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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A beloved bid of three-inch gangly figurines, going viral connected societal media, made a definite interaction successful Fresno this past weekend.
The figurines are known arsenic the Sonny Angels. They picture the cardinal quality "Sonny Angel" - described arsenic a "cute and angelic small lad who wears each sorts of antithetic headgear" and tin beryllium placed "anywhere you privation to spot his cute smile."
On Saturday, the Sonny Angels were yet connected the shelves of Fresno's Sour Milk acquisition shop, creating a agelong enactment of radical waiting for hours on Van Ness Boulevard successful the Tower District hoping to bargain 1 of them. Customers lined up arsenic aboriginal arsenic 8 a.m. to get a clasp of their ain Sonny Angels: 4 hours earlier Sour Milk opened its doors.
Belen Torres was 1 of the archetypal radical waiting successful line. She says arsenic soon arsenic she saw the Sonny Angels connected societal media she was hooked.
"They're conscionable ace cute," Torres said. "I deliberation erstwhile I saw them I've been wanting to get my hands connected them."
According to Torres, getting a clasp of a Sonny Angel is not easy. She says Sonny Angels are not recovered successful galore California stores; successful fact, companies person to use for a licence to merchantability the Sonny Angels.
Sour Milk Store co-owner Ryan Urquidez confirmed that the acquisition store had to use to merchantability the Sonny Angels - and past hold for immoderate clip earlier a shipment of the figurines arrived.
"We applied a portion agone and yet got entree to commencement carrying them wrong similar the past year," Urquidez said. "Since then, similar each clip we person these drops, the enactment conscionable gets longer and longer."
Urquidez says helium does not recognize the entreaty of the Sonny Angels but, arsenic a collector, helium does recognize what drives his customers to hold for hours successful the prima for a accidental to get their ain figurine.
Urquidez says customers were made alert of the shop's proviso astir a week successful beforehand - and told they were not guaranteed a Sonny Angel. That didn't halt creator Magi Alex Lopez from adding to her already ample collection.
"My person got maine into them," Lopez said, "At archetypal I thought they were weird due to the fact that they're bare babies. But my person bought maine 1 for the archetypal clip and aft the archetypal I got addicted."
Lopez went arsenic acold arsenic to overgarment her ain Sonny Angels and get progressive successful the fandom.
According to the authoritative Sonny Angel website, the figurines were created 20 years agone and meant to "bring happiness."
Although not each Sour Milk customers got a clasp of a Sonny Angel, Urquidez made definite everyone who waited successful enactment was fixed h2o arsenic they waited. For those who missed retired this time, Sour Milk says it volition support patrons updated connected their aboriginal Sonny Angel supply.
