Star Wars Mighty Beanz

Mighty Beanz are a simple, yet fun, marble like toy. Each is a plastic capsule, or bean, shaped cylinder with a free moving metal ball inside. This allows the toys to wobble and flip when tilted. When released at the top of an incline, Mighty Beans can actually be made to walk by causing them to flip end over end.

The zany motion is just the beginning of the fun! Mighty Beans are also highly collectible. Each Mighty Bean is actually a cute little character. Often these characters are made to resemble famous celebrities or other popular characters, such as super heroes or as we already know, our favorite Star Wars characters!

Trading and collecting Star Wars Mighty Beans with your friends is probably just as fun as playing with them. With over 75 Star Wars characters available, completing your Star Wars Mighty Beanz collection is going to be fun and challenging!

There are many games that you can play with your new Star Wars Mighty Beans. Get the flip track and have fun walking and sliding your favorite Star Wars characters across the track. Use the handy guide included with your flip track to learn how to play games such as Mighty Beanz Hockey and more. Use your imagination and create your own games to play with your Star Wars Mighty Beanz.

One of the interesting parts of collecting Star Wars Mighty Beanz are the store exclusives that are offered. These are products only available in certain stores. Obtaining these exclusive products makes completing your entire collection more challenging, and more fun! Check out some of the known store exclusive products listed below.

Keep in mind while these are "store exclusives" that doesn't mean you can't find someone selling them on ebay, Amazon or other places on the web.

My new favorite Star Wars Mighty Beanz store exclusive is the Death Star Star Wars Mighty Beanz collector tin. Released around March of 2011, this tin sphere is painted to look just like the Death Star. Separate the two halves to open it up and the Death Star collector's case has 4 trays inside that can store over 30 of your Favorite Star Wars Mighty Beanz.

The Death Star collector's case even comes with two exclusive Star Wars Mighty Beanz: Imperial Gunner #92 & Grand Moff Tarkin #93.

One of the coolest store exclusives is the Millennium Falcon collector's tin. This collector's case is styled to look just like the Millenium Falcon and can hold over 30 of your favorite Star Wars Mighty Beanz! The best part is this tin comes with 2 exclusive Star Wars Beanz that are only available with this tin: Han Solo #87 and Chewbacca #88

Longing for some Clone Wars Mighty Beanz? You'll need to head to Walmart!

As we've stated above, the Star Wars Mighty Beanz are packed in a sort of blind packaging arrangement. Each pack includes 4 Star Wars character beanz with one visible and three packaged out of site.

Walmart reportedly offers exclusive Clone Wars beanz packages that replaces one of the normal beanz in a package with an exclusive Clone Wars bean! Sources state that the Clone Wars characters are beanz numbers 61-79.

Star Wars Mighty Beanz generally come in a 4 pack with blind packaging. One bean will be visible and the other 3 are not.

At first most collectors, including myself, thought this packaging was random. It is now believed that you can actually tell what the remaining 3 unseen beans are in any given package from the bean that is visible*. Consult the charts below for specific product pairings.

As was suspected, the Star Wars Mighty Beanz are being released in different stages, or "waves".

Wave 1:
Visible Bean: Remaining Star Wars Mighty Beanz in package

Battle Droid: Anakin Skywalker (young), Jar Jar Binks, Yoda

501st Legion: Luke Skywalker, Rancor, General Grievous

Clone Trooper: Han Solo, General Grievous , Slave Leia

Greedo: Kit Fisto, Max Rebo, Sandtrooper

Jabba: Count Dooku, Emperor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (old)

Leia: Anakin Skywalker, Boba Fett, Tie Fighter Pilot

Luke: Jawa, Padme, AT-AT Driver

Yoda: Ackbar, Chewbacca, IG-88

R2-D2: Bossk, Stormtrooper, Darth Vader

I haven't verified all of these listed above but I'm pretty confident they are correct since all of the packages I've purchased for my son have seemed to follow the patterns listed above.

The Clone Wars packages available only at WalMart include a slightly different arrangement and feature one exclusive Clone Wars bean in the hidden beans. The good news is Clone Wars WalMart exclusives seem to follow a very similar pattern listed above, but they substitute the last bean with a Clone Wars Mighty Bean. Here is a breakdown of the WalMart Exclusive Clone Wars Mighty Beanz.

Visible Bean: Remaining Beans in Package, Clone Wars Bean included in package

501st Legion: Luke Skywalker, Rancor, Obi-Wan (Clone Wars)

Battle Droid: Anakin Skywalker (young), Jar Jar Binks, Asajj Ventress

Darth Vader: 2-1B, Tusken Raider, Captain Rex

Greedo: Kit Fisto, Max Rebo, Anakin (Clone Wars)

Han Solo: Jango Fett, Snowtrooper, Cad Bane

Luke: Jawa, Padme, Cad Bane (Clone Wars)

Obi-Wan Kenobi (old): Chewbacca, Darth Maul, Plo Koon

R2-D2: Bossk, Stormtrooper, Anakin (Clone Wars)

*Although I'd love to be able to take credit for figuring all of this out, I can't! I always suspected there was some sort of pattern to how these things were packaged, I simply haven't spent the time, effort, and money to crack the code. Most of this has to be credited to the folks at StarWarsGuide.net.

