LOL OMG Remix Super Surprise by MGA

 It's finally here! It's enormous! it's heavy! It's gonna take fucking forever to open but it's the LOL Remix super surprise 8 pack!

 

I ordered my set from Smyths and do be aware that they DO come inside the packing case which clearly says what they are inside. So if you're ordering these for christmas be warned, this is literally how it shipped to me which isn't ideal if you're buying it as a gift for a child within your household. 

This box still had the embargo sticker on it. What I find interesting about this is that it says not to open till september 25th but these didn't come into stock till October 4th anyway. 

Wierd.

The box is BIG. It's not as long as the last big megapack but it's substantially chunkier. It has the same large graphics on both sides and boasts over $200 of value and 70+ "surprises". I'd argue there's no surprises but we'll keep a running tally okay?

There's a plastic handle on top which is quite convenient for lugging the huge thing around. My arm should give some perspective on the size of this thing. 

Now, i'll admit right here that I didn't photograph my deboxing like I usually would because I decided to video that instead. It's a full hour long and that's JUST me going through the 67 steps in the instructions. I mean daaamn. 

The last big box took a similar amount of time to open to be fair, actually I think it took longer because I had to deal with the stupid maze thing it had. At least this one had no maze. 

Flipping down the front panel reveals the giant boombox. I mentioned this in my video but I will say it again, does the target market for these even know what a boombox IS?  I mean even in my childhood something this huge was massively dated but all of remix is really 80s themed and it's confusing me. 

is the 80s cool again and do kids actually know what cassette tapes and shit are?

The two "speaker" sides hinge open (took me way too long to work that out. I'm dumb) to reveal the omg boxes labelled 34 and 51.

But you have to open everything else to get all the OMG accessories and clothes sucker!

The inside behind the omg boxes is cute. It's a stage setup that looks rather like one of those underground sort of clubs rather than a big stadium. One "wall" has a picture of a door leading to backstage. There's a lot of references in the backgrounds. There's "grrrrl power" on  one wall "once more with feeling" and a Keith Haring inspired dancing man. 

There's also several stickers including a shocked smiley face man which is very grunge and ABCD as a nod to ACDC, a common motif MGA has used for years on their dolls. I think it started with Bratz but I have a Moxie Girl with that same logo on her shirt.

Even more references! Grunge girl or whatever her name is features seeral times on poster. We also have Shadow and the LOLs of Bhaddie dressed as a monster and 80s bb (aka the Madonna one). Also some graffitti saying MC Swag was here and a record that I THINK says "purple tears" which may be a Prince references (Purple rain) 

There's no denying a lot of effort went into the graphical design of this box. I just think it's a real shame it's cardboard and not really designed for long term use. 

The other side has "Stardust Queen" which is clearly a Ziggy Stardust reference.

There's a table on this side and a gold record for "the queen" (Elvis LOL) 

 Unfortunately the other "wall" of this side is all removable pieces with surprises behind them. I tried to be careful but I still tore several of them and then my kids got a hold of them and this happened. Even if you're careful honestly you cannot get this to look good once you've undone the perferations and it's a real shame because it ruins the playset element for me. You'd have to remove this whole piece and then you can't close it back up. I think it would have been better had they had the surprises BEHIND and you opened from the top of something so the decals weren't destroyed.

I just feel like it's a real design failure to have this playset element and then fuck it up with a piece you have to tear pieces off of. Come on guys, you can do better than this! Surely? Little card drawers maybe?

The middle section between the two "stages" is a giant stereo with a radio and cassette player. The cassette piece opens as a drawer and beneath it is, wierdly, a plastic drawer. Why is this one piece plastic?

The drawer and the cassette tape are quite useful for storing things though. They're both fairly deep so a good place to store spare parts if you intend to use this as a playset.

I should mention at this point that MGA has actually at least sort of listened to criticisms of the waste of these blind bag toys. The bags and "surprises" are no longer plastic but recyclable paper. The majority of the pieces are wrapped in tissue paper with the few things that needed baggies being in paper bags. That's good to see but i'd prefer just NO random extra packaging and this dumb blind gimmick to go away already. it just generates more waste. 

