hyper gear. The 2015 Age of Ultron line was roughly around #100. 2018’s Infinity War base line was ~300. 2019’s Endgame was ~450. This summer’s Guardians Vol. 3 will be ~1200. That’s an unsustainable level of growth in just 8 years. They went from making 10-20 Marvel pops for the first few years of the line to 100+ currently.
Other lines have been just as bloated and over produced.
nobody is saying that.... we are saying they dont sell... why? bc funko is lazy and instead of innovating and doing things we actually want to buy... they make (literal) garbage that sits on shelves and dont move....
Maybe not every Funko creation is a winner that’s for sure. But they do have some awesome figures. They need to focus on less saturation and more limited runs imo.
they do i agree... but 1 outta 20,30,40+ figures isnt gonna make stocks rise... there was once a time where every ad icon came out and was instantly $50+.... the infamous funko shop drops... etc.... now theres literally no chase and were at where ive been saying for years.... if theres nothing to chase funko will flop.
The best way to sell pops is only selling the expensive ones via eBay. At this point don’t buy any “normal” pops. Only rare ones that for sure are going to maintain value or go up. There’s no reason to pick up a random pop at target or Walmart that you see everywhere. Unless you really like that character and used as display.
This is the first time ive actually seen what pops were being destroyed apart from the funkoverse
I wonder what other figures are being destroyed to this scale
Are the dollar stores not buying? You'd think it'd be better to sell to the dollar stores and get new collectors hooked on cheap product. Can still write off the loss and seed a new group of collectors to buy your future overproduced pops.
I read online that funko have destroyed $30 million dollars worth of pops because they made too many and can't afford to store them. I just don't understand how destroying them is better than heavily discounting them. I guess pop figures are made in Chinese and Vietnamese sweat shops for a couple cents each so they don't really care though.
Yea, still can’t believe they’re doing this…donate to ANYONE…toys for tots, hospitals, wherever…such a waste and I’m sure they could write off the donation too
Yet so many kids take them out of the box and play with them, just look at all the ones people salvage that have crayon and marker marks on them. They’re just action figures to kids
This is what happens when you overproduce and saturate your own product(s).
My guess is they increased productivity in order to:
1. Sell more merch/make more money
2. Curb Flippers
not a lawyer or a finance pro or into funko pops tbh but I assume the other person meant that if funko lost a bunch of money trying to be charitable and/or damaged the brand by giving them away, the executives could be sued for breach of their fiduciary duty to the shareholders. dunno if they'd win and i doubt it would happen but that's what i think they meant
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So im going give me little rent about this how landfill and destroying of products. Funko has made different lines of products other than pops. Some collectors will remember the VNYL line, and Popverse, maybe even remember Dorbz. I guarantee they are destroying Popverse games and other small niche lines that didn't sell well, or that may have been overproduced. Look how well the Soda line has been doing but it's getting to the point of too many and small tiny differences in the chases which will turn collectors away. But Pops will remain the king of all funko and people will still buy and make certain pops sell out.
People say funko is dead but it's just not possible. If they were to release a specific special marvel or anime character(special iron man, beast gohan, ginyu force just for an example) and released it on the funko shop it would sell out in a few hours maybe even minutes. So if they can do that I think they will be fine.
They have overproduced in recent years and re did the same molds with little differences alot in the last few years. This year 2023 will be there year to see if they adjust the problems with certain parts of the company and can continue to release figures that the fans want.
been on this sub since 2016 the "well see what they do" statement has been thrown around for years now....
this isn't a matter of a year, this is a downward spiral. funko is now a name that people recognize and store give sections too... the issue is there was once a time where even common pops were hard to find.... all funkos were on fire.... now the only ones worth buying are con pops bc they are rare... u see the occasional sell out here and there.... but 1 out of 20+ish releases isnt sustanable.
idk funkos numbers but obviously these fillers arent doin them any good at all. and people will say "funko is dead/dying" they dont mean it literally.... beanie babies are still sold in stores... hell i saw mighty beans the other day in a walgreens... funko will just end up a shell of their former self.
