40 Fun Facts About Shopkins

What was Gemma Stone, the one-of-a-kind Shopkins figure auctioned for $21,500 in 2015, made of?

Crystal made Gemma Stone a true one-off, and after 118 bids a fan in Florida owned it. Every dollar went to a charity that gives toys to children in need.

Which comedian opened Shopkins toys while interviewing politicians in the 2018 satire Who Is America?

Sacha Baron Cohen played OMGWhizzBoyOMG!, a Finnish toy vlogger who drew former sheriff Joe Arpaio into a debate about gun control with a Shopkins figure in hand.

Which fashion competition show set a 2017 challenge to create avant-garde looks inspired by Shopkins dolls?

Project Runway built a season 16 episode around the dolls, with supermodel Kate Upton as guest judge. The episode was titled A "Little" Avant Garde.

Shopkins' maker announced a 2024 deal to co-create a collectible toy line with which YouTube star?

MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, worked with the toymaker on a range of action figures and collectibles built around his blue and fuchsia panther logo.

Shopkins' maker became global master toy partner in 2019 for which hit Australian children's cartoon?

Bluey toys reached shops within months, and more than 100,000 plush characters had been sold in the show's home country by that December.

Which kind of fan-made YouTube video is credited with turning Shopkins into a mainstream craze?

Unboxing videos, where fans open surprise packs on camera, spread the craze so fast that the toymaker had to more than double its number of factories to keep up.

Chip Choc, a Shopkins Shoppies doll sold in a 2018 pack of just 1,500, was the line's first what?

Boy dolls were unknown in the Shoppies range until Chip Choc arrived, billed as the long-lost brother of one of the existing characters.

Golden tickets hidden in Shopkins Season 5 packs won finders a trip to which city, the toy's home?

Melbourne is where Shopkins are designed, and the winners were promised a private party with the designers and a visit to headquarters.

Cupcake Queen, a rare Shopkins figure from a pack costing a few dollars, sold for $4,300 on which website?

eBay became the go-to marketplace for scarce Shopkins, and resale prices in the thousands for a tiny plastic cupcake made headlines in 2015.

Which fast-food chain began giving away Shopkins toys with its kids' meals in the United States in late 2015?

McDonald's ran several Shopkins promotions, including a 2018 set of 48 tiny furniture pieces that children could use to decorate four miniature rooms.

Which family-run toy company, founded in 1985, launched Shopkins in the summer of 2014?

Moose Toys rode Shopkins from 25th to sixth place among US toy manufacturers, with the 12-pack named the country's best-selling toy of 2015.

The first season of Shopkins in 2014, with characters like Apple Blossom, was inspired by items found where?

Grocery store shelves supplied the whole first cast, down to a tiny bag of frozen peas and a carton of milk, each given a face and a name.

What is the name of the town where the Shopkins and their Shoppies friends live in the cartoons and movies?

Shopville also gave its name to the first official Shopkins app in 2015, which let fans visit five of the town's shops and play mini games.

A doll line spun off from Shopkins in 2019 was the maker's first range aimed at which age group?

Preschoolers got Kindi Kids, dolls with glittering eyes, colourful hair and interactive accessories, modelled on the Shoppies characters as toddlers.

The big eyes and baby-like faces of Shopkins echo which Japanese style, also seen in Hello Kitty?

Kawaii design gives the figures oversized faces and almost no body beyond hands and feet, the same proportions that make infants and puppies seem adorable.

The first nationwide Shopkins Swap-kins party in August 2015 invited collectors to trade figures at which retailer?

Toys R Us hosted the two-hour swap in its stores across the United States, sending fans home with a collectible poster and trading cards.

Which French treat was the theme of a free Shopkins pop-up café in New York that booked out in one minute?

Macarons tied in with Season 8, World Vacation, whose first wave featured characters from France, and more than 4,000 families joined the waiting list.

Police raided two factories in 2015 and seized more than 150,000 counterfeit Shopkins toys in which country?

China was where investigators traced the fakes, to two manufacturers in the city of Yiwu, after a months-long hunt by the toymaker's lawyers.

Which Shopkins character wins the holiday that takes the gang to London, Paris and Tokyo in the film World Vacation?

Kooky Cookie's prize trip turns into a chase when the friends run into the Biscuit Bandits in London, in the second of the three Shopkins films.

Which Hollywood studio's home entertainment arm distributed the first full-length Shopkins movie in 2016?

Universal signed on when the short Shopkins web cartoons had already drawn nearly 100 million views, and it went on to release two sequels.

The first full-length Shopkins movie, released in 2016, shared which title with Season 6 of the toys?