There also is little rhyme or reason to what's in what compartment. But at least the bags and tissue paper are all colour coded by character. Black with a cracked mirror sort of effect for Googoo/Fame Queen, red with animal print for Fierce/Ferocious, green with stripes for Bhaddie/Bhad Gurl and pink spiderwebs for Metal Babe/Metal Chick. The only problem there is there's absolutely on differentiation of what piece is for the omg and what piece of for the lol. While it's usually obvious there are a few pieces that are pretty ambiguous (Fierce's bracelet ALSO fits on the omgs and Goo Goo and Bhaddie's necklaces don't fit them properly and look more like chokers for the omgs so that was confusing as all hell)

You have to remove the plastic drawer to have the central piece fold down. The stereo piece folds into a stage for the LOLs and has four little plastic tubes they each slot into and can spin.

A bit random. But it seemed to amuse the kids. 

It can be pretty awkward to get the dolls to actually stand in their little indented foot holes and if you spin too fast they fall over anyway lol. 

The bottom two are easier to spin having normal spinny wheels but the two at the top spin using two dials above them on the top of the box and they're a bit more awkward. I think it would have worked better to just have two sets of the spinny wheels, it's not like there isn't space for another pair either above or below the tubes. 

Goo Goo Queen (AKA Lady Gaga) comes CAKED in glitter, like holy shit there's so much glitter. It sheds everywhere. Her eyes are caked in it even. Ew.

The LOLs all come nude and their clothes are scattered randomly throughout the set. Fierce's outfit was in fact the LAST thing I opened, it was number 67 of the "surprises". Wtf? 

She comes with a keytar in transparent black with embedded glitter.

it has FEET! 

They can be clipped down if you want the thing to be more of a keyboard. How cute.

I believe the original release of Goo Goo here had some caution tape underwear which was a little controversial (because a baby dressed in glittery underpants and knee high boots with fishnets wasn't already kinda icky) 

This version is nude except her painted on silvery fishnet stockings. 

She spits. I think they ALL spit as none of them have a tube through the neck. I suppose I prefer spitting to pissing themselves on stage. Still gross though. 

Fierce is COMPLETELY nude till the end of the deboxing. Poor girl. 

She doesn't even have any painted on underwear for modesty.

I don't believe she has a colour change gimmick like her original doll. Certainly the instructions say nothing about colour change.

I can't see that many differences between this release and her original but I don't collect LOLs so I don't have her original doll to really compare. 

Supposedly this is meant to be Beyonce but I honestly see more Scary Spice in this outfit lol. I'm showing my age.

She comes with a transparent red and gold Bass with a painted leopard print on the body

The back of it has molded waves for some reason.

Bhaddie likewise doesn't appear to have a colour change gimmick (her original doll turned green in water). She has molded hair this time too. Her original doll I think had rooted hair. She has earrings which I think are glued in. Her torn striped stockings are painted to look torn and she has a painted on black bodysuit under her outfit.

 Her hair is in a ponytail with a big curl wave piece at the front? I don't know, it's wierd.

She comes with a pair of cymbals which are gold and cracked. Which means they can't sound very good.

Metal Babe is another doll from the "hairgoals" line who originally had rooted hair. This version sees her with a molded haircut instead and substantially shorter hair as a result. 

She has painted on torn fishnets.

it's a cute inverted bob with an undercut.

She comes with a transparent red and silver heart shaped guitar.

It has this odd stepped darker pink/red colour in it which i'm not sure I totally understand.

They all got bottles too. Fierce's is a starbucks style cup in leopard print, Googoo's is a can labelled "pop!", Bhaddie gets a stripey frapachino cup with slime oozing out of it (the starbucks halloween drink is back? that was delicious!) and Metal babe gets a milk carton in black and pink with the molded missing kitty. 

I believe these match their original release's bottles. 

Each of the two omg boxes contains two "changing rooms" in typical OMG style. 

They each have a little card lid over the top to prolong the suspense (ooo what will I get? will it be exactly what's on the box?) 

The last few surprises are inside the "doors" of these boxes. Like the cassettes this means you have to pop out pieces of the artwork and damage the door which is annoying. 

