Monoconan what happened to all 500??

Postby **pop-inandout-9** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:14 pm

Hahaha yes it was more than just a fiasco. Felt bad for the employees handing them out, prob traumatized

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.

Postby **kdmlvr** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:34 pm

I am still missing this one

Postby **froyomorada** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:37 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:
jeffcrazy wrote:I just randomly came across this thread, and although it's obviously too late to help for MonoConan, this tidbit might help somebody next year - I had heard the surefire way to get something that #TeamCoCo was handing out on the streets was to literally stalk the giveaway cart. People waited by Spreckles in the morning for the giveaway crew to walk out and would just follow them around until they started handing stuff out.

People didn't figure that out until Thursday and then that's what led to the craziness and cancellation on Friday. Odds are, they will not be doing this format for giveaways next year. Seems like the gofooji thing worked the best, but it has few kinks to work out.

Shalee04 wrote:
The lady with the baby didn't get knocked down and kicked. She was in th middle of it all am doing things were getting scary. This mother should NOT have put her baby in this situation.

Wholeheartedly agree! The worst thing is if she was trying to use her kid to get an extra for herself. It was great meeting you and Wes in all this insanity though!

I agree with gofooji might work out best but they need to plan this better - we waited for almost 4 hours just for our pops came to us lol

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I think they'd just better do a twitter giveway - either gofooji or some lottery instead of just handing them out in the street.

Postby **deejaylunchbox** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:47 pm

Still a little bummed about missing this one. I legit was standing under that tree where they handed them out on Friday for over a few hours, but when my boy and his girl finally arrived we took off to lunch. When i seen the IG video about an hour later I was just dead.

Oh well.

Postby **TakeMeToTheRiot** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:37 pm

Gosh there aren't even any on eBay anymore at this point. Starting to doubt I'll ever own this one and will forever have an incomplete Conan set!

Postby **Indy Viper** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:50 pm

ocwankenobi wrote:I would respectfully disagree. I think Conan wouldn't mind any publicity. Have you seen what he did in Mexico. Yikes.

That being said I wasn't there. But I would like to know if that woman went away from the the crowd with the kid or towards. That changes everything.

What happened in Mexico?!

Postby **Krazydave2000** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:26 pm

I heard they were all set on fire!!!! Luckily I have mine!!

Postby **Jalapenopete** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:36 pm

desertdogg wrote:while I did not get any I somehow fear the rest will wind up going to some 3rd world country as toys for kids.

man that would really suck

Postby **Jalapenopete** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:37 pm

Krazydave2000 wrote:I heard they were all set on fire!!!! Luckily I have mine!!

one of the lucky few

Postby **Vteck** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:09 am

Where did 200 come from?

Postby **Funko PHOnatic** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:18 am

200 seems like a really low number, I would have guessed more were given out during SDCC week

Postby **likquidpopx** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:59 am

Vteck wrote:Where did 200 come from?

Not sure how true this is, but I read they only passed out 200 and a couple last day of the con they didn't because it started getting hectic. I definitely saw some being passed out at Fun Days but don't think 500 were all passed out.

And if they were, they were prob to people that didnt know what Funko is because it's been pretty tough to find this one...

Postby **ocwankenobi** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:16 am

Indy Viper wrote:
ocwankenobi wrote:I would respectfully disagree. I think Conan wouldn't mind any publicity. Have you seen what he did in Mexico. Yikes.

What happened in Mexico?!

he did a show in mexico. and one of his bits was walking around the city asking for donations to help build the wall. it was hilarious and crazy. some shaking of the heads. a middle finger. he offered to engrave the person's name on the brick if he donated enough money to build the wall. i know it's not comparing the exact same things. but the guy (who i like a lot) wouldn't mind having happen anything that gets viewers or people talking.

politically crazy and inappropriate in another country or people going crazy for his toys. i think his humor has no boundaries like his blasting of video games with the creators watching him in the room next to it. i think he would love to know and have people going crazy over a figure with his likeness.

this is all just conjecture from me.

:freddy1:

Postby **cmasicampo** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:36 am

I caught up to one of the carts on Sunday hoping that they would hand them out, received a shirt instead. Pretty big fan of Conan so I was happy I got something, but the MonoConan would have been great.

:freddy3:

Postby **XSRK** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:56 am

ImranC23 wrote: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.

They definitely need to go back to the Grand Hyatt, that was the best and safest distribution of Conan PoPs, I was also said that they didn't have a conan booth on the floor this year either.

Postby **BigPhilV88** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:43 pm

I hope they go back to Hyatt too. It was very well organized. I spent way to much time at the shows this year, just so I could try and complete my set. With the Hyatt, at least you know right away, early in the morning that you have it or you don't.

Postby **Batcavehero24** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:49 pm

I finally got my Mono via trade, definitely difficult to find out there

Postby **Vteck** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:48 pm

likquidpopx wrote:
Vteck wrote:Where did 200 come from?

Not sure how true this is, but I read they only passed out 200 and a couple last day of the con they didn't because it started getting hectic. I definitely saw some being passed out at Fun Days but don't think 500 were all passed out.

And if they were, they were prob to people that didnt know what Funko is because it's been pretty tough to find this one...

