US series Yowies swap topic

Trade list updated. I am gearing up for Series 4 to show up at the local stores!

Night Elf wrote:

Trade list updated. I am gearing up for Series 4 to show up at the local stores!

Just found Series 4 at a local Target. Will update my trade list in first post soon...

Cn anybody help me to find my wishes from serie 4? Thanks

widukind wrote:

Cn anybody help me to find my wishes from serie 4? Thanks

Hi Andreas,

I am going to try to track down more later today - which do you need?

Blublub wrote:

widukind wrote:

Cn anybody help me to find my wishes from serie 4? Thanks

Hi Andreas,

I am going to try to track down more later today - which do you need?

Thank you, i send you a pm

Edited my list.

Hello

I´m searching those US Yowies. I prefer to buy them, as I haven´t any species to trade :)

Blue-winged Goose
Orange-bellied Parrot
Southern Ground Hornbill
Strange-horned Chameleon
White-Lipped Peccary
Burmese Star Tortoise
Kipunji Monkey
Guanaco
Irrawaddy Dolphin
Kihansi Spray Toad
Sumatran Ground Cuckoo

Hello

I´m searching those US Yowies. I prefer to buy them, as I haven´t any species to trade :)


I has interrest to the following modells :
Series 4
Sumatran Ground Cuckoo - from this series this modell want i the most !
Andean Bear
Fossa
Silky Sifaka
Kipunji Monkey
Okapi
Burmese Star Tortoise
White-Lipped Peccary
Mandrill
Sumatran Orangutan
Guanaco
Irrawaddy Dolphin

Series 3
Southern ground Hornbill
Chinese Pangolin

When somone has some from them to sale please let me know !

@Duck-Anch-Amun I would be happy to sell you a parrot and goose from Series 3. Shipping to the EU is generally about $14 minimum, unfortunately

@Attis same as above; I would be willing to sell you a pangolin, but again shipping is expensive from US to EU.

In either case if you want to wait until I have some Series 4 figures for combined shipping that's fine too :) PM me if interested.

Yes, I'll sell some as well but first want to trade to complete the set.

Still no series 4 at my local stores. I have tried Walmart, Target, Walgreens, and Winco, although I just realized I forgot to check Safeway.

Any other places I should try?

Night Elf wrote:

Still no series 4 at my local stores. I have tried Walmart, Target, Walgreens, and Winco, although I just realized I forgot to check Safeway.

Any other places I should try?

Not that I know of - very strange, since as they say here in Minnesota you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a box of series 4 at the first three you mentioned.

Are you sure that you're actually not seeing the new series? They aren't very well marked - you have to look very closely to the box and labels to see where it says "New Series" or something like that.

I've only seen them at Target so far (upstate New York), and the box has a mandrill on it, which Series 3 didn't. If they aren't displayed in the box I don't think I'd be able to tell.

The foil wrapper of Series 4 has a white band with the WCS logo, and all of the ones I've gotten had an expiration date of Dec 2019.

Updated my trade list in the first post. I'm likely done blind-buying these and am hoping to trade to complete the collection. I'm going to list them on Ebay for sale in the next few days, so if you're interested please PM me. Thanks!

PhocidPhreak wrote:

The foil wrapper of Series 4 has a white band with the WCS logo, and all of the ones I've gotten had an expiration date of Dec 2019.

I have been looking for that. The stores sometimes don't change out the boxes in the checkout lanes, so I check the foil bellies. None in my area yet. They must have a backlog of Series 3 to sell. I guess I need to be patient.    

List updated! More Series 4 available to trade (and fewer to find!).

Walmart in my town finally got Series 4, but only has one box out so far (the rest are Series 3). I bought a handful of the eggs, but it's so close to Christmas I put them under the tree. I waited this long already, so I guess I can wait a little longer.

Night Elf wrote:

Walmart in my town finally got Series 4, but only has one box out so far (the rest are Series 3). I bought a handful of the eggs, but it's so close to Christmas I put them under the tree. I waited this long already, so I guess I can wait a little longer.

Wow, that took a long time! But at least that will be a nice Christmas surprise :)

Updated my have/want list in the first post. I will trade any FOUR of my haves for one Burmese Star Tortoise w/papers.

Night Elf wrote:

PhocidPhreak wrote:

The foil wrapper of Series 4 has a white band with the WCS logo, and all of the ones I've gotten had an expiration date of Dec 2019.

I have been looking for that. The stores sometimes don't change out the boxes in the checkout lanes, so I check the foil bellies. None in my area yet. They must have a backlog of Series 3 to sell. I guess I need to be patient.    

Yeah, be very careful. Both Target and Walmart in my area tend to mix in old series along with the new. If it's an open box you'll want to look for that white band every time.

Blublub wrote:

Yeah, be very careful. Both Target and Walmart in my area tend to mix in old series along with the new. If it's an open box you'll want to look for that white band every time.