Some compartments are small, some are huge. In my set one compartment was empty (no idea what was meant to be in it) and a few compartments were switched so a large item was inside a compartment that had 2 doors and a long door had 2 surprises behind it instead of 1. VERY confusing. 

Metal Chick's little room has that shadow/altgurl poster, another abcd poster and a larger version of the heart shaped guitar Metal Babe uses. Huh... interesting. 

Bhad Gurl has a tv... i think? showing a test pattern and a bean bag chair. She also has a lot of caution tape. The walls just have shelves with various bits of tat on them. 

Fame Queen and Ferocious continue the surprises in the doors thing. Also those little boxes under the door ALSO have something inside them.

Ferocious has a zebra print rug and chair in her room and several records on the wall. 

Did she tear the wallpaper? The venue is NOT gonna be happy about that.

There's a poster featuring two of the wave 1 OMGs which is cute. 

 Fame Queen has a mirror with "u got this!" written on it. Did she write it? or did her little sister? because her little sister's picture is right beside this writing, clipped into the mirror frame. 

She also has her keytar on the floor. 

These are cute little rooms and you could set them up into a backstage area if you so desired. But they're very small compartments. Also the damage opening the compartments does to the doors is irritating. It spoils their useability as playset pieces for me.

Fame Queen is freaking awesome. Again quite clearly Lady Gaga. This time she has elements from a couple of videos but the only one I instantly recognise is the body suit reminds me of Paparazzi and the metal glove which is a lot like the one from AHS. The lightening bolt makeup is from the album cover of The Fame.

I'm sure someone else could ID all the other inspiractions but I am not enough of a Gaga obsessive to be able to do so. Whatever the case, it's a really good likeness despite not being an exact replica of any particular outfit.

She has slightly glittery blue eyeshadow, brown eyes, a beauty mark on her cheek and pink slightly glittery lips. 

She has a silver lightening bolt under one eye and her hair is crimped and cut short. It's white blonde with yellow streaks underneath. 

Her hat has a wobbly brim that's pierced and the whole hat has a sort of crystal shape to it with facets. it's wierd. 

She has a sort of peachy skin tone.

She has a pretty cool molded on metal gauntlet. It's silver and runs up to her elbow.

Her boots look black in photos but they aren't, they're actually irridescent like a beetle shell or oil slick. They shimmer purple and green as light hits them and are freaking awesome. The platform on them has the same facets that the hat has. 

Her stockings are lace mesh. 

Her hair feels like it has product in it to keep it smoothed down and it's kinda flat without her hat on. 

Her bodysuit is two clamshell pieces of plastic that clip together around her body and her necklace/shoulderpad/big heart piece clips to her neck and shoulders. It's a bit awkard to get these two pieces on and off but they look damn cool once they're on. 

Her earrings are silver dangly crystals.

Ferocious is much more clearly Beyonce inspired than Fierce was. Her shirt looks like the outfit she wears in the Lady Gaga video for Telephone. 

See?

She has incredible soft copper coloured hair that's actually metallic and stacked into a high frohawk style. She has two lines shaved into one eyebrow and gold and brown animal print eyeshadow. 

Her lips are a dark brown tone and slightly glittery. She's a warm brown tone, a similar colour to 24k DJ and a touch darker than Da Boss. 

Her earrings are asymetrical and sort of shell shaped?

She has a molded gold glove hand. unlike Fame Queen, this girl's is JUST the hand and not the whole lower arm. it's a different mold as well which is interesting. 

She has these pleather leg warmers and arm warmers which i'm wary won't stand the test of time. This material always disintergrates and it's such a shame.

Bhad Gurl (such a dumb name) has a sort of cybergoth look going on. She has a plether skirt with warning signs printed onto it and a harness style belt over the top. Her shirt is fishnet and she wears a green plastic raincoat fabric vest over the top. 

Her spiked choker has really long spikes which interfere with her vest's collar which annoys me. 

Her fuzzy legwarmers are SOOOO soft.

She has molded on gloves and chunky rings that are pierced through the hand like old 80s and 90s Barbie dolls. The rings say "bhad" and "gurl".

Her hair is a sort of neon yellow colour with a slightly greenish tinge? I can't actually decide if it's green or yellow, it's something in between and it's messing with my head. 

