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Pony Talk => Off Topic => The Dollhouse => Topic started by: Zapper on July 16, 2018, 04:05:55 AM
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I'm curious. I noticed these are popular right now along with regular blind box figures. I personally like the idea but wish it was easier to get the characters I really want.
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Dolls aren't for me, I prefer animal figures instead, but I'm still swayed by dolls such as Ever After High, Pinkie Cooper. I've yet to be swayed by any of the dolls available yet! If I am, it's usually one out of a set and I avoid it in fear of me getting one I don't want.
A problem with blind boxes is that there are going to be a bunch of throwaway common ones that everyone has doubles of which makes it hard to get rid of once you decide to downsize your collection. If you don't downsize, you end up with an accidental army of one or two. I feel like this is a problem with LOL dolls, at least from what I've seen, where theres about 4 that are very common, and then the rest are very hard to get.
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It depends on the style of the dolls. What I absolutely dislike and quite disgust me is those LOL things. Why are they wrapped so many times with plastic and all you get are some dumb sticker/riddle thingies. It's a complete waste of packaging which really disgust me. Blind Boxes are okay but not with this kind of packaging imo. :C
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I cannot stand "blind bag" anything. The only thing we buy are LEGO mini-figs and my DH is a superb genius at feeling the bags so we always get what we want. :D
Thankfully DH is also nice, if he sees a kid looking, he'll help them look for the fig they are hoping to get. And if he's wrong, he buys the figure from the kid and tries again.
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I do find some of the dolls quite cute, but add in the blind box component? Noooope. Not gonna happen. I am not buying something without knowing what it is, or specifically if it will even be one I like. I've been burned by dupes in the past, I'd rather save my money for other things.
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I really look forward the Hairdorables dolls since I think all the dolls look really cute, I've got ones I want more than others but I'm gonna be pretty content regardless of what I get as long as I don't end up with too many doubles.
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I cannot stand "blind bag" anything.
100% agree. Honestly, I'd rather pay a little more and be able to buy the one(s) I want. The idea of getting duplicates and having absolutely no use for them and then having to figure out what to do with them prevents me from getting into "blind bag" anything.
~Jennifer
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Blind bags is a very ingenious way to get kids to consume massive amounts and prepare them to be a proper little consumer/Horder in the future. When I see YouTube videos of little kids surrounded by 200 LOL balls I shudder a little. Also there's the waste component that was mentioned already, the LOL are the worst offenders in that arena.
I personally am ok with blind bags, I usually just buy 1 or 2 of the lines I like/ fine with getting any of the characters. If I was hunting for a specific character they would be a bane.
I saw you mentioned Hairdorables, they look very cute and doing blind box is again wise because kids (parents) are going to have to buy like 10 just to get 3 different characters. In thier case I wish they were not blind box because there's just a couple I'd want.
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I like the idea, but I would much rather have everything in a box, to cut back on the plastic waste, or I would just go second hand.
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Oh, my niece loves these. I buy her some every once in awhile as a treat. Usually, I end up with her doubles. I think they're cute, but I probably wouldn't get them if left to my own devices. If I really wanted a specific character, I'd use ebay.
And yea, the waste is bad.
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It depends on the style of the dolls. What I absolutely dislike and quite disgust me is those LOL things. Why are they wrapped so many times with plastic and all you get are some dumb sticker/riddle thingies. It's a complete waste of packaging which really disgust me. Blind Boxes are okay but not with this kind of packaging imo. :C
I feel the same way about LOL dolls. Even when I first saw them I thought they were silly since most of the "surprises" are made of paper/stickers. I've seen a lot of kids begging for them though.
I do like the Gift Em dolls with the little display stand that represents each doll's country with pictures and the flag. I might get a couple of those but I wouldn't buy a lot of them. With my luck I'd get a bunch of duplicates and would give up trying to get new ones.
I saw some blind boxed dolls that come in a push up frozen treat style box. I think they're new.
Ponyfan
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It depends on the style of the dolls. What I absolutely dislike and quite disgust me is those LOL things. Why are they wrapped so many times with plastic and all you get are some dumb sticker/riddle thingies. It's a complete waste of packaging which really disgust me. Blind Boxes are okay but not with this kind of packaging imo. :C
Yeah, the aspect if too much plastic waste is a concern for me, too. On the other hand a lot of toys come in boxes with a big plastic window or bubble. So I guess that evens it out.
In case of Hairdorables, while there are plastic containers involved, I like how the box becomes a playset and storage area. Just begs the question how many people will let their kids keep all the boxes for each doll they get.
I don't see the blind box trend as something that will turn kids into hoarders. I always assume kids will trade if they get doubles. That's what we did back in the day with sticker bags and trading cards :lol: Getting kids to collect things has existed for a while now.
