It's not just the fridge: it seems that, piece by piece,
RMS International's Teeny Tinies are rebuilding the entire Muppet Kitchen.
I got this set in a box declaring it the "Sweet Shop," though the same selection of elements is also sold (in different colors) under the name "Pastry Shop." Which frankly makes more sense - "sweet shop" implies more "candy" than "baked goods." The Pastry Shop version does have a few different pieces, but it's mostly the same.
This set is the first I've gotten that doesn't include
some kind of large piece of furniture, just small bits. The closest we get to anything "furniture"-related is a stand mixer and a display tower. I know mixers are available in tons of colors these days, but this one is pink and baby blue - quite the combo! The tower is fully pink, and has three levels. The Muppet Kitchen did have a mixer, but not a display like thia, so so far we're 50% new content!
Keeping with the theme of "things used in the kitchen," we get a whisk, three measuring cups, a bag of flour, and a cookbook. Because there's no way to make an appropriately hollow whisk at this scale (come on, it's barely possible to make one at human scale, forget toys), it does kind of end up looking like a turkey baster,
but if you imagine it's just been used to whip up some icing or something, the fact it's solid will make more sense. The measuring cups are green, blue, and pink, and are sized to stack inside one another just like the real things would do. Neither of those are things the Muppet Kitchen had, so Teeny Tinies is pulling ahead! The cookbook is a new inclusion, too, and the bag of flour is a solid piece of plastic, not hollow or softgoods. We'll also put the chocolate bar in this section, because it looks like a block of baking chocolate more than something intended to be eaten straight.
Then we start to get into the actual food. There are two cupcakes, swirled with icing: one with a maroon wrapper and blue frosting, and one with a blue wrapper and yellow icing. They're so big, they'll only fit on the top tier of the tower. There are two tan doughnuts,
though one gets chocolate icing and the other gets purple with blue sprinkles; think that one's berry flavored? There's a silver baking sheet with six cookies on it that seem to be painted with some very pale chocolate chips. The bakery mas made four bright yellow, green, pink, and blue colored... well, the back of the box calls them "macaroons," but that's not right; they're macarons; you can identify what they are because they're rounded on both the top and bottom, but have a rough line of filling squeezing out all the way around the middle.
Like the Muppet Kitchen, this set comes with a cake. Also like the Muppet Kitchen, that cake has white frosting and strawberries on top. Unlike the Muppet Kitchen, the cake does not seem to be chocolate, nor does it have a mouth. Plus, the strawberries are painted kinda haphazardly: from one side, they look fine, but turn it around and the red paint seems to have missed them, leaving you with a nearly blank cake. Unfortunate!
Finally, there's a cardboard carryout box, the sole non-plastic accessory in this set. It features a notch in the front so it's easier to open the lid, and while it's not big enough to hold the sad cake, the other treats could all fit in easily. All at once, too! Because of the way the art was made, the blue and green stripes don't line up around most of the cosrners - it was designed flat, without considering how it would look folded.
If you're comparing this set to Palisades' classic Muppet Kitchen, only three of the accessories here duplicate anything seen back then, which means 17 original creations! If you have the old kitchen, that's a ton of new things to spice up the display; and even if you don't, these are all a bunch of fun stuff that will make for fun playtime with your action figures.
-- 12/21/25
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