Tiny, Squishy Squinkies

I resisted Squinkies for a long time. No, really, I did.  They are small and there are lots of characters and licenses in the line, which is normally like a siren song for me, but I held out for a while.  Until I stumbled on the Pixar animal pack.  Oddly, the piece that made me HAVE TO BUY this is the one piece OF COURSE I couldn't find for photos: the balloon basket from Up!

Kevin and Dug!  Plus Nemo, Squirt, Flick, and Atta

And once I had these in my hands, I spotted another pack of Disney creatures, so they came with me, too.  I am not the most hardcore Disney fanatic, but a lot of the animal-centric movies were my childhood favorites, as well as all the toys made to go with them.  You should see my 101 Dalmatians collection...

Squinkies come in tiny spheres that are easy to open and close. They are vaguely reminiscent of the clear plastic bubbles that vending machine toys tend to come in; a similarity which Blip Toys hasn't ignored, producing a number of bubblegum machine type storage toys for these figures.  The major difference is that vending machine bubbles are never easy to open and close. (So many childhood finger injuries...)

The bubbles are sometimes solid colors, allowing for surprises. It's easy to see why kids like these.  They are small and bright, with a squishy-soft feel and vaguely tacky surface. They are just the kind of toy that's easy to lose and difficult to keep free of pet hair, and I love them.

My Marvel Squinkies

MY favorite thing about them is the many licenses and characters, which are all produced at vaguely the same scale.  Now, LEGO is the reigning champion of that prized quality, in my book, but I enjoy it in other toys as well.  It lets me do things like this...

The details tend to be a little imperfect, but that's okay. I like them as they are, and part of the main draw for me is that I don't think I owned a lot of these character in other forms, so I'm quite happy with these!