E3 Canceled, $30 Million of Funko Pops Going to Landfill -
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2023
- Pat and Ian return to discuss E3 being canceled, $30 million of Funko Pops being dumped in a landfill, Jirard preserving every digital Wii U and 3DS game, and more!
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Spoiler Alert: Spock doesn't make it 🤔🥺
man that sounds like shitstain wrote this wrestlemania event
Finally someone who hates funko pops for the same reason I do! I have owned one before, mostly because it was a gift. I’m a nerd and I understand the nerd impulse to buy stuff that displays our tastes. However, I’ve always felt that pops are a shallow cash grab.
I’m not a capitalist for this reason. Under capitalism, you’ll always throw stuff away instead of giving it away due to the laws of supply and demand.
Before I get dragged by a libertarian type, I’m not against people who open their own businesses. But I think that the current system is highly exploitative and wasteful, and stuff like beanie babies and funko pops illustrate some of the problems that concern me.
0:00 Intro/Tommy video postmortem
1:50 E3 cancelled
5:05 Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer
7:17 Mario Kart 8 discussion
8:43 E3 cancelled
12:15 Nintendo Live 2023 in September
15:30 Funko Pop landfill
31:45 ultimatenintendo plug
33:17 SoCal Gaming Expo plug/Larry Bundy challenge
34:51 Khan the Musical
37:13 Indie game review codes
38:38 WWE purchase
48:37 Illicit counterfeit SNES Minis
53:49 The Completionist/Jirard bought every 3DS and WiiU eShop game
1:00:23 Preserved Play plug
1:01:20 giant Donkey Kong arcade cabinet
Christmas gifts for Pat: #1- Larry Bundy Funko Pop, Pat's gonna be so jazzed, the perfect gift.
"Patrick shut your mouth" a new sound-byte for Pat's soundboard.
These are happening more frequently than I was anticipating! Good to still have yall dropping in every now and then!
This is entirely my assumption, but I'm starting to think that a promised weekly podcast might have been a bit overwhelming to keep up. So instead, they just drop them when they can. Less frequently for them, more frequently than we thought. Just a guess, though.
Yeah was worried it would be something like once every 3 months. It’s frequent enough for me, and they don’t have to commit a weekly time table 👍🏻
Ian and Pat both seem happier in these, too. I think their allowing themselves to set their own pace is good for the product as well as for their mental health.
25k views and less than 1k likes? Come on, people. So happy we're still getting episodes here and there!
Rochester/Buffalo native here too, thanks for the mention of Strong Museum of Play.
IT'S THE CU PODCAST SUPER SHOW!
🎵Swing your arms from side to side...
Love that Pat mentioned the old Video Game Museum at E3 from way back. Those tour & history walkthroughs he did are still some of my favorite to this day.
i feel like "Patrick, shut your mouth!" needs to be on the soundboard lmao 11:59
Pat said "you are feeling a little too comfortable telling me to shut up" and did not sound happy about it lol
Great to see u guys still doing ur thing.
Tommy killed E3.
That’s my new headcanon.
Hate to give him that much credit hed say he did it single handled multiple times
15:31 - Funko Pop
Woo! Glad these are coming frequently! Miss you guys already.
Beanie Babies are still being sold… while the market definitely collapsed, big time, there is a market for cute toys.
Collecting just to collect is silly for lots of reasons, but Funko pops will be around many years from now - people like collectibles based on cultural things that we like (Star Wars, etc). The market will shrink (probably a lot), but it won’t completely disappear.
Agreed, BB are actual high quality designs, and can be played with, so kids still love them. My three girls squeal when they get Beanie Babies.
But Funko Pops? Hated them from the first time I saw them.. they are the icon for mindless corporate consumerism.
When you spoke about the disposal of funkopops, let me please introduce you to the massive waste of the luxury goods industry, thousands of articles of clothing are just ripped up and thrown away to maintain brand value!
Yeah and sacks of food tossed into skips.
I bought the TMNT line of pops at a convention about 10 years ago because I wanted them. Only pops I ever bought. Sold them on ebay about 3 years ago for an obscene amount of money. Glad I got rid of them when I did. They've plummeted.
