Bearbricks: SECRET Figures

The figures that appear on no box

Every BE@RBRICK series runs to 18 designs — but not all of them are announced. SECRET figures, also called chase, appear neither in advertising nor on the packaging. Medicom Toy never publishes their ratio; it emerges only as collectors worldwide compare what they’ve found.

For comparison, here are the published shares of a series’ regular themes: Basic 14.58%, Cute 13.54%, Jellybean and Pattern 11.45% each, SF 10.41%, Flag and Horror 9.37% each, Animal 8.33%, Hero 7.29%. The two Artist variants sit at 4.16% and 1.04% — and SECRET figures are rarer than either.

That’s precisely why they’re chased: you can’t buy one deliberately, only find one. Here you buy them singly, instead of opening cases and hoping.