Bearbricks: Sports Editions

Kit colours, crests and numbers

Sports licences are comparatively rare from Medicom Toy, for a practical reason: every league, every club and sometimes every individual player has to be licensed separately. So what sits here is usually tied to a specific occasion — a championship, an anniversary, a kit-maker collaboration.

Design-wise, sport suits the Bearbrick form. A shirt is essentially a colour block with a number and a crest, and that transfers cleanly onto a flat, rectangular body.

Because these runs sold regionally, many are hard to find outside their home market.