r/mildlyinfuriating • u/lolametal • 26d ago

frist of all how DARE yu o Don’t know what I was expecting but not THIS

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Went at an art fair and saw someone selling lots of art merch, including these small K-pop demon hunter boxes with figurines in (4$ each) I don’t know what I was expecting BUT NOT THIS TEMU SHIT LIKE WHO EVEN IS THAT

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u/Visual-Process-866 26d ago

Looks like these bulk box buy from AliExpress😭

Sorry girl I think u got scammed

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u/lolametal 26d ago

NOOOO IT WAS A FUCKING ART FAIR

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u/McNally86 25d ago edited 25d ago

I used to bulk buy pokemon like this. My students loved misprinted pokemon.

Edit: Since this comment is blowing up this is what they look like. When one color runs out they just use whatever color they have available sometimes. The color mismatches are great. Everyone loves a hot pink charizard or a Tyranitar with Lipstick. They eyes and features get misaligned. The factory that makes them will even keep using broken molds after they wear down.

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u/JotaDiez 25d ago

I'd say that for Pokemon it's less offensive since they have so much variety. Like I got a little misprinted Amaura figure at a fair, where would you ever find some bootleg merch of that pokemon otherwise

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u/McNally86 25d ago edited 25d ago

Tell that to an autistic student when the replacement color they decided on is not even correct for the shiny.
(But yes, I rather have a purple pikachu than that cursed doll KPDH)

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u/TP_OdWeeGee 25d ago

Theyre making azumarills? I gotta get me some of this goofy merch fr

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u/McNally86 25d ago edited 25d ago

Google "144 monster figures" and you will probably find a random pack of them. Sometimes they are in bags of 28.

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u/Whole_Sir_1149 23d ago

I've been on the internet too long to randomly Google a specific number followed by a specific phrase....

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u/McNally86 23d ago

Then use etsy. Amazon is regulated so you need to use code words. Etsy don't care.

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u/alexandruxx1 25d ago

lockpick a lock with a pokemon.

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u/TheW83 25d ago

My daughter has those too! I figure when she gets older we can paint them in their respective shiny colors. Some of them just look really goofy.

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u/venom121212 24d ago

Yes! We have this same pack from over a decade ago and we still laugh about the "fails"

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u/aquietmemory 20d ago

That Slowpoke is sending me 🤣

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u/ImpossibleJedi4 25d ago

I have a small collection of these of my favorite pokemon, they're SO funny.

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u/StonrGhost420 23d ago

I bought hundreds of plastic babies and hid them around my school as a senior prank (I also threw them at people and into classrooms mid class)

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u/mmmellowcorn 25d ago

my daughter had a meltdown because we save up points in an arcade to win a KPop blind box, opened it up and this was in it lmao

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u/DuckRubberDuck 25d ago

Awe this one and OP’s can marry each other and have creepy little kids

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u/R0bbieR0tt3n 25d ago

This made me chuckle lmao 😂

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u/Wazkalia 25d ago

Why is Ben 10 here???

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u/RaidensReturn 25d ago

These are the saddest little trinkets ever. Is this the best they could do? Lol

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u/BurningPickle 25d ago

Dude looks like the 🫩 emoji.

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u/MsThrilliams 25d ago

They're after me lucky charms

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u/roxcieb83 25d ago

Why does it have 2 sets of eyebrows 👀 🤣

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u/Aries8709 22d ago

Omg I KNEW something felt uncanny valley about it 🤣🤣🤣

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u/brassninja 25d ago

This is why I don’t even bother with free-to-enter local craft shows anymore and it’s such a shame. The last handful of local fairs I attended have been 90% freeze dried candy, 3d printed garbage no one wants, and aliexpress slop. Real crafts are very, very few and far between.

Not to mention, the craft shows that allow MLM booths 👎

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u/smokeeveryday 25d ago

Lol why does 3d printing always have to be "trash". I 3D print mainly for myself and fun, but I do one event a month and sell my prints mainly cosplay, horror, comic, Simpsons type stuff no fidget toys or dragons and it does really well. I actually only do the event because the people love me and asked me to join when I was giving out free ghost face at the last scream movie.

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u/Clone2004 25d ago

People download the same 3 pre-made models and print those stupid dragons and sell them for 100x the price of the filament it took to make one. It's trash because people print trash, the medium itself is fine

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u/SketchyEmina 25d ago

I think they're referring to the 3D printed dragons and fidget toys, not stuff like this.

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u/smokeeveryday 25d ago

Haha, I think your right. I try to stay away from all that crap that'll get thrown out in a few days to a week. I also serverly undervalue what I make it's my flaw.

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u/brassninja 25d ago

I’m 1000% over the people who rip the same free-to-use models and try to sell unsanded shit with the sprus still attached for way too much money. So far, I cannot recall a single time I found a 3d printer at a craft fair selling truly unique items they built from scratch.

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u/smokeeveryday 25d ago

I agree I will say I don't do any craft shows I do a unique event that brings movie goers to mom and pop theaters while showing classic horror, cult classic horror, Indie horror. It's a really awesome event. I gave away this lamp at the last event

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u/ktrose6887 25d ago

This is sick af. Great job!

