L is for Lost . . . Kitties!

I'm going to try and tackle the backlog of capsule toy and bland-bag stuff, popping one between each pair of donation posts, and it seems fitting to start with another contribution! Brian Berke found these back in the autumn of last year, and from the date given and the price, we can assume clearance of an unsuccessful line, so good luck finding any, but someone will be selling full sets on evilBay at some point, almost certainly for a premium they don't merit!

 

But, it's cats! And we like cats here, even daft, multicoloured, cartoon cats, and this is how they come, a quite substantial 'blind box', like a small milk-carton of the 1980's. Not Lost Kitties, just hidden, by Hasbro!

 

The material seems to be a wheat-chaff sand, titled "moulding compound", so a bit like Play-Doh maybe, but with more texture on the fingers? It looks like peanut butter, and one suspects the warning on the packaging wasn't enough to prevent some juveniles helping themselves to a portion!

 

Obverse of the flyer, should enlarge to the point where you can get a good idea of the whole set, which probably never went to a second wave, despite the urging to buy before early 2019, suggesting a limited shelf-life, as things like Shopkins and Lego minifig sets have, to make way for the next tranche/issue?

 

It's looking even more like peanut butter, once Brian started digging in it, I'm actually going to have a soft roll with PB, as soon as I finish editing this, as it's making me hungry, just looking at it!

 

Well, I didn't make it to the end of the editing, I finished the line and made myself a quick Warburton's soft white with Sunpat smooth . . . Much better now!

 

It says three items, but I suspect that's a sticker in the bag, for a four count, emergency-green, contortionist 'Cubbie' cat, basket, calculator (as '80's as a folded, waxed, milk carton!) and sticker. For the right age-group/target market, I can see these being a lot of fun, but with the wrong marketing, or the wrong promotional budget, many of these concepts fail within months, remember the Horrible Histories figures?

 

We don't see him so often these days, only due to circumstance, but the very useful Crescent sniper, size comparison shot, says these are quite large compared to some of the other blind-bag toys out there. Many thanks to Brian for spotting this, and sending us so many images.