**My Thoughts on Funko's Reaction Figures**
As I opened my latest purchase from Funko's reaction figure line, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The figures are a collection of iconic characters from various movies and TV shows, including sci-fi and horror franchises. While some may see the series as a novelty item, I believe there's a certain value to these collectibles that sets them apart.
Upon closer inspection, I was struck by the attention to detail in the sculpting process. The level of craftsmanship is impressive, with intricate textures and facial expressions that bring each character to life. This is particularly evident in the Alien figure, which boasts an incredibly realistic design that's almost too good to be true. The scale of the figure is also noteworthy, as it balances well on my desk without looking too small or too large.
As a self-proclaimed collector, I've always been drawn to figures that capture the essence of their respective characters. Funko's reaction figures have definitely hit the mark in this regard, with each one offering a unique and authentic representation of its counterpart. The Alien figure is undoubtedly one of my favorites, but it's not without its flaws. For instance, some may find the design to be too scary or intense, which may deter casual fans of sci-fi. On the other hand, I believe that's part of what makes these figures so appealing – they're unapologetically bold and unsettling.
**My Collection**
As a collector, I've always been drawn to figures that complement each other in terms of design and aesthetic appeal. My current collection is quite diverse, featuring everything from classic sci-fi franchises like Terminator and Predator to more obscure titles like Gremlins. The Alien figure has easily become one of my top picks, alongside the Predator and Terminator figures. I must admit, however, that I'm not a fan of horror in general, which may explain why some characters in the series lean more towards the terrifying side.
**A Fan's Perspective**
As someone who grew up in the 80s, I've always been fascinated by the nostalgia surrounding retro pop culture. Action figures from this era were an integral part of my childhood, and I still enjoy collecting them today. It's not uncommon to see fans like myself actively seeking out rare or hard-to-find figures, often at great lengths. When it comes to reaction figures, Funko has hit a sweet spot in terms of design and quality.
In particular, I'm drawn to the level of detail that goes into each figure, from the intricate textures to the facial expressions. These are truly exceptional pieces that feel more like miniature artworks than mass-produced collectibles. Of course, as with any collector's item, there's always a risk of damage or breakage – something I learned the hard way when my Predator figure met its untimely demise at the hands of a playful breeze.
**Community Engagement**
After sharing my thoughts on Funko's reaction figures with you, it's now time to turn the tables and engage with our community. What questions do you have about these collectibles? Are there any particular characters or franchises that you're eager to see brought to life in figure form? Perhaps you've got a favorite Funko product that I haven't mentioned yet – let me know! By sharing your thoughts and experiences, we can create a vibrant conversation around the world of pop culture.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello world as many of you know i am chris pirillo and I I like action figures mostly the Star Wars stuff or really anything produced in the Star Wars universe that is plastic but every so often I see action figures that I want to collect I'm a huge fan of the classic 3.75 inch scale or three and three-quarter inch scale I couldn't tell you why apart from that was one of the first action figures that I ever fell in love with the add a driver from the empire strikes back uh so I featured a few of these a while ago before I saw enough Perillo pics again but i thought i would in a showcase some of the non Star Wars figures that I have specifically need 3.75 inch of variety if I can get it to stand perfect wow that is one predator this is part of the reaction line made by funko in conjunction with super 7 and they just announced the full color key man reaction figures that I might get because they're full color I have the power of gray scale figures but I'm not sure I'm going to get them this is a predator I've not yet open and i'm going to open right now because there are many predators in fact there are two other predators that I don't have they were exclusives and I'm like I'm not sure if I wanted to get it so I I see these at retail for about how much about sorry it's it's going in and out of focus because I didn't put the predator in the middle let's let's try standing the predator in the middle there we go well that you know I should just learn not to touch things gonna set them down this is the Invisible Predator there are a couple of others you could get him normally for like ten bucks but I usually wait for the reaction figures for them to go on sale so I picked these up many of them on half off and i think the initial hall was a vlog i got away from my desk and and went outside and there was a toy store that was closing and i ended up getting most if not all these it's half off you can get them online most if not all of them for a pretty steep discount okay you know what I don't know if I'm going to be able to get this one to stand the quality okay there we go that's these not really that he's translucent this so cool I'm going to dim the brightness here there does that help that's not look cool okay let's see here I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get