Okay first off, Wow if i knew you guys in vancouver were gonna riot over my comic, I would have made the joke even funnier spurring you into a self destructive force that would envelop all you douchebags. A douche bag rapture if you will. Anyways so Boston won the cup… and Vancouver riots… I think after this and the G20 summit here in Toronto last summer has officially taken away our title of the “Polite and nice” nation. I feel bad for the store owners and anybody who parked on Nelson. Silly silly Vancouver…
To the comic now!
You guys in the states do not know what your missing. Kinder eggs are like a mini birthday. It’s an awesome treat with a little toy inside. Sure the toy isn’t anything you’d cream over but when your 6 and you get a toy. damn… yeah. I’m Probably using rose tinted spectacles here but i loved getting them when I was growing up. I remember getting this Knight figure in one once and it was like the best thing to happen to me after Bots master
So I finally saw Super 8 and it was… okay… I thought the kids acted well and it definitely paid fair homage to E.T. , Close Encounters and The Goonies, which is to be expected when Spielberg is Producing. I thought the effects were really well done with special note to the train derail sequence. Though enough with the needless lens flare. Wide shot on a gas station that’s in the dead of the night? No need to have a big blue light bar across your composition. I’ll go into greater detail in the podcast but I have to make mention to yesterdays blog post about suspense in Alien films. this movie had it. I liked the fact that we were teased throughout the film about the alien. I won’t spoil it but there’s some cool scenes with that. All in all I’d rent it on bluray if you can. I saw it in Imax and i don’t think that added to it.
I feel like this is getting to be shtick and I apologize if this sounds like old hat. But yeah, don’t be afraid to leave a comment or vote on by clicking the TWC link on the side. Any little promotion helps and thanks to everybody who has been “liking” the strips on Facebook, the word of mouth promotion is always the best and I appreciate it! Also I posted some new works to deviantart so you can check em out there. Thanks
Till tomorrow…
I fell in love with the Kinder Surprise when my family lived in Switzerland when I was a 3rd grade. Although the first time I bit into one, I didn’t realize there were things inside and cut my mouth on the plastic. So now you know why they’re illegal, because of dumbasses like me.
well, I won’t hold it against you. You have seemed to have learned your lesson and thus redeemed yourself. if you continually cut your mouth well then, we’ll have to talk about that.
The kids in super 8 were awesome!! But omg yes, J. J. Abrams has a thing for lens flares, apparently, and that needs to go… so unnecessary!
There are points where it’s warranted and even aesthetically pleasing. like some shots in Star Trek, but there it was just in the wrong places in this movie.
Kinder eggs are amazing! My dad used to bring them back to the states when he went on business trips, so I got them fairly often as a kid but I haven’t had one in years. And you’re right, that law is ridiculous…
Indeed. I really wanna find that knight… again… the toys today don’t seem to be as creative, again could be rose tinted spectacles.
We got Kinder Eggs when we lived in Germany, and when we were visiting the UK a couple years ago, they had them, so we bought a whole case and brought them home in our suitcase. I’m surprised they didn’t get crushed.
We used to have something similar in the states. There was (is?) a chocolate called the Wonder Ball, and they used to come with toys inside. They were often Disney toys, which was awesome, but the chocolate wasn’t as good…. Since they passed that law, you now get candy inside of your Wonder Ball (if they still make them). That disgusting, mostly flavour-less hard candy that feels more like Rolaids when you eat it. :S
Yeah. I watched the riot on TV! And to think I used to live there!
I just discovered your comics and I think they are witty and hilarious! Keep up the awesome possum work!
I fondly remember kinder suprises, the toys (though rather lame) were fantastic distractions, especially the type that you had to assemble from terribly vauge instructions (for a 6 year old). Plus the chocolate, my god the chocolate, when i was young my two favourite things were toys and sugar and this was both wrapped together in an egg shaped vessel of awesome. Ah, the nostalgia.
Actually we can get them here in the states, I’ve found them in my a few Hispanic food marts in my area, but they always seem to be out…
just finished reading through your comics. Good stuff, man. Subscribing to it, looking forward to more awesomeness.
Thanks for Checking out the whole archive! and glad you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoy making it.
Her ein the UK Kinder eggs are everywhere. I used to have a hundred+ Kinder toys on my Office window ledge, but was asked to remove them. The best one me and my kids found was a self assembly dog, when you pushed him around his nosed wrinkled.. cool. A couple or years ago they gave away a cd with Kinder games for PC on it and then they gave codes in the eggs so you can play games online. Would it be illegal to ship them to the states, thru e-bay say?
I didn’t get the hockey comic ? different culture…
When I used to live in Hungary, I was addicted to Kinder Eggs. When we moved to the United States, I tried so hard to find one- not one. They’re illegal? What. Is. Wrong. With. Our. Government. I want me mah Kinder Eggs. :<
I feel, as an American, that when Kinder eggs are illegal, yet we are able to buy cakes with babies baked inside of them, we have a skewed set of priorities. I apologize.
http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/05/21/funny-celebrity-pictures-never-buying-kinder-surprise/
getting your very own popstar even if it is lady gaga? i think that could be useful.
The most fun weird law in the states I know of is that it’s illegal to drive across the state line in Arizona with a live duck on your head.
