Funko Fundays 2025 in the store was as bananas as always

Funko Fundays is something you have to see. The annual personal event, which usually takes place during San Diego Comic-Con, is the final experience of Funko fans, and perhaps even more important is the chance to catch some extremely rare and incredibly expensive Funko pop. Part Fan Fest and Part Game Show, Funko Funday is feeding madness Freebies, which for the better or worse represent a very peak of consumer culture.

This year, Funko reimaginated the four -hour Fundays event for a weekend event, which took place in the second retail store in Hollywood. For $ 150, fans could take part in a 30 -minute passage full of games and awards, followed by a day's approach to Funko Trading Post, where even more awards were distributed. Although Funko was not as fertile or exciting as the traditional foundation, it brought a promising structure that has the potential to bring a fun experience to more fans if it can smooth out several rough places.

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This year's Funday theme was “Quest for Grail”, and as I approached the Funko Store for my booking 10:00, I saw a number of people in Indiana Jones Cosplay, which spread several blocks from the building. Although anyone who participates has their own dedicated time, among the collectors is the superstition that the sooner you arrive in Fundays, the better your prices will be. It seems that tradition could also be transferred to the version of the store.

After logging in, I was assigned to the Piranha team and sent to the hall to wait to start the event. Participants are divided into four themed teams in regular panties, but there were three for the store version: Lams, Leguans and Piranhas. SPOILER CAUTION: This similar sounding team names caused many confused.

If you have never been to Funko Hollywood, it's quite spectacular. The 40,000 square trade trade turns turns and turns with a lot of areas that you can explore and the giant funko pop installation around each corner. After being welcomed by the largest children's Groot Funko pop in the world, you enter and find the pop filled Disney Toontown, Hall of Justice of Justice A, Oh yeah, Kool-Aid Man.

For this event, most of the trade was decorated to suit the Jungle Adventure, including the temple arch with pop-dématics at the front entrance. Here's the place where we were introduced to our adventure guides, the three high -energy entertainment facilitators who wear microphones and carried the rubber torches who led us to the temple to start looking for a grail.

There are no inner voices on funko funday

When we filtered into the first area, our guides went on the stage under the huge witch Mickey Pop to get fun. There was little joking about the dangers that awaited us in the temple, followed by a call and answer not to spoil the mystery of Funday for future adventurers. Soon our first round of awards came out and everyone got a random bag with a pop or soda character. I got a fun series Franny Funko (1/2500) and my partner got Franny Funko as Pink Ranger Pop (1/1050). Our hosts continued, but they were all busy comparing the rarity of their awards to pay attention. Some soda receivers around me were visibly frustrated by missing real pop. That was the first sign of trouble.

Then it was time for our first game, which anyone who participated in the Funday previously knows well: which team can scream loudly. In Fundays, hosts announce that under the tables there are secret microphones that measure, how loudly everyone is, which is obviously not true, but it is nice that at least they pretend that the game is fair. Here our hosts left all the pretexts and after a few minutes of shouting announced that the Iguana team won and won them another prize of the pop character.

From there, three teams divided and moved to different parts of the shop. For the next game, my team was further divided into three groups and introduced three towers of the blocks. Each side of the blocks had a different part of the funko pop or some letters, and we were told who could find a clue at the place of the Grail to win. For some reason, the most eager players in my team got to work on stacking blocks in an effort to create a complete funko while the winning team used letters to explain the word. They got pop, the rest of us got a button.

Then we were accompanied to the next section – a shelf full of sports and music pop -ups, covered with brown network to look more temple, and said to take as many pictures as possible in the next five minutes. People photographed every little thing and expected to find a hidden symbol or answer to the quiz, but it turned out that it was a distraction tactic to work us all until the other two teams were completed with their games that felt a little sponsor.

As soon as the three teams were grouped with our three footsteps, our guide opened the door to the next section. On the other side of the door, a group of dancing mummies cracked! After a minute of dance, our guides sprayed them with an aerosol's “mother's spray”, which made them retreat and we all entered the final part of the store together.

Inside, we found Freddy Funko himself and won our second group prize. This time I got my own Franny Funko as Pink Ranger, while my partner got another pink guard. It took longer to expect, because someone was angry that they were on their box and began to argue with the Funko employee who gave them, who did not want to replace it for another price. I did not see that it would happen, but someone suggested that the guy would not like the pop he got, so he deepened him and tried to replace it.

After a short raffle, where several people won the prototype of Function, it was time for the final game. Each team chose two players who got a basket full of fake fruit. All six players then competed for the placement of each piece of fruit on the dot on the floor that corresponded to the color of the fruit. It seemed that all three teams announced the victory at the same time, but the Piranha team was declared an official winner.

Due to the poor quality of the microphones, it was not clear whether the host said Piranha or Iguan, so both teams threw themselves into the price area to gather. Employees refused to pass Iguanas awards, but some Iguans did not take on the answer. They shouted, argued, and gathered the team and made them sing Iguan again and again in an effort to demand the price. They even blocked me and other Piranhs to get to the prizes and tell us no, Iguanas won this one.

It was a pretty miserable end of a somewhat short experience, because then we were knocked out of the building and incredibly handed over the “grail” – our pop filled with a box of fun – when we walked out of the door. However, I saw similar bad behavior at regular Fundays events. It seems that free popons bring the worst of some people.

Fun continues in the hot, hot sun

Now it was time to go across the street to Funko Trading Post and open our boxes of fun. Each box contained three descriptions and soda, with a grail being 1/100 Freddy Funko as Iron Man. My box wasn't spectacular. The lowest number of pop I got was 1/500 Freddy Funko as Green Lantern and no one likes Green Lantern. I also got Freddy like Michael Myers (1/3000) and Freddy like Zuko (1/3500). Funko invited me to the event, so I did not pay for my ticket, but if I had it, I would probably break or came out a little ahead.

The commercial post office was a parking lot filled with tables, games in the garden, trucks, a beer shop and a beer garden where participants could meet for the rest of the day after their adventure. Every half an hour MC would attract the stage to introduce creativity in Funko or celebrities and give more descriptions and prototypes.

Samantha Bearrt signed Karlach POPs there, and Matthew Lillard got on the stage to tell stories and distribute Scream and Scooby-Doo POPS. Whenever someone went to the stage, participants swarmed like a fish at the time of feeding. There were several occasions when someone made a mistake to release Pop into the crowd instead of passing it to someone, which inevitably led to a tabular struggle that you see with the foul balls at baseball games.

In the Hollywood parking lot, it turned on under the end of June, but the chance to win such rare prizes maintained positive energy. I have seen a lot of people who win a high-valuable protos like Vegeta, Stitch and She-Ra just because I knew the words of the thematic song TMNT or guessed the favorite movie Matthew Lillard (Star Wars). I also brought some of my own pops, earned a great $ 600 and met some really great people throughout the day.

When there is a chance for many people to get prices with a high dollar, greed is inevitable and not everyone will have their best behavior. But what I have always appreciated about Fundays is that they allow real fans to share their interests and stupid about their collections. Although I did not love baking in the heat all day (and I have burns to do it), I like this format could create more environment for fans for fundays, and I would like to see how bigger and better in the future – hopefully with better microphones and better team names.