She has wierd caution tape striped eyebrows which look honestly a bit silly to me. Her makeup is this same neon yellow colour with a dull purpley grey that matches her eyes. 

Her lips are purple and she has a pale complexion. 

She does NOT come with earrings. She stole one of Metal Chick's in this pic.

Her shoes under her legwarmers are little green ankle boots with a separate belt cuff thing that slides over the top. An interesting choice given the legwarmers totally cover them up. 

The boots remind me of shoes I had in my old cybergoth days heh. I miss Swear Alternative, they made such damn good boots. Sadly all mine eventually wore out or the platforms disintergrated as a result of age. *laments*

The back of her leg warmers has caution tape ribbon. One says "caution: toxic" and the other says "warming: extra" lol. Random. 

Finally we have Dracu... I mean.. Metal Chick. 

She has half black and half pink hair in multi braid pigtails. Her complexion is tanned and she has this sort of claw/tear makeup under each eye. She has dark purple lips.

she has a big spiderweb "bow" headband with a broken heart motif. Interesting that broken heart motif along with Fame Queen's lightening bolt are a recurring motif for the whole box/playset. 

Her makeup is fushia pink and she has standard OMG style dark eyebrows. Her earrings are two spiked studs. 

My girl is painted with a slightly wonky mouth which gives her an interesting sort of smirk.

Her outfit is... really wierd actually. 

She has a bodysuit that's half black and half white with pink puff sleeves in the same fabric as the skirt. it says "super sonix" on it which is the name of the omg band apparently. 

Her skirt is transparent pink with white polkadots and then lace and gingham ribbon trim. 

Over that she wears a plastic spiked corset which clips together in two pieces and hurts the hell out your fingers to press shut. 

then she has this bizarre very stiff jacket which has tiny beads all over it. It sheds beads and it's quite a strange piece with massive square shoulders. It's odd because the puff sleeves of her bodysuit kinda get in the way.

She has mesh tights with a spiderweb pattern on them and mismatched black and pink boots that remind me a LOT of Monster high.

So many teensy braids. So.. so many. 

honestly I really like Metal Chick's face, but her outfit wasn't really working for me. It just didn't quite work and so I decided to see if I could find her something a little more to my taste.

She kept her socks, her bracelets (they're simple little black bands with pink like.. nubbins on em) and her corset but the rest is Shadow's outfit. 

My Shadow had arrived with quite a few errors and I didn't like her red glitter in person at all anyway. Even repainting part of her it still just really bugged me but I loved her outfit. I've been waiting for a doll I felt would suit her very cool outfit and Metal Chick I think works pretty well. 

added bonus, she also now looks more like she belongs with Bhad Gurl as they're now both rocking similar fashion styles. 

the outfit pieces each came on a coathanger. There's 8 of them (the gold one went walkabout for the photo) and are all different from one another. 

Red and blue are Ferocious, silver and gold are Fame Queen, pink and black for Metal Chick and yellow and black for Bhad Gurl.

And four.... FOUR brushes. Because you know, four brushes were ESSENTIAL, each doll needed her own -_- why? 

these were each in their own compartment too. So of the 67 compartments 4 are JUST brushes. 

One brush i'd accept but four is overkill and a waste of plastic as well as being a shitty way to pad the number of compartments to open. 

Surprise count btw? 1, the paper baggies. Those were a genuine surprise.

The OMG dolls also come with instruments. They're electronic and play 6 different samples depending on which numbered button you press. Supposedly they're supposed to play together but 1: you need a lot of hands and 2: when I tried it was just discordant NOISE as many of the samples aren't really musical rifts but more just... sounds like sirens and blaring klaxxons and stuff. It's wierd.

The kids however really have enjoyed playing with them and pressing the buttons on each individual instrument. 

The drums come with a harness and some teensy tiny drumsticks that slot into a holder on Bhad Gurl's leg which is kinda cool. She can carry her drums like she's in a marching band.

Metal Chick's glasses don't like to sit on her face. They're too narrow and pop off constantly. I have this problem a lot with OMGs. They have no nose and very small ears so the glasses don't stay on well. I think it'd be better to have little slots like the LOLs have for glasses and headbands you know? then they might actually stay the hell on. 

