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innuendo141 said:
Well yeah, but so are coloured vinyl variants, steelbook 4ks etc. Doesn't mean that people have to jump in and knock something if they're not into it. Different strokes for different folks.
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It's just that, you know, it's against everything that Michael stood for. Are you really pretending to be oblivious to that?

You don't get to listen to Earth Song one minute, and then buy this sort of mass-produced stuff and say screw the environment the next minute.

Thank about your actions.
 
R1chard said:
It's just that, you know, it's against everything that Michael stood for. Are you really pretending to be oblivious to that?

You don't get to listen to Earth Song one minute, and then buy this sort of mass-produced stuff and say screw the environment the next minute.
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R1chard said:
It's just that, you know, it's against everything that Michael stood for. Are you really pretending to be oblivious to that?

You don't get to listen to Earth Song one minute, and then buy this sort of mass-produced stuff and say screw the environment the next minute.

Thank about your actions.
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R1chard said:
It's just that, you know, it's against everything that Michael stood for. Are you really pretending to be oblivious to that?

You don't get to listen to Earth Song one minute, and then buy this sort of mass-produced stuff and say screw the environment the next minute.

Thank about your actions.
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Jesus Christ I had forgotten why I had you on my ignore list.

I hope you cheer up eventually, Richard.
 
R1chard said:
It's just that, you know, it's against everything that Michael stood for. Are you really pretending to be oblivious to that?

You don't get to listen to Earth Song one minute, and then buy this sort of mass-produced stuff and say screw the environment the next minute.

Thank about your actions.
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Valid take when it comes this landfill waste. Most Funkos end up there anyway because they're so unwanted. At least the old dolls were fairly limited in production and had some thought put into their designs.
 
R1chard said:
It's just that, you know, it's against everything that Michael stood for. Are you really pretending to be oblivious to that?

You don't get to listen to Earth Song one minute, and then buy this sort of mass-produced stuff and say screw the environment the next minute.

Thank about your actions.
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you ain't wrong
 
MissAshley said:
Valid take when it comes this landfill waste. Most Funkos end up there anyway because they're so unwanted. At least the old dolls were fairly limited in production and had some thought put into their designs.
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I guess millions and millions of records, cassettes, 8-tracks, reel-to-reels, CDs, DATs, old tube TVs/monitors, cell phones, etc. aren't landfill waste. Some people do throw them in the trash. I've seen lots of CDs and tapes where people threw them out the window and they're on the ground. There's even a documentary where some people went to a landfill to dig up old E.T. game cartridges for the Atari 2600 that the company threw out because they didn't sell. Many were still intact and the boxes looked brand new and were not dirty or anything. Besides there's a lot more trash from food packaging. Where do you think all of those candy wrappers, water/soda/beer bottles, and plastic bread bags go? More people buy candy and get straws from fast food restaurants than they buy Funko Pops.

Also how can somebody say that Mike is against collecting when he had a bunch of of stuff by Disney & The Three Stooges in his home. He had a statue of Elvis Presley.
 
DuranDuran said:
I guess millions and millions of records, cassettes, 8-tracks, reel-to-reels, CDs, DATs, old tube TVs/monitors, cell phones, etc. aren't landfill waste. Some people do throw them in the trash. I've seen lots of CDs and tapes where people threw them out the window and they're on the ground. There's even a documentary where some people went to a landfill to dig up old E.T. game cartridges for the Atari 2600 that the company threw out because they didn't sell. Many were still intact and the boxes looked brand new and were not dirty or anything. Besides there's a lot more trash from food packaging. Where do you think all of those candy wrappers, water/soda/beer bottles, and plastic bread bags go? More people buy candy and get straws from fast food restaurants than they buy Funko Pops.

Also how can somebody say that Mike is against collecting when he had a bunch of of stuff by Disney & The Three Stooges in his home. He had a statue of Elvis Presley.
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Incomparable. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1161070238/funko-pop-landfill

You're just gish galloping at this point. It's lazy, cheap, ugly, junk that clogs up stores and conventions, only for it to waste away before being dumped. Polyvinyl chloride is a significant environmental problem at this point, and if we are to be dumping anything, it should not be this. Atari games arguably belong in the trash, but games should be recycled. I still wouldn't put terrible video games on the level of something as bland, banal, and tasteless as a Funko Pop, however. And yes, people waste a significant amount of plastics through food--that does not somehow justify what are essentially kitsch cash grabs. This just boils down to a fallacy of relative privation.

I also wouldn't use Michael, a notorious junk collector with terrible taste in personal possessions (his room at Santa Barbara looked like a 90 year old woman decorated it), as an example. Still, him hoarding that at Neverland was better for the environment to where it would have inevitably ended up I suppose.
 
^^Using a computer, the internet, A.I., chemical plants, driving a car, etc are not good for the environment. Yet you're typing on this website.
 
