Been listening to a couple of songs by Röyksopp & Lunatic Calm. Lunatic calm has some hard hitting dance numbers leaning on the Acid House genre. Röyksopp has been spurning hit singles from their album Melody A.M.. I'm sure most of u must've picked up their catchy electronic music from the air waves. Videos of some of the singles r also great to watch. It consists of a series of animated schematic diagrams. It reminded me of these chocolate eggs we used to get when I was a kid, back in Q8. These eggs were called Kinder Surprise Eggs. It consist of a brown chocolate egg that tasted of hazel nuts (besides the chocolate). Below this brown layer was a shell white chocolate. If u shook the egg u'd hear something rattling in there. The rattling bit is a yellow plastic capsule, which housed plastic parts of a toy. Also in the plastic egg u'd find a schematic for building ur toy. I have had many awesome toys, but these eggs always came w/ the best! Most of my lunch money was surreptitiously on this addiction.
Last April I came across these Kinder Eggs in the last place u'd expect to find them - IN REMOTE SIKKIM!! And I bought 4 of them for old times sake. The chocolate bit was Deee-liciouso....mmmmm......mmmmmmmmmmm... The toys & the process of building them were as fun as ever & time stood still (or did I go back in time?). I still wish I could meet the chap who thought of the Kinder Egg idea. Infact I'd kiss him to death.
Some of the coolest egg toys I have found & built:
-A '30s Grand Prix racing car. Complete with a gear driven mechanism.
-A Jigsaw crocodile. The crocodile consists of plastic jigsaw pieces. U could also rotate certain pieces, to make the crocodile stand in a particular pose.
-A small viewer with a crank that u wound to watch an animated clip through an eye-piece
-A Magnifying glass, w/ a series of lenses to look at bugs
-A small bird that flew. It ran on a twisted rubberband. U should've seen the bugger go, when all wound up.
Every batch of kids has its craze. For us '79ers (back in Q8) it was kinder eggs, kites, water pistols & rubber toys that grew ( more on that in another post). And its true, they don't make them like they u used to.
Moonjungle recommends these songs
Röyksopp - Remind Me
Lunatic Calm - Leave You Far Behind
Lunatic Calm - Metropol
Momus - Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
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