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In Minish Cap, you can get figurines from Carlov in Hyrule Town. This page explains how to do it.

How to Get Figurines

After you obtain the Cane of Pacci in the Cave of Flames, you can flip over the large pot in the café in Hyrule Town and use it as a shrinking portal. Exit the building through the small archway and go west, across a piece of wood over the water, then go through the archway in the wooden cabin to find a shrinking portal where you can grow. Exit the cabin and go south, and enter the tree to find Carlov.

Talk to Carlov and he asks you to trade Mysterious Shells for a chance to win figurines. If your probability isn't 100%, you can offer more Mysterious Shells for a higher chance of getting a new one. NOTE: When choosing the number of shells to give, you can hold the R button to increase the number of shells by 10 each time you press up on the directional pad.

As you get more figurines, your probability of getting a new one will get lower and lower. Stockwell's shop sells 30 Mysterious Shells for 200 rupees, and if you're desperate, you can get infinite money after you get the Mole Mitts from the Fortress of Winds, but it is a slow process: dig with the Mole Mitts to the left of the door of Link's house, and you will always find a red rupee. Take it and go back into the house, and repeat the process until you have the amount of rupees that you need.

Carlov starts with 48 figurines available, and more get added as you progress through the story. Some figurines are only available after certain Kinstone fusions. See the list of figurines below for the requirements to unlock each figurine.

If you win all the figurines that are currently available, and if there are more figurines that you haven't unlocked yet, Carlov will fall over and say there aren't any new ones right now. If you choose to trade anyway, you can only trade one shell at a time, and it will say that there is a 0% probability of getting a new one; this is not recommended, because there is a bug that can cause you to still get a "new" figurine, which is glitched and will prevent you from getting the Carlov Medal (see below).

The Carlov Medal

After you get 130 figurines (if you haven't beaten the game yet), you can talk to the person sitting outside of the café a couple of times and he will unlock the east door of his house, which is just north of where he is sitting and has a robot on the roof. Go through the east door to find a Piece of Heart, 600 rupees, and an old-style phonograph that lets you use the game's sound test. If you haven't won the game yet, the sound test will have 28 tracks.

After you beat the game, and save the game after the credits, your save file will have a triangle on it. In that save file, the phonograph in the robot house will now have 52 tracks. You should go to Carlov, who has made 6 more figurines for you to try to get. If you get them all, Carlov gives you the Carlov Medal. It replaces the Mysterious Shells in your inventory since you don't need Mysterious Shells anymore. Stockwell also stops selling Mysterious Shells once you have the Carlov Medal, and chests that would have contained Mysterious Shells will give you Rupees instead.

List of Figurines