A family and a plot of land

Honey Bee Acres Barksters & Time to Garden

The four Barksters dogs boxed with the sixteen-piece Time to Garden set and its own rabbit figure — five figures and a trellis to replant.

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 Time to Garden (16 pieces)
Figures	5 flocked figures in total
Garden	Wheelbarrow, tools, trellis with removable flowers and vegetables
Ages	3 and up

A household on its own stands around waiting for something to happen; a garden gives it work. The wheelbarrow, the hand tools and the lift-out flowers and vegetables mean the dogs have a crop to raise, harvest and raise again.

That makes this the sensible first pairing for a child who has nothing from this line yet: the cheapest route to both a cast and a setting. Every outfit comes off and swaps across both sets, and nothing needs assembly or batteries.

This is a paired box rather than a new idea: the dog family and the garden, 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 characters and a job for them. 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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