Now I just have this image in my head of Pat and Ian having a Super mario Brothers Super Show type intro
We're the CUPodcast, and podcasting's our game
We're not like the others who get all the fame
If you're a scambag seller, we'll call you out fella
Tommy T & the Amico, getting ready for a R.I.C.O., uh!
H-hooked on the podcast
Gimme gimme, gimme gimme!
Yo, you're in for a treat, so hang on to your seat
Get ready for adventure and remarkable feats
You'll meet Pat, Ian, Frank, and the cast
Hangin' with the NES Punk, you'll be hooked on the podcast!
To the bridge!
Uh, uh!
I said-a h-h-h-h-hooked on the podcast!
The podcast!
The podcast!
@@thecunninlynguist absolutely beautiful :D
The amount of large companies that lease/rent their storage in America instead of putting money into their own facilities is very high. Our shipping infrastructure is in shambles right now due to how few places we have to rely on to ship so many companies products.
To correct Pat, even though this is pre-recorded, PAX West is always on Labour day weekend.
To correct you. It’s Labor* take that u back to Canada eh.
@@Bruuuuuh620 That means Pax West is always around my birthday :)
Only 50 likes, come on Ian and that other guy deserve more 😅
This was a surprise getting in my podcast feed.
Regarding the mario movie, disagree it wasn't a commercial. It most definitely was. A well made, fun movie but a commercial. I also disagree with pat that it needed more "adult" stuff. Sure a good portion of watchers will be adults wo kids (like me) but I didn't need nor expected the film to cater to me or throw me jokes that only I would get.
Good to see you back for some updates!
Ah man the Roo mention hit me, that guys content is incredibly nostalgic for me. Would love to see a conversation with you all if it could ever be arranged.
His 16 bit gems show really got me into retro gaming and introducing to the whole Retroware crew back in the day. Shame he retired.
He legally cannot return to his channel, as the term "gems", "hidden gems", and "16-bit gems" have all been outlawed in gaming youtube since 2018.
Seriously, I remember Pat saying Roo (and I think his wife) are actual scientists, so that probably takes up a lot of time.
@brutesmcgee near the end he did start making vids on the more technical and scientific side so it does make sence.
He's a hot teacher now.
Funko Pops used to be a gateway into collecting better figures, kinda like a starter kit. They just couldn’t help themselves and started throwing EVERYTHING at the wall and hoped some of it would stick.
Funko would go out of business and discontinue all Pops; they just don’t look too good anymore. Their prices are soaring.
@@mariokart8715 When they first came out I was somewhat interested in them, but they never had anything I wanted. When they finally did come out with stuff, their figures had become so over saturated and half-assed I just passed. It truly is IDENTICAL to Beanie Babies when I was a kid.
@@ChatterboxFMyeah and what's the point anyway when they're all the same shape. Maybe if they were more detailed but they're just bland
This podcast got me through the mundane rhythms of life. I hope it's more frequent.
Resident Evil 1 had Jill Valentine & Rebecca Chambers. They are both in the new CGI RE movie coming out this summer.
Roman is the biggest thing in wrestling today. To hear Ian say everyone is tired of Roman winning. Coming from a guy who doesn’t watch wrestling. 😂😂
👍It would be nice for Roman to win from just his own skill, what is boring is every major match needs The Uso's assistance for the win.
Biggest thing forced down your throat
@@rodgyretrogamer3334 part of being a heel.
Keep it up guys! More CUPs! ☺
Aw shit i been listening to old episodes while painting my basement and sure enough yall are here right now lol
"You sound like a frustrated Tommy" 🤣
I'd take Pez over Funko Pops. Also, it would be nice if the ESA start posting their presentations going back to 1995. Though a decent amount of them are on UA-cam, many aren't. When I was younger, I would watch them on Gametrailers.
In fairness to Beanie Babies the artificial scarcity was dumb but the plushes themselves were cute and had short back stories. Plus modern Beanie Babies have only gotten cuter and at least can be given to little kids as plush toys that they'll look fondly back on.
Funko pops with the rare exception are jank looking.
