Mighty Beanz

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Mighty Beanz
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TypeToy
Company Moose Toys
Availability2002–2006
2010–2012
2018–2019
SloganPlay 'em, Race 'em, Collect 'em
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Mighty Beanz was a collectable children's toy line of plastic beans created by Moose Enterprises in Melbourne, Australia. [1] [2] The primary Mighty Beanz game is to race the Beanz down different types of battle stages. [3]

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History

Original line

The Mighty Beanz line was originally launched in Australia at the beginning of 2002 and found their way to United States markets that summer. Five series were created:

Furthermore, Moose Enterprises has portrayed several famous celebrities in the shape of their toy, including Elvis Presley, Hulk Hogan and Steve Irwin.

Besides Mighty Beanz, Moose Enterprises also manufactured three Mighty Beanz racetracks to go along with their toys, Ultimate Jump Park, Collision Chaos, and Super S-Bend. [4] Each track came with two limited edition Beanz that did not have printed numbers on them, making them extremely collectible.

In 2004, a Mighty Beanz video game titled Mighty Beanz Pocket Puzzles was released for the Game Boy Advance. [5]

2010 relaunch

2010 marked the first relaunch of Mighty Beanz. From 2010 through 2012 Moose would launch a total of five more series of Mighty Beanz. Though, series 3 would mark the last series to be released in countries like the United States as series 4 and series 5 could only be found in Australia and a few other countries, making it more difficult for collectors to obtain certain Beanz. Each series of the relaunched Mighty Beanz also had their own limited edition Moose Bean with only 1000 of them made for each series. Five series were created:

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A Golden Square Bean
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LE Disc Bean - Monkey Coin Bean 1/250

2018 relaunch

Moose developed a new line of Mighty Beanz, starting with 140 new Beanz which were released on September 1, 2018. A line of Fortnite-themed Mighty Beanz were produced. [6] An Easter series and Series 2 of the main line were released in early 2019.

References

  1. "Toying with the world - Business - www.theage.com.au". www.theage.com.au. 7 November 2004. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  2. "Moose Enterprises Pty Ltd.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  3. "Toys jumping off the shelves". Gympie Times. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  4. "Mighty Beanz 2010 and Flip-Track".
  5. "Mighty Beanz Pocket Puzzles (Game)".
  6. "Mighty Beanz - Moose Toys". www.moosetoys.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.