Grow it, then sell it

Honey Bee Acres Time to Garden & Pastry Shop

The sixteen-piece Time to Garden set boxed with the thirty-five-piece Pastry Shop — fifty-one pieces and two exclusive figures, with a supply chain running between them.

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

What is in the box

Bundle	Time to Garden (16 pieces) and Pastry Shop (35 pieces)
Figures	2 exclusive flocked figures
Garden	Replantable trellis, wheelbarrow, hand tools
Ages	3 and up

The flowers and vegetables lift off the garden trellis, the wheelbarrow carries them down the lane, and the pastry shop has a counter and a display case waiting. Children find that loop on their own within a few minutes and then run it for weeks.

Dottie the rabbit tends the plot and an exclusive mouse keeps the shop; both are flocked, posable at head, arms and legs, and dressed in clothing that comes off. Neither half needs assembly or batteries.

This is a paired box rather than a new idea: the garden 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 something to grow and somewhere to sell it. 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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