News

On this page I will display current information about Kinders from all over the world. I rely on the help of other collectors to keep the news up-to-date. Please send me an email if you have new information.

September 2001

Australia: try to get a use-by date of 24/04/02, there are some K01, some K99 and the Canadian mix of re-released toys in there.
The new Mega-Mice are out in Germany and I was told they are great. Also the toys of the new season are exciting too.

June 2001

Nothing special here in Australia.
Summer break in Germany. Their new series will come out mid August with the new hand painted series "Mega-Maeuse im Internet-Fieber"(Mice).
Italy will have 12 new glowing ghosts.

March 2001

Sorry for the un-updated list but we are very busy. I'm sure there are lots of new toys around all over the world. And it's Easter time and many countries to have the Maxi Easter eggs too.
Australia still has the K00 toys in the eggs. For Easter we are getting Maxi Eggs, so far I got 2 old German toy out of it (a rooster running down a slope, and a very nice fire truck). There suppose to be 6 or 7 different toys in it.
Bad news for Australia's next toys - there won't be any new ones. As far as I know we will be getting a 'new' lot before Christmas, a mix of K99 and K00 toys, and no hand painted figurines. I really hope that's not true - we will see.
Any news at your end?

July 2000

Galacteenies, the Italian Stralunaties, are landed in Australia. At the moment they are only available in 3-packs in Coles Supermarkets. I got a special 3-pack with the Galacteenies on it from Ferrero. Unfortunately we also get only the 8 figurines, the fireworker and the one with the matches are not in there. I guess the same idiots who think that all the children in the USA would start eating the toys instead of the chocolate. Where are the parents of these children who suppose to watch their little ones? Do we all have to suffer because big companies are scared of Million-dollar lawsuits from these parents?

April 2000

Germany is getting a fantastic hand painted Asterix set this year, there are also some very nice Kitchen-Gnomes in the eggs.
Together with the hand painted Asterix set there are also special Asterix toys in the German Easter maxi eggs available. A giant jigsaw puzzle, an Asterix, Obelix and Idefix plush toy and an Idefix belt. I'm a huge Asterix fan so I have to have them all! :-)
Italy has pirate parrots as hand painted figurines together with their K00 toy range.
Australia is finally getting the K00 range again in the eggs. still no hand painted figures inside.
One week (!?) before Easter Ferrero Australia is selling Kinder Maxi Surprise in the shops (Franklins sells them Australia wide, Woolworth is selling them in NSW too). The eggs contain the K99 Maxi-Range but unfortunately without any Snoopy toys. The maxi toys are well made and great fun too. They are a trial run, so people buy, buy, buy, buy, so we can have them for Christmas too!!!
Of course, Italy is also getting their maxi eggs, Grand Sorpresa, with special Flintstones toys. They look fantastic and I'm sad that I can't get any of them. There are 4 different plush toy and 4 put together toys with special Flintstones hand painted figurines. So it looks like there will be Flintstones as stickfigures in the K01 range.

December 1999

Germany has a special Party 2000 12-pack which contained a nice selection of toys plus 2 of 4 limited edition figurines. These figurines do something very specil, eg light up. If I ever find the time I will add a picture.
Germany is also getting their Christmas Schoko-bon container, this year with special 2000 New Years greetings.
Australia ran out of the K00 toys and we are getting the K99 toys again. No special Christmas-Pack.

October 1999

Australia is getting new toys!! We are getting the new K00 range. The toys are brilliant and I'm having lots of fun putting them together. I will take pictures and add them to our site, gradually. So far no hand painted figures but there are occasionally Dino Family and Beavers figures in the eggs. We will see. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a special 2000 or Olympic set.

August 1999

Germany has a fantastic new set, the Hippo Wedding. The first time in the history of Ferrero, at least I think, the mixed the hand painted figures from different series in one. A must-have for every collector.
Italy has also a great new set, the Super-Giraffes. I can't wait to get my set.

