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What a blind box actually is

A blind box is a sealed pack holding one figure from a printed line-up, with nothing on the outside to tell you which. That is the whole mechanism, inherited from the capsule machine where a coin buys a turn and the machine decides the rest.

Every Kitan Club blind box prints the full line-up on the pack. You see all four, five or six figures before you buy and exactly how many there are. What you cannot see is which one is inside, because Kitan Club seals the boxes and never sorts or weighs them.

Are some rarer than others? In a standard Kitan Club line-up, no: the run is packed in even proportion. Where a secret design exists we print it on the packaging, and a secret is genuinely scarce rather than merely uncommon.

Completing a line-up therefore takes more boxes than there are figures. Five boxes from a five-figure series will not give you five different ones, and no amount of shaking changes that. Collectors trade doubles instead.

Kitan Club collectibles are made for display rather than play, and most carry a 15-and-over grade because the parts are small. Keep them out of direct sun and keep the line-up card — it is the only record of what a set still owes you. Collectibles kept behind glass hold their paint longest.

Start somewhere

One box, one design, no say in the matter

That is the arrangement, and it has been since the first machine. Pick a Kitan Club series and let the dial decide the rest.