Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Thomas MINIS Advent Calendar!
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!)
Friday, September 11, 2015
Thomas MINIS blind bag Codes (updated with new WAVE 2 Thomas & Friends blind bag codes)
This post is for the 2015 Thomas & Friends blind bags available from WalMart. If you're at Target, do not use these codes!
Find a more complete list of WalMart's 2015 Thomas MINIS blind bag codes here.
Find Target's 2016 Thomas MINIS blind bag codes here.
Find a complete archive of Thomas and Friends blind bags flyers here.
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
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
New Thomas blind bags! (Superman Thomas! Batman Thomas!)
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).
Monday, August 17, 2015
Thomas Minis NEW for Fall 2015!
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
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
Friday, August 7, 2015
Imaginext blind bag codes: SERIES 4
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.
Watch our YouTube toy review here:
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.
Watch our YouTube toy review here:
Saturday, April 25, 2015
10k subscriber giveaways!
That's right, giveawayS, as in two different giveaways, and you can enter both!
We're giving away Dinosaur Train Tiny Pteranodon and some Thomas and Friends Minis over on our YouTube channel in order to celebrate hitting 10,000 subscribers. (Whoops, we're almost at 13k now!)
Watch and comment on each video to enter. The giveaway closes TODAY! So hurry!
Dinosaur Train toy giveaway
Thomas and Friends Minis giveaway
We're giving away Dinosaur Train Tiny Pteranodon and some Thomas and Friends Minis over on our YouTube channel in order to celebrate hitting 10,000 subscribers. (Whoops, we're almost at 13k now!)
Watch and comment on each video to enter. The giveaway closes TODAY! So hurry!
Dinosaur Train toy giveaway
Thomas and Friends Minis giveaway
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Thomas MINIS blind bag codes 2015
This post is for the 2015 Thomas & Friends blind bags available from WalMart. If you're at Target, do not use these codes!
Find Toys R Us and Target's 2016 Thomas MINIS blind bag codes here.
Find a complete archive of Thomas and Friends blind bags flyers here.
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
You can see us open up our Thomas and Friends MINIS blind bags here:
Thomas MINIS bags 1-9
Thomas blind bags 10-18
Thomas blind bags 61-83
And don't forget to watch our Thomas MINIS playlist, which also includes our Collector's Playwheel MINIS case with Golden Thomas.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Transformers Rescue Bots: Blurr and Salvage
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:
Thomas MINIS! We have mini-fever XD
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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