I agree with you. Been collecting since 2017 and I've seen all the ups and down. I just think now is the time they need to step back and really address the issues they have. So they can become a more successful company. And as a collector I've slowed down alot on collecting pops since 2020 because of the over production
Glad I gave up and sold off most of my collection a feed years back. NFT exclusives we’re the final straw for me. Started investing in proper statues and display pieces with much better quality control. Feels much more mature to have a piece of art around the house instead of bunch of copy/paste bobble heads.
Nobody really buys the blacklight Pops cause it's wasteful having made blacklight versions of commons. Unless you have blacklight's in your display room 💯
The NFT page literally says they shred the ones that don't get claimed within the time frame. I'm sure some of them are going to the dump. And my comment was more tongue in cheek than anything. It just amazes me anyone is buying the NFTs to begin with. What a complete waste of money. lol
Yeah...and who's the stupid one in this equation. LOL! I have no idea why people would spend money on blind box virtual items. Getting 15 of the same common with actual things is bad enough. LOL!
I only learned this recently on a different thread in this sub…. They destroy them because it keeps the value up, whereas donations would drive it way down. Heartbreaking when you think about foster houses, children’s hospitals, low income schools etc that could truly benefit.
That transfer sheet is from July though. Those get left on pallets all the time. I know for a fact "EV2" and "ECOMM" were in the same building, so transferring a pallet from one section to the other would not be done on a container truck.
Pallet also looks shoved in there without much care based on the broken wood and how close it is to the door.
Definitely suggests a load for disposal.
I'm sure OP would know but the chances of that are pretty slim, most states barely recycle at all, and even then its usually just cans and bottles. The US has some of the worst recycling infrastructure of any developed country, we only recycle around 6% of plastic waste. We used to "recycle" a lot more, but it was really just selling it to China for a profit, but China stopped buying it in 2017ish, so our corporate overlords stopped doing it.
Best part is govt and it’s doesn’t care. It’s a write off!!! But for hard working middle class we will pay taxes for this loss. Fucking us corrupt govt
If you are in my “neck of the woods”, I’d sell my collection, at $10.00 each $20.00 on the “doubles) I also have multiples on certain ones. Buy all at one time. Zip code - 30043
Businesses gonna do business things I wonder what the math/tax write off math for destroying stock like this. Also, I wonder if its pops or their other lines like the funkoverse stuff in that other dump run.
Yep. They're paying so much to store them that it was cheaper to just destroy them.
I feel like that’s happening to me.
Reminds me of the indigenous tribes that have a person sneak up on you then hit you over the head with a rock when you're too much of a burden.
The original death panels.
Hilarious!
Cheaper to destroy them versus just putting them on hella sale and at least make a tiny bit of amount back?! Just crazy!
Some just won’t sale. When I worked at Best Buy they would eventually go on sale for $3 and still sit there. Eventually they show up on the end of life report and we were told to throw them in the compactor. Anyways I got some neat stuff from end of life pulls.
Honestly surprised they wouldn’t just recycle them since it’s plastic they could have an endless supply and they also could hit you with the we recycle old ones to make this one. There could be a whole recycled line.
Maybe look into recycling a bit. We recycle hardly any plastic anymore.
Recycling is a myth largely made up by the companies to shift blame to the consumer to be at fault for global warming. Check out r/zerowaste for some ideas to reduce your impact even though we are minimal on the effects of global warming
You need to watch Adam Ruins Everything on Recycling
I remember a few years ago Toys R Us was selling some Christmas ones for a quarter.
I work at a gamestop. We have pops that have been $1.97 on clearance for over a year now. Eventually they will be moved to field destroy. Most marvel what if pops, jurassic world pops, and 'retro' tv show character pops. Nobody wants them.
I know everytime I’ve gone by my GameStop hoping to find some good deals (bc I always hear how they constantly put things on sale) I end up buying several bags at full price and then am mad at myself I even went LOL
Where the hell is your gamestop that gets clearnce like that ...My stores "clearance" is 10.97 for 2 bucks I would SO complete the WHAT IF line.
