Seeking Kinder Egg capsules

[bunsen_h]

I'm looking for a few Kinder Egg capsules for a craft project -- specifically, small plush squid that are "shaker toys".  Can any of you local folks help?  The former colleague and Kinder Egg fanatic who I thought could help me has told me that he has none left.  Yes, I could just go buy some of the eggs, but I don't have any interest in the candy or the toys.

(I gave my prototype shaker squid to Heather Dale after her concert at Worldcon.)

Comments

[kattale.livejournal.com]

My! To Heather Dale - she is certainly a worthy cause. :)

I have two unopened Kinder Eggs here at home, and I am sure there would be no complaints if I asked my kids to deal with the Candy and Toy portions. :)

When do you need them for?

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

During her performance of "Fisherman's Boy" -- "Throwing them back to the ocean / Back to the living once more" -- I was slightly tempted to toss one of the little squid to the stage from the audience. But I decided that that would be cruel to the performers.

(Hmm. With regard to my big squid... "He had a hat..!")

There isn't any particular rush for the capsules, though I'm naggingly curious as to how well they'll work for the shaker toys. For my prototype, I used a medium-sized, slightly-narrow pill bottle -- I had to make the squid a bit bigger than usual, and the shape of the bottle, and the edge of the cap, were still more obvious than I liked.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

To Heather Dale - she is certainly a worthy cause.

Definitely agreed!

[suelet.livejournal.com]

How many do you need?

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I can probably use half a dozen or so to start with. Possibly more later, if I find there's some demand for the shaker toys. I wouldn't mind picking up a bit of money for doing such things, if people are interested. As it is, I'd be happy to sell one or both of the big plush squid, and/or to make more on commission.

[suelet.livejournal.com]

I might be interested in getting one for a friend at some point.
But I'll keep you in mind when the kinder eggs start going around!

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

near Easter, the plastic eggs show up in craft stores and dollar stores as fill-them-yourself.

For a good shaker, you need quite a hard plastic.

(How about the fizzy vitamin C tablets that come in a metal tube?)

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

If you mean the eggs that are about the size of large hen's eggs, those are much larger than I can use. The Kinder Egg capsules are about 2" long x 1" diameter cylinders with rounded ends, just about exactly right to fit my miniature plush squids.

The glass beads I used for my prototype made a reasonable amount of noise against each other, without having to bounce off a hard wall. The pill bottle I used in the prototype was of a moderately hard plastic -- HDPE, I think -- and was probably only a bit more rigid than the Kinder Egg capsules are.

I'd have to go looking for the vitamin C tablets to know exactly what you mean, but I suspect that the tube is probably not a good shape, and that I'd be paying a fairly stiff price for a package whose contents I'm not interested in.

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

Ah - yes the cylinders I was referring to are about 4x the size you want.

I'll have to think if I've seen anything about that size.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Shaker eggs: is this a "kinder" fate for them than the usual one? :-)