Not quite as I remembered them from Childhood (Kinder Surprise)

Member Name: colinllama

Product:	Kinder Surprise
Date:	23/03/08 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: Candy, and a toy, in one pack, for pennies....

Disadvantages: Not alot of candy, toy little better than found in Christmas Crackers.

I have fond childhood memories of Kinder Surprise eggs. Seeing them on special offer in my local store for £1 for 3, I thought I'd buy a few for Easter and hide them in my flat as a mini Easter egg hunt for my girlfriend.

Well, the "hunt" went well, and we had a good Easter morning. Then after breakfast we decided it was Easter egg time!

Outwardly the Kinder eggs look exactly as I remember them as a kid. Unlike Cadbury's Cream Eggs which now look tiny, Kinder Surprise eggs don't look to have got any smaller. The packaging is the same, still the orange and white wrapping that I remember.

The dissapointments started when we unwrapped and broke into the egg itself. I am SURE when I was a kid that there were two distinct "eggs", a brown chocolate egg, with a white chocolate egg inside it. Not now, now there is a very thin chocolate egg with a white chocolate layer almost painted on the insde of it, it is that thin! The Chocolate does taste good though, and has that "creamyness" that Kinder chocolate always has.

When I has these as a child, I used to actually enjoy playing with the yellow plastic "yoke" containing the toy. It would pop togther and apart, and you could shoot half of it a fair distance if you squeezed it right. This is not now possible due to a redesign of the "yoke" part of the package.

Now the toy itself is generally some bizarre plastic rubbish that, if you ever actually manage to assemble (the instructions generally make no sense), you won't know what to do with. Occasionally you do get something a little better, like a mini figurine or in the case of this morning - a small mirror. When you consider the eggs were 3 for a pound, and take into account the cost of the chocolate and the packaging, its probably unfair to expect much in the way of a "toy", so I shouldn't be too critical.

Personally I think they should make a "premium" version of Kinder Eggs, maybe sell them for £1 or even £1.50 each, make the chocolate a little thicker and spend a little extra on the "toy" component. I bet they would sell.

Summary: Still a good concept, but suffers from being too cheap I think.