A Deep Dive Into Shopkins (where did they go?)
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
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In 2014 Shopkins began to explode in popularity via the online UA-cam toy space. I've seen a lot of people reflecting online about their alleged "discontinuation" in the last year, so I thought it'd be interesting to revisit Shopkins through the years!
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SOURCES:
www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...
kidscreen.com/2016/01/14/shop...
www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...
www.mysubscriptionaddiction.c...
www.forbes.com/profile/manny-...
web.archive.org/web/201806210...
kidscreen.com/2017/12/18/moos...
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MUSIC:
• Tell Me What's Cooking...
• Shopkins SONG 🌟 IT'S M...
• Ready to Go (Anywhere ...
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:43 Sponsor
3:06 Pre-Shopkins
7:53 The Beginning (Seasons 1 & 2)
10:04 Season 3\"Gemma Stone"
12:23 Shoppies
13:50 Season 4\Happy Meal Toys
15:13 2016 (Seasons 5 & 6)
18:30 2017 (Season 7 & 8 + Shopkins Direct)
21:36 Cookie Swirl C Movie Cameo???
23:49 Winnie Award
24:24 2018 (Season 9 & "Mini Packs")
26:27 Real Littles "Rebrand" (what happened?)
33:22 Closing Thoughts
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EDIT: please ignore around the 6:00 mark i accidentally left in footage where i messed up 😭 just clipped it out using youtube’s editor
Wait i thought you did that intentionally lol 😭
Please do puppy in my pocket
Please do puppy in my pocket
@@San_BestHannista same 😭
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I had a friend in 5th grade who always smelled like cat pee and told me once that she wiped the faces off of shopkins with nail polish remover so they could be food for her littlest pet shop. She said she had a machete that she could bring to school one day and we never saw her again. Hope queen is doing well
#freecatpissqueen
@@fruit4evrBYEE 😭 😭
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8:56 You did truly have to be there. I was HOOKED on CookieSwirlC's Shopkins videos. She made me love them more.
SAME!!
FUCKKKKK YES ... but Paul and Shannon Toy Reviews were the GOATs of my childhood
YESSS!!!
HELP SHES THE REASON I GOT THE SHOPKINS STORE SET FOR CHRISTMAS 😭🙏🙏
SAME I USED TO LOVE WATCHING HER VIDS LMAOO my dad used to mimic her intro to annoy me 😭😭 she was like my absolute favourite when I was a little kid
I was in high school during this time, but my younger sister was so obsessed with Shopkins back when she was a toddler. I remember playing with Shopkins because of her.... so many memories.... now she's 12 years old and into makeup and fashion. She still has a shopkins blanket, which she still uses to this day.....Why do they grow up so fast!?! 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
Sameee
Literally same, only my sister is 13 instead!!
I MAKE BETTER CONTENT THAN THIS. I'm a 30+ year old media creator with aspergers syndrome who is a jack of all trades with a passion for fighting against cyberbullying. I've been doing these kinds of things for over 10 years and I've picked up a whole set of different skills along the way.....
@ville__ Kudos to you for fighting cyberbullying, but you shouldn't self promo by putting down other creators!
@@InfintyNotDying They’re a bot, unfortunately
my family didn't buy toys much unless thrifted, so when I got an amazing report card, my dad brought me to toys r us to buy me two huge packs of shopkins. That was my first toy directly bought from it's retailer. That was my fondest memory, i miss them so much.
Omg that sounds so sweet 😭💕
As a kid who thrifted most of my toys too I relate 😭
That is so cute 😭🩷
I remember having bins and bins full of shopkins omg😭😭 this is gonna be so nostalgic for me
SAMEEE
Same!!!
And I had like ALL the playsets too!
Same!!!!
The Venn diagram between kids who played with shopkins and kids who watched Cookie Swirl C is a circle
Shopkins originating from Australia actually explains a lot for me. I remember there was this character that was fairy bread (Australian snack that's just bread with sprinkles) and I was so confused on what it was supposed to be as a kid.
