WThe third of these to appear, these are brilliant little homages to one of the best set animated characters ever put on film. Kevin is the third of the main trio, the others being Bob and Stuart, so we don’t know where it goes from here, but we hope it continues.

Like Star Wars and Harry Potter, the New Zealand Mint has a ‘Classic’ series for Lord of the Rings, although it does veer into coloured territory on the silver issues. Aragorn is a popular character and the depiction is decent, if uninspired. The gold is better. This mint has an excellent habit of cropping the image from the 40mm silver coin so that it retains better detail on the smaller 22mm gold variant. In this case, they’ve gone even further with a whole new image. Nice idea.

Another version of the Perth Mint’s James Bond 007 bullion coin, it follows one with a gold logo, but this time it’s more of a black edition, employing colour print instead. Limited to 30,000 pieces, MDM also have a version of this mounted to a small blistercard that is branded with the name of the new movie ‘No Time To Die’, although the coin is the same,

The New Zealand Mint’s Harry Potter Movie Poster coin series enters the final straight with the first of a duo for the last movie in the series. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was divided into two parts, so there will be two posters. Fans will love it, non-fans won’t. The whole movie poster coin thing is actually something we like here. They encapsulate a movie and the time it was issued really well, and is a valid art form in its own right.

Haven’t we seen this before? The mint has issued Darth Vader helmet coins before (although at two-ounces in weight) and also in Chibi form, so we’re surprised to see an amalgamation of the two. This new series debut takes the weight and style of the Chibi series, and combines it with the basic design ethos of the Masks range. Both of those have sold out and become increasingly unaffordable on the secondary market, so we can see why, but with a franchise as deep an varied as Star Wars, you’d think there’d be other things to focus on.

It looks neat, will be really nicely presented, and does give those that missed out on previous issues another chance, especially with the 10,000 mintage. The first in a series, we hope following coins are a bit more original.

Another in the series of almost fully coloured scene from the Disney animated movie classic, Alice in Wonderland, this time it’s her meeting with the quirky White Rabbit. Fans of the Disney Classics will love it and these are beautifully coloured and struck, with superb presentation. The second solo release, although there was a four-coin set launched back in 2018.

The Jurassic Park franchise seems to be quite popular at the moment, with both bullion and numismatic issues, but these shaped coins are particularly neat. The Tyrannosaurus Rex coin was the first and a good effort, but this Raptor coin is even better. It’s also antiqued, as before, but enhanced in this case with a tinge of colour.

Packaging is very neat in concept, although far too gaudy for my taste. Keep the loud colours for the box and make something a bit more natural and subtle for the frame, woul be my recommenation. Shaped coins are more popular than ever and these are good examples of the type with masses of appeal for fans of the ino movies.

Another big franchise hits the shapedd coin market, with the launch of Shrek. A coloured one-ounce coin, it seems to be a natural fit for the format and we’d not be surprised to see more in this series. A well realised piece for a much loved movie franchise.