Awkward moment when all the POC characters are left out of a toy line

[orangerful]

I know this wasn't intentional. I know it was not done with malice, I'm sure it was all about market research and which characters they thought would sell the most...

BUT

Check out the Parks & Recreation Funko Pop line up

Notice anyone missing? Like Tom...Ann...Donna...

I mean, I know they only do sets of a few people at once (I'm STILL waiting for the rest of the Buffy and Firefly characters!) but to opt to do a Bert Macklin and Little Sebastian POP rather than another main characters feels weird, even more so since they were persons of color and all the Pops are white people (and a horse...a tiny tiny horse...)



I'm not accusing them of doing this on purpose...but wow. And when I think of how many shows actually *get* their second set of figures to fill out the entire cast...I worry that we will never see a little Tom Haverford with Funko POP swagger.

Comments

[dancingdragon3]

No, that is ridiculous. Ann was the secondary main character for most of the series for goodness sake! And Tom was hysterical, not to mention Aziz having his own show now. I don't even want to click to see which minor characters they included, if they left all three of them out :-/

[orangerful]

They have Pops of Leslie, Ron, Andy, April and...Lil' Sebastian.