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Title: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on November 07, 2021, 09:34:44 AM
So does anyone know more about theses adorable bean bag plush? I've fallen in love with them but they can be hard to find. I heard they come from an online game or something? Anyway they are cute and each box is full of unique characters! If anyone has pictures of your faves, I'd love to see!

Sometimes you find them loose and sometimes they come in blind boxes, which I think is weird. Never seen the same product with both options, before.

Here's my skeleton boy, he rode on my hat for my Halloween costume this year.

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And my store where I work just got in two boxes of holiday themed ones! Sorry for the bad pictures, I was in a rush.

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They're six dollars each (plus shipping) if anyone wants me to pick up some, but let me know asap cuz they go fast!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 07, 2021, 11:06:25 AM
Okay, I'll have to go hunting for some of these. They're pretty cute and I bet they'd make great cat toys.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: rybett on November 07, 2021, 11:34:02 AM
I found them at Spencer's.  Got the Cheshire cat like one for my daughter. 
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 06, 2021, 01:01:23 PM
Found some of the purple blind bags at Five Below!! I got Punt the pickle, Garth, Catalina, and the astronaut kitty. I don't love the pickles, but the cats are very relaxing to hold!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Bekuno on December 06, 2021, 03:33:26 PM
I saw some loose ones at a Hallmark store today! I think some of them are cute but I prefer squishmallows
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on December 06, 2021, 05:17:19 PM
Ooooo I might have to check my local Hallmark store! I saw a picture online of one that looks like Van Goh's Starry Night and I would LOVE that one.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 06, 2021, 07:35:29 PM
Ooh, Hallmark, that's a great retailer to pick these up. I was going to hunt at Barnes and Noble to see if I could find some of the holiday ones, I'll have to check there as well. I'd love to find some larger ones.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on December 06, 2021, 08:15:11 PM
We're selling a couple of the big ones at the store where I work. But they aren't cheap, they're like $20 each. Ouch! A bit rich for my blood, for the size.

I know we have the green ice cream guy, the black space one with stars for eyes, and a strawberry and a unicorn one.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 06, 2021, 08:39:49 PM
I saw some of these at my local Big Lots so that's another place to check for people looking for them.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on December 08, 2021, 08:48:32 AM
Okay usually the Pickles are not that great, I only own Cats so far, but I just found a Pickle that is covered in paint splatters and he's SO CUTE!

Also just realized the Starry Night cat only has one ear. Dunno if that's really appropriate but I laughed anyway. XD
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 08, 2021, 12:13:52 PM
Ah, that's so clever!

I had an unsuccessful hunt yesterday, looks like I'll just rely on Five Below for now.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: kingluke on December 09, 2021, 08:15:51 AM
They look like kleptocats (game for phone) plushies.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on December 11, 2021, 10:01:38 AM
We have just the regular ones at work, no holiday ones.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on December 13, 2021, 01:12:33 PM
 Noooooooooooooo my store where I work just got in a bunch of cat versus pickles little vinyl figures! In blind bags so I can't tell which is which! Oh man I got bit by the collecting bug I want them... :cry:

They're just a tiny bit smaller than the bean bag plushes and they are $5 each, not too bad! Maybe I'll buy a bunch and sell my extras...
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 13, 2021, 01:40:06 PM
I've heard of the figures by scrolling on Twitter, lol. I really wish more places had stuff for it around me!

Oops, I somehow dropped this entire wiki in my lap (https://catsvspickles.fandom.com/wiki/Cats_Vs._Pickles_Wiki). Oh no, the cats are all over the place (https://catsvspickles.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Beans).
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on December 19, 2021, 06:53:29 AM
You guys are a bunch of enablers, you know that? :P I'd been trying not to look too closely at these guys, but ever since this thread's been made I've been wanting to go and look at them... I got one last night. :P I think his name is Groovy Cat, he's a little pink disco one. So cute! I was looking at the site today and I'm impressed at how many characters they have already, so much variety! Not a fan of the pickles, but the cats are soooo cute X3
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on December 19, 2021, 08:30:54 AM
I got my first duplicate: Astro-cat! Thankfully these seem to sell well on Mercari, I'll have to post her soon. :P
You guys are a bunch of enablers, you know that? :P

:silly:
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on January 08, 2022, 01:01:43 PM
idk if anyone else in the UK is collecting these, but in case they are, just a heads up - Smyths Toys has a "buy one get one free" offer for the regular-sized plushies right now! :> Great excuse to get more kitties, hee hee.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on January 08, 2022, 01:02:35 PM
Jealous!!

My Five Below ran out of them. They have the figures, so I have a few of those now. Found them at Target, though! I got GUMBO!!!! My absolute favorite right now.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on January 08, 2022, 02:14:46 PM
Aaaaa I didn't realize there were figures too!! They must not be out here yet, I haven't seen 'em. Just looked up pics of them though and omg they're cute! I hope we get them in the UK soon.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on March 03, 2022, 06:11:11 PM
Two spinoff lines are set to come out:
http://www.instagram.com/p/CafJqz-Okzk/
Dogs vs Squirls and Kittens vs Gherkins. There's a couple of pics of DvS floating around the 'net but so far the only other pics I can find of KvG are in this (http://www.crystal-dreams.us/?p=11040) blog entry.

Can't say the dogs or squirrels are doing it for me (weird faces...), but the kittens look cute, hope we get better pics of them soon.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on March 04, 2022, 09:01:15 AM
Oh nooooo, I don't need more of these! XD

I'm glad that the franchise is evolving! I hope they continue to make the originals, though. I definitely like the cats more than the dogs and squirrels. I don't like the kittens at all, unfortunately. I don't like when they make baby animals by dressing them in human baby clothes or giving them pacifiers. The dogs are cute! I especially like when they add the fluffy ears.

Oh man that blog entry is so awesome! I definitely want the Claud Monete pretty kitty. Also I love that she refers to the big versions as "chonks". XD

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It's so hard to find specific kitties in the 'wild'... either they come in blind boxes or you have to hope to find a box of loose ones before other people have picked through it.

I think maybe ebay would be the best if you're looking for specific characters. Especially since each wave can apparently be anywhere from like 40 to 100+ characters? o.0 The odds of finding a specific one in a store would be hard!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on March 04, 2022, 09:39:07 AM
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the pacifiers either, I hope not all of the kittens have those.

I've had a devil of a time trying to find all the kitties I'm after, doesn't help that we're having a lot of distribution issues over here recently (at least toy-wise!). The waves are sort of confusingly set up too, the distribution doesn't seem to really correspond to their numbers or anything...?
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 04, 2022, 01:21:55 PM
I love the dogs and squirrels! I don't love the babies.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Moonlight_Mystery on March 04, 2022, 04:30:24 PM
I considered buying these as they were sold at the store i use to work at. But the more I looked at it the more I realized how meh the product was. I specifcally hate the sew lines on the big ones, I circled them. Plus they're at least to me expensive. ($20)

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Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on March 25, 2022, 05:26:04 PM
Yeah the production quality isn't all that great, I can see that the base color of the fabric for each cat is white, so the colors are just printed straight on the fabric (especially evident around the seams). But really, I'm not going to judge a $5 bean bag toy. XD I think the price is right for the small ones. I'm going to pass on the $20 larger sizes.

So recently I've been scouring through ebay looking for specific characters I like so I can scoop them up~ I have a growing army lol. Unfortunately they are trendy right now so ebay prices are gouging... A lot are listed at $10 - $20 each for something I would pay $5 for in store!  :sad:

It's interesting to me, I didn't realize how much variety there is for this franchise. The original size is the 4" bean bag guys. They come either in an assorted box (so you can see who you want to buy) or in blind bag style packages.

There's also "chonk" size, which is slightly bigger, 6". Chonk is actually the official name for this size, which cracks me up. XD I don't think they're available in blind bags, just in box assortments.

I got a cute ramen-themed chonk guy! Here he is with two of my little guys.

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There's also an even BIGGER size! :O I don't know what these are called, but we have a ton of them at my work. They're maybe 10"? We haven't gotten any of the original size in a while. And we never got the Chonk size (I found Ramen at Target).

