just wanted to clarify i bought the new LPS before information came out about basic fun potentially supporting israel (which they are currently receiving backlash for) they’ve been really radio silent in general if you look at their instagram comments not even addressing fans concerns regarding their pre-orders like that just got delayed last minute.. so buyers please beware now more than ever we have to be cautious of where our money goes ! FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 & i hope they can do better…
The autistic experience of enjoying the same things you do as a child and bringing these interests into adulthood and being mocked for it…until actually now it’s Nostalgic and everybody is into it again! I agree it sucks to grow up feeling alone and weird but it’s been nice to see all sorts of comfort brands/items be brought back! Even if part of me is still a little mad I was harassed as a kid.
it's also just nice to hear talked about candidly in a youtube video! so many people can relate to those things, they deserve to be discussed more openly and casually like this
Fr, I’m 20 and my special interests are shows and games I enjoyed as a child, I collect toys and plushies and people think it’s weird but I’ll forever be unapologetically myself and comfortable in my autistic skin😊
When I was around 10, my aunt came over and told me I needed to clean up my toy area. What I didnt know is that she'd end up donating my ENTIRE FUCKING LPS COLLECTION WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE. Im genuinely so sad about it, so when I find survivors in my childhood home here and there I can feel my inner child smile.
Yikes! My parents in the contrary didnt want me to get rid of them under ANY circumstances because they knew that I would regret it someday. They were right. Im now 25 and I keep on growing my collection and I am SO GLAD my parents protected my stuff from my teenager mind
There were several!! The two I remember playing the most as a kid was the short lived LPS VIP browser game back when I was about 7-8, and LPS Online (another browser game) a couple years later after VIP shut down
i will never forget all of the videos people were making calling hasbro on these ancient phones from like the late 2000's asking for the old lps back... it was THAT serious for us all 😭
The "new LPS" have some pretty great concept art. They definitely work better on paper than in life. I totally could have seen them being sold to an older audience as "vinyl figures" or something instead of replacing the beloved established style.
gen 3 imo should have been like a special little funky series, like the ones they used to do with those "weirder" pets. something like the fairies maybe
i gave a friend my entire collection and i came to regret it so much i had so many 😭😭 i relate so much to being an autistic kid feeling pressured out of their interests
As an autistic kid, I sold all my childhood lps when I was 13 because everyone else around was getting rid of there toys, and then when I turned 15, I regretted everything, and now I'm currently recollecting lps.
I never got rid of my toys, during the moving process to our current house, however, some but not all of my old toys got lost during the move. Some of the toys that got lost include Littlest Pet Shop. I am currently collecting the new littlest pet shop toys to make up for my lost littlest pet shops.
I sold mine at 13, the same year I already regretted selling my favorites. Would've been fine selling 90% but if only I kept the 10% I'd be more than content. Years later and I've still not found anyone selling those specific favourites of mine, so I can't even replace them as an adult.
this is my first video of yours i'm watching. i'm also autistic and my special interest is lps, i quit lps tube when i was 12/13 because i went to secondary school and wanted to fit in, but seeing other people that have such a similar story to me is so sweet :)
RIGHT!? My first two pets I got at the age of 7 didnt come with a set so I played with them on the fridge instead of playing like a normal person on an horizontal surface 😂😂😂
@@kamalionify I did have a set but also had to share it with my sister but it didn't matter cuz I loved playing like they were climbing a mountain or trying to infiltrate a building 🤣🤣🤣
I’m genuinely so happy that basicfun brought gen2 lps back I started collecting them when I was 11 and now I’m 20 and I still play with them and collect them
To be honest my sister and I dodged a bullet during the infamous 2012-2021 designs. My older sister let me have her old G2 pets and I couldn’t be more grateful 💕✨️
I'm literally only 10 seconds into the video but between the lesbian flag, the Ghoulia poster, the LPS plush AND your striking beauty I'm head over heels in love
I’m surprised that a lot of people didn’t like the hub littlest pet shop show??😭 I loved it so much as a kid (mainly for the biscuit twins and the pets themselves) and the music was so good. I didn’t like the toys but the show was definitely one of my favs as a kid. Also off topic but I love how Lula puts things in her background or does an outfit based on the video topic.
I'm so glad they're back cuz my gf loved the old ones and has a few but never got the chance to collect them and now I can shower her with them as little gifts!
I personally really loved the show, kinda miss it :( SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING We learn that her dad always had a feeling she could talk to them because so could her mother. It was really sweet. ❤
This video and the release of g7 has me screaming, crying, and frothing at the mouth wanting to collect more again! I am 24, and I still have my more than 200+ collection of LPS pets and sets. I dipped right around/before the release of G3. I'm glad that they are going back to their roots of what was more of what everyone adored. My special interest in LPS has risen once again! 💖 P.S. love your videos!
i LOVED lps as a kid, i never liked dolls and only liked animals so i played with them for hours every day. the millisecond they changed design i instantly wanted nothing to do with them
hearing you talk about seeing the shell of what lps once were literally made my heart wrench. It's exactly how I felt when I'd get them on Christmas or my birthday but I'd always pretend to be happy. Seeing you open them gives me hope to see them in an isle soon. I'll probably cry tears of joy cuz im healing such a part of my inner child that she never thought she'd be able to experience 🥲.
I love LPS since 2020. And ngl, ever since watching A World Of Our Own, I admire the art style of the show and is one of my biggest inspirations for my art. You should definitely watch a couple of more episodes from that show. Excellent video btw, I’m very happy that LPS is back!
i apologize to the random hasboro employee my friend and i prank called late night at a sleepover for the cause… they definitely had no idea what these 9 year olds were talking about.
