Over the years, the Funko collectibles company has made nearly every single franchise IP into their cute little POP! Vinyl line of figures. From Superheroes to sports teams, from sitcom stars and musicians, to anime protagonists with spiky yellow hair. But for some reason, Funko never saw fit to create characters from the most important gaming franchise of all: Dead Space.
Fans of the series have been begging for Isaac Clark to be immortalized in the form of a tiny, big-headed figure for years, and you would think that the recent Remake would have been the most opportune timing to give Isaac the vinyl spotlight. Imagine a POP! Vinyl with a glow-in-the-dark helmet, plasma cutter, and a blood-soaked limited Chase variant. We can already imagine the scalpers foaming at the mouth as they prepare their $300 eBay listings.
Recently, we were so desperate to find out why Funko hadn’t already done this that we decided to go full investigative journalist. And by “investigative journalist,” we mean we sent a sad little email to Funko support asking why we can have a Reba McEntire POP! but not the Concordance Extraction Corporation’s greatest systems engineer.
Now, the obvious reason why we haven’t gotten this already is licensing. EA is famously picky about its toys, and maybe they didn’t like their cut of the deal. Or maybe they’re already planning some other Dead Space merch partnership. Or maybe Funko just calls EA every week and gets sent straight to voicemail. Whatever the reason, Funko support actually got back to us and said—politely—that while they appreciate our passion, if we want Isaac Clark and his Necromorph pals to enter Funko’s plastic pantheon, we need to go through their Figure & Product Submissions page. So, we did exactly that. And you should too.
If you want Dead Space to come to Funko’s line of POP! Vinyls, if you want Isaac Clark glaring at you from your bookshelf with a glowing visor while you sleep, then flood that submission page like it’s the Ishimura’s airlock system. Because clearly, the only thing standing between us and a vinyl Necromorph army is enough of us asking loud enough.
In other words: Funko, give us Isaac, or give us death. (But, preferably, death by Necromorph. It’s more thematic.)