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(Oh, I was just doing a google search and it seems like this size is called Jumbo.)

And there's also a "longcat" version that is like a body pillow? They're called Huggers lol. I haven't seen these in person, just pics online. They're 20" apparently.

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It's slightly annoying that some characters, like Skelecat, are available in multiple different sizes so you can get him however you like, but some characters are exclusive to the much larger sizes. (Which I'm resisting buying because I don't have a lot of room and don't want to spend $20 on each lol)


AND on top of four different sizes for the plush, we also now have vinyl figure bling bags that come with little stands. I don't think any of these are new characters, I think they're just copies of the characters from the first plush wave.

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Wow! So there's a LOT to this brand, and like we mentioned, kittens and dogs and squirrels are coming soon as well! Pretty amazing.

Along with distribution problems, another problem is that it's hard to find a place online that lists all the characters together, by wave. The official website doesn't have a full list, and even the fan wiki is still heavily under construction. I haven't been able to find one place online that lists every character there is.

But still, I think this is a really cute idea for a plush toy collection, and I am having fun searching ebay for affordable cuties.  :satisfied:
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on March 26, 2022, 05:13:22 AM
Yeah, I hope they release some of the bigger-size-only characters in bean size eventually, there's some really nice designs in the bigger sizes but I'm REALLY trying to limit myself to just the beans, I don't have room for anything larger than that! XD Plus the bigger ones just aren't as snuggly IMO, I prefer the beanies.

Haven't seen the figures over here but I'm hoping they'll show up soon, they're super cute :lovey:

I agree the price is great for what they are. A lot of toys nowadays I think are just a little bit too pricey for what you get, but a fiver for the beans is just right.

Along with distribution problems, another problem is that it's hard to find a place online that lists all the characters together, by wave. The official website doesn't have a full list, and even the fan wiki is still heavily under construction. I haven't been able to find one place online that lists every character there is.


This has REALLY been bugging me >_< I did find an official checklist on their Facebook page, but not only are some of the cats blanked out (I guess they're future releases and they want to keep them a surprise? But I still don't get why these have numbers if they're just going to release them in a totally random order anyway...), but it's still missing some of the ones that are already out! Plus there's two pictured on the side of one of the multipacks that I haven't been able to find anywhere else... Wizard of Paws and another one whose name I can't recall off the top of my head. Not sure what's up with that. I love them but I do wish it was easier to find a 100% complete list of all the characters.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 26, 2022, 01:13:02 PM
This is the best I can offer. :P It goes up to the Holiday 2021 wave. (https://catsvspickles.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Beans)

I'll be too busy with G5 to really seriously edit this going forward, oops! Maybe I can try to squeeze in a few listings here or there.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on March 26, 2022, 05:16:36 PM
Haha thank you tealeaf!

It is definitely weird that they skip around numbers so much... Maybe it means something to them, like an internal number system in the company or something. :shrug: Or maybe it's just to drive collectors batty...
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on March 26, 2022, 07:57:40 PM
I really hate the number system!! I think there's at least one cat that has two numbers depending on if you're on the site or the collectors sheet. :(
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on March 27, 2022, 04:30:39 AM
This is the best I can offer. :P It goes up to the Holiday 2021 wave. (https://catsvspickles.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Beans)

I'll be too busy with G5 to really seriously edit this going forward, oops! Maybe I can try to squeeze in a few listings here or there.

Thanks!! I can see a couple missing from there that were added to the official site recently, I'll try and add them to the wiki if I get a spare minute. (Can't commit to being a regular editor but I can jump in here and there!)

Also WHAT I had no idea they had doubled up on numbers in places?!? Ugh, I love this line but the number thing is a real trainwreck, I kinda wish they'd drop it already.

edit: Looking into updating the list now. For some reason GPS isn't on ANY of the checklists; I've got the two PDFs on the site and a big list that goes from 001 to 247 (Snowball) from their Facebook, and it's not on any. Weird. The FB checklist is missing some others that have been released, but those ARE on the other checklists, it seems to just be GPS that's totally absent. What a mess...

edit 2: Alright I updated the wiki article, that should have photos for all the beans that have been released so far now! :) There's some on the checklists that haven't been released yet, and also I couldn't find a stock photo of Snowball (I checked their Instagram and they had a pic that'd be *perfect* if it didn't have a big "SOLD OUT" scribbled all over it >_<) so he's got a broken image right now... If we can't find a stock pic of him I'll see if I can edit the promo pic of him to match the others, so we can use that temporarily.

the playset kitty images don't have transparent BGs, I'm not sure how to do that... I didn't want to mess about too much cause hopefully they'll add them to the site eventually and we can just pull the images from there.

Didn't have time tonight to write any articles, I'll see if I can find the time/motivation later but no promises, I'm not great with wikis honestly ^^;;

BTW here are the currently-unreleased beans:
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(except Snowball - he was a super limited sold-out-in-five-seconds online-only release, apparently - I put him here to remind myself he doesn't have a photo on the wiki. made this mostly for my own reference, then figured I might as well upload it)
Some of these have been released in other sizes, I'm really excited for Tie Dye to get a bean release!

These ones are blanked out on all checklists and AFAIK haven't been revealed yet:
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072, 097, 105, 109, 113, 115, 117, 119, 120, 128, 133, 135, 139, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 165, 167, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 218, 219

and also there's another cat pictured on some boxes but I haven't found a pic or reference to it online, it was called Wizard of Meow or something like that.. I'll see if I can get a pic of it next time I'm out. Very curious as to what's up with that one, it's one thing to include unreleased beans on the checklists but on the boxes too? hmm.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on March 27, 2022, 05:59:35 PM
Haha I love coming to this thread and seeing all the detective work you guys have been doing! :D Thank you for all your hard work! I would never be able to track down all this info from all the different sources and put together one big list. Oh man and this doesn't even cover all the Chonks and Jumbos and Huggers...  :drunk:

I didn't realize there's playsets, too! I went to go do a google search to check them out, so it was kinda helpful that they don't have transparent images on the wiki list, since it helped me identify which ones were playsets lol.

Apparently there's also some beans that you have to buy as a 4-pack? I've seen there's a Smarties 4-pack, a Spooky 4-pack, and a Mermaid 4-pack. Oh, and I was wrong before when I said the Chonk sizes don't come in blind bags, I've seen those on ebay. I keep adding to my knowledge of this franchise as I do more and more research! XD

La Catrina is so beautiful! I have Catalina, who looks very similar but white, so I'll have to get the black version too. They can be twins! What a pretty girl~

Snowball is interesting! I wonder why they did a limited online release, and it's just a blank white cat? Maybe it's just to get the collector community more involved. As we all know, chase figures are always trendy in these types of franchises. I'm just glad she wasn't more pretty, or I'd be bummed about missing out lol.

I'm excited for Tie Dye too! I want him in both bean shape and Chonk shape lol. He's cute!

Still holding out hope that someday we get a Vincent Van Meow in Chonk or bean shape, cuz I don't want to cave and buy the Jumbo one.... lol. Also can't wait for the Monet bean we saw from the Toy Show!


PS: Just as a reminder, I have a TON of the Jumbos at the store where I work. Seriously they're all over the store. If you want me to buy any for your collection just let me know lol.

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Oh, this is interesting, found a blog about the Snowball Situation, as she puts it lol. Good read! Seems like the company might be re-releasing Snowball in the future because they didn't anticipate everyone going ga-ga over him and want other collectors to enjoy him too.

The company made a statement that pointed out that the reason they don't have limited distribution of certain characters (i.e. chase figures) is because they want everyone to be able to enjoy CvP collecting.

https://www.crystal-dreams.us/?p=10924&
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on March 29, 2022, 03:41:02 PM
:D Np. I'd been wanting to try and scrape together a complete list anyway. Not sure if I'll be able to help out for the other sizes though, I don't know much about those... I haven't seen them around much, plus I've been trying to avoid them since I don't have space XD Haven't seen any Chonk blind bags before, that's new to me!

I think I saw someone somewhere (maybe on the CvP Reddit?) say the playsets were only sold in the UK? But I don't know if that's true or not. I really want Scoops but it's hard to justify £13 for one kitty, esp. since I'm not that bothered about the playset.