The mommy and baby series is crazy cause i had forgotten about lps completely and happened to walk into a toys r us at night and saw them hanging on a display, i thought it was new old stock! It was like a dream. I got the tiger but im kicking myself for not keeping it in the packaging. 😭
The 2012 pets definitely had a lot of issues, especially with the designs not being translated very well from the concept art and a lot of them not being able to stand that well. But honestly, I don't think they're as bad as most people treat them as, and some of them I would even say look quite good. If those designs had been released as a different brand, or just a special edition thing alongside more of the original LPS, then I could have seen them finding an audience. They just weren't what anyone really wanted from LPS though, so the backlash was understandable, if a little extreme.
i agree! i really like the concept art it would’ve translated better if these were vinyl limited edition figurines or something then maybe they would’ve found an audience i also think if hasbro actually designed their toys instead of the plain color palettes with a singular graphic.
The concept art is really cute and I wouldn’t have hated them as a kid if it wasn’t for the fact they replaced the old ones, that’s where they went wrong
I was mocked and made fun of for being childish even before I was TEN for having interests like pokemon. If you're autistic, NEVER give into peer pressure. I was so deeply depressed giving up my special interests and I'm so sorry for leaving them behind.
I remember feeling ashamed for still being into little kid toys and shows, esp lps since it was my all time fav since kindergarten at the age of 15 because I felt like I was weird yk since ppl my age (not all) aren’t really into those things anymore. Im 16 now and idgaf anymore. The corner of my room is filled with kid toys related stuff and I love it sm. My little sister who is turning 10 in April is also collecting LPS now too
The stuff that got stuck to the magnets on mine was iron. I brought them into the sand very frequently, and the iron in the sand would collect on their little magnet foot.
my lps addiction came back late 2023 and i couldn’t be more happy! at first i felt really embarrassed- but as i kept collecting, i stopped caring what people thought!
Dude i'm literally from Slovenia and I remember trying to call MATTEL in the USA to ask for the old LPS back🤡 god bless my mom who let me make the call lmaoo
I was 7 or 8 when lps had the redesign but I remember being very neutral towards it xD. On one hand I really missed the old lps but on the other I found the 2012 designs really appealing in terms of silhouettes and colors. 3041 kangaroo and 2753 Afghan hound still have a special place in my heart. I remember holding them in my hands and inspecting their creative designs in awe every time I played with them.
I loved the LPS cartoon as a kid, and my sister didn't like it because of the cast's tacky voices. One thing that stuck out to me about the show was the amount of musical numbers it had. There were a lot of songs, some good and some mediocre. (We're The Littlest Pets, Humanarian, and Sweet Shop for a few examples) But my favorite song of them all was "Wolf-I-Fied!". The song was about Sunil (the mongoose) and Vinnie (the gecko) imagining a worse-case scenario where the rest of the pets have become werewolves, and are seen fleeing from said werewolf counterparts. Crazily enough, that actually got me into werewolves as a kid. Yep. You'd think it'd be something cringier like Twilight, but nope. It just had to come from LPS of all things. Here and there I'll get the idea to draw some of my favorite characters as werewolves, though most of the time I don't finish really because of regrets halfway into the drawing. To this day, I still unironically listen to Wolf-I-Fied on repeat. It's a banger song.
About quitting an interest because of peer pressure, I had the exact same thing with bakugan. I got picked on for liking “boy things” so I stopped… now I have an entire collection of old and new bakugan
its funny because I actually wasn't born when the g2 lps came out but i think i was given a big box from my cousin with them inside and i used to LOVE the lps tv show i watched it EVERY day!! but the funny thing is i actually don't remember that much of it other than the main character going down that box thingy to see the pets!
I am so happy I found your channel I love watching super long videos about my specific interests. Very happy to find we are both 19 and it's comforting to hear someone so similar and also neurodivergent discuss the things I love and still love but feel guilty with sharing since my interests may seem childish
As someone whose been collecting old lps for a number of years with little succession the new release of lps has gotten me pretty hyped, mainly because when i was a kid i never got the experience of actually receiving brand new pets (i didn’t know they existed and my mom didn’t like buying trendy stuff
i had the exact same experience as you -- i had an lps channel, a huge collection (500+ pets and most houses, lots of plushes, and other trinkets), but at 12-13 i gave up on them entirely to fit in. i unfortunately also sold most of my collection and never had the motivation to start collecting again (especially since they've gotten expensive !!) with the 2023 release coming to store shelfs i plan on buying at least a few. this is what younger me would've wanted. they're releasing in march in my country, can't wait :>
As someone who mainly followed Littlest Pet Shop through the 2012 series (as you can see by my username and profile picture, I'm a big fan), I had no idea there was this kind of controversy involving the merchandise. I don't particularly mind the look of the LPS show given how Wildbrain (formerly known as DHX Media until they became Wildbrain in 2019) used a similar look for My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Pound Puppies 2010, and seasons 3-4 of Transformers Rescue Bots. As for the look of Littlest Pet Shop: A World Of Our Own, I would assume it's because of Boulder Media using similar animation tactics to other projects they animated, such as Transformers Rescue Bots Academy and My Little Pony: Rainbow Road Trip. I think the reason the 2018 LPS show didn't last as long as the 2012 show is because of Hasbro's 2017 theatrical movies. Both Transformers: The Last Knight and My Little Pony: The Movie didn't do as well financially as Hasbro hoped, and any Hasbro project that wasn't Transformers or My Little Pony related (such as Stretch Armstrong And The Flex Fighters and Hanazuki: Full Of Treasures) was treated poorly and cancelled.
I remember on my 11th birthday getting one of the newer LPS, and I just felt like my childhood was over. I know it sounds overexaggerated, but the level of detachment I felt at that moment really REALLY hurt. I did not recognize them. LPS was in my everyday life. I had a whole lore around it. Not long after, I started seeing the new spiky G3 LPS on the shelves and I couldnt look at my old LPS anymore knowing their future was just doomed to fail. It still hurts to this day to think about and it pisses me off that it broke something inside that made me snap out of my little world :/
I still really like the g3 lps that I had as a child, they were bright and spikey, which matched my aesthethics, at least they didnt have stupid expressions that limited my imagination like g4 did and they also didnt feel as if they were made out of eraser material and their heads didnt feel like those erasers that can't erase anything to the touch, unlike g4
omg i had the same exact experience with the rebrand halting my collection. i am also autistic, and it was part of my daily routine to go to the store and search for new lps i could add to my wishlist. i didn't have a meltdown or anything, but took it as a sign that i was growing too old for lps and could no longer collect them :( i can't wait to start collecting again with the resurgence of the fandom!!
