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Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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Good lord.
Not even actual helmets, just scale helmets
I'd love some F1 paintings, but some of this stuff is just overpriced.
But don't worry guys, you get bodywork from a car that's not even bigger than your hand.
Again, not an actual wing, its a scale model. Why buy a scale of a front wing?
Buying a scale model car? Sure. But a front wing?
If your gonna buy stuff at least buy a legit car part or something of historical importance to the sport.
Eric Epstein has what seems to be legit front bodywork of a NASCAR car in his filming room so I can understand that.
Thats pretty cool.
This is just fake.
"Look at my scale model front wing"
That said.
Not even actual helmets, just scale helmets
I'd love some F1 paintings, but some of this stuff is just overpriced.
But don't worry guys, you get bodywork from a car that's not even bigger than your hand.
Again, not an actual wing, its a scale model. Why buy a scale of a front wing?
Buying a scale model car? Sure. But a front wing?
If your gonna buy stuff at least buy a legit car part or something of historical importance to the sport.
Eric Epstein has what seems to be legit front bodywork of a NASCAR car in his filming room so I can understand that.
Thats pretty cool.
This is just fake.
"Look at my scale model front wing"
That said.
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Air dusters appear to be more effective:
(this will never not make me laugh my ass off)
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That's exactly what it was, he was one a few kids who were doing it.
F1 merch and the cult of personality that surrounds some of the drivers (Lewis) is a whole mad little consumer culture of its own. There's nothing that fans won't buy.
I'd have that Renault though, if I ever had fuck-you money. I believe Lotus did a similar thing some years ago with a detuned, theoretically lower maintenance version of their car that you could buy for something like 1-2 million.
I'm torn when it comes to sports stuff. I'd say that's my weakness when it comes to consoomer stuff.
On one hand, if you want to support your favourite team/driver then that's fine.
I'm pretty autistic when Aston races because their local. Well endurance racing at least, I'm pretty neutral F1 wise.
I got a poster celebrating their Le Mans win in 2007 when my school was taking it down.
When I went to the silverstone museum they had a number of stuff that I'd imagine buying.
But that stuff? Spending £250 for a scale model front wing?
I bet you could find something real or a nice painting to hang on the wall for far less.
Sports is a real grey area because of memorabilia and genuine artefacts.
I'd say that's more enthusiast and collector though.
£4000 for a Piquet helmet, sheesh. Historical, but that's just insane.
I don't know whats worse, the scale helmets being over £100 or that.
Self confessed shrine by someone in a discord server I use.
I'd say its confined to a part of a room, some die casts, some books.
Keychains are excessive and not really needed but no real harm in this.
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Sports is indeed a grey are because that’s an overlapping of consoomerism, legit collecting and cult of personality. I’ve been to Europe many times and the world of soccer and soccer players is probably worthy of a community watch thread.
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Fuck it, I'm late but two things just came to me while I was drinking and watching the OT:
1) Those shitty control panels are actually pretty faithful to OG Star Wars, analog switches and blinky lights that don't do shit.
2) The rooms being small is retarded for a hotel but make sense for a star cruiser. It's a cruise liner in space. You ever seen a cruise ship's cabins? They're fucking tiny, that's why there's so much focus on the rest of the ship being full of things to do. Still a retarded idea for a hotel though and the video looks like trash warmed over.
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Part of the appeal for Funko Pops is that they get a SLEW of licenses that under normal circumstances would NEVER get a proper action figure release. Hence the casual basic bitch appeal to people who buy them, since they have shit that normally you can't find if you are into action figures or certain franchises.
Hell, as it stands, I can think of only a couple of major shows that have avoided POP mania: The Shield, Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Melrose Place, Beverly Hillbillies.
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Metroid branded amiibos seem to have the most egregious consumers. one listing is going for EIGHT HUNDRED and has 25 sold. Remind you that I saw these at bargain bins yesterday for 6.
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Holy shit! I sure hope you scooped them all up and flipped them on ebay for insane profits.
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A whatnow?
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My kid bought one the combo one with the jellyfish and Samus for 15, eons ago. They sold it off for 80, the jellyfish's skin is spongy and they're kinda neat, BUT NOT 800 NEAT.
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Dublin Doodlebug, take one aerosol can and tape a large firecracker to it. Light and throw.
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That’s not even bad, most of the items there are a good conversation starter to have with them
If they branded one of their Disney cruise ships as the hotel it would actually make sense and be interesting, also you could just ignore all the geek shit and get drunk and suntan on the deck / pools.
I don’t get why someone would pay those prices for a building in the shape of a starship
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One of my irl friends used that argument to me when I was commenting on how much I hate them, and I asked her why she simply couldn't make her own merchandise of her favourite franchise instead of buying soulless plastic demons and "official mugs" which just has the show logo on it.
And I was basically told it's "too hard".
I understand the frustration if you're not into art or writing. But generally, if you really enjoy something and want to show it, you will take the time to learn how to be creative and make your own merch. It doesn't take a genius to watch a couple youtube videos on Graphic Design, download a cracked Photoshop, and learn how to print off your own stickers using the right paper from staples. But that's time investment, which I guess no one wants to do anymore?
And you can get why companies love the consoom mentality because if you get caught up in the hype for a show or product and you're too lazy to make anything, you'll just buy the Funko Pops and lanyards. In a year, when you drop out of that franchise, they'll still have your money and you have to dispose of the garbage you bought.
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So what's your thought on custom Funkopops then? Like this Tony Soprano Funkopop?
Or for those into more vintage TV, how about this absolutely horrifying Barney Fife Funkopop?
A part of me is impressed that for whatever licenses Funko couldn't grab to churn out another soulless abomination, the fans did for them.
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LOL did that idiot just have an aneurysm or something? There's a video over in the "Death Thread" of a guy doing whip-its and the same thing happens, his eyes roll back and he passes out while drooling (no idea if he died or not, but no big loss if so).
I've seen them explode in bonfires before, but never quite so close-up. Damn, it set off a bunch of car alarms lol! That's worthy of a local archive copy.
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The large, squishy 4 inch tall Metroid is pretty pricy on the secondary market, due to it having really really bad distribution (a lot of the World of Nintendo stuff has super hit and miss distribution, hence why Nintendo largely stopped doing non-Mario stuff and focus solely on the Mario related 2 inch figures and what remaining 4 inch stuff complimenting the mini-figures which these days are sold at check out registers).
Most people had to settle for the hard shell 2 inch Metroids, which scale well with GI Joe and Star Wars. and if you aren't too scale obsessed, six inch figures.
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It doesn’t even look like him.