This video strips the whimsy from toy collecting to reveal the cold, calculated mathematics of the "blind bag" economy. It is a visceral demonstration of how modern marketing successfully monetizes the statistical frustration of the consumer.
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The Search for Tahu (Lego CMF Series 29 Pack Opening)
Added:Hey, have you heard of Bionicle? Well, I have. It's a very cool new toy from LEGO and they're out in stores everywhere.
Let's head to the nearest Toys R Us.
Wait, Evil Computers, Wars, Halo Combat Evolved.
Yeah, dude. It's 2001 and we're going to buy a Tahoo. Hell yeah. I bought a few packs of the collectible minifigures, the blind bags, and we're going to go through them all in hopes to find a Tahu so we can awaken the great spirit of Matanoui. And by a few packs, I mean 36.
Look at this. Isn't this like [ __ ] insane, dude? Oh my god, there's so many of them. Also, look my my hands. Hand cam. That's kind of cool, right? You see my beautiful hands? Okay.
Should we just open like should we just go with it now? Should we just jump right into it like a YouTuber would say?
That's kind of gross. I don't like that.
Let me show you the sides. Can I show you the sides? See here we have Ninjago [ __ ] figure here. No offense to Ninjago fans. It's just that uh it sucks. No, sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. Let's get one.
Beautiful. Okay, let's move this off to the side so the autofocus doesn't mess up too hard.
Boom. Fixing your watch. It's like an old watch. Actually, this is like series uh seven or eight. I think it was right before they added the goofy little pinch thing. Put your two fingers together and then that would cancel alarms while you are still trying to sleep and the alarm's bothering you. It's kind of cute. Who cares though? It's not worth upgrading. Not a not worth upgrading.
Also, the battery life still sucks on Apple Watches. It's It's unfortunate.
The first one. Let's go. Three, two, one.
Die. Oh my god. Oh dear.
Hey Chad, this was Lloyd.
Hey Chad, this was Lloyd. Oh my god. Oh [ __ ] Oh [ __ ] It's the Ninjago one. Oh my god. Oh, what the hell? Oh dear god.
Oh, so many people are going to be mad at me. So many people are going to be so pissed off. Oh dear god. Oh my god.
Okay, I've bent his [ __ ] sword. Holy [ __ ] No. No. Little Ninjago sword. I'm sorry, dude. Oh no.
Oh, I didn't mean to do that. Remember to like, comment, subscribe, and follow me on Blue Sky if you want. Maybe I'll do some more minifigure torture. Who knows?
You know, this was supposed to look like a paused VHS tape, but now it just looks like some bad analog horror, which is most of it. Oh, there's a little thingy here. What is this?
What is this? Oh, it's how to build them. Imagine they're all Lloyd. That would That would be awful. That would suck. That would be really bad. but also kind of fun. Oh my god.
I'm sorry, man. Whatever. Next one.
Here we [ __ ] go. Next one.
This feels like How Do Basic in a weird way. This is like How Do Basic but furry edition and Bionicle YouTuber edition and Halo YouTuber edition.
Fact. Okay.
Box two. Try and be a little nicer this time. Oh yeah, I got to show the camera.
Are you [ __ ] me? What is the optimal way to open this? Don't kill them this time. I'm trying. Okay, whatever, man.
RIP. Oh, try opening on the sides. Oh, not the sides. Wait. Tear from the sides. I'll figure it out. I already opened it from the top. I see a horse. I see a horse. That's not There are no horses in Tahu land. Do you tear the top horizontally? I don't know, but I just did. Horse moment.
Got 34 more to figure out how to open these. Exactly. I'll have lots of practice. I'll have lots of practice.
Loads of practice. Hello, little horsey.
Okay, let's see if I can build her. You can build the woman. Oh, Jesus.
Oh, wait. There's another piece.
Can I build this?
Let's see here.
Let's put the head on the torso. Put the head on the [ __ ] torso. Why is Okay, there we go. Woman real. No, we have uh Lloyd's corpse over here. And now he's no longer maidenless. Three.
I'm scared. You say from the sides, huh?
From the sides. Like this.
All right. Oh, dude. Not another maiden.
Oh, come on, man. I already have maidens. I have plenty of maidens. Up the ass, man.
Lloyd gets two. That's [ __ ] Why does Lloyd get two? Damn it, woman. Pick if true.
I love Lego. Because it means I can make anything I want. I'm not going to even build this one cuz like who gives a [ __ ] Who gives a [ __ ] Made an Oh, what the Wait, wait, wait. What's this thing?
What's over here? Wait, wait. What's this? This a little chalice.
What? That's kind of cute. Is this four?
We're on four, right? This is number four now. Uh, okay. We're on four. All right. Who are you?
