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Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:40 am

:freddy3: Morning to everyone theres speculation only 200 where given out. Any thoughts heard what happened with that huge crowd .

Maybe they hand out more on sdcc2018??

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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby CaseyJones14 » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:42 am

Conan built a fort with the rest of them. Where did people come up with the 200 number?
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Postby likquidpopx » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:01 am

I'm on the hunt for it and it's very rare to come across :/
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby Libertyroxx » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:07 am

Friends, family, crew? I seriously doubt this will be at SDCC next year. Completely different Conan Pops yes, but not this one.
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby Sarcasticguy » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:08 am

"Speculation" is a really bad thing to go off of in the Funko community.

My guess is that a ton of them were handed out to people during SDCC who don't collect too many pieces and aren't apart of a community... which happens a lot. They'll either never exchange hands or will hit the 2nd market after a few months.
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby jagpop » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:12 am

Good question. Hopefully the other 300 show up somewhere.
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby snapstar » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:24 am

If they didn’t hand out all 500 which it looks like they didn’t it would be cool if they sent them out randomly to contest winners that entered the code on his show and couldn’t be at comic con.
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby froyomorada » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:38 am

some were given to TBS employees here in Atlanta
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby Chase Variant » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:38 am

CaseyJones14 wrote:Conan built a fort with the rest of them. Where did people come up with the 200 number?


I think this was confirmed authoritatively by Mr. Rando Ebay-Sellers. ;-) lol

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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby repair-manmanmanman » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:39 am

I think they gave away at least 200 but most like between 200-300. If they had 500 and proportioned it to give out from wed-sun, then that'd be 100 per day. So they completed the giveaway on Wed and Thurs, but shut down on Friday because of the crazies. However, I also heard that on Sunday they were packing up and getting out of dodge asap, so if it was only 4 days planned then there could have been around 250 given out.

Honestly it kills me to think that they're just in some box in some office on the WB lot gathering dust. They'll prob end up sending them out as part of the online code giveaway.
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby Ryespops » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:40 am

froyomorada wrote:some were given to TBS employees here in Atlanta



Maybe they'll show up in the TBS Store inside the CNN HQ!
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby MyLittleFunkos » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:54 am

I highly doubt they'll be stashing any Monoconans for next year. If they hand out more Conans next year it'll probably be a different version. Again, all we can do is speculate. :-P
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Postby Popsweats » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:57 am

They where given to co workers and friends maybe to keep or they could've resold them. Who knows but they're not saving it for next year
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Postby Sonic77 » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:02 pm

I heard when they started giving them away during SDCC they ended early and kept most as the crowd was becoming disorderly with all the pushing and knocking people over. But I'm sure the ones that weren't given away prob did end up on desks of some employees as a giveaway, although we can always dream they give them away later O:)
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:03 pm

likquidpopx wrote:I'm on the hunt for it and it's very rare to come across :/

:freddy2: Kenneth this is Pete thanks for chiming in we r in the hunt for monoconan!!
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:08 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:I think they gave away at least 200 but most like between 200-300. If they had 500 and proportioned it to give out from wed-sun, then that'd be 100 per day. So they completed the giveaway on Wed and Thurs, but shut down on Friday because of the crazies. However, I also heard that on Sunday they were packing up and getting out of dodge asap, so if it was only 4 days planned then there could have been around 250 given out.

Honestly it kills me to think that they're just in some box in some office on the WB lot gathering dust. They'll prob end up sending them out as part of the online code giveaway.


It would kill me if that is i wonder if we could email or call his people to ask i guess it doesn't hurt thanks for chiming in, its a cool pop
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:10 pm

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froyomorada wrote:some were given to TBS employees here in Atlanta



Maybe they'll show up in the TBS Store inside the CNN HQ!


