Twenty-four years after the first film, Ice Age finally has its Pops. Funko is announcing five figures for January 2027, timed to the sixth movie, Ice Age: Boiling Point, in theaters February 5. The one that catches the eye is Scrat, and he's bringing his son along.
Scrat spent twenty-four years alone with his acorn
It all started with him. In 2002, before the title even appeared, a saber-toothed squirrel jammed an acorn into the ice and split an entire glacier. Scrat doesn't talk, never joins the herd and thinks about one thing only. Five films later, chasing that acorn had sent him all the way into space in Collision Course, in 2016. Apart from a brief romance with Scratte in 2009, he stayed alone the whole time, and that was the joke.
In 2022, the Disney+ shorts series Ice Age: Scrat Tales gave him a little one: Baby Scrat, who of course fights him for the acorn. The new film's teaser confirms the duo is moving to the big screen.
Funko drew the right conclusion. Scrat with Baby Scrat (Boiling Point) – Pop #2177 is a Pop! & Buddy: father and son in the same box, under the same number. The duo isn't sold separately, and that's how it should be. The same figure also comes as Scrat with Baby Scrat (Flocked), with a flocked coat, exclusive to Funko's online shop.
The herd gets back together, and Manny goes big
Funko's official descriptions all push the same idea: bring the herd together. Each listing points to the other two, and the trio is designed to line up on a shelf.
- Sid – Pop #2179: the sloth who founded the group by latching onto a mammoth who wanted nothing to do with him. John Leguizamo still voices him.
- Diego – Pop #2178: the saber-toothed tiger sent to betray the group in 2002, who switched sides before the first film was over.
- Manny – Pop #2180: the only Pop! Super of the wave, around six inches. Here the format has a reason. A mammoth at sloth size would have broken the whole scale of the trio.
The (Boiling Point) suffix, found on all four standard figures, ties the wave to the new film rather than the original.
Boiling Point, back to the lost world
The sixth film arrives after ten years away from theaters, and after Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios, the franchise's original studio, in 2021. In between, the license only survived on Disney+, with Scrat Tales and the spin-off The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild in 2022.
The teaser, released June 4, 2026, sends the herd back to the dinosaur lost world first discovered in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, this time surrounded by lava. Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo and Queen Latifah return, and Simon Pegg is back as Buck.
Our take: the flocked one, and a big absence
I'm taking the flocked Scrat, no hesitation. Flocking is often a gimmick at Funko, slapped on characters who never asked for it. On Scrat it makes sense: he's a scruffy ball of fur who spends every film getting knocked around, and the texture fits the character. And since the box holds both father and son, it's also the only exclusive this year I can justify twice while rearranging my shelf.
The real gap in this wave is Buck. The film returns to his lost world, Simon Pegg is back, and the saga's wildest one-eyed weasel gets no Pop. Neither does Ellie, even though she's been part of the herd since 2006. For a first wave that took twenty-four years, the cast is awfully tight.
All five figures are up for preorder, with release announced for January 2027, a few days ahead of the film.
