#zuru toys

[therobotmonster]

Heroes of Goo-Jit-Zu Haunts Me

Because its 100% my aesthetic but in a format that I literally can't stand to touch.

Look at this! Homage-De-MOTU-Leech? Some manner of underpainted Prussian Ankylosaurus? Nine and a half inches of King Ghidorah's reverse-fursona? (I will not rephrase!)

Those designs at 1/2 size in a PVC plastic?

I'd be drowning in them. It wouldn't scratch my Battle Beasts itch, but it would come darn close.

But they are a sensory-issue nightmare for me to touch.

And even if I was an in-package type (which I am not), I've zero faith in the long-term storage of what amounts to hot water balloons of corn syrup and/or Orbeez.

Zuru's finally started to make some non-squishy humanoids, but they're few and far between.

Though the first wave of them looks frikkin' awesome. I get the feeling that the action figure community has been sleeping on these, particularly in the OG TMNT/Street Sharks/Extreme Dinosaurs zone, but I can't be sure without an on-hand sample... or three.

An amazon gift card gave me a preview via the larger-scale light-and-sound Zombosaur, but he's not exactly representative. Not just for his size...

I'm going to review him eventually, but he's not exactly representative of the smaller figures since he's about 10 inches tall, has limited articulation (due to action features, so not a slam) and has a talking eyeball lodged in his larynx in a horrifying twist on the legend of Mimir.

Odin may have traded his eye for wisdom, but his eye traded Odin to get swole.

[shutterandpencil]

"Toyagraphy Dump"

As noted, I ran out of things to post. I also snapped these for a friend.

[iolaussharpe-24]

This reminds me of something....

On YouTube, I saw a Cartier ad with Lily Collins and she reminded me of something that had made me think of her in the past. But more so this time.

In the past, this exact same doll made me think of a certain Netflix series Lily stars in.

I can't stop making comparisons.

When I say that I want a Lily Collins Barbie doll, it's because Integrity Toys made me connect those dots and I can't afford a Poppy Parker.

If I could, I'd have this and the Miraculous Eiffel Tower playset to display her in.

But don't think that Lily Collins/Emily Cooper doesn't remind of Barbie too. She does. I'll prove it.

Also, Mini Brands Netflix has Emily in Paris minis.

I almost forgot the G1 Monster High Scaris Cafe playset. And the car.

Found a BarbieStyle fashion pack that's very reminiscent of an Emily in Paris outfit.

[majoyosei]

✨ Last Month Figurines ✨

Mini Tinkerbell from Zuru Disney Mini Brands series and Belle sitting figure from Pop Mart Disney Princess series 🧚‍♀️👸

[minzi2024]

tangle day today.

[ducemcb199]

Satisfying Video|Unpacking 5 Surprise Zuru Toy Mini Brands|Unboxing Layman

[aerohail]

[my-plastic-life]

My doll diorama is finally up! Once again, we have a Christmas morning scene, though this time I wanted to feature my adorable Christmas Barbie pajamas I've had for years rather than the sweaters. They're definitely easier to get on and off LOL. Why aren't the kids wearing pajamas? Because I don't own any Kelly or Chelsea Christmas PJs...maybe next year I'll have some LOL.

[dinofigureoftheday]

Dino figure of the day: ZURU Gumi Yum Dino Squad Dilophosaurus

[abominableabbey]

I got a 3d printed bookcase from etsy for all my little books! Some are mini brands, some are myfroggystuff, and the nancy drews I got as a printout from etsy for $5

Here’s me using the mini brands magnifying glass to put all the nancys in order like a silly person

Special guest stars lego Rouge & the master emerald

[tiffyfoundsomething]

Long Post full of Affiliate Links

So I bought 3x of the new MGA Miniverse UV resin Diner food kits and reviewed them.

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These are the larger kits.

After that I ordered 3x of the smaller Cafe sets.

https://amzn.to/3Goo2PC

And will review them, too, though as a toy collector, not as an adult worried about marketing UV resin to kids.

When the cafe sets are in stock, they cost $6.97 vs the Diner sets at $9.97. They’re also smaller.

There is no table. Some of them come with a little cake stand, though.

I got these three sets and I have to admit, I’m kind of disappointed...

The quality of the pieces is the same, but there’s just not much to do with these. The Diner sets have you arranging items in a dish or on a plate, but the Cafe ones are more like, put the thing, put the resin, done.

