Well. I am so sorry to be the one galah in a flock of parading peacocks, but I think the little prize was tres cool.
Tattoos last a day or so, the little plastic toys might survive a few hours (if all the parts are there), but a gem like "When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens’ will be with your kid until the day he dies.
He’ll impress the chicks with it when he is 18, and then he’ll regale his kids with it when he is 35. And they’ll tell their kids, who will then come to grandpa for confirmation, and he’ll be able to do so…'cos it came from HIM in the first place.
I reckon it’s grouse.
But maybe I’m just weird about the value of ‘things’.
The sad thing is that even Kinder has gone downhill in the last 10 years. I once got a helicopter out of a Kinder toy. It took about 30 minutes to construct - the rotor blades were coiled really tight, and it had one of those ratchet pull-cords to make it fly.
Kinder Eggs = little chocolate eggs with a toy in it, usually something you put together, assuming you don’t lose vital bits in the rush to eat the chocolate.
I got contact lenses in a Kinder Egg once, but I suppose it is possible that that was b/f’s doing, rather than a present from Ferrero or whoever makes them.
I should point out that the huge kinder eggs have much better self-construct toys in them, though many are bizarre. A few years ago I got a machine with gears to wind, that made: 1. a duck rotate on a pond; 2. A dragon flap its wings, and 3. a racist stereotype Chinese man come out of his house and bow. Another year I got a game where you had to flick monkeys at a palm tree to make them stick.
Last year I got a fucking smurf house.
(Larry, that Alien Kinder Egg thing is superbly funny!)
Since most of the production of toys and novelty items are done in low-wage Asian countries, shouldn’t the prizes now be corresponding worth much more?
I mean, 30 years ago you’d get decoder rings and little booklets, made using “expensive” American labor. :dubious: Now, with labor costs a tenth or less, you should be getting real exciting and complicated items like scale model Porsches and functioning model rockets.
Hell, even an American can print “Stomach linings redden” at a price companies can afford.
