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[iwao]

Wish I'd found out about these sooner, I bought a series 2 12-pack today and they're pretty good, but it looks like series 1 was better overall. They were all on "clearance" as well, or at least what passes for clearance at Wal-Mart. $7 for the 12 packs, $3.50 for a 5 pack. Perhaps I should go get more...

It's actually a good time to get into them. Both waves of series 2 are out and $7 for a 12 pack is a good price for loading up on them. Series 1 was pretty much gone when I got into them too. I found a bunch of S1 2 packs at a Walgreens about a month ago and bought everything they had.

[bensonrad]

Slowly been buying some of the Series 2 packs in Argos here in the UK for 2x12 pack for £15, pretty pricy but can't find anywhere cheaper, I did manage to buy the shop display case from Series 1 (minus the figures) someone else paid something silly for those (not sure if some of them were rare or un-released) but I liked the idea of maybe having the case to display the figures I eventually collect put in it.

I found my little horde of crazy bones should anyone want to swap them for Trash Pack (any series)

Edited by bensonrad, 03 September 2012 - 07:00 AM.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Ooh, that offer's still on? I'm in Southport tomorrow, might pop into Argos and see if I can get any.

Regardless of how good they are, I still think they're over-pricey for bits of rubber less than an inch tall...

[Acidonia]

Ooh, that offer's still on? I'm in Southport tomorrow, might pop into Argos and see if I can get any.

Regardless of how good they are, I still think they're over-pricey for bits of rubber less than an inch tall...

It;'s not a offer it will be until next argos book comes out the Truck is also in 2 for £30 but onlt the older one not both which makes it kinda pointless. Argos is the only place in UK you can buy 12 packs and get the special edition fuzzy figures 2 in each 12 pack and normally 1 of the Astro trash figures in each 12 pack.

[bensonrad]

On the Argos website the offer carries on into next year, so I'd imagine the series 3 12 Packs when out at December in the UK will go in the offer too. As series 1 pretty much sold out on the shelves, I wonder how long it will be until the series 2 stuff starts to disappear, if certian figures are only made in X quantities, its not like they can manufacture another run of the same series. I've had to resort to ebay sadly to buy a few bulk lots to start filling the collection gaps.

[Spright]

I wanted to share this post from the UG. I found it very helpful. It explains about how each series is split into "waves". First wave you can only get 1/2 of the Trashies from the series. Second wave introduces the other half of Trashies you cant find when the series is first release. Also, the scale of rarity is bull$hit. Only special edition, limited editions and ultra rares such as Binfections and Astro Trash have any more rarity than others.

I've invested some time and money into these. Overall, a very frustrating experience. Let me explain.

First of all, the fact that this is a Toys R Us exclusive sucks. Not only are you limited to their few stores, but you're also subject to their jacked up prices. Guaranteed, if these were at Walmart or Target or anywhere else, they'd be less expensive.

Second, being a new item -- with limited distribution, and limited information online -- there's no resource or reference guide to help you sort things out. And there is no established trade network. So, you're on your own as a collector.

But Toys R Us is promoting these decently. Lots of display space. Nice layout in the weekly ad. And, as of this week at least, all pack varieties are buy two get one free.

So, recently I finally sorted all my Trashies.

I have 77 figures of a supposed 166-figure set. (This does not include an additional 6 exclusive Trashies that come with the carrying case, the display case, and the truck. I'm just talking about the 166 figures pictured in the booklet.)

To get just these 77 figures, I had to buy so many packs that I accumulated 84 duplicates. Geez.

I can offer them here for trade -- and I am -- but according to the observations that I am about to explain, as things are, I can only reasonably expect to accquire 8 more *at best* for a total of 85.

I don't know how things are in Australia (where the Trash Pack originated), but here in the US, it looks like only 85 have been made available -- not 166 -- with none of them being truly any more or less scarce than the others.

I found this all out by trial and error. Translated: Spending too much money.