When I was little I live both g2 and g3 lps. I remember I LOVED g3 because they didn’t have metal that would rust (I loved taking my pets into the bath, pool, lake and hot tub) but beside being water resistant and the ability to swap heads which I thought was hilarious. G2 was always my favourite
As someone who was and still is an lps collector, it’s all very nostalgic. I remember back in 2019/2020 when people were literally sending hasbro emails to bring back old lps, it was such a rampage! But I’m glad basic fun is bringing them back. 🌷💗
When I got older I started collecting again 😊 it’s hard bc of adult stuff but I’m slowly building my collection again after getting rid of them due to peer pressure
When I was a child my stepfather wouldn’t allow me to have these “girlie” things that my sister had and I would sneakily play with them so I’m healing my inner child by buying and finally owning lps and monster high ect your channel is so good for information on these toys
I am 39 years old, AUDHD female, and I still collect cutesy things here and there. I have Real Littles and Mini Brands lol. That being said, growing up in the 90's I had the more realistic looking LPS. I was obsessed. I still wish they would bring back that look sometimes.
I’m 22 and autistic too (ayeee!) and I loved lps so much. Recently I was cleaning out my family’s attic and actually found my old collection. I literally have some of the gen1 ones (the magnetic ones) and it’s insane 😭 I started displaying them in my room because of it :)
I’m so old, I don’t even remember gen 3, though in retrospect it’s definitely the reason I stopped buying them. I still love LPS but I can’t afford to start another toy collection 😭 the plushies in the background make me so nostalgic
I remember being obsessed with getting the lion fairy pet as a kid but I could never find it. I wasn’t allowed to buy it when I first saw in a store and I’m still pissed about it! Like it’s so cute and was the only lion model I actually liked!
I wish i found out about your channel sooner also have lps as one of my spintrests and a collector since i was 2 (im 19 now) oh my goodness loved this video sm and your channel as a whole seems right up my alley im definitely subscribing. I do want to mention some things about the lps roblox game actually since ive been playing it alot. So the rhino you got isnt in the game yet. The only designs in the game are all 18 of the blind bag pets. I have yet to aquire any g7 pets in person but im pretty sure the codes for the blindbags give pets while others give gems and coins (please correct me if im wrong anyone 😭). The game you play it mainly by collecting pets and having them do activities its very much so one of those grinding games. Each world so far (only 3 atm excluding the town/tutorial world) has a pod and 6 pets available in each pod. You earn coins by making your pets do activities and they gain levels by playing and the higher your pet's level (so far according to the lps roblox game discord the highest level for pets is 50) is the more coins you get. The coins so far are used to buy the ugc items as well as more pods to try to get more pets. Theres gems as well which can be used to buy accessories for your pets as well as other upgrades including more backpack space, a farther play radius pets can go much farther from you to do activities, those boosts (these ones now with the new gift feature added aren't worth it) like the coin one you got, more pets equipped to follow you, and an auto play button for the whole pet party to grind. Speaking of accessories from before there are some free ones hidden around the map and ones you can unlock with achievments. Also you can name your pets as well. When you click the panda icon on the left side it will show you your pet backpack and next to the pet icon theres a little pencil and you can click that to change your pet's name. Clicking you pet icon not near an activity gives you options as well inclusing pet details in which clicking that gives you a customize button and thats how you place accessories on your pet. I have almost 3 million coins and almost all 18 of my pets are at level 50 (i just have one of each its pretty easy to get them all atm). Game's a bit confusing at first and yes it crashes so so so much but i like putting it idle while watching video essays like this one :]
I found them at my Walmart earlier today and spent 20 DOLLARS on blind boxes and opened them excitedly in the car and at my house and it filled me with so much indescribable happiness that I can’t even explain. I was stimming and gushing to my friends for hours and now I’m watching lps TH-cam videos LOL. It’s been years since I was into littlest pet shop collecting, and I think a new hyper fixation is brewing. 😅
it’s so cool and crazy to see TH-camrs my age making videos like this!! Like we seriously experienced very similar childhoods. I feel like I’m still expecting the people I watch online to be older than me lol.
agh this is bringing back so many memoriessss my ass was on ebay DAILY and looking thru flea markets to find old lps i also was shamed out of playing with them in middle school but i still have all of mine (literal bags full) and i love them all as much as i did then ❤
As a kid i had two g3 pets and blythe plus a 20 pack of fakes from aliexpress and then some i found in thrift shops. I mainly collect mlp but when i find pets i buy them
I personally loved the magnets i remember playing with a certian playset all the time. When i got another playset and newer lps gen i remember being super confused and uspet when they didnt have magnets
I have autism too, and I still love watching shows from my childhood and collecting DVD's. And I 100% agree that you should express yourself without judgment.
I used to love the littlest pet shop. I especially liked the one I had that had a soft texture. It was like a fuzzy spider. Also, I missed the magnets after they went away. I used to stick those things everywhere.
