I love the fact that it's a day later and we're still just all trying to top each other on how to express how horrible this all is. Can someone go through and make a top 10 of the best comments and gifts that were used? Cuz I think we really need that kind of list
I made a list here at home and took a picture of it. Then I hosted the picture at a URL you can buy for the low low price of 30000 BotCoin.
Here\'s what tfwiki said: Not content with merely wasting precious fossil fuels on dead-eyed, top-heavy figurines, Funko turned its hand to burning down rainforests, introducing Pop! Digital in 2022. This segment features Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs for short (or \"a collection of \'bigger fool\' scams, get-rich-quick scams, ponzi schemes, rug-pulls, and environmental disasters\" to be more accurate), of short animated clips of various vinyl figures, as well as a limited series of physical vinyl figures.
Here is the way the math breaks down based on Legendary and Grail physical figures, numbers do not include the Fredie Funko redemption figure. 5 card packs: 18,000 x 5 'cards' = 90,000 15 card packs: 18,000 x 15 'cards' = 270,000 360,000 total 'cards' 7,170 Legendary + Grail Figures 1 in 50.2 'CARDS' is Legendary/Grail 1 in 10+ 'PACKS' should have a Legendary/Grail on average. Based on site verbage, getting a Legendary or Grail token guarantees you a matching Funko if redeemed, no extra hoops once you redeem the token. 11 Packs (55 cards) is $109.89, or 4 3-packs (60 cards) is $119.96.
If you wanted to say “I’m unwilling or unable to read marketing copy critically in order to distinguish useful information from euphemisms and hype,” you could have just said so.
Quite a markup -and a lot of hoops to jump through- for what used to be $10 figures with like 1 point of articulation
That was the conversation my buddy and I had, and it was capped off with this: "If there is a high-priced Funko Pop of a character, there is a cheaper, more detailed, more interesting version of the same character made by another company." and then we talked about Nendoroids and Figurarts for 15 mins lol
You know what? I take back what I said a few weeks ago. Hasbro can remake every transforming robot toy they ever released from 1984 to now. That would still be more imaginative and less annoying than this shit.
That's your mistake. People were never good. I'm actually kinda surprised BotCoin isn't a thing at this point.
See, this I reckon is the thing. They've looked at trading cards and gone "Man, imagine we could sell stuff super expensive that's super cheap to produce". Except, well, making an actual TCG takes time, energy, balancing, plus there's the fact they couldn't use the rights they have and would have to make an own IP Or.... Or they could tie it to their regular stuff and make it a 'golden ticket' type of item. And, hey, y'know who likes that sort of ridiculous nonsense and is a market just begging to be ripped off that you've wanted to buy a figure but instead ended up with a virtually useless card? That's right, NFT folks!
Remember kids always say no to NFts. Just say no. Unfortunately, if Hasbro is doing this then MTG may do it in the future as well. At least that should unite all players of the game though.
I'm tossing money at the screen! ALL the money! But yeah, fuck this! I own three Pops, and now I feel dirty having them on my shelves.
I thought this was a joke, but it's worst comedy than Starscream was fuck this shit, fuck hasbro for trying this
Weren't we warned about all this virtual stuff back in the OG Marvel comics? The virtual world rots minds and kills Primes.
Ooh, branching out into the lucrative market of Russian oligarchs who suddenly need a new way to launder money after Paypal pimpslapped their home territory, eh?
Echoing my thoughts posted elsewhere on this, this is a complete joke by Funko, and I hope they get the flak they deserve for it from a pretty loyal fanbase that often jumps through huge hoops to get everything new they put out (something we share as TF fans). Have some respect for your customers. You don’t even get the figure with the purchase, you just go into the draw to get one. It would have been (marginally) more acceptable to just sell the Pops, and give all the buyers NFTs as a proof of purchase- something those are supposed to function as anyway. The company had to get it on the hot grift though, since the only way to get their NFTs off the ground is to rope as many suckers in as possible (at least enough to take the money and dump the concept unceremoniously at a later date), and they want to artificially pump up that number with the promise of a rare physical item. It’s ironic that a company whose main appeal is collectable physical figurines is hocking the very concept that supposedly will do away with that, and also likely lower a lot of their standing with customers. A hearty pretty exhaustive explanation of NFTs for the uninitiated: I could excuse this kind of experimental grift bullshit for an obscure or limited repaint, but for freaking Devastator? C’mon man, that is beyond greedy. And not to mention the massive environmental impact of maintaining this stuff, even more disappointing given Hasbro’s “commitment” to reducing their footprint.
