Looking for 853875 Sweet Mayhem Pod for my poorly little girl.

Mr_Cross

Hi all,
Big request time.
My little girl has come down with Chicken Pox and is a bit sad. She'd like a Sweet Mayhem minidoll. She doesn't want her with the helmet, just the lovely shiny hair.
Has anyone got #853875 Sweet Mayhem Pod or is anyone going to a store today and would you be willing to send to us at cost, please, my guess is approx £11 delivered?
We are obviously housebound so any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks.

Bumblepants

It should be on [email protected] now, have you tried there? Hope she gets well soon!

Speedman29

I'm possibly in London next week and was planning a trip to Leicester Sq. If they have them I'll pick one up for you.

Mr_Cross

Out of stock online unfortunately. Thanks chaps, @Speedman29 if no-one else comes through, that would be really cool, cheers!

DeMontes

If you have Amazon prime you could get her 70824 Introducing Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi  which has Sweet Mayhem with helmet or hair option and will cost almost same as you’d have had to pay postage. Plus it’s got more play value!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FNS6P77/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_ZKcACbPTNEV9E

eddiew

DeMontes said:

If you have Amazon prime you could get her 70824 Introducing Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi  which has Sweet Mayhem with helmet or hair option and will cost almost same as you’d have had to pay postage. Plus it’s got more play value!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FNS6P77/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_ZKcACbPTNEV9E

This is what I was going to suggest. I have two of the pods which I purchased in store, but, alas, I am in the US. Pardon my ignorance, but do kids not receive a chicken pox vaccine there?

Mr_Cross

Thanks @DeMontes - good suggestion.
@eddiew - It's not available on the NHS and you have to get referred by your GP if you want to do it privately... which is not always straight forward.

DeMontes

not on the NHS, you can pay for the vaccine and vaccinate your child but it is considered an 'acceptable' childhood disease that is mild in kids but more worrisome in adults (both chicken px and shingles) which might be an issue if they rolled out UK-wide vaccination.

klinton

eddiew said:

Pardon my ignorance, but do kids not receive a chicken pox vaccine there?

Is that even a thing in the US? Vaccinating for Chicken Pox? When I was a kid, parents were encouraged to expose thier children to it, as the body then naturally establishes antibodies (helping to prevent contracting Shingles later in life). 

DeMontes

Mr Cross, I reviewed 70824 Introducing Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi for New Elementary and its a nice little set so I would go for it!

DeMontes

klinton said:

eddiew said:

Pardon my ignorance, but do kids not receive a chicken pox vaccine there?

Is that even a thing in the US? Vaccinating for Chicken Pox? When I was a kid, parents were encouraged to expose thier children to it, as the body then naturally establishes antibodies (helping to prevent contracting Shingles later in life). 

The US and Canada both vaccinate.

Mr_Cross

@DeMontes, just got one off ebay for £14.45 all in! Thanks.

Thanks everyone :-)

PJ76uk

In the UK its not unheard of for parents to let their kids play with other kids who have chicken pox in the hope, as mentioned by @klinton , that they will then have chicken pox themselves and develop their own antibodies to it.

klinton

DeMontes said:

The US and Canada both vaccinate.

Yeah, I Googled it just after I posted that. I don't have kids, so it was just something I hadn't heard of until just today. It was just not a thing fourty years ago. Parents used to actively try to expose their kids to it, hahaha. 

SumoLego

klinton said:
Parents used to actively try to expose their kids to it, hahaha. 

Prior to 1995, getting a mild case of chicken pox was essentially a vaccine against a more serious case later in life.  Since 1995, the vaccine serves that purpose without the necessity of getting a mild case.

Toc13

Letting children play is more cost-effective than rolling out a vaccination program
Both my older two had a mild case last year. One one week, one the following

stlux

@Mr_Cross In case you're still looking for Mayhem'a Pod, it is now back in stock online.

Mr_Cross

Thanks for the heads up @stlux.

CathyVT

Toc13 said:

Letting children play is more cost-effective than rolling out a vaccination program
Both my older two had a mild case last year. One one week, one the following

I wouldn't recommend letting them get chicken pox (too late for you, now). If someone has chicken pox, they might get shingles later in life. If they don't get chicken pox (because they were vaccinated), then they won't ever get chicken pox. I've had many people say shingles was the most painful experience ever. There's a vaccine here for shingles - two, actually, but one vaccine is only 50% effective, and the other (which is more effective), there's a shortage of. And they won't give it to people under 50, even though I know many people who got shingles before 50 (including my husband and several friends). And the pain can linger for life - some people have residual pain forever. Plus, some people have scars from chicken pox - could even scar a kid's face. So... yeah... I'd vaccinate for chicken pox...  (I'm aiming this mostly at US folks, since it's covered by insurance - I know it's a different story if it isn't)

klinton

CathyVT said:

I wouldn't recommend letting them get chicken pox (too late for you, now). If someone has chicken pox, they might get shingles later in life. If they don't get chicken pox (because they were vaccinated), then they won't ever get chicken pox. I've had many people say shingles was the most painful experience ever. There's a vaccine here for shingles - two, actually, but one vaccine is only 50% effective, and the other (which is more effective), there's a shortage of. And they won't give it to people under 50, even though I know many people who got shingles before 50 (including my husband and several friends). And the pain can linger for life - some people have residual pain forever. Plus, some people have scars from chicken pox - could even scar a kid's face. So... yeah... I'd vaccinate for chicken pox...  (I'm aiming this mostly at US folks, since it's covered by insurance - I know it's a different story if it isn't)

Wait... what now? You are aware of what a vaccination is, right? They introduce a weakened version of the virus into your system so that your body creates antibodies to fight it off in the future. Encountering the catalyst virus naturally produces the same result. 