Not completely related to the topic of the video but I’d LOVE it if you did a video on pound puppies maybe :0 it’s one of my biggest hyperfixations rn and it makes me sad that’s it’s fan base is so small and it was such a underrated show Also I really like your content!! Keep up the good work!! :]
I remember when this movement happened! I was pretty young, so I don't even remember being that outraged about the redesign at first. I did go through a brief phase where I started to miss the old LPS and hated the newer gens, but that was only because there were a ton of older gen pets that I wanted but never got, and plus the movement eventually got to me. I got past that phase eventually, and I still love pretty much all gens of LPS. I even have the goal of getting at least 1 LPS from every generation. The only pets I don't have yet are the Gen 7 ones. Of course the pets that all get lumped into the G2 category are still my faves, but I don't hate the other gens and find some of them to actually be rather pretty. It's fine to not like certain gens, but some people get really hostile about it, which I really don't like. I'm just glad that Hasbro didn't stop making LPS as a whole! Although, I will say that there is at least 1 ugly LPS in every generation, and that includes G2. Also, I actually loved the 2012 LPS show. It's been years since I last watched it, but it was one of my favorite shows as a kid. For me, it was up there with MLP, which was (and still is) one of my biggest special interests. Also, I used to watch the LPS Dare Us series all the time as a kid! Maybe I'll revisit it one day.
i remember feeling so embarrassed for still loving warrior cats until 8th grade and dropped the series, and i rlly wish i hadnt because it brought me so much joy and im still overly passionate about my knowledge on the series
even though i was a kid at the time i was extremely invested in this. i was furious at the fact that the new lps looked the way they did, i much prefered the old ones and agreed with everything i saw on the internet about it.
in retrospect i don’t *loathe* the designs from the 2012 redesign era (and the cartoon’s pretty decent in my opinion), i just wish they weren’t the only lps toys on shelves at the time
im in love with everything about you, your hair, your t shirt, the nose rind, the MELANIE MARTINEZ DISC, the flag, the monster high, the lps, the td poster, harley quinn. IM LITTERLY A YOUNG U!
I loved the magnets! i remember sticking them to the fridge or the bathtub. I genuinely want to purchase some of the old ones just to use as fridge magnets lol
I’ve been in love with lps my entire life and I never got to post when I was little but I felt very closely with feeling I needed to get rid of that part of me to fit in and be “normal” my entire middle school career had me pushing them but now I’m back and in better than ever and even started my lps account just for fun 😊
The last time I “played” with my lps was when I was in 10th grade. I then felt like I had to stop playing with them if I wanted to fit in. Haven’t opened their box until now and I still love them😩
I remember calling Hasbro when I was 9 and that poor guy was so nice😂 I FOUND THE VIDEO I'M GONNA DIE I remember I tried to go to an LPStube meetup or a mini LPScon. But I was like 10 and it was in Virginia😂 Oh, I think that lizard is one of 2 iguana molds from G2!
I'm autistic too and I struggled between having all my special interests and fitting in with other people my age. And it was so tough for me to try let go of all the things I loved because my classmates thought it was "cringe" and "for little kids", and I was bullied for not "acting my age", whatever that means. But I'm so glad that now there is a space for us online to not mask our interests and not be judged
You know i didn't know about this when i was little until i got a bit older and saw all these bring back old lps videos. And i was like "what do you mean they all look the same what's so different?" Well after watching a few videos about it i can see why everyone hated g3 lps so much like the designs are cool but the shape of the toy and the quality is bad
just wanted to clarify i bought the new LPS before information came out about basic fun potentially supporting israel (which they are currently receiving backlash for)
they’ve been really radio silent in general if you look at their instagram comments not even addressing fans concerns regarding their pre-orders like that just got delayed last minute..
so buyers please beware now more than ever we have to be cautious of where our money goes ! FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 & i hope they can do better…
Thank you for letting us know this!
Thanks for informing, Lula!
Thanks lula
Aw sweet Jesus, they're supporting Israel?!
Man, this world is full of problems.
@ZeepTheWocky yes, they are supplying them with the toys despite what is happening
The autistic experience of enjoying the same things you do as a child and bringing these interests into adulthood and being mocked for it…until actually now it’s Nostalgic and everybody is into it again! I agree it sucks to grow up feeling alone and weird but it’s been nice to see all sorts of comfort brands/items be brought back! Even if part of me is still a little mad I was harassed as a kid.
FR!!
People made fun of me for liking Gacha Life and Gacha videos and all of a sudden it’s nostalgic? We like Gacha now?
it's also just nice to hear talked about candidly in a youtube video! so many people can relate to those things, they deserve to be discussed more openly and casually like this
@@gloomiiiiHELLO FELLOW KIERAN FAN
Fr, I’m 20 and my special interests are shows and games I enjoyed as a child, I collect toys and plushies and people think it’s weird but I’ll forever be unapologetically myself and comfortable in my autistic skin😊
@@Imjustshrimp OMG HIII
When I was around 10, my aunt came over and told me I needed to clean up my toy area. What I didnt know is that she'd end up donating my ENTIRE FUCKING LPS COLLECTION WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE. Im genuinely so sad about it, so when I find survivors in my childhood home here and there I can feel my inner child smile.
Wtf thats fucked up, im sorry that happened to you ☹️ I would’ve been devastated
That’s sick. I hope you keep the survivors and love them.
Yikes! My parents in the contrary didnt want me to get rid of them under ANY circumstances because they knew that I would regret it someday. They were right. Im now 25 and I keep on growing my collection and I am SO GLAD my parents protected my stuff from my teenager mind
most of my collection was donated too! luckily not all of them, but the majority of my first gen lps.
@@Rainbowleopard315 I had that yellow cat too 😭😭 the LPS popular one
Shoutout to everyone who angrily called hasbro about it as a kid
i called them and i remember cursing out that poor worker at 14 (i feel so bad for her to this day)
I did my part!
The stuff stuck to the bottom of the magnets is magnetite! It's an iron that's super common in dirt and sand, it kinda just shows up everywhere lol.
