There I was, innocently Christmas shopping, when a candy display in the drugstore caught my eye.

Kinder had a line of Kinder Surprise eggs with DC Comics Playmobil figurines inside, on sale for the holidays.

Now, I am a big fan of DC Comics; have been for almost all my life. If you’ve been reading my online writings for any length of time, you may know this about me. What you may not know is that I also really like Playmobil. This goes back to when I was little. I had a friend who had a big huge Playmobil setup in his basement or playroom or whatever. And I wasn’t allowed to play with it. I wasn’t allowed to look at it! I don’t think he was allowed to play with it! Because this was one of those homes where everything had to be just so. Anyway, I wasn’t able to indulge my Playmobil cravings until I was a grownup.

They just look so neat. Cheerful, colourful, clean, vaguely European, the figures ready to have a medieval adventure or work on a horse farm. I find the Playmobil aesthetic endlessly appealing.

So anyway I snapped up the Kinder eggs. Eight boxes, three eggs each, twenty-four figures. I couldn’t tell which ones I was getting; it turns out there were sixteen different characters available and I got twelve of them and twelve doubles. (Lots of Aquamans.) They aren’t full-sized Playmobil figures. They’re scaled down to about half size, and don’t have full mobility. Anyway, here are the little petants:

Still missing four characters: Harley Quinn, Supergirl, Robin, and Black Adam. I may not get them; there may be no more on the shelves around here. I’d like to have Supergirl and Robin, at least. You may be sure that I’ll keep you up to date on these important matters.