WAVE 2

Wave 2:
The second wave of Star Wars Mighty Beanz appears to have hit store shelves in early December, 2010. Once again it seems fans in the Midwest U.S. won't see these in stores as soon as other markets.
Consult the chart below to determine the packaging patter for the second wave of Star Wars Mighty Beanz.

Visible Bean: Remaining Star Wars Mighty Beanz in package

Admiral Ackbar: Cantina Musician, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Snowtrooper

Wicket: Darth Vader, Sandtrooper, Sebulba

Chewbacca: Clone Trooper, Bossk, Ki-Adi-Mundi

Tusken Raider: Princess Leia, Tie Pilot, Qui-Gon Jinn

Anakin Skywalker: R2-D2, Luke Rebel Pilot, Salacious Crumb

C-3PO: 501st Legion, Biggs Darklighter, Greedo)

Count Dooku: Padme Amidala, Wicket, Yoda

Mace Windu: Anakin Skywalker, Gamorrean Guard, Jawa

Gamorrean Guard: Bib Fortuna, Luke Skywalker, Queen Amidala

Stormtrooper: Jabba the Hutt, AT-AT Driver, Han Solo

Commander Cody: Boba Fett, C-3PO, Ponda Baba

General Grievous: Han Solo, Battle Droid, IG-88

We've had a lot of requests to make an easily downloadable and printable Star Wars Mighty Beanz packaging guide for shoppers and collectors to take with them in a store. We've finally gotten around to putting it together! You can download it HERE. This Star Wars Mighty Beanz packaging guide will allow you to figure out which hidden Star Wars Mighty Beanz are in a package simply by looking at the bean visible in the package!

Some of the Stars Mighty Beanz are easy to find and others are much more challenging. With the basic core edition of Star Wars Mighty Beanz Series 1 (#1-60), rarity seems to be related to bean number. It seems the first thirty beanz are fairly common and quite easy to find. Beanz numbered 31 - 50 are considered to be "Rare". Some of the most challenging beanz to add to your collection are going to the beanz #51-60 which are designated as "Ultra Rare"! Consult the charts below for easy reference.

Keep in mind this breakdown only applies to the core edition/Series 1 which is simply beanz #1-60 available in the normal packaging. Exclusive beanz such as the 5 exclusive Droid Mighty Beanz available in the TV offer, the Chewbacca and Han Solo included with the Toys R Us Exclusive Millennium Falcon case, and the Walmart Exclusive Clone Wars beanz are likely quite rare as well.

COMMON
01. Luke Skywalker (Tatooine)
02. Han Solo
03. Princess Leia
04. Darth Vader
05. R2-D2
06. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Old)
07. Yoda
08. Chewbacca
09. Jabba the Hutt
10. Battle Droid
11. C-3PO
12. Clone Trooper
13. 501st Legion
14. Commander Cody
15. Stormtrooper
16. Admiral Ackbar
17. Gamorrean Guard
18. Count Dooku
19. Boba Fett
20. Greedo
21. Sand Trooper
22. Anakin Skywalker (Tatooine)
23. Mace Windu
24. AT-AT Driver
25. General Grievous
26. TIE Pilot
27. Snow Trooper
28. Wicket
29. Jawa
30. Tusken Raider

ULTRA RARE
31. Padme Amidala
32. Darth Maul
33. Anakin Skywalker (Jedi)
34. 2-1B
35. Han Solo (Carbonite)
36. Cantina Musician
37. Bossk
38. Lando Calrissian
39. Biggs Darklighter
40. Jango Fett
41. Bib Fortuna
42. IG-88
43. Emperor Palpatine
44. Qui-Gon Jinn
45. Rancor Keeper
46. Max Rebo
47. Luke Rebel Pilot
48. Sebulba
49. Rancor
50. Ponda Baba

ULTRA RARE
51. Princess Leia (captive)
52. Jar Jar Binks
53. Dengar
54. Kit Fisto
55. Ki-Adi-Mundi
56. Jek Porkins
57. Nien Nunb
58. Salicious Crumb
59. Watto
60. Queen Amidala

You can download the Star Wars Mighty Beanz poster shown here at MightyBeanz.com. A very cool looking poster checklist but keep in mind it only lists the Series 1 Star Wars Mighty Beanz (#1-#60)

Most common large national retail stores stock Star Wars Mighty Beanz. Your best places to start are Walmart, Target, Toys R Us and Kmart.

There are also fantastic sources to find rare and hard to find beanz on the internet. If you need a single individual Star Wars Mighty Bean, try searching ebay and amazon and you'll likely find what you are looking for.

Check out our Star Wars astore and click on category #17 "Star Wars Mighty Beanz" for a pretty thorough list of all of the beanz currently available on Amazon. We'll soon be adding some links to this section to help speed up your internet search so stay tuned!

Collect and store your Star Wars Mighty Beanz collection in the metal Darth Vader Collector's Tin. It holds 80 beanz and includes 2 beanz. The Darth Vader Collector's Tin retails for about $19.99. Click the image below to check it out at Target.