Okay, look. I’m really kind of mad right now. Ever since hearing about these figures that are going to be coming out, I was trying not to get my hopes up? But I also just couldn’t… I couldn’t believe that a set of 8 Gravity Falls figures was going to be released, in 2016, (actually it could be 2017, I don’t know for sure), and somehow, SOMEHOW, whoever was making them would decide NOT to include Ford in the first wave.
Just… that’s impossible, right? Ford’s freaking Journal 3 is a NYTs bestseller. (Granted, I am sure these were planned before J3′s release and sales figures came in.) There is NO other merchandise of Ford at all – which only makes sense when most of the previous merchandise for the show dates back to Season 1 (or prior to NWHS anyway). Disappointing, but, okay, understandable. But you fix that if you are putting out new merchandise in 2016, right? The show’s over. THE PINES FAMILY HAS FOUR MEMBERS. THERE ARE TWO SETS OF TWINS.
How…. HOW do you decide to put the fucking rainbow-barfing gnome figure in the first wave, and NOT FORD?
Note: Some digging suggests that UCC Distributing is putting out the figures. Honest to god, I’m going to look into a way to write to them. I don’t know exactly when they are coming out. What I know about them so far is slim – that they are 2″-3″ “blind box” figures (meaning you don’t know which figure you are buying until you get the box and open it), although at some point it would be possible to buy the entire set at once. I also heard something about a possible second wave of figures? But who knows when that will happen, or IF it will happen. (A second wave could contain figures like Fiddleford, Pacifica, Gideon, etc. Why on earth you would not save that barfing gnome for the second wave, I do not know.)
Also, the same company is going to be putting out some Gravity Falls plush keychains. I don’t know what the selection on that is going to be. Now I’m just kind of worried, in a resigned way.
Ugh. I’m not being histrionic when I say that if the first wave set includes Ford, I will absolutely buy them all. And if it doesn’t, I wouldn’t buy any of them. That’s partly because… c’mon, man, FORD. And partly because I would be too irritated by the Pines Family set being incomplete.
The only possible bright spot I can still see is that the above is clearly concept art and not photos of the actual finished figures. So I guess it’s possible that’s not the final line-up for the first wave. But at this point I don’t even want to hope. 😦
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