Let me share some things I have concluded from examining what I have purchased, as well as looking at what others have put on ebay, often emailing these sellers only to find out that they've encountered the same frustration.

Because we're all missing the same stuff!

Looking at the booklet you see images of 166 Trashies. They are grouped into 6 subsets. Looking closer, you see that each subset shows certain characters available in three different color versions. There is a key indicating which are "common," "rare," "ultra rare," and "special edition." The three versions of each character are not grouped together and there is no consistency to the rarity of a color. Green might be "common" for one character and "ultra rare" for another.

5 of 6 subsets have one character shown in three color varieties all labeled "special edition." Five characters times three colors equals fifteen figures of this sort. 10 of these 15 figures, you'll find, are the glow-in-the-dark Trashies exclusive to the 12-packs. They are always prominently displayed in the packaging, and always in the same pairs, so, buy 5 of the 12-packs and there you go, you have all five of the blue and all 5 of the green glow-in-the-dark Trashies. But what about the other 5? The yellow ones?

Beats me. But one thing is obvious; they are not at Toys R Us at all.

Similarly, notice the subset of 10 called the Bin-Fections. These are shown to be available in both blue and yellow, and all are "ultra rare." They do not come visibly displayed in any package type, so you have to pull them at random. Yet, you buy enough packs, you'll come across all 5 of the blue ones easily. In fact, when you do the math, you'll see that you are just as likely to pull these "ultra rare" Trashies as you are any of the other ones labeled "common." That's cool, I guess, at least I got all the blue ones. So what about the 5 yellow Bin-Fections?

Beats me. Seems they simply just aren't at Toys R Us.

We'll never know for sure what's intentional and what's possibly some kind of error, but in all, these are the issues I have found with the Trash Pack and their exclusive TRU release:

1. The 5 yellow glow-in-the-dark figures are just not at TRU.

2. The 5 yellow Bin-Fections are just not at TRU.

3. A total of 12 characters (at least one from every subset) are just not to be found at TRU.

4. These missing characters are: Mouldy Milk, Garbage Egg, Sicken Chicken, Off Cheese, Scummy Screen, Loo Paper, Crud Can, Rott Box, Mucky Maggot, Bin Scab Beetle, Garbage Gull, and Rankenstein. (This is 12 characters times 3 colors each = an additional 36 figures missing.)

5. That leaves only 40 characters that have been made available for a blind random pull in the TRU retail packs. (This excludes not only the 6 exclusive characters that are not listed in the booklet, but also the 5 glow-in-the-dark characters because they are always visible in the packs for selecting and never subject to random pulls.)

6. For most characters, there is absolutely no quantitative distinction between "common" and "rare" color versions. In other words, you are as likely to get one as the other.

7. The 5 blue "ultra rare" Bin-Fections are just as common as any of the other 35 characters when you consider the others as only a single color version. (Scarcity only increases from the perspective that they were only produced in two colors instead of three. Still, the liklihood of pulling any given "ultra rare" Bin-Fection in any given color is the same as pulling any given Bin-Sect, etc, in any given color.)

8. The 10 color versions of the remaining 35 characters that are actually available in TRU retail packs that are marked "ultra rare" must really truly be rare IF THEY ARE AVAILABLE AT ALL. (No "odds" have been published for this release, but I have never pulled one, met anyone who has, or even seen a single one on ebay.)

9. Of the other 25 (of 35 known to be available) that have no "ultra rare" version shown in the booklet, almost all still have one "rare" color version that must be just as scarce IF AVAILABLE AT ALL. (In other words, "rare" has no real distinction here. With some characters, the "rare" color is as common as the "common," and with other characters, the "rare" is as uncommon as "ultra rare" -- IF THE EXIST AT ALL)

10. Of the characters that you can actually find at TRU, 6 of them have the color form that you can never find labeled as "common" in the booklet! These are Slop Corn, Rotten Apple, Grott Dog, Foul Nugget, Noxious Bee, and Gross Rover. The color that you cannot find is the "common" purple, whereas the "ultra rare" orange is just as common as the "common" yellow.