I see but I still don't get how someone can come up with a random number like that lol

, I do know that it did start getting a bit crazier on the weekend when they were handing them out

Postby **profb** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:26 pm

People were being so disrespectful and greedy. I wouldn't be surprised if they were like f this and just canceled trying to give them to people after Thursday.

Postby **PHUN_CO** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:22 pm

We didn't get the mono while out there but did run into Team Coco guys giving away free tees!

Postby **mel** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:42 pm

I think it would be AWESOME if they sent them to poor kids in a third world country. Especially after the way people acted. Poor kids being given a toy deserve and appreciate it far more than anyone else.

Postby **Westlos420** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:11 am

It sucked because i didn't get in to town till friday so i never even get a chance to get one.

Postby **Jalapenopete** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:48 am

2017fanatic wrote: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.

at the end of the day that makes logical sense so that means less people will be parting with them unless they don't know what they really have

Postby **Dk123** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 2:58 am

I do hope the remaining ones surface soon...I still don't have one and it's the only one I'm still missing!

Postby **strezz_dout** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:31 pm

My package showed up today with my Mono Conan and I was surprised to see an open box on my front porch. I'm glad it arrived safe.

Postby **littodeb** » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:04 pm

Westlos420 wrote:It sucked because i didn't get in to town till friday so i never even get a chance to get one.

MonoConan was being passed out at "random" times each day.
So they had one Sat - and someone dropped their baby.
And they didn't show up on Sunday.
I think they didn't want to risk the horror. Lol

Postby **Nemesis989** » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:56 pm

MonoConan doesn't exist (that's what I have to keep telling myself)
In fact, neither do tickets for any of this year's SDCC tapings!

Postby **KidMarvel** » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:09 pm

littodeb wrote:
Westlos420 wrote:It sucked because i didn't get in to town till friday so i never even get a chance to get one.

MonoConan was being passed out at "random" times each day.
So they had one Sat - and someone dropped their baby.
And they didn't show up on Sunday.
I think they didn't want to risk the horror. Lol

I hope the baby is fine :/

Postby **Random_sum1** » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:16 pm

mglowe wrote:Hi! I'm selling my monoconan from last years SDCC on ebay rn if anyone is interested

I sent u a message mglowe

Postby **runtodere** » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:42 pm

Dk123 wrote:I do hope the remaining ones surface soon...I still don't have one and it's the only one I'm still missing!

But I have a bad feeling that I'm going to miss several this year. Ugh No tickets to the tapings

Postby **littodeb** » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:43 pm

KidMarvel wrote:
littodeb wrote:
Westlos420 wrote:It sucked because i didn't get in to town till friday so i never even get a chance to get one.

MonoConan was being passed out at "random" times each day.
So they had one Sat - and someone dropped their baby.
And they didn't show up on Sunday.
I think they didn't want to risk the horror. Lol

I hope the baby is fine :/

Isn't it crazy? I mean... I was there Friday.
The "later" crowd rushed over like the zombies from Walking Dead.

Postby **Nemesis989** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:45 am

littodeb wrote:
KidMarvel wrote:
littodeb wrote:
MonoConan was being passed out at "random" times each day.
So they had one Sat - and someone dropped their baby.
And they didn't show up on Sunday.
I think they didn't want to risk the horror. Lol

I hope the baby is fine :/

Isn't it crazy? I mean... I was there Friday.
The "later" crowd rushed over like the zombies from Walking Dead.

I was around on Thursday and saw people walking aimlessly around with them. I guess they just casually handed them out to anyone walking by

Postby **2017fanatic** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 1:47 pm

Mono conan was to be included in the IG contest giveaway

Postby **CaseyJones14** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 1:48 pm

I love how this thread got bumped because some guy wanted to sell his :rolleyes:

Postby **drehill** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 2:41 pm

CaseyJones14 wrote:I love how this thread got bumped because some guy wanted to sell his

Let's bid it up and not pay :devil:

Postby **theraven00** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 3:21 pm

CaseyJones14 wrote:I love how this thread got bumped because some guy wanted to sell his

I see the post offering $1 million for it was removed, along with my joke about paying with $2 bills.

I'm just glad I have the complete set, for now at least. Not sure how I'll have one by the end of the year with all the ones coming out (Gamestop isn't too bad at least).

Postby **KidMarvel** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:50 pm

Nemesis989 wrote:
littodeb wrote:
KidMarvel wrote:
I hope the baby is fine :/

Isn't it crazy? I mean... I was there Friday.
The "later" crowd rushed over like the zombies from Walking Dead.

I was around on Thursday and saw people walking aimlessly around with them. I guess they just casually handed them out to anyone walking by

Wonder if those people realise now what they have or had (praying no one just chucked it away in the trash)

Postby **matrixman9** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:52 pm

I wonder if there will be a new special Conan for this year. Team coco just put up some side event tickets on event brite and said first 50 people get a special giveaway

Postby **Vteck** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:55 pm

From what i know people were almost trampled bcuz of the commotion it caused while they were passing them out, I dont even think they passed them out due to that.

Postby **matrixman9** » Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:43 pm

Vteck wrote:From what i know people were almost trampled bcuz of the commotion it caused while they were passing them out, I dont even think they passed them out due to that.

I remember reading about that. Something about a lady and a baby being swarmed by a crowd of people when they started passing them out

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