Have you heard of Zuru five surprise unicorn squad/fariry unicorn squad? If so, what are your thoughts on them? I’ve started collecting a few myself and they’re actually pretty decent by surprise toy standards.
I had not heard of it!
But now...I've looked it up to see what it's all about. Zuru is really interesting as a brand, because of its quite low price point but then apparent quality. I had seen plenty of the Zuru Sparkle Girlz unicorns at Walmart (they're unpackaged, and just have a tag on the collar to buy them at about 2 or 3 dollars each) and then more recently the larger ones with movable legs appearing at Big Lots.
I guess they're technically 'pony fakies' at their little size, but they're CLEARLY better quality than any of the G4 (late) and G5 stuff. They have 4 rows of hair for the mane, plus bangs, plus a 'rim' of hair around the face to give them a dolly hairline. The hair is also nylon that feels quality, not that crunchy, stiff, cheap-as-possible junk Hasbro's been using and then charging like 4x more for recently on everything.
How is Zuru doing it? Great colors, obviously tons of 'characters', big toys and like...ultra-low pricing?
As for the 5 Surprise, I'm not surprised at all that they are quality and variety. They've gone from 'ugly fake barbie doll in a cone' to a real contender with their variety of fairies and unicorns that they are actually putting effort into. Movable limbs, brushable hair, accessories, and special paint for 'surprise-bag' toys is good, however they seem to run about 10 dollars each which is high for something you don't know what you'll get.
Opinion time:
I probably won't get these, as they're not quite 'pony like' enough with their forward facing eyes (better than G5 but still) and the noses look like a tube on a balloon. It's too separate from the face/maybe going for that 'puppy dog' look. It makes an ok toy that is fine to like, but it is not a type that I will like enough to collect. If they molded the 5Surprise like the medium ones, I might be tempted.
Their Zuru regular ones seem to go for a bit of the G2 look (good for fans of that) with taller heads, but their nose/mouth is unified with the head as it would be on a horse, which has more appeal (to me). If I find any Zuru anything at thrift of yard sale, it would likely appear as a TTT here though. (Thank you for letting me know about these!)
My first Selkie ever! Or I should say Selkies from .y 3 Item Surprise bag. uvu My heart was pounding out of my chest, I was so excited! I haven't bought any new outfits in so long and I've always wanted a Selkie. I gotta see everyone's dreamies. 🥺💗
for all my gacha pals! I now have surprise sticker bags available! It'll be 5 random stickers from my store that are no longer available! get them here
Danny is just a kid ya know? Like he is just a little guy. A baby really. 14? Tiny child! Look at him, he needs to be protected. Someone has to help this poor little dude. I mean he forgets to use his own powers to avoid attacks all the time.
Anyway cut to Batfam not knowing all of Dannys power set cause the lil dingus keeps forgetting he can do that stuff in the heat of battle.
Danny uses his invisibility all the time… to avoid being followed. But in a fight? Oopsies hes too busy thinking of funny one liners to realise he could do that.
Intangibility? Give the guy a break. I mean who calls themselves condiment king. Even he was stunned.
He so rarely actually uses his biggest advantage powers that the League doubt he actually has them. He, like any naive child, trusts them and reported fully on his power set. Instead of just asking him to demonstrate his powers they instead start watching him and try to find evidence of his powers.
At least they know duplication was true since they watched him make a copy of himself to go to the bathroom and not miss any of his fav tv show.
(since no one is reading my tags or other reblogs): this post has an addition. the addition is specifically about co-mingle recycling in most usamerican cities. always check your local guidelines for recycling. the point of this post was not to tell you what you can or can’t recycle, anyway. the point was that a lot of recycling gets thrown out because it’s fucking contaminated. if you can’t clean your recyclables to keep them from contaminating a whole bin, just put it in the trash. you don’t need to feel guilty about it... that's it. that's why i wrote the post.
even if you’ve never listened to naddpod, I implore you to listen to the new “Surprise Round” they released on the main feed which is just a straight hour of the cast debating how they would respond to a series of ridiculously unhinged hypothetical scenarios (content warning: heavy discussion of the grinch)