I wonder if they were just trying out the limited release thing, gauging interest etc, and that's why Snowball has such a simple design? I saw that post too, it sorta gives me the impression they didn't realize how popular he was going to be.

BTW speaking of Snowball, it was bugging me not to have a pic of him on the wiki, so I edited a stock photo of him so we can use that for now, I figured it'd be better than nothing. Hopefully if they do re-release him, we'll be able to replace it with a better pic later.

I want a Vincent Van Meow bean too XD I love that one.

I went back to The Entertainer yesterday and took pics of the 6 pack's packaging:
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The packaging for these is weird, I don't think any of these characters were actually in the pack, and a lot of them are unreleased... Some interesting stuff going on here. Candi Corn is called "Kandy Korn Kitty" here (maybe they realized what that'd abbreviate to and that's why they changed it?), and the cat-mimic pickle is called Kitty instead of Kat. interesting to see these last-minute name changes.

Sweet n Sour is either another unreleased one or maybe an early version of Lemon Squeezy?? idk, there's others that have similar designs so maybe they just haven't released her yet.

Springy Kitty has a different design here compared to the image on the blue wave checklist (the one I posted two posts up), notably this one has open eyes and the checklist image has closed eyes. Hmm. I wonder which one will actually be released.

Haven't seen Wizard of Paws or Delores anywhere, either. I've tried googling but nothing's coming up for them.. maybe two of the ones that are blanked out on the checklist? I might post this on the subreddit later and see if anyone on there knows anything.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on April 04, 2022, 01:18:41 PM
The Entertainer has the playsets at half-price (except the big one w/ GPS/Katris/Kat)! Couldn't resist snagging some of them. I hope the other playset goes on sale soon, I'm really tempted by GPS but oof that price...
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on April 22, 2022, 09:30:39 AM
I went to Target last night because a couple weeks ago I saw a few cats vs pickles floating around the stuffed animal section. Hoping they had time to restock. What did I find last night? Two boxes of c vs p, completely empty. :sad:
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on April 28, 2022, 02:57:22 PM
^ I've seen less and less boxes of the beans lately too :( My Entertainer is completely sold out of them and doesn't seem to be restocking them any time soon.

I found a box of blue wave beans in Claire's yesterday! Definitely gonna be keeping my eye out for more, although EESH I forgot how terrible their prices are... £8 rather than £4/£5 like everywhere else has them at? @__@ It says on their site they have the blind bag figures in stock too, ooooh... Haven't seen those anywhere over here yet.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on April 30, 2022, 05:38:38 AM
I have a feeling we won't see too many new boxes until the new waves hit in... August, I think it was?

Oh man, but some of the doggie beans have been showing up on ebay. LOOK HOW CUTE!

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Although I'm definitely more used to collecting kitty stuff rather than doggy stuff, I am in love with these little doggos. It's the ears! The ears are so cute! Can't wait for them to start showing up in stores.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on April 30, 2022, 08:20:12 AM
Aw, the ears really do add a lot!

Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on May 13, 2022, 10:57:16 AM
So today a customer came up to me and is like "Your computer says you have 27 cats versus pickles in stock, but we can't find them." And I assumed at first she meant the Jumbo, but she brought me over to the computer and showed me, and they were listed for $6 each, so they were definitely the little beans!

I had to apologize to her and say the computer is wrong, we haven't had any of the little beans since Christmas. I told her I collect them too and I would definitely know if we had any. (After I walked away she tried to put a "pick up in store" order  for them despite what I JUST said because customers are dumb but anyway...)

The good news is, I told the store owner that the count was off in the computer and he fixed it and put it at zero, so hopefully they'll send us more soon! No wonder they stopped sending us the little ones, because the computer thought we had like more than two boxes worth that weren't selling... :P
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on May 21, 2022, 11:00:22 AM
My plan totally worked! With the fixed computer numbers, we got four boxes of Cats Versus Pickles in this week's shipment! The bad news? They are all the same four boxes lol.

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But I'm just happy we got them! I already plundered one box and bought my faves XD
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Griffin on May 22, 2022, 01:45:38 AM
How cute! Sadly I don't think they're available here...
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 04, 2022, 11:05:33 AM
Some new kitties were shown in a livestream recently:

https://www.crystal-dreams.us/?p=11368

I love the Vegas one XD Too cute. And the sailor kitty!

There's also more photos of Kittens vs Gherkins, and a new line Bears vs Donuts! I don't care for the donuts, but the bears are cute, much better than the dogs IMO. I'm excited to see better pics of them, I didn't expect another spinoff line this soon after the last two.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 05, 2022, 08:11:49 PM
Oh wow! Those are really cute! And I didn't realize until now that all (or maybe just some?) of the Kittens versus Gerkins are actually baby forms of the adult Cat versus Pickles? That's adorable! XD I normally don't like baby things but I would probably want the baby versions of my favorite Cats, like Skele-cat and Ramen.

The Bears versus Donuts is weird... I too am surprised that they would do another spin off so soon after doing the Dogs versus Squirrls... in fact I haven't even seen the Dogs in stores yet, so maybe the Bears and Dogs are supposed to come out at the same time? Dunno...

All the new cats are lovely, tho! I SEE A POE CAT!! XD I must own him. I love Poe.

Also really love the colors on the betta Cat, and the peacock cat! I have peacock themed decore in my room so of course I need that one! The pastel colors on the snail/catepillar Cat are really attractive, too.

I swore to myself I would never buy a Pickle, only cats, but that cute pickle cuddling the baby kitten is soooooo tempting....
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 06, 2022, 01:51:12 AM
Yesss I love that pickle with the baby kitty too!! I didn't plan on getting any of the pickles but I might not be able to resist that one.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 07, 2022, 09:13:44 AM
I saw a big Starry Night cat at Hobby Lobby.  I didn't see any little ones but since that was the only one they had, maybe they were just sold out.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 08, 2022, 10:30:22 AM
I love big Starry Night Cat. XD if only he was available as a bean kitty~
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 14, 2022, 01:55:21 PM
Checklist for the next wave of beans is out!

https://www.facebook.com/catsvspickles/photos/pcb.772131877478327/772131840811664
(Hope the link works, I'm a FB noob.. woulda linked to it on Instagram but that's playing me up right now, stupid sites that force you to sign in before you can see anything >C)

I want soooo many of these!! *w* I hope they come out here soon.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 14, 2022, 08:02:18 PM
I rehosted because I hate FB links, haha.

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So many cute ones! The Jukebox one is so cute.
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Post by: Carrehz on June 15, 2022, 05:34:16 AM
Ahh thank you! I wanted to rehost 'em but I was rushing last night, I hate FB links too lol.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 15, 2022, 11:37:38 AM
Oh noooooooo just when I thought I was caught up on all the ones I really wanted. XD

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh there's a dragon!?!? Must! Get!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 16, 2022, 01:57:25 PM
Eeeee we got new fun stuff at work!!!

First up, Jumbo sized Dogs! They're very cute but at $20 I'm going to skip them. They're very fun to hug, though!

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We also got two boxes of the Chonk size, one for Cats and one for Dogs!

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I do like the Chonk size, even tho I prefer the Bean size. But the Chonks are a nice size to hold in your hand. My store is selling them for $12 which seems high... I thought I paid $8 for my Chonk from Target but I could be remembering wrong...

Anyway I'm very tempted to buy a couple but dang I hate the blind packs. I want to see what I'm buying! Unfortunately a think there are some designs that only come in the blind packs. So my choice is trying my luck or paying more on eBay...

I wish there was a code or something that would tell us what us in each bag! There's a very tiny hole in the bottom corner of each package to let air out, but the Chonks are too big and round, there's no way for me to get the Chonk close to the tiny hole to see the fur color.

I might just give in and buy a couple and resell if I don't like them.