March 1999

The German Kinder surprise magazine "Das Ei" produced a small booklet of all the German 1998 toys with pictures. It's a fantastic guide. It's available in German only (at the moment) and we sell it, please enquire.
Australia is getting Pyramiao 3-packs, and 6-packs in the shape of a pyramid.
Canada gets a cardboard Easter basket with 4 Kinder eggs in it.

February 1999

Australia is getting hand painted figures again!!! This time we are getting 'Pyramiao' cats. There are also some of the gnomes of the 'Mit den Blumentopfzwerde durch die Jahreszeiten' set in our eggs! Now we keep on praying that one day we will get the maxi eggs too.
England is having Maxi eggs again. Germany has their new hand painted series 'Top Ten Teddies Im Traumurlaub'.

January 1999

Germany is getting the 'Top Ten Teddies im Traumurlaub' (on holidays). Another great set.
There is a new italian handpainted collection "GLI ONOLEVOLI CASTORCIN" (nice Chinese beavers).
It looks like we are getting the K99 series in Australia and no K98 at all. We will see in a few weeks.
Canada is getting Looney Tunes characters in their K98 series now. The Ski Bunnies hand-painted series is called "The Eco Bunnies / Les Eco-Lapins ". discovered a They have a 4 pack of Kinder suprise. It is called The ECO-BUNNIES collector pack and it is guaranteed to contain at least 1 Eco-Bunny. They also have a 2-pack Valentine Kinder surprise. And a 150g egg with a gigantic suprise inside, called 'Kinder Joy'. Lucky Canadians!
I got my first Stralunati set and it is fantastic. :-)

November 1998

Australia is getting a special Christmas 6-pack this year. The pack can be separated into 6 pieces and on the bottom of the "1-pack" is place for a a note. There are no Sharkybababs in the eggs anymore.
Germany has the Fancy Fuxies...cute foxes. For Christmas they have the Kinder Freude-a 4or 5" sphere-supposedly has Funny Fanten inside.
Italy has the aliens plus a space ship holding 6 eggs. Also Nativity set is now out...9 eggs and box opens into a stable.
Switzerland has 6-pack houses.
Canada has a Christmas pack similar to the Halloween pack and a 4-pack in the shape of a sleigh, very nice. And they are getting Ski Bunnies/Hunny Bunnies as hand painted figures.
>Now in Greece they have the k-99 serie and the "Mit den Blumentopfzwerge durch die Jahreszeiten".

September 1998

Italy has the K99 range and the STRALUNATI, 10 alien figures.
Argentina has Glowing Gosthies with the K97 toy series, Brasil and Chile are also having K97 toys.
Canada has the K98 range now but no hand painted figures so far. They are getting a Halloween pack, which is a box of some Schokobonbons, one Kinder surprise egg and Kinder surprise chocolate bars.
Australia is still having the K97 range and the Sharkybabas. We also will be getting a special Christmas 6-packs and, according to Ferrero, other lots of exciting things will be happening in the future! So something to look forward to.
Germany is also having new toys and the Funny Fanten in the circus, another great set, lots of parts. I love them!
Holland, Sweden, Norway, France and England have the Pyramiao (Miaogizies, Miezi Cats).
England is having the K99 series and the Miezi Cats/Miaogizis.
France is having the EGYPTO CHATS (the 1997' Italian MIAOGIZIS, just some différence in some colors).

July 1998

Australia is getting the K97 range now. And the Sharkybabas (Squalibabas) as your hand painted set. All Australian collectors are very happy to get hand painted figurines finally. And we also get some great 6-packs, have a look at our 'For Sale' page, there is a picture.
The UK are now receiving PYRAMIAO as their new handpainted series (the same as Italian Miaogizi and German Miezi Cats) and the full range of K99 toys which includes Tom and Jerry as the stick figures (4 x Tom and 4 x Jerry).
Romanian and Hungarian news: Romania has K98 withaut hand painted figures, Hungary has K98 and Drolly Dinos 95
Argentina had the following hand painted series so far: Gnomes(k94 & K95), Happy Hippos Holiday, Funny Pingos, Crazy crocos, Froggy Friends, Tartallegre, Svitatelli, Leoventuras, Pingui Beach and now Fantasmini.

