A house and a bakery in one carton

Honey Bee Acres Sunflower Cottage & Pastry Shop

The eleven-inch Sunflower Cottage with its seventeen pieces, boxed together with the thirty-five-piece Pastry Shop — a home to live in and somewhere to walk to.

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

What is in the box

Bundle	Sunflower Cottage (17 pieces) and Pastry Shop (35 pieces)
Figures	2 exclusive flocked figures included
Cottage	11 in tall, two storeys
Ages	3 and up

This is the pairing that makes a village out of a single present. The cottage gives the family a bed, a table and an upstairs; the pastry shop gives them a reason to leave it. Both arrive with their own exclusive flocked figure, so the street is populated from the first morning.

It is the largest bundle on this shelf and the one to choose when the gift has to stand on its own rather than extend a collection. Everything inside is the same scale as the families and vehicles here, and the furniture also accepts figures of that size from other makers.

This is a paired box rather than a new idea: the cottage and the pastry shop, 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 a household with somewhere to live and somewhere to walk to on the same afternoon. 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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