Funko is sending at least $30 million worth of its products to a landfill

[BUtterfield 8 41,660]

[Pandacadabra 9,120]

As a collector that's sad, instead of burying them maybe they should just hand them out at children's hospitals or orphanages, maybe.

[Ultimecia 6,077]

Destroying the planet, and for what.

Make sure to recycle your trash you guys! Because WE sure are the problem here!

[chun li 3,018]

Not so 30 million worthy then are they 

 

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sorry but I always found them so ugly 

 

[Illuminati 15,958]

The stuff people buy from them is future landfill as well

[weed 75,378]

give us the location of the landfill!!!

[reallydima 383]

Capitalism is trash 

[Red 98,466]

Well, if they didn't cost over R$200 here in Brazil they wouldn't need to do it

[phantasmas 10,832]

companies should be fined for things like this

[hELXIG 43,951]

Sending hundreds of thousands of unopened, boxed figures into ****ing landfill is better than gifting them for free or selling them for cheap in a massive flash sale?

Capitalism strikes again

[Togekiss 2,581]

4 hours ago, Illuminati said:

The stuff people buy from them is future landfill as well

This!!! Why is literally anything without a practical use allowed to be manufactured from these toxic forever chemicals in friggin 2023?!

The amount of unnecessary plastic crap we still produce just blows my mind. Don’t get me started on those despicable K-cups for coffee 

[RAMROD 111,764]

The trend is over yup yup

Got some of those meself but I had stopped buying them for about 3 years now. It does feels like addiction, you just can't stop buying even if you don't actually need it. 

[skaxboy 6,038]

Any idea exactly which figures are being dumped?

The article says 

Alongside having a ton of iconic ranges with characters from Marvel, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and DC, there are also plenty of more obscure series including Pets, Conan O'Brien, NBA, Ad Icons, and more.

 

If they are celebs or sports players, give them the toys so they can sign and give them to fans. I always thought they were recyclable. Either way, I never understood why some characters needed a toy or even 5 variants. They should have done better research on what characters sell or just made some super limited. I only really have my Countess pop toy. 

[Lady Adga 8,664]

Ugly toys 

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,649]

6 hours ago, A Real Panda said:

As a collector that's sad, instead of burying them maybe they should just hand them out at children's hospitals or orphanages, maybe.

This. And from a capitalist view, this would probably lead to more sales. Giving the first one for free is something commonly used in marketing. Instead, they want to hold the value of their current items by just trashing the extra. Bad PR and wasted inventory for an item nobody really wants anymore. 

1 hour ago, skaxboy said:

Any idea exactly which figures are being dumped?

The article says 

Alongside having a ton of iconic ranges with characters from Marvel, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and DC, there are also plenty of more obscure series including Pets, Conan O'Brien, NBA, Ad Icons, and more.

 

If they are celebs or sports players, give them the toys so they can sign and give them to fans. I always thought they were recyclable. Either way, I never understood why some characters needed a toy or even 5 variants. They should have done better research on what characters sell or just made some super limited. I only really have my Countess pop toy. 

Toy/collector companies and their media partners create and order the toys way before it's associated media comes out. Funko, for example, revealed Giant Man (from Ant Man) before the movie even came out.