Yes! Her name was Fairy Crumbs, if I remember right.
immediately my thought when she said that
i always thought it was supposed to be a pop tart!
imo the golden years of shopkins were definitely 2014-2016
CHIKA PFP?? I LOVE HER SM BEST LOVE LIVE GIRL
@@baylef TYY GLAD TO SEE ANOTHER CHIKA FAN
I collected shopkins but I remember that time Cookie swirl C voiced a cookie in the grossery gang named cookie hurl c
you have just unlocked one of my memories thank you internet stranger
@@Frongle444 you're welcome, internet stranger
Omg that name brings back nostalgia! 😮
I think her name was “Pukey Hurl C”
@@6.ivual.m3 I thought it was cookie because she was a cookie
When I was younger I was so mad that I didn’t get a rare Shopkins so my aunt just painted on glittery and I LOVED it
I HAD A RARE ONE AND I STILL HAVE IT TO THIS DAY
@@its_audri1072SAMEEE
THIS IS SO SWEET OMG
@@a-total-fool- my aunt is awesome
Honestly, Shopkins walking so Mini-Brands could run is so true. Shopkins fit those cute childhood toy themes of real items with eyes. Mini-Brands is just the adult version/realistic version of Shopkins. 😂
for sure
i remember never getting limited edition and i'm still so upset about that
I remember getting a limited edition when I was 10 and I was SHOCKED cuz I didn’t believe they were real LOL cuz none of my friends had any limited editions (and many of them were into Shopkins in 3rd-5th grade like me)
Right!!!! My little cousin got a limited edition and I was so jealous 😭
same lol I genuinely considered buying it off of someone just to fulfill that dream
I got a limited edition once and I was SO excited. The next morning, my little brother stole it from me, took it in the bath with him for some reason, and dropped it down the bathtub drain :((
REAL ID ALWAYS GET THE ULTRA RARES BUT NEVER THE LIMITED EDITION
I went to a whole shopkins themed trading birthday party in the third grade 😭 we all traded and got goodie bags with shopkins at the end and she was rich so the whole party was shopkins themed everywhere and her house was huge it’s literally such a vivid memory for me
i loved trading shopkins omg😭
i remember i scammed someone HELP
OH MY GOD SAME. I ALSO WENT TO A SHOPKINS THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTY IN THE THIRD GRADE AND THE GIRLS HOUSE I WENT TO WAS ALSO RICH (HER HOUSE WAS HUGE) AND IDK IF THERE WERE SHOPKINS TRADING THINGS BECAUSE I LEFT EARLY
Shopkins were my LITERAL CHILDHOOD😭😭😭😭😭 I remember adoring them, and I witnessed their fall from fame. It was a short while after L.O.L. Surprise! dolls took over the market. It made me kinda sad to not see them around so much anymore.
I thank Cookie Swirl C for my love of shopkins as a kid
I wanted all the ones she got, but especially the baby shopkins because I thought they were so cute.
Same!!! I used to want the babies sooooo bad 😭
@@spidermaxinahat I knowww!!! I actually managed to get some of the baby ones! Specifically the ones Cookie Swirl got because I wanted to reenact her videos XD
as an english viewer, i can relate to this video sm. i had lunchboxes full of shopkins
Oh gosh nostalgia overload…. I had an entire tub of these when I was young. Is it just me or did anyone use the ones with holes as pencil toppers?
OMG YES! I got into shopkins in elementary school, and would use them as pencil toppers all the time! I’m almost 18 now and still have my whole collection 😂
I did not expect the My Froggy Stuff shout-out lol. I only got into her stuff last year and she's so talented! As a kid, I probably also would've preferred the mini brands to also use as proper props for my dolls but from what I've seen, I think it's still more of a collector's experience for gen alpha.
I remember those videos, especially the World Vacation Peppa Mint one
i never had shopkins but the ads r still lodged somewhere in my brain
once u shop u cant stop !!!
