ToyFarce News: Atari E.T. Welcomes Funko Pops As New Neighbors!

[ToyFarce]

A few days ago, it was revealed that over $30 million worth of Funko Pops would be heading to a landfill, as the company has an overabundance of inventory, and it is apparently more cost effective to just throw them away than to sell them at a discount, give them away or even recycle the plastic... a very environmentally-friendly move which had the internet baffled. Not everybody was disappointed though, as the thousands of 1982 Atari E.T. cartridges are very happy to welcome new neighbors!

"It was starting to feel a bit lonely here, so it is nice to have some fresh blood/plastic in the neighborhood!" said one of the cartridges of the worst video game of all time, which suffered the same fate as the million of Funko Pops about to be discarded in a landfill. "There's going to be a lot of variety, and we might even get E.T. Funko Pops living closeby! How exciting!" In September of 1983, Atari had a surplus of the E.T. game for Atari, and decided to bury them in a landfill in New Mexico, which became a bit of a legend over time. Perhaps in 30 years, someone will make a documentary about searching for a landfill full of Funko Pops! (Atari: Game Over was a great documentary)

More news at 11:00... Who would have thought that overflooding the market with entire walls of Funko Pops would lead to that?

[ucsf]

Well it's sad and funny at the same time. Not sure if I can express myself at this point.