When some people, especially men, approach half of their lifetime, they often go through a middle -aged crisis. This deep -rooted existential fear tends to manifest itself as sudden and unexpected hobbies. Some boys buy a motorcycle, others really get to the kickboxing.
At present, I am in my throat my own middle -aged crisis (at the age of 35, I am a pessimist) and the overwhelming reality of my own immediate demise took the form of a massive collection of funko pop. Maybe it's not as cool or dangerous as jumping the base, but we all filled a hole in God in our own way.
Like any hobby, there is a lot to learn about how you first start. It may seem to be just buying a lot of cheap plastic figures with large heads and mindless eyes and good, it is. But as you buy them, it is more complicated than you would think. Among the drops of shops, conventional exclusive and even NFT redemption – which do not have almost as much as if it sounds, you must have a head to turn to keep up with all the ways to find new pop.
In an effort to make the description exclusive and exciting to collect again, Funko has recently launched a new type of limited edition PES. They have a limited number of pieces printed on the box, so everyone can see how rare and valuable your figures are. If you are in any collector's hobby, these kinds of praise rights are worth it. It is not surprising that these LES POPs cost a lot.
LE PEST will be released through several different paths, but most of them are sold directly through the Funko website. This is a new process for funko and it wasn't particularly good. This Friday meant for the third time in a row that without my own guilt I could not secure one of these limited editions, and I rejected it, I'm starting to find myself a little.
Funko websites were unreliable in terms of drops of limited editions
Funko releases a new Le Pop every Friday on the first foundation, which is previously tension, with one of us. For items with 3,500 or less customers, customers can buy a guaranteed timely access to buying points for fans that are collected by purchasing on the web. The more rare pop, the more fans reward it, it is worth participating in early access, but if you present your points, you have the opportunity to buy this pop during the time of time of access … or at least so.
I missed a decline in a limited edition for three weeks in a row and start to embody the whole system. September 5. September was a delightful spider from the whole Spiderverse. As a piece of 5,000 number, no premature access period was offered-it was purely earlier, first.
Spider-Cat was supposed to be popular pop, but at 5,000 pieces it is not particularly rare. For comparison, a highly sought -after funko funko Fundays are all 100 or 250 numbers. Not all 5,000 were available at the start, because some were stored for physical Funko stores and some are likely to be made available to the UK in the future, but it is still a lot of descriptions. I was still expecting Spider-Cat to sell out quickly, but I didn't expect it to sell out immediately.
Soon I logged in to the web, made sure my payment was set up, added it to the basket at exactly 9 am, hit the box office and … sold out. I checked out as fast as it is human, and it was still not fast enough, which made me think: I lost other customers or robots?
I know it is tempting to cry robots whenever you miss online sales – Clankers are eventually an easy goal – but without points of fans that act as a barrier, the robots are the only explanation, especially when you see how many of them immediately appeared on eBay. I wasn't too pushing for it and I even ended up getting a spider from the seller for a decent price halfway, but my problems with the funko shop just got worse.
Three strikes and I am outside
Two weeks ago, a 1,200-piece big boy, a hamburger mascot, who is mostly known for his many collector incarnations of the figurine. At 1200 pieces, Big Boy begins to reach the grail. This is definitely the one you would have to spend on fans' reward points if you would like to buy.
I'm just kidding. When the planned period of early access to Big Boy began last Friday, you didn't have to spend points of fans at all. He was immediately available to everyone, which means he immediately sold out. The points of the reward kicked shortly thereafter, but it was too late, he was gone. Funko managed to return people who spent their points but could not earn the character, but for anyone who missed, there were still too little, too late.
Last week Snifu is the one that hurts the most. The drop was 3,500 of the fantasm, one of my favorite Batman's villains from one of my favorite Batman films (Mask Phantasm, watch it). I signed up, like every week, clear and soon, ready to spend my remuneration points and make a purchase. I couldn't do the third week in a row.
The site simply refused to take my points and it turned out that I wasn't the only one. After ten minutes of error messages, Funko announced that he was taking Phantasm offline until the problem could be resolved. At 12:07, Funko tweeted that the pop would be at 13:00, but anyone who didn't see the tweet, including me, was sol.
I wish Funko would wait until 9:00 the next day to give people enough time. I wish they could find a way to save space for all who have appeared at the right time and were unable to complete the purchase. In the end, I wish this problem happened at all.
Technical problems are happening and I have never been entitled to any of these toys in the first place, but (great) the boy feels bad when I show up in time, points in hand and it is still not enough – three times in a row.
If Funko wants these limited editions to hold value and gain the confidence of their fans, it should take a little care to avoid a negative experience every Friday morning. Meanwhile, my middle -aged crisis has fun.