I used to love shopkins but I don’t even remember the shopkins ads! I remember the hex bugs one though, if anyone knows what that is! (WHATS THAT COMING OVER THE HILL?? IS IT A HEX BUG)
I barely know anything about Shopkins, but I love the designs of the Shoppies dolls. They're really cute, I'm a sucker for dolls with large and cartoony eyes, and some of them are extremely well designed, especially when it comes to the later released dolls (Lil' Secrets Jessicake looks just like Hatsune Miku and I love that so much).
As someone who loves character design more than fashion design for dolls, Shoppies are really good in that regard. It's a shame they're not articulated and have moulded on tops, but I don't mind that too much if I'm honest.
Honestly same, as someone who collected shopkins here and there, I loved the designs of the dolls but if they had more of an option than the skirts to be swapped they prolly could've performed better! They could've had the 5 points some barbies do of articulation and I would have gotten them.
When I was in elementary I was OBSESSED with Shopkins to the point where if I would pretty much do anything for them. Case and point, a kid had a crush on me and I felt nothing back so in exchange for being "together" (as much as a couple you could be in elementary) he bought me a pack of Shopkins. I broke up with him a few hours after receiving them, good times.
As an Australian, I didn't know they were Australian because the ads had an American accent, so I'd always assumed they were American😅
I am so severely glad you made a video about the Shopkins. Because, let me tell you, I might've been the biggest male fan of Shopkins to ever exist. I have been collecting them ever since they were first around back in 2014, and my collection would only grow from there. And I still love the Shopkins to this day. And I especially fell in love with the Shoppets when they were first released. And even more so to this day. This might be the inner furry in me, but I absolutely ADORE them! I even made my own Shoppet sona, who is essentially a video game themed dalmatian named Pong Paws. I showed him to someone who works at Moose Toys through Gmail, she showed him to everyone she's working with, and they loved him. She even sent be an official sketch of Pong Paws as a gift. Which is incredibly sweet of her. Another thing about the Shoppets, I saw the Wild World movie on Netflix back when it came out, and, gonna be honest, Pupkin Cake and Rubie Blaze might be one of my first OTPs. I can't help but feel they radient lesbian energy off of each other. And on the topic of Wild World, here's a fun fact: Donatina was voiced by Abby Trott. AKA, the singer of Lifelight from Super Smash Bros Ultimate! Which is honestly really cool, since Lifelight is one of my absolute favorite songs in a video game. By the way, i must mention something somewhat tragic. I've noticed that CookieSwirlC has been deleting a lot of her old videos, including a bunch of her Shopkins videos. Which honestly really saddens me on a personal level. If anyone here has downloaded any of Cookie's old Shopkins videos, please let me know. But anyway, enough rambling. This is an incredibly made video regarding the Shopkins, and you did an excellent job, Lula! I truly hope that the Shopkins will return in their usual form some day, and I would especially love to see the Shoppets come back too.
Update on CookieSwirlC's videos being deleted: So, the other day, I messaged Cookie on Twitter, asking her why her old videos have been deleted. She said her videos are being deleted because UA-cam has been deleting them themselves. And she said that this has happened to other UA-camrs. So, this wasn't her doing this, it was UA-cam themselves. I am still currently talking to Cookie about this, so this might be updated again soon.
That is so cool how they sent you an official sketch as a gift! I just recently regained my love for Shopkins (as well as the Shoppies, Shoppets, etc) and I can't wait to start collecting them again!
Oh no, I didn’t know CookieSwirlC is deleting some of her old videos 😭 I wish she’d keep them and start up a new channel.
Why is cookieswirlc deleting them?
@@---Melody---I honestly don't know.
ur honestly so damn real for this, ill be buying a few shoppies + shoppets soon actually, ill remember this comment every time i see em!
THIS FUCKING THINGS OH MY GOSH WE HAD LIKE 100000+
I had the ice cream truck, and shopkins mall. I the got the Mike-Raphone shopkin one Christmas as a kid, and my mom jokingly threw it when she saw the name, and said it was a dumb name. I thought it was so funny that it's still a joke we have. I also remember one Christmas our school had a Christmas fundraiser, and all I wanted was the shopkins ornament blind bags. Definitely a hyper fixation of mine as a kid. Shopkins, and Yo-Kai watch.
