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LEGO System 2181 Infomaniac - Promo Minifig Package Variations
After a few years of hoping to find a better condition polybag of the Infomaniac, one finally came up on eBay a few months ago.
While I'll admit it was expensive, it is worth it since it's an incredibly hard to find minifigure still sealed with no ink chipped or rubbed off from the inside of the bag onto the Infomaniac. Unfortunately my first sealed polybag of this minifig had this happen rather badly.
I dare say finding an Infomaniac sealed in the polybag in mint condition is harder than finding Mr Gold because kids would have immediately torn open the polybag when they got it out the big box PC game it came free with, so not that many examples would have survived to be in such good condition 21 years later.
I am still a bit unsure of the clamshell version of the Infomaniac, but as far as I can see with the research I've done, this version was related to a specific box variation that had a unique sticker saying you could mail in for a Infomaniac minifigure rather than him being included inside the box. It's possible this clamshell packaging he's in was what he was posted inside to those who mailed in for him.
The polybag version came from the first few runs where the boxes were actually printed saying he was free inside, and then later they added a sticker to the regular release to say he was free inside. Presumably they had more of him than they did printed boxes saying he was inside, after all, there were 200,000 of the Infomaniac made.
LEGO System 2181 Infomaniac - Promo Minifig Package Variations
After a few years of hoping to find a better condition polybag of the Infomaniac, one finally came up on eBay a few months ago.
While I'll admit it was expensive, it is worth it since it's an incredibly hard to find minifigure still sealed with no ink chipped or rubbed off from the inside of the bag onto the Infomaniac. Unfortunately my first sealed polybag of this minifig had this happen rather badly.
I dare say finding an Infomaniac sealed in the polybag in mint condition is harder than finding Mr Gold because kids would have immediately torn open the polybag when they got it out the big box PC game it came free with, so not that many examples would have survived to be in such good condition 21 years later.
I am still a bit unsure of the clamshell version of the Infomaniac, but as far as I can see with the research I've done, this version was related to a specific box variation that had a unique sticker saying you could mail in for a Infomaniac minifigure rather than him being included inside the box. It's possible this clamshell packaging he's in was what he was posted inside to those who mailed in for him.
The polybag version came from the first few runs where the boxes were actually printed saying he was free inside, and then later they added a sticker to the regular release to say he was free inside. Presumably they had more of him than they did printed boxes saying he was inside, after all, there were 200,000 of the Infomaniac made.