Real Littles Shopkins & Zuru Mini Brands Miniatures

May has come and almost gone and I haven't even posted a blog post yet! 
I have many things I wanted to blog about but one of the things I am a day late and (many dollars short) on posting about is the Real Littles Shopkins and the Mini Brands (Zuru) that My Froggy Stuff on YouTube has posted about as well as Barbie Gets Real on Youtube too. They both have done de-boxing on these unique miniatures that are playscale. MiniBrands and Shopkins are sometimes slightly larger than 1:6 but work for the dolls, especially Integrity dolls, and the larger items can work for Tonner dolls and even American Girl dolls. 

So where DO you find them? Good question! 

Your best best is Target. They advertise on locations as having them at Walmart, but I have not found MiniBrands at Walmart. Target is the best location I have found. 

Below is a photo of the two items - I purchased two Mini Brands and one Shopkinds item.

  As you can see, the Mini Shopping brands come in round plastic ball shaped plastic packages, with LOTS of waste packaging. My Froggy stuff shows how to use the plastic tubes in one of her videos as shelving in a shop. 

These come with six items as well as a catalog showing items to collect. The shopkins above comes with two, and a catalog, and is cheaper, but was sloppy. I had to put it under water! which caused a mess in my sink and it was still in plastic cube. I had to clean my sink before opening the packaging. So a heads up - it makes a huge blue slop that might stop up your sink. ick. 

                                                                        

Here are the two items I got out of the Shopkins after I cleaned up the packaging.  They are in more plastic after I got rid of the plastic cubing. 

Shopkins catalog insert

    On the interior of each shopkins, the little character was wrapped in this packaging. You will need scissors to open this or an exacto knife. 

                                                                                              Cherry Vanilla Shopkins

                                                                                           Scribblers shopkins 

 These two were extremely cute. The Breyer's ice cream carton is very large, and so is the Scribblers container, but will work for playscale. 

                                  

Opening the Mini Brands egg

LOTS of waste packaging material. 

Mini Brands Zuru catalog shows the rare brands and all the brands that you can tick off as you collect.

I received two of these Butter items

Of course, my Poppy cannot choose which one she likes the most. I think she likes the Moonpies and the donnettes the best since she has the sweet tooth. My Sheldon will have to have those Moonpies. I will need to do a scene with him and Amy arguing about Me-Maw coming to visit and calling him Moonpie. lol 

The other Minibrands and shopkins in the background are older ones I picked up in a larger set from Walmart a few months ago. I can say now I am hooked and want to create a grocery store now or a convenience store.