Medicom Toy Turns the Multiverse Into a Guessing Game With Its Next BE@RBRICK CHASE Rel

Medicom Toy is folding “Spider-Man: No Way Home” into its closed box BE@RBRICK CHASE line, with an August 2026 Japan release built entirely on not knowing which suit you get until the box is open.

A collaboration between “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and BE@RBRICK CHASE is set for release in August 2026, according to a short Japan market release notice. No pricing has surfaced, no confirmed lineup of suits or characters, no photography beyond what typically arrives closer to a launch window. That is standard practice for Medicom Toy, which tends to tease a release month well ahead of the item list, then fills in specifics as retailers open pre order windows.

What is notable here is the pairing itself. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has already been a recurring subject for Medicom’s standard BE@RBRICK line, not the CHASE format. Folding the 2021 film into CHASE marks a shift in how the company is choosing to package one of its most reliable licenses.

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BE@RBRICK CHASE launched as its own line within Medicom’s catalog in 2025, and it runs on a different logic than the brand’s usual size tiered releases. Where a standard BE@RBRICK drop tells you exactly what you are buying, in a stated size like 100% or 400%, CHASE sells blind. The figures ship in sealed, closed boxes at roughly 70mm tall, the same footprint as the standard 100% scale, and buyers do not know which character variant sits inside until they tear the seal.

Pricing on past CHASE entries has hovered around ¥1,000 per box, a figure low enough that completing a full set becomes a matter of persistence rather than a serious financial commitment, which is part of the appeal. The format borrows more from capsule toy culture and trading card packs than from the collector figure market Medicom built its name on.

 

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Three entries have carried the CHASE label so far. The debut wave leaned into Disney and Pixar with a “Toy Story” set built around Woody, Buzz, and five other figures spanning the franchise’s cast, sold as a closed box run of six types. A “MARVEL INFINITY SAGA” wave followed in August 2025, pulling from the Avengers side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with figures modeled on Iron Spider, Black Panther, Thanos, Iron Man’s Mark 85 armor, and Captain America, each rendered at the same compact scale. A “THE MANDALORIAN” wave showed up on Medicom’s May 2026 release calendar alongside a run of Ghostbusters and Evangelion figures, confirming CHASE has settled into a steady, cross franchise rhythm rather than a one off experiment.

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“No Way Home” is an unusually deep well for a blind box format built around variety. The film’s entire premise runs on multiversal doubling: three separate live action Spider-Man lineages sharing a frame for the first time, alongside a run of returning villains pulled from earlier franchises. Where a single suit release asks a collector to decide upfront whether they want the red and blue classic or the black and gold upgrade, a CHASE box sidesteps the decision entirely. You buy the box, not the outcome.

That structure also lines up with how Medicom has already treated Spider-Man adjacent material outside the CHASE line. A May 2025 wave under the standard BE@RBRICK banner grouped Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Woman, and a Final Suit Peter Parker into a single release cycle, several of them sold as two piece sets rather than solo figures. A November 2025 wave added Spider-Punk and a Spider-Man India variant to the same rotation. The company has spent close to two years treating the wider Spider-Verse as a rolling cast list rather than a single character to revisit occasionally, so pushing “No Way Home” specifically into a closed box, character unknown format reads less like a departure and more like the next logical step in that rotation.

Whether the August set draws from the film’s suit variants (the classic red and blue, the black and gold, the upgraded suit from the film’s climax) or reaches further into the multiversal cast that “No Way Home” introduced has not been published, and no retailer listing had surfaced a confirmed item breakdown at the time of writing. That gap cuts both ways: it leaves plenty of room for the set to be more ambitious than past CHASE waves, and equally plenty of room for it to be a modest four or six type run like the ones that came before it.

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The “Black & Gold Suit,” worn by Tom Holland’s Peter Parker after Doctor Strange’s spell goes wrong, arrived as a standard BE@RBRICK release in January 2024, sold across 100%, 400%, and 1000% sizes, with the two smaller figures bundled as a set priced around ¥17,600 and the oversized 1000% version sold solo near ¥85,800. A “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” figure, built around the suit Peter constructs himself in “Far From Home” and continues wearing into “No Way Home,” followed in a 100% and 400% pairing, with a 1000% version sized at roughly 70cm tall for stores like MCT Tokyo. Medicom also gave the film’s other Peter Parkers their own moment, releasing an “Amazing Spider-Man” branded figure pulled directly from the “No Way Home” multiverse sequence in October 2023, again spread across the 100%, 400%, and 1000% tiers.

That is at least three separate size tiered releases built on a single film’s suit designs before CHASE ever entered the picture, which says something about how durable the license has been for Medicom’s sales calendar. Spider-Man shows up in some form on nearly every monthly release cycle the company runs, whether as a standalone figure, part of a multi character set, or bundled into a themed collection alongside completely unrelated properties like Mercedes-Benz or a Japanese good luck cat design.

BE@RBRICK Spider-Man: No Way Home (Black & Gold Suit) – Medicom Toy

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The August release also lands inside a broader moment for the company. Medicom Toy is marking its 30th anniversary this year, and the celebration has already taken a physical form: a “MEDICOM TOY 30th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION” opened at Omotesando Hills’ Space O in Tokyo, running from July 25 through July 30, just ahead of the CHASE release window. Anniversary years tend to bring heavier release calendars for companies built around collectible figures, since the goal shifts from steady output to visible momentum, and Medicom’s 2026 slate so far backs that up. Between the Mandalorian CHASE wave, the ongoing Spider-Verse rotation under the standard BE@RBRICK line, and now a No Way Home specific CHASE set, the company is running multiple franchise threads at once rather than leaning on a single flagship release to carry the year.

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A few practical questions remain open heading into August. Pricing has not been confirmed, though past CHASE waves suggest a per box cost in the ¥1,000 range is a reasonable baseline rather than a certainty. The exact character or suit lineup inside the boxes has not been published either, and given how many suit variants and characters the “No Way Home” era touches, that lineup could run anywhere from a tight four or six type set, consistent with earlier CHASE waves, to something broader if Medicom decides to lean into the film’s multiversal cast rather than just its suits.

Distribution is worth watching too. Medicom’s own MCT Tokyo storefront and its online store have historically carried the company’s higher end size tiered Spider-Man releases, while CHASE waves have leaned more on general retail partners given the lower per unit price point and blind box mechanic. Either this release follows the CHASE retail pattern or gets folded into Medicom’s own channels given the character’s popularity is not yet clear from what has been published.