:freddy3: thats cool makes sense a perk for employees
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:13 pm

Sonic77 wrote:I heard when they started giving them away during SDCC they ended early and kept most as the crowd was becoming disorderly with all the pushing and knocking people over. But I'm sure the ones that weren't given away prob did end up on desks of some employees as a giveaway, although we can always dream they give them away later O:)


we need to find them a good home we just need to find out where they are hiding lol thanks for chiming in
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:14 pm

froyomorada wrote:some were given to TBS employees here in Atlanta


Where there any posts on sites that employees sold them out in Atlanta???
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Postby hpellot » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:19 pm

So only 300 were given out at sdcc??
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Postby emoagogo » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:22 pm

Rumor has it on the 3rd day they tried doing the handout as usual but got rushed by people. People who were there talked about it in our local FB group and said a lady with a baby got knocked down and kicked so they stopped giving away half way through and packed up. I wasn't there but a lot of my friends were, so this is a second hand story. They did not do handouts on saturday or sunday for sure though. I assume the remaining are stashed away somewhere and probably wont see the light of day.
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Postby BigPhilV88 » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:36 pm

emoagogo wrote:Rumor has it on the 3rd day they tried doing the handout as usual but got rushed by people. People who were there talked about it in our local FB group and said a lady with a baby got knocked down and kicked so they stopped giving away half way through and packed up. I wasn't there but a lot of my friends were, so this is a second hand story. They did not do handouts on saturday or sunday for sure though. I assume the remaining are stashed away somewhere and probably wont see the light of day.

there was a lady, she had a kid, and was pushed around because she was in the thick of it with all the other crazies trying to get the monoconan. I don't think she was kicked. but they did stop handing them out after this.
I'm hoping they send them out for code winners, since I happen to win one night, but i'm ok with it not in my collection.
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Postby fbingha » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:52 pm

I heard they were all buried in a landfill in New Mexico. After the fiasco trying to distribute them, they just gave up.
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Postby noobie » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:57 pm

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emoagogo wrote:Rumor has it on the 3rd day they tried doing the handout as usual but got rushed by people. People who were there talked about it in our local FB group and said a lady with a baby got knocked down and kicked so they stopped giving away half way through and packed up. I wasn't there but a lot of my friends were, so this is a second hand story. They did not do handouts on saturday or sunday for sure though. I assume the remaining are stashed away somewhere and probably wont see the light of day.

there was a lady, she had a kid, and was pushed around because she was in the thick of it with all the other crazies trying to get the monoconan. I don't think she was kicked. but they did stop handing them out after this.
I'm hoping they send them out for code winners, since I happen to win one night, but i'm ok with it not in my collection.


That's what my friend said too who was there. But he said they only handed out a few before yelling at everyone and packing up. I was in the area with him earlier but saw the crowd and knew I wouldn't be safe with my baby so I left. Turns out I was right. I thought they would hand them out the next day but not. :(

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Postby emoagogo » Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:16 pm

fbingha wrote:I heard they were all buried in a landfill in New Mexico. After the fiasco trying to distribute them, they just gave up.

We should make a documentary about digging them up and invite George R R Matin.
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Postby booboo79 » Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:17 pm

fbingha wrote:I heard they were all buried in a landfill in New Mexico. After the fiasco trying to distribute them, they just gave up.


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Postby akagalar » Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:18 pm

noobie wrote:
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emoagogo wrote:Rumor has it on the 3rd day they tried doing the handout as usual but got rushed by people. People who were there talked about it in our local FB group and said a lady with a baby got knocked down and kicked so they stopped giving away half way through and packed up. I wasn't there but a lot of my friends were, so this is a second hand story. They did not do handouts on saturday or sunday for sure though. I assume the remaining are stashed away somewhere and probably wont see the light of day.

there was a lady, she had a kid, and was pushed around because she was in the thick of it with all the other crazies trying to get the monoconan. I don't think she was kicked. but they did stop handing them out after this.
I'm hoping they send them out for code winners, since I happen to win one night, but i'm ok with it not in my collection.


That's what my friend said too who was there. But he said they only handed out a few before yelling at everyone and packing up. I was in the area with him earlier but saw the crowd and knew I wouldn't be safe with my baby so I left. Turns out I was right. I thought they would hand them out the next day but not. :(


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Postby Chase Variant » Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:24 pm

fbingha wrote:I heard they were all buried in a landfill in New Mexico. After the fiasco trying to distribute them, they just gave up.