At least the three that I got are. The ones with donuts might be more entertaining.

The enormous mason jar coffee made me laugh because it’s not in scale for Barbies like the other food items, but then I looked over at my water jug and.....

Yeah, ok.

I was actually rather put out opening these because there are three layers of plastic outside the shell, the plastic shell, lots of plastic bags inside, and in the cafe latte one there is a tiny plastic straw in a tiny plastic straw wrapper.

There are tweezers/tongs but you don’t need them for these sets. These three are all dump and go.

I chose not to do the cafe latte nor the tropical fruit salad because the cafe latte kit was too boring and I’d rather keep the fruits in the cute little boxes.

That kit could easily be made and remade as long as you don’t add the resin.

Inside the cereal box is a little plastic bag of plastic beads. I did decide to put the cereal together to test whether the resin set properly.

It did. It’s not opaque like milk. I kind of wish I hadn’t bothered, because it looks...

Unpleasant.

But this did get me thinking.

Are these kits worth it to me?

It cost me $53.80 for this:

The cafe sets certainly I feel like weren’t worth the $7. Part of the pull of these is supposed to be an experience in addition to getting a cute toy in the end, but the cafe sets are so simple that there was no experience.

Being someone that’s made a bunch of little resin trinkets over the years, I could spend the same $54 and get enough comparable materials to make these kits many times over with less waste because every item wouldn’t come in it’s own little plastic bag.

And personally, I don’t collect mini food. I collect mini toys.

Compare the price of one of these kits (we’ll round up so $10 and $7) to the price of 5 Surprise Toy Mini Brands, and... Well.

Miniverse for $10 will get you one cute food item that you have to assemble and a bunch of small packaging associated with it plus 5 or so big pieces of paper all folded up, a table, a display case, a bunch of plastic bags, and three layers of outer plastic.

If you’re not keeping all of the empty containers, the bread bag, the pie crust box, the bottles of resin, all the duplicate tongs, etc, you’re throwing away the majority of the kit in the end.

Mini Brands for $7 will give you 5 preassembled minis (sometimes four and one piece of useless crap like a too-small shopping cart, also too small shelving unit, or paper bags) with 2 layers of outer plastic, one collector’s guide, 5 small sheets of plastic, two weird rubbery end caps, and a useless set of plastic wedges.

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https://amzn.to/3IxF3JH

All together this was $27.54 for 15 items and a collector’s case.

BOTH brands are blind packed.

tl:dr is that I won’t personally be buying any more Miniverse food kits, but I am excited for Toy Mini Brands Series 3.

[therobotmonster]

The Weirdest Toy-Candy Combo I've Seen to Date

Zuru, the toy dinosaur people, have this new thing called "Gumi Yum Surprise", clearly trying to bite Kinder Joy's style and at more or less the same price point. And look, the plastic egg it comes in is all gummy colors!

Except that's not the plastic egg.

That's the actual gummy. The candy is in strips around the egg that you peel off and eat before opening. This is a neat idea, but also makes holding onto the package until you're done essential, as it's an egg, you can't stand it up in a way that the gummy surface won't hit the table or whatever you set it on.

Once you strip away the festive gummy layers (which were decent, kinda like slightly sweeter and firmer Jello Jigglers) you pop open the egg and there's a kit toy inside.

In my case, a baby T-rex.

Not bad, Zuru.

[shutterandpencil]

"Just Minis"

I usually don't take pictures of just miniatures themselves, but I wound up doing that, today.

[tamapalace]

Zuru Toy Mini Brand x Tamagotchi Original Miniatures

These have actually been available for a few years now, but we haven’t wrote about them! Mini Brands are the real brands that of things you know and love in your hand. There are over 90 miniatures of your favorite brands to collect. In these capsules that you can find at toy stores and other department stores, you’ll receive 5 mystery miniatures in every capsule.

image source: Fuzzy N Chic Liew

There are two versions of miniature Tamagotchi’s, one that was released a few years back, and the more recent one with updated packaging. It looks like they’ll need to update the miniatures again with the rebrand! There are even different Tamagotchi Original shell designs too, which make them super collectable!

Have you gotten your hands on these Tamagotchi miniatures?

[rainbowhighfan]

I need to get lights for inside the rainbow high house but my minibrands look fantastic in the house. 💕😍

[minzi2024]

this little thing makes me really happy ^^