Not everybody was lucky enough to get the Muppet Kitchen playset, and Mattel doesn't make accessory packs for its WWE figures the way Jakks Pacific used to, so what's an action figure fan who wants a small, in-scale refrigerator to do?
Teeny Tinies to the rescue!
The fridge is one of the most plentiful Teeny Tinies sets there is: it's available in a variety of colors and patterns, some even fully licensed and branded. Do you want a refrigerator that looks like SpongeBob or Patrick? They've got that. I picked the blue one, because that was the closest thing they had to a normal refrigerator color at the time, but you can honestly find pretty much whatever style you want.
This is a fancy modern fridge, with a curved lower edge on the freezer door, and side-by-side doors below that. There are handles on all three doors, and they can all open wide. There are three levels of shelves on both fridge doors, and one wide shelf on the freezer drawer. There's a crisper drawer at the bottom of the fridge, and both upper and lower compartments have shelves molded inside where you can store the included food.
That's right, the fridge comes partially stocked! This is what your fridge looks like at the end of the month, when you really need to go shopping soon.
Like the 5 Surprise Mini Brands, the accessories included here fall
into a few different categories by way of how they're made. For instance, the head of lettuce and bunch of grapes are molded from colored plastic. Green for the lettuce, purple for the grapes, though if you think about it those could easily have been reversed. The grapes are so large they look like they're scaled for a 12" figure more than anything else.
And speaking of being comically oversized,
the carton of eggs looks like it would hold about five dozen, unless the owner of this kitchen is making ostrich omelettes. That and the box of waffles for the freezer are simply folded cardboard. Honestly, it's surprising only those two are made this way: it's ecomonical and looks good, but only two of the items in the set do it? Weird!
Next are the solid plastic boxes: a rectangle of white plastic, with a sticker wrapped around it to create whatever food item
it's meant to be. Bacon? Butter? Popsicles? You know it! There's also a bag of "Fresh Apples," but it's flat. Are apples flat? I was under the impression apples were round. I suppose these could be apple slices, but that's not what the bag says. The bag says "apples," so we're left to assume they're like when Japan grows square watermelons. Flat-packed McIntosh apples.
Finally, there's a whole set of plastic containers that are hollow on the bottom, rather than being enclosed.
How very unexpected! These include ice cream, the least professional wedge of cheese in the world, an inexplicably white bottle of ketchup, a square water bottle, a humongous can of orange soda, a carton of milk, and a box(?) of salad mix. Shouldn't the salad have been in a bag and the apples in a... well, a box of apples doesn't make much sense either, but it'd be better than a skinny bag of nothing.
The fridge doesn't look very full, even with all 15 accessories inside it, but the neat thing is you can use it as storage for all the little things included in other teeny Tinies sets. Shouldn't burgers and hot dogs be kept refrigerated before you start cooking them? If Shocka can pack the Muppet Kitchen's fridge with so many little extras that the door can barely close, you can find things to put in this fridge. All the variations of the fridge come with the same basic accessories, but the stickers applied to them get changed - different kinds of ice cream, different flavors of soda, etc.
For just five bucks, you really won't find a better toy fridge. In fact, it probably still would have been good even if it didn't come with all the little extras, so consider those a fun bonus.
-- 09/28/25
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