Series: Final Fantasy Record Keeper
Company: Square Enix
Release: 22 June 2024, 24 August 2024
Size: 10cm
Main distribution: Japan / UK (Square Enix Store)
These are little lights based on character sprites from Final Fantasy Record Keeper, a mobile video game featuring characters from the mainline Final Fantasy games.
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Series: Dragonball Z / Dragonball Super
Company: Bandai
Release: 15 May 2019
Size: various
Main distribution: Japan
This is the Ichiban Kuji for Dragon Ball “Super-Soldier Battle Retsuden Z”. These items could only be won in a Kujiban lottery, hence the name.
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Series: Dragonball / Dragonball Z
Company: Bandai
Year: 2024
Main distribution: Japan / UK (Gashapon machines)
These are gashapon miniatures of the Carddass (カードダス, Kādodasu) trading cards from Dragonball and Dragonball Z, made by Bandai. This series is a miniature version of the vintage Carddass cards, that you could get out of a vending machine in Japan. A little machine is included too. Several miniature sets have been made.
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Company: Bandai
Release: 2024
Size: +/- 6 cm
Main distribution: Japan / USA / UK (Gashapon machines)
These are Tamagotchi Swing Cases gashapon. They are little plastic boxes that can open and are on a keychain.
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Release: 15 April 2024
Size: various
Main distribution: Japan
Barcode: 9784097356066
This is a little stickerbook filled with 400 Poképeace Pokémon stickers.
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Company: Kura
Release: 2 September 2023
Size: Various
Main distribution: Japan / UK
Barcode: 4515732213179
This is a Gashapon set of Kura Miniatures, by Kura Sushi. Kura Sushi is one of the biggest restaurant chains in Japan, with over 540+ locations. When you finish 5 plates, you get to play a game, and if you win, you get a free Gashapon! It’s so popular, it now also has its own Gashapon series outside the restaurant, like this one.
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Company: Zuru
Release: August 2024
Size: Various (<4cm)
Main distribution: UK / Europe / Australia / America
Barcode: 193052071545
This is a blind ball series by Zuru with miniatures of real life brands, hence the name Mini Brands! This particular line is the Retro version; Mini Brands! Retro.
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Company: Zuru
Release: Summer 2024
Size: Various (<8cm)
Main distribution: UK / Europe / Australia / America
Barcode: 5056296043035
This is a blind ball series by Zuru with miniatures of real life brands, hence the name Mini Brands! This particular line is the Home version; Mini Brands! Home.
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Company: Bandai
Release: 2024
Size: +/- 4 cm
Main distribution: Japan / USA / UK (Gashapon machines)
These are a Gashapon series called “narabundesu” or “lined up” by Bandai. Several IPs have gotten this treatment, existing out of characters walking in a line. This particular set are characters from the video game series Power Pros / Powerful Pro Baseball / Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū, in particular from the mobile game Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū (実況パワフルプロ野球) or Pawapuro Appli (パワプロアプリ), where they added Konami characters.
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Series: Dragonball Z / Dragonball Super
Company: Bandai
Release: 2024
Size: +/- 4 cm
Main distribution: Japan / USA / UK (Gashapon machines)
This is a little Gashapon line of figures waiting with their knees tucked up, hence the name Still Waiting For You (Machiboke). The main line is animals, but there have been spin-offs sets who gotten the same treatment, like Dragon Ball here. They are distributed in Gashapon machines by Bandai.
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