Today's featured Advent is from a brand that intrigues me as well as one that I have to resist spending my money on. Actually, it's not just one brand. It's literally dozens of brands in extremely small form and I want them so bad...
Toy company Zuru has been selling a line of collectible tchotchkes called Mini Brands for several years now. They produce mystery packs of microscopic representations of product franchises such as Disney, Nickelodeon, Crayola, Kellogg's, Kodak, Reebok and MasterChef- all in the same kits! For a fan of crossovers, Mini Brands is the ultimate joiner of products and franchises never in a million years would I have thought possible.
Last year one of my students gave me a blind box grab bag. I got a tiny, WORKING, View Master, a game of Life and a couple of Star Wars toys. I ended up making of them into magnets. (The View Master was too big and clunky.) They're treasures little keepsakes in my office at work.
With the Mini Brands Advent Calendar, there's 24 mystery collectibles to unearth. Unfortunately, the element of surprise is missing here because a image of each item is partially behind the corresponding day on the Advent. For example on Day 5, your supposed to get a miniature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure, in package. You just don't know which character you will get. Despite that obstructed view, I'm disappointed that the sense of wonder has been removed from this Advent calendar. Maybe the images are giant fake outs to throw off the user of this countdown to Christmas. But I doubt it.
Sadly, the one brand I don't think we'll see is Warner Bros. properties. I bet Disney has put the kibosh on any sort of pairing with the gang from Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo and the DC Universe. Big Bullies!!! Speaking of DC, let's take a look at my Batman Advent prize for today...
I received a set of 4 cards. They have quotes from Batman on them. Not really sure what I would do with them in the real world. And to be honest, I'm getting pretty glad that I didn't pay the $29.99 retail price for this calendar. Not quite a week in and I don't think the combined value of all these doodads is more than 99 cents.
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