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Nope.
I dislike blind packed anything but at the very least I can sorta understand them for SMALL and CHEAP toys and even for stuff like LOL since those are still fairly small.
But Hairdorables are the final straw for me. I actually really like the dolls themselves but the fact that they are sold blind is making me hate them and hate the blind box trend even more than I already do I mean they are around $15 Shoppies/Chelsea/Kelly sized dolls already making them the current most expensive and largest line of blind packed toy plus their packaging is super wasteful even compared to LOL as the boxes are very large compared to the doll, the accessories and stickers are in sauce packets, and a cardboard 'playset' is pointless and easily damaged and will most likely just be thrown away.
Anyway, aside from the fact that it's 'trendy' I see no reason why a doll line like this especially of its size and price should even be blind boxed. Tbh while I like the dolls I hope this decision to sell them blind makes them flop...
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It's a bummer, really. Toys are already a tad expensive here and getting them blind makes it worse. Doesn't stop kids, though.
I really appreciate it if the toys have some kind of "tell". My favourite blind bag figurines have a small hole in the packaging and if you manage to move the figure to it you can tell which one it is by its colours. This has been very useful for me so far, even though I sometimes still end up with doubles :P
If there's no "tell", I think the best way to approach it is to buy a few without getting too attached to a certain character - you know, just being happy with what you get. That's what I'm doing with Pikmi Pops, one per season/line. I'm not a big enough fan of LOL to buy their stuff.
I don't want to give Hasbro more bad ideas, but perhaps they'd be convinced to make more different kinds of ponies if they sold them in blind box/bag form - edit: let me make myself clearer, BRUSHABLE ones
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I liked blind bag ponies (until I got fed up with doubles; the ones with a little window were best) and I enjoyed Mini Mixie Q's, but now I am just so bored of the whole blind box trend. LOL Surprise is just a waste of packaging materials. And some blind things are just so expensive! If I'm spending that much, I want to see what I'm getting!
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I'm pretty tired of the blind bag craze. It's fine for little cheap toys, like blind bag ponies - i.e. pocket money toys. But they're getting so expensive, it's ridiculous!! If I'm paying that sort of money, I want to know what I'm getting.
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I'll admit I really like buying blind bags in bulk at discount prices, but it's so hard to catch those...
sometimes TRU will put the rest of the box on clearance if there's only 10 or so left and the series is being discontinued. I got a bunch of cute stuff stockpiled for swaps that way.
I also found a MASSIVE amount of Filly Princess Surprise blind bags at the thrift store once. I don't know if it was shop closeout or a Taobao birthday party favor order gone wild, but there were like 75 of these things all bagged up together! I still have a bunch too. Once I put some in a box to ship to Arena member Gabumon, and his daughter opened it and turns out one of them was the Super Rare Sparkly Princess that was the major goal of the series! SO COOL! :D
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I liked the MH minis but they stopped selling them in the UK literally after the first wave so the ones I have from later came to me randomly from buying unopened packs from others. I was superbly lucky in that I got only one double over all of them, which is a pretty glittery Twyla so thus far I have kept both.
I think LOL Surprise is creepy, period.
Plastic can be recycled, although whether it is recycled enough and how much the process takes is a whole other matter. Obviously producing less of it is a good thing, but if at least the plastic being used was recycled and is recyclable into something else...would be a step in the right direction.
I think cardboard boxes are a smart way of tackling the problem, but I guess it will take a while for that concept to spread across all toys. I don't like biodegradable plastic packaging because in my experience they just disintegrate into small flakes which then can be accidentally inhaled...which isn't helpful.
I think Blind Bags are fun if you don't take them seriously (ie are not trying to complete a set) but a nightmare if you are looking for specifics. With the new Cutie Mark Crew blind bags, if I knew which one had Sunset Shimmer in, I'd buy it - but I'm not spending £4 on something that might be something I don't want at all. I don't want any of the others.
I haven't noticed on the packages for those that there's any way to see inside. And I am fairly sure they are also plastic.
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The thing I don't like about blind bags and blind boxes is the way the companies deliberately make certain characters/variations scarce. I'd be fine with the trend if you had an equal probability of getting any figure. But deliberate scarcity is such a sleazy marketing technique, and I refuse to buy into it.
The pricepoint on these types of figures is getting absurd too. I like the Loyal Subjects ponies and I like the Gift 'Em figures, but with ponies being ~$15.00 apiece and unopened Gift 'Ems going for ~$10.00+, I don't see them as being worth buying unless I know what I'm getting, so I only buy ones that are already opened.
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I think when it comes to blind packaged toys one must remember that the target audience is kids who can easily trade them in person on the playground if they are small things and if they are bigger things would be happy with whatever they get. Kinda like with Puppy/Kitty/etc Surprise or Magic Nursery back in the day.
