Hirono Reshape by POP MART: meaning of all 10 figures and Puppet
As of 13 November 2026. HIRONO Reshape Series Figures is a POP MART series starring Hirono, the character of Chinese artist Lang, released on 29 December 2023: 9 regular figures and the secret Puppet. All 10, with “Have” and “Want” marks, are in the Hirono Reshape checklist.
A boy rebuilt from spare parts
Picture a wooden marionette that has been broken and repaired so many times that nothing matches any more. One leg is patched with cloth, the other is metal and wood, the arms are bolted together from wooden and metal pieces, and one hand has been replaced by something that looks like a wrench. You could not say what it looked like at the start, yet it is plainly still the same sad-eyed little boy. That is Puppet, the secret figure of HIRONO Reshape.
To reshape is to give something a new form. The series asks whether getting better means going back to who you were, or learning to live as a new version of yourself.
Mark what you already have
Tap — “Have”, tap again — duplicate (×2, ×3…). Hold — “Want” or one less.
- Drowning
- Fading
- Costume
- Voyage
- Burst
- Paradise Lost
- Parasite
- Healing
- Woodcarving
- Puppet
What the launch text said
A week before release, on 22 December 2023, The Toy Chronicle retold the launch text in a post credited to “LANG x POP MART x Inner Flow”. It reads almost like a list of the figures: sometimes we drown in bad emotions, wear unfit costumes, get lost in bursting consumerism, and watch our lives drift off course. Then: “We can do nothing just like a vulnerable puppet.” The text ends on recovery, healing that starts when the tide of emotions fades, when we face difficulties bravely and friends and family stay close, and on the line “We will all be reshaped someday and somewhere.”
So Drowning stands under a tin labelled GOLD PAINT that pours over his hair and shoulders. Costume wears a leather jacket far too big for him, hanging from a stand with a tag still attached. Burst, in yellow overalls with BURST across the chest, bites a black tube, and the word “bursting” in the launch text sits right next to consumerism rather than anger. Voyage hides inside a cardboard rocket marked “odyssey hirono”, standing on a cratered grey moon.
Five quieter changes
The rest are not named in the launch text, but they continue the story. Fading is almost translucent, standing barefoot on a flat grey stone. Paradise Lost is a cracked, concrete-grey jester sitting on a striped circus pedestal, and he is also the figure moulded on the front of the box. Parasite has red, white-spotted mushrooms growing from his head and from a bandaged leg. Woodcarving is carved from pale wood, arms raised like branches with green leaves sprouting. And Healing sits on an old suitcase with a needle and red thread, a name that echoes the closing words of the launch text, “healing is underway”.
None of these is a villain or a hero. They read more like states one person can pass through, and Puppet looks like all of them stitched together.
Puppet and the strings that stay
Every seam on Puppet is left visible: wood against metal, cloth patches, rough stitches, and a dark wreath like twisted thorny twigs on his head. The scene POP MART photographed him in has strings running up from his hands. A marionette is moved from outside, which is exactly the feeling the launch text compares him to. Recovering does not automatically make you free if your new shape was still made by other people’s hands.
Hirono has met puppet strings before. In the first series, Marionette stands next to a puppeteer’s control bar lying on the floor, with nobody holding it. In Reshape, Hirono has become the puppet.
Golden seams
Our author compares Puppet with kintsugi, the Japanese way of mending broken ceramics with lacquer and dusting the joins with gold, so the cracks become part of the object instead of being hidden. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art keeps tea bowls repaired this way; its curators say the practice probably spread in Japan in the late 16th or early 17th century, though its exact origin is not known. There is no evidence that Lang had kintsugi in mind. The comparison simply makes the point that a repaired thing does not have to pretend nothing happened, without claiming that every loss makes us stronger.
The rarest figure
The box prints the odds: 1:108 for Puppet against 1:9 for each regular figure. A whole set is 9 boxes with no duplicates, so if Puppet turns up in it, one regular figure is missing. On ColleX the complete set is the 9 regulars and Puppet is tracked on its own.
Where Reshape sits in the Hirono story
Reshape is the third Hirono series by date in our catalogue. Before it came Lang’s debut The Other One (2021), told in our Hirono origin story, and Hirono Mime (July 2023), a series about silent roles, covered in a separate article.
On popmart.com/us a Reshape box costs $19.99 and a whole set of 9 boxes $179.91 (13 November 2026). Prices for opened figures depend on the seller and the character.
All 10 Hirono Reshape figures
| No. | Figure | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drowning | Gold paint pouring from a tin |
| 2 | Fading | Translucent, on a flat stone |
| 3 | Costume | Oversized leather jacket, tag |
| 4 | Voyage | Cardboard rocket on a moon |
| 5 | Burst | Yellow BURST overalls, tube |
| 6 | Paradise Lost | Cracked jester on a pedestal |
| 7 | Parasite | Red mushrooms on head and leg |
| 8 | Healing | On a suitcase, needle and thread |
| 9 | Woodcarving | Carved wood, branch arms |
| 10 | Puppet | Secret: wood-and-metal marionette |
Numbers follow POP MART’s official lineup. The back of the box prints 1:9 under each regular figure.
You can mark every figure you own on ColleX, add the missing ones to “Want” and trade duplicates with other collectors in the Hirono Reshape checklist.
Frequently asked questions
How many figures are in Hirono Reshape?
10: nine regular figures and the secret Puppet. On ColleX the complete set is the nine regular ones.
What is the Hirono Reshape secret and what are the odds?
Puppet, Hirono as a marionette patched together from wood, metal and cloth. The box prints 1:108 for the secret and 1:9 for each regular figure.
When did Hirono Reshape come out?
On 29 December 2023 according to popmart.com; The Toy Chronicle gives the same date.
What do the Hirono Reshape figures mean?
POP MART has not explained the individual figures; the launch text speaks of bad emotions, unfit costumes, consumerism, feeling like a helpless puppet and healing with people close by. The readings in this article are the author’s, not the artist’s.
Is Puppet the same as Hirono Marionette?
No. Marionette is a regular figure from the first series, The Other One (2021); Puppet is the secret of Reshape (2023).
Can you tell the secret by the weight of the box?
People often search for “hirono reshape secret weight”, but POP MART does not publish box weights and we have not weighed any, so we give no numbers.
How much is Hirono Reshape?
$19.99 per box and $179.91 for a whole set of 9 on popmart.com/us (13 November 2026).