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ThatDudeintheHoodie
I got a lot of the pops, They are this year's beanie babies in my opinion, but you can make money off of these. 
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Vaporman87
I have a few, but I'm not much of a fan. Like you said, they're basically cartoonized character paperweights.
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SockofFleagulls
I NEED M.A.S.K. POPS LIKE YESTERDAY!! These images of custom figures have been floating around for awhile...

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'80s Kid. '90s Grad. '00 Dad.
pikachulover
They look a little too chibi for my tastes. Some of them look really weird like the Sailor Moon and Friends ones.
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ThatDudeintheHoodie
My personal favorite is my Rick with the portal gun. 
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jkatz
ThatDudeintheHoodie wrote :

I got a lot of the pops, They are this year's beanie babies in my opinion, but you can make money off of these. 
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haha, I had this same thought. Definitely a lot of parallels. 

These are the only two pops I own. The Gigantor is from a "collector" line that's ridiculously overpriced. I only bought him because he was on clearance. If (when) the public loses interest in these guys, I'll bank on it being because of the lack of interesting and creative designs. 90% of the pops are basically the same. And as pikachulover pointed out, likeness is an issue...

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jkatz


See what I mean? Ignoring the stupidity of making a John Oliver pop in the first place, you could just as easily market him as Rick Moranis. Or take his glasses off, put him on a different body, and now he's Hal from Malcom in the Middle! As for M.A.S.K., you'd have to be crazy to even consider selling a figure without a helmet, but Funko probably would. There's nothing to distinguish them from "Generic Blonde White Guy #3427" or "Generic Old General".

Sorry for the rant..I think I have a love/hate relationship with these things. 
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The women of New Vegas ask me a lot if there's a Mrs. New Vegas. Well, of course there is! You're her. And you're still just as perfect as the day we met.
Vaporman87
jkatz wrote :

Sorry for the rant..I think I have a love/hate relationship with these things. 
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Don't be. I can absolutely see what you're saying here. There are many that are unique by design, but also many that are indeterminate with regard to identity without a box. I wonder what Batty feels about this?
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Superman
I don't have any at the moment, but there are a few I've seen of some of my favorite characters that I wouldn't mind owning. I totally agree that some of these things are too easily interchangeable, though. I've seen a couple that I thought were one character only to find out that they were different characters when I read the labels on the boxes.
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pikachulover
Here's my doodle of a design of a funko pop style Greg Lee from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?


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