Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Pink and blue kinder eggs? When the fuck did that happen?

80 replies

ChampagneTastes · 13/04/2017 22:17

Cos apparently you can now get Barbies in the pink ones and proper toys in the blue ones (come on, no-one honestly thinks that Barbie counts as proper toys, surely?). When did this happen? I coped with them no longer having serious cogs and wheels for H&S reasons but who the fuck thought that genderising them was the way forward?

Stupid bastards.
AIBU?

OP posts:
OldGuard · 13/04/2017 23:22

belleAndsnowwhite" - the ones we have are* labeled for boys and for girls - have a look at the photo I attached up thread

AssassinatedBeauty · 13/04/2017 23:30

Those are Kinder Joys not Kinder Eggs OldGuard, so perhaps they are labelled differently? The eggs are just coloured I think.

NeedMoreSleepOrSugar · 13/04/2017 23:30

The Barbie toys are rubbish, dd picks the blue eggs every time now (unless there's a Frozen one, then she asks for it in the hope of getting an Elsa - no idea why, as she has several already....)

avamiah · 13/04/2017 23:35

Has anyone seen the large kinder eggs, they are out at the moment and cost £10😬.
Again it's pink for a girl and blue for a boy, and the "girl"egg has one of those ponys in it, which my 7 year old daughter told me was rubbish and she wants the "boy"egg which I believe is a transformer but at £10 she won't be getting.

avamiah · 13/04/2017 23:39

£10 for a kids Easter egg is ridiculous in my opinion, what's wrong with the Buttons egg haha, I used to love that when I was a kid.
It's still about and only £2 or so.

OldGuard · 13/04/2017 23:53

Yep they are kinder joys - same thing as kinder eggs but here in US kinder eggs are banned

Mylittlestsunshine · 13/04/2017 23:56

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

DramaQueenofHighCs · 14/04/2017 00:01

When the pink ones were My Little Pony my brony DS bought a whole host of them with his pocket money! He wants a MLP giant one for easter but not at that price!! fingers crossed there will be some left after easter so he can spend his own flipping money on them I spent enough on the egg I did get him

avamiah · 14/04/2017 00:03

I haven't seen the turtle collection nor do I want to. Haha
My daughter is into these Hatchem eggs, no chocolate, you just put them in a bowl of water and they hatch out of the egg and grow in a couple of days.
She has had the chick egg and the dinosaur egg.
I would recommend them, they are interesting and a couple of pounds on Amazon and no chocolate whatsoever.
We have them in a clear glass bowl all living happy together. Haha

DramaInPyjamas · 14/04/2017 00:05

Teeny Terrapins? Grin I preferred the hippo collection

DoorwayToNorway · 14/04/2017 00:10

There's a social media campaign here in Brazil to make kinder change its sexist marketing. I thought this was a sign of the times because as much as I love Brazil, it is about as pink for girls and blue for boys as you can get. www.em.com.br/app/noticia/economia/2013/03/13/internas_economia,356657/kinder-ovo-lanca-ovos-para-meninos-e-meninas-e-marca-e-chamada-de-sexista.shtml

avamiah · 14/04/2017 00:12

What are those little eggs with chocolate one side and you get a little spoon and then it's like Lego the other side, and you have to make a little toy.?
They are ok, my daughter likes them.

StrawberryMouse · 14/04/2017 00:15

I feel like I should be annoyed in principal. But in reality my male variety children have sometimes been a bit disappointed to get a butterfly or something.

AssassinatedBeauty · 14/04/2017 00:39

Kinder Joy aren't like Kinder eggs though, they have a weird white chocolate goo with two chocolate crispy balls stuck in it in one half of the plastic shell and a spoon.

MrsJoyOdell · 14/04/2017 00:41

But barbie is a 'proper toy' when boys choose to play with her. Then it's encouraging gender neutral shit isn't it? It's only girls who aren't allowed and should play with cars. 🙄

Leontine · 14/04/2017 00:49

I want a Barbie egg now.

BouleBaker · 14/04/2017 01:48

DS2 chose a barbie Egg the other day and still loves the toy. I don't agree with the "for boys/for girls" marketing but having eggs that are a certain toy range are a good idea. Don't have to be pink and blue though.

lolalament · 14/04/2017 01:55

It's only adults that complain.

StillDrivingMeBonkers · 14/04/2017 02:16

I don't agree with the "for boys/for girls" marketing

However the marketing and advertising department will have thoroughly tested the target demographic, with parents, children, by survey by product placement and lo! They like it. hence it being made and sold.

It would be much easier if people just kept walking past the display and bought something they did like.

noeffingidea · 14/04/2017 07:01

I fucking hate kinder eggs. Over priced useless crap, always placed at children eye level that for some reason all my kids have obsessed over.

Nessie71 · 14/04/2017 07:17

Who cares....if boys want a pink toy or a girl wants a blue toy...if boys want to play with dolls girls want to play with dinosaures its just a F$$king colour!

megletthesecond · 14/04/2017 07:20

A few years ago. I don't buy them any more.

MollyHuaCha · 14/04/2017 07:25

You can of course buy the egg you want, but the picture from OldGuard shows that Kinder have already decided which are for girls and which are for boys.

Pink and blue kinder eggs? When the fuck did that happen?
SailAwayWithMeHoney · 14/04/2017 07:39

I don't know if all the Kinder surprise eggs have "for boy" or "for girl" on them anymore, but DS asked for one at the local petrol station the other week and said he wanted an Elsa one. Only for the server to tell him "No they're girls ones, you're a boy so you have to have the superhero (marvel) one" Angry

Needless to say, I got my son the Elsa one. Fucking gendered nonsense.

Littlechip · 14/04/2017 07:43

I knew someone would be on moaning about this non-issue when I saw that they'd had the temerity to advertise 'pink' and 'blue' eggs last night. I imagine that their marketing department thinks it's the way forward and when I was little I thought Barbie was a proper toy. I bet it's only girls who are encouraged away from choosing a pink egg. Stop undermining your kids' choices, you joyless gender police.