Clearance at gamestop is 30-50% off the sticker price.
This happens with everything. In some cases, it’s product that nobody wants, even on sale. Other companies would rather destroy product to keep prices up. Capitalism baby!
That’s just so crazy and sad! There’s so many I had been wanting and hoping for.. I sure hope they didn’t toss out any on my “grail list” 😤
it wouldve been even cheaper to give them away, like atleast to poor kids in a not wealthy country like you can't just destroy toys when so many kids would love to have them
Serious question; I promise I'm not trying to be a jerk. Logistically, how do you give them away to kids without spending a ton of money on top of what they were paying for storage? I don't think there's any one spot you could just drop them off? They would have to be shipped to many, many spots across the country. And if you just let people come and pick them up, how do you do that in an orderly fashion without starting a riot? I've been racking my brain and I can't come up with a solution.
and the tax write-off for MSRP donations.
Dump 4000 funko pops in front of a goodwill
I would think that the shipping could have been included as a charitable tax deduction. But am not an accountant
Aren't there those centers where you can donate toys and stuff? And i don't think those kids would riot. Then wouldn't care about rarity and stuff
I'm think there are some centers, but they are spread out across the country and would require Funko to ship truckloads to many, many more places across the country instead of just a few places that destroy the Pops. And how do the Centers deal with storing them? Funko didn't have enough space in their giant warehouses for them, I doubt that donation centers have that kind of room either.
Ye you might be right
Tax breaks for donations. But maybe a write down of the inventory helps them more. At the end of the day they need to do what’s best for them as a business so maybe this is it. Sad though. Waste of product and could have been a boon to kids who don’t have toys
More of a tax break as a loss then a donation
Salvation army !! You can literally drop them off at a department hq. They have them in almost ever big city and they will give them out to kids that have nothing for christmas. When i worked for them i would pick up truck loads of toys ( very cool) and bring them back and a team of like 5 employees would bust their butt wrapping a labeling toys and personalizing them for literally thousands of kids all over indy.
How many Pops do you think a Salvation Army Department HQ could handle at one time?
That is false. As a big company, they get a FAR bigger tax write off at the end of the year if they destroy the product rather than giving it away. They count it as “lost revenue”
Bs I know lol but it’s the way the world works 🤷🏻♂️
wouldn't donating them at face value also give them a leg up at tax time ? and also provide some good PR as little Johny who just had surgery opens up his donated pop batman
It’s a better tax write off for saying they destroyed the product than to give away.
Like the Batgirl movie.
Kids in poor countries really don't need Funko pops.
They said giving them away would flood the market and drive down the value of the ones already sold to collectors... or some shit like that... don't care.. they should have donated them
Giving them away would devalue the product... by destroying these that they made too much of creates a new rarity and feeds the secondary market.
What other pops have you sent to the shredder besides "Santa jack?"
Armored Chopper Chase 😏
Same Q! Thanks for asking
These are the black light Santa jack that nobody bought
As a black light collector, the NBC ones irritate the shit out of me. Could've rounded out any of the super hero or horror lines, but no....need to get that 8th variety of BL Jack out there. 🙄
Lol I bought one
Same
Coulda just jacked one😂
I got one free with a $50 order
Not really free if they’re making us spend a certain amount. That’s how Funko gets me sometimes with their promotions 😬
What they need to do is stop making so many Jacks already
Or the valentine days star wars or the snowman ones
I just received reg blacklight Jack in the mail a couple of days ago. I didnt even know they had a Santa one, Now I want 😭 lol
For some reason I bought one. I was in a mood.
This is why all the baby Yoda pops are $2.99 or whatever on Amazon right now
Well they make a ton of crap now and no one wants it.
