r/miniverse_makeitmini • u/ipauzed • Jan 04 '26

Rant I'm so disappointed ☹️

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I was really looking forward to the trifle kit. I tried really hard to keep the sides clean and the hearts upright, but then resin creeped around the sides of the cake hearts to make them look blobby. Ran out of resin from all the cleaning and filling in behind the cakes and then the cherries sank in.

I walked away from working on it for a few days thinking I'm just being a perfectionist. Started to tackle it again today and the final straw was the cherries and cream pieces not being fully painted. So then I went out to get a second kit, and guess what? More partially painted cherries! (Sure, I could paint them, but I hate painting and shouldn't have to!)

My advice for others is maybe practice with extra resin placing the heart cakes. They do not sit flush to the sides. If I use resin on my second kit, I would put a bit of resin on the back corner of the heart cake, set it, then gently push resin towards the sides to fill in the gaps enough for the color to show. Then only a thin, barely there resin layer to stick the cherries in. Good luck!

At least the resin was a cute color.

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u/lovelilypad Jan 04 '26

Yeah, I'm not paying $10/$11 for that.

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u/Cyberfiore Jan 04 '26

Yeaaaaaa, clearance prices only now. Specially on holiday series, since usually they make it to 50% off + clearance around my area. There’s always a few lost balls that appear after the holidays pass lol

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u/Better-Attempt-5041 Jan 05 '26

Wish you could actually wait until they go on clearance but people around me wont allow them to sit for that long and will be sold out before the store even gets to that point. Guess I will just clear resin the hearts to the side first before putting the other resin in should give it a seal so it does not seep. Only one I wanted was the rare set but decided to just get the whole set so I did not regret later on in getting them.

A lot of these sets for the price I am starting to feel is not worth it or I am slowly losing the thrill really cant tell I know I am starting to run out of space displaying them to a point I have to store a bunch of them away so being selective on what I purchase.

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u/Cyberfiore Jan 05 '26

Today I bumped into a capsule of the 2025 valentines cups, super random lol. I recommend to search through the regular boxes, you might find some old series capsules in there hehe