As always if anyone wants any, I can pick them up at cost plus shipping, just let me know :)
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 17, 2022, 06:53:37 AM
Yessss I wish the blind bags had codes too!! I've tried getting the beans up to the tiny airhole to ID them, but no luck.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 17, 2022, 11:07:43 AM
I'm glad it's not just me! XD I seriously sat there for like five minutes moving it around in the bag, trying to get it to the hole. And the crinkly bags make SO much noise! My co-workers probably heard me and think I'm nuts. XD
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 22, 2022, 07:13:52 AM
Checklists for Kittens vs Gherkins have been released!

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I can't decide if I like these or not, I love the basic look of them but I hate those stupid nappies and clothes most of them are wearing!! I was excited to see a baby ver of Dagwood since he's one of my favourites, but... why are his face and tail purple...?? I don't get why they didn't just make them tiny versions of the regular cats (like baby and adult MLPs), those would've been adorable!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 22, 2022, 07:23:32 AM
I don't really love the Kittens, so I'm okay passing on them. I'm very interested in the chonks right now. I really wish there were a way to find out what group of cats are in a set of blind bags. I got a Cherry Pie dupe and it isn't selling!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 22, 2022, 07:52:27 PM
Hmm nah I'm not a fan of the kittens. They're just too busy, I guess? They all look like their dressed up or wearing a lot of accessories, which is difficult to do well on printed fabric like this. But Ramen has sort of become my favorite (I have the bean and the chonk version) so I might get the kitten too, if I see it available, just to complete the set lol.

I just took a peak on ebay and it looks like you get two kittens or gherkins in a blind pack, along with... some flat item. Maybe a blankie? The ones I saw for sale either had two gherkins, or two kittens, so you either get one or the other, not both, it looks like. They didn't have Ramen, tho. Boo.

So since my last post, I caved in and bought two of the blind bag chonks from work. I get an employee discount so at least I'm not paying $12. I got the cutie canole cat, whom I love, and sorta cute but less in love, with keyboard cat. XD

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I love both their big happy expressions. Also I'm amused by keyboard cat's name. Pretty sure it's a reference to an old infamous meme, which makes me chuckle.

I decided I didn't like the dogs enough to take a chance on a mystery chonk, but I did cave in and buy Otis from ebay. He's so adorable!! I love rubbing his soft ears.

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I don't know if it was a mistake on the part of the ebay seller, but he came with an insert for the dogs vs squirls chonks, despite the fact that he is obviously a bean, not a chonk. But in case anyone wants to see the dogs and squirls in more detail, I tried to take a better pic:

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I want Hazel and Jean Claude and Kenneth! I also sorta love Victoria (she's a doggie holding a book) and thought about getting her as a mascot to carry around at work (since I work in a bookstore) except... the book she's holding says Eat Bark Poop on it...  -_- I know it's a joke on a popular book called Eat Pray Love but... I really wish they had chosen something else. I don't want to carry around a toy that is holding a book that says Poop. Call me old, but I'm not a big fan of poop and fart humor.

But anyway, I can't find the dogs vs squirls in stores in the bean size at all, I've only seen the blind bag chonks at my work, so I think I'm going to give in and check out ebay again. It's been my best bet for buying specific characters I want. (Though I put my foot down at spending more than $10 for a little bean toy with a cat or dog face on it. XD )
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 23, 2022, 06:00:11 AM
Busy, that's a good word for it. I dunno why they went so overboard with them.

Yeah, the Facebook post said they come with blankies, I forgot to mention that before ^^; That's cool that they're not mixing in kittens and gherkins though.

Ugh that book =_= I'm not a fan of that style of "humour" either. Thanks for the photos though :3

I got Rosie and Count Catula in the mail today! I finally caved and got them off eBay. They're soooo cute, especially Rosie <3 Kinda tempted to get the Chonk of her too, but I'm trying to resist those and stick to just beans.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Kitcatepic on June 23, 2022, 08:58:06 AM
I love these my bed is pretty much infested with beans
I really want the kittens they look so cute and I didn't know they were gonna make them
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 26, 2022, 07:39:38 PM
I love these my bed is pretty much infested with beans

*giggles!* I love the phrase "infested with beans" XD This makes me want to throw all mine on my bed and roll around on them! Haha! (But the tags are still attached so that might be a bit uncomfortable lol)

Just a heads up to all, the gold bag series are starting to show up on ebay, so they'll probably be in stores soon. :) I love seeing photos on ebay but I'm holding back on bidding because of course everyone wants the new stuff so they're going for $30+ each, which is silly to pay for something that will be readily available in stores soon. :P
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Kitcatepic on June 28, 2022, 05:34:09 PM
Are the dogs available online? Also does anyone have a release date for the kittens
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Post by: Carrehz on July 01, 2022, 07:08:51 AM
Checklist for the next wave of Chonks:
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On their Instagram they posted a checklist for a limited wave of Beans, which will only be available at select stores.. Learning Express and Amazon, not sure where else. No idea if they'll make it over to the UK or other countries :s They haven't reposted it to their Facebook and I can't get onto Instagram right now, it's just yelling at me to log in and I don't have an account.

I had noticed the Gold Wave checklist skipped about 20 numbers, it looks like most of those missing CvPs are in this limited wave instead.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on July 01, 2022, 12:45:42 PM
Are the dogs available online? Also does anyone have a release date for the kittens

I've been buying the dogs on ebay. You can also get them on amazon, etc. I found an announcement for the kittens/gherkins that says this (I had to copy and paste for their corny cat puns. XD )

"Kids might be feline sad that the Kittens vs Gherkins collection won’t drop until July, but grown-ups may find it furtunate that when this collection hits store shelves, they will be available at Amazon, Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Claire’s, and Hot Topic."


Checklist for the next wave of Chonks:

Oooo since we got the first wave of Chonks at my store, I'm hoping we'll get this wave too! Although I'd be happier with the beans. :P

I haven't seen out-of-blind-bag beans or Chonks for sale in a while... I wonder if they decided to just sell future waves in blind packs, now that these guys are so insanely popular... :\ Disappointing if so, but not too surprising... It's the easiest way for companies to make money these days.


On their Instagram they posted a checklist for a limited wave of Beans, which will only be available at select stores.. Learning Express and Amazon, not sure where else. No idea if they'll make it over to the UK or other countries :s They haven't reposted it to their Facebook and I can't get onto Instagram right now, it's just yelling at me to log in and I don't have an account.

I hate Instagram so much and that is one of the reasons. They let you look at a few pages but if you open too many it'll just start randomly giving you a pop up demanding that you log in to view the page. >_< I refuse to make an account just out of principle because I hate when companies do that. Pinterest is the same way.

I did find one way around it that works some of the time. Right click on an image on their page and choose 'Open in a New Tab' and usually it lets me view the image... sigh. Such a hassle.

I went to their Instagram page when I read your message to see the image of the select wave for myself. Unfortunately I don't know how to save an image from Instagram or I would post it here... Well, here's the link, anyway!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZ4b-ZPF1n/

Looks like some of the ones from the toy fair that I really want, namely Clawed Monet and Pete, are part of this select wave. I don't want to buy a bunch of blind packs from online so I guess I'll be stalking ebay some more (I live on there these days XD Not safe for my wallet at all!)

They wrote this for the description of the pic on Instagram:

"At long last, we are able to share some exciting sneak peek news with you!

We've set aside 36 CvP beans and have created an extra Gold Wave assortment that will be released exclusively in specialty stores like Learning Express! Here's the collector sheet!

These beans will have a special 'blue stripe' at the top of the mystery bag (see attached pic)!
In addition, these beans will also be available on Amazon and the CvP store as 12-packs and 2-packs!

Only a few more weeks until Gold Wave is here!!!"
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on July 03, 2022, 11:17:56 AM
Oh I REALLY hope they don't switch to blind bag-only >_< I haven't seen anything new in ages over here, just boxes full of Chonks and the odd box here and there of shelfwarming pickle Beans (and the odd unpopular kitty, Garth the viking cat doesn't seem very popular around here). If they did swap to blind-only I'd be soooo disappointed.

