if Kinder Surprise Eggs contain "chocolate, a toy, and a surprise" - what's the surprise? its different for everyone
if Kinder Surprise Eggs contain "chocolate, a toy, and a surprise" - what's the surprise? its different for everyone
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
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my favourite one as a child was golden Leonardo from TMNT statue.
Looked like a tiny Emmy but was Leo instead of a gold dude.
Oh wow, I actually found a picture of it on Google.
The internet is a wonderful thing.
Bow down before our new furry overlords!
I have 2 small boxes full of various things from kinder eggs.
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"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
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I refuse to buy Kinder Eggs any more because of the ridiculous thing they have now with like "Blue egg with BOY TOYS" and "Pink egg with GIRL TOYS" in it. Of course, GIRL TOYS are all fashion dolls and princesses and stuff, and the BOY TOYS are cars and stuff becuase y'know. Boys arn't allowed to like fashion and girls aren't allowed to like cars.
Fucking horseshit
The point is they are designed as boys and girls ones. Why not just make them cars and fashion eggs without making them so clearly loaded with gender. Yes, boys are welcome to buy the pink ones, but why did they need to be pink in the first place? There is nothing fashion-y about the colour pink, and nothing car-y about the colour blue. They could have kept the original kinder colours, as there has been cars etc in kinder eggs before and they didn't feel the need to change the colour to blue for those?
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Why are cars or fashion gendered in the first place? They can still have cars and fashion in them, it's just daft to separate them into genders
they should just have black kinder eggs and white kinder eggs and the black eggs are filled with emo things and the white ones are filled with happy things
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
FC: 3437-3046-3552
Not really, the problem is that kids growing up are being told what they are allowed to enjoy. Blue / Pink are pretty commonly accepted symbols for male/female when it comes to children. As the lady from Let Toys be Toys says: "“It’s baffling really to suggest pink eggs containing dolls and blue eggs containing cars don’t do anything to promote gender stereotypes because they obviously do"
It alienates girls who like cars and boys who like fashion, and teaches them that if you are a boy who likes fashion or dolls or whatever, then that makes you a girl. It's not really okay.
And yes, I'm aware that there is nothing inherently male or female about blue and pink. Yes I am aware that centuries ago we dressed boys in pink because it was considered a masculine colour. That doesn't change the fact that in our current society, the symbolism is pink = female, blue = male. Whether or not that's okay is a different debate entirely.
In the end if they didn't want to make the toys gendered they could have used any other colours in existance. Green and yellow. Hell, even if they went with blue and green or something, the fact that it isn't blue/pink means it's not really gendering the toys. But they didn't. They used blue and pink. Specifically.
I can't understand why people care about whether the eggs are blue or pink and if there are cars inside blues and dolls in pinks. So what?!
If your boy likes dolls, buy him a pink one. If your girl likes cars, buy her a blue one.
These stereotypes don't hurt anyone and doesn't make anyone's life more miserable.
The biggest surprise I ever had was how they could charge so much for such crappy chocolate and a shitty toy.
I know I've been wondering about this slogan for a time when I was young. It was a little different in the German version from back then, it roughly translated into "something exciting, something to play with and chocolate", and at one point I settled that this is the order in which you'd want to "experience" your egg. First you're excited, shaking the egg, trying to guess what's inside by the noise it makes, then you'd open it and get something to play, and once the excitement for your new toy is gone you're going for the chocolate. Something like that. That got kinda lost in translation, and it's really not making that much sense in English.
Your rights as a consumer begin and end at the point where you choose not to consume, and not where you yourself influence the consumed goods.
Translation: if you don't like a game don't play it.
I didn't know how to eat them without getting tons of cracked chocolate on the floor/ wasting a lot so i just take a huge jawfull then spit out the plastic toy container after >.<
Also is it true americans don't have them? :P
They sort of do. They teach kids that if you are a girl and you like the toys in the blue egg, that makes you not a girl. It's kind of dishonest to suggest that these kinds of things don't affect kids when virtually everything in our society says blue = boy, pink = girl, and having your own toys suggest that you're not a girl because you don't like the girl things or vice versa for boys isn't really okay.
Like I say, if it was just about making two eggs with two different categories of toys and there wasn't a gendered reason behind it, they could have used ANY other two combinations of colours. They didn't.
Not seen this myself I'm certain the ones I got for my nieces the other day were the usual yellow capsules. That's kinda dumb though.
For the people jumping down Erin's throat, it's not the fact that they are "girl" toys, it's that they're packaged with gender stereotypes in mind ("girls like pink things"/"pink things are for girls"). You see the same shit in Lego; The usual Lego is in a blue box, with pictures of little boys all over it and the "girl Lego" is in a pink box and has parts that can only really make one thing (usually a hair salon, cupcake shop, or pet shop) with minifigurines that look nothing like Lego guys and every block is in pastel colours instead of the usual bold colours.
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