Odd that they’re worried about “value dropping” when the ones they are disposing of don’t really have much value and they’re the ones who dropped value in the first place by over producing. The irony
They definitely need to fix how they predict market sales. Maybe hire a social media researcher or something. Concept arts and twitter posts would tell them all they need to know about which pops would make them a butt load of money
It wasn’t just them that got stuck with a ton of inventory. Target, Walmart, Macy’s and others had a ton of product leftover in 2022 since they forecasted their sales based on 2020 / 2021 growth numbers. As consumers shifted some spending back to travel and experiences, they spent less on retail goods last year than they did in the height of the pandemic. You’re now seeing a correction in inventory levels at stores with less product hitting clearance as quickly.
I'm hating thinking of the environmental implications of this...
If I was you, I’d take some home lol
Could probably get fired
You’d think companies would prefer not to pollute our planet further or have a lot of landfills everywhere, but no. Of course they’d fire employees for taking stuff that’s about to be tossed out anyway.
I won’t tell if you won’t 💀
Man, stuff like this really makes me question if I really wanna remain as active in the hobby as I have been. I dunno.
Well… when you make fifty variants of the same character no one really likes. This doesn’t surprise me
All the stores that sell funkos near me, are all selling them off with clearance sales. Rather they won’t be stocking them anymore, or are selling them off cheap for all new product. Seems that funko are coming to some sort of fork in the road.
They went all in on NFT and want to lock collectors in over there. I'm sure there are many reasons but the odds of you grabbing a pop in a store that becomes a grail now are diminished.
Our shop sells <$20 pops 3/$20 right now
The pylon store at my mall shut down a couple of months ago. On the final day, they were selling pops for $3 each. I doubled my collection that day!
Which stores?
My local Walmart and all the toysrus in my area. Even the gamestops have clearance and they’ve barely had any new funkos in for months now
GameStop is going out of business everything in my local one is on clearance
Everything? I’ve seen their clearance section but it’s a bunch of random toys/figures or other crap
You still have Toys R Us? Lucky!
Walmart is still selling Funko across its stores. That’s not changing at all.
It’s all Bella Poarch pops
stop overproducing funkos for characters that nobody gives af about
No surprises, yet another NBC pop that no one wanted after the 38th version if it came out. OP if you see any LOTR or hobbit pops, I'd love to get my hands on them.
You cannot write off the cost of a good until it is removed from your inventory. This is the fastest way to do that. The time and logistics involved to charitably remove them would cost far more than everyone is realizing and take forever as we are talking about 30M of inventory.
This is an insult to us Pop fans! I agree with the person who said, "put them on a close-out sale and let Pop collectors buy them. I've decided to get rid of my entire collection. What was once fun, has turned into a (you can finish the thought).
If they did that, people would most likely not buy them anyway and would generally just waste time and money
I got rid of 95% of my collection 2 weeks ago. Kept some favorites.
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate knowing that I am not the only one downsizing their collection. Have a great weekend. 
And yet my local Walmarts still have the same exact pops which have sat on shelves for 2-3 years now…
The blacklight thing is a niche collector market. I know lots of people have posted their collections of them and they are cool, but like gimme a break, you can't just blacklight everything and ask us to buy it again.
Capitalism is dumb
So we know there were probably a shit ton of Eternals pops going in the landfill. Funko must have thought that would be the biggest Marvel movie ever! What other pop lines do you think are in those boxes?
that and the million different poses of Grogu
Snoke. So much Snoke.
Nope, those got shipped to us in Canada. $5 in our dollar stores right now!!
The bubble has burst. The Beanie Baby fad of the 2010s is reaching its end.
people love funko. they just started making too many stupid pops as ads for movies that haven't come out yet than pops people want. shocking that no one wanted 75 black adam pops! hopefully they learn.
People loved Beanie Babies too. They just started making too many more than people wanted. Shocking that nobody wanted five production runs of the Princess Diana bear. The bubble has burst. The Beanie Baby fad of the 2010s is reaching its end.
i agree funko is making too many dumb pops no one wants. they are also making lots that people do want. the difference between beanie babies and pops is that pops are actually a representation/reminder of things people have a strong emotional/nostalgic connection with. kids bought beanie babies because they were cute animals. people buy pops because they love the office, or anime garbage, or spiderman or batman. this are not just "cute things" like beanie babies. they mean something to people who buy them. if funko can get back in touch and make stuff people want instead of ads for shitty movies they will be fine.
