If there are three things I love, it’s collecting toys, Comic-Con, and Marvel Studios, which is why I jumped at this amazing opportunity to combine all three.
If you live your life ignorant, Deadpool and Wolverine Pop Yourself hits theaters this weekend and is one of the biggest Marvel movies in years, and to celebrate its opening weekend in a unique way, Funko is giving away Pop Yourself figures of one of two characters to fans at San Diego Comic-Con, a massive event on the convention floor that’s packed but also a ton of fun.
Once you get to the front of the line, a special QR code will take you to a site where you can sign in to your Funko account and choose which character you want to be: Deadpool or Wolverine. From there, you can choose a body type, skin color, hairstyle, and a few other features to make your Pop as close to you as possible. Then you pick out a few accessories, like the Comic-Con-exclusive TVA TemPads, and pay $50 each (a fee that Funko waived for press covering the experience). And you’re ready to go! A few hours later, you’ll get an email, head back to the booth, and voila: your Deadpool or Wolverine Funko Pop.
In my experience, there were some technical issues, mainly due to an unusual WiFi load, but the Funko team was great and solved the problem and made sure I got the Pop I wanted. Meanwhile, when I peeked behind the booth, it looked like a Funko Pop graveyard, with piles of cardboard boxes filled with various parts and a bunch of employees working on assembling them.
The result? Pretty good.
Good news for those people do not have What’s interesting about San Diego is that this isn’t exclusive to Comic-Con. For more information on the Pop Yourself experience and how you can do it yourself at home, check out this link.
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