DuranDuran said:
^^Using a computer, the internet, A.I., chemical plants, driving a car, etc are not good for the environment. Yet you're typing on this website.
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Using a computer will never have the effect dumping 2-3 million Funkos in the desert will. The rest are very strange assumptions. Projection?

Also, it really has nothing to do with the fact they're ugly, mass-produced garbage with very little thought put into them. They clog up conventions and stores, often going unsold because they're generic cookie cutter figurines (hence why 35 million dollars of stock were liquidated into the dump). You should have some level of standards for what you buy or collect, especially in the world of vinyl figures. You'll find figure/vinyl figure collectors do not think highly of this brand either.
 
MissAshley said:
Using a computer will never have the effect dumping 2-3 million Funkos in the desert will. The rest are very strange assumptions. Projection?

Also, it really has nothing to do with the fact they're ugly, mass-produced garbage with very little thought put into them. They clog up conventions and stores, often going unsold because they're generic cookie cutter figurines (hence why 35 million dollars of stock were liquidated into the dump). You should have some level of standards for what you buy or collect, especially in the world of vinyl figures. You'll find figure/vinyl figure collectors do not think highly of this brand either.
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What does it matter if you don't like Funko Pops? They wouldn't be made if they didn't sell well. Just like all of those things in the past that were popular at the time (Cabbage Patch Kids, Garbage Pail Kids, Tickle Me Elmo, Pet Rocks, Lava Lamps, He-Man, Transformers, Hot Wheels, Lite-Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, Hello Kitty, Play-Doh, Rubik's Cube). I'd guess a lot of that was thrown out when kids got tired of playing with them or broke them. In some cases when people collected stuff and they passed, their children or other relatives threw the stuff in the trash because they had no interest in it. They could have gave it to Goodwill or somebody else who might have liked it, especially with rare records, cassettes, & VHS tapes that are even today not on streaming and have been out of print since the original release
 
DuranDuran said:
What does it matter if you don't like Funko Pops? They wouldn't be made if they didn't sell well. Just like all of those things in the past that were popular at the time (Cabbage Patch Kids, Garbage Pail Kids, Tickle Me Elmo, Pet Rocks, Lava Lamps, He-Man, Transformers, Hot Wheels, Lite-Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, Hello Kitty, Play-Doh, Rubik's Cube). I'd guess a lot of that was thrown out when kids got tired of playing with them or broke them. In some cases when people collected stuff and they passed, their children or other relatives threw the stuff in the trash because they had no interest in it. They could have gave it to Goodwill or somebody else who might have liked it, especially with rare records, cassettes, & VHS tapes that are even today not on streaming and have been out of print since the original release
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Hmmmmm. They wouldn't be made? This is true on its face, but that doesn't change the 35 million USD worth of them discarded and the perpetual declining inventory. This indicates that even the people who like Funkos are sick of them. Even collector channels that waste their money on this trash have seen huge dips in views/watch time.

I don't know how you can compare any of those products to Funkos. They're not the same on any level. Do you do anything but gish gallop? Hello Kitty alone has so much versatility in it. Funko WISHES it could be Sanrio and as sought after in the same generalized sense. There are some really beautiful creations out of the Sanrio brand, just as there's some dollar store trash made for 3 year olds to chew on. The difference there is, Funkos premium products are still bland, uninspired, kitsch figures. The My Melody and Kuromi show is an artistic landmark with how well-crafted and creative it is. Stunning visuals and amazing work done by the team. You are clueless to even bring Sanrio into this discussion lmao
 
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MissAshley said:
. You should have some level of standards for what you buy or collect, especially in the world of vinyl figures. You'll find figure/vinyl figure collectors do not think highly of this brand either.
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What's with your aggression and condescending tone today?

If someone likes to buy a stupid Funko pop, why the hell should they care what you or figure collectors think? That sounds incredibly insecure. I am not a fan of Funko's but I don't see why you have to talk down to people who are. You are entitled to your opinion, but you have gone out of your way in 2 threads to insult the people you are talking to.

Grow up.
 
innuendo141 said:
What's with your aggression and condescending tone today?

If someone likes to buy a stupid Funko pop, why the hell should they care what you or figure collectors think? That sounds incredibly insecure. I am not a fan of Funko's but I don't see why you have to talk down to people who are. You are entitled to your opinion, but you have gone out of your way in 2 threads to insult the people you are talking to.

Grow up.
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I don't think you know what aggression is, or at the very least, you have projected it where there is none. Being blunt and unwilling to tolerate terrible arguments/reasoning /=/ aggression. I think you should grow up because you clearly can't handle being challenged (this is why you have to this whole crybaby tone policing schtick defending a corporate cash grab rather than engaging with any sort of substance) . This is why when you were proven disingenuous in the hair thread you bowed out and tried to play the victim. That form of manipulation isn't gonna work.

