Yeah...I caved too. It was the SDCC Buffy that did it. Specifically, it was SMG herself holding it up in photos on her twitter feed. It actually does evoke Buffy pretty well with the cuts and bruises on her face. Plus I found out they had an exclusive Wishverse Willow that looked cool...and the Gentleman looked good...and then the regular Willow was actually pretty cute...
Luckily I was able to stop there (never liked Spike much, don't care about Oz, and I'm waiting on a vampire version of Angel.) But if they hit me with a Drusilla I might buy two. And Tara would be nice too. And Faith...
The thing is, now that I've done some research, these Funko Pop Vinyls are cooler than I orginally thought. First, they're less than 4 inches tall, which means the lack of detail isn't anywhere near as big a deal as it looks in the photos we see online. And looking at different lines, Funko does a pretty good job "evoking" the spirit of characters in many cases (and sometimes they even have mouths.) The Trek set is pretty sweet and a I picked up a few--the Kirk, Spock and Klingon especially are great. I love Michael Myers and Sam from Trick R Treat in the horror line, and I picked up a couple of Apes from the classic Planet of the Apes. And Cortana from Halo. So...I guess I have a collection of these things now, but sometimes I like stuff that isn't strictly representational. And the price on these is right--about ten bucks a pop, so not a big money commitment (unless you want to hunt down a popular figure that sold out a long time ago and is now fetching ridiculous ebay prices--no thanks.)
So yeah, I was wrong about these. You know, crow tastes pretty decent with tomato sauce and parmesian cheese melted over it...