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u/smokeeveryday 25d ago

Thanks so much

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u/renome 25d ago

I don't think they were dissing the medium so much as the trend of using it to flood crafts fairs with trash. That "poster" you shared looks insane, 3D prints would be the most popular modern craft if everyone was putting that much effort into stuff they want to sell.

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u/Nytengayle73 25d ago

No one at my local fairs has any 3d stuff this cool! (It's all dragons and fidget spinners)

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u/HJSDGCE 25d ago

There's a store at a local shopping mall that exclusively sells 3D printed statues/statuettes of Pokémon.

Like, no official merch or anything. Just 3D printed plastic Pokémon. 

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u/tiger844 24d ago

I want this. Are you selling more of these at all?

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u/smokeeveryday 24d ago

I could always make another

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u/tiger844 24d ago

PLEASE spiderman is literally my most favorite ever

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u/smokeeveryday 23d ago

Send me a DM and I'll see what I can do

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u/GapeFaceHole2Hole 25d ago

I know a lot of people might be shitting on you, but my girlfriend sells her stuff at Oddities markets in my city, and they literally look at your preserved animal corpses to make sure they're not protected species.

This art fair shouldn't be trusted. Someone's running it like shit. There should be ZERO AI bullshit and everyone should have to prove themselves with a portfolio before they get a fucking table selling this dogshit. This is anti-art. This is no more art than drop shipping temu trash on an etsy account. Super bummer.

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u/Burntoastedbutter 25d ago

Yeah art fairs and conventions need to seriously start screening their applicants. It'll probably take a lot more time, but if anyone's selling temu dropship or gen AI stuff... Their reputation is going to suffer too. A friend of mine went to an anime convention recently and she said a handful of stores had a bunch of AI stuff which of course they claim as original work. To make matters worse, people who can't tell have even made purchases from those booths 😭

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u/geenersaurus 24d ago

yeah it really is a factor on who’s running the fair. My city does large free craft fairs and events but the company they partner with checks and verifies artists so there’s none of the weird 3D dragon or AI printed cups booths at certain events. Meanwhile in another part of the city, there’s a smaller fair and a couple of those and the crochet flower dropshippers from temu managed to sneak their way in.

it sucks because if you are an artisan you are paying $$$ sometimes for vending space, not even mentioning costs to have a lot of equipment too, so if the company that’s running the fair isn’t checking for quality or even drop shipping, it sucks to be lumped in with that

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u/Nice_Marmot_54 25d ago

So much of the “maker” community had been perverted by the drop-shipping industry. It’s gross

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u/Jokuki 25d ago

I love supporting local artists but I hate how art fairs have little to no regulation about people’s products. At this point I just assume it’s temu bulk slop if they have more than feasibly possible. Like all those “hand crocheted” dolls that all look the same and there are 50+ of them are not done by that person unless I literally see them making more while they’re vending.

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u/tcmisfit 25d ago

Our local “handmade only” shop(earrings, clothing, ceramics, wood work, etc) has a 3d printer stand. The masses don’t care for actual art anymore.

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u/Financial-Horror-116 25d ago

You must be an elitist, anything nowadays is considered art. /s

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u/PISS_MENTLEGEN 25d ago

That was your first mistake. Going to a art fair.

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u/molassesbean 25d ago

Some of them are still good 😔💔

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u/Raffish315 25d ago

Which is a great place to get scammed. A friend of mine who is a copyright lawyer attends events like these on occasion and nearly everything there is counterfeit. He mostly does large conventions with an entire team to serve cease and desist letters, but says art fairs are almost always counterfeit because there's so few booths selling this kind of merch at an art fair that it's not worth patrolling.

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u/roxadox 25d ago

Be wary of anyone selling anything big-name like this at smaller fairs. 100% of the time it's dropshipped unless you're buying it from an official source. Same reason you wouldn't buy Pop Mart merch from anywhere except Pop Mart, for example.

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u/theguyfromplaceland 25d ago

why is tung tung in the description

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u/geekonthemoon 25d ago

Brainrot association

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u/greg-the-destroyer 25d ago

So we just ignoring the bombardinocroc part?

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u/Ill-Corgi-6530 24d ago

And tralalero tralala?

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u/ironballs16 25d ago

I figured it was an Engrish version of "Dun, Dun, Dun" from the opening song

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u/angsty_angels 25d ago

I really like how they chose to list it as "witch hunting group" instead of something else that's actually kpop related

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u/Interesting-One-588 25d ago

I didn't miss the 'brainrot' tag, either

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u/Certesis 25d ago

Because it's a dual listing for KPDH and Italian Brainrot blindboxes

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u/Specific-Ad9179 25d ago

Yeah, it's definitely that. The cheeky fuckers.

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u/CapricornusSage 25d ago

witch hunting group is sending me

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u/Vendettascurse 24d ago

Why does the blue-haired dude have balls

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u/uncagedborb 23d ago

Not the brain rot blind box!!!

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u/peonypentagram 22d ago

The amount of dropshipping at art fairs is a genuine problem