{"id":84730,"date":"2019-02-24T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/funko_eager_to_produce_nintendo-themed_pop_figures"},"modified":"2019-02-24T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T05:30:00","slug":"funko-eager-to-produce-nintendo-themed-pop-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/24\/funko-eager-to-produce-nintendo-themed-pop-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Funko Eager To Produce Nintendo-Themed Pop Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Love them or hate them, the big-headed Funko Pop figures are seemingly here to stay. At this year’s New York Toy Fair, Newsweek<\/a> sat down with the Funko CEO Brian Mariotti to discuss the future of the company.<\/p>\n

One interesting comment made by Mariotta during the interview, was how one of Funko’s main goals is to secure the license for Nintendo’s IP.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe still have to get those Nintendo characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Funko had somewhat of a breakthrough in the past year with The Pok\u00e9mon Company, allowing it to produce a Pok\u00e9mon Funko Pop line, including a seasonal Pikachu run<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo build that relationship is super important to us. We all grew up playing Pok\u00e9mon, with so many fans around the world, it\u2019s amazing to land that license finally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mariotti believes this is just the beginning, stating how production is going to be increase this year, with the plan to make four Pok\u00e9mon Pops for each quarter.<\/p>\n

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“We’re going to ramp it up a bit with what we did last year.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do you collect Funko Pops? Would you like to see Nintendo-themed ones? Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love them or hate them, the big-headed Funko Pop figures are seemingly here to stay. At this year’s New York Toy Fair, Newsweek sat down with the Funko CEO Brian Mariotti to discuss the future of the company. One interesting comment made by Mariotta during the interview, was how one of Funko’s main goals is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}