Home Alone: Kevin Becomes Post Malone in Hilarious Funko Pop! Mashup

A fan of the film Home Alone creates a concept for a Funko Pop! figure that crosses the film’s protagonist, Kevin McCallister, with musician and rapper Post Malone. Released in 1990, Home Alone has become a staple of Christmas viewing, with the film’s popularity attributed to its main character, quotes, creativity, and score. The film has spawned five sequels, the most recent of which, Home Sweet Home Alone, was released in November 2021 on Disney+.

Home Alone follows 8-year-old Kevin as he’s accidentally left by himself by his family as they go on vacation over Christmas. While they’re gone, Kevin must fend off two burglars who believe the house to empty through a series of booby traps. The film was directed by Harry Potter director Chris Columbus and written by teen movie icon John Hughes.

On Instagram, PopVinylGuy shares his latest creation of combining a Kevin McCallister Funko Pop! with Post Malone, with the caption “Home Malone” as a mashup between the two. The figure features Malone’s facial tattoos and a red suit he would wear while performing, while also having Kevin’s blonde hair and holding the iron he uses in one of Home Alone‘s most iconic traps. It’s noted at the bottom that the figure is not a real product for sale, but simply a concept from the artist. Check it out below:

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Malone’s success in the music industry is well documented, having sold over 80 million records over his career and netting 10 Billboard Music Awards. Malone also performed “Sunflower” for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, the lead single of the film’s soundtrack, and garnered a nomination for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. His next album, Twelve Carat Toothache is set for release in 2022, with the lead single “One Right Now” coming out on November 5, 2021.

Home Alone‘s popularity is largely based on the audience’s nostalgia for the time it came out, where Malone is largely popular in the contemporary, creating an interesting juxtaposition between something popular for being nostalgic, and someone popular for being so modern. It could just be the pun of “Home Malone” was too good to pass up, but it’s interesting that pop culture can now so easily intertwine with itself from such radically different places. With over 30 years passing since its release, Home Alone remains a staple of Gen X Christmas spirit, and one of the first modern examples of nostalgia’s power to preserve. With that, perhaps the “Home Malone” Funko Pop! could find its way to shelves after all.

Source: PopVinylGuy

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