Warning: don't read this post if you don't want to know what's inside the 2016 Thomas & Friends MINIS Advent Calendar from Fisher Price!
Day 1: Classics Salty
Day 2: Old School Scruff
Day 3: Chillin' Skarloey
Day 4: Classics Thomas
Day 5: Classics Percy
Day 6: Classics Victor
Day 7: Classics D-10 (Diesel 10)
Day 8: Classics Charlie
Day 9: Classics Bash
Day 10: Chillin' Edward
Day 11: Chillin' Paxton
Day 12: Chillin' Sidney
Day 13: Old School Spencer
Day 14: Old School Diesel
Day 15: Dinos Stephen
Day 16: Neon Toby
Day 17: Robo Henry
Day 18: Robo Charlie
Day 19: Christmas Ben
Day 20: Christmas Toby
Day 21: Christmas Diesel
Day 22: Christmas James
Day 23: Christmas Henry
Day 24: Christmas Thomas (Santa Claus Thomas!)
UPDATE 1/15/2016: If you're at Target DO NOT use these codes! These are the codes for 2015 Thomas Minis blind bags which were WalMart exclusives. Target has 2016 Thomas and Friends Minis blind bags, with new, different codes. We will post with the updated codes separately from this post. Again, WalMart 2015 and Target 2016 Thomas Minis have two different codes. If you're not sure, take a look at the front of the bag. The 2015 bags mostly just say MINIS and sometimes have the code. The 2016 bags have a red strip that say 2016/1 (2016 wave 1).
New 2015 Thomas blind bags are here! Kind of.
It's taking a long time for them to roll out in all the stores here in the U.S., complicated by the fact that we can only buy them at WalMart. In the States, Thomas minis are a WalMart exclusive.
As you may know, the first wave of Thomas blind bags was released back in the Spring of this year. They only released blind bags with codes 01 through 18, with plans to release the rest in the fall. Well, fall is here (or it will be in a couple of weeks), so the new bags have started popping up in stores.
The thing is, most of our local Bay Area WalMarts still have the old bags, with codes 01 though 18. :( I was so excited to find some of the new ones at WalMart in the next town over, only to return to that WalMart a couple of days ago to find the old ones back on the shelves. I did manage to pick up nearly all of them with codes starting at number 38 up to 60, with a few missing in the 50s. I picked up the rest last week in a very,very remote Northern California WalMart.
Meanwhile, we are still missing blind bags 19 through 37, although one viewer mentioned that he's only been able to find as high as 37 in New Jersey, the opposite side of the country. So it looks like different parts of the U.S. are getting different bags so far.
We're also missing 61 on up. That was originally supposed to say 61 through 75, but Fisher Price threw us a curveball this time-- they've added 8 new Thomas minis to the list, bringing the total number of Thomas minis available to 83. And the new additions are extremely cool. While the original lineup did include five generic superhero versions of Thomas, Samson, Victor, Hiro, and Diesel, they've since added licensed versions of DC Comics super heroes! There's Thomas as Batman, Percy as Robin, James as the Flash, Thomas as Superman, D-10 as the Joker, Millie as Harley Quinn, Charlie as the Riddler, and Spencer as Cyborg. (Am I the only one having a hard time with their renaming of Diesel 10 as "D-10"? Sheesh.)
With the new minis, they've changed the flyer checklist that comes in the blind bags, removing all of the Classics series and replacing it with the DC Super Friends trains. It's worth noting that there's a glaring error on the new flyer, with some of the trains on the opposite side labeled with the wrong names.
Anyway, here are ALL the Thomas & Friends minis blind bag codes available to me so far. As always, use at your own risk and if you get something different from me, please let me know.
Note: they've moved the blind bag codes from the middle of the front on the left to the back upper right corner of the bags. There is a four-digit batch code, a forward slash, then the two-digit blind bag code.
