Nanny State Border Patrol Stops You From Choking on Tokyo Mater
In Turkey (and in Germany and the rest of the world), you can get chocolate eggs with a CAR inside …
Either from Kinder or Zaini …
[Kinder Egg Photo from: Flickr/brandoncripps]
Seems pretty straightforward …
Eat the chocolate, do NOT eat the plastic toy inside …
Cute new line – photos from Altan.
Yes, do NOT eat the inedible plastic CAR (or other toy) …
Seems pretty simple but I guess it’s not …
“The eggs in question are Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs – banned in the U.S. because they contain a small toy that poses a choking hazard. Never mind that I grew up on these things back in Europe, and that the rest of the world has no problem selling them – our almighty government considers the eggs enough of a threat that they confiscated 25,000 of them in 2,000 border incidents last year.”
When Lind Bird tried to enter the U.S. from Canada, the Winnipeg woman came face to face with a customs official who discovered her illegal egg. The egg was seized, and Ms. Bird received a 7 page letter from the government asking for authorization to destroy it. Of course, she can also opt to pay $250 and contest the seizure.”
I’m surprised we didn’t tase her?
CRAZY CANADIANS – let’s STONE her! She turned my Ransburg Lightning McQueen into a Newt!
More cute photos from Altan …
Top Mater is the Mattel one but nice detailing on a CAR from inside a chocolate egg.
So, you’re safe from choking on a plastic toy inside an egg in the US – not so much on the 1,700 calorie milk shake but safe from eating Tokyo Mater.
Thanks Altan.
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13 January 2011
11 Comments
I hope someone puts up a full set so we can buy them LOL.
They could easily fit the current Haulers in these eggs. 😆
theres some from germany too. I did send in pics of them sometime back.
I wish they had them here! They look cute!
Mmmm…those Kinder chocolates are soooo good!!
Met, are you sure these came in Kinder surprise eggs? I have never seen any Kinder suprise eggs with Cars in them (my son eats them now and then).
These may be from a special series of chocolate surprise eggs, not by Kinder I suppose. The difference? Price tag. Kinder eggs are about 60 cents each, while others may be as much as $2-2,50.
Frank
(MET: Yea, I guess since we don’t see them frequently here in the US, I just naturally associate them as Kinder … ).
According to this site.. yes there is… http://users.telenet.be/kindersurprise/vaste_figuurtjes%2007.htm
The loose Cars Toons are from the surprise eggs produced by Zaini, not Kinder. The Zaini eggs are just released (!) and price varies between $1.80 (in a small food store) and $2.50 (in a giant shopping center) in Turkey.
Probably Met did not upload the Zaini eggs photographs. So, there may be a confusion; the Mint On Aluminum eggs on top of the page are by Kinder, loose Cars Toons on the middle are by Zaini.
The photo shows the completed line of Zaini’s Cars Toons so far, 10 different where I framed two modifier pitties to regenerate the short movie sequence.
Zaini also has Toy Story 3 (11 different figures) and Princess (xx diff figs) lines of surprise eggs.
so in other words… the weapon of mass destruction was in fact desassembled to over 25,000 parts then enter in US to be reassembled ??? I am so happy the threat is now over! Good job national security! 😉
Very nice… thanks for sharing, Altan.
I am all choked up eh…
Gonna make a mint on eBay with these!!! Yeah right! Are you even allowed to sell food products on the bigbay!???!