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The Dunder Mifflin crew is getting the tiny treatment. Ahead of its highly-anticipated spinoff, The Office has joined forces with Polly Pocket for a mug-shaped play set featuring its most memorable scenes — complete with mini versions of the fictional paper company’s top employees.
Available online at Amazon, Target and Mattel’s website, Polly Pocket’s The Office compact toy set ($50) houses six locations and accessories for recreating iconic moments, such as Michael Scott’s office, the main floor, the break room, the conference room and more, plus pint-sized props including a mini teapot, a prank-ready pumpkin, a Dundie Award trophy, Dwight’s stapler in yellow Jell-O, Michael’s “world’s best boss” mug and others.
Of course, the set includes palm-sized versions of insufferable Dunder Mifflin boss Michael Scott (Steve Carrell), Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), Pam Beesley (Jenna Fischer), Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling) and Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner). The finishing touch: A building sign that instantly turns the Scranton branch into the Michael Scott Paper Company.
Based on Ricky Gervais’ U.K. sitcom, The Office ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013 and streams online exclusively on Peacock. The cast also included Leslie David Baker, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nuñez, B.J. Novak, Ed Helms, Paul Liberstein, Craig Robinson and Ellie Kemper.
Show creators Greg Daniels and Michael Koman have confirmed a spinoff of the mockumentary series that will see Nuñez reprise his role as accountant Oscar Martinez. At the end of the original show, Oscar was running for a state Senate seat in Pennsylvania while still crunching numbers at Dunder Mifflin. In the yet-to-be-titled follow-up (potentially to be called The Paper), the film crew that followed the paper company’s employees turn their camera lenses on the publisher and staff of a historic and struggling Midwestern newspaper.
The new series will also star writers Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Mo Welch and Eric Rahill; and Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina), Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus), Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Ramona Young and Tim Key. Duane Shepard Sr., Allan Havey, Nate Jackson, Nancy Lenehan, Molly Ephraim and Tracy Letts will have guest roles. (News of Gregg, Frei and Young’s additions broke via the Pacific Palisades’ community paper, Palisadian-Post, which revealed that the actors were shadowing staff members.)
Polly Pocket has previously released other collector edition play sets inspired by TV shows and films, including Friends, Stranger Things, Harry Potter and The Addams Family.
While The Office fans await its characters’ return to the small screen, relive past episodes of the U.S. series and shop the Polly Pocket set below at Amazon, Target and Mattel.
Polly Pocket x The Office Compact Play Set
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