For some reason I could see the Instagram post on my phone, but it refused to load up on my comp at all, just kept demanding I sign up >( Thanks for the link though - I was eventually able to get it to work on a different computer, so here's the checklist:

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I don't see any that I OMGNEED but I'm definitely tempted by some of them. I hope they're not too hard to find on eBay.
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Post by: Dragonflitter on July 11, 2022, 12:40:09 PM
Oh I REALLY hope they don't switch to blind bag-only >_< I haven't seen anything new in ages over here, just boxes full of Chonks and the odd box here and there of shelfwarming pickle Beans (and the odd unpopular kitty, Garth the viking cat doesn't seem very popular around here).

Shelfwarmer beans! XD hahaha yes! For us it's the pickles, Garth, and the cherry pie cat. We have so many multiples of each of those hanging around. It's funny that they seem to be universally unliked!

We sold the blind bag chonks pretty well. They sent us another box of each. Haven't seen any more boxes of beans, blind bag or otherwise, but they could be waiting for the gold wave to come out.

I caved and bought more puppers off eBay. XD I'll post pics when I have time for a photo shoot.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on July 11, 2022, 02:13:42 PM
omg yeah, the cherry pie kitty shelfwarms here too!! Haha it's so weird that the same ones are hanging around in different countries.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on July 15, 2022, 10:32:56 AM
New xmas beans coming this autumn (they said probably around October)! They call it the "12 Days of Bean-mas collection", I'm not sure if that means it's a 12-pack or if it's just a normal wave, it's sort of confusingly named.

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There's also a video that shows them better, I'm not sure how to link it but it's the most recent post on their Facebook/Instagram.

I love Granny Runway :silly: I need her!! And the others are all really cute too, I like these much better than the last wave of xmas CvPs.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Kitcatepic on July 15, 2022, 06:35:57 PM
Cherry pie cat is unpopular? I love cherry pie cat
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on July 17, 2022, 11:51:21 AM
Always so excited to come here and see new CvP news. XD

Christmas already!? Well at least we get plenty of notice lol

Hmm I actually like last year's better, but these are cute too! I'm not a fan of the designs so much, but the names are hilarious. Elfis. Pepper Minsticks! Granny Runway!  XD lol these are great. And if they're like last year, they won't be hard to find, which is a relief.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on August 07, 2022, 07:02:59 AM
I went into Smyths Toys last night and oh BOY they'd restocked XD They had the Gold Wave blind bags, Dogs vs Squirls blind bags + a couple of boxes (they're cuter in person than they looked in photos! but I'm still not tempted), Kittens vs Gherkins blind bags (nice that you get two in a bag... but ~£10 is really more than I'd like to pay for a surprise toy), and like three small boxes of Gold Wave beans too.

Weirdly, most (if not all?) of the beans I found were from the limited wave?? Like Nurse Kitty, Clawed Monet, etc, I thought they were meant to be only in the blue stripe bags??? The box didn't say anything about them being limited edition or anything. Haha well I'm not complaining, Nurse Kitty was one of my most-wanted from the new wave. Confusing though x)

I also found the gold wave blind bags (no open boxes) at ASDA so it looks like these are becoming a bit more widespread!!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on August 07, 2022, 09:03:28 PM
Ooooohhh lucky! Congrats on finding the golds! We haven't gotten any where I work, we still have some of the blind bag cats and dogs in Chonk size. I'm hoping they'll send us Gold Beans, but nothing yet.

I'd ask you to grab a couple for me if the shipping wouldn't be murder. XD Oh well, I'll start checking the Targets and Walmarts near me! They might have gotten them in before the store where I work.

Random story: I saw a tie-dye bean (gold wave) on ebay for $5 so I tossed in a bid, figuring I would definitely get outbid since most of the gold waves were going for $15-30. But surprise, I won the auction! So now I have a tie-dye chonk and a tie-dye bean to go with him lol.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on August 14, 2022, 06:08:57 PM
They sent us another box of blind bag blue chonks at work, but no beans. :cry: I want gold beans!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on August 15, 2022, 07:35:56 AM
I saw an empty box of golds at Walmart..
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on August 15, 2022, 11:03:01 AM
Yeah I saw one at Taget too. I would say Cats Vs. Pickles is not one of the most popular collectables, but the fans are some of the most dedicated.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: pinkkittywinks on August 17, 2022, 09:23:26 AM
I.....I...shouldn't have looked at this thread ...something else I *need* in my life!

:lmao:

Love pkw xxx
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on August 17, 2022, 01:20:21 PM
Bwa ha ha. We have converted another...
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on August 17, 2022, 01:24:30 PM
One of us! One of us! :frolic: :silly:
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on September 09, 2022, 06:59:26 PM
How are we doing lately, C vs P collectors?

I'm sad because I STILL have not seen any gold wave in my area. I've checked Target and Walmart, and I've seen nothing. :cry: And we didn't get them in the store where I work, either.

So I caved in and bought a bunch of them off ebay. ^^; I hated to pay $10-12 for each bean, but some of them are so cute, I just couldn't resist! I got the Claude Monet kitty and the peacock and the Dory fish... hmm... now that I think of it, blue is obviously my favorite color when it comes to C vs P. ^^;

I'll do a little photo shoot when they arrive! I've been seeing some new chonks appearing on ebay, too, so it seems like the gold wave chonks are out there now. Or soon will be. I just wish I could find them in stores! Hunting on ebay is fun, but for a collector, part of the thrill is the thrill of the hunt. I like going to different stores and seeing which ones I can find. It's sad when I can't find any of them anywhere local. :(
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on September 10, 2022, 06:06:51 AM
Can't wait to see the photos! :)

I've been having trouble finding open (not-blind) boxes of gold wave. Or more accurately, open boxes that aren't the exact same assortment! :/ For some reason the only ones I can find are the ones that were supposed to only be in the limited edition "blue stripe" bags, what's up with that? I thought those ones were going to be blind bag only. :what: I love CvP but gosh the distribution is confusing sometimes, lol. I can find the gold blind bags okay, but I'd rather just buy them loose off eBay than end up with a bunch of doubles.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on September 10, 2022, 10:30:42 AM
Haha I had the same thought, I saw a ton of the 'special' blue stripe ones on ebay for cheaper and I thought "I thought those were going to be hard to get or something?"

The distribution for this brand is definitely strange. I am used to companies saying "series 1" or "series 2" for their sets, especially if it's like a blind bag assortment. But this company goes with colors. Then you throw in that sometimes they're loose and sometimes they're in blind bags. And there's different sizes and some characters you can get different sizes and some are unique to a certain size. Plus each wave has like 50+ unique characters... And then they added dogs and donuts and bears (oh my!) it's all just crazy! Partly that's why I like it, but partly it's really annoying. XD
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Post by: Carrehz on September 10, 2022, 10:35:34 AM
Yeah, plus it seems like some of the characters might repeat across waves? Going off some of the eBay listings I've seen. I could be mistaken though.

It's fun in the sense that it makes the hunt for 'em exciting cause you never really know what you'll find, but at the same time, it sure is frustrating x)
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Post by: Dragonflitter on September 21, 2022, 01:31:46 PM
I promised to take some pics so here are my new babies! Also my puppers!

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One of these things is not like the other~

I adore when they mimic other animals. The peacock guy is so pretty! Clawed Monet is definitely my favorite tho. Those soft colors, yum!

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One of these things too~ hahaha

Sorry I'm not very good at taking photos. But I do love these little guys! I take them with me to lunch with friends, who regard me with fond exasperation. XD
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on September 22, 2022, 06:56:50 PM
UGH so I can't believe it but we finally got Cats vs. Pickles in our newest shipment at our store! But... not what I was hoping for.  :sad: We got the blind bag Kittens vs. Gherkins, which I'm not going to collect, and then we got a box of LAST year's Christmas beans.  :blink: I don't know why that happened! Maybe there was just extra stock from last year at the warehouses and they decided to hold them til the next holiday season.

I guess it isn't all bad, because I will buy a couple that I passed on last year (reindeer kitty!) but I've been really hoping to find gold wave beans and chonks and still no luck.  :shakefist:
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on October 14, 2022, 08:55:39 PM
Looks like CvP is doing a kickstarter for a game! It's already funded, and of course there's a lot of extra beans you can buy as add ons, both exclusive and non.

https://www.mlparena.com/projects/cepia/cats-vs-pickles-mayhem

I'm tempted to buy it just for some of the beans. But... I dunno, $30 just for the game and then extra for all the different bean sets... some of which I could probably get in the regular sets (not the game and Kickstarter exclusives, of course.)

