﻿{"id":44193,"date":"2016-06-14T13:53:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=44193"},"modified":"2016-06-14T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:53:17","slug":"littlest-pet-shop-hidden-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/littlest-pet-shop-hidden-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Gem That Is Littlest Pet Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lps.gif\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lps.gif\" alt=\"Littlest Pet Shop\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that Hasbro is a pop culture powerhouse, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Littlest+Pet+Shop&#038;utm_source=ee-blog&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=product\" target=\"_blank\">Littlest Pet Shop<\/a><\/strong> is no exception. The 2-inch figures have amassed a dedicated fan base since they were released in the &#8217;90s, and there&#8217;s no sign of this hype train ever stopping. In fact, the value of many Littlest Pet Shop figures continues to grow, and &#8211; in an interesting development via growing technology and social media from 2010 and beyond &#8211; there is an explosion of Littlest Pet Shop fan communities on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/lps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=littlest+pet+shop\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Littlest Pet Shop, or &#8220;LPS,&#8221; as they call them, are nothing short of creative. The Instagram community is abundant with &#8220;toy photography,&#8221; where fans will pose their LPS and create intriguing scenarios with witty captions. (And just for fun, I&#8217;ve included photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/littlestpetboutique\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">my own LPS Instagram<\/a> below.) Searching &#8216;Littlest Pet Shop&#8217; on Instagram will display 225,000 results, and searching the more popular &#8220;LPS&#8221; will garner a whopping 560,000 images. Not to mention the size of the YouTube community, where videographers will film their LPS in a creative stop-motion style.<\/p>\n<p>The top LPS YouTuber&#8217;s videos amass hundreds of thousands &#8211; if not millions &#8211; of views within a few days. And Instagram photographers can earn thousands of likes in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45272\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/8.gif\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45272\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/8.gif\" alt=\"LittlestPetBoutique Instagram\" width=\"313\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-45272\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image: LittlestPetBoutique Instagram<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the appeal? Let me emphasize this: Littlest Pet Shop is<em> highly<\/em> collectible. For one thing, Hasbro only releases so many of one particular pet. With well over 3,000 LPS available now and many more to come, Hasbro is catering to a new age of collectors. These figures are part of a limited run, which means if you&#8217;re a collector and <em>if<\/em> you can find them in your local store &#8211; bearing in mind that Hasbro only releases certain LPS in certain parts of the country, and some are limited just to the U.K. &#8211; it stands to reason that these are a rush-to-buy. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another cool fact: Many kids and adults dress their pets. Etsy-goers and eBay lurkers can find hand-made LPS clothes going for about $3.50 a piece. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahtitus.com\/2015\/03\/08\/rare-littlest-pet-shop-list-make-money-on-ebay\/\" target=\"_blank\">One artist<\/a> has sold over 1,400 pieces, which is $5,000 in just the clothes for these toys.<\/p>\n<p>A profit can surely be made from these small figures&#8230; yet it can be argued, from a collector&#8217;s standpoint, that owning them is the true treasure. I speak as someone whose desk is littered with Littlest Pet Shop animals, and I&#8217;ve only just recently jumped aboard the hype train. These figures are collectible, valuable, and <em>addictive<\/em>. If there&#8217;s ever a time to collect, this is it &#8211; and now you can order Littlest Pet Shop waves that are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Littlest+Pet+Shop&#038;utm_source=ee-blog&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=product\" target=\"_blank\">HOT and in-stock at Entertainment Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hype train&#8230; all aboard&#8230;<\/p>\n[justified_image_grid preset=1 ids=&#8221;45341,45342,45343,45344,45345,45346,45347,45348&#8243; thumbs_spacing=5 row_height=200 height_deviation=30 caption=off overlay=hovered overlay_color=#111111 overlay_opacity=0.4 outer_border_width=2 outer_border_color=#cccccc lightbox=prettyphoto margin=&#8221;10px 0&#8243; mobile_caption=off mobile_overlay=off]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It goes without saying that Hasbro is a pop culture powerhouse, and Littlest Pet Shop is no exception. The 2-inch figures have amassed a dedicated fan base since they were released in the &#8217;90s, and there&#8217;s no sign of this hype train ever stopping. In fact, the value of many Littlest Pet Shop figures continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":45338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158,11,1044],"tags":[772,4294,4295],"yst_prominent_words":[8639,8617,8122,8954,8184,6023,5899,6934,34002,34000,24885,33999,33997,33996,34001,33998,6109,11163,7753,33619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45371,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193\/revisions\/45371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44193"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
