Four dogs and nine seats

Honey Bee Acres Barksters & School Bus

The Barksters dog family boxed with the Sunshine School Bus — working lights, working sounds, a mouse driver and four passengers who turn up with their own wardrobe.

One box from the Honey Bee Acres line of flocked animal family playsets.

What is in the box

Bundle	Barksters dog family (4 figures) and Sunshine School Bus
Figures	5 flocked figures
Bus	13.25 in L, 8 seats plus driver, lights and sounds, batteries included
Ages	3 and up

The bus runs just over thirteen inches long with eight seats behind the driver, so four dogs leave room for whoever else is in the house. Doors open front and rear, the tyres and steering wheel turn, and the batteries are in the box, which means the lights work before the wrapping paper is off the floor.

Five flocked figures in total, all posable at head, arms and legs, all in clothing that lifts off and swaps across the line. The bus parks against the schoolhouse elsewhere on this site if the collection grows that way.

This is a paired box rather than a new idea: the dog family and the school bus, packed together. Honey Bee Acres normally sells its animal families and playsets individually, and the pairs exist for the moment when one present has to do the work of two — here that means four passengers and eight spare seats. Nothing inside is exclusive to the pair; each half is the same box sold on its own elsewhere in the line, with the same three-inch poseable figures, the same interchangeable clothing and furniture and accessories at the one scale this flocked animal toys world has kept for years.

Honey Bee Acres is made and distributed by Sunny Days Entertainment. It belongs to a tradition of flocked animal toys that reached collectors from Japan decades ago and has barely changed since: round ears, soft coats and furniture cut to fit. Boxes are sold individually, so the village grows one at a time, and every poseable three-inch character shares the clothing, furniture and accessories of the whole line — one scale this animal toys world has held to for years.

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