10:22 I HAD THAT PLAYSET-it’s what kept me going. I never had a crazy amount of shopkins but I still had a good few and I also had their dolls of the popcorn girl and the cupcake girl
I also had the McDonald shopkin toys-the fashion ones were actually bigger than the og/actual ones. I believe this is not to confuse it with the other food in the box but they were pretty close to the same!
UGH PETKINS WERE MY FAVORITEEEEE I MISS THEM!!
chewing on shopkins as a kid was a different experience
omg you’ve brought make memories
I had the biggest bucket absolutely full of shopkins, so much nostalgia 😭
I remember being 9 and opening my smallmart for the first time Christmas morning and being hi-static. Me and my friends would trade these on the playground all throughout 5th grade…. Those were the times ❤
OH MY GOSH SAME ME AND MY FRIENDS TRADED AT THE PLAYGROUND DURING RECESS TOOOO
As a boy, I was obsessed with shopkins as a kid, but I was a kid around the time where toys were "gener neutral" and my parents refused to buy me a shoppie doll, but now that I collect real littles, I healed my inner childhood (Edited: I had many rare shopkins games on a old tablet but it stopped working)
drunken comment, I didn't know moose was australian and that blew my mind. and I also live in mwlbourne and now my mind is blown TWICE
bein gay is a choice
@@ville__ how does that relate to their comment
@@ville__ tf
Same thing for some reason I thought moose was british
This video hits hard as a boy who collected Shopkins as a child.
Who remembers watching cookie swirl c's short movie about shopkins who welcomed Gemma Stone princess to town???? I was deffo too old to watch those videos, 13 maybe?? But i loved them
My little cousin who passed away from leukemia loved these, so watching this kind of connects me back to her in a way.
I am sorry for your loss
@@sherryrado Thank you
You and Athena being sponsored by the same company makes so much sense my fav nostalgic UA-camrs are eating today!!
One memory i have with shopkins besides collecting them was my Toys R Us holding a shopkins trading event for people to trade shopkins with eachother. It was around 5-10 girls all trading shopkins with eachother and literally just having fun with these toys! definitely one of my favorite memories!
Tbh it was the Shoppies for me what got me into them 😅 I never really cared about the Shopkins in general the dolls is what got me more motivated to collect them, I remember getting super excited whenever a new character was added I don’t know why but there was something charming about them that made me love them, especially The Little Secrets line.
But during the Shoppies run I did notice a sudden change when it came to ‘shop style’ for the Shoppies where they made them more affordable but came with less stuff, and have notice they have released the Shoppies dolls less and less in 2019, and if I am correct I think the last Shoppies doll was made was Winter Frost? but after that it was pretty much over for the Shoppies line.
Now for Kindi kids I did not like them one bit not a fan of dolls based off of little kids or baby dolls in general, but ever since Kindi kids was released I think that’s where I knew that was gonna be the end for Shoppies, but I’ll still treasure the good times I had when collecting the dolls.
I started collecting during season one when I saw cookie swirl c. I remeber season two coming out and me and my sister begging my dad to go to toys r us. We got there at 9pm and another girl was also getting season two 😂
SAME! And 3 and 4 and 5 TOO I REMEMBER THERE WAS THIS ONE CRAFT STORE NEAR ME THAT SADLY NO LONGER EXISTS THAT ALSO SOLD SOME TOYS (MAINLY SHOPKINS) AND I REMEMBER I WOULD BUY THE NEW SHOPKINS THERE THE DAY THEY CAME OUT
Shopkins were my FAVORITE toy growing up 😭 I vividly remember watching Cookie swirl c and being SOO jealous of her collection. I still have them all in a bin.
to this day, i still have 900+ shopkins, 15+ playsets, had 20+ shoppies, shopkins blanket, shopkins lunchkit, shopkins luggage, shopkins clothes, shopkins backpack, shopkins cutie cars, shopkins happy places, shopkins happy meal toys, just shopkins everything !! i still love them to day
omg cool!!! were u also an lps collector?