Better keep Billy Mitchell away from that giant DK cab XD
Thanks all, missed you! Ian, great UFW shirt
My biggest disappointment with Funko POP is they never came out with a Half-Life series and they didn't produce the rest of the X-Men in the yellow and blue uniforms.
But Pat, what WOULD you do if someone said your book was $100 and it wasn’t?!?!! WE NEED TO KNOW
Why, release an hour long response video, of course
Glad to hear you shout out Joe Santulli. I met him decades ago when CGE was in Las Vegas and we hit it off, but sadly I've lost touch with him and haven't heard from him in quite a while. I hope he's doing well too.
You can play and have fun with sealed expensive video games if you open them, same goes with collectible card games, lego, Warhammer, the list goes on, but if you open up that Funko Pop you just have a tacky statuette that reminds you of how your favorite TV show was cancelled and how much money you’ve wasted.
I didnt think about this until like yesterday about Tommy, but there's a lyric in the song Cult of Personality by the band Living Colour that makes me think of his relationship with the shills. It goes: "I exploit you, still you love me. I tell you 1 and 1 makes 3." My brother almost got me an Andre the Giant funco pop a few years ago and it would have been cool, but I'm glad he didn't buy it for me. I'm glad I collect WWE Mattel figures I can take them out of the box and put the accessories on them. I did get a buddy of mine who was going through a rough patch a Dude Love funco pop and he appreciated that. My Mattel WWE collection is way cooler than a Funco pop collection.
I went to a small con at a mall recently, and every spare inch was filled with Funko. A booth would be 10% interesting collectibles and 90% Funko. They were like spores.
I'll be in Rochester this week, but regretably I won't have time to visit the Strong Museum of Play. I'd love to go again though.
During Christmas, at a local ice hockey arena where I live, there is a massive market and there is that one booth that is wall to wall Funko Pops and in the center of his booth is his other things he sells like hockey cards, old video games etc.. If he didn't have those Funko Pops, his booth would be empty looking... fairly certain he did that on purpose. If he sells a couple, that's just a bonus at this point. I have a couple like from Back to The Future and some NASCAR ones, all gifts from people. Never once bought my own.
I missed the wrestling talk! So happy to hear it again.
The Funko pop subject reminds me a lot of squishmallows which also parallels Beanie Babies perfectly. The difference is that the big reason squish are so popular is because they're genuinely soft and cuddly in a really satisfying way, and kids do actually love and play with them and adults put them in nice net and shelf displays and keep them on their beds. With squish you end up with the problem of scalpers because people actually WANT them, not just to collect real estate to flip only. With Funkos I don't know anyone that actually wants them for any reason other than one or two of the special ones. I think I've got a friend who has the Cthulhu one, and for a long time I had one of the old bobble head ones of Captain America.
eventually people wont want them either.
though squishmallows seems to control the supply more to stretch it out. that makes them more like beanie babies though, it's not like they couldn't have churned out more but that would affect the artificial scarcity and that's the hard part to manage with a collectible.
Another problem with the Cody thing was that The Bloodline (Reigns stable) had an incredible, nearly year long, story with Sami Zayn. It was the most over thing in the company so it SHOULD have been Sami's moment to become top face. So, instead of capitalizing on this organic thing that had become popular over the last year they ended the whole bloodline/sami story a month early by having reigns beat Sami on some nothing PPV all so they could have that meaningless Cody match at WrestleMania. Now, Reigns and the bloodline are no longer over as heels, they're feeding Cody to Brock and Sami is relegated to 1/3rd of a tag team when he should be THE guy.
WWE was really really good for a while and they just flushed everything they had going down the toilet. It's absolutely insane.
Thanks for the new episode.
People in plush houses shouldn't throw PVC figurines.
E3 is history there's too many expos to go around....I was looking forward to smacking tallarico around with a non physical cartridge box
I am sure you will get a chance to do that eventually
nice to hear the boys talking news again with style and flair
To be fair, Funko Pop! did manufacture two different DEVO figures-a yellow “Satisfaction” version, and a black, sleeveless, Energy Dome “Whip It!” version, with whip in hand-all of which sold (at least to third-party vendors), demonstrating devolution in action! Of course, “It’s ALL DEVO!”
