Well...
I knew these bad boys would enter my collection someday? If collecting little kids clothes doesn't get people worried, imagine having to explain why you have kids potties in your room. Yeah. Like I always reassure, I never do anything weird with my collection, I am vehemetly anti-pedo, I merely collect whatever has Baby Looney Tunes on it!
So, these were at my local Lidl when I just started to collect Baby Looney Tunes stuff. And oh man, it drove me bonkers, walking through the isles with my mother and seeing these bad boys stacked to the roof. They had the potties, and the stools, but not the toilet seat covers (I think that's what the top ones are? I'm not an expert??).
Anyways. Those potties drove me nuts. I didn't know LIDL had a self checkout, and they were kinda costly. According to the website I'm looking at, they cost £3.99, but I remember them being £6 at my LIDL? Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
I actually, without waxing dramatic, went bonkers over them. I couldn't buy them and they taunted me till they were retired. It got to the point where they were actually invading my dreams, replacing real toilets and forcing me on long trips to LIDL just to find one and buy it. Incase you guys forgot, I have Psychosis, my grasp on reality is horrendous, haha. I'm stable, I promise.
Anyways, I've seen the pink Lola and Tweety potty up in Newquay on sale, but I had a friend with me who knew of my collection and had already joked about me buying it. I didn't want her to bully me about it, so I left it. When I went back on my own, it was gone.
But, at a carboot yesterday (10/06/2018), I found one for £1! The same pink Lola and Tweety one. It was BRAND NEW (I still disinfected it - It had been sat on mud for ages!) with manual still attached around it.
But I was with my parents, and I had no idea what to do to hide it. It could just barely fit in my large bag, but I had to keep my bag hidden or you could make out the outline of the potty. I got it home in the end, and could finally have a look over it.
So, the potty. The decals are nice and pleasing, althought they are visibly applied, you can see the seam of the image and it creates a visible square, but it's not super duper jarring. The potty can hold up to 15kg, and is listed as being for 18-36 months. The "feet" of the potty have rubber grips to help with it holding still. I really don't know what else to say about it, it's a potty, it's cheap, it's got Looney Tunes on it, if you've got a kid, buy it! (And if you know what LIDL shops still sell em, tell me, I wanna get some of the step stools).
If you're just a Looney Tunes fan, maybe skip it. Unless you're a parent you'll find nothing purposeful with this. It's just a potty. You go pee pee in it. You can't do much more with it. Maybe the step stools could look nice on display, but a potty... Yeah. I'm not a rocket scientist, am I?
Do I regret buying it? To an extent. I realize it's tricky to hide and impossible to display, it doesn't fit anywhere, and it's just jarring. However, I didn't buy it new, I recycled, in a way, and it is a part of my own history with Baby Looney Tunes. It's like one big whack on the head! Hey, it's Baby Looney Tunes, but uup- it's just a potty, it doesn't do anything!
So thanks LIDL, you drive me up the wall, you do!
Sorry for sounding like such a whiny child, I AM aware potties don't do anything cool.
TL;DR - Potty is good quality, 18-36 months, 15kg max, selection of colours, and matching step stools. Cheap, £3.99, buy if you need a good quality potty. Don't if you don't need a potty or you'll go mad in your sleep like I have.
ADDENDUM: Since this review, I have learnt how to date the items that do not have direct dates on them. The set was produced in 2017, and you can find this out from the (S17) on the side of the potties.
Luca Chancellor
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