11. The breakdown actually looks like this: Of three colors, two are actually equally common. Sometimes one of the two is called "rare" so you think you found something special. The third one is truly very rare or perhaps non-existent. The rarity distinction in the booklet is irrelevant to which color you will actually not be able to find. The fact is -- after buying over 150 Trashies -- I have yet to collect three color versions of even a single character, ANY CHARACTER, regardless of the rarity distictions given in the booklet.

12. The conclusion that I have come to is this: Of what is currently available at Toys R Us retail -- nationwide -- there will always be one and exactly one color form missing of EVERY CHARACTER in addition to the 12 afformentioned characters that are not to be found in any of their 3 color forms.

13. This means that of the 166 figures shown in the booklet, only 85 are available within the TRU retail packs! (35 characters X2 colors + 5 glow-in-the-dark X2 colors + 5 Bin-Fections X1 color = 85)

14. Interestingly, 166 minus 85 equals 81. Damn near half.

15. My question for Moose and Toys R Us is: Why are you selling us only HALF of what you're telling us is available?

I have a couple ideas. Most likely, when the current stock gets low -- all bought up by people eagerly spending money trying to find these missing Trashies -- then they'll send out another wave of packs with some different figures. Anyone just starting to collect then will be in the same situation, only waiting for the return of the first wave.

If you're just starting out: Beware. The scarcity listings in the booklet are misleading and the about half the set is currently unavailable.

If you are just starting out, and my theory is correct, just wait until some different ones start showing up in the packs, then we can trade. After all, I have 84 duplicates, and so many of them are ohhhh so "rare" and "ultra rare." You know you want 'em.
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Here are the results of my series 3 wave 1 & 2 research:
Wave 1
 TP series 3 wave 1.jpg   185.35K   16 downloads

Wave 2
 TP series 3 wave 2.jpg   169.25K   21 downloads

Some characters won't make an appearance until wave 2. They are Yuck Ketchup, Sticky Pop, Trash Iron, Foul Fish Bowl, Barf B Q, Trashantula, Ugly Bed Bug, Icky Tick, Slobseter, Shabby Shark, Bin Brute and Gas Ghost. Also, the gray special edition color change Trashies won't be available until wave 2.

I don't think I'll buy many packs until wave 2 is released.

Edited by Spright, 04 September 2012 - 06:52 AM.

[bensonrad]

Very interesting reading, that'll be how they'll keep them coming until December here in that case. I have taken a photo of the display case I recently managed to acquire via ebay, I was winning bidding, but the listing was pulled as the seller was getting lots of offers for the figures. Someone paid a fortune to have just the figures inside, and I managed to then get the left over display case from the seller which he had left over.

http://www.flickr.co...s/59660509@N06/

I was trying to ID the figures last night, I am pretty sure virtually all of them are just normal figures you could get in packets, aside maybe a couple in the far right of the case (can anyone spot anything different at all?) I also have all those Crazy Bone figures up for swap trade for Trash Pack figures if anyone fancies some trades.
Cheers
Ben

[Strontium Dog]

The figures just look like regular Trash Pack, albeit some of them are a little harder to get. However that display case is brilliant and definitely the better part of the deal.

[bensonrad]

The figures just look like regular Trash Pack, albeit some of them are a little harder to get. However that display case is brilliant and definitely the better part of the deal.

hhmm, thats what I thought, the figures had been glued on as well, so who ever had those will have glue residue all over the bottom of them. I was suprised and lucky they didn't want the case, which had been the main thing I was after. They still have a complete one in my local toy shop, but they have said they will not be getting rid of it and will continue to use it ontop of the stand, no matter what series is out. I like to collect any point of sale stuff for things I like, so will be trying to pick up empty boxes/packaging etc as well.

