Thread by @tinymediaempire

Ok let's go thru this bullshit Funko statement because it's 11:30pm, I'm mad and extremely sober but full of double stuf oreos.

First and foremost the "taste makers" you were "obsessed" with who were "always on the pulse"? bad news, you just fired them.

The Brand Logo you tossed on top of this tonedeaf memo is not a living entity, it's not a magic rock that art directs, finds cool new artists, cultivates relationships with ongoing artists and studios, nor thinks wildly outside of the box for unique matchups of property/artist...

You fired those people. Maybe it's only a small amount of the total funko layoffs, but half of Mondo is gone including the three guys that the entire roster of "amazing artists" are loyal to because they've been going to bat for us for 15 years. Many of us owe our careers to them

Addressing/skirting the firing of Rob Mitch and Eric as a nameless "change in leadership", ignoring the specific reason people are upset, is an insult to the 15 years of work they put into growing that company. Is your clear strategy "destroy all goodwill and artist roster"?

Is this your favorite era of KISS? Just curious. Anyways...

"Most were 150 pieces or under" is a lie, or maybe you think that, once again proving you don't know shit about the company you bought. And the flipping someone at Mondo once told me was like 5-8% in reality. Either way, you're Funko: You do not have a problem with flippers...

Don't white knight yourself about flippers now when half of SDCC is marked up Funkos purchased thirty minutes earlier from your booth by the bagload.

As mentioned in my other thread, scaling up screenprinting production at "Mondo Quality" would take YEARS to be meaningful enough to double or triple production numbers. The possible output of flatstock screenprint shops in the US hit a wall 5 years ago...

Screenprinting at this level is HARD. it is a craft that takes YEARS to master. It's chemistry, it's pre-press software, it's color theory, it's fabrication, it's single pixel attention to detail, it's machine maintainence, it's weather, it's wrangling an imperfect medium...

There are printers who can tell you which certain colors require more drying time on the rack. You cannot throw money into thin air and create trade experience. All you COULD do is steal existing printers from established shops oh wait shit they all love Rob Mitch and Eric. Dang.

2X'ing the edition size 2.5X's production time, and it scales upward in a bad way. If you want runs in the thousands of every release, I hope youre prepared to buy out and manage every major screenprint shop in this country, otherwise sorry brah ain't happening.

I simply don't believe this one. Like not a lick of it. Funko stock dropped 60% in the last year, you really think shareholders are gonna watch you build a massive complex in San diego for a brand youre already burying in the desert? Come the fuck on.

Another statement I simply do not understand. WHAT are these magical mystery properties that everyone of Mondo Past was so denied? Have you met Rob? He got to do sad Peanuts merch and Judy Garland prints, HES GOOD. I checked every last lifechanging box myself. Sup @RealGDT.

You're 100% committed to providing support for everyone you didn't fire. Cool. Good for you. I'm sure they feel VERY safe and secure in their careers right now following the bloodbath you still haven't cleaned up.

This is a train wreck of a statement. Embarrassing. Every former Mondo artist read it, mourned, and clocked out for good. they're gone buddy. Good thing you still got those tastemakers you're obsessed with to find new artists to work with aww fuck wait you fired them! Darn darn!

Mondo forever.

but not your Mondo, the real one.

Good luck, Brian.