Attack Of The Capsules! - Part 1

**Attack Of The Capsules! - Part 1** is the eighteenth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the fifty-second episode overall. It is the first half of a two-part episode.

## Summary

A candy-toy craze sweeps across Puffy Town when NLE sells a line of 3 Rainbow Fighters disguised as chocolate.

## Characters

### Primary

* Milly
* Madeline
* Parker
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico
* Gamba
* Gamba's father (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba's mother (*no dialogue*)
* Gene
* Hover
* Lady Chanter
* Leeko
* Manny
* Martial Arts Team (*debut; toy figures*)
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Narrator
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Slammer (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop
* Whitehead
* Various Star Warriors (*toy figures*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins in a field outside of Puffy Town in the dead of night. Madeline and Parker are quietly moving boxes to toss into a rubbish heap out in the field. As they do this, however, they are caught by Milly who scolds them for littering in a no-dump zone. Madeline and Parker admit that they were throwing away merchandise that was not selling at their stores away from town, hoping that nobody would notice. Milly insists that instead of doing this, they try new creative ways to sell these products. She picks up two in particular from the heap - chocolate capsules and mini action figures - and suggests they combine the products into one. Madeline and Parker become excited about the idea, to the point where they forget about Milly's plea to not litter the countryside if it does not pan out. The next day, Madeline and Parker promote the new combined product to the kids in Puffy Town. Manny tries it out, and soon becomes eager to buy one in hopes of collecting the figures inside which resemble Star Warriors. As the other kids join in, they give the leftover chocolate to Leeko as the shopkeepers celebrate their success.

The kids soon becomes so enamored with these new treats that they try to pressure their parents into letting them buy more, though it becomes clear they're not in it for the candy, but the potential toy inside, leaving Leeko to gobble up more and more discarded chocolate. As the kids fight over the rare ones, some of the adults watching the fad get involved and soon find themselves stuck in the craze as well, though they are too embarrassed to publicly admit this. Included is Tommy, who brings some of the figure capsules back to Castle Leonardo only to have his collection discovered by King Leonardo. Leonardo decides to jump into the fad as well and heads to Stop To Shop to get his own figurine, but the kids mock his naivete after he shows off a common trooper. Enraged at this, King Leonardo decides to buy all of the capsules left in the store under threat of armed force. King Leonardo then jealously opens up all the capsules outside of the store and forces the kids to watch while the Viruses guard him. However, Madeline and Parker did not sell him all of their figurines after all and brag about their business practices, but are soon berated by Milly for their shady ethics. Despite this, they continue selling the capsules.

To increase the fervor of the figure craze, Madeline and Parker released a new line of figures to find, including one of Moonlight Man. Milly complains to the real swordsman about this exploitation of his image, but Moonlight Man simply laughs it off. Meanwhile, after failing to find a Moonlight Man figurine of his own, King Leonardo decides to head to Gamba's house at night to steal his. However, the king is caught immediately by Chief Gordy and thrown in jail. From here, Chief Gordy apprehends the Moonlight Man figurine from Gamba, claiming it to be an important piece of evidence, and King Leonardo calls him out for this. After returning to the castle, King Leonardo decides he has had enough with the figurine craze, and from there plans to settle the score with Puffy Town. He dials up Nebula Enterprises and asks them to send him some mini figures of their own, then sends them to Stop To Shop for them to sell, not knowing the figures inside are monsters.

The next day, the new figures go on sale at Stop To Shop, and Milly joins in the crowd to see what the craze is all about. As she is teased by Manny over her intentions, Milly starts to realize that she too is starting to get hooked by the concept, and becomes visibly embarrassed when she checks the figure she bought. At this moment, King Leonardo and Tommy brag about the figures and nearly give away their secret, which leads Milly to become suspicious of their motives. She asks Madeline and Parker where they got the new figurines, and they tell her the new toys fell from the sky. Milly berates them for selling toys from an unknown source, but they rebut by saying she would have been angry at them for dumping them like before. Milly then runs into the front end of the store and pleads with the Puffies to get rid of the toys, but they do not listen to her.

That night, a special Channel Lion Out Loud news section airs where King Leonardo and Tommy explain that if the figures sold that day are left in the moonlight, they will grow super-sized, which leads Hover and the people of Puffy Town to leave their figures on their window sills overnight. As they sleep, the figures start to grow and come to life, then proceed to attack the Usapians all at once. As Leeko and Hover are roundly beaten up by the figures, a narrator chimes in to remind the audience to tune in for the next episode where the story will be concluded - Attack Of The Capsules! - Part 2.

## Cameo appearances

Several guest characters from the show appear in this episode in the form of figurines that can be found in the chocolate capsules. The following are these characters:

* Sand Man - The Lost Warrior
* Minesweeper's father - flashbacks in That’s Minesweeper!
* Halcyon Man, Glimmer Man, Azure Man, and Willow Man - later appearing in The Big Combat and Fight To The End
* Swift Man - Ninja Party

## Trivia

* This is the fifteenth episode in *The Beginning* trilogy to not feature a Copy Ability.
* This is the fourth two-part episode of the series and the last two-part episode in Season 2.
* The later Martial Arts Team mini toy figure series includes the following:
	+ **Grunt Fu** (the green dragon-like creature with the nunchucks)
	+ **Boxer Brawly** (the yellow tiger wearing boxing gloves)
	+ **Double Slap** (the rooster in a karate gi)
	+ **Dashington** (the sheep dog in a kimono)
	+ **Slam Bounce** (the rhino-like creature dressed as a sumo wrestler).
	+ Some concept arts show there was going to be a female monkey among the Martial Arts Team that masters taekwondo, but she was cut out for unknown reasons.
* This may have been the only time that King Leonardo has been jailed by Chief Gordy for a crime he attempted to commit despite all the questionable activities Leonardo got to publicly in previous episodes up to this point.