There's Something Wrong With These LPS

[@AveCollects]

Thanks for being honest with your critiques, especially as an ambassador! I'm so thankful that LPS are back, but some of these changes make me ask "why?".

[@jakefromexpress]

i thought i was the only one who noticed that the wave 2 lps looked different, glad to know that i'm not crazy lol

[@cobalt.studios]

@@jakefromexpress ya it’s so weird😭😭

[@tinytailstudios]

Honestly, I think I’d prefer the grainy eyes with the original moulds than whatever the KX pets have got going on 😂 the pets with grainy eyes do honestly look more like G2 pets.

[@cobalt.studios]

Yaaaaa I think I agree😂😂

[@GerrieBerrie]

15:03 NOT MY MANS HAVING A LITERAL PROLAPSED BUTTH*LE😭😭😭

[@GerrieBerrie]

the eyes... well, I guess I wont be sleeping tonight💀

[@cobalt.studios]

YEAH💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Cornbread33y]

I've been hearing the "grateful" comment floating around with G7 i kinda have to disagree because like, we deserve better. We've GOTTEN better, just because a majority of the fanbase is older now doesn't mean they have to slack off and think it won't be noticable lmao.

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Cornbread33y fair enough!

[@thylascene]

real, these types of "bE grAtefUl" comments are pretty annoying :/

[@beau4612]

Realll- I would be grateful if they were FREE. But we are paying actual money for horribly messed up toys; full price for B grades at best, being advertised as A grades

[@beau4612]

I mean like. If someone gave me a bad pet for free? I’d be happy! Sure it’s not the best but it’s a gift. But paying full price for bad quality? NopE

[@IHeartMyHappyPlace]

Yea i was one of those people when g7 was JUST getting to be leaked and released because ppl were complaining about main fives but now im disagreeing mainly to the fact that they have bad quality and majority of us alumni collectors want better designs. Like holy shit the quality has been getting worse. One thing good about my g7 lps is that their squishy heads are getting harder over time which is good to me.

[@RainonMel]

I absolutely hate the KX version of g7 lps they look so fakey for whatever reason.. 😭

[@cobalt.studios]

@@RainonMel agreed

[@maxinejones6817]

2000 yard stare lps...

[@cobalt.studios]

@@maxinejones6817 lollll literally

[@StuffyIsABurger]

Why is it like uncanny valley but with LPS… but seriously, yikes. I’m gonna have to be making sure I’m getting screen printed eyes instead of painted on eyes cuz they look so faaaake.

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya that's such a good point oof

[@razorrushh]

ohhh second comment but i remember picking up a bunch of blind boxes from target with like.. solid eyes? absolutely no graininess at all and the heads were REALLY HARD. no squish at all. i know that theres a little bit of speculation about this wave so i was just adding in my personal experience. probably the best set ive rver got

[@eevyerndracaneon]

it is worrying me that the quality of these pets are going so poorly so quickly. im glad LPS is back and all but i want the kids who get to grow up with these toys to grow up with *good* quality toys! kids notice these things, kids care, and kids deserve better. and the older fanbase also deserves better because lbr we're the main reason they're getting so much more money, LPS has been gone for long enough that other kids toys have grown in popularity, if it weren't for the older fanbase...i dont know how much money they'd be getting. in regards to these being specifically from Five Below, i think it's good to remember something you even pointed out at the beginning of the video: they're more expensive at five below than anywhere else! so paying more for lower quality is awful to see. the backwards heads scare me a ton too like...aren't the bobble mechanisms picky about being turned?? i recall many of my LPS breaking if their heads got pushed beyond their limits and being so bobbly that they basically could swivel their heads 360 degrees the wave 2 LPS I've gotten so far have all been so squishy (even a bunch of my wave 1 ones are), and vary in paint quality and general plastic color. the only one that looks good is my david bowie german shepherd (thank god for that), but even that one still is super squishy, which just sounds AWFUL for sculpting on and weird for a toy in general

[@Catharsis770]

I’m quite concerned for wave 3 with all these varying levels of quality.. Tho Basic Fun seems to have realized the squishy head problem but those eyes are definitely looking like classic Amazon fakes

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya that’s true. I’m reallllyyy hoping wave 3 will start to improve again tho. Seems like they’re trying out a lot of things with wave 2 to see what sticks, buuuuuuttt that’s not really a great idea when you’re actually selling ones with serious issues

[@laurync6339]

This might be controversial, but I think the new pink wolfcat is super cute! I got it from ToysRUs over here in Canada back in the summer. I do agree that it’s too bad they didn’t paint under her paw, but I think her design/colour and mold are adorable! Maybe I just got lucky with its quality though.

