Blank or "Do It Yourself" Versions of POP! figs for Customs?

Postby **FunkoPOPfanpage** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:19 pm

Hi Everyone,

I posted this suggestion on the Official Funko page as well, would all of you that are into making custom POP! figs be interested in a version of the POP! figs that were just blank? Kind of like a "Do It Yourself" version for each of the figs you currently make. So we would get the mold of a Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc., just blank.

I have been seeing so many great customs from people and have heard that some of them are sometimes harder to paint over and such depending on the colour of the figure.

Maybe have an additional version to let those who are artistically inclined (which is not me unfortunately) to have an outlet for their creative juices and in turn help spread the Funko POP! love!

Thoughts?

Postby **nikkimarie** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:31 pm

Id love that it defintley make things easier

Postby **DocRamon** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:45 pm

i'm not a customizer, however, i do like the idea. but i don't think you'd get molds of superman and batman and other characters. if they made them, i'd bet funko would create more generic shapes, so as not to pay licensing fees for 'blank' pops intended for such a small subset of collectors.

Postby **sclarke03** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:51 pm

I think that blank pop figure would only make sense for Funko to do, if they were more generic and thus easier to customize. They made blank Nodniks before, which wasn't too difficult because all the nodniks were basically the exact same shape, just with different paint jobs. The pop figures have a lot of variation in design.

I would love to get some blank Freddy heads, so I don't have to decapitate another Freddy pop to do my custom idea.

Postby **batmanfunatic92** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:35 am

I agree for the Freddy heads. I would love to make a Freddy Batman for myself

well. I guess all I would have to do is swap heads, but I dont want to spend $50+ just for that...

Postby **FunkoNewb** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:33 am

Pretty sure the blanks are protos. It's easy for muggs to do this because like previously mentioned about the nod nicks they had the same shape just a different paint job. The blanks of a superman pop probably sells for $100 as a proto.

Postby **FunkoPOPfanpage** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:30 pm

DocRamon wrote:i'm not a customizer, however, i do like the idea. but i don't think you'd get molds of superman and batman and other characters. if they made them, i'd bet funko would create more generic shapes, so as not to pay licensing fees for 'blank' pops intended for such a small subset of collectors.

Good point on the licensing fees. Didn't think of that.That could for sure limit the possibility of getting the more popular versions as blanks.

Funko Funatic