Blind boxes

What’s in the box isn’t printed on the box

The numbered BE@RBRICK series are sold as blind boxes: the carton is sealed and the design isn’t shown. You buy a figure from the series, but not a particular one.

The distribution isn’t random, though — it’s fixed. Basic accounts for 14.58% of a run, 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%. Chasing a common theme, your odds are good. Chasing a rare one, they are arithmetically poor.

On top of that come the SECRET figures, whose ratio Medicom Toy never publishes at all. If you’d rather skip the gamble, we list the same figures individually and openly identified.