Metal Chick's guitar is huge with the double guitar thing and so big she can't actually pose in a way that looks like she's strumming it. it's just too massive.

Fame Queen's glasses ALSO won't stay on her face, they constantly slip down and then fall off. 

She can hold her keytar though. Mostly.

Bhad Gurl CAN wear her glasses, I just think they're stupid. I don't mind the drippiness, it's the damn words on them. I might end up wiping the paint so she can have clear glasses without stupidly spelled bullshit on them. 

Her harness is wierd, it has a rubbery strap that goes behind her body which took me a while to work out and then the shoulder pieces clip onto her shoulders. I had a problem where it kept rucking up her top and exposing her boobs but after a bit of fenangling I managed to get it to work.

it's hard to get off again. My fingers hurt from all the plastic clippy pieces.

Ferocious gets a MASSIVE bass guitar and much like Metal Chick, it's a bit too big and bulky for her to pose with. The scale of these instruments feels just slightly off, especially with the guitars. I suspect that's because they  had to be quite chunky to have the electronics inside but it's a shame the dolls can't actually pose to look like they're strumming them. 

Another limitation is the shitty articulation the OMGs have, their arms just don't bend the way human arms do which limits their ability to hold anything in a way that looks natural.

This is everything you get in the box after you spend an hour getting everything out of the little compartments. 

4 brushes, 8 clothes hangers, 4 omgs, 4 electronic instruments, 4 lols with matching bottles and 4 miniature plastic instruments. 

This set retails at around £140 here in the UK which all things considered isn't too bad a deal. The single pack Remix OMGS are £40 here and the previous few waves of OMG have been £35 each. 

Breaking it all down you're looking at £140 JUST for the OMGs. On top of them you also get 4 electronic instruments (let's say £5 extra each) and the LOLs which retail at anywhere from £10-15 each now. So you're ending up with about £50-60 MORE stuff in this box than it'd cost to buy the equivilant individually. 

so not bad. Maybe that 200usd boast wasn't so unrealistic after all. 

There are however NOT 70+ surprises. 

The front of the box shows you exactly what you're getting down to the accessories. The only bits not shown are two of the girl's shoes and precisely what their undergarments look like. 

so let's be generous and give them 1 surprise for each undergarmented doll (that's 4) and the two pairs of shoes (that's 2 more) along with the surprise (for me) of the paper baggies and tissue paper. 

7 surprises thus far, which is quite a bit off 70. 

Let's argue the interior of the playset/box is also a "surprise" as it's not shown on the outside of the box so that's another 1 point. Interior of all four "changing rooms"? and a point for the fold out stage for the lols? that's another 6 "surprises" so 13 so far I count.

even if I count all four bottles which aren't pictured on the box we're still a very long way from the 70.

It's not a fucking surprise if it's ON THE FRONT OF THE BOX MGA.

and a hairbrush is NOT a surprise.

Four of them is a waste of plastic.

Gripes aside though, it's a decent little set. You get 8 dolls and some fun instruments for them all and the box mostly works as a stage setup if you don't mind the mangled cassette tape door side.

I'd be inclined to perhaps remove that panel completely but then you can't turn the whole thing back into a "boom box" and close it. It disappoints me and is imo a huge design flaw to what would otherwise have worked fairly well as a cardboard playset. 

I like the drawers, both work well to hold the extra bits and bobs when you aren't using them (like the glasses) and the LOLs have their own little stage. You can also turn the grey drawer upside down and use it as a stage if you so desire but i'm not sure that was intended. 

I don't fully understand why SOME pieces are plastic when all the rest is card though. it's a strange choice. 

I appreciate the paper baggies and tissue paper but a better solution to cut down waste would be to NOT HAVE THE THINGS PACKED IN 67 DIFFERENT SMALL PARCELS IN THE FIRST PLACE. 

I will probably reuse the tissue paper for packaging things I sell on ebay but I ended up with a very large pile of the stuff. 

While it's better that it's now all recyclable, it still has to be MADE and then recycled and that takes energy and materials. It'd be substantially better for the environment to simply NOT make it all in the first sodding place. 