Watch out for that 20ft DK machine! Billy Mitchell will undoubtedly be there to show off his unrivaled skills!
I missed you guys too much
For the argument of didn't know due to no nintendo logo. They'll put the Nintendo oval there and sometimes spell it as Ninendo. I once bought a wii u pro controller from a gaming store that sold bootlegs that looked 100% liked the official pro controller except for that logo on the back you couldn't see when buying it. The dude even scratched up the controller to say that's why the wii u logo was missing from the front.
I've seen people do this with snes and nes mini clones too. I've even seen some put the Nintendo branding on them and then two weeks later their booth at the mall is for rent after tons of people bought them
With Amazon it's worse because they'll list fakes under the authentic listings. I've been scammed due to that with magic cards and pc games.
The purpose that E3 has served since it stop being relevant to the hard-core community is that it is the couple days a year where the mainstream press pays attention to the video game industry. Something will still have to take the place of communicating to mommy why she should buy Little Joey a PlayStation
Except Mommy hears why from Little Joey. Casuals didn't really watch E3 news
@@NerdyTransformed Have you ever worked retail during Christmas? Because I don't think you have. It's a minor virus thing, they have to hear about it from media they pay attention to in order for it to click home. They do watch CNN and other forms of main stream news that will mention things happening at E3 during that event, but rarely at other times of the year
There has to be something intrinsically wrong with E3's format if other electronics trade shows are still thriving and providing lots of content for the press. CES is much older than E3 and still going. Heck before there was E3, video game companies liked attending CES to present their new things.
@@ccricers if you're talking about the consumer-electronics show, it's a very different show. E3 is a press event, the consumer electronic show is about showing off your new products to the buyers from the major chains so that they will place their orders and hopefully a lot of them. If you're talking about something like games com, that's a public convention, E3 was a trade show up until the end, but it was never able to make the transition. I get a trade show in Japan and a tour company was offering trips to it. You can tell which people were with the tour because they were the ones cosplaying. A couple of them came up to our booth and said "is this all it is?" Because they were expecting an American style than convention. And I had to reply in the affirmative, and that this was a trade show where people are trying to license their goods, and not what they thought it was. Everyone thinks they want to go to E3 until they actually do and realize that unless you're part of that upper echelon 5%, you never get to play any games, and nobody was interested in talking to you if you weren't. I'll never forget the time I was kicked off a game demo because someone important might happen by and want to play. This is the bottom line. Especially since Red came in, undoubtedly prices have gone up even further on an extremely expensive piece of real estate. The price of making these booths, setting them up, and staffing them is probably Appreciably more expensive than just setting up your own event. If they all agree to set it up on the same week, you get all the benefits, without having to pay the middleman
only thing i want out of e3 is devolver digitals release vid
Got a good feeling about this
Also they're printing figures of characters. People don't know or care about. I see it a lot at my local Best buy. I don't even know these characters and don't get me started on GameStop. Half of my local store is just filled with those damn things
Best videogame podcast ever
Pat „plays“ with Funko Pops?! I want to see a video of that!
@1:01:27 Would love to see a 22 foot tall Billy Mitchell set a WORLD RECORD highscore on the Giant Donkey Kong cabinet
So I only started listening to the CUPodcast a couple months ago. It seemed like they just recently did a finale episode and were calling it quits and moving on. I thought "wow, what timing, I just started listening" but, now it says #01 intro. so they aren't quitting?
They were quitting doing it regularly every week, now they do them more randomly,
They quit the schedule. Now they're making episodes when they feel like it.
Thank you!
🤣 "Funko Pops hold MISERY."
-Pat
you heard it here first, folks.
in this episode of the nerdy NES dorks we talk ...WRESTLING !? ...*double checks notes*... yes, that is what it says on here, WRESTLING!
