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OTT mums blind bag LOL toys

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louise5754 · 23/03/2018 14:41

I'm a member of a group on Facebook that advertise the LOL dolls. Basically they're similar to blind bags but they're in a ball and you collect them for those of you that don't know. I think they're are 4 different varieties out at the minute.

These mums are seriously OTT. Quing up before the shop opens. Taking balls out of other mums hands. Drawing up / asking for diagrams of where the gold / limited addition ones are. I was going to screen shot some but I'm not sure it's allowed. Women are actually taking weighing scales into shops. Filling their trolly with the balls and weighing them. The gold ones are heavier. Some mums are actually buying the whole 24 that come in the shops display box at £144 a go.

I have bought my kids 2. They don't play with them so now if it's Christmas or their birthdays I will buy the fakes. Yes it's the parents business and their money. If it makes the child happy and all that. They are peeling the stickers off to see which ones they are getting before their kids come home from school.
Yes it's disappointing getting a blind bag / kinder egg etc with a toy you already have but isn't that the exciting bit?
If I had the money then I would probably end up like these mums and it round take the fun out of it so I'm glad I'm skint x

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BIWI · 23/03/2018 14:42

WTAF are you on about?

And what is your AIBU?

Soubriquet · 23/03/2018 14:45

Wtaf?!

Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for the little collegtables hatchimals that I buy for me dd but no way would I ever go this extreme

5foot5 · 23/03/2018 14:51

Basically they're similar to blind bags but they're in a ball and you collect them for those of you that don't know.

Oh yes it it is all so obvious now! Hmm

WTF is a blind bag when it is at home?

louise5754 · 23/03/2018 14:52
Shock
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Dangerousmonkey · 23/03/2018 14:53

Lucky dip bag. So they're excited. Does it matter?

Soubriquet · 23/03/2018 14:54

A blind bag is a packet with a particular toy in it. They cost around £2.99 and you don't know what they are until you open it

My Ds collects the Disney cars blind bags and my dd likes hatchimals and pj masks blind bags

Notproudofthisone · 23/03/2018 14:55

My little sister got one of those special edition ones, they only wanted them as little Easter gifts. Think her hair changes colour? They don’t play with them though maybe we should eBay it Grin

FuzzyCustard · 23/03/2018 14:55

This thread title is possible the most incomprehensible I have ever read.

Apart from that, no comment!

louise5754 · 23/03/2018 14:56

I would lol some are going for £40

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louise5754 · 23/03/2018 14:56

Obviously most of you don't have primary school age children. No need to be rude!!

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Fosterquestions · 23/03/2018 14:57

I bet as son as they get home with their 12 gold ones they go straight on eBay!

lollipopjones · 23/03/2018 14:58

I can't believe people are behaving like this! They are total rip offs! My DD asked for some for Christmas. They cost £10 each and the toys were such poor quality. All manky with wonky eyes. Something you get at a £1 lucky dip at a fair.

These women must be bonkers!

louise5754 · 23/03/2018 14:58

Agree. I got mine from China £3.

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KurriKurri · 23/03/2018 14:59

Well I'd never heard of a blind bag, but it was pretty easy to guess what it was from the OP's post.

All these kind of things are a rip off - don't children swap them with each other rather than others going crazy in shops ? I thought that was the point.
Sounds like mothers are more invested than the kids.
In my kids day it was football cards, and some sort of little plastic things you threw on the ground like jacks (can't remember what they were called - basically misshapen lumps of coloured plastic that kids pestered you to buy so they could collect them all - bonkers !)

Bumbumtaloo · 23/03/2018 14:59

My DD’s love these, admittedly they are not too OTT on them. No queuing/snatching out of others hands for me. But after some of the fakes I’ve seen I would not bother wasting my money on the fakes, especially as my two would spot them a mile off.

I’m dubious on giving my DD’s fake toys etc, would rather save and buy less tbh.

KurriKurri · 23/03/2018 15:02

Oh I didn;t realise they cost £10 Shock that's really cheeky. It hought they were a £1 or something small. If you are daft enough to pay £10 for something that you don't even know what you are getting, then
you deserve to have a house full of plastic tat {grin]

Soubriquet · 23/03/2018 15:02

Most blind bag tat is that. Tat.

I'm pretty impressed with th Disney cars ones though, they are proper little die cast cars. For £2.75 they are a bargain.

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louise5754 · 23/03/2018 15:04

They're £6 or £10.

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Thebookswereherfriends · 23/03/2018 15:06

These crappy plastic collectables are a major environmental horror. A plastic toy in a plastic bag, none of which is recyclable. The great Pacific garbage patch is now 3 times the size of Texas and exponentially increasing in size.

Bumbumtaloo · 23/03/2018 15:10

We’re ‘lucky’ our two DD’s are not too OTT with them as said above. Thinking back they have had two possibly three, at a push, each. And they never wanted (thank fuck) the ‘giant’ gold one for £59.99 or the new pearl one for £29.99. The hype does seem to have come from the company - not sending enough to shops etc. I’m sure the new fad will be along soon Grin

Bombardier25966 · 23/03/2018 15:10

Agree. I got mine from China £3.

You get an even cheaper knock off from China for £3.

Why are you a member of the group if you find these people so offensive?

louise5754 · 23/03/2018 15:12

Why bother commenting.

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Laiste · 23/03/2018 15:14

I was going to ask the same thing bomb.

BeyondThePage · 23/03/2018 15:15

I find the amount of waste packaging with the lol produce to be shameful and would not put a penny profit in their coffers. My niece got one of those half ball large things at Christmas with lots of little (they are not kidding on the LITTLE) bits and bobs and 90% of it was waste.

louise5754 · 23/03/2018 15:18

I'm not a member now. Left after about an hour. They're not all like that.

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