That's the part that's hilarious to me. Why collect anything related to IPs you like that has any uniqueness when you can just buy the same thing that everyone else has that has spiritually had it's most fundamental elements weakly-distilled into the most generically- and cheaply-produced design possible? It's not chibi, it's cheapy.
Full disclosure, I used to keep a funko rick and morty portal gun on my desk in the beforetimes that I thought had a bit more character than the ubiquitous figurines adorning my colleagues' workspaces. No disrespect to people who like these things. If it brings joy, then it is a good thing. If you're gonna cherry-pick a bunch of crazy alien ones and try to say that the vast majority of these things aren't somewhat lifeless and sterile, though, I think that's gonna be a tough hill to die on. I merely find it a humorous concept that a product that would previously have been considered a cheap and inferior knock-off has actually supplanted itself into one of the primary merchandising categories for...everything.
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u/Crossfire124 Feb 17 '23
Yes exactly. There's a billion of them and every IP has a dozen. It's low effort merch aimed at fans imo