Is there anything in here?
Oh my god, it's another Lloyd.
What the [ __ ] I don't want this. I gamer rage. I don't give a [ __ ] Anyway, uh I guess I'll build him cuz I didn't destroy this one. Plugs on backwards.
Okay, I didn't ask. We've only gotten woman and Lloyd, the two genders.
And uh look, are we on five? I think this is five.
Five. Come here. Come here. Okay. You said open from the sides, but people are going to get so mad at me. People are going to be so [ __ ] mad at me.
Do you see this?
The what the [ __ ] Woman three woman cubed.
That's dog [ __ ] man. Woman decided.
Oh my god. I I don't want to build another woman. Is this six? I think this is six. Beautiful.
The things we do for content. Am I right? I cannot open this. Right. What is this? This isn't t I Okay, let me let me show this. What? Oh, woman hunter. Like monster hunter, right?
Woman hunter. What the [ __ ] is a woman hunter? Nothing good. Okay, it's better than the [ __ ] horse or Lloyd. Okay, let's build her cuz she seems cool. Was that a tree? It's orange piece. It's a transition orange piece.
Oh, it's a little flame. Oh, that's so cool. Actually, wait, that's badass.
Witch hunter. I see. Okay.
What does she hold?
There we go. Hold the gun, girl. Hold the gun. Hold the gun firmly.
Grasp it. There we go. Grisp. I grisped it. She gripped it. Oh, hell yeah. It's like a flamethrower. Oh, that's badass.
Oh, that's cool. Fire going gun. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, this is good. I like this a lot. Firmly grasp. Yeah, this is cool. I like this a lot. I like it. Good for a horse. Okay, I don't care. Is this eight?
I think this is eight. This better be down, man. Six. Six.
No way. This is six. This is like seven.
Yeah, I think Kan's right. I think this is seven.
Well, it doesn't matter.
I don't care. Another one. Dude, what the [ __ ] I don't want another Lloyd.
Whatever, man. I don't want This is what you got for asking if it's six or seven pack eight.
Let's storm ahead. I got to find out the optimal way to open this from the sides like this.
Do you see that?
Do you see that horse?
Do you see that [ __ ] horse?
I learned how to open the box, but at what cost?
What?
Who's [ __ ] with me up there in heaven?
Angry.
Have y'all seen the movie uh When the Wind Blows?
It's an animated movie about uh a couple uh who live on like the British countryside and there's a nuclear bomb that goes off and they survive it and it the movie is about them just wasting away and slowly dying.
I'm suffering worse than them right now.
This is this is worse than hell. Please, please. This is women.
The the Bible says Wman and Steve, not Wman and uh moving on. This has to be like 10, right? I think we're on 10. I think we're on 10. You know that there's an entire extra level of these right at the bottom, too, right? Like there's more to this. 36 divided by two. I'm not going to do this. I give up on basic mental math right now. I'm taking calculus soon. I don't care. The sides firmly grasp it.
Uhoh.
Which woman? I think. Can I have the tuba man? I don't even know if I'm getting the tuba man, dude. Is that a meow meow? Is that a cat? Oh my god.
Lego mini figure redeemed kitty. I love cats. Cats are so good. Cats are the best. I love them.
Oh, beautiful beautamus. Oh my god, kitty. We are so [ __ ] back, dude. We are so back. We're so back cuz cat. We are so back cuz cat. Because cat. We are back. 10 out of 10. Cat rules. Okay. 10 or 11. Tahu ho. No. No. Tahu is not a hoe. What did I say? 10. Okay. Swag number.
I don't know any other languages. Okay.
You see how smart I am.
Woman. How many women? Let's see here.
That is that too loud. Banging this. I can't tell. Here we go. 11.
Okay. That's a human face. So this isn't horse, [ __ ] Come on.
[ __ ] Come on. Horse farm. This is four horses now, dude. This is four horses. No, wait.
Five horses.
Five horses. I've gotten five of these women.
What do we do with all these horses and this stable? Five horses could get at least a taco. Yeah. Okay. Five horses equal possibly one taco.
No, they don't. It would have to be like 10 horses. Okay, let's like put the horses up here or something. That'd be kind of funny. There we go. What's the Taho power scaling with the all the other characters?
Tahu could destroy the witch hunter probably. Uh Lloyd would get closest.
No, Tahu would kill them all. Tahu kills them all. Burn. Burn stuff. 12.
12.
Get out of the way.
Wait, is that woman? No. Let me look at here. Hey, no woman. We did it. There's no more women. Yay. Okay. Uh, here we go. Eat weird thing. Weird green thing.
Yay. Jesus.
Yay. Swamp monster. Thank you, fish.
