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Acquisition
Price at retail: ~$5–8
Find difficulty: Moderate
Field survey 09/21: no active offer — likely sold out
Registry source: www.amazon.com
Plate II · Specimen SS-012 — Textured line
Gumdrop
Textured dome with a dense squish. Widest retail coverage of the hot variants — though its Amazon listing (15,000+ reviews) showed no active offer at our July 2 survey. Check shelves.
Grade A — Hunted · Findable with effort. Check store inventory before driving.
Field data
The specimen at a glance
| Catalog no. | SS-012 |
| Product line | Textured |
| Rarity grade | A — Hunted |
| Price at retail | ~$5–8 |
| Find difficulty | Moderate |
| Best for | Sensory seekers, younger kids |
Hunted. Findable with effort — check store inventory online before you drive, and use same-day pickup to lock a find.
Prices shown are typical retail ranges, not quotes. The grade tells you how hard the hunt is, not whether your store has one this minute. For how to run the hunt itself, read the restock guide; before buying from anyone but a major retailer, run the five-point authenticity check.
The Examiner
Scored out of 100
Examiner's remark82/100
“The best pure squish in the registry and it isn't close. The hype chases rarity; the hands know better.”
Feel10
Heat7
Hunt5
Value10
X7
Feel is squish quality in hand. Heat is current collector demand. Hunt is how hard it is to find at retail. Value weighs feel against typical retail price. X is the intangible — the reason people photograph it.
Every specimen faces The Examiner, our resident AI judge, who scores it on feel, heat, hunt, value, and x-factor and leaves a remark. The Examiner is frequently harsh and occasionally wrong, which is more than most reviewers admit.
Scores and grades are editorial, they change as supply changes, and they cannot be bought. See the full registry to compare this specimen against every other variant we track.
Registry order
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