3. Kinder- Surprise Eggs

3.1. Why Do You Collect Kinder- Surprises?

1. They are innovative. I was addicted when the hand painted surprises appeared to market. In addition, there are many funny gizmos in Kinder-shells.
2. Internationality. As Internet becomes more and more popular swaps can be made all around the world. There are not many people collection round the year in Finland.
3. Product development. This overlaps partly with the first reason. Kinder has got rid ordinary surprises. There are no rings and the amount of cars is reducing. The second good change is that there are less stickers. Poorly glued stickers reduced swap value and collectors usually want to glue their stickers themselves.
4. Identification. Kinder surprises (with the exeption of hand painteds) can be idenficated completely using the KN-system.
5. Chocolate. Of course it is not the main reason for buing a surprise egg, but good chocolate attracts.
6. Known number of surprises (about 140). When collection something, it is important to know how many items are there waiting to be collected.

3.2. KN-system

With KN-system, I mean the marking in the surprise toy (KxxNxxx). The two numbers after K means year and the numbers after N is a serial number. For example in 1999 a surprise might have been K99N120. Hand painteds are exeption of KN-system: there is only the production year (which differs from the year they are sold in Finland or any othe coutry).

3.3. Collecting Kinders

In addition to stores flee markets are good place to find surprises. And while browsing Internet for Kinders go straight to eBay.

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