Why? What is the What is this minifigure? 13.
We're almost at halfway.
13, right?
Oh, it's the dinosaur. Oh, it's the dinosaur. Quiet. Okay, I can I'm fine with dinosaur guy. Dinosaur guy. I'm fine with that. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, I have a story to tell y'all. By the way, uh when Tahu was announced, uh you know the minifigure heads, right? They look like this. Oh, that's not a minifigure.
Like like this. Everyone wanted to grab some trans uh translucent pink, dark pink versions of these because, you know, that's kind of it's almost Tahu's uh translucent piece color. I was telling my friend about this and he was like, "You should probably pick some up because I bet they will go quickly." I'm like, "Yeah, I guess I should." So, I got like uh over here, which I guess was a little preemptive because I haven't gotten Taho yet, but I got three of them. I'm like, "Okay, yeah, this is fine." You know what happened the next day? You know what happened the next day?
Someone bought like hundreds of them.
Every single one on Brickling. Every single one on Brickling. Sold out. I got these at the right time. One day before all that [ __ ] happened. Hell yeah.
I'm awesome. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you all that story because whoever did that, whoever's scalping the [ __ ] pink pieces die. Okay, that works. I was going to I was going to try and make something a little funnier, but who gives a [ __ ] Let me build the dino real quick. Sorry about that. The [ __ ] is his face?
That's not a face.
That's I'm not answering that. I don't know what that is. That's scary, though.
12.
Uh oh. Wait, it says 12 on the box, so I know what's which one it is. I'm a genius. Come on, Tahu.
A I need to like open this toward the camera more and like so we all can be disappointed together. Slime man.
[ __ ] He's g I I'm not going to build him. I don't give a [ __ ] about slime man. Slime boy again. Yeah. Nope.
Don't care. Goodbye slime man. This is 13, right? 13.
Oh, it's dinosaur man. Your desk is dusty. Believe it or not, this is not dust. This is just like marks. This is just like marks of uh because I've had this desk for over 10 years. It's a long time I've had this desk. It's a very trusty desk. You think this is a hair over here? No, this is not a hair. This is just a crack that because I've had this for so freaking long. My room and desk are just such a mess right now. But whatever. Who care? We're having fun.
Horses.
Clean this up afterwards. Thank you. Uh already got don't give a [ __ ] about love. Uh don't give already got kind of admittedly weird but cool. Like sort of cool. I don't hate it but whatever. Uh slime man. Uh don't care.
Chuba man want very high on the next list. Uh soccer man also excited I would say if I was lying soccer uh this thing witch woman Lloyd and got you like 3 million times. So there's only like a few of We're like statistically we're kind of getting closer aren't we? Like aren't we? Like we've gotten quite a few of these. Statistically we should be closing on Aahu.
Well let's continue. We have like gone through a lot of these, dude. Look at this. A lot. This is Remember when this was filled with [ __ ] Now it's not. Now there's Now there's two. Okay.
Hey, [ __ ] Opening it toward the camera so we all see. Three, two, one.
I can't even see what's in there.
a slime man. Okay, let me fix the horses.
All right, got to quit horsing around.
Bojack Horseman reference. Back in the 2010s, I was making a very famous Bionicle show.
Come on, another one. Okay, that sucks.
Level one complete.
Level two.
Oh my god. Engaged.
Oh my god. I'm not super ready for this.
I But I have to be for you all for the viewers. One out of quite a few.
So that means this is 19, right? This is the 19th one. Damn, we've gone through a lot of these.
Okay. Uh, I think it's marine biologist.
Yeah, it's marine biologist. Okay. Do I even put this together? Who care? Who care?
Oh my god. I can use this as like a a cleanup. like a Zamboni cleaning.
There we go. That's enough.
Clean.
Let's move on.
Let's do this [ __ ] All right.
The odds are against us. The odds are against us. They always have been. They always will be because that's who we are. But in the end, it's about uh uh our souls and medication reminder.
Okay. Yeah. Would make sense, wouldn't it?
All right. Here we go, chat.
I see blue. That's not red.
Marine biologist. God damn it.
Come on.
All right, chat.
I see blue again.
Holy [ __ ] Let's Hey, let's put it this way. We haven't gotten horse in a while.
We haven't gotten horse.
Flippers. Okay, flippers like this. [ __ ] I didn't mean to do that. Sorry, horses.
What are the odds? What are the What are the odds that we're done right here and this is it?
Next to none. Well, well, there goes the ball anyway. Okay.
Well, that fell.
Your turn.
Okay.
Come on, Tahu.
That's not Tahu. I'm looking. It's not Tahu.
Anyway, Are we actually going to make it through this? And we're not getting a single Taho.