it to focus away from my face and on the action figure kind of cheating it back let's try it this way there we go uh so nice that's so cool you know I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of the movie I liked the movie the first predator movie I like the design of the alien and many of you know that I tend to prefer the the action figures that are the scale for one and specifically aliens robots monsters creatures speaking up they've also got the fifth element reaction figures many of them I'm not interested in human likeness is not not very interested in the way they design them were the way that action figures used to be designed even classic Star Wars figures you did they don't look realistic like if you looked at Han Solo a classic Kenner han Solo he did not look like Harrison Ford at all at all so a lot of these figures and human likenesses that does not look like Bruce Willis at all then that was intentional another reason why I happen to like monsters the only one that I wanted in this series they have not produced not know if they are going to produce even though they have I may get diva plotter Laguna but I ended up going with a mangalore though I did really want a mandar on and there's been only that I know of one statuette that that would be the the creature at the beginning of the movie and if you've not seen the movie you need to it's one of the best sci-fi movies of all time um his limbs are really loose right out of the package the quality of this this is not worth ten dollars it's not worth close to ten dollars it's worth three to five which is I think what I got it for um this I love the scopes but the quality of the figures is not not great at all and I'll be getting to that in a second just another illustration that they just did not do a fantastic job fun you know hi i would say hi action value this one even comes with a weapon sorry a little a gun that hopefully will not explode uh you know like in the movie aplomb so oh I gotta be careful there's a small part that came with one of these action figures um I I wanted the month a shoe on just because I like to design it that's the one that said I've got it ported old a life in Portland that's my best monday show on impression sorry if the mangalore is out of focus try you know I'm trying to balance this as best I can I wish I could do to to camera sheets here but doesn't work that way there we go that's a little nice nicer okay so you've seen the montage awan a little weapon here I see I never really get excited about the weapons that's it's not my thing weapons have never been my thing uh no speaking of quality I'd end up getting the Terminator and his his legs have fallen off he's really really loose it's just like this is like a this is a two to three dollar okay he's not gonna stand he doesn't stand this is worth two to three dollars i I'm sorry super 7 and fungo I'm gonna say I'm gonna be honest with you it's not great quality these things usually sit on store shelves and us you're a fan of of figures or specifically the movies in fact I would say by and large there's some clay value here but they look just as nice inside the packages are probably best kept inside the package rather than removed of course you know me I I I sometimes like opening things it's just so frail so skinny and this was a waste of two to three dollars however much I spent on it sadly the other ones not so much including alien now I do not like Haven it's too scary for me this is this is where I this is definitely where I part ways with a lot of the people OTT of fans of sci-fi I'm not a fan of horror and this it's right there on the cusp but the detail on this alien figure is us bounding this is a lot this is a beautiful action figure I love the scale I love the sculpt uh it balances well its seemingly of higher quality almost then the the other line are the other lines that I've seen or the other figures that I've tried in this particular series of collectibles but I was a fan of the sculpt and it was nailing even though I do not like any of the alien movies I know I've seen him I kind of have to right I gotta see him but they border too much on too much on not just suspense and thriller it's just scary I I don't like being scared that's not i'm not a fan of being scared at all but i ended up getting this one I think that out of all the reaction figures this is absolutely one of my favorites they also have gremlins and I remember when gremlins was released and you'll notice a lot of these if I can get him to stand unless I give him the chain saw that he comes with stripe I remember when pg-13 wasn't a rating it for the movies and the gremlins came along and then pg-13 became a thing well stripe I can get him to show there at least the top of him with his his chainsaw uh enemy he's an alien i did not get gizmo like I could get gizmo but I'm gonna wait for him to go on sale you know or at least wait a little a little while longer I don't need a gizmo I needed a stripe I need because I have all these bad guys right a mangalore predator and an alien so I needed to complete an a terminator the bad terminator and then i also got because i like the design of this particular creature even though again not a fan of horror I and this was this is the one that came with a knife that that fell it's a pretty small piece I got to be very careful especially the Jedi this is the reason she's always supervise but I always liked the the mask of the scream mask the design I just like the design of the creature and I would say this would have played quite nicely in my imagination when I was substantially younger which is one of the reasons why I like what funko and super 7 are generally doing with the reaction line