Buying Guide

Four questions decide which box is the right one. None of them is about price, because on this range the price is rarely the thing that is scarce.

1. Is this a first Clickee or the twentieth?

A first purchase wants to answer one question: does the click feel as good as it looks. Two caps do that for the cost of a coffee. A twentieth purchase has the opposite problem — caps everywhere and nowhere to put them — and wants a cube or the keyboard case rather than more loose caps.

2. Which sound?

Series 1 caps are square and click dry and sharp, close to a real mechanical switch. Series 3 rounded the shell and softened it to a pop. That is the only meaningful difference between the two waves, and it is worth deciding before buying rather than after: in a quiet room they are not the same toy.

3. How badly do you want a complete set?

Series 1 and Series 3 both draw from a pool of 70 characters; the Hello Kitty range draws from around 30. That single number changes the whole arithmetic of collecting, and the Collector’s Guide works the figures through. If “complete” is the goal, the licensed range is the only one where it is a realistic target.

4. Does it need to be buyable today?

This is the awkward one. Not one of the 9 boxes has a live buy box right now — every listing in the range has sold through its own stock. 5 of them are still buyable from other sellers, and those are the ones with a price on this site: the cheapest is the Series 3 Bubble Pops 2-Pack at from $4.99, the dearest the Series 3 Keyboard Mega Pack at from $58.00. The other 4 show as unavailable with no seller behind them at all. Several of these are listings with four-figure monthly sales — the range moves faster than it restocks. Availability and prices on every page here are what the listing showed when the page was built, and the buying link always opens the current state of it.

The whole range at a glance

Nothing is sold on this site. Every buying link opens the listing at our authorised retail partner, where checkout, delivery and returns are handled.