Disney Princess Sleeping Beauty

Kinder Category: Disney Princess
Toy Number:MPG FT140
Purchased: Edmonton, AB
Rating: 2 out of 5 Kinders

Yet another of the 'Girl' pink kinder surprise toys.  This is the second of seven of the Disney Princess toys I've gotten so far. The sad thing is that I actually had to google which princess this one.. turns out my boyfriend was right, it's sleeping beauty. BUT I swear she wore a blue dress when I was a kid.. didn't she? Turns out sleeping beauty's name is Aurora. I never knew/paid attention to that.... huh.

Well, at least she has a sparkly skirt. That's always an important thing for princesses. I don't know... I kind of expect more from a kinder. Princesses are cool and all, but this one you can't do much with. Her skirt doesn't even have any flexibility - she's solid plastic. ... heh.. no comment there.

The upside is that she does actually require a tiny bit of assembly. She comes in 3 bits and you get to peg her together. And with her hollow skirt she's not heavy.. I guess that could be considered an upside?

It makes me laugh that both her and and the little mermaid statue have their arms attached to their hair to their hair. I guess they're scared the tiny toys with tiny arms might get broken when put in the hands of children. As I've said already.. I really wish they found some way to at least let me move the arms.. or the skirt... or SOMETHING.. ANYTHING.

Anyway... again like the little mermaid statue these instructions come with a reference to the mkspecial.com website, and this time a rose QR code type thing. I've tried again, when I try to register with the website I get a blank page. Even if I try to go to the password recover page I get a blank screen. It makes me sad. I really want to try these games. Well, will update if I can ever actually register to play some fun kinder games.

My 2 out of 5 kinder rating for this one should be pretty obvious. Sure, its not the worst toy and it's kinda cute, but really... I still expect a bit more out of a kinder toy. That's all I have to say on this one.... Saddening.

Disney Princes Little Mermaid Statue

Kinder Category: Disney Princess
Toy Number: MPG FT139 A
Purchased: Edmonton, AB
Rating: 2 out of 5 Kinders

This is from a girl kinder. Just in case you haven't seen them around yet, the girl kinder surprise toys are the pink ones. No, I'm not just being sexist. They're actually advertised as having surprise toys that girls will like. Did they think we disliked the 'boy' kinder surprise toys? Are there even any of the girl toys that shoot things? 

Anyway, this little mermaid comes in three bits: torso, tail, and water. Pretty simply to put together. Body pegs into take and tail slides into the base. However, I do have to admit.. I had issues getting the tail to slide properly into its spot in the water. I actually had to look at the instructions.. Which didn't help... Mainly because I had my base facing the wrong way.... Yup. 

I'm calling her a statue rather then a toy because even though you can take her off her base and imagine her swimming around, you really can't do much else. There's no movement for her tail and her arms are attached to her hair, which is also solid plastic. I'm probably going to stick her on a shelf somewhere beside my lego mini-figures. 

Just to be clear here, I'm not saying she sucks cuz she's a girl toy. I'm saying I wish she had some movement. I'm sure when I was 5 I'm sure I would have played with her for at least 15 mins imagining her swimming through the air. Assuming there weren't any better kinder toys around...  BUT, I do think its kinda neat Kinder partnered with Disney to get toys kids will like. I'm a big fan of the Little Mermaid movie.

Now, one cool part about this kinder egg is that on the instruction sheet there is a little shell QR code type thing, and a website. I think this is cool, I think kids should use computers and it always for way more interactivity from this otherwise kinda boring toy. 

My only problem is that I can't get into the website.... I went to www.mkspecial.com like it shows, I get asked to register (which is fine), and when I click the register link it goes to a blank page. Kinda makes me sad I wanted to see what fun games Kinder would have up for this toy, and how the shell symbol would interact with them. I went to the parents.kinder.com website to try to see if there was another way to sign up. I did manager to register as a parent there, but it seems the registration for the kinder parents website isn't the same as the magic kinder login. When I do succeed to get into this website (trust me, I will keep trying) I'll edit this post to talk about the other cool features that come with this toy. 

I've given this toy a rating of 2 out of 5 possible kinders because even though it does have three separate pieces, it doesn't actually go much besides sit there and look pretty. It cool how there is an (I'm assuming) interactive website with it, but it seems to be broken which saddens the kid in me. 


Have you had this toy before? What did you think of it? Could you get into the website? Leave a comment and let me know :)

Sprinty Sea-Doo Guy .. with a dog?

Kinder Category: Sprinty
Toy Number: UN052
Purchased: Edmonton, AB
Rating: 4 out of 5 Kinders

Alright, so this is the beginning of my Kinder Toy Reviews. Today's Kinder Surprise toy is a guy on a sea-doo (with his dog) that shoots out of a boat dock. I think this is one of the 'better' kinder toys I've seen lately, partly because there are 4 parts to assemble. Call me old fashioned, but I like being able to assemble my Kinder Surprise toys. AND it shoots the Sea-Doo guy. Even when you know that someone is going to send the little guy and his dog flying at you it still makes you jump! I may have taken this toy to work and tested for reactions on some of my co-workers.... Only for the purposes of scientific discovery. Really.

Note: No Sea-Doos or dogs in life preservers were hurt during this scientific testing.

Honestly though, my first thought was: "Why is there a dog in a life preserver?" And my second thought: "Awe maaann.. STICKERS....." I have a love hate relationship with kinder toy stickers. When you get them on the toy properly they make it look awesome, more then just a cheap piece of throw-away plastic. The only problem is that I can never get them on right. You name it I have screwed it up when it comes to stickers. Wrong sticker, backwards, upside down, crooked, sticking off the edge, or torn in half I have managed to screw up kinder toy stickers in all these ways. Even when I was a kid getting Kinder Surprise toys for Christmas I made my mom put the stickers on the toys for me. Now I make my boyfriend do it. They can always put the stickers on better. I don't get it. And this toy has 6 stickers on it.

Back to business. This toy works in a pretty neat way, you pull the brown house thing out of the grey boat dock, and the sea-doo guy folds in half to fit into the other side of the grey boat dock. When you push the little house back into the grey building the sea-doo guy shoots out. For a really simple mechanism he actually goes pretty far.

I'm giving this toy a rating of 4 out of 5 Kinders. It's not the most epic toy I've come across, but it actually does take some building... and you can shoot it people. Do I really need to tell you how awesome it is to watch people jump... every time??

Have you had this toy before? What did you think of it? What about the stickers? Leave a comment and let me know :)