The hour it took me to debox all this honestly added nothing to the "play" element. My children have played with the box quite happily in its deboxed state so I can't help but feel you could have sold this set with the dolls already fully dressed, their instruments in the boxes beneath their changing rooms and the LOLs inside their little spinny tubes in their own stage section and lost absolutely nothing from the experience. If you really wanted some "surprises" you could put some song suggestions in there to play with those little samples maybe? Or some stickers to decorate the playset to your liking with some more little posters and stuff? 

I like that the box has several places to STORE extra things and I like that I can actually fit all 8 dolls back into it once they're deboxed but it's quite a large thing and fairly cumbersome. It also has a lot of damaged pieces from opening the compartments and some of the other card sections will NOT stand up to play for long. 

I appreciate the idea of a box doubling as a playset, I just think they could have done it slightly better with less ugly missing sections. Even if you put carefully all the compartment covers back they never stay put. you'd have to tape them in place and that's gonna look ugly. 

little drawers would have worked better I think. So you didn't destroy anything removing them. 

Overall it was a less frustrating experience than the last big set they did (with uptown and downtown girl) but it still took forever to reach a point where I could even start to play with the dolls. 

Fierce's outfit is in compartment 67 ffs! And she's one of the earliest things you open! In fact, I think her shoes are in compartment like.. 7 or something. (one of the silver dials on the boombox. All four have a pair of shoes behind them) All four LOLs are step like.. 19.

You end up opening and dressing all four OMGS before you get the LOL's clothing, half the instruments you find before the OMGS even appear along with a few of their clothes and then the other half come after. there's so little reasoning to it.

Wouldn't it be better to have them organised? So like, you open the lol stuff first, then the omg stuff? rather than it being scattered all over the place?

I had to keep making sure i hadn't lost any of the teensy little pieces in the steadily increasing pile of tissue paper because you can't start to dress anything till you have all the layers and several of these pieces are absolutely TINY. You get earrings in their own little compartment and have to stash them to one side hoping they don't get lost before you find the doll they go to. You get teensy little bracelets and necklaces and tiny lol shoes you have to hang onto for ages till you reach a point you get a doll to put them onto. 

It's quite an undertaking and it WILL inevitably fall to the parent to make sure each of those tiny pieces is kept safe during the unboxing process to avoid tears at the end when an earring or a shoe has disappeared under the sofa. 

I would suggest getting a tupperware container for the unboxing and making sure all the small pieces go into it. 

also keep the bits in their colour coded tissue paper because it's really damn confusing to get to the end and think "Okay so who's earrings are these? Who's shoe is this? Who has this bracelet?"

This set I think will sell like hotcakes for christmas, it's a really good price for everything you get and the playset element does add some playability to the box itself UNLIKE the last big set which just left you with a huge load of cardboard and a lot of boxes. 

The instruments alone are pretty good fun even if they are rather obnoxious in the noises they make. My kids have all spent time pressing all the buttons and making a racket. Even the teenager.

Kids love buttons. 

In terms of qc, there are a few issues as there always is with blind bags. Fame Queen has one iffy hand where it's a bit fragile on the peg so I can't really yank it off like I can the other dolls. A couple of the dolls have some smearing to their lips or slight misalignment there and Metal Chick also has some paint spatter on one eye where it looks like maybe the nozzle was running low and kinda spat a bit. There's also some plastic flashing on Fame Queen's metal hand and Bhad Girl's fingernails on one hand aren't painted correctly. But all of it is nothing major or unusual for LOL OMG. Certainly none of them are as errored as my poor Shadow was. The eyes look fine, no big smears and no missing sections of paint so that's a relief. It IS something to be aware of though. These big sets have a high chance for things to be missing as well, the more pieces, the higher the chance and with 67 compartments that's a lot of tiny bits a factory worker could forget.

I don't know if i'm missing anything. I looked but all the dolls seem to have all their bits so i'm not totally sure what was supposed to be in the empty compartment. I'll have to watch some other deboxing videos to work it out. 

So wierd.

(Edit: I looked! It's a pair of glasses for Goo goo queen! Also it looks like my set wasn't in the correct order. Huh.. that's freaking bizarre)

All in all, I give this set a solid 8 redundant hairbrushes out of 10.

You can watch my epic deboxing Here

But be warned, it's a bloody long video.