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I'm not sure if everyone is familiar with Kinder eggs or not, but for those who dont know they are chocolate covered eggs with a toy inside that you assemble yourself. The chocolate is poor, and the toys themselves are rarely very spectacular but many people seem to buy them anyway because they enjoy
the suprise aspects of them and the process of building things. Going on my theory that adults are simply children with more accesories, i belive a line of larger "Adult eggs" containing a mystery Ikea-style piece of furniture would be very marketable.
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Large enough to hold furniture? That's going to command a pretty high price for a sight-unseen piece of houseware. Maybe as an ultra-upscale option... |
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The phrase "adult eggs" bothers me somehow. |
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Can "Product: Mystery" be a category? |
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Faberge eggs used to furfill this role. Although not large enough to contain furniture they did contain all kinds of fabulously crafted artifacts. |
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Yes, this sounds good; the parts for a small steam engine, or components to build a basic PDA or MP3 player. |
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Of course, to be mechanically strong enough to hild all the parts, the shell of the egg is going to have to be made of very thick chocolate. |
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I'm trying hard to find a downside to that last statement ....... hmmm, choclolate-packaged furniture ..... mmmmmmm ..... |
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<cracking chocolate sound> "Ooh, a combination USB hub/bottle opener - great!" |
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[Basie] - I remember those cars. They were the holy grail of Kinder toys, and I must've consumed literally hundreds of eggs and half-heartedly put together hundreds of second-rate toys in my quest for them. Ah, Kinderhood... |
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I disagree that the chocolate is (ahem, was) poor. I thought that it was absolutely yumptious. |
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Small children also eat snot, it might be noted. |
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8th, the downside is that the chocolate is actually very thin and the prize is contained within a plastic case that is impossible for a kid to open. I'd want a decent thickness of chocolate before I'd even contemplate this. But that's just me. |
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A bespoke service would be nice. Pick your giftee's favourite chocolate and choose a suitable gift. A Belgian Truffle egg with a dozen silk roses or fancy lingerie for that special someone. White chocolate with grapes for the hospitalised. Yorkie with the complete subbuteo team of choice for the soccer fan in your life. |
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A special halfbakery range to include a bottle opener that attaches to your mobile phone, a complete suite of miniature motorised road cones, self assembly swinging pendul/a/ae/ums, and (of course) a snap together hullaballoon. |
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Would this mean you would have to throw away 5 giant six-foot crazy-crocos before you got that bedside table you were after ? |
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Like, with flames up the sides, an' stuff? |
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Flames? I always thought that was seaweed! |
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you are carrying:
a lamp
a sword
a jewel-encrusted egg
the jewel-encrusted egg contains:
. A clockwork croissant
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"IKEA-style"? Somehow appropriate to the style of product and marketing you're proposing. A German once told me Idioten Kaufen Einfach Alles. |
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RS, that reminds me of a computer game I used to play. I always ended up in a damn forest with no way out. "Return to.....something or other. |
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Perhaps, to render the extremely thick chocolate more stable, Pocky-For-Men could be used as rebar? |
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