trust me I can think of a few other aliens and creatures and robots that I would like to see in action figure form but have not yet seen by the way I do also have another predator so that makes my total predator action figure collection 3 okay this is usually where I knock everything down anyway so I've got the 3 i've got that the masked in the unmatched both of them are cool I don't know this ok I'm going to stop Preda dicing my action figure so that is my current array of reaction figures then I in the vine oh come on I wasn't even near you how did that happen just peanut you know Crete enough of a breeze to knock down an action figure give me a break yeah anyway uh I cannot be the only fan of nostalgia in the 80s and action figures I refuse to believe that I refuse to believe maybe I'm the only person who's bought these though that is a possibility I see him everywhere ah so I'm now ready to move on to answer some geek questions or tech questions asked by my community of patrons after that I'm going you've got bit up cinema talking about today's geek news with the patrons and I diving into that right now if you want to hear the rest of TL DR and that is about an hour long head over to Chris Pirillo dot come today's free podcast highlight was brought to you by all of my active patrons from chris pirillo com if you want access to the full TL DR episodes both audio video past present and future which can be up to an hour long or longer with even more tech insight from me every weekday plus other bonus content without ads and support me at the same time you can sign up to become one of my super noemi's to this is just a brief taste of what I'm producing for you daily again get more through chris pirillo com Ihello world as many of you know i am chris pirillo and I I like action figures mostly the Star Wars stuff or really anything produced in the Star Wars universe that is plastic but every so often I see action figures that I want to collect I'm a huge fan of the classic 3.75 inch scale or three and three-quarter inch scale I couldn't tell you why apart from that was one of the first action figures that I ever fell in love with the add a driver from the empire strikes back uh so I featured a few of these a while ago before I saw enough Perillo pics again but i thought i would in a showcase some of the non Star Wars figures that I have specifically need 3.75 inch of variety if I can get it to stand perfect wow that is one predator this is part of the reaction line made by funko in conjunction with super 7 and they just announced the full color key man reaction figures that I might get because they're full color I have the power of gray scale figures but I'm not sure I'm going to get them this is a predator I've not yet open and i'm going to open right now because there are many predators in fact there are two other predators that I don't have they were exclusives and I'm like I'm not sure if I wanted to get it so I I see these at retail for about how much about sorry it's it's going in and out of focus because I didn't put the predator in the middle let's let's try standing the predator in the middle there we go well that you know I should just learn not to touch things gonna set them down this is the Invisible Predator there are a couple of others you could get him normally for like ten bucks but I usually wait for the reaction figures for them to go on sale so I picked these up many of them on half off and i think the initial hall was a vlog i got away from my desk and and went outside and there was a toy store that was closing and i ended up getting most if not all these it's half off you can get them online most if not all of them for a pretty steep discount okay you know what I don't know if I'm going to be able to get this one to stand the quality okay there we go that's these not really that he's translucent this so cool I'm going to dim the brightness here there does that help that's not look cool okay let's see here I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get it to focus away from my face and on the action figure kind of cheating it back let's try it this way there we go uh so nice that's so cool you know I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of the movie I liked the movie the first predator movie I like the design of the alien and many of you know that I tend to prefer the the action figures that are the scale for one and specifically aliens robots monsters creatures speaking up they've also got the fifth element reaction figures many of them I'm not interested in human likeness is not not very interested in the way they design them were the way that action figures used to be designed even classic Star Wars figures you did they don't look realistic like if you looked at Han Solo a classic Kenner han Solo he did not look like Harrison Ford at all at all so a lot of these figures and human likenesses that does not look like Bruce Willis at all then that was intentional another reason why I happen to like monsters the only one that I wanted in this series they have not produced not know if they are going to produce even though they have I may get diva plotter Laguna but I ended up going with a mangalore though I did really want a mandar on and there's been only that I know of one statuette that that would be the the creature at the beginning of the movie and if you've not seen the movie you need to it's one of the best sci-fi movies of all time um his limbs are really loose right out of the package the quality of this this is not worth ten dollars it's not worth close to ten dollars it's worth three to five which is I think what I got it for um this I love the scopes but the quality of the figures is not not great at all and I'll be