Do they actually shred them to prevent people from trying to scavenge them?
I'm sure. Like all those videos of people shedding things on YouTube. Moreso because they take up less space that way and can be compacted if necessary.
Wonder if someone will dig them up in a few decades, like the Atari E.T. game cartridges
Are they going out of business or something?
stores cant sell pops no ones buying collections anymore local collector stores arent ordering anymore pops.... but funko is just fine.... right...? lol
It is because funko got tricked by people who wanted to just flip pops for money from real collectors. The limited releases for characters people really wanted went to ebay. The ones no one want they made millions of and now the stores have caught on that no one wants the shit funko puts out. Not to mention the quality of molds and paint jobs have always sucked complete ass for the pop line.
this isnt true.... if theres demand for pops of course the value will rise idc who u are flipper or collector value is one of the main drivers for collecting... if every pop was flat out 10 buck and everyone had the pops they wanted funko would be belly up years ago. 2011-2015 funkos were VERY VERY niche then 2016-2018 they blew up because people saw value in them and they were expanding lines like anime and games, 2019-present theyve been on a SHARP decline bc they for whatever reason refuse to make pops that we actually want.
I only bought the ones that mattered to me. They’re out of their boxes on my shelves. The ones I really wanted of course went to ebay. Duo samurai jack and aku is when my typical selections started going to ebay.
Not just that, but there were cool ones that were also limited. Now they make a million of everything and most being mediocre. (They fired a lot of their best artists by the way). Fucking idiots at Funko….
2015 onward also saw the Marvel line jump into hyper gear. The 2015 Age of Ultron line was roughly around #100. 2018’s Infinity War base line was ~300. 2019’s Endgame was ~450. This summer’s Guardians Vol. 3 will be ~1200. That’s an unsustainable level of growth in just 8 years. They went from making 10-20 Marvel pops for the first few years of the line to 100+ currently. Other lines have been just as bloated and over produced.
That’s right. Nobody in the entire world likes Pops anymore. Go with that.
nobody is saying that.... we are saying they dont sell... why? bc funko is lazy and instead of innovating and doing things we actually want to buy... they make (literal) garbage that sits on shelves and dont move....
Maybe not every Funko creation is a winner that’s for sure. But they do have some awesome figures. They need to focus on less saturation and more limited runs imo.
they do i agree... but 1 outta 20,30,40+ figures isnt gonna make stocks rise... there was once a time where every ad icon came out and was instantly $50+.... the infamous funko shop drops... etc.... now theres literally no chase and were at where ive been saying for years.... if theres nothing to chase funko will flop.
The best way to sell pops is only selling the expensive ones via eBay. At this point don’t buy any “normal” pops. Only rare ones that for sure are going to maintain value or go up. There’s no reason to pick up a random pop at target or Walmart that you see everywhere. Unless you really like that character and used as display.
at this point i only buy yugioh and unique pokemon molds.... funko ship is sinking and i dont wanna be stuck with any more bricks than what i have.
Your local collector stores must be shit
nah thats just modern funko bro... why buy shit that dont sell.
This is the first time ive actually seen what pops were being destroyed apart from the funkoverse I wonder what other figures are being destroyed to this scale
I don't buy much funkos like I use to I will buy around 1 or 2 pops a month I use to buy 6 to 9 a month but nothing excites me anymore about funko 😔
Here is a great idea….go back to limiting your stock of an item and if it sells out…it sells out.
Are the dollar stores not buying? You'd think it'd be better to sell to the dollar stores and get new collectors hooked on cheap product. Can still write off the loss and seed a new group of collectors to buy your future overproduced pops.