I had fun collecting magnetite with them in my yard LOL I’d do it on purpose
we were pisssssed 😩
Frrr
For sure😂😂😂😂
Anyone else remember the lps game?? Like the mobile one where you train the pets?? The music on that was FIRE
Yes OMG I loved that game I miss it
i think i remember what is it called i wanna download it again
@@Bleplebeian they deleted it 😞
There were several!! The two I remember playing the most as a kid was the short lived LPS VIP browser game back when I was about 7-8, and LPS Online (another browser game) a couple years later after VIP shut down
OMG I MISS IT SO MUCHH AND I REMEMBER IT SO WELL I USED TO PLAY IT ALWAYS😭🫶🫶
i will never forget all of the videos people were making calling hasbro on these ancient phones from like the late 2000's asking for the old lps back... it was THAT serious for us all 😭
The "new LPS" have some pretty great concept art. They definitely work better on paper than in life. I totally could have seen them being sold to an older audience as "vinyl figures" or something instead of replacing the beloved established style.
gen 3 imo should have been like a special little funky series, like the ones they used to do with those "weirder" pets. something like the fairies maybe
i gave a friend my entire collection and i came to regret it so much i had so many 😭😭 i relate so much to being an autistic kid feeling pressured out of their interests
As an autistic kid, I sold all my childhood lps when I was 13 because everyone else around was getting rid of there toys, and then when I turned 15, I regretted everything, and now I'm currently recollecting lps.
I never got rid of my toys, during the moving process to our current house, however, some but not all of my old toys got lost during the move. Some of the toys that got lost include Littlest Pet Shop. I am currently collecting the new littlest pet shop toys to make up for my lost littlest pet shops.
I sold mine at 13, the same year I already regretted selling my favorites. Would've been fine selling 90% but if only I kept the 10% I'd be more than content.
Years later and I've still not found anyone selling those specific favourites of mine, so I can't even replace them as an adult.
this is my first video of yours i'm watching. i'm also autistic and my special interest is lps, i quit lps tube when i was 12/13 because i went to secondary school and wanted to fit in, but seeing other people that have such a similar story to me is so sweet :)
so glad i’m not alone! i deleted a lot of my old videos because of this & i regret it every day
same here !!
15:37 child you saying "I WILL KMS!!!" with so much passion is like......... so hilariously relatable girl i can't bahaha
I was sad when they took the little feet magnets cuz I used to stick them everywhere
RIGHT!? My first two pets I got at the age of 7 didnt come with a set so I played with them on the fridge instead of playing like a normal person on an horizontal surface 😂😂😂
@@kamalionify I did have a set but also had to share it with my sister but it didn't matter cuz I loved playing like they were climbing a mountain or trying to infiltrate a building 🤣🤣🤣
On the fridge and sink LOL
I’m genuinely so happy that basicfun brought gen2 lps back I started collecting them when I was 11 and now I’m 20 and I still play with them and collect them
As a millenial let me inform you I was 19 when people my age started saying "I feel old" so dont let anyone shame you.
To be honest my sister and I dodged a bullet during the infamous 2012-2021 designs. My older sister let me have her old G2 pets and I couldn’t be more grateful 💕✨️
I'm literally only 10 seconds into the video but between the lesbian flag, the Ghoulia poster, the LPS plush AND your striking beauty I'm head over heels in love
NO WAY i literally grew up watching your videos this is crazy!!! (i mentioned you in another video on my channel abt LPSTube) thank you so much :D
@@lulaloopsey omg I am both honored and scared🙈😭 THANK *YOU* SO MUCH AHHH NOW I GOTTA BINGE WATCH ALL YOUR VIDEOS TONIGHT HEHE🥰💖💛
@@GerrieBerrie can i be invited to the wedding
@@daffodilps You can be the ring bearer
I’m surprised that a lot of people didn’t like the hub littlest pet shop show??😭 I loved it so much as a kid (mainly for the biscuit twins and the pets themselves) and the music was so good. I didn’t like the toys but the show was definitely one of my favs as a kid. Also off topic but I love how Lula puts things in her background or does an outfit based on the video topic.
Same, I don’t think I had an opinion of the toys but, I did buy a LPS 2012 set, eh
I literally LOVED that show. It was one of the only reasons I even watched the Hub (and My Little Pony and Dan Vs., of course.)
I'm so glad they're back cuz my gf loved the old ones and has a few but never got the chance to collect them and now I can shower her with them as little gifts!
this is SO cute bless your heart
I personally really loved the show, kinda miss it :(
SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING
We learn that her dad always had a feeling she could talk to them because so could her mother. It was really sweet. ❤
Same
I still love it ❤
This video and the release of g7 has me screaming, crying, and frothing at the mouth wanting to collect more again! I am 24, and I still have my more than 200+ collection of LPS pets and sets. I dipped right around/before the release of G3. I'm glad that they are going back to their roots of what was more of what everyone adored. My special interest in LPS has risen once again! 💖
P.S. love your videos!
i LOVED lps as a kid, i never liked dolls and only liked animals so i played with them for hours every day. the millisecond they changed design i instantly wanted nothing to do with them
Great video, obsessed with lps my whole life and having my mother buy me that same tube in the store at the ripe age of 25 was truly surreal lmao
I made fanart for the LPS show. It was one of my special interests as a kid along with TMNT. I’m autistic and these videos are amazing.
I LOVE LPS AND TMNT
hearing you talk about seeing the shell of what lps once were literally made my heart wrench. It's exactly how I felt when I'd get them on Christmas or my birthday but I'd always pretend to be happy. Seeing you open them gives me hope to see them in an isle soon. I'll probably cry tears of joy cuz im healing such a part of my inner child that she never thought she'd be able to experience 🥲.
I love LPS since 2020. And ngl, ever since watching A World Of Our Own, I admire the art style of the show and is one of my biggest inspirations for my art. You should definitely watch a couple of more episodes from that show. Excellent video btw, I’m very happy that LPS is back!
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i apologize to the random hasboro employee my friend and i prank called late night at a sleepover for the cause… they definitely had no idea what these 9 year olds were talking about.