@@applejustice I loved lps too! But sadly it was my sister who owned all the lps stuff, I had to share lol, she still has the collection stored tho!
i also loved shopkins and trash packs so much!! it’s something about both being adorable in their own way, i also love the texture of trash packs ( the stretchy ones) so much nostalgia ! 🥺❤️
bein gay is a choice
@@ville__what
I HAVE THE BIGGEST. THE MOST GINORMOUS SHOPKINS COLLECTION. When i was younger i would collect them like crazy but would never play with them bcs i thought they didn’t fit in with my other toys, till this day i have the entirety of season 1-6 and most of them from other seasons, when the dolls came out i had 3 of em and i think i gave away most of the play sets that came with them but yea 🎉
can u donate me some my parents never bought me any as a kid
YALL DONT UNDERSTAND HOW OBSESSED I WAS WITH THESE LIL GUYS!!!!
I grew up shoppies doll as a kid I was obsessed with bubbleleasha and 2 other dolls one for wild style the other for world tour
NOT COOKIESWIRLC 😭😭. I used to watch her content all the time, and she's made it so far today! Like she's got a VTuber model, and I'm pretty sure she's in an SMP and stuff, like- 👀 she grew up with all of us, also does anyone remember her horses? (If you watched her other channel HoneyHeartsC) THE RUSH OF MEMORIES IS CRAZY 😭🤚
YES! I remember her horse channel!
WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT HONEY HEARTS
I loved her my little pony videos
i remember in grade school how every girl my age was into shopkins, and you we're publicly shunned if you didnt have any of them. I have a vivid memory of me and this girl playing with our shopkins on the playground and i accidentally lost hers in the gravel and she never talked to me again lol
The NOSTALGIA this brings me 😆😆😆
Something interesting i don’t see a lot of people talk about is that Mini Brands was originally 5 Surprise. I don’t know if people forgot or just didn’t know but Mini Brands started off as it’s own original thing, probably copied Real Littles or something similar but still thought it’d be cool to point out
OMG I REMEMBER HAVING THE SHOPKINS MOVIES ON DVDS, I WAS OBSESSED !!! I remember coming home from school and getting on our tv in the living room to watch her !!
I'm ngl, as an australian i was never aware if shopkins truly reached far out of here due to how little i ever saw them being spoken about, aside from by very popular youtubers like cookieswirlc at the time. I had a LOT of shopkins growing up, I even remember my first shopkin being one in a childs magazine I got from the smoke shop with my dad. I think a lot of information may be hard to find, or some things may not be heard or, as there were quite a lot of australia exclusive little things that came out with it. I do remember having all the maccas toys and at least 2/3's of every season growing up, too.
I stopped collecting in 2019, but i did get a few here and there that kind of went to go sit at the bottom of bags in our storage shed lol. I was into basically EVERY kids toy out on the market tbh, i used all of them to play in unison, and i love how your channel continues to remind me of the things that brought me joy growing up that i'd almsot forgotten about. My collections are all sitting in a plastic tub, or two, and have been for the last 7 years (dad died in 2017, so we had to move and pack all our stuff into storage sheds loll), but i can't wait for the day i open those tubs again and am reminded of that part of my life, and the long list of exclusives i have.
Also, correct me if im wrong, but i believe there was actually a regular shopkin of Gemma Stone? Though they may have been australia exclusive, but i think i recall having one. I also had a shopkins blanket, and all of the dolls :D Though, those were from vinnies and salvos (had all the pieces, but also obviously owned by an.. active child lolll). Anyways, I love this video so much, logn comment but oh well.