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I adore the Haridorables. I think they are so cute! But I know I am going to be so frustrated by the blind nature of getting them. I am not sure that I would have enjoyed getting it blind even as a kid.
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I love blind boxes, if I like the franchise I'll buy at least one. Only Funko set I sought out the entire line was Through The Looking Glass. Managed to only get doubles of one character, even snagged the harder to find ones. But honestly, it was probably dumb luck, still fun though.
My issue with kids surrounded by them is moderation is a good thing. Especially since some of the blind boxes aren't cheap. The TTLG ones were $6 after tax.
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The thing I don't like about blind bags and blind boxes is the way the companies deliberately make certain characters/variations scarce. I'd be fine with the trend if you had an equal probability of getting any figure. But deliberate scarcity is such a sleazy marketing technique, and I refuse to buy into it.
The pricepoint on these types of figures is getting absurd too. I like the Loyal Subjects ponies and I like the Gift 'Em figures, but with ponies being ~$15.00 apiece and unopened Gift 'Ems going for ~$10.00+, I don't see them as being worth buying unless I know what I'm getting, so I only buy ones that are already opened.
The 'rare' figures make it like a gamble. I think some people probably get hooked on that aspect of the blind bag items. A sort of "will I win?" type of mentality. It feels like winning if you get one of the hard to find figures.
I like some of the blind bag toys. I really want the lost kitties, but I don't want to buy anymore in the box. Out of six I already had two doubles. Not worth it for me. If I want them bad enough I will troll eBay for them. Otherwise I can live without them. It's too pricey to get tons of duplicates.
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I'm seriously drooling over Hairdorables. I'm really hoping that they have some kind of code on the boxes to avoid duplicates though XD Similar to the two letters on BB ponies, or the 2 numbers + a letter on Hatchimal Colleggtible eggs. I want them all but with the price tag I can't see spending that much trying to get a whole set blindly.
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I rarely get blind bags, but when I do I get the cheaper ones. I love only a few of the hairdorables dolls, and from what I've seen there's a really good chance of getting a double. I'm not paying $12+ for a blind doll. I'm even apprehensive about getting any cutie mark crew since they apparently don't have codes and I only want muffins (and Luna from series 2).
Essentially, I like some blind bags/boxes (of it's under $5 i'm all for it, if it's $8-9 maybe depending on if I like a majority of the possible figures, anything more and it's really iffy).
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There are so few true surprises in life that i get the draw of the mystery. I loved the early g4 blind bag ponies & trash pack so much. I would just rather they not put dolls in blind boxes and instead have blind bag items for your dolls. To me selecting a doll is a pretty intense process and i don't buy them sight unseen.
That said i adore the heads of hairdorables & they all look to be excellent in the qc front, so if they came down in price itd be fun to see who i get & pop her on a kkh or bratz bod
I feel like it's ..ok.. for small dolls and mystery buys should be well under $10.
I hate lol & don't get why anyone thinks they're cute, can't WAIT for them to vanish, but some of their fashion designs would be amazing on full sized dolls of some sort (cough bratz).
I am outraged that the poopsie unicorn surprise are a whopping $60 blind box & its not fair that only one of em has tattoos. That's gonna be the one most wanted I'm quite sure & there's no unique element, like the tattoos, in the remaining 3 so they're just...20% less cool. Speaking of which who are they kidding with the blue one with rainbow hair haha
The blind box cups & diy slime are superbly done knockoffs of popular brands. My hope is that they make the unicorns & more magical animals in that size. But i still really want to see those big unicorns poo slime!
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I am outraged that the poopsie unicorn surprise are a whopping $60 blind box & its not fair that only one of em has tattoos. That's gonna be the one most wanted I'm quite sure & there's no unique element, like the tattoos, in the remaining 3 so they're just...20% less cool. Speaking of which who are they kidding with the blue one with rainbow hair haha
The blind box cups & diy slime are superbly done knockoffs of popular brands. My hope is that they make the unicorns & more magical animals in that size. But i still really want to see those big unicorns poo slime!
I have heard the unicorns are in Walmart's system for $50 instead. Still their price is the same as a Hatchimal and just like a Hatchimal each box contains one of 2 different possibilities but unlike Hatchimals you can push down the center and peek inside.
The one with rainbow hair is white like Rainbow Brite's horse Starlight. There is a blue one but her hair looks more like mostly white with a little bit of pastel rainbow.
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I'm all for blind box toys if they're well-made and it allows for a larger range!
I'll usually buy one or two, then buy the ones I like on eBay, sell any I dislike, etc, it's much the same as buying a lot online, you win some you lose some :)
Totally hyped for Hairdorables and I love LOL Surprise, they're super cute :heart: