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They thankfully did not repeat their Holiday Wave 2021 release choices with the Holiday Waves since which just had 12 blind bag designs (though, some people did find some Open Box in some stores). Purple Wave is also when Chonks were introduced. Half were blindbags and half were open box. Jumbos and Huggers were complicated, not really following the schedule of anything else with some moving between Purple Wave's end and Gold Wave's release or fully to Gold Wave. There's also been Chonks released of the same 24 with 12 being open box and 12 being blind bag only. Besides Minis, there are 6 other Mighties, Hailey included, and 4 Mammoths. One of the Mammoths, Sugar, is currently only available on CvP's official webstore and at the Lake Zurich Learning Express. If you find them at Five Below though, it seems only the first 12/24 are available there for the moment. Not sure when that'll change.
Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. Variants are essentially slightly differing Bean designs that were made in bulk. Some may be more akin to Factory Errors (or even still the type) but are generally enough of a big switch that they have their own word for them. Some examples are different tail/ears colors, a different embroidery color (like Fur-osty's nose) or design (Princess Pretty Paws has two different eyelash designs and depending on which one, may or may not have white embroidery for her paws), or even different screenprinting details (Boho and Fuzzy are two big ones for this-- Boho's bottom half of the design can be on either side depending on the batch and Fuzzy could have more seeds and little hairs or less seeds and no hairs). Sometimes even whole colors can be different like the Teddy variants or Archie, the Chonk. Some are more subtle like Kitty Cake, but there's a decent amount of these. Seeing variants between Open Box vs Blind Bagged ones are also pretty common.The lines feature no chasers. Every batch includes the exact same number of each design. That said, at least in the case of Purple and the first Holiday Wave, some designs just happened to be in more batches. I'll be talking about this more later in the post. Eventually, due to some stores requesting it, they made blind bags for Blue Wave. They also put in some Purple Wave in the Blue Wave bags as a fun surprise. Pop Soft Plush feature three currently released sizes: Mini, Mighty, and Mammoth and one retired size: Jumbo.
There is also the Blue Stripe Gold Wave which are Gold Wave bags with a blue stripe at the top that have 36 different designs (though, again, batches are 1/12 so if the store only has 12 of the designs, well...). The designs are NOT LIMITED EDITION. Limited refers to the number of different store brands they will be in (Essentially no big box stores so no Walmarts, Targets, Five Below, etc.), not the actual amount or time they will be available. As long as Gold Wave is still going, so will they.Wave 2 of the Bears vs Donuts was shown recently and will supposedly release this Fall or early Spring 2024. Next up, Bears vs Donuts! If you're thinking "but why, that does not make sense", their reasoning was "sometimes it's just for fun". Many people have asked this. Cows vs Aliens are now out as well. The first 12 can be found at Five Below and Walmart. The second set of 12 has slowly been being found at Walmart as well. There's only 24 out total right now. Edit as of late July: Turtles and Unicorns are now out, but mostly just minis. Only Learning Express has had the Mighty and Mammoth size Turtles thus far. Other sizes of the Unicorns haven't been found yet. Summer 2023, Blue Wave was re-released under 'Blue Wave Classic' with different bags. Some designs do have slight differences, but others are very similar. Paw-B-Que was also released during this. There may also be a second batch with more of Blue Wave. Not all of Blue Wave has been re-released through this batch yet.
As for the regular Bean Blind Bag releases, like Gold Wave, each set is a batch of 12. Set C (25-36) released in the latter half of the year and recently, Set D (37-48) has finally been hitting stores.Jumbos and Huggers are still really random and there's not really been any kind of proper schedule for when they show up, honestly. Some have even only showed up in Australia so far.
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