Wave 1 Thomas minis blind bags released Spring 2015: 01 - Classics Thomas 02 - Spooky Percy 03 - Metallic James 04 - Racers Gordon 05 - Classics Edward 06 - Spooky Salty 07 - Neon Toby 08 - Classics Henry 09 - Old School Diesel 10 - Spooky Emily 11 - Classics Dash 12 - Classics Diesel 10 "D-10" 13 - Chillin' Paxton 14 - Classics Stephen 15 - Heroes Victor 16 - Classics Scruff 17 - Racers Bill 18 - Classics Bert Wave 2 Thomas minis blind bags released Autumn 2015: 38 - Racers Thomas 39 - Dino Percy 40 - Classics James 41 - Chillin' Gordon 42 - Robo Edward 43 - Old School Salty 44 - Classics Spencer 45 - Robo Henry 46 - Heroes Diesel 47 - Classics Emily 48 - Racers Dash49 - Classics Paxton 50 - Dino Stephen 51 - Classics Victor 52 - Old School Scruff 53 - Classics Bill 54 - Neon Bert 55 - Classics Luke 56 - Spooky Porter 57 - Thomas as Superman 58 - Diesel 10 D-10 as the Joker 59 - Millie as Harley Quinn 60 - Spencer as Cyborg
Here's a sneak peak of the flyer from the new Thomas and Friends blind bags. I'll be posting the codes for the bags we've been able to find here on the blog in the coming days, as well as the opening videos on YouTube. Really exciting (hint: Thomas and Friends as DC Comics characters).
Thomas the Train characters as DC Super Friends -- Thomas as Batman, Percy as Robin, James as the Flash, Thomas and Superman, Diesel 10 "D-10" as the Joker, Millie as Harley Quinn, Charlie as the Riddler, Spencer as Cyborg.
I also wanted to point out that the opposite side of this flyer (not pictured) has a glaring error; they switched out the rows for "Racers" and "Heroes", but left the engine names from the previous version. So for instance, Heroes Thomas is labeled as Gordon, since he's in the spot formerly occupied by Racers Gordon.
We finally got our hands on some new Thomas and Friends minis! I've been waiting ever since someone told me on Instagram that Australia basically already has access to all 75 blind bags! So jelly!
So far we've only been able to find two new 8-packs, and two new 3-packs (I was thinking there might be three 3-packs like the release earlier this year). We haven't found any new blind bags yet. As usual, the minis are only available at WalMart here in the US.
Here is the list of characters the new Fall 2015 packages of Thomas minis contain:
THOMAS MINI 3-PACK #1:
Classics Bert
Old School Spencer
Dino Stephen
THOMAS MINI 3-PACK #2:
Neon Toby
Classics Millie
Chillin' Skarloey
THOMAS MINI 8-PACK #1:
Metallic Edward
Classics James
Classics Henry
Classics Stephen
Chillin' Paxton
Robo Toby
Classics Luke
Old School Salty
THOMAS MINI 8-PACK #2:
Robo Millie
Metallic Percy
Classics Edward
Classics Skarloey
Chillin' Gordon
Classics Samson
Racers Spencer
Classics Diesel
Here are the Imaginext series 4 codes:
71 - Snowboarder
72 - Wicked Witch
77 - Space Monkey/ Planet of the Apes
78 - Boxer
79 - Robot Alien
80 - Bozo the Clown/Clown figure
81 - Basketball player
82 - Mad scientist
I actually don't have a whole lot to say about Series 4 Imaginext blind bags, lol. This time, they actually stuck in a couple of female figures, and the lack of female figures has been a complaint among toy bloggers in the past. But it was weird because for the first time Fisher Price split up the numbering on the blind bag codes, and made the two girls totally separate.
I just really love it when Imaginext makes the super quirky or unusual figures, or the clearly movie and TV inspired ones, and there just wasn't a whole lot of that this time around. However, the space monkey was a huge hit in our house and could possibly be based on Planet of the Apes.
There's often a sports player in each series, and this time there was both a basketball player and a boxer. Separately, there are also often extreme sports players, and it's interesting and awesome that they made this one, a snowboarder, a female.
There seems to always be an alien of some sort, despite the fact that they make an aliens series that is not blind-packed, so I always find those ones incredibly boring.