I also stole a lot of shopkins from my sisters friends house growing up (None of my friends were the playdate type of people, so I was always invited by my sisters friends' mums to go play at theirs since I'm only a year older than my sister). I don't know if they ever realised, they cut us off once dad died (her dad was dads coworker), so who knows. I would leave with them shoved into my pants waistband and up my sleeves lmaoo, I was a born thief i think bc I do that shit now still too, and I'm in my last yr of hs.
Shopkins will stay in my ❤️ forever. I bought sealed Season 3 and Season 6 12-packs few months ago, doesn't matter that I'm 18 years old guy 😂
Shopkins was my whole childhood💕💕💕💕💕 I have a lot of Shopkins and couple some people stole it in my elementary school and it suck like heck
As an Australian who was 7 or 8 during Shopkins peak and I had zero idea that moose toys wasnt an American company 😂
I WAS OBSESSED WITH THESE AS A KID OMG 😭 I still have the year-exclusive neon collection that I made my mom buy like a year late bc it feels valuable to me in my heart
My best friend and I are on the older end of Gen Z (both born in 1998, she turned 26 in January & I'm turning 26 in August), but we both collect toys and Shopkins did have a chokehold on both of us (mostly her). I recall she started collecting them around 2021 & would give me any double she got (and there were a lot, so when she would get the same ones again she started giving them to her younger cousin too). I swear they disappeared quietly bc we stopped seeing them in stores in the middle of 2023.
Sadly they were discontinued in December 2023. After 17 whole seasons (really 16 since S14 was just S12 + S13 combined, yes i've been collecting these for too long I've completed like half the seasons)
THATS SO DFUN
I never fell into the shopkins fandom, but my little sister was SUPER into them, I can't wait to share this with her 💖💖💖
I remember stealing shopkins from this girls school tray😭😭 I was too desperate to add to my collection
when I was little, my grandma used to get bins of oddly spisisfic toys off of eBay. one day she got me and my cousins a bin of used shopkins, (I wouldn't usually point out that they where used but a quarter of them where LITTERLY covered in paint) and even though we where probably a bit above its target audeince, we played with those things every time we visited. I also had a lot of the dolls that are probably stocked away somewhere right now. Fly high, grandma, you where amazing.
Shopkins IS my childhood. My love for them was crazy, i had at least 300 or something. I had stickers for my walls, a bedset, lots of the sets, birthday party, watched every episode of the show, and even clothes. It was a *huge* part of my childhood
OMG LULA IM SO GLAD U MADE THIS LOVE YOU SM !!
I’m so happy you mentioned the trash packs! I loved them so much omg
Shopkins was my childhood and I was waiting for a deep-dive video on them! Thanks for this video :D
I always felt like after they kinda got forgotten I was the only person that still collected them as an older teen now 😭I still have so many shoppies and toys nobody ever knows where they’re from
watching this hit me so hard with the nostalgia. i was super into them even though I was like a junior in high school when they came out. still remember passing my learner's permit test and my mom taking me to toys r us to pick out a pack! the shoppies were my absolute favorite part of the line--going through all the seasons just put me back into that place of running around to different stores trying to find the newest doll releases! one of the first displays i put up in my apartment was all of my shoppies, and i love looking at them all the time. this was such a good video! 💙💙💙
This has got to be one of the most entertaining youtube videos I've ever watched 😭 hearing one of my favorite youtubers mention the same youtubers I used to watch when I was younger is WILD (Heavy on RadioJH Audrey) the 2013-2015 toy youtube chokehold IS SO REAL. Another thing that surprised me in this video is that Kindi kids are still actively being seem sold in toystores in my country, so hearing that they seem to not be in American stores is kinda of crazy to me😭 all in all I absolutely loved this video and I'm def planning on finding my old shopkins now
i loved watching cookie swirl c and her blindbag/ shopkin vids, thanks for the memories!
