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

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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.

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. 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.Also bare in mind that lots of people wont comment on a thread about Lego Mario that Lego Mario is selling well in their area, as that is the default assumption. LEGO® and Nintendo have teamed up to create an all-new LEGO® Super Mario. Kids can now bring their favourite characters into the real world with collectable LEGO® Super Mario toys!

However, if sales are negatively affected, lego will likely do what they should have at first and added a QR code to verify the contents. Doing that would solve the problem from the consumer’s standpoint, while still making them money. This is our one shot to send the message early that what they’re doing is wrong. Sadly, I don’t have much faith that enough people will take a stand. 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. As you can see the price bump isn’t completely unjustified as you get a lot more stuff (compared to Series 4’s Freezie) and it does look more substantial.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?) Still, hope LEGO continues to have success with it. Just wish it was Crash Bandicoot or something… :)"