The Funko Dump was mostly other failed products such as their game line and was not the Funko Pops. They should have offered it all to comic shops and mom and pop shops at the cost of shipping so stuff could be given away or sold for cheap so it could be enjoyed and not just wasted. And maybe help out a bunch of little shops.
so much waste of plastic in those funkoshits and then they just dump it in a landfill
Wrestlemania was really good. Bit long, lots of advertising, but some great matches. Love the super show
I honestly think that most of the publishers could just release Direct style events around the E3 window, and we could still have something that resembles an E3 up to a point. Though everything would be a lot more slickly produced pre made video live-streams with less live events.
I laughed out loud when Ian told Pat to shut up about the Legend of Zelda trailer. 😂 I agree with Ian, I'm going in blind to this new game. I watch the initial minute-long teaser, but I purposefully skipped the new release trailer. To keep me busy during the month wait until it's released I've been playing the new Resident Evil 4 remake and some of my backlog. I can't wait to get my hands on tears of the kingdom and experience The Wonder of a fresh new Zelda game again. Also the only Funko I ever liked was the Audry 2 from Little Show of Horrors. It looks how it's supposed to look
2017: The year E3 peaked.
2023: The year E3 piqued.
I just watched this video about psa 1 graded cards and about how they are a terrific buying opportunity and it reminded me of something, so I wrote "get in early" in the comments and the guy was like well said. 🤣
HAHAHA no way, that is so daft
Well I liked the green room joke 😂😂
Someone bought me the 3 Prince Funko Pops for my birthday years ago. I nearly started buying many of the music/band related ones after that, but I'm SO glad I never did.
First off Hulk Hogan isn't racist, remember it's the guy playing him who is.
They need to bring back the "winners don't use drugs " screen that used to be on arcade games, except it should be on ALL games.
Pat, was “Space Shuttle Endeavor” an Opie & Anthony reference?
I think so too!
It’s funny, because I have been saying Space Shuttle Endeavor to myself every time it is mentioned for WWE.
Hey Pat, I think you should be known as "Pasta Pat" from now on. Haha.
Not surprised about the funkos. That was always gonna die a death
I work in a store that has a big section of Funko pops.
The main people that look at/buy them, outside the obvious scalpers, are Children.
So they could easily have donated them somewhere.
and the "Chase" are rare variants that you can't specifically order from Funko. You buy a lot of x let's say Superman... there's a chance that one of them in the lot will be the chase variant where he's in the Black Suit.
It's basically a way for Funko to sell a ton of product in bulk to stores.
Option 1- End the weekly podcast and start doing specials and check ins.
Option 2- Couple a Jumbo Jacks
Never really got the appeal of Funko Pops, they all look so similar to me. I mean if a figure of something you like is your thing, why not get something that actually looks like it rather than a deformed version?
"people aren't going to Walmart and buying these"
Re: the bootleg SNES minis
You'd be surprised. I've never seen any at Walmart, but I used to see them at Christmastime every year at a major mall. How the mall owners didn't look into it, or maybe they didn't care, kinda shocked me but it was there
The original Mario Kart 8 for Wii U had a higher attach rate than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
You should take the hint from E3.
I feel funkos wont go away. I was just at a toy con and adults were buying bags and bags of funkos for top doller! ughhh 😅
Funkos, are just the latest in the long line of fade collectibles people jump onto.
@spencer s well seems to me like a long long time fad. Cause after that whole garbage dumb i couldn't believe people are still buying these by the bag full. Especially the soda funkos.
@@spencers4121 Its not a fad when it has been going strong for over 10 years.
@@gmti486in the great span of ages, most things are a fad
I have gone to several retro game stores that made a mistake buying way too many pops. Now they don't have enough money for people who want to sell video games for store credit. Pops are garbage.
Guys, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been rebalanced since Wave 4. The ugly Roller wheels and the Heavy-weight characters were not nerfed, but everything else did actually get a buff!
You can now use Yoshi and the standard tires, and argue it's better than those dumb tiny wheels :D
Pretty much Funko became the next generation of beanie babies. I don't buy out of craziness. My most valuable figure is Jem from Jem and the Holograms and it was autographed by Samantha Newark herself. I'm keeping that figure for sentimental reasons not monetary game because that show was my childhood
I own one Funko, a Bob Ross that I won during an streaming Nerdist show. I just never got the appeal.
@@synical13 Some are cool, like IPs you know will never get action figures like the Sex Pistols or Morrissey, or the odd film or show, but other than that.
