To be effective, an assassin must be invisible as well as deadly, hiding behind the most innocent disguise. A bowl of beef ramen metamorphoses into a fearsome ninja; an apparently harmless can of tea becomes a sword-wielding samurai of death. With Lunchbots, each meal may be your last!

They're cheap plastic, and they're fun! Above quote is from the box. They come with little swords, though there's no place to put them when they're in their hidden forms; I'd think a sword lying in front of a ramen bowl would be rather suspicious. Nevertheless, the swords are essential for popping the heads out.

The link above goes to MiniDisco, an online MiniDisc store, in their "accessories" section, which makes it even more cute. (Nice cheap viral ploy to include cheap random toys with your minidiscs.) These toys are actually distributed by Seattle-based junk toy wholesaler Accoutrements-- which, of course, is nothing but the wholesale backend of Archie McPhee & Company. Lunchbots aren't in the McPhee online store, though I'm sure you could find a set at one of their stores.

(Should I take "Made in Taiwan exclusively for Accoutrements, Seattle, WA" to mean that this, like most McPhee items, is manufactured kitsch targetted entirely towards American audiences, made up to look like an import? It wouldn't surprise me, I was just wondering if that's what that means.)