Holy [ __ ] I'm getting a little scared. What is it said in uh Rogue One? Rebellions are built on hope. Yeah.
What the [ __ ] is this one? Oh, chef guy.
Oh, chef man.
Uh, we've gotten Have we gotten every single one but Tahu?
No. Tuba. True. Okay. So, we got all on the top row. We didn't get Boba Lady yet. We didn't get the Boba. We don't have uh Tuba, man.
But that's it. There's only three left that we don't have. I don't think I've gotten the horsewoman. Oh, I didn't get the horsewoman yet. Stares at the five horses.
Tahu is real. I saw as they hauled me into the padded room.
Yeah.
Which one are we on? 24.
24. Taho is actually a medical necessity. Yeah. It's on like the large ass pyramid of things. There's like at the very I don't remember which is more important, the ones on the top or the ones at the bottom. I'm going to say the ones on the bottom are more important.
It's all just tahoo. The top the rest are like food and water and uh other necessities. The bottom's tahoo.
Tahu is not a bottom though. 24.
Okay, open it toward the camera. Come on, Nat. Open it toward the camera. I see brown. That's That's not Tahu. What do I do?
What do I do, man? Like, who do I pray to again? Because I've already prayed once this stream. What do I do? This is 25. This is 25. Come on.
[ __ ] is that it?
Wait, chat. That's red. Those are red pieces.
Okay, we're fine. I'm okay. I'm okay.
I'm okay. I'm normal. I'm normal. Normal moing. This is fine. By the way, like I'm fine right now. Like, I'm fine.
Like, I'm fine. Like if you asked me right now how I was doing, I'd be like, I'm fine. How you doing that?
It's complicated. Tuba man. Beautiful.
Yay.
This Okay. You know what? Sometimes you just got to accept things as the way they are.
This stream is about growth and acceptance and uh grief.
Uh we know a lot about those, don't we, as Bionicle fans. Okay. Soon as you get, just eat him. You are what you eat after all. Oh, so we're bringing into this.
Great.
Pink. Oh, is this is this the Boba girl?
Hey, wait. Okay, cool.
We've gotten every single one but Tahu.
Okay, I don't know how this builds.
Headless headless boba woman.
Don't care. Don't care. I'm normal. So, let's do like the cool YouTuber slide.
Please.
I see too. But I don't know if you can hear that, but I'm like chomping my teeth together cuz I'm angry. We can't rest until we get Taho. So, let's go.
Well, that A isn't Tahu and B, I didn't mean to open it like that. That kind of flew.
What the [ __ ] It's boba woman. Okay. I put the boba on the horses.
[ __ ] Put the boba on the cat. Yes. Oh, hell yeah. Cat's got a little protective uh thing. Protective stuff going on here. Cool. Has a force field.
All right. Whatever. Tahu. Tahu, are you there?
Soccer. One of these got has mass chief in it. Yeah. Yo, these are wreck packs.
These are wreck packs from Halo 5. Kill me.
I have a feeling.
I have a feeling for this one.
Oh no. Okay, that broke the feeling. I don't know why I crunched it. Whatever, man.
Holy [ __ ] What are What's like with the odds or the statistics of like getting a billion Floyds Floyds? Lloyds and horses, horse women, and then getting like none after the first after the first few cuz we got a lot of the same immediately. And now we're we've gotten no Lloyds and we've got no horse women.
We have no [ __ ] and no Lloyds.
I'm over it. I'm over it. Why did I dump that out?
Why did I dump that out? He's balling.
Legos dropping everywhere. How many are left?
One, three, five.
Okay, that's not cool. Uh and then hell yeah. Let's go for it. Let's just jump into it.
Oh yeah, that's him. Hey, Tahu. How are you? Hey, baby. Why'd you call him that?
WE DID IT.
YEAH. Build him. Yeah. Okay. I bolt him.
Oh my god. Not having the box over here is so nice because now I have slightly more space in my desk. What's your favorite vinyl commercial song? Uh, Closer to the Truth.
Even when your hope is. Got to move along. Move along. Just make it through.
Move along. Keeping in my soul. Getting out of control. Got to find my escape and get out of this black hole.
Positions of the world is hard to find.
Gota make up my mind. Tahu. Look. Here's the canister. Adorable. The adorable little canister. Which honestly, this is something they really didn't have to do, but they did. And it's awesome. I Come on, camera. I love that they made this little canister. That's a That is just an awesome little frick.
There we go. It's an awesome little detail. I love that. There we go. Hell yeah. You can barely even see it from from uh from this angle, I guess. Hell yeah.
We did it at I know what we can do.
Tahu with cat. What do you think? Most badass thing of all time or the most badass thing of all time? which is the same thing I just said, but I said it twice.
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