[@cobalt.studios]

I think she’s super cute too!! I got one that’s pretty decent quality, and I love her. But I wish the good quality ones were consistent😭

[@Cornbread33y]

I...how do they keep messing up these small plastic animals lol???

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Cornbread33y idk😩

[@coffeeeecat]

Buddy said"i found SOME lps" *drops a billion unexpectedly😭

[@cobalt.studios]

Lmaoooo

[@bustertherobotdog]

Its honestly worrying how badly the quality is. Its really sad and I hope Basic Fun fixes this problem.

[@Impositivelygay]

That glossy wolf cat just straight up looks fake to me. The older one might have grainy eyes but at least she looks like an actual lps

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya absolutely

[@Impositivelygay]

@@cobalt.studios i honestly hope basic fun will get better than this because so far im a little dissappointed in some aspects with the lps waves we've got so far

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Impositivelygay I really really hope so too🤞

[@razorrushh]

ive been spending upwards of fifteen minutes staring at the title and thinking “did he mean the? like the lps? is it plural or singular? or does it mean these”HELP ME. COBALT.

[@cobalt.studios]

@@razorrushh oops🤡

[@thechannelwithweirdthemes9990]

nah all of them look off AND I NOTICED THE PAINTING!! im a custom maker and the bumpiness for the accessories is very clearly acrylic paint. man i got the g2 shepherd and the poor lad looked awful; i repainted them bc the eye job was that bad

[@Sxckopets]

they are actually horrific like its so shocking, i think the grainy eyes are heaps and bounds better then this stuff....

[@Halloween_is_awesome]

They definitely have beef with these pets fr💀💀

[@cake_pop7853]

I hope Basic fun actually gives us higher quality lps in the future bc I feel like they're rushing the production of the first batch of pets

[@cobalt.studios]

I hope so too :)

[@Oerpink]

omg that is so weird u should try and find the batch i have 1652 to look at to. It has painted eyes, the old molds, unpainted accessories ( unless needed), and colour like the pixel eye ones. My wolf cat for example has a fully painted paw, darker eyes like the pixel eyes, the rougher plastic, and old mold.

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Oerpink oh wow no way!! I’ll definitely be on the hunt for those👀 what store did you find them in?

[@Oerpink]

@@cobalt.studios I found them in two different Canadian Walmart's in bc may have to get some people to ship them to u!

[@happymealkaka]

These are terrible!! What is going on 😭😭 I’ve seen fakes better than these, it’s incredibly disappointing. I really hope this gets addressed soon.

[@cobalt.studios]

@@happymealkaka ya really😭😭😭

[@Louieducktm]

I personally love the pet's no matter what. The eyes, the squishyness, the designs, don't bother me. Obviously i have favorites.

[@cobalt.studios]

That’s totally fair!! :D

[@Khlomoneyyyyy]

I bought one of these blind boxes, and the panda didn’t have an arm.🤦🏼‍♀️

[@cobalt.studios]

Bro WHAT?!😰

[@sydsyd.sw7]

I was talking to some people on my lps account on instagram, and they were saying that they think basic fun is purchasing the old molds from hasbro, still which is a cool theory but also i think that they should just buy older lps to make mold of them if thats true

[@art-eroflore]

I think making new molds from the old lps may actually be causing these issues, every mold loses slightly more detail. If they were buying the old molds they would be exact.

[@maxinejones6817]

NEW COBALT POSTT!!!

[@art-eroflore]

To me it looks like these newer ones were created by trying to make a new master from a previous mold. The issue is that each mold will have slightly less detail- thats why bootlegs are always just sliiiiightly off, theyre using a postmarket product usually to create their mold. Im not an expert- just interested in toymaking- but it looks to me that the problem is when they created the 2024 remaster they should have refined some of the sculpted detail, but it looks like they just didnt. It reminds me of the 1980s my little ponys: in the late 80s some of the early molds were slightly recarved. But they were done with a lot of skill and possibly using the original masters so they dont have a loss of detail, they just have slightly varied poses. Meanwhile there are some bootlegs which have a very slight impression of the original symbol because the bootleg mold captured the layer of paint!

[@art-eroflore]

I mistyped slightly so to clarify: the “master” is the original. An expensive metal mold is made which produces what you buy. But if you take the produced cast and make a new mold, it will have slightly less detail because there is always some loss. So if you master -> mold-> cast -> mold -> cast you lose detail. You need to take the master and make the mold out of that OR add the detail back in to the remaster.

