Cephus wrote:o2thedbld5 wrote:Cephus wrote:No, it won't sell because most people buying Funko are into pop culture, not animals. It's why Spastiks don't sell particularly well either. Now if they did animals from popular culture, that might be a thing, but Pops Pets just rotted on the shelves.
If you want to discuss what sells and what doesn't there are other threads for that. Collectors will buy what they love; it isn't based on what sells highest. This is a thread to write what lines we wish had more figures. It's purely opinion.
But people need to be realistic in their wishes and dreams. They tried Pets. It failed. It failed because it didn't appeal to a large enough swath of collectors. It is highly doubtful that Funko will ever try that again because it was a failed experiment. Sure, you can WANT them to do all kinds of things. You can WANT them to release Pops for free to everyone. It's just not going to happen.
If we were talking about almost any other company, producing the same boring lines of toys as everyone else just to please the mass market, then I would agree with you. However... if there is one thing I've learned about Funko over the past few years... is that they have a tendency to follow their hearts and release items they know and love and enjoyed as kids themselves. A prime example of this... are Hair Bears. Not a current pop-culture trend by any stretch of the imagination, however... as the sold out pops of them at SDCC will prove... there people out there that love them.
But,... if you only want to hear the same handful of ideas for current pop culture stuff that every other company is putting out, then fine. You don't have to listen. But I guarantee you... someone out there is.
Oh... one more thing.... Never ... ever... tell me that...
"...people need to be realistic in their wishes and dreams.
Because I'm a dreamer. An artist. A creator. An Engineer. A designer. An inventor.
And thinking outside the box, wanting something better and different is the only way to create something no one has ever done before.