@@synical13same. I only got one of bttf at a con I wanted to get signed but ultimately got something else signed
They were but ugly pretty much from the get-go, absolutely useless, not even possible. They're just designed to sit in on a shelf in a box. It was never a question of whether it was going to end just how long it would take. The only one I ever considered buying was lovely Feyd
@@synical13 the appeal is that little statues like that were often crazy expensive so them being mass produced like this made them a little more affordable and meant they could do some more random characters (like the Pumpkin Rapper from Power Rangers)
My long take on Funko Pops... Like every fad toy, they had their moment and are on a clear decline. I got into them when they first came out and I haven't bought one for myself in four years and even then I thought they were getting a bit bloated. My mother got on the craze a bit and started getting some for me on Christmas and my birthday and I had nowhere to display them but didn't have the heart to say stop and I don't believe in re-gifting or selling off a gift.
Fast forward today and I have two kids one is 11 and she has NOT ONCE asked to play with my Pops or asked for one at the store. It's like a toy for the modern Peter Pan Conplex millennial. They don't even put these in the children's aisle. They're always with the electronics, music and gaming stuff. So you can't just give something to kids that kids aren't interested in.
I was never one of those square foot stack collectors described here but have like 15 of these things in my house that I don't know what to do with when 6 years ago I just wanted ONE to display on my desk. I don't know how those who got 100s of these do it.
It's weird today when I go to a store, see an entire wall of these and I see a Drew Bledsoe Pop and I'm like... who is buying this? Or who is buying the 6th variation of some minor character from some 80s film? They must be very cheap to make if they just produce a Pop of literally anything yet they still expect you to pay $12.99 for a random bass player of Judas Priest Pop or whatever.
it's not a toy to play with for the kids. it's a sign you buy to prove that you love the property XYZ. say you're a fan of ghostbusters, well are you a fan of ghostbusters if you didn't buy the funko pop? fett? roger rabbit? the baddie from roger rabbit? sure as f are but a lot of people fell into that.
they're super cheap to make a "new" character and whats worse due to that they look shittier the more you have of them
Funko POPs aren't a fad since they have literally been around and successful for more than a decade.
@@gmti486 That doesn't make it not a fad. Rollerblading was a fad in the 90s but people still do it today. You can still buy them. The craze is far gone, though. Pops fit every definition of a fad.
Orton is the only one left for Roman
I see the Funko Defence Force has logged into the comments.
Bizarre.
Good to see you guys again!
Love to hear you guys. Getting me through the day!
They changed the best mario kart combo. Crazy but it changed the meta
Funko POPs can still be collectable and profitable, but they have to be much more selective on their brands/franchises. They went all-in on the modern Marvel and Star Wars garbage by Disney and now they're paying the price. Any clearance aisle at Walmart or Target, is filled with POPS of Marvel's Eternals, Wakanda Forever, Star Wars' sequel trilogy, Mandalorian, etc.
I got that space shuttle endeavor o and a joke
I have two Funko Pops, an Agent Carter from her TV series and a Fallout 4 T-45 power armor. I like both and I respect the latter for having to be a wholly original sculpt. I got the Golden Girls for my wife. It's cool that anyone can have a figurine of nearly any property they enjoy. The colllectability part of Funk Pops does need to end though. It has become insane.
I have to wonder how Funko can sell their figures so cheap when they pay for so many different licenses, and why other toy manufacturers can't.
Would depend on the contract they make with the license holders. Could be they get a cut of every single figure of theirs that get sold. So if 1000 are sold, they make whatever. Also Funko Pops did hit it big in the mainstream, so it may have been easier to get deals made.
Ubisoft isn't interested in E3 because they can't give a release date on their games(*cough cough*) Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed Mirage
just off the top of my head, wouldn't the closest to 1:1 ratio be Mario 64?
They actually sold more copies of the game than the console for a few months due to a brief console shortage.
Cabbage patch kids came along organically.
Once when i worked at gamestop we had the Naruto 9 tales pop come in every one was looking for it we got calls all day for it i tired of getting harassed for it so i bought to take out the system