Squid Game Funko Pop Figures Given the Green Light

With the phenomenal success of Netflix’s Squid Game, it was only a short matter of time until the inevitable tidal wave of merchandise hit shores. Well, now it’s here, and Funko is releasing six characters from the series in their Funko Pop! style figurines to rake in some of that money. It’s like Funko just broke open their own Squid Game piggy bank!

Available individually for $11 or as a $66 six character set from Entertainment Earth, the figures include Seong Gi-Hun (Player 456), Oh Il-nam (Player 001), Abdul Ali (Player 199), Kang Sae-byeok (Player 067), Cho Sang-Woo (Player 218), and a circle masked worker. Will they also release square and triangle masked workers and Front Man and VIP figures? If there’s money to be made, I can almost guarantee it.

Did you know Squid Game’s creator/director Hwang Dong-hyuk shopped around a script for a Squid Game movie for ten years before Netflix showed an interest in turning it into a series? Ten years! I wish I’d gotten ahold of it first. I mean, sure, it would have been filmed with next to no budget with sets made almost entirely from cardboard, but still, ketchup can pass for real blood if your camera is crappy enough.

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Here Comes the Kool-Aid Man Funko POP! Figure!

A while back we found out that Funko was readying a new POP! figure based on the iconic Kool-Aid Man, but all we had was a terrible placeholder illustration of the character. Now, the actual figure is starting to turn up, and it looks awesome.

The rotund kids’ drink mascot is perfect in Funko POP! form, his pitcher body filled up with fruity red drink and ice cubes brimming over the top of his head. He looks all ready to bust down the wall bring a cool treat to your other POP! figures and exclaim his classic “OH YEAH!” catchphrase.

You can pre-order the Kool-Aid Man Funko POP! figure from Amazon or Entertainment Earth for $10.99. It’s supposed to ship any day now.

GoT The Mountain Unmasked 6-inch POP! Figure: Darth Clegane

This is one of those posts you won’t want to read if you haven’t finished the last season of Game of Thrones. When The Hound found his big bro, The Mountain on the staircase at the Red Keep, even the power of whatever potion brought The Mountain back to life couldn’t stop him from bashing Qyburn’s head in and going off to fight his burnt bro.

We knew The Mountain was messed up under that mask, but when The Hound knocked off his helmet, did any of us expect to find Anakin Skywalker under there? I mean seriously, black helmet, black armor, Darth Vader head, how can you not see the similarities? Now you can own a jumbo POP! figure based the Mountain’s big reveal.

If you want to celebrate the first unveiling of Lord Mountain, you can get this Funko 6-inch POP! vinyl figure. After all, The Mountain should tower over all your other figures. Pre-order yours on Entertainment Earth for $19.99, and it should ship sometime this October.

I assume that somewhere under the fire and rubble The Mountain is still moving.

Don’t Bury This Pet Sematary POP! Figure

Stephen King’s Pet Sematary was a scary book as were both of the movies it inspired. Whatever you bury in that that dark place comes back, but what comes back isn’t what you want. Now, Funko has immortalized the evil, resurrected Gage in POP form.

The vinyl action figure comes complete with his very sharp knife all covered in blood to hunt you down and cut you up. He also comes with his undead cat Church. Since cats are already pretty evil, a resurrected cat can’t be any more evil than a cat already is. We’re just going to assume the fangs, yellow eyes, and bloody head are normal for Church.

Entertainment Earth sells both figures in one box for $10.99.

The Night King Gets His with this Funko POP! Figure

If you haven’t watched this season of Game of Thrones, look away. Funko has a very cool new POP! vinyl figure in the form of that cold-hearted bastard the Night King. This figure of the White Walkers’ leader features a little something special to commemorate his demise.

The collectible has a translucent crystal look, and a dagger in his chest. He was all smug in his assumption that Bran was about to die at his hands when BOOM, Arya you bastard you. Being an assassin, she can kill people even when hanging in the air. Dagger in the chest, and just like that the war against the dead is over. Anticlimactic, much? Anyhow, the night king with a dagger in the chest is kind of a cool visual.

You can pre-order the Pop! figure on Entertainment Earth for $10.99. It will ship in October 2019.

Jon Snow Rides This Game of Thrones Rhaegal POP! Figure

One of the more exciting parts the final season of Game of Thrones so far has been Jon Snow riding on a dragon. Before you get mad about spoilers just realize, the name of this toy itself is a spoiler, so don’t blame me. You literally have to stay off the internet if you aren’t caught up.

The Funko POP! figure has Snow mounted up on Rhaegal, complete with a frowny face. I assume the frown is because the dragon has lots of stabby bits, and is really hard to hang onto. Though death from falling off a dragon might be better than joining the zombie army.

The figure is up for preorder at Entertainment Earth right now for $29.99. It will ship starting this November.

Funko POP! Office Space Action Figures Need You to Come in Saturday

Office Space was a fantastic flick. I particularly loved the scene where they beat the stuffing out of the hated laser printer that always says PC LOAD LETTER. Now, Funko has immortalized the main characters of Mike Judge’s classic comedy with their own POP! vinyl figures.

The Bill Lumbergh figure will ask you to work the weekend and wants his TPS reports right now. The Milton Waddams action figure wants his red stapler back, or he will burn the place down.

The Peter Gibbons action figure hasn’t really been missing work. All three figures are available from ThinkGeek for $12.99 each.

Funko POP! Sting Won’t Stand So Close to You

If you ever turned on MTV in the 1980s when all it played was music, you are guaranteed to have seen a video of one of the many popular songs from The Police. The band actually had three members, but with the lead singer going by the name “Sting,” he’s the only one most of us remember.

Fans of Sting and/or The Police will want to check out the upcoming Funko POP! version of the musician. While we haven’t seen the final design, the rendering captures his look from the era quite well.

If you want to get the entire band together, Funko will make that happen. Drummer Stweart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers are also available in collectible form. Each of the three figures sells for $10.99, and will ship starting this July.

KFC Colonel Sanders Funko Pop Comes with a Bucket of Chicken

As a child of the ’80s, I fondly remember Colonel Sanders – the real one, not this new actor every other commercial weirdness KFC is up to these days. All the real Sanders wanted you to do was come to eat some chicken made from his secret family recipe of 11 herbs and spices.

This Funko Pop figure of the classic Colonel Sanders has his glasses from the old commercials and carries a little plastic bucket of fried chicken. Original recipe, not extra crispy.

 

The figure is officially-licensed KFC merchandise, and ThinkGeek will sell you tiny Sanders for $12.99. While you contemplate your purchase, here’s a commercial to stoke that ’80s nostalgia and verify this is the old Sanders, not that creepy new one.