Bearbricks: Theme JELLYBEAN

Translucent, not transparent

JELLYBEAN figures are moulded in tinted, semi-transparent plastic — not clear like glass, but saturated like a sweet. Light enters, scatters, and comes back out deeper in colour, which gives them a depth painted models don’t have.

The distinction from Bearbricks with filling matters: those have something visibly inside. Here the material itself is coloured and the body stays empty.

At 11.45% JELLYBEAN ties with PATTERN among the larger shares of a series. Still worth placing with some thought: against a light source these look markedly different from how they look against a wall.