Hey Andrew… I think I found your knight:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kinder-Egg-Toy-Knight-Gold-Armour-/220798279516?pt=UK_Toys_Games_Fastfood_Cereal_Sweets_Toys_LE&hash=item33689a5f5c
That was totally him! AWESOME!
they are illegal in the states? I’m from mexico and you see them effing everywhere, they are also considered children only candy to the point that you cant eat them after a certain age or people give you weird looks
I wonder if they still make Kinder Sorpresas. My aunt used to buy me those. *sigh* nostalgia
loool. this is an awesome idea! 😀
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Thanks for letting me know. I’ll look into getting it sorted out. I’m not sure what the issue is right now but I appreciate your patience.
Since when the hell are they illegal here? I live in the US and I buy them all the time.
you must be in a state that allows them. A lot of states don’t. congrats it means you’re in a state that doesn’t need to enforce common sense!
When I lived in Hungary for a while I used to get kinder eggs all the time. I thought they were awesome, but unfortunately now I can’t get them anywhere here in the US.
I’d support the bootlegging…just sayin’…
I’d never heard of kinder eggs until my sister got stationed in Germany. She’s sent a couple boxes over (which is technically illegal for her to do, I think), and they’re pretty freaking awesome.
We used to have Wonderballs, which were chocolate balls with candy shapes inside. Those went away because Nestle was afraid of that law about inedible things inside food. They sucked ass and no one was sorry to see them go, but still. The principle.
It’s a shame. I can understand the “oh hey there’s something not quite candy like in my candy. maybe I’ll lick it or try to bite it once as a test.” it’s the fact that they’ve banned them out right in most states that gets me…
I use to love those 😀 till you know they became banned and stuff, though most laws here are ridiculous and laughable so you get use to it xD
lol… that is an awesome idea! 🙁
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my aunt works for a swiss company, and she goes over there a couple of times every year. When she comes back, she always brings Kinder Eggs, and my cousins all flip shit over them.
I never knew why they didn’t sell them here, thanks for enlightening me. also, 79% of all the laws in the US are ridiculous and stupid.
i’ve just discovered this comic and i love it. I didn’t know america banned kinder eggs. As an Aussie i grew up with them, collecting the toys. At my university college (uni dorms) we used kinder eggs as a way to bribe the older students.
Wow, that is one of the worst (enforced) laws I’ve ever heard.
Next time I go shopping I’m going to buy a whole bunch of Kinder Surprises to honour the sacrifices of those poor US children.
Apparently if you get caught “smuggling” Kinder eggs into the country you get slapped with a huge fine. My (English Kinder-loving) boyfriend and I brought a bunch of Kinder eggs back with us from Montreal when we visited. We didn’t know it was illegal in the US, or to bring them back. Lucky customs didn’t see them? >_>
Wow, I remember those Disney chocolate eggs that had a toy in them. I bought that like… gosh, eighteen years ago it feels like.
Hmm… I have to wonder if my state threw such a fit. Generally my state leaves to common sense, but it’s illegal to enter my state with a duck on your head. I am VERY tempted to test if this is enforceable or worth enforcing. The duck thing, not the Chocolate Eggs of Doom.
Wow, how is it legal to sell them in NJ then? They aren’t in the big stores, but some of the ethnic type places carry them.
Oh that sucks, I love kinder surprises and Im almost 20 now, although here the toys kind of suck they are like dumb rabbits that dont do anything, we used to get animals that you used to get to put together and they move and stuff
Except that the toys have sucked since the turn of the century..
And yes, I did just comment on two comics in a row.
I’m cool like that.
I grew up with Kinder eggs and suddenly finding out the fda outlawed them really pissed me off.. at the same time made me really sad too. Have to agree the toys aren’t as amazing as they used to be.. god I still have alot of the ones from when I was little lol.. ahh good times.
Meanwhile I like your idea of smuggling kinder eggs =3
I used to get kinder eggs all the time as a kid in fact my dad has a shelf with hollow posts and those are filled with the toys.
As an american I never got to experience the joy that is kinder eggs, soon as I am pregnant with my boyfriend’s child will get to move up to Maine with him. I am thinking of doing some border hopping to get some for my child when it grows up so ti can experience the joy that is kinder eggs. ;3;
Woah, is this a recent law? I’ve totally gotten Kinder Eggs in the US, and at a pretty reputable/popular place in my state. Though I haven’t been there in at least a year.
Wow so that’s what they were called. I haven’t had them since I was like 7 or 8 when me and my family were living in Saudi Arabia for about half a year. Now I wish they had them in the US 🙁
People are stupid saying that their kids are usually brain dead, no offense to individuals who think before they put thing in their mouthouse but my cousin has 2 little boys and I am surprised they haven’t gone into a windowless van yet and no I’ve never tried the candy but it won’t kill me and I can live without it. If they do introduce the candy all they would have to do is slap a do not feed to small children label and bam were in the clear
That law (if it exists) is stupid. I buy fortune cookies all the time. Am I supposed to eat the fortune?
Here in Aus, the used to have these little things called “Bunyips” in them, which is basically what you get if you make a tiny Firby out of see-through plastic, but give it a monkey’s face and a name from Aboriginal folklore. Was that everna thing in Canada or Britain, or was it just a STANZA (Strange Thing from Australia, New Zealand and Australasia)?
If anyone from Canada could give me the hook up that would be bad ass.
When I was living in the US my dad had a box of like 50 Kinder Surprise Eggs illegally shipped to our house directly from Germany. It was delicious, joyous contraband.