Every Princess Gets a Mini

Funko put out Adventure Time Mystery Minis in the spring of 2014, and the roster was exactly right: Finn, his gender-swapped alternate-universe counterpart Fionna, Jake, Gunter the emperor penguin, Ice King, Marceline, BMO, Cake—and Lumpy Space Princess, who has always been my favorite and always will be. A teenage valley girl made of purple clouds, operating on pure entitlement and melodrama, too much personality for her own dimension. LSP is the spiritual center of a show that hides genuine philosophical weight inside a children’s cartoon, and I’ll hear no argument on this.

There’s a zombie Finn variant in the set too, which is a nice piece of world-building acknowledgment. Adventure Time had, by that point, built out enough internal mythology—the Mushroom War, the dead civilization, the whole post-apocalyptic premise hiding under the bright colors—that the background lore was as interesting as anything happening in the foreground. These figures are small enough to line up on a shelf and look like a strange little civilization. I wanted all of them. Still do, probably.