Minnesotans flock to Como Zoo for their last chance to buy nostalgic animal figurines

Cory Fink walked into St. Paul’s Como Zoo and Conservatory on Sunday morning with only one mission: securing a full collection of plastic animal figures from the zoo’s four Mold-A-Rama machines.

He recruited his 16-year-old son, along with his wife, to help him.

An hour after the zoo opened, the family had all the figurines: a red sea lion, black gorilla, yellow lion and a blue polar bear…

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