Even if you were daring enough to brave the treacherous, hours-long line to get up to the Funko booth at San Diego Comic Con 2013 today, there was a little extra treat there that most visitors missed: an all-new Funko book that debuted a lot of previously unannounced upcoming Funko POP! Vinyls.
Two of these newly-revealed figures will be of special interest to Marvel fans–it’s the Funko Marvel POP! Vinyls Peter Parker and Compound Hulk!
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I might have an obsession. See, once Marvel officially announced the SDCC 2013 Exclusive Funko Metallic Red Hulk POP! Vinyl figure, I became pretty fixated and seeing what they’d do to the most huggable of the Hulks. But the image Disney/Marvel sent out with the press release was just a photo of the plain Red Hulk. Thus, for the last week-plus I have been a man on a mission, with my quest being to find photographic evident of the actual Metallic Red Hulk SDCC Exclusive figure. And finally, today, my investigation turned up the first photo of the elusive POP! Vinyl Metallic Red Hulk!
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Earlier this week, Marvel confirmed a few more Funko 2013 San Diego Comic Con exclusives. Most we’ve known about for quite a while, but two were a big surprise: the SDCC 2013 Exclusive Marvel Funko Metallic Ghost Rider and Metallic Red Hulk POP! Vinyls. While we’re still waiting for images of Metallic Red Hulk, the first photos of Metallic Ghost Rider and James Rhodes leaked out today…
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When the new Marvel Funko Logan POP! Vinyl started hitting stores a few weeks ago, it quickly became apparent that Logan was a little bit different from all of his Funko Marvel POP! Vinyl brethren released the last few years.
No, the big controversy isn’t that Funko made Logan’s hair way too brown (even though they did)–it’s the fact that this Logan Funko POP! Vinyl Bobble Head isn’t a Bobble Head at all…
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If you read my blogs regularly, you know I’m majorly obsessive compulsive–especially when it comes to toys. It’s for that reason that I don’t buy a lot of Marvel Funko POP! Vinyls, even though I love vinyl figures and the designs that Funko comes up with. The paint apps quality control on Funko POP! Vinyls can be very hit or miss, so rather than make myself nuts, I’ll often stay away from characters I can pass on. This Inverse Deadpool Exclusive, however, was not a figure I could easily skip. Does the Funko Deadpool Inverse Variant POP! vinyl pass the QC test?
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Earlier this month, I posted an article about the surprise reveal of a Marvel Funko POP! Tony Stark vinyl figure being released as an exclusive at the Philippine Toy Con 2013, as well as at SDCC 2013. At that time, I speculated that Tony’s longtime comrade James Rhodes would probably be joining Tony as a San Diego Comic Con 2013 exclusive. Well, Toy Con has come and gone, and now that in-hand photos of the Marvel POP! Vinyl Tony Stark’s box exist, I can confirm that a Funko Iron Patriot Unmasked James Rhodes Vinyl will in fact be flying in for SDCC 2013 next month…
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At the rate we’re going, we just may know every Marvel San Diego Comic Con exclusive toy from every company within a few more days. Hot on the heels of last week’s Hasbro and Diamond Select Toys reveals, we learned about three of the Funko Marvel POP! Vinyl exclusives yesterday. And today, we can add another three 2013 SDCC Exclusive POP! Vinyls to the list: Black-And-White Variants of the Dr. Doom, Wolverine, and Spider-Man Vinyl Bobble-Head figures!
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If there’s one Marvel character (not named Iron Man) that’s getting plenty of merchandising love in 2013, it’s Deadpool. Funko has been particularly infatuated with Deadpool this year, as so far they have released seven variants of the Funko Deadpool POP! Vinyl figure already. And hey, once there’s that many variants, might as well throw in another and make it an even eight, right?
So coming our way next month, it’s the Funko SDCC 2013 Metallic Deadpool POP Vinyl!
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Another day, another San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusive announced! Marvel Funko POP! Vinyl collectors have really dodged a bullet this time, as it briefly appeared that one of the most wanted Marvel Movie POP! Vinyl figures ever was going to be an overseas exclusive not available in America at all.
Luckily, word has now come out that the hotly anticipated Funko POP Iron Man 3 Mark 42 Unmasked Tony Stark figure will also be available next month as a SDCC 2013 exclusive!
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You might think that there’s no room in my collection for anything else with all the statues, sixth-scale figures, building sets, action figures, plush toys, mini-busts, and staction figures that I buy. But actually, there’s one other brand of collecting that I’m big into: vinyl figures. I own hundreds of Disney vinyl figurines (in fact, I have a whole Vinylmation website), but I also have a couple Marvel vinyl figures. I only have a few Funko Marvel POP! Vinyls because they’ve been pretty hit-or-miss, but sometimes Funko puts out a gamma-charged blockbuster. Case in point: the just-announced Funko! Marvel Red Hulk POP! Vinyl figure…
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I’ll be honest: I may genuinely own more vinyl collectible figures than I do action figures. See, I went through a phase where I bought hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of Disney Vinylmation vinyl figures each year. So, generally, I’m pretty aware of what’s going on in the vinyl collecting world. That’s why I was so surprised when I turned the corner at my local comic book store yesterday and came face-to-face with a display of figures I didn’t even know had been released: the Funko Iron Man 3 POP! Vinyls figure line…
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