The mommy and baby series is crazy cause i had forgotten about lps completely and happened to walk into a toys r us at night and saw them hanging on a display, i thought it was new old stock! It was like a dream. I got the tiger but im kicking myself for not keeping it in the packaging. 😭
The 2012 pets definitely had a lot of issues, especially with the designs not being translated very well from the concept art and a lot of them not being able to stand that well. But honestly, I don't think they're as bad as most people treat them as, and some of them I would even say look quite good. If those designs had been released as a different brand, or just a special edition thing alongside more of the original LPS, then I could have seen them finding an audience. They just weren't what anyone really wanted from LPS though, so the backlash was understandable, if a little extreme.
i agree! i really like the concept art it would’ve translated better if these were vinyl limited edition figurines or something then maybe they would’ve found an audience
i also think if hasbro actually designed their toys instead of the plain color palettes with a singular graphic.
The concept art is really cute and I wouldn’t have hated them as a kid if it wasn’t for the fact they replaced the old ones, that’s where they went wrong
As a kid I loved them just as much as the older pets and I enjoyed the following redesigns and show as well
I was mocked and made fun of for being childish even before I was TEN for having interests like pokemon. If you're autistic, NEVER give into peer pressure. I was so deeply depressed giving up my special interests and I'm so sorry for leaving them behind.
I remember feeling ashamed for still being into little kid toys and shows, esp lps since it was my all time fav since kindergarten at the age of 15 because I felt like I was weird yk since ppl my age (not all) aren’t really into those things anymore. Im 16 now and idgaf anymore. The corner of my room is filled with kid toys related stuff and I love it sm. My little sister who is turning 10 in April is also collecting LPS now too
"it doesnt sound like you really want it 😊"
"i will kms 😭😭"
that is the realest skit ever 😭😭😭 such a creative mind of yours LOL
The stuff that got stuck to the magnets on mine was iron. I brought them into the sand very frequently, and the iron in the sand would collect on their little magnet foot.
I grew up with 2012 LPS lol
I loved the show and the apps/games I even owned a playset
my lps addiction came back late 2023 and i couldn’t be more happy! at first i felt really embarrassed- but as i kept collecting, i stopped caring what people thought!
17:29 THE F**KING RAINBOW BEAR 🐻🌈
Literally made my day 😂
Dude i'm literally from Slovenia and I remember trying to call MATTEL in the USA to ask for the old LPS back🤡 god bless my mom who let me make the call lmaoo
I was 7 or 8 when lps had the redesign but I remember being very neutral towards it xD. On one hand I really missed the old lps but on the other I found the 2012 designs really appealing in terms of silhouettes and colors. 3041 kangaroo and 2753 Afghan hound still have a special place in my heart. I remember holding them in my hands and inspecting their creative designs in awe every time I played with them.
I loved the LPS cartoon as a kid, and my sister didn't like it because of the cast's tacky voices.
One thing that stuck out to me about the show was the amount of musical numbers it had.
There were a lot of songs, some good and some mediocre. (We're The Littlest Pets, Humanarian, and Sweet Shop for a few examples)
But my favorite song of them all was "Wolf-I-Fied!".
The song was about Sunil (the mongoose) and Vinnie (the gecko) imagining a worse-case scenario where the rest of the pets have become werewolves, and are seen fleeing from said werewolf counterparts.
Crazily enough, that actually got me into werewolves as a kid.
Yep. You'd think it'd be something cringier like Twilight, but nope. It just had to come from LPS of all things.
Here and there I'll get the idea to draw some of my favorite characters as werewolves, though most of the time I don't finish really because of regrets halfway into the drawing.
To this day, I still unironically listen to Wolf-I-Fied on repeat. It's a banger song.
god. wolf-i-fied is still so good. based take
Love that one too, I.forced my sis to learn it so we could sing together ❤😂
About quitting an interest because of peer pressure, I had the exact same thing with bakugan. I got picked on for liking “boy things” so I stopped… now I have an entire collection of old and new bakugan
I liked Bakugan however I did not understand the game
its funny because I actually wasn't born when the g2 lps came out but i think i was given a big box from my cousin with them inside and i used to LOVE the lps tv show i watched it EVERY day!! but the funny thing is i actually don't remember that much of it other than the main character going down that box thingy to see the pets!
I am so happy I found your channel I love watching super long videos about my specific interests. Very happy to find we are both 19 and it's comforting to hear someone so similar and also neurodivergent discuss the things I love and still love but feel guilty with sharing since my interests may seem childish
You even know about Zhu Zhu pets I was obsessed with those and only got bought some once or twice but I cherished them
As someone whose been collecting old lps for a number of years with little succession the new release of lps has gotten me pretty hyped, mainly because when i was a kid i never got the experience of actually receiving brand new pets (i didn’t know they existed and my mom didn’t like buying trendy stuff
i had the exact same experience as you -- i had an lps channel, a huge collection (500+ pets and most houses, lots of plushes, and other trinkets), but at 12-13 i gave up on them entirely to fit in. i unfortunately also sold most of my collection and never had the motivation to start collecting again (especially since they've gotten expensive !!)
with the 2023 release coming to store shelfs i plan on buying at least a few. this is what younger me would've wanted.
they're releasing in march in my country, can't wait :>
As soon as i click on this video i get an ad for a new wave of lps 😭
Edit: IT HAPPENED TWICE
THE BACKGROUND MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING!!! it's in the lps ds game :)))))
As someone who mainly followed Littlest Pet Shop through the 2012 series (as you can see by my username and profile picture, I'm a big fan), I had no idea there was this kind of controversy involving the merchandise. I don't particularly mind the look of the LPS show given how Wildbrain (formerly known as DHX Media until they became Wildbrain in 2019) used a similar look for My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Pound Puppies 2010, and seasons 3-4 of Transformers Rescue Bots.
As for the look of Littlest Pet Shop: A World Of Our Own, I would assume it's because of Boulder Media using similar animation tactics to other projects they animated, such as Transformers Rescue Bots Academy and My Little Pony: Rainbow Road Trip. I think the reason the 2018 LPS show didn't last as long as the 2012 show is because of Hasbro's 2017 theatrical movies. Both Transformers: The Last Knight and My Little Pony: The Movie didn't do as well financially as Hasbro hoped, and any Hasbro project that wasn't Transformers or My Little Pony related (such as Stretch Armstrong And The Flex Fighters and Hanazuki: Full Of Treasures) was treated poorly and cancelled.
