Alright so I'm sick and tired of seeing Pop!'s everywhere. They take up too much damned shelf space in speciality stores (and that's another thing, why is such a universally available, generic product in speciality stores in the first place?), EB Games should not have the shelf space be larger then it's PC shelf, WiiU shelves and previous generation shelves combined.
It's hard enough to see these everywhere in stores since they seem to licence every piece of fiction under the sun, but what really pushed me from disliking it to pure hatred for the damned cheap bobble heads (do their heads even bobble, or are they even cheaper then they look?) is the fact I went to Anime North over the weekend and every other dealer in the dealers den had some, some had a significant part of their stock be them, and two of them even had them straight up dominating their products by dwarfing all their others combined. I don't even understand why. You're paying for shelf space at a very niche market with more money then sense where the more rare and high quality something is below 500$ the faster it will sell. Why bring such large numbers of a product so cheap that even knock off figurines look good by comparison? Dealers dens is for things that are hard to find and impulse buys, it's why most places sell important candies or other materials even speciality places don't always have. Why waste such a large amount of very finite floor space on them? (and for anyone wondering, near the end of the third day the really big one that had about 4 booths worth of space and 3 of them dedicated to Pop!'s hadn't even sold 10% of them).
I just don't get it. The appeal of the product, the longevity it has as a trend, the sheer bulk it has or its illogical inclusion in convention vendor booths. I just don't get it.
It's hard enough to see these everywhere in stores since they seem to licence every piece of fiction under the sun, but what really pushed me from disliking it to pure hatred for the damned cheap bobble heads (do their heads even bobble, or are they even cheaper then they look?) is the fact I went to Anime North over the weekend and every other dealer in the dealers den had some, some had a significant part of their stock be them, and two of them even had them straight up dominating their products by dwarfing all their others combined. I don't even understand why. You're paying for shelf space at a very niche market with more money then sense where the more rare and high quality something is below 500$ the faster it will sell. Why bring such large numbers of a product so cheap that even knock off figurines look good by comparison? Dealers dens is for things that are hard to find and impulse buys, it's why most places sell important candies or other materials even speciality places don't always have. Why waste such a large amount of very finite floor space on them? (and for anyone wondering, near the end of the third day the really big one that had about 4 booths worth of space and 3 of them dedicated to Pop!'s hadn't even sold 10% of them).
I just don't get it. The appeal of the product, the longevity it has as a trend, the sheer bulk it has or its illogical inclusion in convention vendor booths. I just don't get it.
