In case you have somehow avoided every child's birthday/office desk/comic book store for the last five years, Funko Pop figurines are a big deal. The stylized versions of pop culture icons turn your favorite characters into adorable little companions. It's great, I have six.
On Friday, coinciding with the 2020 London Toy Fair, Funko announced brand-new additions to their Major League Baseball Funko Pop! line of figurines, 17 brand new collectibles catering to baseball fans.
We have good news: there's now a Phillies Bryce Harper figurine, and it's amazing:
This feels like an appropriately cutesy recreation of Harper. The properly-appointed goatee, the attention to his flowing hair - it's all there.
Before now, the only Harper Funko Pop figurine that existed was his old Nationals figurine, which sported a thinner beard and a pointier mustache. This new one is better. Don't @ me.
It's interesting, too, that Funko chose to give Phillies Harper a glove stance, instead of a bat stance.
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Ostensibly to keep the figurines from feeling one-note, Funko opts for two main character models for non-pitcher-and-catcher players: a bat stance, and a glove stance. Harper, best known for his towering homers, had a bat stance with the Nationals but gets a glove stance with the Phillies, appropriate considering he posted his best dWAR since 2015 last season.
All things considered, Funko did a very good job, and I need to buy 86. For $10.99, you too can pre-order your Harper figurine ahead of the April 2020 release.
Here's a list of the newly-announced figurines:
Bryce Harper
Paul Goldschmidt
Pete Alonso
Cody Bellinger
Nolan Arenado
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Christian Yelich
Austin Meadows
Freddie Freeman
Josh Bell
Xander Bogaerts
Charlie Blackmon
Gleyber Torres
Gary Sanchez
Alex Bregman
Jacob deGrom
Corey Kluber
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