They really seem like something that's easily lost (my grandson has already "misplaced" one of the 8 pack I gave him) and geared towards getting you to spend money on a more regular basis by attempting to collect every trap variant created. From what I gather, one of each element is all that's really needed to take advantage of the trapped villians. Having not yet played I don't get the need to have tons of different traps. Of course I have no idea which difficulty level he played on so, which is significant- but still that seems fairly short for the investment made (Santa brought the Dark Edition). I'm pretty sure that all he did on the 26th was play Trap Team. He purchased the Mirror of Mystery expansion at Target yesterday because of that (plus having Christmas money burning a hole in his pocket ). He doesn't have 100% completion but has beat all the levels up to and including Chaos. My grandson got it from Santa and has "beat the game" (his words). I've not yet played this one - the copy I purchased is still put away. I had 3 grandkids with me (ages 4, 8, and 11) and didn't want to mess with Best Buy's narrow isles with them in tow so didn't bother checking for anything new there.
I found Gill Runt/Thumpling and took advantage of the sale to pick up it and the Trigger Snappy/Drobit pair. The non-Trap Master singles did not ring up at the sale price but I didn't feel like arguing (even though the ad said "All single figures").
Were the racks not full of figures I'd have just thought they sold out of the new stuff by this afternoon with the B1G1 40% off sale. They had *no* new figures other than that one pack of minis (in spite of showing Tuff Luck in the 2 day ad but I expect them to be put out tomorrow). I'll pick up Hog Wild Fryno separately should I decide I need/want one of those - I already have a Tidal Wave Gill Grunt in a 3 pack I purchased some time back.
Fortunately I've not opened either so they're going back to WM. Amazon now has both these new elemental parings listed making those WM "Exclusives" nothing more than a exclusive pairing of separately available figures and *not* a very good deal if you want the other minis in the elemental pairings. Yes - there are elemental pairings of Small Fry/Weeruptor and Gill Runt/Thumpling minis. So will all those be released individually?I'll partially answer my own question. But then there are the known variant ones coming: Eggscellent Weeruptor, Power Punch Pet Vac, and Gnarly Barkley. That leaves the pairings of Barkley/Whisper Elf, and Breeze/Pet Vac and the "orphaned" element pair still unreleased. So far these have been released in elemental pairs: Bop/Terrabite, Spry/Mini Jini, Hijinx/Eye Small, and Trigger Snappy/Drobit. Considering they also have the Hog Wild Fryno/Small Fry Buddy Pack as well it made me wonder how the release of Weeruptor and Thumpling will be handled. I also caved and picked up the last copy they had of the "Exclusive" Buddy Pack with Tidal Wave Gill Grunt/Gill Runt.