imsirius
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Post by imsirius on May 15, 2015 11:38:32 GMT
My six year old discovered these little things about a month ago. She now has 89 of them and she is always looking for more. Thing is, they are SO popular here that we can't find them anywhere! Nobody seems to stock them in large quantities. A case here, a case there and that's it. Moose toys needs to step up their production line because I can't hear any more of "did you find any shopkins?" It's driving me nuts!  |
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Post by bigbundt on May 15, 2015 12:48:59 GMT
My four year has been into them since around Christmas. I don't know how many she has but it is a lot and she LOVES them. It used to be that only Target stocked them in my town but in the last couple of months Wal-Mart has been stocking them. I don't think people know it yet because Target was out of stock for a few months, like nothing in stock just empty pegs. I can usually find the larger packs at Wal-Mart and they seem to get in the blind bag shopping baskets a lot faster than Target too.  |
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Post by hop2 on May 15, 2015 12:57:27 GMT
Well since they are pea children can we 'assume' they have the jello mold and peas shopkins?
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 15, 2015 14:26:18 GMT
Mine wants to be, but I refuse to submit! I hate getting sucked into the "Collect them ALL!"
mentality. Ugh.
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Post by tallgirl on May 15, 2015 14:28:31 GMT
Yes! My DD loves these things. She first asked for them for Christmas and I had to buy from an eBay seller in the UK and have it shipped here (Canada). Since then they have not gotten any easier to find; I have looked for blind bags to throw in her Easter basket etc. but still having trouble.
I read somewhere about the distribution problems the company is having. At this rate my daughter will be 'over it' before we have the chance to buy any more.
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Post by georgiapea on May 15, 2015 14:47:16 GMT
Not having any girl children in the family (just 1 boy GGS) I hadn't a clue what they were. How darling, little food stuffs and cosmetics with cute little faces. They make me think of Strawberry Shortcake!
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Post by giatocj on May 15, 2015 15:14:24 GMT
I just googled them because I had no idea what they were (how adorable, by the way!) and came across a whole bunch of coloring pages for them. I just thought I would share that tidbit in case anyone was interested  On another note, I did see there is an ice cube one. Does anyone know if that one is really hard to find? My grandsons were both born in January and I think this would be cute to put in their memory boxes. |
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Post by luckyexwife on May 15, 2015 15:42:12 GMT
They are hot at my son's preschool, so he got two sets in his Easter basket. He has 13, and he is happy with those...at least he hasn't asked for more!
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Post by bigbundt on May 15, 2015 16:37:46 GMT
On another note, I did see there is an ice cube one. Does anyone know if that one is really hard to find? My grandsons were both born in January and I think this would be cute to put in their memory boxes. Looks like that is a season one edition and season two is in the stores. You might be able to buy it on ebay or amazon but it will be at a premium. |
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Post by giatocj on May 15, 2015 16:49:42 GMT
On another note, I did see there is an ice cube one. Does anyone know if that one is really hard to find? My grandsons were both born in January and I think this would be cute to put in their memory boxes. Looks like that is a season one edition and season two is in the stores. You might be able to buy it on ebay or amazon but it will be at a premium. Well that stinks. But thank you so much for the info. I'll check ebay on the off chance there might be one at a decent price. |
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Post by maryland on May 15, 2015 17:51:20 GMT
Never heard of them, but googled and they are cute! My youngest is 12, but I bet my kids would have loved them when they were little.
If we know any little boys are girls to get a gift for, this will be it!
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on May 15, 2015 18:04:11 GMT
My daughter and all her friends love them. They have been pretty hard to find until recently. Our Seen On TV store has them now.- though they cost much more than Walmart or toys r us. When my daughter first stated liking them, I told her I refused to buy them (you could only get them in eBay) and I gave her a pack of Fimo and told her to make her own. . I'm a jerk, lol. My mom eventually got her some. What are grandmas for? As stupid as I think they are, talk about marketing. These things cost nothing to produce, will become uncool long before they run out of ideas for them (my niece is dying to get some toothpaste one. Like, WTF?) and have this manufactured "exclusive" factor that makes people buy shit crazily. I am seriously envious of the genius of them. Sure, they are a quick fad but man, someone is making a lot of money in the meantime. |
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Post by bigbundt on May 15, 2015 19:36:44 GMT
I like them because if you step on them, they don't hurt. My daughter was so thrilled to get the sparkly plunger. |
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Post by mikklynn on May 15, 2015 20:16:27 GMT
I never heard of them. Off to Google...
