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Post by bananasmom on Dec 17, 2016 14:51:19 GMT -5
Have you found any of the four I'm missing or Glitter Queen and Cosmic Queen? I haven't seen them in videos or on ebay, so I was wondering if the full set is even out yet. I saw a photo on Instagram from @justinryler with Sis Swing in it. Other then her though... I have not seen anyone get Teacher's Pet, Leading Baby, Rocker or those two glitters. Seems odd that it would just be five out of the set that aren't out yet, but it kinda looks like it... ?
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Post by venivididolli on Dec 17, 2016 15:07:59 GMT -5
She could have come from the display if he managed to get that. Hmm!
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Post by bananasmom on Dec 17, 2016 15:25:19 GMT -5
So my mom is a bit prone to addiction when it comes to blind stuff. I have way too many Gift'ems and Yowies thanks to that! Well, now I've got 16 LOL Surprises, too! We got 4 the first time, then she brought me 6 (I'd told her 3) after work. We had such fun opening the 6 that she ran back to the store before they closed and bought another 6. It's expensive, but I figure this first batch is the best way of avoiding getting double after double, so maybe we'll get a few more tomorrow and then I'll just swap or buy whoever's left that I need. Once a new case of 36 is put out, you could be buying doubles all over again! We did pretty well. Out of 16 balls, we only got 3 doubles: 2 Super B.B. and 1 Merbaby. I've got 1 Super on ebay, but I'm leaving my others off until I finish buying blind. Then I'll just put all the doubles up together. So if anyone wants any, let me know. We did get one glitter: Crystal Queen! No little tiny babies. I wonder what comes with those and what color ball they're in. The glitters seem to be in golden balls. I'm having trouble posting a pic, so here's a link to my shot of all 13: www.flickr.com/photos/venivididolli/31547340392/I was also going to mention to you about this picture... I noticed your MC Swag's hat says "Baby" on it, and ours says "Biggie" ... kinda interesting variant thingy. No idea if one is more rare than the other.
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Post by venivididolli on Dec 17, 2016 15:33:20 GMT -5
For me, the one that came with her says "Baby" and the one that came with Lil MC says "Biggie." I wonder if there are multiple words! You can't see what she's supposed to have in the art because she wears it backwards. I like to see the word, so mine has hers forwards. She's wearing the Biggie hat right now.
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Post by bananasmom on Dec 20, 2016 18:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2016 18:30:43 GMT -5
so they're a blind box toy, and they're like, babies... well, def not my kinda thing. I don't like how their faces look and I don't like blind box/bag toys. that first one in the unboxing video has cute hair tho.
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Post by venivididolli on Dec 22, 2016 0:54:55 GMT -5
Well, they've certainly put a smile on my face and kept my spirits up during the rough week I've had. I lucked into getting Sis Swing on ebay still in the display portion. I don't think she's available anywhere else. I wrote MGAE and asked about the missing characters, but I haven't gotten a response.
They sold out on TRU.com, too, even at $2 over Target's price and with a limit of 2 per customer! These and Hatchimals seem to be the it toy for the season.
I'm impatiently waiting for more people to list their doubles and whatnot after Christmas. I need to at least grab Queen Bee, although I wish someone would list the ones I still need!
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Post by bananasmom on Dec 25, 2016 15:19:37 GMT -5
Happy holidays, all! I wanted to leave a quick note here to let you guys know that Sis Swing CAN in fact be opened from a surprise ball - she's not just in the Target display. We know because she was one of the ones Banana opened for Christmas today. She would have come from one of the smaller assortment boxes that were shipped to Toys R Us stores... http://instagram.com/p/BOc_pp2j7Ci
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Post by venivididolli on Dec 26, 2016 1:35:16 GMT -5
Interesting! Does she have a normal body or the pink painted suit like the display doll?
I wonder if different stores got different assortments. I'm still hoping someone puts the 3 I need on ebay. I'm desperate for Rocker and Teacher's Pet.
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Post by Wardah on Dec 26, 2016 6:48:53 GMT -5
Also has anyone found Lil Cheer Captain and Lil Center Stage yet? I bet those two come in the same ball like Lil MC Swag and Lil Roller Sk8ter.
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Post by bananasmom on Dec 26, 2016 6:52:25 GMT -5
Interesting! Does she have a normal body or the pink painted suit like the display doll? I wonder if different stores got different assortments. I'm still hoping someone puts the 3 I need on ebay. I'm desperate for Rocker and Teacher's Pet. Sis Swing does NOT come with the little pink swim suit on when you get her out of the regular surprise ball. So that is probably unique to the display dolls. Maybe the Toys R Us assortment has Rocker, Teacher's Pet and/or Leading Baby too, since Sis Swing was in there. But I haven't seen anyone post pics/videos of them yet...