The only difference is that by vaccinating against it, your child can avoid the discomfort of the outbreak itself. The likelihood of developing Shingles later in life is no higher or lower based on how you encountered the virus (via vaccine or naturally). You don't magically develope stronger antibodies via vaccination, hahaha. 

thenos

klinton said:

CathyVT said:

I wouldn't recommend letting them get chicken pox (too late for you, now). If someone has chicken pox, they might get shingles later in life. If they don't get chicken pox (because they were vaccinated), then they won't ever get chicken pox. I've had many people say shingles was the most painful experience ever. There's a vaccine here for shingles - two, actually, but one vaccine is only 50% effective, and the other (which is more effective), there's a shortage of. And they won't give it to people under 50, even though I know many people who got shingles before 50 (including my husband and several friends). And the pain can linger for life - some people have residual pain forever. Plus, some people have scars from chicken pox - could even scar a kid's face. So... yeah... I'd vaccinate for chicken pox...  (I'm aiming this mostly at US folks, since it's covered by insurance - I know it's a different story if it isn't)

Wait... what now? You are aware of what a vaccination is, right? They introduce a weakened version of the virus into your system so that your body creates antibodies to fight it off in the future. Encountering the catalyst virus naturally produces the same result. 

The only difference is that by vaccinating against it, your child can avoid the discomfort of the outbreak itself. The likelihood of developing Shingles later in life is no higher or lower based on how you encountered the virus (via vaccine or naturally). You don't magically develope stronger antibodies via vaccination, hahaha. 

According to the internet, because of the weakened nature of the varicella zoster virus in the vaccine, shingles is much less likely to occur in people who are vaccinated. It is because the virus doesn't go away, but goes dormant. @CathyVT is correct. If anything, the crazy practice of getting everyone exposed to chicken pox is creating the real shingles epidemic, which is brutal and painful. 

So... Read up. What you're introducing in the vaccine is a weak version that doesn't give varicella zoster the room it needs to be shingles later. 

But I think we're getting off topic. 

SumoLego

Imagine that an actual vaccine is more effective than a pre-vaccine practice that was partially effective against an immediate and more dangerous risk, but left a distant, but less frequent longer term lower risk.

Huh.  Get the damn vaccine so my great grandkids don't need to hear me complaining about a polio outbreak in 45 years.

klinton

thenos said:

So... Read up. What you're introducing in the vaccine is a weak version that doesn't give varicella zoster the room it needs to be shingles later. 

But I think we're getting off topic. 

Well, once again I stand corrected. I've been reading up after your comment, and it appears you were both correct. Thank you for the information. :) 

CathyVT

It is confusing, no worries, klinton. It's ONE virus, that causes both chicken pox, and then later, if you had chicken pox, can re-awaken and cause shingles. But there's 2 (actually 3) different vaccines - one to prevent chicken pox (which will also prevent shingles, because if you don't get chicken pox, you won't get shingles), and then 2 different varieties of a shingles vaccine, which only people who DID get chicken pox need to get. One variety is older, and less effective, and then recently there's a new one that is much more effective, and there are shortages of this vaccine in the US right now.

I wonder, in the UK, does the health system provide the shingles vaccine? If so, it's just silly to NOT provide the chicken pox vaccine, because you don't need both - they could give kids the chicken pox vaccine and then won't have to give the shingles vaccine to them decades later... 

jmeninno

Phew!  At least we haven't talked about the anti-vaxxer movement I've been seeing (on the interwebs) and hearing more of...*here come comments about how sniffing essential oils cures measles and how Luluroe is goinf to be the next Fortune 500 company in 3...2...1...*

;)

DeMontes

CathyVT said:

I wonder, in the UK, does the health system provide the shingles vaccine? If so, it's just silly to NOT provide the chicken pox vaccine, because you don't need both - they could give kids the chicken pox vaccine and then won't have to give the shingles vaccine to them decades later... 

No, neither is routinely given.

CCC

Coming soon to a CMF series - child with chicken pox! We could do with some poorly kids (and more injured adults) for City style hospitals.

560Heliport

Are those spots on that LEGO child's face freckles, or chicken pox? You decide!

Speedman29

back on topic, @Mr_Cross I assumed you were sorted now. I was in Leicester Square yesterday and picked up the two TLM2 pods they had in for my daughter. Fun builds and she loved the super sparkly hair too.

Mr_Cross

@Speedman29 yeah, thank you, I am sorted. In fact #70824 as recommended by @DeMontes arrived this morning. My little girl has really enjoyed playing with it, it was a fun build with enough to play with afterwards to keep at least two children pretty happy for a couple of hours!
Thanks again to all!

SumoLego

Mods, please close the thread.  @drdavewatford; @CapnRex101