The witch is super cool! The witch face comes off with her hat a leaves just a regular green Imaginext figure face.
So, what do you think of Imaginext Series 4 blind bags? Not one of my favorites. We found the complete set at Target and it seemed to take forever to land in stores after seeing the initial rumblings online.
Here are the codes for the Thomas minis blind bags! I've made it into a handy graphic so you can pint it, gram it...you're free to do whatever you want with it. BUT! Use the codes at your own risk. I did spend some time checking the videos of other YouTubers, and their codes seem to match up with what we got. However, I've seen at least one Tumblr page that has completely different codes from us-- some of them for characters we haven't even seen available yet!
Again, WalMart 2015 and Target 2016 Thomas Minis have two different codes. If you're not sure, take a look at the front of the bag. The 2015 bags mostly just say MINIS and sometimes have the code. The 2016 bags have a red strip that say 2016/1 (2016 wave 1).
Thomas MINIS blind bag codes are found about a third of the way down on the left hand side of the Thomas and Friends blind bags, either on the front or back of the bag. There will be a batch code ("G46A" for instance), followed by a forward slash, and then a two-digit code. (I wasn't even paying attention to the batch codes because they were all the same, but learned that they were batch codes from awesome YouTuber Racegrooves, in a comment he left for Leokimvideo.)
The two digit code should match up to a Thomas character: Wave 1 Thomas minis blind bags released Spring 2015: 01 - Classics Thomas 02 - Spooky Percy 03 - Metallic James 04 - Racers Gordon 05 - Classics Edward 06 - Spooky Salty 07 - Neon Toby 08 - Classics Henry 09 - Old School Diesel 10 - Spooky Emily 11 - Classics Dash 12 - Classics Diesel 10 "D-10" 13 - Chillin' Paxton 14 - Classics Stephen 15 - Heroes Victor 16 - Classics Scruff 17 - Racers Bill 18 - Classics Bert Wave 2 Thomas minis blind bags released Autumn 2015: 38 - Racers Thomas 39 - Dino Percy 40 - Classics James 41 - Chillin' Gordon 42 - Robo Edward 43 - Old School Salty 44 - Classics Spencer 45 - Robo Henry 46 - Heroes Diesel 47 - Classics Emily 48 - Racers Dash 49 - Classics Paxton 50 - Dino Stephen 51 - Classics Victor 52 - Old School Scruff 53 - Classics Bill 54 - Neon Bert 55 - Classics Luke 56 - Spooky Porter 57 - Thomas as Superman 58 - Diesel 10 D-10 as the Joker 59 - Millie as Harley Quinn 60 - Spencer as Cyborg 61 - Golden Thomas/Metallic Thomas 62 - Metallic Percy 63 - Neon James 64 - Classics Gordon 65 - Racers Spencer 66 - Chillin' Edward 67 - Classics Toby 68 - Neon Henry 69 - Classics Bash 70 - Spooky D-10/Frankenstein Diesel-10 71 - Classics Hiro 72 - Robo Millie 73 - Classics Charlie 74 - Chillin' Sidney 75 - Classics Ben 76 - Chillin' Skarloey 77 - Classics Gator 78 - Classics Porter 79 - Heroes Samson (DC Super Friends Superheroes) 80 - Charlie as The Riddler 81 - Thomas as Batman 82 - James as Flash Gordon (a blind bag exclusive!) 83 - Percy as Robin
We are SO EXCITED that we managed to nab not just Rescue Bots Blurr, but also Salvage! Salvage was from Target and Blurr from Walmart, so we didn't even have to hit up eBay. YAY! We can't wait to see how these new bots join Rescue Bots season 4.
Check out our reviews of Salvage (a garbage truck) and Blurr (a racecar) here:
Have you SEEN the new Thomas minis?! To say that we're excited about them would be an understatement.
We've uploaded two of our Thomas and Friends minis videos to our YouTube toy channels, but we still have the blind bags to go! We'll be updating this space with the Thomas blind bag codes, so watch for that. In the meantime, you can peep our Thomas minis playlist here.....
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