[Threat]

hhmm, thats what I thought, the figures had been glued on as well, so who ever had those will have glue residue all over the bottom of them. I was suprised and lucky they didn't want the case, which had been the main thing I was after. They still have a complete one in my local toy shop, but they have said they will not be getting rid of it and will continue to use it ontop of the stand, no matter what series is out. I like to collect any point of sale stuff for things I like, so will be trying to pick up empty boxes/packaging etc as well.

pretty sure it's toys r us who glue those on. I've seen the same display at the stores before.

[BAPESTER]

Has anyone been lucky enough to get the blue spew-ghetti guy from series 2?

[laserbeast]

Has anyone been lucky enough to get the blue spew-ghetti guy from series 2?

Indeed, pulled from an egg.

[Spright]

Has anyone been lucky enough to get the blue spew-ghetti guy from series 2?

No such luck. I only need 12 more from series 2 and that's one of them.

Edited by Spright, 12 September 2012 - 08:05 AM.

[bensonrad]

I've not got that one yet, but am relatively new to collecting them, I did pick up a joblot of 86 series 2 figure each with a bin the other day. So plan on working out which spares that may have created later once I update my check lists.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Smashing case that, good one! I've still only got that first dozen Trashies that Moose sent me. It's getting more and more difficult to get into town these days, which is a bugger.

[bensonrad]

Yep tell me about it, still need 72 more to complete Series 2, and way more for Series 1. Won't be long till the Series 2 run out in the shops and Series takes over.

I have plenty of crazy bones and various other bits in that picture link if anyone wants to trade those for Trashies.

Edited by bensonrad, 14 September 2012 - 06:40 AM.

[Trucknorth]

Who is trading series 1 still.

[Jeremy0477]

The series 2 5-packs are at my local walmart for 3.50, marked down from 5. You can see 2 of the 5 in the package. The 7-packs with the one bigger can are marked from 7 to 5 dollars I believe. There were maybe 6-7 of each yesterday afternoon. I may go back and swipe them all, if that is a good deal? Not sure, have only about 12 or so total and can't remember exactly what I paid.

[seekingxar]

Does anyone know what guys come with the cards they are now selling at Toys R Us? I'm looking for Gunk Pumpkin but seems like he is only in Series 3 packs? or is it a chance that Series 3 comes in those card packs too?

[bensonrad]

Had a bit of luck at the weekend, picked up a nice empty box off the shelf in a toy shop and they let me have it which will be handy for storing my stuff in. Not only that, the (empty) display case I bought will soon have all the figures back in it. Whoever was paying for them originally never paid up, so the seller had put the whole lot in one of those fold up collector cases and I managed to win the listing, so they will all be coming home to their display case, it will be interesting to see what exactly it was that made someone offer silly money for them in the first place.

[Spright]

Does anyone know what guys come with the cards they are now selling at Toys R Us? I'm looking for Gunk Pumpkin but seems like he is only in Series 3 packs? or is it a chance that Series 3 comes in those card packs too?

Yeah, Gunk Pumpkin is series 3 (blue cans) and the trading cards all feature series 3. They sell 8 packs of cards that come with a mystery Trashie, which I assume is a series 3 but I could be wrong. There are also packs of cards that come with one of 3 collector's tins. Those come with a dice Trashie to use in gameplay.
Series 3 and the cards have just been released in the US. So far TRU is the only place that has them, They haven't shown up at Target or Wal-mart yet.

[seekingxar]

TRU by me has a ton of Series 3 12 packs and small cans...so if you guys are looking for these get to your TRU

[Muscle Things]

mine too

[Red5]

Does anyone know what guys come with the cards they are now selling at Toys R Us? I'm looking for Gunk Pumpkin but seems like he is only in Series 3 packs? or is it a chance that Series 3 comes in those card packs too?

Which color do you want? PM me

[seekingxar]

Which color do you want? PM me

I just want the orange color...I will send you a PM