Hey, Funko Pop friends... Anyone have any advice for stubborn heads that won’t come off? I just tried to boil and de-head some Pops, and despite only having ONE stubborn head in my past adventures, I somehow ended up with 4 out of the 6 I was working with tonight that just would NOT come off. My hands are literally sore and swollen from trying, dammit. SO frustrating... and I have nothing to show for my efforts, because the two that DID pop right off didn’t go with each other, so... I got nothin’.
I finally got the heads off of two of them by peeling the whole disc out of the head (I usually just pop the posts out of the disc), but the discs are different sizes. The head opening is bigger than the body’s disc - and part of the ring just inside of the head opening ripped off as well, so there’s even less material there to glue the body disc TO and with the size difference... there is simply NO way to affix the body-with-disc to the head-without-disc. So I’m shaving off some of the posts of both bodies with a blade, in the hopes that I can re-boil the bodies and pop the discs off and switch them. IF I can get the body’s post to STAY in the head’s disc, I THINK I can securely re-attach the head’s disc back onto the head. However, given the body’s smaller size (the post is ALSO smaller, just as the disc is), I’m not sure the post will STAY in the head disc.
Eventually, I’m going to just throw this shit on a plate and drizzle glue and sprinkles on it and be like, “LOOK, IT’S ART, LEAVE ME ALONE.”
In completely related news, I actually DO hate Emma right now D: