Funko Pops: These Movies Need Figures
There's a Funko Pop for everything. Well, almost everything. You can name almost anything from pop culture, and there is a collectible toy based on a character from that property.
However, once in a while, you come across something from pop culture that doesn't have a Funko Pop figure, and you'll spend a great deal of time scratching your head and wondering, "Why hasn't Funko jumped on THAT ball yet?"
So the staff of GameSpot came together to find movie properties that they love that don't, in fact, have any Funko collectibles modelled after them. Strangely enough, it was a tougher task than we thought since Funko has made Pops of almost everything. However, we still found 10 movies that deserve to have their own line of Pops. Are you listening, Funko?
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Demolition Man
In 1993, the greatest sci-fi action movie of all time, Demolition Man, came out, and if you disagree with me, you are wrong. And somehow, there are zero Pop figures for this movie. The movie takes place in the future where comically evil criminal Simon Phoenix has been unfrozen and unleashed on a utopian society, and the only way to stop him is to unfreeze the wrongfully convicted cop who put him away, John Spartan. Also, Taco Bell was the only company to survive the Franchise Wars.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Simon Phoenix in Overalls and orange shirt
- John Spartan
- SAPD Leona Huxley
- Edgar Friendly
- Dan Cortese As Piano-Playing Man In Taco Bell (Chase)
Last Action Hero
Have you ever watched a movie and wished you could magically jump inside and hang out with the characters? No, not that type of movie, you perv. I'm talking about sweet '90s action movies where the heroes never die and everything explodes. That's pretty much the plot to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Last Action Hero, where Arnie plays fictional action star Jack Slater and himself. A kid named Danny gets a magic ticket that allows him to go inside the movies he's watching.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Danny Madigan
- Jack Slater
- Ripper
- Whiskers The Cat
- Movie Premiere Arnold Schwarzenegger (Chase)
- Sylvester Stallone as The Terminator (Chase)
Con Air
What do you get when you mix a super-convoluted backstory for your imprisoned protagonist, his upcoming freedom, a bunch of other convicts, and an airplane? You get whatever Con Air was (aside from one of the greatest action movies of all time). Nicolas Cage played Cameron Poe, a prisoner with glorious hair that is about to be granted his freedom. However, he can't make it home as the plane he's on has been taken over by the inmates!
Characters That Should Appear:
- Cameron Poe
- Cameron Poe with Toy Rabbit (Chase)
- Cyrus The Virus
- Vince Larkin
- Vince Larkin in Colm Meaney's car
- Garland Greene
- Pinball (I just want a Dave Chappelle Pop)
- The Plane
Face/Off
Face/Off is a movie that taught us about the importance of eating a peach for hours.If you don't know this movie, have a seat. An FBI agent needs to take down a terrorist organization, and the only way to do that is to become one of the leaders of it, by switching faces and places with him. It is a very weird and very quotable movie.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Castor Troy
- Castor Troy with his Face Off (Chase)
- Pollux Troy
- Sean Archer
- Sean Archer's daughter with cigarette
Spaceballs
Mel Brooks is the master of a parody, and Spaceballs is one of the best movies from the latter half of Brooks' directorial work. The movie follows a starship pilot and his partner as they rescue a princess and take on a dictatorship that is controlling the air supply. It is easily the best parody of Star Wars in the history of cinema, with plenty of very recognizable characters.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Barf
- Lone Starr
- Princess Vespa
- Dot Matrix
- Yogurt
- Dark Helmet
- Pizza The Hutt
- Radar Technician (Michael Winslow Chase figure)
Phantasm
I had seen Phantasm quite a few times when I was growing up, and to be honest, I don't think I could tell you specifics about the plot of the movie. A couple of kids find a graverobber who is shrinking corpses, reanimating them, and making them into slaves, and he has these floating metallic orbs around him. His name is The Tall Man, and he turns to look at the camera a lot.
Characters That Should Appear:
- The Tall Man
- Reggie
Interview with the Vampire
The classic vampire movie kicked off a renaissance for the vampire genre as a whole, and honestly, it's still the best movie in that realm from the past 25 years. Interview with the Vampire tells the tale of a vampire named Louis who was turned by Lestat. It's a tale of love, friendship, and betrayal, and it has a bunch of undead bloodsuckers in it. The only way this could have been a better movie is if Blade popped in.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Malloy
- Louis
- Lestat
- Claudia
- Santiago
True Lies
True Lies flipped the script on the traditional spy movie. The film follows secret agent Harry Tasker, a family man who is also a spy. His family doesn't know about covert-ops job and think he's a computer salesman, but Harry's wife-and eventually his daughter--end up getting involved with a terrorist group that's planning on nuking the United States. Adding a bit of comedy to the action-packed story helped make this a classic.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Harry Tasker
- Helen Tasker
- Juno Skinner
- Simon (With his car)
The Running Man
Continuing with Arnold Schwarzenegger films, there is The Running Man, a highly-underrated '80s science fiction film. In the distant future of 2017, a man wrongfully convicted of a crime is punished by being made a contestant of a game show, which is more of a public execution survival gauntlet where he has to battle a bunch of warriors trying to kill him. It is a bizarre film, but really worth checking out, especially to see Jesse Ventura's outfit while on the game show.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Ben
- Amber
- Captain Freedom
- Buzzsaw
- Fireball
- Dynamo
Little Monsters
You may not be very familiar with the '80s classic movie Little Monsters, but you should be. Starring Fred and Ben Savage, the boys play brothers who find out there is a secret world of monsters that you can enter through portals underneath your bed--which you can only access during the night time. Brian (Fred) befriends a monster named Maurice, and the two try to save Brian's brother from the grips of the evil monster, Boy.
Characters That Should Appear:
- Brian
- Eric
- Maurice
- Snik
- Boy
- Boy's True Face (Chase)