If there is some technical reason that un-retiring the achievement for previous years minions isn't possible, how about a "Better Late Than Never" achievement for finding a previous year's special minion?

I finally got one of those achievements this year after yearsssss of not finding one. that's With the minion nip. it's a really really fun achievement IF you can get it! But if you can't and you spend dayssss, hours, and then at the end no fun pop-up, no minion, no more tries, it's really underwhelming and disappointing. and when it happens year after year.. i think i'd be cool with changing this one, let them count towards the achievement.

My alternate suggestion is to add an achievement for not finding one ;') that way the users who aren't so lucky don't feel left out, and the ones that do find the minion will have to hope they don't get it one of the years which could be equally as fun and frustrating lol

I feel like they shouldn't be retired. There are so many site issues like lag or being down entirely for good chunks of time but even beyond that it's a luck-based achievement and I don't think those should be limited time, especially for such a small window (about 2 weeks).

I'm in favour of making the achievements not retire.

On a side note, I think it would be nice to see when we got an achievement. A little "earned dd/mm/yyyy in the bottom right corner of the achievement would be nice feature. For anyone who likes to brag about achievements they could be excited about getting the minion achievement the year it came out. Besides that though it would be nice to see when we got achievements. Though I understand this most likely couldn't be retroactive.

Considering how rare it is to find even one in a year, let alone the new one, it'd be nice if these unretired each year for each minion. Can even have the date stamped on when you found it. But it is probably too late. D:

I've usually been fairly lucky with these achievements, but this year I seem to have been cursed to get duplicates of the other minions in the section while getting none of Armitage. It was admittedly a little frustrating.

I think at this point we have a lot of Pumpkin Patch minions and making maybe one older minion achievement available per year would be nice for users who missed out on its release year for whatever reason, without completely removing any scarcity/excitement around them.