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Post by bananasmom on Dec 26, 2016 6:55:52 GMT -5
Also has anyone found Lil Cheer Captain and Lil Center Stage yet? I bet those two come in the same ball like Lil MC Swag and Lil Roller Sk8ter. We haven't gotten any of the little babies yet. And I haven't seen anyone post pics/videos of the other two, but yeah... they probably will come together in a ball like Lil MC Swag and Lil Sk8ter.
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Post by bananasmom on Dec 28, 2016 23:02:25 GMT -5
Just wanted to show you guys... it looks like the second Royal High-née we opened up today had some major differences from our first one... http://instagr.am/p/BOkHINODl5a
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Post by venivididolli on Dec 28, 2016 23:47:09 GMT -5
Interesting! Mine is the blue-eyed one, so your first one is a bigger surprise to me.
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Post by darcysmom on Jan 3, 2017 14:08:49 GMT -5
We've only opened a few so far but have a bunch set aside to give her later... We opened a duplicate Fresh & the little clues were different! So, are the clues just totally random or maybe ours was messed up. We had gotten a lemon cat clue like Banana did in the video but we also had a different one the next time. So far, we have Hoops MVP, 2x Fresh & LiL MC Swag & Lil Roller Sk8er (came together). She's really wanting a glitter one - Crystal Queen is at the top of her list... so hopefully she's in one of the balls! They're starting to appear in more places but the 3 closest to me are still 0! We stopped by a couple Targets near my parents' place & even though it showed stock on Brickseek 34/35, they were still in the back & hadn't been unloaded yet
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Post by venivididolli on Jan 29, 2017 0:31:34 GMT -5
FINALLY some news on the missing characters! The official LOL Instagram posted that Rocker, Teacher's Pet, Leading Baby, Cosmic Queen, Glitter Queen and the tiny Cheer and Center Stage babies will be out around Easter in a new style of packaging, so we won't have to keep buying the old style balls wondering if the new ones are out yet.
On one hand, I love this because now we finally have some info and I won't have to buy any more doubles.
On the other hand, if this was planned, it was very poorly planned, because whatever's advertised in the pamphlet should all be available. I don't like this new trend of releasing half a line. Just release however many, put only those in the book, and make the other ones the next series. The only way I'm okay with it is if there's some clear distinction. Like all the first series Monster High minis are in the same packaging, but they have very different codes on there, so you can tell which figure is which.
I'm not positive this was intentional though, because 3 regular figures, 2 glitter ones and 1 little baby pair is an odd number to be left out.
Whichever way, I'm glad it's going to be easy to tell these apart from the first set.
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Post by Wardah on Jan 29, 2017 2:33:32 GMT -5
On the other hand, if this was planned, it was very poorly planned, because whatever's advertised in the pamphlet should all be available. I don't like this new trend of releasing half a line. Just release however many, put only those in the book, and make the other ones the next series. The only way I'm okay with it is if there's some clear distinction. Like all the first series Monster High minis are in the same packaging, but they have very different codes on there, so you can tell which figure is which. I'm not positive this was intentional though, because 3 regular figures, 2 glitter ones and 1 little baby pair is an odd number to be left out. Whichever way, I'm glad it's going to be easy to tell these apart from the first set. Moose likes to release their blind bag toys in 2 waves. It's something fans are used to by now. Moose is honestly worse about it than MGA because they use the same packaging for both waves so there's no way to know which wave is in the 2 packs. It's one of the reasons why I tend to go for the bigger packs since the visible ones will be from wave 2 if it's a wave 2 pack. I know it doesn't seem like much because there's only 28 dolls but people have gotten the same doll with different water features so I'm wondering if each one has 3 different variations. Which would make 76 since the really tiny ones don't have a water feature and they only color change. And that also would mean that the number of missing ones is 16.
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Post by bananasmom on Jan 29, 2017 9:10:28 GMT -5
We're excited for the new wave to be released! But we can understand why some customers are feeling frustrated, especially the ones who are saying they called the MGA Customer Service line and directly asked them if all of the characters had been released yet and were told yes, they had all been released. That would be a bummer for them. But for us, we had kinda figured out based on what we were getting and seeing what everyone else was getting online that it seemed like certain characters had not been released yet. So this announcement didn't come as any big shock to us. We're also pretty familiar with this release pattern, based on collecting Num Noms and Shopkins, as Wardah mentioned.
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Post by venivididolli on Jan 29, 2017 11:54:08 GMT -5
MGAE isn't Moose though, so why should we automatically expect the same pattern to come from them? Especially with the missing toys being a far lower number. Do the blind buttons and blind mini Lalas have some missing? If not, perhaps this was an error they're now making up for.
