To think M&S is trying to ruin Halloween by lying to me?!

[BowDownWitches]

(Light hearted of course!)

I’m going to a Halloween party with good friends of mine, and whenever we’re together for a special occasion we always get a Colin the Caterpillar cake because it’s delicious.

We saw adverts for a Count Colin the Caterpillar cake - their special Halloween version - and we’ve all checked in lots of M&S stores, but haven’t seen one anywhere! We’ve been to stores in London, Oxford, and Birmingham (we all live in different cities), and though they have lots of other fun Halloween treats, we can’t find Count Colin in a single shop. We checked online and you can’t order him there either!

So... am I being unreasonable to think that Count Colin was a clever ruse by M&S all along, or has anyone else managed to find one?!

Victoryyyyyyy! Well done mumsnet. And I'm sure that Count Colin will taste all the sweeter for all our hard work!

What time does M&S close? I need a Colin!

Still looking for my baby Count Colins This morning's trip yielded a £10 Dine In Deal with the main that I wanted, but no baby Count Colins.

They did have one single solitary Big Count Colin, but I didn't buy that because I can't justify £7 on cake just for me and DP and I did suspect that M&S were trying that dodgy pet shop trick of leaving the last one in the litter on it's own so someone feels sorry for it and buys it and I am above falling for that sort of trick.

Anyway, going to have one last try tomorrow morning at another M&S and that's it, I will give up and do without Count Colins.

But googling to see if there are any tips on where they are available or not, revealed the forthcoming........ Drum Roll..........

CHRISTMAS COLINS!!!! So if I don't get my Count Colins or even if I do I might wait for these babies instead. Article doesn't say when they'll be in the shops, but it will probably be in a week or two when Halloween and Bonfire night is out of the way and they really start to ramp up the great Christmas retail extravaganza.

metro.co.uk/2017/09/21/guys-were-getting-a-christmassy-colin-the-caterpillar-6946248/

I shouldn’t read posts like this when I’m pregnant. I now want a Count Colin more than anything else in the WHOLE WORLD.

Got one today. And in Ireland, so I wasn't hopeful. He's adorable. smugface

Have texted DH to bring me one home from King’s Cross, if they have any. Told him to walk over to St Pancras if they don’t. 😂

I’ve seen them everywhere! Clearly no demand when I am for them

corkscrew I got mine at St Pancras and there were loads, so here’s hoping!

He was in the Brighton store on Monday

Someone brought a Count Colin into the office today. I may have got rather excited!

About 60 of them just unloaded in Liverpool may have bought 2!

His face!

I wanted 3 packs of baby colins but there were only two on the halloween display. I went to the cake section expecting to find more but no! So went back to halloween section and someone else has bought one of the packs. So i have just one pack of baby colins and DD has already snaffled two of them

I won big Count Colin in a raffle today, so excited!

Dd2s birthday party on Sunday- have to get some Count Colin’s because I’m a lazy sod and can’t be bothered making cakes - I mean the kids will love them 👻 🎃

I saw a big Count Colin today! Didn't buy him though.

Ditto, two Colins bought here. I'm nae a baker.

DD got given a mini one for free by a nice m&s worker in Edinburgh today

I’m in NW London and there was a bunch* of Count Colins in my local M&S.

*What is the collective noun for a group of Count Colins? A pack? A litter? A murder?

Anyway I bought 2. And if it wasn’t for this thread I wouldn’t have even heard about them but as soon as I heard there weren’t many available I wanted them immediately so now I’m wondering whether this was started by someone on the M&S social media team.

We got a count colin entirely because of this thread, thanks!

There's an M & S food store a 5 minute walk from me. Might just have to nip down tomorrow....

Milton Keynes Bletchleys M&S has baby count Colin's. My husband bought 3 packs. So flipping excited. I did tell him off, because how can Colin support 18 babies? Connie doesn't even exist in this scenario, just how will he cope?! I know. I'm too invested, but seriously Colin doesn't need that shit.

I got 3 packs too chocolate. Big Colin certainly has been putting it about a bit. They were on 3 for 2, so if you're buying one pack, you might as well get 3.

I gave one pack to DSis, who gave one to her 2 YO grandson who proceeded to mash it into the new sofa .

There’s loads in my local M&S!

Barbaraofseville! I hope they come out of the sofa?!

I never thought about it that way, but it makes sense why there's no Connie now. At our party last night Colin just sat and watched our guests murder and eat his children.

I didn't know about the 3 for 2- was unimpressed at the look of their ghost bites, but as per, they were really yummy!