getting to that in a second just another illustration that they just did not do a fantastic job fun you know hi i would say hi action value this one even comes with a weapon sorry a little a gun that hopefully will not explode uh you know like in the movie aplomb so oh I gotta be careful there's a small part that came with one of these action figures um I I wanted the month a shoe on just because I like to design it that's the one that said I've got it ported old a life in Portland that's my best monday show on impression sorry if the mangalore is out of focus try you know I'm trying to balance this as best I can I wish I could do to to camera sheets here but doesn't work that way there we go that's a little nice nicer okay so you've seen the montage awan a little weapon here I see I never really get excited about the weapons that's it's not my thing weapons have never been my thing uh no speaking of quality I'd end up getting the Terminator and his his legs have fallen off he's really really loose it's just like this is like a this is a two to three dollar okay he's not gonna stand he doesn't stand this is worth two to three dollars i I'm sorry super 7 and fungo I'm gonna say I'm gonna be honest with you it's not great quality these things usually sit on store shelves and us you're a fan of of figures or specifically the movies in fact I would say by and large there's some clay value here but they look just as nice inside the packages are probably best kept inside the package rather than removed of course you know me I I I sometimes like opening things it's just so frail so skinny and this was a waste of two to three dollars however much I spent on it sadly the other ones not so much including alien now I do not like Haven it's too scary for me this is this is where I this is definitely where I part ways with a lot of the people OTT of fans of sci-fi I'm not a fan of horror and this it's right there on the cusp but the detail on this alien figure is us bounding this is a lot this is a beautiful action figure I love the scale I love the sculpt uh it balances well its seemingly of higher quality almost then the the other line are the other lines that I've seen or the other figures that I've tried in this particular series of collectibles but I was a fan of the sculpt and it was nailing even though I do not like any of the alien movies I know I've seen him I kind of have to right I gotta see him but they border too much on too much on not just suspense and thriller it's just scary I I don't like being scared that's not i'm not a fan of being scared at all but i ended up getting this one I think that out of all the reaction figures this is absolutely one of my favorites they also have gremlins and I remember when gremlins was released and you'll notice a lot of these if I can get him to stand unless I give him the chain saw that he comes with stripe I remember when pg-13 wasn't a rating it for the movies and the gremlins came along and then pg-13 became a thing well stripe I can get him to show there at least the top of him with his his chainsaw uh enemy he's an alien i did not get gizmo like I could get gizmo but I'm gonna wait for him to go on sale you know or at least wait a little a little while longer I don't need a gizmo I needed a stripe I need because I have all these bad guys right a mangalore predator and an alien so I needed to complete an a terminator the bad terminator and then i also got because i like the design of this particular creature even though again not a fan of horror I and this was this is the one that came with a knife that that fell it's a pretty small piece I got to be very careful especially the Jedi this is the reason she's always supervise but I always liked the the mask of the scream mask the design I just like the design of the creature and I would say this would have played quite nicely in my imagination when I was substantially younger which is one of the reasons why I like what funko and super 7 are generally doing with the reaction line trust me I can think of a few other aliens and creatures and robots that I would like to see in action figure form but have not yet seen by the way I do also have another predator so that makes my total predator action figure collection 3 okay this is usually where I knock everything down anyway so I've got the 3 i've got that the masked in the unmatched both of them are cool I don't know this ok I'm going to stop Preda dicing my action figure so that is my current array of reaction figures then I in the vine oh come on I wasn't even near you how did that happen just peanut you know Crete enough of a breeze to knock down an action figure give me a break yeah anyway uh I cannot be the only fan of nostalgia in the 80s and action figures I refuse to believe that I refuse to believe maybe I'm the only person who's bought these though that is a possibility I see him everywhere ah so I'm now ready to move on to answer some geek questions or tech questions asked by my community of patrons after that I'm going you've got bit up cinema talking about today's geek news with the patrons and I diving into that right now if you want to hear the rest of TL DR and that is about an hour long head over to Chris Pirillo dot come today's free podcast highlight was brought to you by all of my active patrons from chris pirillo com if you want access to the full TL DR episodes both audio video past present and future which can be up to an hour long or longer with even more tech insight from me every weekday plus other bonus content without ads and support me at the same time you can sign up to become one of my super noemi's to this is just a brief taste of what I'm producing for you daily again get more through chris pirillo com I\n"