[@francis604]

This new wave is just garbage, the more you unpack the more upset it getting. I’m a HUUGE lps fan that so you know I’m not a hater or anything, it’s just I’m collecting since early childhood and to these days and it’s just hurts me to see how this toys getting more and more cheap. I actually enjoyed the first wave that came out, yea it has some problems too but in general pets looks nice, but THIS, this is just disappointing. They dirty, poorly made, no one cares if it’s actually looks bad, that the colors don’t match, that there’s still side plastic left on them, that the print is BAD. They just packing it hoping kids won’t notice but kids are not dumb either, we all see that our money just spent on GARBAGE. At this point some of them especially like this panda you shown in the video doesn’t look like authentic lps toys, they just looks like those ugly bootlegs that in this case I can justify but NOT the ACTUAL ORIGINAL TOYS.

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya :((((

[@franflop_]

Thank god i'm not the only one bothered by these new molds!! I don't get why they made these to even start with, the main reason for G7 was the demand for the og G2 molds to be back, and now we get these molds that are just less detailed versions of the old molds they already have 😭😭 it feels like such a waste of money because obviously it costed money to make these 2024 molds, especially for a company that's in bankruptcy I'd rather have old molds with squishy heads and grainy eyes tbh

[@Lps_CrystalGem]

HI COLBALT! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!❤

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Lps_CrystalGem thank you!! :D

[@jassyp9457]

I recently got a duplicate of the pink wolf cat, they both have the same 2009 mold but one of them has the printed eyes and the other the painted ones. I’m gonna be honest I’ve been pretty lucky and haven’t been getting many misprints or grainy eyes so I’ve enjoyed the printed eyes but the second wolf cat I got with painted eyes looks so goofy.

[@cobalt.studios]

Oh no way👀 do you remember where you got the printed eye version that says 2009? Maybe it’s new

[@jassyp9457]

@@cobalt.studios I got both of them at Target, the printed eye one was back in the beginning of August before they were supposed to be in stores and the painted one was just last week at the same Target. There definitely is a difference with the quality. The few that I got from the first batch were all pretty good but this newer batch with painted eyes I would assume from a different/new factory have been a gamble. Nonetheless I’m enjoying the experience of the blind boxes.

[@jassyp9457]

Also I know the pink wolfcat specifically had the whole stock image misprint on the card, it wasn’t on the card for the original printed eyes but it was on the newer one with painted eyes, not sure if it means anything, maybe just quality control between manufacturers.

[@cobalt.studios]

@@jassyp9457 oh interesting. It’s been on all of my cards no matter what the eyes look like

[@sunshinem.7741]

Been finding steady stock of g7 single mystery boxes and pairs at GameStops lately

[@cobalt.studios]

@@sunshinem.7741 ya totally!!

[@Hiqanb]

you should make a video on fixing the new lps! (if you want to of course)

[@youii4682]

The husky wolf i got is the new harder plastic🎉

[@cobalt.studios]

Nice!!

[@DarayaVahu]

I like the painted eyes a lot more than the printed ones, so these look better to me

[@cobalt.studios]

@@DarayaVahu I agree, but I wish they were applied better

[@MothCattuchini]

I always was super impressed with the quality of wave 1, when I heard people saying the quality has many more issues I thought maybe it was a cost efficient thing but where I am the prices are the same (10 for 1 blindbox) and they have so many misprints and are squishy as hell 🥲

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya wave 1 was so much better :(

[@Tropics-n4l]

The KX ones are also being sold at GameStop 😬

[@cobalt.studios]

Noooo😭😭😭

[@dulaux7828]

Now every time I want to go get some G7 LPS, I have to worry if they'll be good quality or not 😭 Please listen, Basic Fun!

[@Impositivelygay]

@@dulaux7828 yeah getting lps has become a gamble, you either get perfect ones or....well...

[@leotimesthree]

I really hope they study the colors and designs used with gen 2 lps further so they can make them more accurate and less saturated. The random slapped on lightbolts have also been bugging me and I don’t know why they didn’t just stick with the eye shine shapes for personality indicators.

[@cobalt.studios]

@@leotimesthree slowly but surely

[@Marcyvampirequeen_ajpw]

They got lucky the seam on that iguana wasn’t any lower 😭

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Marcyvampirequeen_ajpw no fr😂😂😂

[@Marcyvampirequeen_ajpw]

@@cobalt.studios Kids in the future: “what do you mean they banned a single iguana mold for being inappropriate?” We don’t speak of the iguana

[@2DToyCat]

The wolfcat looks SO fake holy shit.

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya💀💀💀💀💀

[@muppetsretrofan8873]

I hope Wave 3 both increases the quality control [perferably if there's no more misprints and errors and cracks] and the variety of pets [bees, butterflies, seahorses, pigs, whales, non-exclusive dragons, new pets such as hammerhead sharks and dinosaurs]!

