Hirono Gets His Hogwarts Letter, and Still Looks Mildly Worried About It
POP MART's Hirono × Harry Potter blind box series landed on the UK site on 9 October at £14 a box, with 12 regular figures and two hidden ones.
Hirono, the moody little boy created by artist Lang for POP MART, has been sent to wizarding school. The Hirono × Harry Potter Series Figures went on sale on POP MART's UK website on Friday 9 October, at £14 per blind box.
There are 12 regular designs, with Hirono cast as Albus Dumbledore, Rubeus Hagrid, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Dobby, Sirius Black, Ron Weasley, Luna Lovegood and Lord Voldemort. Harry himself turns up three times, once with the Sorting Hat, once with Quidditch kit and once with Hedwig. The secret figure is a Mandrake, and the super secret is a Harry Potter Special Edition.
According to the collector database everytoys, the game-rules card puts the Mandrake at 1 in 72 and the Special Edition at 1 in 144, so the super secret turns up half as often. The same listing notes that most figures have a detachable base and several come with props, including a cauldron for Snape.
POP MART lists the figures at roughly 7.8 to 10.6cm tall, made from PVC, ABS and metal, and rated 15+. The UK store also sells the set through POP NOW, where you open your box on screen before it ships. That means you see your pull straight away, and POP MART treats those orders as non-returnable once revealed.
On the US store the series went live at 5pm PST on 8 October at $19.99 a box. When we looked at POP MART's UK Hirono page, the series was marked out of stock, so it's worth checking the POP NOW listing too.
Hirono's whole thing, in Lang's words on the POP MART site, is freezing small feelings like fear and cowardice in time. Our reading of the Hedwig figure on the box art is that he's landed firmly on the fear side of that list, scarf and all.