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Postby 2017fanatic » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:11 pm

There was definitely more than 200 given, 300 might be close but I'm thinking closer to 375 were given out. I saw pics of the carts that carried all the pops. Each cart held at least 50 and they had about 2 carts per day. First 3 days went smooth, 4th day was a fiasco and they opted not to do the 5th day. I did see some get handed out to friends of staff and as mentioned above, I could see some handed out to employees as well. My guess is there are 100 not accounted for by fans at least..they may have ended up being given to employees or partnerships.
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Postby PopDaddy » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:25 pm

I didn't see any at SDCC. They were hard to come by.
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:31 pm

I would say one of the more sought after they knew it was limited to 500 which we finding out it could be more limited
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Postby coopscohen » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:37 pm

Because of all the shenanigans, I doubt they will do something so limited again unless they change the way they are given out.
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Postby mactds » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:56 pm

I hope some more will be given out to employees so they can trickle into the secondary market so that the price can come down a little :/
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Postby Jalapenopete » Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:53 pm

mactds wrote:I hope some more will be given out to employees so they can trickle into the secondary market so that the price can come down a little :/


:freddy3: i agree that would be awesome happy hunting friend
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby zaghawk » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:17 pm

Well I know a few were given at Fundays, so I'm sure there's a small allotted to Funko for contests, giveaways and stuff as well.

I have no doubts TBS has their own special allotment. I can see easily only 300/500 being given away on the streets during SDCC and the rest allocated elsewhere. I'm sure even Conan himself has maybe 20-30 friends/family members of his own he made sure to have taken care of. What about other high up executives at TBS, etc. Always gotta account for those types of things.
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Postby x56735x » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:13 pm

I was there on the crazy last day and can confirm they packed up after handing out 1 cart. I was lucky to get one though but it was rough. From what I've seen the counts are about right with what everyone else is saying and they definitely still had more to go around but chose not to. I'm guessing they are all with the TBS staff.

I'm sure they wont be doing that again next year and maybe go back to the raffle at the Hyatt; space permitting.
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Postby noobie » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:37 pm

x56735x wrote:I was there on the crazy last day and can confirm they packed up after handing out 1 cart. I was lucky to get one though but it was rough. From what I've seen the counts are about right with what everyone else is saying and they definitely still had more to go around but chose not to. I'm guessing they are all with the TBS staff.

I'm sure they wont be doing that again next year and maybe go back to the raffle at the Hyatt; space permitting.


I would love to go back to raffles. Just insert a few random golden tickets for the very limited ones. I thought it went very smooth and quickly last year and was hoping they would go back to it this year.

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Postby desertdogg » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:22 pm

while I did not get any I somehow fear the rest will wind up going to some 3rd world country as toys for kids.
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Postby Riddler3 » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:49 am

x56735x wrote:I was there on the crazy last day and can confirm they packed up after handing out 1 cart. I was lucky to get one though but it was rough. From what I've seen the counts are about right with what everyone else is saying and they definitely still had more to go around but chose not to. I'm guessing they are all with the TBS staff.

I'm sure they wont be doing that again next year and maybe go back to the raffle at the Hyatt; space permitting.


I have one as well. So that makes 498 not accounted for lmao.
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Re: Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby ImranC23 » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:44 am

they need to go back to the raffle. it becomes dangerous when you're basically handing out free $400 to people who can score a pop. that lady wasn't too smart to bring her baby and try to use it as leverage to jockey for space in the cluster eff at the back of sprenkles. I did feel bad for her and the little girl that got stepped on and nearly trampled on at the front door when the lineup went towards there.

all in all, collectors have gotta chill though. it looked like a scene out of the wlaking dead, it was nuts. probably one of the least well thought out attempts at distribution of a free item I've seen. I include myself in that. I know there were funatics there too, got to say hi to a few people.
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