Hirono Shelter (2024)

Hirono Shelter by POP MART (19 July 2024): all 13 figures — 12 hiding places from a candle to a birdcage and the secret Stuffed Bear.

Hirono Shelter (official title Hirono Shelter Series Figures, also searched as “pop mart hirono shelter”) is the POP MART series in which Hirono, the character created by the Chinese artist Lang, hides in a different shelter each time: a candle, a mantel clock, a stone tower, a circus tent, a birdcage. POP MART released it on 19 July 2024. There are 13 figures: 12 regulars and the secret Stuffed Bear. On POP MART’s US site a blind box costs $19.99 and a set of 12 boxes $239.88; in Canada a box is C$26.99 (popmart.com, 4 November 2026). The set follows POP MART’s official lineup on popmart.com: 1 Candleholder, 2 Mantel Clock, 3 Poet, 4 Traffic Cone, 5 Fort, 6 Circus, 7 Cabin, 8 Birdy, 9 Alien, 10 Warrior, 11 Sunny Doll, 12 Birdcage, 13 Stuffed Bear (Secret). Almost every figure has a moving or removable part: Candleholder’s flame comes off, both doors of Mantel Clock open, the top piece of Traffic Cone is magnetic, Birdy’s bell can be repositioned, and Warrior’s bone and left hand detach (as captioned on POP MART’s product photos). In POP MART’s Instagram post of 12 July 2024 (as quoted by everytoys.com), a shelter is not only a place to stay physically but also a way to hide from worries and sadness; the maker has not published a separate backstory for each figure. The secret is Stuffed Bear: Hirono in a brown teddy-bear suit with a burlap patch on the belly and a red scarf, plus a removable bear head that holds on with a magnet. POP MART does not state the odds (its page says secret chances vary from set to set); sellers put it at 1 in 144 boxes. On ColleX the secret does not count towards the full series, which is the 12 regulars. The figures are 6–10 cm (2.36–3.94 in) tall, made of ABS, PVC and magnets, and marked not suitable for under-15s. On popmart.com Shelter sits between Reshape (29 December 2023) and Hirono × Le Petit Prince (25 October 2024); another Hirono series in the catalogue is Hirono × Harry Potter.