New in 1998

Since February 1998 the Czech Republic has as hand-painted set the Drolly Dinos 95 and the K98 range.
Italy has Sir Condor as the new hand painted series.
In the UK the first Maxi Eggs are sold in February.
In Holland they have the k98 range and the twizlles(?). They also find some "Funny Fanten" in the eggs.
Australia is getting the K97 range now.
Germany has a new hand painted set, 'Aqualand'. It's the first time that there is a hand pained set with shine-through figurines.
Norway and Belgium has Ski Bunnies (the German Hanny Bunny's.
Ferrero Canada is giving away a cardboard for displaying Kinder surprise toys. It looks great and is very similar to the Australian "Kinder Village". They also have a poster with all the new K97 toys. And they have the Peppy Pingos as their hand painted set.
Greece has the 97/98 range

New in September 1997

Norway is getting the K98 range now.
Canada is getting the K97 range now.
Germany will get a new hand painted set 'Happy Hippo Hollywood Stars'. The steck figure series are Egyptians.
Belguim, Luxemburg, Denmark, Switzerland and Austria will get the Italian Fantasmini as 'Fantomini'.
The UK is getting the 'Glowing Ghosties' and will be getting Frosty Froggies in January.
Italy's new hand painted set "Miaogizi" will be cats, the new stick figures will be Bugs Bunny & Co.
The United Arab Emirates has only the K96 range at present.
In Israel the K98 range is distributed with the 'Elefantao' hand painted figures.
France has the "Fantomini" series since the middle of August.
Romanian and Hungarian news: Romania got K98 and SHALIBABAS.

1996/1997

Austria had the Maxi Eggs over Eastern available. The handpainted figures were the Drolly Dinos/Dapsy Dinos and the stick figures the Smurfs.
Canada got a mixture of K96 and K97 toys and the Teeny Tapsi Tortels. I guess that they also will get new toys in September.
Spain and Belgium had the Sharks with the K97 range.
Israel had the K97 range and Happy Hippos.
In Italy they had the K97 range, Fantasmini and Elefantaos as hand painted series. Italy had Bugs Bunny in their maxi eggs.
In Ungary and Latvia they had K97 toys, Peppy Pingo Party and the Ranopla frogs as "Froggy Friends' as hand painted sets.
The UK had Peppy Pingos and the K97 range, they also had the Brazil-Phants (Elefantaos, Funny Fanten).
Germany also had a new range of toys. The Bingo Birds, the Top Ten Teddies in Volksfeststimmung and the Dapsy Dino Family as hand painted sets. The maxi eggs contains bags, towels, puzzles, and much more, of the Happy Hippos.
Australia got the K96 range in April, but unfortunately no hand painted toys. Currently Ferrero Australia has running a competition with a trip to Ferrero Italy as first price.
Finland has the sharks in their eggs, but strangely no papers in the eggs.
France had the K97 range, Drolly Dinos and Squalibaba as hand painted sets. They also had Maxi eggs at Christmas.
Japan has no Kinder surprise toys at all.
Switzerland had the K97 range and Drolly Dinos.
In Palma de Mallorca in Spain there were Kinders in the eggs but no hand painted figures in June. Just left overs?
Holland has the squalibabas and the K97 toys.
What about other countries?

Other news

September 1999 - there are new Mega Rumble Yowies on the market. They contain a special limited edition yowie and 3 other animals.
England is having Yowies too but they are getting the solid animals.
1999 - Unfortunately Australia and America won't get any Magic Ball toys anymore.
Australia and New Zealand got 'Yowie' toys by Cadbury. The toys are also in eggs surrounded by a good dark chocolate. The quality of the toys is very good.
America and Australia is getting finally also Magic Balls by Nestle.
Magic Balls by Nestle have been withdrawn from sale in the US.

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