Took an extra week or so off from the blarg after SDCC, but I'm back now. And what an egg to come back on! Dragonfly with a bowtie (autocorrect: "bowels") and a smug/bemused expression. Pretty charming!

Man! They really rocked the stickers on this one. What I really want to call your attention to, though, is the art on the insert sheet. Usually these present the toy as though it were a real creature or car or whatever in its native habitat, but here it's shown as an actual toy. An actual GIANT toy. You can see the little people milling around a life-sized plastic castle, with a gargantuan two-dimensional cutout of Aladdin and his girlfriend hovering above it. That must be really weird for the people that live there. Was it like a really poorly-thought-out public works project? "Yeah, we were gonna just do a statue of the town founder, but then Jerry came up with the idea of this giant sunlight-blocking plastic flying carpet, and we had this unbelievable amount of sticker paper lying around, so we just kind of ran with it..."

Here's another poppit-based thing. That's what those crinkly tubes are called, right? Poppits? I remember there was a construction toy based on them. I had a couple from Happy Meals. Anyway, this is a robot or an astronaut or possibly a robo-astronaut. He's oddly heavy-duty, the plastic seems denser than usual. I'd also like to point out that, once again, we have a far-future thing called '2000', when the year 2000 was at most 5 or 6 years away and it should have been fairly obvious to everyone that we would not have fully autonomous and apparently AI-equipped bipedal robots on the moon by then. You can even see a little silver moon city in the background of the picture. Guys, it's a decade later and we still don't even nearly have that. Come on.

Well, here's a strange thing. You move the gray bar up and down, and the horrifying bear-pig-faced-man does a handstand (and whatever the opposite of a headstand is.) Sooo... Okay? It is the first toy I've seen that incorporates the egg, though, and that's pretty cool at least.

Here's another rocket-powered sailboat. I would link to the other one, but the archive isn't very well optimized for that sort of thing (finding a particular post). I should just keep a list. Maybe that will happen. Anyway, catamaran. Is this a catamaran? I don't actually know what a catamaran is, but it's fun to say. And type. Catamaran. Catamaran.

More lenticular hippo stickers. I guess these ones are doing a sort of American Idol or possibly Dancing With the Stars kind of thing. I won't disparage them, now that I know they have a fan, but still. Stickers.

Dupe of #54. Why don't I get duplicates of the awesome ones? I got two of that cool hover-liner, but other than that everything I've gotten two of were things I didn't even want one of. I guess that's Murphy's Law as it applies to Kinder Eggs.

Oh huh, one of the weird caveman dioramas. Is "Rad-los" his name? I guess it must be, but that strikes me an an uncommonly strange name for a caveman. Even a caveman farmer. Even a caveman farmer who is kind of retarded and has decided that strapping his cart to a turtle will get him there faster than just carrying the hay himself. Which I guess is the intended joke. What's way funnier, though, it the look of paranoid terror on Rad-los's face. He thinks that tree is going to assassinate him.

Here's one of the rare eggs that's even older than the regularly-old eggs I have. You can probably tell by now what it does, just by looking: the wheel is a sort of irregular cam that makes the rider and horse's head go up and down as you push it forward.

Anyone else find it weird and a little unsettling when one animal is anthropomorphic and another is just a regular animal? I guess Disney's Goofy and Pluto are the canonical examples.

I got all excited for a moment, because I thought that was a little red dinosaur peeking at me out of the egg. "Hello!" Alas, it's more Street Life In Mainhattan, where animals do things that you would almost, but never actually, see on a city street.

You know what would make this series perfect? A dog, dressed as a homeless vagrant, taking a dump on the sidewalk, and another dog dressed as a cop, shouting at him to clean it up.