Rudolphin wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:What's wrong with funkos exactly? I don't collect them, but they look quite nice.
They take any and every popular character and/or figure of note and turn them into bland, homogeneous blocks of plastic which they sell for exorbitant profit to idiots who want to show how many pop-culture references they are aware of.
Like Skippy correctly asserted: references in themselves are not entertainment.
Not discussing Ready Player One at all as I have neither read the book nor bothered to watch the trailer, but I'm really not seeing the problem with Funkos/Pops at all. Apologies if I've picked this up wrongly, but this post and Skippy's underlying point about "junk for people who collect funkos" just screams of an unwarranted superiority complex over a perceived intellectual gap between those who are smart enough to see funkos for what they are, and those who quite like having a miniature depiction of their favourite characters. Like, pop culture references in and of themselves are not entertainment, but that's not really what those things are.
I'll reserve judgement on the film until I've seen some reviews.
EDIT: FWIW I take the opposite view - I thought the Infinity stuff looked quite cheap and nasty, but I quite like the design of the Pop figurines. My GF got me a Dug one not long after we started going out because it reminded her of my dog, I thought that was a nice touch and a thoughtful gift(rather than homogenised trash).