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Showing posts with label bobbleheads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bobbleheads. Show all posts
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
I say the following four quotes when my head bobbles:
"I'm gonna have my own show.
It's gonna be called, Big Boobs & Fire!"
"Boing!"
"So umm, hey, how's it goin?"
"Peekaboo!!!"
I say the following four quotes when my head bobbles:
"Come to Butt-Head."
"Uhh, Sir? I'm afraid I'm gonna have to kick your ass."
"This rocks."
"Whoa! That's cool!"
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Is it true you're offering a a free Funko item if I order 5?
Yes, it is! Bring home Funko items and make your kitchen even more exciting. Entertainment Earth carries a huge variety of super-cool collectibles, and for every 4 in-stock Funko items you buy, we'll send you a 5th of your choice... for FREE! Just put 5 in-stock Funko items in your shopping cart and we'll automatically insert a coupon in your cart that gives you the lowest-priced Funko item at no charge at checkout. Browse our entire catalog of Funko items, order or pre-order the ones you like, and buy one for a friend, too!
Official Rules: Offer valid on new orders placed from the Entertainment Earth web site between April 27, 2011 and May 3, 2011. Order must include at least 5 Funko items. Funko items must be in stock. For every 5 Funko items that are ordered, client will receive the 1 lowest-priced Funko item for free. If a client orders 15 Funko items, they will get the 3 lowest-priced Funko items for free. Backorders will not be issued for this offer. Not applicable to previously purchased merchandise. This offer does not apply to EE Distribution orders. This offer cannot be used with any other offer. Offer may be modified or cancelled at any time. For a full list of Funko items, visit this page.
Gizmo Rocks the CON !!!
Icons of the Twilight Zone
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
- Live from New York ... it's from my iPhone !!!
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Shawndra talks Funko with Nerdstock Comics
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Being a HUGE Giants & Eli fan ..
How could I not love this commercial.
Check out all the Funko Wacky Wobblers
in this commercial.
USA Freddy Funko
Johnny Fang
Surf Dude
Super Wild Bill
Shiva
Beatnik
Bone Daddy
Freaky Tiki
GLOW Freaky Tiki
Red Freaky Tiki
Atomic Fun Girl
Silver/Gold Freddy Funko
Albert Einstein
Christmas Demonique
Smart Alex
Space Ace
Big Willy
Uncle Sam
Demonique
Referee Freddy
Mr. Howl
Japrechaun
Frieghty
Black/Purple Johnny Fang
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Funko NEWS Article - 'Toy geeks' at Funko are bubbly over bobbleheads
0 comments Posted by pece at 11:44 AM
See the Article - HERE
In 1998, T-shirt designer and toy collector Mike Becker wanted a coin bank of the restaurant icon Big Boy — the chubby, hamburger-hoisting character in red-and-white checkered overalls. He didn't, however, want to pay the more than $1,000 to buy the highly sought-after collector's item.
On a whim, he licensed the rights to make the banks himself. Soon after, he launched into making bobbleheads of Big Boy and other pop-culture icons under the company name of Funko.
"I never made collectibles or toys before; I was winging it the whole time," Becker said. "I always collected a lot of weird things, and that's how it started — my love of collecting."
Becker's operation, begun in his house in Snohomish, has become a thriving company. It's one of the world's largest suppliers of pop-culture bobbleheads, this year shipping more than 900,000 units of about 70 different models.
In the past five years, the company's annual revenue has grown from $850,000 to an expected $10 million this year. Funko has gone from three to 17 employees, and from a 1,000-square-foot facility in Snohomish to a 17,000-square-foot warehouse in Lynnwood.
That growth spurt has been guided by another toy enthusiast, Brian Mariotti, who bought the company from Becker in 2005.
"I'm a toy geek; this is why I wanted to buy the business," Mariotti said. "Just about everybody in the art department and myself are all toy geeks."
Mariotti, who has published a coffee-table book on Hanna-Barbera toys and once purchased a house using money from selling his Pez collection, said interest in bobbleheads was waning when he bought the company.
But he felt there was still a future in them. He expanded into different genres of characters from movies, television and video games. Now he is using talking microchips to add another dimension to the products.
Mariotti jumps on obvious licenses for expected movie blockbusters like the upcoming Green Lantern film. But some successful bobbleheads, like the Cthulhu creature from horror-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, are riskier investments that develop from brainstorming ideas with the company's media-savvy artistic team.
Funko also has expanded into action figures, plush dolls and electronics that allow the company to sell to a wider market of retail stores, like Target and Toys R Us.
"We tried to sell bobbleheads to Hot Topic for close to six years, and they said no to every product we ever showed them, but when they saw our plush line they said yes immediately," Mariotti said.
Despite the recession and a tepid bobblehead market, Funko bobbleheads remain a profitable niche.
"The Funko bobbleheads sell very well here," said Tony Morigi, manager of Golden Age Collectables in the Pike Place Market. "If it wasn't for Funko, I don't think we'd be back in the bobblehead business."
Funko still sells mostly to the small comic or collectibles shops and to online retailers, said Mariotti.
A popular item in the 1950s and '60s, bobbleheads experienced a renaissance after appearing as giveaways at baseball games in the summer of 1999. Alexander Global Promotions of Bellevue produced the first of these bobblehead game-day promotions with Willie Mays bobbleheads for the San Francisco Giants. It quickly caught on, and the bobblehead's popularity spread from the world of sports to popular culture, said Malcolm Alexander, CEO of Alexander Global Promotions.
"I thought it would be a fun piece to do. I didn't realize how popular they were going to continue to be," said Alexander.
Funko began producing bobbleheads at just the right time, in the fall of 1998, predating Alexander Global Promotions and the coming bobblehead boom by more than six months.
Early on, Funko came close to ruin when a Michigan Big Boy franchise, with whom Funko had its only order, filed for bankruptcy protection. But a license to produce Austin Powers bobbleheads changed everything.
"I was able to negotiate a deal with Austin Powers for literally $2,500 before it got popular, and we ended up selling around 80,000 out of my garage," Becker said.
Now back in the T-shirt design business, Becker is still an avid collector and keeps a 1,500-square-foot room in his Mill Creek home filled with toys and collectibles.
"I think that even in this very high-tech, virtual-reality world with instant information, you still can't substitute good old-fashioned fun," said Becker.
By Jesus Chavez
Seattle Times staff reporter
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