I don't play these sort of family/party games, so if I did get it, I would just try to resell it, but... seems like a lot of work just to get some cute beans lol. Plus shipping will probably be expensive.

My favorites are the Jacky bean, the Eep Oop bean from the expansion pack (but if I get him I have to break my 'no collecting pickles, just cats' rule XD ), Black Cat Lagoon, and Dragon Kitty!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on October 15, 2022, 09:17:40 AM
I wasn't going to back the kickstarter because I don't want a game (also because there's a virtual pet site one I'd rather throw money at). I kind of just want the stickers. XD

I found the Kittens Gherkins at five below and I love that they come with stickers! My local five belows have been great at getting CVP stock in, although I've gotten a few gold waves at Walmart.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on October 16, 2022, 05:25:19 PM
I think Mr Moneybags looks nice, but I think I'll be skipping this one too.. I know I wouldn't play the game, and he's cute but idk if he's $30 + shipping (god knows how much THAT would be :lol:) and hassle of selling all the other stuff cute, you know? x)
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on October 28, 2022, 08:58:34 PM
Gah, I found three different bookstores carrying the Christmas Cats vs Pickles beans and all of them were the ones from LAST year. How annoying! Do you think they cancelled the plan to have new ones for this year, or are they just trying to get rid of the extra stock of last years before they put out the new ones?
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on October 29, 2022, 07:44:18 AM
Oh I hope it's just old stock and not that anything's been cancelled! :( I was really looking forward to the new ones, they're so much cuter than last year's batch IMO.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on November 04, 2022, 12:59:55 PM
The limited edition Snowball bean is back! (With a new tag to differentiate him from the original edition)

https://shop.catsvpickles.com/products/cats-vs-pickles-exclusive-snowball

I'd like to get him, but shipping to the UK is sooo pricey. :cry:

Still, it's nice that they're reissuing him. looks like some people on Instagram are already whinging because their toy's no longer as ~*valuable*~ :P Silly. I'm glad they changed the tag so you can tell the two editions apart, though, that's nice.

edit 06/11: UK peeps - Claire's has last year's Xmas CvPs in stock, good for if you missed them like I did :) I'm very tempted by Topper. Wish they were this year's wave though, I like them much better.

Also I may have caved and ordered a Snowball after all :P

edit 07/11: Oh duh - I'm an idiot, Claire's DOES have this year's Xmas beans in stock! I was updating the wiki last night and realized my mistake x) Went hunting for 'em today and found three, hopefully going on another hunt tomorrow. Fingers crossed I find Granny Runway :B She's my most-wanted right now.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: bladed on November 08, 2022, 10:47:10 AM
i won one of these at an arcade over the summer (looks kind of like a hot dog?) could not stop passing him around in my hands the entire evening lol :)
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Post by: Carrehz on November 14, 2022, 04:44:33 PM
I got the other Xmas 2022 beans I was after! They're soooo cute. Not too keen on buying them from Claire's since their prices are so high >_< but I'm not sure if these'll show up anywhere else here, and I'd rather buy them in person than online if I can.

UK peeps - Smyths Toys currently has ALL Chonks (including Dogs vs Squirls!) for £4.99 each! I couldn't resist and snagged Rosie ^^ Still don't plan to start collecting the Chonks if I can help it, but she's my favourite.

I asked some Qs about the line over on Reddit recently, I got some very helpful answers so I'm gonna link the thread on here, in case it'll be any help to you guys too ^^

https://reddit.com/r/CatsVsPickles/comments/yp8m4u/got_some_questions_about_cvp/

Mostly questions about distribution, batches, etc but I also found out that MORE Gold Wave CvPs have been previewed! Apparently these went up on the site briefly before being taken down, presumably these will be released later? I'll repost the pics here for y'all:

(Checklist pix in spoiler tags)
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BEANS
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Most of these we've already seen, but the last two are new!

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The top 2 lines and most of the third line are new here. omg I NEED Catascope!!! I really want Aurora too. (or - Celesticat? I think they switched the names of those two, lol. The starry one.)

CHONKS
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(Not sure which of these are new since I don't really keep up with the other sizes)
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Kitcatepic on November 20, 2022, 12:23:57 PM

Still, it's nice that they're reissuing him. looks like some people on Instagram are already whinging because their toy's no longer as ~*valuable*~ :P Silly. I'm glad they changed the tag so you can tell the two editions apart, though, that's nice.

That's pretty annoying I don't like when people get that obsessed with a toys worth even if it is worth something

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Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on January 07, 2023, 12:58:41 PM
Smyths and The Entertainer both seem to be clearancing these :( All Versus World toys (inc. Dogs vs Squirls and Kittens vs Gherkins), not just the older ones. The Smyths I went into today didn't even have a section for them any more. Worrying.. I hope this isn't a sign that they're going to stop carrying them over here or anything like that :(

On a brighter note, set E of Gold Wave is showing up in Asdas over here (or at least it was in December) so I got one of my most-wanteds, Saylor! She's SO cute omg <3 I got another big want of mine in the post today, Rorsch-cat - he's really pretty - especially the markings on his back. I love inkblot tests <3
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on January 08, 2023, 06:57:18 PM
Hmm... I hope they're not disappearing! I did recently see a Facebook ad for the bears. I had forgotten about those! I think it's supposed to be "bears versus donuts", if I remember right? That's so odd lol. I wonder if the donuts will be crazy characters like the pickles. I haven't seen the bears in any stores, just in a FB ad.

My store never got the 2nd year Christmas beans, which was depressing. I'm going to guess maybe we had a lot of 1st year ones left over, so they didn't bother ordering any new ones from Cepia? Well, at least there weren't any I really wanted... heh.

We still have a lot of the dogs versus squirls hanging around. They didn't seem to become very popular at all. We also have about half a box of the gold blind bags with the blue stripe across the top. I don't understand, weren't the blue stripe ones supposed to be special or exclusive? But I see the blue stripe ones in stores much more often than the plain gold bags. And on ebay the blue stripe ones seem to be cheaper in general, which seems to me to mean they were easier to get than the regular gold ones. That's so weird.

I caved in and did the kickstarter. ^^; I spent about $100 and got a lot of the exclusive beans. I only wanted a couple of them (like the dragon bean! Aww! So cute!). The rest of them are an investment. I'm going to resell them and hopefully get some of my money back. But the game isn't going to be done until April, I think, so I have to wait. I'll take pictures when it gets here!

Oh, one of the "add-ons" for the kickstarter are some CvP keychains, so I think that's going to be a thing we'll see in stores at some point soon. The kickstarter showed the package for them. They seem like they are smaller than beans and come in blind bags, and apparently are all characters we've already seen.

I decided to get a couple as an add-on in the kickstarter. I'm hoping I get Blank Page, he was one of the original characters from the first wave that has never made a reappearance. I like his design but he's way too expensive on ebay, the first waves usually go for a lot of money these days. More than I want to pay, anyway lol. (The kicker is that I remember seeing Blank Page in the store but I passed him over because I didn't think he was interesting! Ha! I should have invested in more of them to resell... Didn't realize how much the first wave ones were going to go for. Ah well, hindsight being 20/20, you know how it goes.)

The last CvP I bought was Rorsch-cat, as well. I love the striking black-on-white look! I got him on ebay for a good deal.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on January 09, 2023, 08:19:12 AM
Yeah, I really hope the shops here are just clearing space for new stock or something :( We did have a decent amount of old stock lying around so maybe that's it.

