Bearbricks: Theme ANIMAL

A bear playing something else

ANIMAL is the trickiest theme to design. The Bearbrick silhouette is fixed — bear head, bear ears — and still has to read as a frog, a tiger or a parrot. It gets solved through fur and feather patterning, colour, and the occasional applied part.

At 8.33% of a run, ANIMAL sits in the lower middle of a series: rarer than BASIC or CUTE, more common than HERO or ARTIST.

These are the figures worth lining up together. The appeal is the contrast — one shape, interpreted ten different ways.