This is A Thing That Is Happening:
Transformers x Funko Pop NFTs. Hasbro fucking went there. Well, technically, they went there a hell of a lot earlier with a Power Rangers NFT but now they’ve signed off on this bullshit.
You have to buy digital “packs” and hope you score one that can be redeemed for an actual physical figure. But it gets worse the more you look at it.
There are other characters as well. I just grabbed a few screenshots since I didn’t want to link to the actual site.
Notice anything? Like the odds of getting one of these figures? Yeah, it’s little more than a damned lottery and that’s not the worst of it.
Radio Free Cybertron covered this debacle and already numbers have been crunched regarding the NFTs themselves: the energy used on these things? It’s the average amount of four thousand homes. Over the course of a year.
Reread that. Multiple times if you have to, but reread it until you realize just how bad this bullshit is for the fucking environment. Because NFTs are a goddamn disaster for our planet. But that’s not even the worst part.
As brought up on RFC, these things are going to sell out. Not because of the Transformers collectors but because of the Funko Pop collectors. But Hasbro isn’t going to see that. Nope. They’ll just see the dollar signs and think that they can shit some more of these things out and that the collectors will eat them up.
I don’t like this. Not one damn bit. This is literally digital Beanie Babies and when the bubble bursts it’s not going to be pretty. Hell, we’re seeing that with cryptocurrency currently.
Honestly, the bubble can’t pop fast enough. Me? I want zero to do with this bullshit. Like literally zero. If I can pick up the Bumblebee second hand at a BotCon, I’ll call it good. But fuck the entire concept of NFTs. At least with Beanie Babies, you had something you could hold in your hands. This? It’s about as real as an invisible dragon.
Iacon East 