Dumpko? $30M worth of Funko Pop! collectibles destined for landfill

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

EVERETT — Funko plans to dump more than $30 million worth of its vinyl Pops toys into landfills.

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During an investor call this week, “CEO Brian Mariotti said a new distribution center in Arizona was so full that the company has been bleeding cash renting shipping containers to hold all of the excess inventory,” Kotaku reported.

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The most likely destination for the unwanted toys, which are made of vinyl, is “a landfill somewhere in Arizona,” according to TheGamer, an online gaming news site. About 90% of new toys are made polyvinyl chloride or PVC, a petroleum product.

Tom Harrison, the owner of MyMyToy store in Everett, called Funko’s decision “narrow and profit-driven. A better solution, Harrison said, would have been for the company to donate a portion of the stockpile to charity.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/dumpko-30m-worth-of-funko-pop-collectibles-destined-for-landfill/

[True Dough]

1. I've never seen the appeal of those things

Too much of a distortion of reality and not even in a "cute" way.

[gay texan]

2. I broke up with a guy because

He collected those to the point of obsession.

Drove me up the wall because that's all we did, go and look for those damn things...

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Funko Pops are the Beanie Babies of the 21st century. Nt