Tiny Tins

Tiny Tins is a brand owned by Australian company Track Stars Collectables (aka Tiny Tins Collectables). Each Tiny Tins product is a small toy—a race car, a plastic animal (a dinosaur, pony, dog etc.), a figure of a well-known fairy-tale/fable character, a plush toy, or a holiday-themed toy—that comes with its own pocket-sized tin carrying case.

In the early 2000s, Hasbro held the license for releasing Transformers, My Little Pony, and plush Disney toys with Tiny Tins cases. For Transformers, these were either Spy Changers or Mini-Cons. Most retain their original decos; the Cybertron-series Tiny Tins figures were the only ones to be redecoed.

Tiny Tin Transformers toys

Robots in Disguise (2001)

• Crosswise
• Hot Shot
• Ironhide
• Mirage
• Prowl 2
• R.E.V.
• Side Swipe
• W.A.R.S.

Universe (2003)

• Dirt Boss
• Downshift
• Mirage

Cybertron

These Tiny Tins bonus packs were available as Wal-Mart exclusives.

• Dirt Boss with Downshift
• Hot Shot with Mirage
• Landmine with Dirt Boss
• Override with Mirage
• Red Alert with Dirt Boss
• Thundercracker with Downshift

Notes

• The 2003 Tiny Tins releases of the Mini-Cons Dirt Boss, Downshift and Mudflap were available in two variants each: While all of them came on Universe-branded cards, they were alternatively available with Armada-styled and -branded Tiny Tins, or with Universe-styled and -branded Tiny Tins.
• Additionally, over the years, even more bizarre variations of those Mini-Cons have popped up, including versions on Armada-branded cards, or even Robots in Disguise-branded versions, and it appears there might have even been Tiny Tins versions of Armada-Mini-Cons Spiral, Oval and Backtrack! However, these latter appear to be extremely rare, and information about them is almost impossbly to come by, so unlike the Armada versus Universe-branded Tiny Tins variants mentioned above, we cannot tell for sure if they ever actually made it to retail.