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Post by monklady123 on May 15, 2015 21:14:56 GMT
I never heard of them. Off to Google... Same here. |
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Post by ~Susan~ on May 15, 2015 22:33:47 GMT
My girls are way too old for toys anymore  But I'm almost positive that this is something that they would have wanted. I lived through Polly Pocket and Littlest Pet Shop collecting  |
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Post by Grom Pea on May 16, 2015 1:53:19 GMT
My niece has a ton and we just arrived for a visit yesterday. My 3 year old son just learned the word shopkins and has been saying it all day, at first I thought he was saying shotgun, lol! He likes to take the lipstick and try to wrote with it. I think he thinks it's a crayon. My niece has the sparkly plunger, they are so cute and funny. My aunt thought the plunger was a dinner bell. My sister tells me that my niece started the fad amongst her friends because she saw it on TV. They all had trouble hunting then down but found them at the paper store which is a hallmark chain, apparently they're also at toys r us. I may owe her some soon if ds loses them so I tried to pay attention to where I could get them.
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Post by ~Tracy~ on May 16, 2015 2:09:10 GMT
The French baguette (or whatever it's supposed to be), looks like male genetalia. Go ahead and google it yourselves.
And, yes, my DD loves them and so do her little 4th grade friends!
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Post by coffeetalk on May 16, 2015 2:22:30 GMT
The French baguette (or whatever it's supposed to be), looks like male genetalia. Go ahead and google it yourselves. And, yes, my DD loves them and so do her little 4th grade friends! LOL, it does  |
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Post by hop2 on May 16, 2015 2:36:53 GMT
The French baguette (or whatever it's supposed to be), looks like male genetalia. Go ahead and google it yourselves. And, yes, my DD loves them and so do her little 4th grade friends! LOL, it does And unhealthy if you find the one with the red hat. |
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Post by luckyexwife on May 16, 2015 2:42:29 GMT
The French baguette (or whatever it's supposed to be), looks like male genetalia. Go ahead and google it yourselves. And, yes, my DD loves them and so do her little 4th grade friends! The little broom/sweeper handle looks interesting as well! |
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Post by Freefallfast on May 16, 2015 4:13:00 GMT
So cute. Ugh. Now I may start collecting them. I love crap like this.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 4:19:41 GMT
They're cute. My dd got into collecting Squinkies.
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Post by modiemay on May 16, 2015 4:31:11 GMT
My DD has loved them for about 10mths or more. Amazon,has a decent selection but yeah, they are hard to find.
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Post by magenta on May 16, 2015 6:32:29 GMT
Luckily my daughters don't have much interest in them. Unfortunately my daughter's friends do. I say unfortunately because she's been invited to a few birthday parties where this is on the top of the birthday girls' lists, and they're so hard to find in stores!
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Post by peaname on May 16, 2015 13:49:22 GMT
My 6 year old boy is obsessed with the boy version-Trashies. They're hard to find because they weren't selling. They come in little toilets and garbage cans. Shopkins are so much cuter!
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imsirius
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Post by imsirius on May 17, 2015 14:16:21 GMT
Thanks for all the comments!
I'm in Canada and yes the Showcase (as seen on TV) stores always have them in stock but they are triple the price of WalMart or Toys R Us!! I refuse to buy from Showcase as I think it's ridiculous how much they are marking them up.
Blind basket at Walmart here is 2.89. Blind basket at showcase? 5.99!!!! Yep it's that much! Ridiculous!!
As fast as the stores get them in, they are gone. Was at Toys R Us yesterday and they had a shipment put out at 10am. I got there at 10:45 and there were NONE left! All gone. It's crazy!
My daughter is so intent on finding a limited edition. I told her that it would be a miracle.
Season 3 comes out in the Fall I think (August/Sept?) and they have a jewel one that only has 1000 made or something stupid like that. It's going to be mayhem!
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Post by monklady123 on May 26, 2015 20:10:26 GMT
Lol. I had to search for and resurrect this thread because of my experience subbing in a kindergarten today. When this thread was originally posted I had no idea what a "Shopkin" was. My dd is almost 20 so she's a bit out of the age range who would be interested in these. lol So I arrived at the school this morning, and after I put my stuff away I went on down to the hall where the kindergarten students sit to wait for the bell. I found my class (one I've subbed for many times so I know these kids well) and said good morning to the ones who were there. One little girl immediately said "Oh Mrs. G. look at my book!" and she started showing me a Shopkins guidebook. She read me the names of many of them, and her two neighbors in line started saying things about this one or that one. Since I had googled when this thread first came out I knew a little about them. I asked her what her favorite was and said mine was Nutty Butter (which is the only one I could remember, and the only reason I remembered it is because I used to love Nutter Butter cookies). She looked at me with big eyes and said "You know about Shopkins???"  Thanks to the Peas I was able to impress a kindergartner. rofl. I love the kindergartners.  |
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Post by Layce on May 26, 2015 21:36:16 GMT
Oh that's funny, our granddaughter loves them and so far we've only found them at Target.
We even got a couple dozen or so for Easter (sure beats candy) and put them into the plastic eggs, hid them outside here & there, and that was her Easter Egg Hunt. I guess you had to be there, but. Hysterical. Most of the rest of the family hadn't ever heard of them!
She couldn't care less about the little purple (fuschia?) shopping bags that come with. And I think those are so cute!
Layce
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But I'm almost positive that this is something that they would have wanted. I lived through Polly Pocket and Littlest Pet Shop collecting 
