The extinction of the Funko Pop draws near, and arts columnist Derek McArthur explains why he is ecstatic that the vinyl figurines are finally being laid to rest.

Good news everyone, the end of the Funko Pop may finally be on the horizon.

The company behind the Funko Pop brand, those ugly vinyl figurines that have mass-infected pop culture-adorned bookshelves for far too long, has admitted that they might not last another year due to a slump in sales and mounting debts. It’s a billion-dollar empire, yet they now run the risk of defaulting on their loans.

But surely the company’s main issue in the year 2025 is the endless overproduction of the darn things, a complete saturation that has managed to reach its way into every far-flung corner of nerd fandom and beyond. At one point, it felt like there was always a Funko Pop around every corner, watching and observing you with their beady little eyes. Now they mostly watch from landfills and dump barges, disposable and meaningless to those who bought them.

Anything and everything found itself slapped onto these little figurines, from superheroes to celebrities, to politicians, to literally anything with a resemblance to a face and body that can be transposed onto their generic plasticky template.

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