I remember on my 11th birthday getting one of the newer LPS, and I just felt like my childhood was over. I know it sounds overexaggerated, but the level of detachment I felt at that moment really REALLY hurt. I did not recognize them. LPS was in my everyday life. I had a whole lore around it. Not long after, I started seeing the new spiky G3 LPS on the shelves and I couldnt look at my old LPS anymore knowing their future was just doomed to fail. It still hurts to this day to think about and it pisses me off that it broke something inside that made me snap out of my little world :/
i’m a very new lps collector getting my first few like a week ago and i love them so much!! so cool too see them back (also i love your hair omg)
OH MY GOD I WAS OBSESSED WITH POUND PUPPIES! I WOULD WATCH IT EVERYWHERE, I REMEMBRR HAVING IT ON MY LEAPFROG TABLET HH
I still really like the g3 lps that I had as a child, they were bright and spikey, which matched my aesthethics, at least they didnt have stupid expressions that limited my imagination like g4 did and they also didnt feel as if they were made out of eraser material and their heads didnt feel like those erasers that can't erase anything to the touch, unlike g4
omg i had the same exact experience with the rebrand halting my collection. i am also autistic, and it was part of my daily routine to go to the store and search for new lps i could add to my wishlist. i didn't have a meltdown or anything, but took it as a sign that i was growing too old for lps and could no longer collect them :( i can't wait to start collecting again with the resurgence of the fandom!!
As a LPS tube veteran! This is amazing
When I was little I live both g2 and g3 lps. I remember I LOVED g3 because they didn’t have metal that would rust (I loved taking my pets into the bath, pool, lake and hot tub) but beside being water resistant and the ability to swap heads which I thought was hilarious. G2 was always my favourite
As someone who was and still is an lps collector, it’s all very nostalgic. I remember back in 2019/2020 when people were literally sending hasbro emails to bring back old lps, it was such a rampage! But I’m glad basic fun is bringing them back. 🌷💗
When I got older I started collecting again 😊 it’s hard bc of adult stuff but I’m slowly building my collection again after getting rid of them due to peer pressure
I'm 23 and still really enjoy LPS! My sister and I had a shared collection of 150+ of them growing up, and we couldn't be more ecstatic for the rival
When I was a child my stepfather wouldn’t allow me to have these “girlie” things that my sister had and I would sneakily play with them so I’m healing my inner child by buying and finally owning lps and monster high ect your channel is so good for information on these toys
I am 39 years old, AUDHD female, and I still collect cutesy things here and there. I have Real Littles and Mini Brands lol. That being said, growing up in the 90's I had the more realistic looking LPS. I was obsessed. I still wish they would bring back that look sometimes.
I’m 22 and autistic too (ayeee!) and I loved lps so much. Recently I was cleaning out my family’s attic and actually found my old collection. I literally have some of the gen1 ones (the magnetic ones) and it’s insane 😭 I started displaying them in my room because of it :)
I’m so old, I don’t even remember gen 3, though in retrospect it’s definitely the reason I stopped buying them. I still love LPS but I can’t afford to start another toy collection 😭 the plushies in the background make me so nostalgic
OMG TWINS! WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!! ugh i love this channel theres so much relateable content from you! glad i met ya today!
I remember being obsessed with getting the lion fairy pet as a kid but I could never find it. I wasn’t allowed to buy it when I first saw in a store and I’m still pissed about it! Like it’s so cute and was the only lion model I actually liked!
I wish i found out about your channel sooner also have lps as one of my spintrests and a collector since i was 2 (im 19 now) oh my goodness loved this video sm and your channel as a whole seems right up my alley im definitely subscribing.
I do want to mention some things about the lps roblox game actually since ive been playing it alot. So the rhino you got isnt in the game yet. The only designs in the game are all 18 of the blind bag pets. I have yet to aquire any g7 pets in person but im pretty sure the codes for the blindbags give pets while others give gems and coins (please correct me if im wrong anyone 😭). The game you play it mainly by collecting pets and having them do activities its very much so one of those grinding games. Each world so far (only 3 atm excluding the town/tutorial world) has a pod and 6 pets available in each pod. You earn coins by making your pets do activities and they gain levels by playing and the higher your pet's level (so far according to the lps roblox game discord the highest level for pets is 50) is the more coins you get. The coins so far are used to buy the ugc items as well as more pods to try to get more pets. Theres gems as well which can be used to buy accessories for your pets as well as other upgrades including more backpack space, a farther play radius pets can go much farther from you to do activities, those boosts (these ones now with the new gift feature added aren't worth it) like the coin one you got, more pets equipped to follow you, and an auto play button for the whole pet party to grind. Speaking of accessories from before there are some free ones hidden around the map and ones you can unlock with achievments. Also you can name your pets as well. When you click the panda icon on the left side it will show you your pet backpack and next to the pet icon theres a little pencil and you can click that to change your pet's name. Clicking you pet icon not near an activity gives you options as well inclusing pet details in which clicking that gives you a customize button and thats how you place accessories on your pet. I have almost 3 million coins and almost all 18 of my pets are at level 50 (i just have one of each its pretty easy to get them all atm). Game's a bit confusing at first and yes it crashes so so so much but i like putting it idle while watching video essays like this one :]
🎶🎵 BE OUR FRIEND OUR FRIEND FOREVER OUR BEST FRIEND FOREVER AND EVER 🎵🎶
I found them at my Walmart earlier today and spent 20 DOLLARS on blind boxes and opened them excitedly in the car and at my house and it filled me with so much indescribable happiness that I can’t even explain. I was stimming and gushing to my friends for hours and now I’m watching lps TH-cam videos LOL. It’s been years since I was into littlest pet shop collecting, and I think a new hyper fixation is brewing. 😅
I distinctly remember a game or something with the weird pets but idk if it was just the show or something
it’s so cool and crazy to see TH-camrs my age making videos like this!! Like we seriously experienced very similar childhoods. I feel like I’m still expecting the people I watch online to be older than me lol.