I've seen a few pics of the Bears vs Donuts, apparently they're going to make Cows vs Aliens too?! There's a site (http://cowsvaliens.com/) up for those but there's nothing up on it yet.
The bears are okay? I've seen some pics of them and I definitely like them better than Dogs vs Squirls (they don't seem to be popular here either - I see those hanging around the most) but there's something a bit "off"-feeling about them, can't quite put my finger on it. I guess it feels like they needed a bit more fine-tuning before release, if that makes sense. Like they feel like a not-quite-final prototype or something.. idk how to explain it. the donuts don't interest me at all :p I don't quite "get" that pair-up, I guess they wanted another food like pickles? But it still seems weird.

aw that sucks! :( the 2nd wave Christmas ones only turned up at Claire's over here, and they usually only had 3-4 in at a time (and were pretty expensive.. £8 instead of the usual £4-5 X_X), I was able to get the ones I wanted though. If you'd like I could try and hunt for some of the 2nd waves for you? :) It looks like some stores still have stock of them.

I sorta wish the 1st wave had been rereleased over here, there's some I'd like to get from that wave ^^;

I'm still a bit confused about the blue stripe but from what I understand, the "limited" thing just meant they were only sold in certain shops... Not that they were actually limited edition or anything. It's really confusing >_< Some of the characters were available not-blind bagged over here, but not all, and they don't seem to be selling the blue stripe bags here at all... so I'm having a devil of a time trying to find Skater Boi >_< Luckily the others I wanted from that set all made it over here though.

Oooh if you have an extra Money Bags I might be interested in him :) He's the only Kickstarter exclusive I really wanted. I couldn't justify it.. kinda glad I didn't cause I heard some UK people got stung really badly for the shipping costs >_< I was wary when I saw it said "international shipping to be calculated later".
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Kitcatepic on January 24, 2023, 06:11:12 PM
I'm hoping bears vs donuts will be available at five below soon they are showing up at walfart but I am never going there because I don't trust that store

Also I got the unicat hugger and I love it
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on January 25, 2023, 05:28:40 AM
The bears are really cute!! I think I'll stick to the cats for now, though. I haven't seen them at Walmart.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on January 25, 2023, 09:07:54 AM
I hope the Bears show up over here! I'm not sure if they will, Smyths Toys aren't stocking the Vs toys any more :(

I think the bears are cute but I'll probably pass on them.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on May 09, 2023, 10:05:11 AM
I just got a notice that the CvP kickstarter games are starting to ship to backers. :) I'll post photos when I get mine! I actually forgot what I've ordered, it's been so long. XD

I recently went to Walmart (rare for me) and got super excited because I saw they had the gold packages without the blue bar at the top! I bought a bunch of them and got mostly duplicates, because I had already bought the gold series I wanted on ebay. ^^; But it was still fun to buy them and open them up!

I also found dogs vs squirrels purple wave (I think that's the second wave?) and bears vs donuts! But I passed on those. I don't like them enough to buy blind packages of those, since there's so few characters I like.

And lastly I stopped at Target and there I found the gold series chonks! I guess I must have missed these before, because all the characters seem new to me. Or maybe I heard they were coming and forgot. Anyway, I got GPS cat, he is *so* cute.

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Also I got the unicat hugger and I love it

Oh man, can we see pics? I just can't believe how huge those things are. XD I've never seen one in person.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on May 09, 2023, 10:08:50 AM
Can't wait to see! :) I've seen some popping up on eBay but the prices have mostly been bonkers, haha.

I love GPS, idk why but he's probably one of my favourite designs. Something about him is just too cute.

Sadly I haven't seen any new CvPs in a while :( Everywhere around here's stopped stocking them for some reason - Entertainer no longer stocks them either (well, they still have some old stock left, but they don't seem to be getting any new stock in) - I have no idea why! One minute the line was everywhere and then it just vanished, it's really weird :s
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on May 10, 2023, 09:22:32 PM
That's the way of most trends, I think. :\ Collectables is usually a flash in the pan enterprise. As soon as the fervor starts to die down, the company loses interest and moves on to the next moneymaker.

It does seem like Cepia is still interested in the franchise, but I feel like they spread out way too much trying to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. At first it was just waves of many different characters, which were fun to collect. Then they tried all these different sizes, they had playsets with exclusive beans, they tried the little vinyl beans that we never saw more than one small series before they abandoned it because it didn't catch on.

Then after that they moved on to other series: the kittens, the dogs, the bears (and I think cows versus aliens hasn't even hit shelves yet). The game is coming soon. And one of the extras for the kickstarter were keychain versions of the characters, which I assume we'll see hit shelves at some point.

The problem is, I think they piled too much on and released too much at once. They didn't pace themselves. It grew confusing for the collectors trying to keep up. I certainly had trouble keeping up with the different waves, gold versus gold-with-blue-bar, and all the different side series. And then suddenly everything stopped?

In the past we used to see several waves one after the other, but I think this latest wave, the gold one (whether with or without the blue bar) has been around for almost a year? We haven't seen new cats v pickles, maybe because they were focused on all these other side series.

Where I work, the CvP used to fly off the shelves -- the bean size, anyway. The mega size (the size one up from the chonk, which retail at $20 each) we've had since the beginning and they continue to sit around. And we've had the gold-with-blue-bar and the kittens/gherkins for months and they've just been sitting on the shelves now.

Maybe it's the fault of the stores, not buying new series since the old ones are still around, or maybe it's because Cepia is stalling on the new products. I'm not sure.

It's hard to tell if the fervor of collecting has died down for CvP or if it's the company that is delaying the next waves. Hopefully they'll get going again. I hope this gold wave isn't the last wave for CvP! Dogs are cute and the bears are okay, but what I really want are more cats and pickles!
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on May 23, 2023, 09:41:39 AM
It's here it's here! :D

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Oof I spent way too much money on all these extras... I forget how much the final pledge was, but I remember it was over $100... Anyway, here we have the exclusive Kickstarter cats, Moneybags and Catsper. I think originally the Kickstarter said we were going to get a voucher for a free Catsper, but I guess they decided to just include him in the box instead. (Maybe the original plan was that Catsper wouldn't be available by the time they started mailing out the games, but the game got delayed a month or two during production in China, according to the kickstarter updates.)

@Carrehz - I only got one Moneybags and I'm going to keep him, I'm sorry. :(

I also bought the fantasy 4-pack because I wanted the dragon kitty so badly. His tiny wings are adorable but you can't see them unless you turn him over.

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I also got the horror movie 4-pack because I really like the kitty from the black lagoon (back row, far right). The front row is a 4-pack of characters that is exclusive to the game. (You can see their tags say Mayhem on it, like Moneybags and Catsper.) I love the little lightning bug on the far left! Sticking her little tongue out lol.

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I got the 3-pack of the new keyring blind bags. All this time I thought these new keyring merch were going to be like tiny versions of the beans, but then when I got the packages I could see they were very flat, so I realized they couldn't be actual plush critters.

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They're actually made of soft vinyl. They're cute! I love them! I got GPS Cat which I am SO excited about. Lookit him winking at you! Haha. The other two I'll probably sell on ebay, try to recoop some of my pledge money.

The front of the package says 24 characters to collect, but I'm annoyed because this is like the ONLY CvP product that doesn't come with an insert poster with all the characters in the set. Who are the 24 characters? Going by the package, which includes wave 1 characters, and the ones I got, which are all the latest wave, the 24 could be just about anyone.

I really wanted Blank Page, the kitty on the package with the notebook paper pattern, because I was never able to get him during wave 1 and now he's super expensive on ebay. Oh well, hopefully these keyrings will be available in stores soon, I'd like to buy a bunch. I think the price point is going to be $3.99 which isn't bad.

(Like most CvP products, the blind bag does have a tiny air hole in the corner so you might be able to see what color is inside before you buy it. You can also feel the tail so you can at least tell the cats from the pickles.)

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And last but not least, here's the game itself (which I will be putting up on ebay because I'm not interested in playing LOL). It's pretty cute. It comes with a mat you put on the ground and you throw all the CvP you've collected over the years and try to hit the mat. lol.

I give them kudos for thinking up a way to include the CvP you've already collected in a game they made about CvP. XD There's a bunch of playing cards that give you certain rules for how to throw them as you play (blindfolded, etc.). It actually sounds fun. I assume using Chonks and Jumbos are against the rules. XD
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on May 23, 2023, 04:09:22 PM
Yeah, Cepia definitely tried doing WAY too much at once. I wish they'd just slow down and focus on one or two things.

