Variants are essentially slightly differing Bean designs that were made in bulk. Some may be more akin to Factory Errors (or even still the type) but are generally enough of a big switch that they have their own word for them. Some examples are different tail/ears colors, a different embroidery color (like Fur-osty's nose) or design (Princess Pretty Paws has two different eyelash designs and depending on which one, may or may not have white embroidery for her paws), or even different screenprinting details (Boho and Fuzzy are two big ones for this-- Boho's bottom half of the design can be on either side depending on the batch and Fuzzy could have more seeds and little hairs or less seeds and no hairs). Sometimes even whole colors can be different like the Teddy variants or Archie, the Chonk. Some are more subtle like Kitty Cake, but there's a decent amount of these. Seeing variants between Open Box vs Blind Bagged ones are also pretty common. Sets C and D thankfully are a little less obnoxious and keep it simple being 25-36 and 37-48 respectively. They thankfully did not repeat their Holiday Wave 2021 release choices with the Holiday Waves since which just had 12 blind bag designs (though, some people did find some Open Box in some stores). The next wave has been announced to be Fuchsia Wave (instead of Magenta). Fuchsia will have at least 3 Batches. Teal will follow Fuchsia and two batches of that were shown off at NYC Toy Fair 2023. Ahem. 145-150 and 152-156 plus the missing 100 have been found in Australia thus far. Supposedly 100 and 152-156 should release in the UK too, but due to the distribution situation there right now, it's unclear when that may be.

If you find them at Five Below though, it seems only the first 12/24 are available there for the moment. Not sure when that'll change. There were three different shop Condos which came with Scoops, Nacho Cat, and Dilbert respectively. Besides Minis, there are 6 other Mighties, Hailey included, and 4 Mammoths. One of the Mammoths, Sugar, is currently only available on CvP's official webstore and at the Lake Zurich Learning Express. This also caused a general saturation because people would buy the other 12 open box and then be pulling blind bags just for the other six. If you're wondering why Gingersnap, Mr. Waddles, Wrappers, Holidaze, Carol, and Rudy have such crazy prices, this is why. Despite the company not having chasers, they accidentally artificially created some with how this batch ended up releasing.Now, let's talk about the Holiday Waves. The first Holiday Wave released in 2021 with 18 designs. 12 of which would be Open Box and 6 which would be exclusive to blind bags... alongside those 12. This became an issue for many reasons, such as: Summer 2023, Blue Wave was re-released under 'Blue Wave Classic' with different bags. Some designs do have slight differences, but others are very similar. Paw-B-Que was also released during this. There may also be a second batch with more of Blue Wave. Not all of Blue Wave has been re-released through this batch yet.

Eventually, due to some stores requesting it, they made blind bags for Blue Wave. They also put in some Purple Wave in the Blue Wave bags as a fun surprise. Wave 2 of the Bears vs Donuts was shown recently and will supposedly release this Fall or early Spring 2024. Unfortunately, they may have run into the same issue as Gold Wave where they may be rolled into a future wave with a bunch of other new KvG. This seems likely as a new KvG Bag has been being found at Walmarts. Information is still scarce, but I'll update as we get it.The Deluxe set came with three different Condos plus a bunch of Accessories. The Shop ones came with a bunch of accessories in addition to a special patterned Condo per set and the Basic Condos were just... a regular Condo with no accessories. The Basic Habitat ones, once again, did not really get a proper release in the USA and were only briefly on the Web Store with no actual indication they wouldn't be for sale anywhere else until they sold out so it was another situation where you mainly had to import if you're in the USA. Edit as of late July: Turtles and Unicorns are now out, but mostly just minis. Only Learning Express has had the Mighty and Mammoth size Turtles thus far. Other sizes of the Unicorns haven't been found yet.

Just Set E remains (50-61) which will likely release sometime later this year. There's no news on when we could see the Chonks in Canada and Australia in other regions yet, unfortunately.

And three different Basic Habitat Condos which came with Speed Bump, Cozzy Kitty, and Prism Cat respectively. And that ends where things get simple because now we have the weird releases. Around the time we got the Gold Wave teasers, we also received an extended Dogs vs Squirls sheet which added 25-48 and 50-61 (yes, 49 is skipped).

Next up, Bears vs Donuts! If you're thinking "but why, that does not make sense", their reasoning was "sometimes it's just for fun". Many people have asked this. Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. The lines feature no chasers. Every batch includes the exact same number of each design. That said, at least in the case of Purple and the first Holiday Wave, some designs just happened to be in more batches. I'll be talking about this more later in the post. As for the regular Bean Blind Bag releases, like Gold Wave, each set is a batch of 12. Set C (25-36) released in the latter half of the year and recently, Set D (37-48) has finally been hitting stores. There's also been Chonks released of the same 24 with 12 being open box and 12 being blind bag only.Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error and any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery Pop Soft Plush feature three currently released sizes: Mini, Mighty, and Mammoth and one retired size: Jumbo. There is also the Blue Stripe Gold Wave which are Gold Wave bags with a blue stripe at the top that have 36 different designs (though, again, batches are 1/12 so if the store only has 12 of the designs, well...). The designs are NOT LIMITED EDITION. Limited refers to the number of different store brands they will be in (Essentially no big box stores so no Walmarts, Targets, Five Below, etc.), not the actual amount or time they will be available. As long as Gold Wave is still going, so will they. Jumbo designs were not remade into Mighty designs. It's possible this could change in the future, but at least right now, the only Jumbo to be remade into the new Mighty size is Hailey. The rest are only available as Minis (Essentially, the second half of the sheet-- 13-15 and 17-24. Only exception is 16 which is also available in the Mammoth size). Jumbos released as well for 6 of the Dogs and two of the Squirls, but for whatever reason, the Squirls seem to be pretty rare to find. They did not release initially with the other 6 Dogs, which came out very early, and only ended up showing up more recently.