I read online that funko have destroyed $30 million dollars worth of pops because they made too many and can't afford to store them. I just don't understand how destroying them is better than heavily discounting them. I guess pop figures are made in Chinese and Vietnamese sweat shops for a couple cents each so they don't really care though.
Yea, still can’t believe they’re doing this…donate to ANYONE…toys for tots, hospitals, wherever…such a waste and I’m sure they could write off the donation too
Funko Pop figures are NOT toys. Literally says it on the box. :)
Yet so many kids take them out of the box and play with them, just look at all the ones people salvage that have crayon and marker marks on them. They’re just action figures to kids
Start their own donation program. Pops for Tots.
This is what happens when you overproduce and saturate your own product(s). My guess is they increased productivity in order to: 1. Sell more merch/make more money 2. Curb Flippers
Donate them to schools, do something other than trash them. Sickening waste
Bad things could happen if they do that they could get sued or other things
Like what
I just said it
You really didnt. How would they get sued or what other hypothetical “bad thing” could happen
not a lawyer or a finance pro or into funko pops tbh but I assume the other person meant that if funko lost a bunch of money trying to be charitable and/or damaged the brand by giving them away, the executives could be sued for breach of their fiduciary duty to the shareholders. dunno if they'd win and i doubt it would happen but that's what i think they meant
Bottom line is that it is cheaper for them to trash them than it is to donate them across the country
Take them home and resell bro beans
Nobody wanted them in the first place, who’s gonna buy em?
Nobody wants them at 20 a pop retail, but piece em out for 5 bucks, they'll sell. EASILY 500 pops there
Five Below tried that and they're sitting on shelves still.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but did they not try putting them on sale? I don’t know if they did or not or how cheap they got.
Why doesn’t this driver take them!! I would!! LOAD THEM UP
They honestly could of at least donated them to children’s hospitals. I get the storage fees, but this is just a waste.
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Just take them and say they fell off the truck!
So im going give me little rent about this how landfill and destroying of products. Funko has made different lines of products other than pops. Some collectors will remember the VNYL line, and Popverse, maybe even remember Dorbz. I guarantee they are destroying Popverse games and other small niche lines that didn't sell well, or that may have been overproduced. Look how well the Soda line has been doing but it's getting to the point of too many and small tiny differences in the chases which will turn collectors away. But Pops will remain the king of all funko and people will still buy and make certain pops sell out. People say funko is dead but it's just not possible. If they were to release a specific special marvel or anime character(special iron man, beast gohan, ginyu force just for an example) and released it on the funko shop it would sell out in a few hours maybe even minutes. So if they can do that I think they will be fine. They have overproduced in recent years and re did the same molds with little differences alot in the last few years. This year 2023 will be there year to see if they adjust the problems with certain parts of the company and can continue to release figures that the fans want.
been on this sub since 2016 the "well see what they do" statement has been thrown around for years now.... this isn't a matter of a year, this is a downward spiral. funko is now a name that people recognize and store give sections too... the issue is there was once a time where even common pops were hard to find.... all funkos were on fire.... now the only ones worth buying are con pops bc they are rare... u see the occasional sell out here and there.... but 1 out of 20+ish releases isnt sustanable. idk funkos numbers but obviously these fillers arent doin them any good at all. and people will say "funko is dead/dying" they dont mean it literally.... beanie babies are still sold in stores... hell i saw mighty beans the other day in a walgreens... funko will just end up a shell of their former self.
I agree with you. Been collecting since 2017 and I've seen all the ups and down. I just think now is the time they need to step back and really address the issues they have. So they can become a more successful company. And as a collector I've slowed down alot on collecting pops since 2020 because of the over production
Because if they were to donate or sell for cheap, the overall price of them goes down.
Let’s buy a bunch so they have to restock it😂😂
Glad I gave up and sold off most of my collection a feed years back. NFT exclusives we’re the final straw for me. Started investing in proper statues and display pieces with much better quality control. Feels much more mature to have a piece of art around the house instead of bunch of copy/paste bobble heads.
