Australian Easter merchandise

[UltraMarginal]

So I was in my local Big W the other night and saw the following:

Digital Counting Money Jar with Milk Chocolate Eggs
Torch Gift Pack with milk chocolate Eggs ($9.95)
Milk Chocolate Egg with "fun" Yo-Yo
Ceramic Mug with Milk chocolate egg.

Interestingly the chocolate is made in Australia, which implies that they've been packaged here.

I wonder if the chocolate is actually nice...?

[reillyd]

So I was in my local Big W the other night and saw the following:

Digital Counting Money Jar with Milk Chocolate Eggs
Torch Gift Pack with milk chocolate Eggs ($9.95)
Milk Chocolate Egg with "fun" Yo-Yo
Ceramic Mug with Milk chocolate egg.

Interestingly the chocolate is made in Australia, which implies that they've been packaged here.

I wonder if the chocolate is actually nice...?

There's also a set of ROTF black metal tins of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee at Target, that were also sold last year. I recall the eggs being awful, but the tins handy for storing legeds/legion class toys.

[griffin]

The money counter is new (and rather odd), but the other three have been done before, but with all new artwork now that DotM has been out since the last Easter.
Last year's ones had the Australian chocolate as well.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I spied those tins in Target today. No pricing as of yet though. Chocolate was awful. Ended up giving them to people at work

Man I wish they would bust out some different (ie NOT movie) artwork on thise mugs, I dig TF mugs, but am getting tired of the ugly movie work. Gimme some G1, BW or even Animated pleeeeease.

[5FDP]

Another year of uninspired and rehashed Transformer merchandise. Give us something new dammit!

[UltraMarginal]

I spied those tins in Target today. No pricing as of yet though. Chocolate was awful. Ended up giving them to people at work

Man I wish they would bust out some different (ie NOT movie) artwork on thise mugs, I dig TF mugs, but am getting tired of the ugly movie work. Gimme some G1, BW or even Animated pleeeeease.

I totally agree, I don't need any more cups/mugs right now but would love something with TF:PRIME artwork on it.

[jena]

Maybe by Christmas we might have some TF:Prime themed things in stores.

[UltraMarginal]

Maybe by Christmas we might have some TF:Prime themed things in stores.

Probably, it took that long for animated themed products to show up, at least.

[griffin]

These appear to be all of this year's licensed Easter items for Transformers, only at BigW and Target it seems.

At BigW we have 5 items. One which is totally new. The rest are just redecos of previously released items.

Yo-Yo (with big egg) $9
Torch (with small eggs) $10


Metal car (with small eggs) $11


Mug (with big egg) $6
Electronic money counter (with small eggs) $15 (the new item for this year)

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The money counter has a few bugs to it, as it can read a coin if you struggle to get it in (like the 50cent), and then read it again when you try again. It should have a cancel button to allow you to erase the last coin and retry it, or if it reads one wrong.
It is at least sensitive enough to not register a NZ dollar coin though.
It needs two AA batteries, and without an off switch, I guess it stays on until the batteries run out.

(the big egg was very delicious and creamy - the small eggs taste terrible)
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And over the last three Movies, the Easter/Christmas mugs (have lollies instead of an Egg for christmas) have been progressively shrinking...



At Target we have 3 items. One which is totally new.

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The two metal tins (Optimus was definitely released before, but I don't recall the Bumblebee one - I'm sure I would have bought one if it was).
Has several small eggs - $13

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The sides, comparing the difference between the TF2 version and the new TF3 version.

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And the thing that has no name... $13.

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Inside is a giant egg on a plastic cup...

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Inside the chocolate egg are two lollipops, with plastic covers in the shape of Transformers heads - Bumblebee with battlemask & Shockwave (post here if there are others, that are randomly packed into these).
The lollipops have a plastic wrapping to them that tears into tiny strips that sticks fast to the lollipop. I ended up throwing one away because it was too much effort removing all the tiny bits of plastic.

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Leaving a nice foil wrapper behind, to re-wrap presents with.

[Doubledealer]

Darnit, was hoping to replace my RotF mug with a Prime one this year. Ah well, maybe next time.