Yes, someone can waste their money. Just as they can reply to me supporting someone's valid take on the issue, which is where the reply came from if you bothered to read the entire chain. Insecure would be bothered enough to respond to that, if anything. They are objectively kitsch that the general public is growing tired of, this is also a fact. These things are also reviled in pop vinyl/figure communities. Another fact. You are clearly offended about earlier. I don't really care, but it definitely signals your own insecurity.
 
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innuendo141 said:
What's with your aggression and condescending tone today?

If someone likes to buy a stupid Funko pop, why the hell should they care what you or figure collectors think? That sounds incredibly insecure. I am not a fan of Funko's but I don't see why you have to talk down to people who are. You are entitled to your opinion, but you have gone out of your way in 2 threads to insult the people you are talking to.

Grow up.
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Some people just like to talk down on whatever is popular with the mainstream audience like superhero movies & autotune music. Snobs have always been around, but the internet just made it more widespread.
 
MissAshley said:
I don't think you know what aggression is, or at the very least, you have projected it where there is none. Being blunt and unwilling to tolerate terrible arguments/reasoning /=/ aggression. I think you should grow up because you clearly can't handle being challenged (this is why you have to this whole crybaby tone policing schtick defending a corporate cash grab rather than engaging with any sort of substance) . This is why when you were proven disingenuous in the hair thread you bowed out and tried to play the victim. That form of manipulation isn't gonna work.

Yes, someone can waste their money. Just as they can reply to me supporting someone's valid take on the issue, which is where the reply came from if you bothered to read the entire chain. Insecure would be bothered enough to respond to that, if anything. They are objectively kitsch that the general public is growing tired of, this is also a fact. These things are also reviled in pop vinyl/figure communities. Another fact. You are clearly offended about earlier. I don't really care, but it definitely signals your own insecurity.
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Ok thats enough of you, gobshite. We can move on and not interact again :)
 
DuranDuran said:
Some people just like to talk down on whatever is popular with the mainstream audience like superhero movies & autotune music. Snobs have always been around, but the internet just made it more widespread.
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Interesting considering my Sanrio point directly contradicts that.
innuendo141 said:
Ok thats enough of you, gobshite. We can move on and not interact again :)
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Mmm, isn't that what you said about Richard? That didn't last. I think you may like the attention after all.
 
To think those original 3 or 4 Funko's were fetching several hundred euro for a few years and now there's what, over 10 new ones post LN?
 
MissAshley said:
Interesting considering my Sanrio point directly contradicts that.
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MissAshley said:
I also wouldn't use Michael, a notorious junk collector with terrible taste in personal possessions (his room at Santa Barbara looked like a 90 year old woman decorated it), as an example. Still, him hoarding that at Neverland was better for the environment to where it would have inevitably ended up I suppose.
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Saying that Michael Jackson has terrible taste is a snob comment. If Mike liked it, that's all that matters. To sort of quote Bobby Brown: "Mike bought it with his money, you didn't" šŸ¤£
 
DuranDuran said:
Saying that Michael Jackson has terrible taste is a snob comment. If Mike liked it, that's all that matters. To sort of quote Bobby Brown: "Mike bought it with his money, you didn't" šŸ¤£
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Michael did have terrible taste, often in a bizarre self-aggrandizing way. This is pretty well agreed upon by the public.

Bobby Brown is a woman abuser, I do not care what that sicko has to say.
 
MsAshley said:
Michael did have terrible taste, often in a bizarre self-aggrandizing way. This is pretty well agreed upon by the public.
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Michael didn't have bad taste, he just had a "taste" that may or may not vary from what you or "the public" find attractive.

I like these figures, I have every one of them. I also have a 9ft giraffe plushy in my dining room, a 7ft nutcracker soldier in my bathroom and two giant dinosaurs in my bedroom. I buy things that make me happy, that makes me smile.

Why are you so aggressively against somebody having a different opinion than you?

I think you're visiting the wrong thread.
 
knigofpop said:
Michael didn't have bad taste, he just had a "taste" that may or may not vary from what you or "the public" find attractive.

I like these figures, I have every one of them. I also have a 9ft giraffe plushy in my dining room, a 7ft nutcracker soldier in my bathroom and two giant dinosaurs in my bedroom. I buy things that make me happy, that makes me smile.

Why are you so aggressively against somebody having a different opinion than you?

I think you're visiting the wrong thread.
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Do you find this tacky and self-indulgent? Yes or no.

I made two comments with zero intent to post beyond that. Someone replied and made inept arguments, so I defended my position bluntly. Every public thread should be open to criticism as much as it is praise. It's fine you have weird taste, per your description, if it makes you smile, whatever. A better question is why you feel the need to reply at all to someone criticizing something you like.
 
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