wolfchild59
Active Member
Part of the reason for the change in the sculpt quality is because the first figures, the Alien ones, were a passion project by just a few guys that truly just loved the old prototypes and wanted to see the toys finally get made. They did castings from the original prototypes and faithfully hand sculpted new versions of some one-offs that the owners wouldn't let them cast. And the first few lines that came out after the Funko partnership made the production a reality were still from that early stage of love and not cranking out toys because licenses were owned. But, in typical Funko fashion, they took that initial popularity and decided to push their other licenses into the ReAction line. So it was no longer a few passionate toy lovers casting and sculpting a loved project, forming a partnership, and getting it made, but a larger scale mass production process, and I fell that the quality of toys reflect that change.
Funko has great licenses and has found some great niche marketplaces that has skyrocket them from a smallish bobble head maker to a giant in the toy market that can't even manage the lines and crowds at their SDCC booth because each year it gets exponentially larger from the previous year, so they are never truly prepared to handle it. But their QC is crap. Their Pop! figures are a mess of overspray, random paint splatter, and laughably bad seam lines. The Mystery Minis are somewhat better, but still have issues of their own. So the same lower quality is now bleeding into the ReAction line from what the figures were originally.
As a whole, I think Funko has some great ideas and licenses, I just wish that they would take a breath, slow down a bit, and figure out how to produce better quality toys rather than just cranking them out faster than people can even buy 'em.
Funko has great licenses and has found some great niche marketplaces that has skyrocket them from a smallish bobble head maker to a giant in the toy market that can't even manage the lines and crowds at their SDCC booth because each year it gets exponentially larger from the previous year, so they are never truly prepared to handle it. But their QC is crap. Their Pop! figures are a mess of overspray, random paint splatter, and laughably bad seam lines. The Mystery Minis are somewhat better, but still have issues of their own. So the same lower quality is now bleeding into the ReAction line from what the figures were originally.
As a whole, I think Funko has some great ideas and licenses, I just wish that they would take a breath, slow down a bit, and figure out how to produce better quality toys rather than just cranking them out faster than people can even buy 'em.
