So this week I was planning to write about food, but that was last night at 2 a.m.. Since then I have reached the new amazing idea of what I recently discovered. While it is not a new concept, blind boxes have recently been added to my list of “dumb things to spend my money on.”
I have always been an avid enjoyer of the gotcha game genre, starting from the mobile game Brave Frontier and, most recently, Honkai Starrail. This being said I have also never been one to contribute to the pay-to-win aspect of these games. I was more of a grinder who played for hours on end just to receive the chance of satisfaction when pulling a five-star. Now, with the new rave of blind boxes, I was tempted by the chance of getting that satisfaction from a real-life object rather than a picture made of pixels. However, as said before, I was never one to spend money on these games, so, as expected, I spent a long time without spending any money on blind boxes. Furthermore, another reason I never really spent money on blind boxes is because, frankly, the blind box figures were plain ugly. Controversial opinion: I think Sonny’s Angels are way overrated and ugly. Smitskis are okay, but the poses are funny.
Back on the main topic, I was rotting in bed on TikTok as always, and I saw that one of my friends posted a TikTok of them with two Mofusand blind boxes. When I saw the figures in the Mofusand boxes, a voice screamed out from my head that I hadn’t heard in quite some time. The Mofusand pictures were basically just cute standing cats in some sea animal costume. When I saw it, I knew I needed it. So I called up my friend Ethan, and we went on an adventure into Manhattan to find some Mofusand blind boxes. However, with the demand for blind boxes in general, especially these cute blind boxes, we failed in our mission and could not find any Mofusand boxes. The next day, though, Ethan texted me, and I found out that he had gone all the way to Flushing and found some Mofusand blind boxes. He bought me one, and when I unboxed it, it was the special mystery figure. On every blind box, there are pictures of figures on the box so that the people unboxing the figure can know what they can get. However, aside from the pictures of the figures, there is always one figure that you can only see the shadow of, and that is the “special” figure. When I opened that Mofusand box and pulled out the cute ass cat in its crab costume, I was so excited. I love cats, and it’s like a little buddy that I can put on top of my phone to help my phone look less homeless. I used to think that Blinx boxes were the dumbest things in the world and a waste of money. I still think they are a waste of money. However, I am now more receptive to the appeal of these blind boxes, or at least the cute ones.
Since I got my first Mofusand, I have purchased two Smitskis that I have attached to the top right of my laptop. Smitskis are cute, and in the words of my friend Ethan, “They are lowkey enough where they aren’t too much, but still enough that they are a nice decoration on whatever.” I love my Mofusand, and I love my Smitskis. Maybe in the future, when I’m not broke and when spending $12 on each blind box doesn’t feel heart-wrenching, I will purchase more. That being said, if anyone would like to contribute to my blind box fund, I am sure you will be able to contact me *wink*. Until next time, toodles.