Chef Club was a cooking contest on screen and a recipe theme in the toy aisle, where each Season 6 figure doubled as an ingredient.

Which Shoppie is the new girl in town trying to win over the other dolls in the first Shopkins movie?

Peppa-Mint needs help from the Shopkins themselves to make friends, in a film that marked the Shoppies' first appearance on screen.

Which doll completed the original trio of Shopkins Shoppies alongside Jessicake and Bubbleisha in 2015?

Popette joined them in the first wave, and each doll came with two exclusive Shopkins and an accessory matching her theme.

The Bubble Gum Pop Bubbleisha doll, individually numbered and limited to 1,500, was sold at which annual event in 2017?

San Diego Comic-Con got its own doll each summer from 2016 to 2018, and the 2017 edition came in holographic boom-box packaging with a cassette-tape VIP card.

Which Shopkins spin-off, launched in 2016, has rooms such as the Kitty Kitchen and Puppy Patio to decorate?

Happy Places swapped collecting for interior design, with tiny animal-faced furniture to arrange in each room and smaller dolls called Lil' Shoppies.

Under which name did Shopkins begin shrinking supermarket brands such as Welch's and Pringles into collectibles in 2019?

Real Littles marked the brand's fifth anniversary by hiding a matching Shopkin inside each miniature pack, and the first series sold out at many retailers.

Shopkins borrowed the collectible formula of which earlier monster-themed line from the same maker?

The Trash Pack was already a hit, but it had no counterpart on the girls' side of the toy aisle, a gap the company set out to fill.

Shopkins characters are sorted into groups such as Fruit & Veg, Bakery and Sweet Treats, which the brand calls what?

Teams in the early seasons also included Frozen, Health & Beauty, Cleaning & Laundry and Baby, like the sections of a shopping list.

Which rarity level of Shopkins, bought for $2.99 in a pack, was reselling for over $1,500 a figure by 2015?

Limited Edition figures were the ones fans chased hardest, and one had already changed hands for nearly $350 within four months of the toy's launch.

Shopkins: Shop n' Seek, a mobile game unveiled in 2019, used which technology for hunting digital Shopkins?

Augmented reality turned the hunt for characters into the game itself, and players could also dress their Shoppies and connect with friends.

Shopkins Live!, announced in 2017 with a premiere in Buffalo, New York, took the brand into which kind of entertainment?

A touring stage show was planned for 75 US cities over six months, built around a 90-minute story about a Funtastic Food and Fashion Fair.

Shopkins Direct, launched with CultureFly in 2017, offered exclusive Shopkins clothing and collectibles in which form?

A subscription box arrived four times a year with six to eight items that could not be bought in shops, starting with a Rainbow Celebration theme.

Shopkins Cutie Cars, the spin-off launched in 2017, had bodies made of which material?

Die-cast metal gave the cars a weight like classic collectible cars, and more than 35 vehicles with names such as Choc Chip Racer and Motor Melon launched together.

Shopkins won which TOTY Award, voted on by retailers, media and families, in both 2015 and 2016?

Girl Toy of the Year went to a different Shopkins playset each time, at a New York ceremony nicknamed the Oscars of the toy industry.

Which Shopkins playset, nominated within months of the toy's 2014 launch, won the brand its first TOTY Award?

Small Mart, a supermarket set with its own trolley, took the 2015 prize, and the Scoops Ice Cream Truck repeated the feat a year later.

Which shoe brand joined food names such as Welch's and Conagra in the first series of licensed Shopkins mini packs?

Skechers shoes were that season's Special Edition figures, tucked in among miniature cereal boxes, jelly jars and snack tubes.

Season 4 of Shopkins, released in late 2015, introduced which characters whose faces resemble animals?

Petkins later lent their animal faces to the furniture of a spin-off line, while the fuzzy Shoppets did not arrive until Season 9.

Shopkins' maker nearly collapsed in 2007 after a worldwide recall of which bead craft toy, sold in the US as Aqua Dots?

Bindeez beads were found to release a dangerous drug-like chemical if swallowed, after a factory swapped an ingredient without the company's knowledge.

Which voice actor, also Morgana in the video game Persona 5, plays the Shoppie Jessicake in the Shopkins movies?

Cassandra Lee Morris voiced Jessicake in all three films, between anime roles such as Kyubey in Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Leafa in Sword Art Online.

Which toy retailer signed a 2017 global deal to sell Shopkins plush in stores from Denmark to Puerto Rico?

Build-A-Bear added Shopkins plush and accessories to its workshops soon after the brand won the 2016 award for Best Toy Character License.