I just don’t get the blind box thing for just this sort of reason. In fact, it would probably be cheaper to wait for other people to buy them and then just get their duplicates on eBay.
They now have blind box Barbies. A $20 blind box where you hope it’s a Barbie you (or your kid) didn’t have before. That’s insane to me.
It’s ridiculous here. Random stuff like that needs to have an upper price limit, and anything $20+ (they’re advertising some kind of big random egg thing for £50-60 at the moment) is too much. I’m surprised they haven’t run into issues with the gambling regulators over here, considering they came down hard on the video game loot crap.
That’s one I’m missing… If you were nearby, I’d offer a Lady of Pain in trade. 
Those are cool, I can’t wait for them to be released as separate bricks, although with the part number, you can order them to your heart’s content. I’m thinking about an army of baby dragons!
LEGO doesn’t make all parts available for individual sale, especially when it comes from licensed IP Minifigures.
I’ve been lucky that I could use the service for a number of characters from Ninjago and Monkey Kid, but those are in house lines.
For ones from other blind bag lines I have had to use Bricklink to get missing ones.
Luckily a local shop opened earlier this year that prescans and labels the blindboxs, keeping the MSP on the most current line. Made getting the ones I wanted from the last Space series a lot easier.
I’m sure there’s some law against it or something, but the shops should just open the blind bags and sell the figures individually.
Bricklink and Brickowl are two good sources. I imagine they might be pricey, but there are over 600 creature bricks on the Lego Pick-a-brick section alone, and while I haven’t looked at Bricklink lately, there might already be some there.
Directly contacting Lego, with a nicely worded letter goes a long way, and they’ve made a habit of making customers happy. I was able to special order a Voltron part that broke on my set that I had trouble finding elsewhere. I’ve been involved with bricksters that build Lego wargaming armies, and special order all sorts of doo-dads and whizbangs from them en masse for their collections/ projects. I have no doubt that with the proper money, an army (how about a platoon?) of dragons could be had…and @SaraLichte is already well on her way to one!
Nah, I’m building a dwarf army.
You let the Prune Family buy up all your department stores? This is what you’re gonna’ get. 
I hate instagram. if you don’t have an account apparently you can’t see anything.
Too pricey, but tempting.
Does it come with bubble gum?
The initial run came with bubble gum, but they’re all out now.