[@cobalt.studios]

@@muppetsretrofan8873 I hope so too!! Omg a G7 hammerhead shark would be a dream🫣

[@thylascene]

they look so funky D:, wich is a shame, the otter looks kinda pretty tho.. now the rest is uhhhhhhhhhhh

[@tobbatticus]

I got a couple of these yesterday and... yeah, their eyes are just strange. I have no idea what they're doing to put them on, but it looks like they put all of the layers on separately; I got a llama where one of the eye colors was escaping from the rest of the eye, overlapping on top of the other eye color, and the eye whites just seemed to be... too low? Definitely uncanny valley-esque effect, no clue what the hell Basic Fun was thinking.

[@criticalchild2400]

most of my wave 2 lps look like the 2nd one! harder heads, painted eyes, some paint errors but it feels totally different than wave 1 and early wave 2 pets

[@Gen_losers2525]

I’ll admit, I’m guilty of taking LPS from the displays. And I’ll say, yeah, the German Shepard I got from it was.. a little special you could say..!☹️

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Gen_losers2525 😂😂😂

[@starrystoybox17]

16:21 I have this LPS she’s the lead in my new LPs series! This gen has a lot of flaws but I still like the gen 7 pets I have

[@cobalt.studios]

That's cool!!

[@ellielovesnellie09]

ive noticed that about that exact wolfcat, something about it looks fake and most pets with the 2024 number have that odd look to them; im not sure how to explain it but i have two of that newer wolfcat and she looks VERY fake,

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya it’s really really strange

[@crazylpsfilms8361]

Also I have to say the German shepherd in advertised pics the eyes quality and design shape is perfect but then on the actual toy it's more miss placed and thicker I guess you can say. So it's just upsetting to see that basic fun them selves know what they need to do to have a good look but they choose to release them not as good. This also goes for the lucky paw up blue cat where on advertised pic is so amazing but then in the doll house play set it's terrible eyes designed

[@cobalt.studios]

Yes!! A lot of the advertising pictures look perfect and should be exactly how the LPS are, but irl they just don’t look right😭 I really don’t know how it could be so lost in translation

[@SafiraCoyfolf]

The wolfcat has a balloon head 😨

[@cobalt.studios]

Haha damn you’re kinda right😭😭

[@lpskatiecat53]

I got a hand-painted one but but they still say 2009 on them and mine also has glossy eyes so do you think there's three different factories?

[@cobalt.studios]

interesting! What store did you get yours from?

[@lpskatiecat53]

​@@cobalt.studiosI got them at Walmart

[@lpskatiecat53]

@@cobalt.studios I got them from Walmart

[@lpskatiecat53]

@@cobalt.studios I got them from Walmart

[@lpskatiecat53]

@@cobalt.studios walmart

[@finsterhund]

I bought two of the axolotls. Both the ES codes, intentionally got two incase one was messed up. Was disappointed that both were. The first had like, small pores in the plastic of his face. Looks like the chemical mixing of the plastic was off. The other was good except for one of his eyes looked like it had been partially rubbed away but in like, a factory error way. Doesnt show up on camera. Is this the "grainy" eyes everyone's talking about? Either way very sad. I'm poor and I only want the axolotls right now. But i think I'll be going back and trying my luck again. At least i could potentially have customs. Maybe I'll have better luck with the KX code ones

[@cobalt.studios]

Oh no I’m sorry you got messed up ones😭😭 crossing my fingers wave 3 will have some quality improvements. But that is a good point, you could always try customizing one. The axolotls are pretty fun to paint :D

[@C_Kolor]

Has anybody else noticed that they took the NOSTRILS OFF THE LAMA

[@cobalt.studios]

@@C_Kolor WAIT YOURE RIGHT

[@C_Kolor]

@@cobalt.studiosWHHHHHYYYYYYYY

[@SamanthaAdaireYoung]

I agree with you there is something wrong the new lps I don’t like on some of their eyes like the panda

[@hannahlamagna]

❤

[@kiim_chi]

WHAAAAAAA THE WOLF CAT ONE LOOKS SO BAD I THOUGHT U WERE JUST GONNA BE REALLY HARSH BUT THEY LOOK LIKE FAKES 😭

[@HELLOKITTYPRINCESS04]

My blue and "white" panda was green on the body too! What is happening with these pets!? I will say that the heads on my recent purchases haven't been squishy but I could've just been getting lucky with the squishy heads... 😭😭😭😭

[@cobalt.studios]

No way😭😭😭😭😭

[@HELLOKITTYPRINCESS04]