I remember from my brief time collecting Twozies that it was a pretty big chunk of the checklist that was missing. I never continued to collect, because there was no way to tell when the next series came out, except with the larger boxes. It's a poor way to handle blind bag stuff, because they lost me as a customer after that and I'm sure a lot of other people did the same. I just bought the ones I really wanted off ebay instead of shelling out for more blinds.
Just because some people are "used to" it doesn't mean it's the best way to do something, especially with customer service giving out false information. Man, I'm glad I just kept looking at ebay and didn't ask them anything. I would have been very angry.
I hope they learn from this, because they're likely getting some bad feedback right now, and the next series is all in one set. These things are expensive! People are going to run out of money and patience.
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Post by bananasmom on Jan 29, 2017 13:25:54 GMT -5
As far as I remember, the Lala Tinies blind button series usually come out with the whole series complete, and it looks like the Lala Minis Paint Cans series is that way, as well. Num Noms however, which is MGA's, does come out with different waves within the same series. So LOL is not the first time they've done this.
But you're absolutely right -- they cannot just expect that everyone knows that, or is used to it. And they should most definitely be sure that their customer service and social media folks are equipped with the proper information to answer people's questions about it very clearly and accurately. I think because LOL is priced so much higher than typical blind bag toys, it's made it all the more frustrating for people and kinda amplified the feeling that they've been taken advantage of. Yes... I do hope MGA learns from this, the importance of effective communication internally, and with their customers, seems to be a key thing to take a look at.
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Post by Wardah on Jan 29, 2017 15:08:18 GMT -5
I remember from my brief time collecting Twozies that it was a pretty big chunk of the checklist that was missing. I never continued to collect, because there was no way to tell when the next series came out, except with the larger boxes. It's a poor way to handle blind bag stuff, because they lost me as a customer after that and I'm sure a lot of other people did the same. I just bought the ones I really wanted off ebay instead of shelling out for more blinds. For stuff from Moose the larger packs are usually the way to go anyways. They are a better value for your money and usually the Special Edition ones only come in the large packs. Usually the series that only come in 2 packs like the holiday ones and the store exclusive ones tho don't come in waves. I think a lot of the reason it's kinda accepted with Moose is because full case unboxing videos on YouTube give a heads up as well as the large packs being an option. MGA would also send full cases of Num Noms to YouTubers so fans could see what came in the case. Unfortunately they only sent a few LOL Surprises to reviewers instead of full cases. MGA was smart with this newest series of Num Noms in labeling them 3.1 . Making it clear that it's not all of Series 3. But even before that they would change the packaging up so that was good. It's kinda necessary with Num Noms since some things only come in the blind packs.
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Post by arielle on Feb 18, 2017 5:29:47 GMT -5
I went back today to buy more of these, luckily no one had touched the box I picked from earlier in the week and I've managed to get some more of the characters I was missing! It does mean now though that I've got so many now that the few that I'm missing will need to come from trades and/or eBay because I'm going to be at risk from more duplicates.
I'm looking forward to seeing the next wave out in the shops as I think that little Rocker doll might be my favourite!
I've collected a lot of the Funko blind boxes in the past and the price of these are comparable and these are so much more fun to unwrap and put together.
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Post by venivididolli on Feb 23, 2017 13:17:21 GMT -5
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Post by arielle on Feb 23, 2017 13:43:52 GMT -5
It looks like the new ones are starting to appear. I saw Cosmic Queen on ebay and bid on her, but someone must have written in with a big offer, because the auction was ended early. (I hate that.) The new design looks like this: www.ebay.com/itm/LOL-Surprise-L-O-L-Dolls-Mermaid-Series-1-In-Hand-NEW-7-Layers-of-Surprise-/252784117807www.ebay.com/itm/LoL-Surprise-Doll-Balls-L-o-L-Little-Outrageous-Little-Box-Case-18-New-Mermaid-/172544771475So keep an eye out for the mermaid balls! I wonder if the whole case is the missing characters or if we'll be dealing with more repeats. I'm mostly just going to stalk ebay, because I doubt my area will get them anytime soon. They're not at Target and one Walmart still has a box of old ones, I think. I'm hoping some ebay sellers put them up with decent Buy It Nows. I've had a look on Instagram and it looks like the new packaging will cover all of the series 1 dolls minus the few they are going to be retiring so for those of us only looking for the new characters, eBay might be the best option. Has anyone had any luck asking to buy the sis swing doll that comes on the front of the big lol package? I'm wondering whether to be cheeky and ask if I can buy it off the toysrus display.
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Post by venivididolli on Feb 23, 2017 17:48:23 GMT -5
Which ones are being retired?
ETA: Oh, never mind. Saw the checklist on the website. So both glitters, the 2 babies, Super BB and Center Stage are now retired.
Why in the world didn't they just make people happy and make the whole case the ones we're missing? So many people are angry about this after being told they were all out.
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