It seems like Funko pops shouldn’t have stood a chance in a space so thoroughly saturated with collectible plastic characters from any franchise imaginable. And there was candy involved.

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    2 months ago

    Pez was historically unwilling to make disoensers featuring real people. I believe the Elvis Pressley dispenser released 10-15 years ago was the first. many others featuring IRL are fakes as you used to be able to find KISS ones on Ebay that Pez never made.

    Funko was more willing to recreate people.

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    2 months ago

    I haven’t seen it here in the comments, so I’ll be a total curmudgeon and say it: fuck Pez. I hope it dies out. Shitty tasting candy dispensed from a shitty dispenser. Even as a kid I was disappointed. Plus, it’s just more needless plastic garbage that ends up in landfills for almost no reason at all

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    Saw them at Christmas in Denmark. I haven’t seen them in almost 30 years, so I was tempted to buy them, but I still remember the candy being bad so I passed.

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    I feel like there’s some article here I’m not seeing here.

    Pez never went anywhere. The thing is though, I just looked at my pez the other week. The ones still on sale (as of a few months ago when I bought these) contain red dye #3.

    That shit’ll give ya cancer.

    So those pez will just never be opened.