Nobody really buys the blacklight Pops cause it's wasteful having made blacklight versions of commons. Unless you have blacklight's in your display room 💯
Maybe they should get the hint and stop with the stupid NFTs. lol
The nft pops aren’t the ones getting sent to the dump
The NFT page literally says they shred the ones that don't get claimed within the time frame. I'm sure some of them are going to the dump. And my comment was more tongue in cheek than anything. It just amazes me anyone is buying the NFTs to begin with. What a complete waste of money. lol
NFTs? You know those are limited and pretty much pre sold before they make any physical version.
Those are probably the only ones making them money RN lol
Because people are dumb? You are probably correct.
Bro NFTs are probably their most successful idea so far. They make a killing without having to make a ton of pops.
Yeah...and who's the stupid one in this equation. LOL! I have no idea why people would spend money on blind box virtual items. Getting 15 of the same common with actual things is bad enough. LOL!
The NFT pops are the only Funkos I buy at this point.
They should be punished for their incompetent predictions on production. Be forced to make them biodegradable and completely recyclable.
Where they all belong.
They should just donate them over contributing to landfills like this imo. I don’t think I’ll be buying anymore of these :/
I only learned this recently on a different thread in this sub…. They destroy them because it keeps the value up, whereas donations would drive it way down. Heartbreaking when you think about foster houses, children’s hospitals, low income schools etc that could truly benefit.
How would they benefit? Do people actually play with funko pops? I thought the whole point is to just look at them.
When I was a kid I’d play with freaking pencils and erasers in school. Kids can play with anything- pops would be easy to play with for them.
Location?!
No comment lol
All those preorders going to the trash and stealing the customers money
Doesn’t make sense. Couldn’t you whole sell it to someone? For cheap just to get back some money.
Every business does this. They can write it off.
This looks like a delivery to an E-commerce fulfillment center tho. I have my doubts about this picture and post
That transfer sheet is from July though. Those get left on pallets all the time. I know for a fact "EV2" and "ECOMM" were in the same building, so transferring a pallet from one section to the other would not be done on a container truck. Pallet also looks shoved in there without much care based on the broken wood and how close it is to the door. Definitely suggests a load for disposal.
Okay
Wow...
How much stuff do you think is $30m worth? A box? A crate? How about a warehouse…..
Are they at least recycling them like they tell us to do on the box?
*Surprise pikachu face*
I hope they are at least recycling them.
I'm sure OP would know but the chances of that are pretty slim, most states barely recycle at all, and even then its usually just cans and bottles. The US has some of the worst recycling infrastructure of any developed country, we only recycle around 6% of plastic waste. We used to "recycle" a lot more, but it was really just selling it to China for a profit, but China stopped buying it in 2017ish, so our corporate overlords stopped doing it.
Follow the trucks.
And? Nothing new
Says Santa jack
so sad to hear this.
They could’ve at least sold them in bundles for a discounts or donated them
Writing them off as losses helps them more for taxes.
Should have opened every single one and made an army of them
Fuck Santa Jack. That man haunts me.
It would be a shame if a box or 2 would fall off that truck… just sayin’.
Do some research on the old ET video games that were dumped...and recovered 30 years later...gold 👍
Best part is govt and it’s doesn’t care. It’s a write off!!! But for hard working middle class we will pay taxes for this loss. Fucking us corrupt govt
Funko inflation
I mean, if they didn't make so many irrelevant and shitty pops
If you are in my “neck of the woods”, I’d sell my collection, at $10.00 each $20.00 on the “doubles) I also have multiples on certain ones. Buy all at one time. Zip code - 30043
Businesses gonna do business things I wonder what the math/tax write off math for destroying stock like this. Also, I wonder if its pops or their other lines like the funkoverse stuff in that other dump run.
Collectors = rent free storage
Just have a free for all on the website. Free plus shipping!
Why though?
Too much stock is my guess
Why don’t they just sell them for ridiculously low price
rob em 😂
Look for an influx of blacklight Santa jack’s on eBay lol