Kinder Eggs toys as good as they used to be?

[phil]

Kinder Eggs have gone right downhill. You used to get a fully functioning minature jet aircraft powered by a miniature elastic band requiring assembly from 74 small bits of plastic and 5 stickers for decoration.

Now you get a random figurine which does nothing and requires no assembly. I just brought a kinder egg and, having enjoyed the milky chocolatey goodness, opened the egg expecting the usual random rubbish.

This time they have outdone themselves though. It was an albino mole with a purple cape remote controlling a small gnome digging in excrement with an antenna sticking out of its head. I'm pretty sure the designers at Ferrero are on some hard drugs

[maxrealism]

<retro>personally I used to prefer those little cars that were friction driven and you had a big silver wheel that span round in the chassis as it went along </retro>

[TelexStar]

Years ago I once got a race car that transformed into a jet. Very basic mind, but still, IT TRANSFORMED INTO A JET!

Now all you get is some cute (read: not cute) plastic model that's part of a huge series.

Bring back the old toys i say.

[Steadders]

here here!

[SilentMike]

have you seen the large kinder easter eggs you can get?

they have a cool large toy inside :)

[Valane]

Train, i remember the trains!
*searches for kinder egg collections*

[Tsung]

I had a sweet deal a few years ago @ Work. There was this nice (well I thought so) girl working on our Helpdesk, she loved collecting the kinder egg toys, but actually didnt like the chocolate. What a result, unlimited* free kinder egg chocolate without the tacky toys, mmmmmm :p: Yes kinder egg toys have got seriously downhill in the past few years. However, do the little yellow egg casings still make excellent water bombs?.. They use to ;)

*unlimited to when she bought a kinder egg, which was once a week normally

[Killy]

actually having got one fairly recently (i was bored and wanted the toy :p: ) i did get a rabbit in a helicopter which i had to assemble which jiggled if you ran it accross the floor... it met a fair death involving a forklift and a gleeful driver... bastard...

[oxy]

i think theve got worse .. you cant choke small children on them now...

[RocketKnight]

I wonder if that did ever happen? Has anyone ever died or been hospitalised by Kinder Eggs?

[RocketKnight]

Seems there is much debate over the safety of placing choking hazards into chocolate eggs.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020703/debtext/20703-09.htm

I also liked a site I found where the writer said Kinder is a German phrase meaning "imminent death". :p:

[Strych]

I agree, Kinder Suprise have gone downhill drastically in the last, say, decade. However, there is a solution to having to paying extra for an overpriced crap toy:

http://www.gachapin.org/foods/m_r_998_15.jpg

All the duo-chocolate goodness, none of the bitter disappointment!

[TE-Hellfire]

Originally posted by Strych
All the duo-chocolate goodness, none of the bitter disappointment!

And as an added bonus, you get a psuedo Hitler-Youth smiling at you on the box.

"Mein Fuhrer, das chocolate ist uber!"

[Elbonio]

if you dont have to assemble it, the chocolate tastes worse

[Guigsy]

"Bill baily likes the eggs of mind numbing numming inevitability"

(appologies) for spelling

[Cheez]

Originally posted by RocketKnight
I wonder if that did ever happen? Has anyone ever died or been hospitalised by Kinder Eggs? I've seen one give someone a nasty cut before, does that count?

True it WAS because we filled one half of the plastic bit with bicarb and the other with vinager then stuck them together. One of the halves hit my mate, giving him a nasty cut.

[RocketKnight]

Heh, I read another report where this guy's daughter had asked him to open the egg because she couldn't do it. His technique is to bite the egg in half, and on this occasion one half of the deadly plastic shell shot down his throat and he had to choke it back up.

See, they're not dangerous to the kids, the parents are the ones at risk!

By the way, I do agree. I remember when I was a kid they used to have toys with instructions. Last time I got one as an easter gift, it was a simple figure. It didn't even have any moving parts! It was a purple hippo I think?

[Nivek]

as a strange bit of randoms ness for you, there was a MP who put forward a private members bill to ban kinder eggs due to the health hazard.

i will try and find the summary of it

just a note, the bill failed

[maxrealism]

Originally posted by RocketKnight
I also liked a site I found where the writer said Kinder is a German phrase meaning "imminent death". :p:

Kinder means children

imminent death would be: "unmittelbar drohender Tod" (according to google)

but I'm sure Bvark knows best.

[JeRkY]

i think that was meant as a joke on the site :rolleyes:

[Mamacita]

Originally posted by RocketKnight
Heh, I read another report where this guy's daughter had asked him to open the egg because she couldn't do it. His technique is to bite the egg in half, and on this occasion one half of the deadly plastic shell shot down his throat and he had to choke it back up.

OMG. I really thought I was the only one to do this, ever! 'All the other girls had nails...' hrmmm so did some of the lads come to think of it. uh.

[SprayCan]

Originally posted by TE-Hellfire
And as an added bonus, you get a psuedo Hitler-Youth smiling at you on the box.

"Mein Fuhrer, das chocolate ist uber!"

LMFAO!

Thanks Hellfire, I havn't had a good belly laugh for a long time :D

[RocketKnight]

Originally posted by maxrealism
Kinder means children
<whisper>
The smiley pulling tongues indicates it was a joke.
</whisper>

[Steadders]

kinda hippos, anyone tried them? i think there great - they've been around a long time but only recently advertised a lot.

although, i think ive only bought them once or twice, because as nice are they are, there not as filling as say... a mars bar or snickers

[Optimus]

well, they are like, quarter the size...

[SprayCan]

Indeed, I don't think theyre especially good value.

Kinder Bueno > all.

[Elbonio]

Originally posted by SprayCan

Kinder Bueno > all.


yes but they do melt very easily

[no friends]

I got one in france, it lit up and everything, you press a button and the aliens head lit with an LED!... Much better that over here

[Er00]

yea, French ones seem to be the samekinda standard as the ones they used to sell over here, whereas ours have gone downhil drastically :( ah well, that's life I guess.

ps. I love both hippos and buenos ^^

[Steadders]

To settle the argument i decided to buy a kinder egg today.

I got it home, ate the chocolate, and opened the inside. It looked hopeful at first, but when i took out the parts it apeared to be a small pink gnome riding a giant rabbit. Never the less i built the rabbit, but no matter how hard i tried i couldnt get it to do whatever the instructions were telling me to do....

Bunny (http://www.urbanhousework.com/crap/kinder.zip)

[maxrealism]

I liked the vid. Pity WMP makes such a hash off it (missing sound, missing end bit). When I thought to use DivX much joy ensued.