Backpack Buddies 6 x Super Mario Series 2 (6 Individual Blind Bags)

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Add these characters to the Starter Course, rearrange it and combine with LEGO® Super Mario™ Expansion Sets to create new solo challenges and competitions with friends and family. Lego teased yet more Super Mario sets were on the way recently with an update to its Mario toy that made the plumber begin to cry out for his brother. Now that's pester power. For those thinking blind bags aren’t gambling: https://neurosciencenews.com/blind-bag-child-gambling-15348/. That’s just one article and there are many. Also, I recommend looking up what a Skinner Box is. Series 5 flips the script, and sees LEGO moving the format from 10-character sets, to 8-character complete sets, as well as introduces slightly larger and detailed models, but the big change is the shift from plastic blind bags to these small boxes.

I was a PlayStation, Xbox and for a brief period had a Dreamcast. Received a GameCube in a trade once, only because I wanted to play Resident Evil: Code Veronica. And I did. A lot. Other than that I barely touched it. I seem to be one of the few people who wasn’t all that into Nintendo products growing up. The Adventures with Mario Starter Course (71360), featuring the LEGO® Mario™ figure, is needed for the full play experience. As LEGO Mario jumps on these characters, he reacts in various ways.And calling these things loot boxes or akin to gambling is a real stretch. This is the product you’re buying – it’s the intention to be random. If every season had a character as rare as Mr Gold in it, then sure, that is more like loot box odds. You have a chance to get what you want in each case as it is here – not .01% of a chance the character is even in your city let alone the case in front of you. This feels like its encouraging an element of gambling, which I don’t believe is compatible with LEGO’s values, especially as these are aimed at kids. It also makes people more likely to buy more and more to get the characters they want, which encourages waste.

Having just got the starter set, I can see the appeal for people- my 4yr old adores Mario and making him “courses” bouncing on baddies etc For the next series I’d learnt by then that you could get the whole series by purchasing a whole row of a new box, so I purposely hunted out for weeks trying to find a store with an unopened box. This worked, and then – low and behold, Lego went the dodgy again and for the next couple of series didn’t even include 2 full sets in the next box. Also very anti consumer, artificially driving up the rarity of a couple of the characters in my opinion, and making collecting full sets super hard (what do you do with the not quite complete second set in the box?)I don’t know why they couldn’t just make sure the list of names matched up with the characters in the lineup photo. The yellow action stands and the trans-yellow hand-lightning are the only two parts that immediately draw my interest, but does Crowber come with a new color of base to represent sky? Not necessarily. They could simply roll it out because they had planned to, anyway, and cancelling the product would be more expensive then just firing it out. You know, it's not like they are deciding this from month to month or even every half year. Lead-in times for such products can be two years and longer and you wouldn't notice it.