{"id":15393,"date":"2017-05-18T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=15393"},"modified":"2017-05-25T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T03:17:54","slug":"comic-con-2017-funko-fundays-tickets-sold-out-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/comic-con-2017-funko-fundays-tickets-sold-out-in-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Con 2017 Funko Fundays tickets sell out within seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Funko2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Funko2017-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Funko2017-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Funko2017.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the biggest and most popular vendors at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>San Diego Comic Con<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/funko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><em>Funko<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Each year thousands of <em>Funko<\/em> fans try for tickets to purchase items at their booth as well as a shot at the elusive tickets to <em>Funko&#8217;s<\/em> annual event, <a href=\"https:\/\/funko.com\/blogs\/news\/funko-fundays-2017-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>Funko Fundays<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Funko Fundays<\/em> is\u00a0a huge party and celebration of everything <em>Funko<\/em>, for <em>Funko<\/em> fans.\u00a0There are contests, food, and amazing\u00a0giveaways with\u00a0a\u00a0number of prizes, themed <em>Freddy Funko<\/em> pops,\u00a0and more.\u00a0Everyone who attends is guaranteed to walk away with some very cool, creative,\u00a0and limited edition\u00a0<em>Funko<\/em> products. Attendees receive\u00a0a \u201c<strong><em>Box of Fun<\/em><\/strong>\u201d which includes rare and exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/funko.com\/collections\/pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong><em>Funko Pops<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, prototypes, the list goes on. Over the course of the party which includes food and drink. Funko Fanatics are also treated to exciting entertainment, dancing, singing, and sueprises.<\/p>\n<p>Every <strong><em>Fundays<\/em><\/strong> features a theme. This years is still a mystery, but the good folks at <em><strong>Funko<\/strong><\/em> teased fans with this: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>Fantastic Intergalactic Superhero Circus! A night of fun and illumination!!<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; Hmmm, what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a cool video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>San Diego Comic Con&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong><\/a> 2016 <strong><em>Funko Fundays<\/em><\/strong> which had a cool\u00a0<strong><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">W<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">i<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">l<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">l<\/span>i<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">e<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">W<\/span>o<span style=\"color: #800080;\">n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">k<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">a<\/span><\/em> <\/strong>Theme. Wow:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Funko Fundays 2016 Imagination Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFPuSe6GDGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year <em>Funko<\/em> announced they would be posting a link on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/originalfunko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Facebook<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OriginalFunko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Twitter<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> pages at 10:00 am PST on Wednesday, May 17th. There were a very limited amount of tickets available and every year these desired tickets sell out quicker and quicker.<\/p>\n<p>2017 was no different than previous years and tickets appeared to be sold out literally within a few seconds as I can personally attest to. I was refreshing <em>Funko&#8217;s Twitter<\/em> page a few minutes before 1:00 pm EST and as soon as the link went live I clicked. Within 6 or 7 seconds I was finished with my cart yet when I hit purchase, I was told the tickets were sold out \ud83d\ude41 . \u00a0I of course chose to be placed on the wait-list even though many people told me I&#8217;ll never get called. Hey, you never know unless you try I always say \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the lucky few who snagged tickets. From what I hear you will definitely have a <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong><em>FUN<\/em><\/strong><\/span> time \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Fcomic-con-2017-funko-fundays-tickets-sold-out-in-seconds%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of the biggest and most popular vendors at San Diego Comic Con is Funko. Each year thousands of Funko fans try for tickets to purchase items at their booth as well as a shot at the elusive tickets to Funko&#8217;s annual event, Funko Fundays. Funko Fundays is\u00a0a huge party and celebration of everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,9,1,10],"tags":[27,28,26,23,24],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-highlights","category-news","category-past-articles","tag-comic-con-2017","tag-fundays","tag-funko","tag-movie-prop","tag-movie-props"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15393"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15412,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393\/revisions\/15412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15393"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}