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Facts about Furuta Choco Egg Series Items
Facts about Furuta Choco Egg
Series Candy /
Capsule Toy
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Furuta
Choco Egg Series is a candy-toy product produced by Furuta
Japan. Furuta originally is a manufacturer for candy and chocolate and
in the process of widening their product choice for their already
significant market share in Japan, they have started to produce
different candy-toy / capsule-toy series.
This product, Choco
Egg, is only
for Japan and South East Asia market
and not available in Europe and US. Basically, it is a chocolate egg
(similar to Kinder) and inside this egg, you will find one of the
various highly detailed toys in unassembled form which fits within a
1.7" long x 1.1" diameter plastic capsule.
There are different
series that
you can choose from (include miniature
animals, miniature cars, miniature planes, miniature space ships
&
miniature figures) and all toys inside these blind packaging products
are randomly inserted with uneven distributions (some are only at 1%-2%
probability especially for those secret and color variant items). From
statistics, in order to complete a set of any particular series, you
need to purchase and crack open like 100 capsule eggs (or less if you
are lucky) to accomplish that. Therefore, it is often very difficult to
complete a set for any series if you are buying them one by one off the
shelves from store.
These miniature toy
items now
become collectibles among teenagers and
grown-ups in Japan due to the excellent details for their size. The
toys are the main reason for buying these products and not for the
sweat. Besides, as a personal recommendation, you don't want to eat the
chocolate (unless it is fresh like for a newly released series and you
are living in Japan) because you just don't know how long it has been
in storage and what the storage conditions are.
Most of the items
are usually
about only a few inches in length and are
non scaled since they are made/designed so they can be fitted in
disassembled fashion inside the given capsule. This product is of
course not for small children since the small parts present a choking
hazard.
The official website for Furuta is http://www.furuta.co.jp/
and it has information on their current and coming products (but it is
in Japanese).
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Below
are some sample photos of what the Furuta Choco Egg products look like.
Please note that all Furuta Choco Egg items I sell in my store come
without the outer box packaging, without the chocolate egg and without
the plastic capsule.
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| Released Furuta Choco Egg Series
&
Schedule |
Below is a list of Furuta Choco
Egg Series manufactured and their release schedule.
1999
September
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
1 (24 standard items)
December
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
2 (24 standard items)
2000
February
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
3 (48 standard items)
September
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
4 (24 standard items)
Furuta Choco Egg
Pet Animal
Series 1 (35 standard items)
2001
March
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
5 (24 standard items + 1 secret)
September
Furuta Choco Egg
Pet Animal
Series 2 (30 standard items)
2002
September
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
6 (24 standard items + 1 secret)
Furuta Choco Egg
Pet Animal
Series 3 (20 standard items + 1 secret)
October
Furuta Choco Egg
Fairy Tale
Series 1 (20 standard items + 1 secret)
November
Furuta Choco Egg
War Plane
Series 1 (20 standard items + 1 secret + 3
specials)
2003
February
Furuta Choco Egg
fairy tale
Series 2 (18 standard items + 1 secret)
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
7 (20 standard items + 1 secret)
Furuta Choco Egg
Pet Animal
Series 4 (20 standard items + 1 secret)
September
Furuta Choco Egg
War Plane
Series 2 (20 standard items + 1 secret)
Furuta Choco Egg
Space Series
(17 standard items + 1 secret)
October
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
bird (20 standard items + 1 secret)
Furuta Choco Egg
Animal Series
new Pet (20 standard items + 1 secret)
2004
January
Furuta Choco Egg
War Plane
Series 3 (19 standard items + 1 secret + 5
color variants)
Furuta Choco Egg
SL Train 1
(19 standard items + 1 secret)
September
Furuta Choco Egg
War Plane
Series 4 (18 standard items + 1 secret + 6
color varints + 5 color variants (Asia))
Furuta Choco Egg
Shinkansen /
Super Express (18 standard items)
2005
January
Furuta Choco Egg
NISSAN
Collection (17 standard items + 1 secret + 3
color variants)
Furuta Choco Egg
SL Train 2
(18 standard items + 1 secret)
September
Furuta Choco Egg
War Plane
Series 5 (13 standard items + 1 secret + 5
color variants)
Furuta Choco Egg
Toyota car
Collection (15 standard items + 1 secret +
4 color variants)
2006
January
Furuta Choco Egg
Honda
Collection (15 standard items + 1 secret + 4
color variants)
Furuta Choco Egg
Shinkansen /
Super Express 2 (12 standard items + 1
secret)
September
Furuta Choco Egg
Nissan Museum
(11 standard items + 1 secret + 6 color
variants)
Furuta Choco Egg
War Plane
Series 6 (11 standard items + 1 secret + 4
color variants)
December
Furuta Choco Egg
Mazda
Collection (11 standard items + 1 secret + 3
color variants)
2007
January
Furuta
Choco egg Toyota car collection series 2 (11 standard items + 1 secret
+ 4 color variants)
Furuta Choco egg Private railroad express line (13 standard items + 1
secret )
September
Furuta
Choco egg Super Mario (11 standard items + 1 secret + 1 color variants)
Furuta Choco egg Combat Vehicle (11 standard items + 1 secret + 2 color
variants)
October
Furuta
Choco egg Fighter Plane Special Edition series (13 standard items + 1
secret + 2 color variants)
Furuta Choco egg K-Car series (9 standard items + 1 secret + 4 color
variants)
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