@@cobalt.studios way 😒😮‍💨

[@peachielps495]

BRO HOW THE HECK CAN YOU FIND SERIES 1 SO EASILY?!?!?! IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND WAVE 1 FOR SO LONG AND I HAVE NOT FOUND A CASE OF IT??????😤😤

[@cobalt.studios]

@@peachielps495 damn fr😭 my target was always stocked when they were coming out. Now they’ve all switched to wave 2 tho

[@peachielps495]

@cobalt.studios ive been everywhere 5 below has 2 wave 1 boxes and im like dude i want more im trying to find the bull🥲

[@squidney0121]

I feel like I don't trust KX compared to ES, ES might be grainy but I feel like the eyes have more depth and seem higher in paint quality. The KX ones eyes seem very sticker-eye to me

[@cobalt.studios]

@@squidney0121 I completely agree

[@Zakaroid]

I'm not sure I like the alternative paint style, even though the grainyness of the other style is a issue, I feel like they actually have personality, or at least look more "alive" I'd rather grainy paint over flat emptiness

[@cobalt.studios]

@@Zakaroid I totally agree!! If the other printing method could capture that same personality and life, then they would be great

[@meghanferguson2783]

I would like to see more natural colored pets and also a mix of pastel colored pets. The pink wolfcat and pink llama are pastel, the all pink bunny in the winter 5 pack is pastel colored, the lavender/blue husky with the snow leopard and bear is pastel, the capybaras should be more natural colored the colors they chose for the 2 capybaras for wave 2 look unnatural and unpleasant to the eyes. I also would like to see more rabbits done like the black and white rabbit the wave 2 park pets trio tube. That pose is adorable, and I would like to see a speckled rabbit the body is silver with lavender ears, and lavender freckles and dots. More of the cute squirrel pets and I hope for wave 3 they make a racoon, an antelope, a siberian white tiger, a chimpanzee, an okapi, a tree frog, a purple hippo, a pink and purple horse or unicorn, a white wolfcat, a turquoise/aqua axolotl, a russian blue cat, a cream colored otter, a pink, yellow and seafoam green tropical fish, a maine coon cat, a badger and a pink flamingo for wave 3 pets.

[@DonAko_oh_no]

Its funny, i just went to five below with my dad 2 hours ago 😂

[@cobalt.studios]

@@DonAko_oh_no haha nice

[@daliasplayroom]

I agree that they look low quality

[@scittykitty]

It looks like they are trying to step away from the grainy eyes and do a more clean look, which is nice. Its like fixed one problem and then made so many more... Using all white for the toys sounds like they are trying to cut corners for sure, but you would think that getting them painted by hand would still have some sort of cost to it. I hope that they get someone else to do quality control. It shouldn't be you guys that have to go "hey so this looks really bad did you even check these before they were shipped?" It feels like the one who does the quality control just goes "Okay so it has the same colors and the eyes. Good enough send it out these are for kids anyways." But yeah this is all a really bad sign. And all after them getting out of bankruptcy too. This is noooooot a good look when you have to appeal to investors and fans...

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya I think stepping away from the grainy look is smart since that’s a complaint that most people have, and it would be GREAT, but the print application is so much worse with these guys so far. Nothing seems lined up properly, especially on the eyes :(

[@Mariaspetshop]

they really gave us nothing tbh

[@LPSGIRLS321]

😅😅😅😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@Findyy-yong]

@i love lps

[@Storybook5571]

One minute ago!1?1? Hiii 😨

[@Lps_punkin]

I have a problem with the wave 2 capybara,and the green and purple possum ,who designed them 😭 like why are they making them look so cute but the colors look terrible on them ,the two pack with the gray llama and pink possum are so cute but the green and purple blind box possum makes me feel sad because the quality of the plastic and the colors don’t look good,it would’ve looked better if they just changed the green to a darker purple or even a blue, but they picked puke green instead 😭,edit: I also don’t like the green color on the woodpecker,I love green but it’s not a good color when it’s bright neon looking like snot

[@Cocoawaffle]

I actually really like the new lps! My sister and I opened blind boxes together when she left for college and I thought they were really cute. P.s. Jesus loves you!

[@lwjpilled]

they look like those fake versions of old lps :(

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya😭😭

[@starrystoybox17]

The wolf cat looks horrible

[@cobalt.studios]

ya seriously 😪

[@lenicedeoliveira3373]

8 mins ago!!! I've never been so early !!!

[@your_embery33]

The eyes are weirdly small and it makes them look weird and gross 😢

[@cobalt.studios]

Ya it's especially noticeable on the Pomeranian