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

[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.