Trivia / Funko Pop!

• Ascended Meme:
  • There are Pops of Ariel, Jasmine, Belle, and Cinderella with glasses, referencing the "hipster Disney Princess" meme.
  • Wounded◊ Ian Malcolm wouldn't have been made if the sexiness of that Shirtless Scene hadn't gone memetic.
• Blooper: Each series has several missing numbers, and on some occasions duplicate numbers for two completely different Pops. Then again, could you keep count of them all?
  • The numbering for the "Movies" series skips from 65 to 68, then from 72 to 76, 86 to 88, and 118 to 122. However, seeing how The Boxtrolls Pops are numbers 119, 120, and 121 of the "Animation" series and the latter two numbers overlap with Pops for Dragon Ball Z, it's very likely they are meant to be the missing numbers of the "Movies" series.
  • The Haunted Mansion Pops mix up Gus and Phineas' names. The white glowing variants have their names corrected.
• Delayed Release Tie-In: The COVID-19 Pandemic wrecked the schedules of the movie industry worldwide in 2020 and 2021 with theater closures and lockdowns, and dozens of productions slowed down or were halted for weeks or months and had their release dates delayed to 2021 and 2022. Consequently, a number of films had their Pop figures released around their original schedules with the films not releasing until months (sometimes over a year) later. Examples include Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow, Dune, No Time to Die etc. One extreme case is Minions: The Rise of Gru — the figures were in stores over two years before the film's release in July 2022.
• Development Hell:
  • Carrie Kelley was teased along with several other Pops for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Her figure didn't come out until a year later.
  • Pops for Mystery Science Theater 3000 were revealed at the 2017 London Toy Fair, but no release date or final designs have surfaced so far, even though just about everything else revealed alongside them has been given a release date. They were eventually announced with an October release date.
  • Art for Snowman Jack and Harlequin Demon figures appear on the packaging of some The Nightmare Before Christmas Pops, though they have yet to be released.
• Follow the Leader: After the surprise success of the Pop! line, there have been many imitators that follow the "vinyl figure with oversized head" formula, such as Banpresto's Q Posket, Nendoroid, Ubisoft Heroes, Hasbro's Mighty Muggs, Youtooz, and LEGO's BrickHeadz.
• Milestone Celebration: Some particularly iconic franchises or films with get special anniversary figures, such as Jurassic Park (25th anniversary in 2018) or The Empire Strikes Back (40th anniversary in 2020).
• Referenced by...:
  • In Sleepless Domain, Tessa has a shelf in her room full of Team Alchemical merchandise, including an Alchemical Aether figurine with the Funko Pop! line's signature Black Bead Eyes and Super-Deformed head. The Alt Text refers to it as a "Punko Pop".
  • Cruelty Squad has the Chunkopops [sic], which are religiously collected by the Chunkopop G-Tech Exec in Paradise — his room is filled to the brim with the stuff.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Hasbro has the licenses to make vinyl figures based off Marvel Comics and Star Wars, not Funko, so all Funko Pop! figures from those two franchises are bobbleheads.
• Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: Since Pops are stylized, a good number of characters tend to look different than they do in their source material. However, a few of them, mostly those with a Non-Standard Character Design, look more like their regular selves. Examples include Boober, Jake the Dog, Gir◊, the Daleks◊, R2-D2◊, the Swedish Chef◊, and the Minions◊. On the other hand, Pops based on cartoons that already have Black Bead Eyes tend to look pretty show-accurate, such as those for Adventure Time◊ and Peanuts.
  • The figure for the dragon Caraxes in House of the Dragon notably lacks his trademark long neck and the large fins on his legs, looking too much like that series' own Syrax but recolored, while the two beasts look very different from each other.
  • Speaking of Syrax, she looks like a barely modified dragon model from the Game of Thrones line, while she's clearly a different breed of dragon compared to Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion.
• Spoiled by the Merchandise: Frequently guilty of this. After announcing the figures for the baby Furies in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World before the movie was even released, they started preceding their more plot-sensitive figure announcements with spoiler warnings, starting with Avengers: Endgame.
• Tie-In Cereal: FunkO's Breakfast Cereal was made as an Homage to the trope by the toy line, with many of their collectible cereal boxes based off of specific characters and a miniature Funko figure as a prize. Such examples include Stitch, Freddy Kreuger, Jason Voorhees, Beetlejuice, Elvira, Harley Quinn, Lion-O, Skeletor, the Red Ranger, Cuphead and Mugman, Huckleberry Hound, Mega Man and so on.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A line for The Mummy (2017) was announced, only to be cancelled. There's speculation about the reasons, one being that Tom Cruise doesn't allow his likeness to be reproduced on toys (though that would be a stretch considering Pops are Super-Deformed to begin with).
  • Rango was planned to have its titular character receive a Pop! Vinyl.
  • Reservoir Dogs had a line announced but cancelled.
  • There were leaked plans for a second wave of Space Jam figures in 2019 that would have included Michael Jordan and Daffy Duck, alongside a new Bugs Bunny.
  • sakipopz, a prominent Funko leaker, had mentioned there were plans for a PaRappa the Rapper figure to be released around summer 2022 and (in a now deleted post) a line based on Urusei Yatsura for summer 2023. It is unknown if either will ever be released.

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