Nostalgia makes my brain very happy. I’m currently sick with the virus and watching your videos makes me feel better🫶🏻
Omg, the nostalgia is real. I had literally all of these. Like- no exaggeration I had AT LEAST half of each season. I watched the movies, I had all the happy meals toys, it was intense guys, AND HE BAKING MOVIE WAS MY FAVORITE! I WATCHED IT WVERY DAYYYY!!!!!! Guys I loved these so much 😭😭😭😭😭😭
DUDE THE NOSTALGIA THIS VIDEO IS GIVING ME, Down to the memories of watching radiojh audrey and everything oml
OMG I LOVED SHOPKINS I STILL HAVE ALL OF MINE IN STORAGE
Before the trash pack/grossery gang there were Crazy Bones! My little brother had them :) they were solid, not squishy. I have no idea if they’re actually related at all but they’re the earliest tiny collectible guys I remember
Your videos always bring back the best memories!! They make me wish I had friends to talk to about nostalgic toys together 🥲
this is genuinely insane to watch. i have probably around 200 shopkins, i used to love these things so much. when i tell you every. second. of this video is so nostalgic to me i mean it. bringing up all these youtubers names that i haven’t heard in years is unlocking so many memories 😭
11:47 OH MY GOOOOOOOOSH you awakened a childhood memory bringing up Roxy.
You have A VIDEO ABOUT IT?
IT'S TIME TO RELIVE MY CHILDHOOD!
You are the channel I'm going to go to for all my childhood interest things. Genuinely I love your content, and I'm glad I started watching! A trip down memory lane with everything you make!!!
oh my godddd i was waiting for a video essay on shopkins
Thank you so much for crediting my video! 💕💕This was such a wonderful, thought out, extremely well put together video. Amazing job!! 💕💕
OMG SHOPKINS!!! I REMEMBER COLLECTING THEM WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!! I remember my mom commissioning someone to make me custom Shopkin of Gemma Stone (the diamond one shown in the thumbnail for those who don’t know) and I LOVED IT. I still have bags and bins full of Shopkins along with almost all of the playsets, that’s how much I would regularly collect them
I used to have a small collection of these things and one time, my sister (threeish at the time) played with them.
The next day, i realized some of them were gone.
Did she lose them?
Hide them?
Steal them even?
No, naturally the only possibility i thought of was that she had EATEN them.
Of course.
Immediately I confronted her, and her, being that young, instantly confessed.
We (me and my mom) began interrogating her about which ones she had eaten, with a pile of them nearby. A similar conversation ensued.
M(mom): Which ones did you eat?
S(sister): this one.
She then picks up a silver milk carton shopkin.
I… only had one of those, and I told mom that.
M: you ate this one?
S: yes!
M: this specific one is inside your stomach?
S: yea!
We were at a bit of a loss.
My dear, sweet, lovely, perfect, mother then ended up searching my little sister’s poop for a month or so.
The worst part? She found nothing and I lost interest shortly after.
I’m sorry mom
I'm literally so sad that they stopped making the movies and stuff 😔 I loved the movies and how different the seasons were any of the newer seasons are honestly so forgettable in my opinion
I REMEMBER THEY HAD A SHOW ON NETFLIX TOO
I REMEMBER EVERYTHING!!! THOSE MOVIES WERE SO FUN!!! also crème brulee cookie pfp?
This video brought back so many memories, I had completely forgotten that I still own A Peppamint Kindie Kid doll. Did a little digging through my room and happened to find her! and I can confirm, their eyes are that glittery. Thank you for all the hard work you go through to make these videos and for bringing back my childhood memories!
I wasnt a huge collector, but i definitely had a good amount of shopkins!! I remember watching cookie swirl c so much and being obsessed with the shopkin videos in particular. I also had a few of the mc donalds toys, shoppees i believe, and one kindi kid. I loved those things! It makes me a bit sad that they rebranded them as real littles and the shopkins were pushed to the side, also going down in quality, but i guess thats just how it goes in the toy market. It was nice to find this video in my recommended, it brought me back to being little and adoring toys like these so i really love that. From what I've seen so far, I love this channel and your overall vibe so ill definitely be sticking around for more videos! Thank you for this great video
NOW THESE WERE MY CHILDHOOD IN A NUTSHELL 😭
Somebody *finally* made a video about this~
Shopkins is my favorite toy of all time. I would draw a ton of fanart, collect them from Season 2 to Real Littles Era (or known Season 14-16- I think and at the time of this time-).
to the best I could, and other things related like plushies to other little things.