No joke! Walmart almost got me last time doing that. Luckily I noticed before I got to the checkout.

I updated my list again. I don't think I will be buying more Yowies from the store for a while. I'm pretty sure at this point I will end up with lots of duplicates of my current trade fodder if I do. Maybe the tigers/mandrills/tortoises, etc will be easier to find in future batches?

Also, is anyone else less than enthused about the new softer plastic Yowie is making them with? I don't notice it on some figures, but it is particularly yucky/cheap feeling on the guanaco and the ground cuckoo.

I hear you Jessica - either they have some serious distribution issues with this series or they've moved to a "chase" model.

After something like four boxes I have never seen an orangutan or star tortoise nor have I seen any online for sale. I'm beginning to wonder if/how many of these actually exist. Then again, I thought that about the spray toad and all of a sudden I got bunches.

On the plus side, they seem to SERIOUSLY have reduced the number of Yowies in the mix. That can only be a good thing in my book. In my four + boxes this series I have only gotten two Yowies. Much better, although I really wish they'd eliminate these entirely or, if they must, make these the chase issues.

I haven't really noticed much difference in the quality of the plastic. It has always been a little all over the map, some are resin-like hard plastic (like the rabbit in the first series) and others are flexible (mostly marine mammals). The cuckoo and guanacos that I have seem on the better end of the spectrum. I certainly hope they haven't moved to a new formula that I haven't seen yet.

In any event, I've had good fun collecting these. The quality is above-average and the mix of species is excellent (certainly comparable to the old Playvisions). I'd love to support them as long as they continue issuing new animals, but if this continues I'm out as well. I keep keep going back for a few more but my patience is wearing thin.

Posting extra figures if anyone would like to trade/buy them. I will ship international. I would be happy to sell outright as well, or trade for non Yowies. Figures without papers are secondhand and may have some playwear, no major damage though.



WANTED
No papers/playwear is fine, just no major damage
I will often trade multiples for a figure I want, or non-Yowie figures

Series 2- Bairds tapir
Series 3-Orange belly parrot
Series 6- Andean cat, Atlantic puffin
Series 7- Pacific Glass frog
Series 8- Cassowary with paint scuffs/scrapes for customizing, really want this


TRADING/ SELLING

Series 1
African Grass Owl (paper only, no figure)
Clownfish
Galapagos Tortoise x2 (1 no paper, paper is throwback series)
Anteater x3 (1 no papers)
Grey Wolf (no papers)
Wombat ( no papers)
Alpaca (no papers)
Brown Bear (no papers)
Red Kangaroo (no papers)

Series 2
Bald Eagle (no papers)
Black Jaguar x3 (no papers)
Leatherback Sea Turtle x3 (1 no papers)
Caracal
Black Footed Ferret (no papers)
Hornbill (no papers)
American Crocodile (no paper)
Palila (no paper)
Andean Condor (no paper)
Whale Shark

Series 3
Black Rhinoceros x3 (1 without papers)
Sun Bear (no papers)
Lar Gibbon x3 (1 without papers)
Hippopotamus
Bactrian Camel x2 (1 without papers)
Pangolin (no papers)
Tasmanian Devil x2
Lion x2 (no papers)
Numbat (no papers)
Orange Belly Parrot (paper only)
Eric the Bulldog (no papers)

Series 4
Cheetah
Silky Sifaka
White-Lipped Peccary x2 (without papers)
Snow Leopard
Cheetah
Fossa (no papers)
Blue Shark
Humpback Whale
Siberian Tiger (no paper)

Series 5
Leopard Shark
Hammerhead Shark x3
Cape Seahorse x5
Golden Sandfish x2
Ocean Sunfish x2
Atlantic Wolffish x2 (1 without papers)
Giant Cuttlefish (2 extra papers)
Beluga Sturgeon
Saimaa Ring Seal
Giant Tasmanian Crayfish x2

Series 6
Ghost Crab x2
Green Vine Snake x3 (2 without papers)
Honey Badger
Red Fox x5 (1 no papers)
Yellow Tang x3
Sunda Colugo

Series 7
Black Flanked Rock Wallaby
Southern Bent Winged Bat x3 (1 no paper)
Ruby Eyed Pit Viper x5
Brown Sea Cucumber
Walrus
Spotted Hyena (no paper)
Peacock Tarantula (no papers)
Chinhai Spiny Newt x2
Wolverine (no papers)
Hooded Pitohui x2
Albert's Lyrebird x2
Sunflower Sea Star x2

Series 8
Dugong x3
North African Hedgehog x2
Short Beaked Echidna x2
Harp Seal x2
Visayan Warty Pig x2
Yellow Belly Glider x3
Iberian Lynx
Cassowary
Cuban Crocodile
Finless Porpoise x2
Asian Black Bear x3
Giant Frogfish x4

Yowies Gummies
German Shepherd x2
Siamese Cat
African Clawed Frog x2
Green Tree Frog x4



Last edited 04 February 2024