perfect video to watch while eating my 2pm breakfast burrito.
agh this is bringing back so many memoriessss my ass was on ebay DAILY and looking thru flea markets to find old lps
i also was shamed out of playing with them in middle school but i still have all of mine (literal bags full) and i love them all as much as i did then ❤
As a kid i had two g3 pets and blythe plus a 20 pack of fakes from aliexpress and then some i found in thrift shops. I mainly collect mlp but when i find pets i buy them
Good video. I know nothing about LPS other than what I’ve learned from your videos on it but I found this interesting and informative
I personally loved the magnets i remember playing with a certian playset all the time. When i got another playset and newer lps gen i remember being super confused and uspet when they didnt have magnets
I have autism too, and I still love watching shows from my childhood and collecting DVD's. And I 100% agree that you should express yourself without judgment.
i was completely oblivious to this whole situation, as a kid i liked the lps show
I used to love the littlest pet shop. I especially liked the one I had that had a soft texture. It was like a fuzzy spider. Also, I missed the magnets after they went away. I used to stick those things everywhere.
Not completely related to the topic of the video but I’d LOVE it if you did a video on pound puppies maybe :0 it’s one of my biggest hyperfixations rn and it makes me sad that’s it’s fan base is so small and it was such a underrated show
Also I really like your content!! Keep up the good work!! :]
wait, what don’t i know about the infamous mommy and baby sets??
I remember when this movement happened! I was pretty young, so I don't even remember being that outraged about the redesign at first. I did go through a brief phase where I started to miss the old LPS and hated the newer gens, but that was only because there were a ton of older gen pets that I wanted but never got, and plus the movement eventually got to me. I got past that phase eventually, and I still love pretty much all gens of LPS. I even have the goal of getting at least 1 LPS from every generation. The only pets I don't have yet are the Gen 7 ones. Of course the pets that all get lumped into the G2 category are still my faves, but I don't hate the other gens and find some of them to actually be rather pretty. It's fine to not like certain gens, but some people get really hostile about it, which I really don't like. I'm just glad that Hasbro didn't stop making LPS as a whole! Although, I will say that there is at least 1 ugly LPS in every generation, and that includes G2. Also, I actually loved the 2012 LPS show. It's been years since I last watched it, but it was one of my favorite shows as a kid. For me, it was up there with MLP, which was (and still is) one of my biggest special interests. Also, I used to watch the LPS Dare Us series all the time as a kid! Maybe I'll revisit it one day.
i remember feeling so embarrassed for still loving warrior cats until 8th grade and dropped the series, and i rlly wish i hadnt because it brought me so much joy and im still overly passionate about my knowledge on the series
The 2014 Era of lps is so nostalgic
I am glad the old lps are back! I remember the ad from 2014 when I the tv show when I watched hub.
Listen; people who grew up with webkinz definitely expected the code to correlate to the pet. It’s a pain that the expectation was not the reality.
even though i was a kid at the time i was extremely invested in this. i was furious at the fact that the new lps looked the way they did, i much prefered the old ones and agreed with everything i saw on the internet about it.
POUND PUPPIES MENTIONED ‼️‼️‼️💥💥💥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
in retrospect i don’t *loathe* the designs from the 2012 redesign era (and the cartoon’s pretty decent in my opinion), i just wish they weren’t the only lps toys on shelves at the time
im in love with everything about you, your hair, your t shirt, the nose rind, the MELANIE MARTINEZ DISC, the flag, the monster high, the lps, the td poster, harley quinn. IM LITTERLY A YOUNG U!
I loved the magnets! i remember sticking them to the fridge or the bathtub. I genuinely want to purchase some of the old ones just to use as fridge magnets lol
I remember standing in a Toys R Us for like an hour feeling 20+ blind bags for the rainbow bear. I actually ended up getting it?????
I’m so glad I found this video I have to do a toy package redesign for my class and this is so helpful for my project!!!
I’ve been in love with lps my entire life and I never got to post when I was little but I felt very closely with feeling I needed to get rid of that part of me to fit in and be “normal” my entire middle school career had me pushing them but now I’m back and in better than ever and even started my lps account just for fun 😊
Hi
6:12 its iron/small metal pieces and its like in everything so its sticks to the magnets
YES THIS IS IT OMG
The last time I “played” with my lps was when I was in 10th grade. I then felt like I had to stop playing with them if I wanted to fit in. Haven’t opened their box until now and I still love them😩
I remember calling Hasbro when I was 9 and that poor guy was so nice😂
I FOUND THE VIDEO I'M GONNA DIE
I remember I tried to go to an LPStube meetup or a mini LPScon. But I was like 10 and it was in Virginia😂
Oh, I think that lizard is one of 2 iguana molds from G2!
AHH I love this video, your commentary is so great!!💖 Also your shirt is literally the cutest omg
I'm autistic too and I struggled between having all my special interests and fitting in with other people my age. And it was so tough for me to try let go of all the things I loved because my classmates thought it was "cringe" and "for little kids", and I was bullied for not "acting my age", whatever that means. But I'm so glad that now there is a space for us online to not mask our interests and not be judged
You know i didn't know about this when i was little until i got a bit older and saw all these bring back old lps videos. And i was like "what do you mean they all look the same what's so different?" Well after watching a few videos about it i can see why everyone hated g3 lps so much like the designs are cool but the shape of the toy and the quality is bad
Instantly subbed when i saw this video, i love your style btw omg so happy i found this channel 😂❤
OMG I’M AUTISTIC TOO!! I was more of a MLP kid but I had some LPS.
Around like 0:50, there was an LPS in a raincoat and me with my other hyper fixation went:
LITTLE NIGHTMARES!!?!