It makes me sad that at my local Target, the “Shopkins” Sign is still there but, underneath, there is a lot of Mini Brands, Miniverse, and other non-related items to them. But, that’s just change and another thing that we grew up with. (I still wish they can some of come back tho-)
I think shopkins are where my love for collecting miniature things really started, I wish I would’ve collected more 😓
i’m an older gen z (25) and i never interacted with shopkins myself, but i worked at a toys r us in winter of 2017 and there was sooooooooo much stuff there lmao. i love this channel it’s so fascinating to me how similar but different the childhoods for different ages of gen z people are. you talk about so much i loved and remember so fondly and some things i have no idea what they are and i watch them all ‼️‼️
I have tonnes of Shopkins, which I've kept forever! They were just so cute, and i still want to buy more of them, and shoppies!
LICORICE COOKIE!?!??!??! NO WAY WE BOTH LOVE SHOPKINS AND CRK!!!
I LOVE THE SHOPPIES SO MUCH
i was so obsessed with shopkins as a kid to the point my entire BEDROOM was shopkins themed. my curtains.. shopkins. my walls were even painted the like weird snowflake things from on the toy sets. i had the limited edition dolls and so much more it was insane my walls to this day are still painted like that, theres some decals stuck on my wall and hidden behind my tv and posters
This is making me really want to go through my old boxes and look at my shopkins. Wow this is nostalgia
I only got like 2 of these things cause I wasn't super into the designs and didn't find them super interesting as actual play toys. But I vividly remember watching unboxing after unboxing of them on UA-cam back in the day. Man how time flies.
ah, the nostalgia… i remember some of the only times when me and my brother got along was when we made up stories where our shopkins and grossery gangs would go to war
You are the first person to bring up Squinkies or even know about them and you just made me feel so seen. i loved them in elementary and then boom they were gone. plz do a deep dive I would live!
I remember having an unhealthy obsession with these shreking things at walmart good lord
THE SHOPKINS CARS AUGHHHHH I USED TO HAVE LIKE 3 I LOVED THEM
you just unlocked so many memories, i had the mcdonalds shopkins they were slightly larger if i remember correctly. i had soooo many shopkins dude, i had one baby shopkin and i LOVED it so much, it was the pink baby powder and i cherished it
You dont understand how much I needed this video shopkins were literally my entire life when I was younger I still have a huge bin of them omg they were the best
I had a trashpack coloring book LMAOO I remember being obsessed with the way they looked so?? Disgusting? I don’t even know lol
...i been wanting someone to talk about them- 😭 i miss them sm
I remember these because my little sisters were super obsessed with these! The first thing they’d do was run to the Target toy aisle and debate which pack they should take. I found them cute and I remember wanting the Gemma Stone shoppie (still do), but this was around the time where I had issues with my mental health and was busy with school, so I never had time to indulge in these and my childhood even if I was 11-12 years old. A few years later, I’m collecting dolls and other toys to try and make up for it. Recently, they gave me their entire collection of Shopkins to keep safe and they did not play around when it came to them, haha 🤣 They had entire pencil boxes and bags full of them and shoppies. I think they’re really cute and I love to put them in my dollhouse’s fridge or tables. I’ll get around to displaying the shoppies and more once I find the time and space, but I really miss having my sisters that little. :,) How fast time flies. One of them is still into childlike things but another is now into makeup and other things. I wish I didn’t grow up too fast so I had more time to play with my sisters, but I’m glad I have pieces of their childhood with me so I can cherish them forever. Anyways 😭 this was a great video and I enjoyed your deep dive! I have been wondering about what happened to them and why they changed their name to Real Littles. I like what RL has been putting out as well, especially the small backpacks. As for Kindi Kids, these are adorable also and I still see them in several shops!