Congrats on the beans Dragonflitter :) And np about Moneybags, thanks anyway. I was hoping to pick up one on eBay but the prices there are... er.... let's say "prohibitive" :silly:

Some news from the Reddit:

The rest of Gold Wave (everything after Set E) has been postponed and moved to Fuchsia Wave (https://old.reddit.com/r/CatsVsPickles/comments/13hhnw1/gold_wave_delayed_to_fuchsia_confirmed_so_for/). Looks like Cepia are starting to realize that they've been overreaching themselves? It's a shame since there were some Gold Waves I was looking forward to, but it's nice to hear the designs haven't been cancelled completely.
It's still unclear what's going on with the Gold designs that they put up on the site briefly and then took down, like Catascope the 3D kitty. some of those have shown up in Fuchsia wave adverts apparently soooo fingers crossed they're moving to Fuchsia too? (I reeeeally want Catascope, haha)

What I like is the mention that from Fuchsia wave onwards, checklists will be shorter. YES!!! It's been driving me nuts how the checklists included all these characters that weren't actually available in that wave, or at all.

Also there was a Facebook Live recently and lots of new stuff was shown (https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsVsPickles/comments/12yofho/facebook_live_was_held_yesterday_for_upcoming/) - Previews of Puppies vs Squeaks (upcoming DvS baby line), Cows vs Aliens, Bears vs Donuts, Christmas CvPs for this year (I love Harold omg), and previews of Fuchsia wave CvPs. Some characters are redesigns/palette swaps of Blue Wave beans. Not sure how I feel about that. Some of the palette swaps are cool, but idk why they didn't just do proper re-releases, I'd have preferred that personally.. I do like the new Majicat though.

The keyrings - I asked about those on the Reddit a while ago. Apparently before the Kickstarter, they were sold on Cepia's webstore for like 5 mins, those didn't have a checklist either BUT Sakuramei on there did give me the stock photos of them. I made a checklist thing, I'll put it under a spoiler since it's kinda big:

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I don't know if the Kickstarter keyrings have all the same characters as the previous release, I assume so? But there's more than 24 shown and I was told that not all of the characters shown were even in the assortment before (or at least no one found some of them), and some of them are shown twice on the images, so who knows what's up with that! -_- But it's something to go off, anyway.. I hope that helps. Better than nothing.

I hope the keyrings go on general sale soon, I'd love a Rosie keyring :3
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on May 30, 2023, 07:31:29 AM
You are so good at finding this online information, Carrehz! I appreciate it since I don't have that much google-fu. Mostly I just go by the packaging or the wiki page for my information lol.

Looks like Cepia are starting to realize that they've been overreaching themselves? It's a shame since there were some Gold Waves I was looking forward to, but it's nice to hear the designs haven't been cancelled completely.

Wow that's strange! I guess I'm not surprised because this company seems so impulsive and changes things up so much. It is frustrating as a collector when designs you really like pop up and then disappear, though. :P

What I like is the mention that from Fuchsia wave onwards, checklists will be shorter. YES!!! It's been driving me nuts how the checklists included all these characters that weren't actually available in that wave, or at all.

Wait wait wait... REALLY!? All this time I thought the checklists show what is available in that wave! I've been duped this whole time!? Gah! That's so annoying! ...I guess I never really noticed because for the most part I buy the characters I want on ebay, and just once in a while buy the blind bags from the stores if I happen across them in the wild.

Also there was a Facebook Live recently and lots of new stuff was shown (https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsVsPickles/comments/12yofho/facebook_live_was_held_yesterday_for_upcoming/) - Previews of Puppies vs Squeaks (upcoming DvS baby line), Cows vs Aliens, Bears vs Donuts, Christmas CvPs for this year (I love Harold omg), and previews of Fuchsia wave CvPs. Some characters are redesigns/palette swaps of Blue Wave beans. Not sure how I feel about that.

Oooo thank you for the link! So it looks like a lot of the extras I got from the kickstarter (the non-exclusives) are actually Fuscia wave beans. I should try to sell those on ebay quick because impatient people will pay more. XD

This is my first time seeing the bears and the cows. Looks... interesting? I won't be collecting them, but pretty cute.

I dunno how I feel about the redesigned Blue Waves either... Like, I really want Blank Page but I don't like the changes. I want the original design. And I love Skelecat but the purple just isn't the same as the black... Meh, I guess I feel *shrug* about the whole thing. I guess it's good that they're not just re-releasing the old designs, because I know collectors are picky about having the original wave and re-releases would make them less special... But for those of us who missed the original wave, getting a different designed re-release just isn't the same thing.

I kinda wish they did more like Snowball, where they rereleased with the same design but a different tag. But maybe I should bite my tongue, at least they don't just rerelease the same 6 characters over and over like the MLP brand. ^.^

The keyrings - I asked about those on the Reddit a while ago. Apparently before the Kickstarter, they were sold on Cepia's webstore for like 5 mins, those didn't have a checklist either BUT Sakuramei on there did give me the stock photos of them. I made a checklist thing, I'll put it under a spoiler since it's kinda big:

Spoiler
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I don't know if the Kickstarter keyrings have all the same characters as the previous release, I assume so? But there's more than 24 shown and I was told that not all of the characters shown were even in the assortment before (or at least no one found some of them), and some of them are shown twice on the images, so who knows what's up with that! -_- But it's something to go off, anyway.. I hope that helps. Better than nothing.

That's SO weird... maybe they were having production issues and decided to hold off on putting them out... But they why even put it up online? This company makes so many weird decisions... Anyway, I hope they get a real release soon, I want more! lol
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Carrehz on June 06, 2023, 03:44:25 PM
(Sorry for the late reply)

Heh, I've just been checking the reddit, Sakuramei on there is the one that's good at finding info ^^;

Yeah, I only found that out about the checklists a while ago, I couldn't believe it when I read it! I think their excuse was "It's easier this way" but it's ridiculous... usually if a toy checklist lists toys that aren't out yet it SAYS "Coming soon"!! >___<

That's basically how I feel about the Blue Wave re-releases, too. Idk why they can't just re-release the original designs and, yeah, just give them a different tag or something :/ I don't get why they're so reluctant to... I know some people do get funny about re-releases because "omg the VALUE!!!11" and I understand that for toys that were always meant to be limited edition, like Snowball (I think the tag change for her was the right way to handle that).. but... if it was a regular release then what's the problem with re-releasing it? :/ I just don't understand that line of thought.

I'm dying to get my paws on some of the keyrings  :P They keep popping up for ridiculous prices on eBay and arghhhh.
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 25, 2023, 10:27:02 PM
Ooooooo this week we got a ton of Cepia stuff at work! :D I was excited to see it after we've had nothing but the Jumbos that have been hanging around for over a year.

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We got a box of Bears versus Donuts! At least if you want these, it's easy to feel the package and tell which ones are bears and which ones are donuts. The donuts have a big hole in the middle. XD

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We got the Pop Art Turtles and Pop Art Elephants. I like turtles okay, I might have to cave in and buy one to see the pretty art. I like the idea of plush being art!

And we also got another of the gold wave with blue borders. And lastly, we got another box of the current wave of Chonks.

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It looks like Cepia realized they make the most money with the blind bags. I haven't seen a box of unpackaged beans where you can just choose the character you want in quite some time... (Well, except the Holiday ones.) I guess that's to be expected. I'm a little sad since I would be happier picking the ones I want rather than the blind bag game. But oh well, that's the way the market works right now.

I'm just happy to see these guys in the store. Because I get a nice employee discount. XD
Title: Re: Cats Vs Pickles
Post by: Dragonflitter on July 02, 2023, 06:24:12 PM
I know these aren't Cats vs. Pickles, but I caved in and picked up a couple of the Pop Art Soft turtles from work and they are CUTE!

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They're very soft! I like to hug them. They also have beans in their bellies and legs, which gives them a bit of weight so they can stand up and not just fall over.

And unlike CvP, Cepia seems to not be going insane with these guys. Only 12 characters in the first wave. ^^;

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I'm going back to try to get Sandy. Might try for some others, too. Koi and Hope look cute! I'm not really a fan of the Pop Art style of Luvvy so I'll probably stick her on ebay.
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