C is for Carmine-Coloured Capsule-Cats

Love these! I only have four, I think there are about 12 from Kinder? Plus some solid, single-piece ones, but as a box ticker these four will do. I love them because I loved the cartoons, they were so chic, so stylish, it's like someone in the 1950's made some colour cartoons and hid them until the 1970's!

Although two of them have an almost uniquely British theme (bobby on the investigation and ceremonial guardsman) I believe they had a pan-European issue and aren't terribly rare, but are still among the more pricey Kinder items on evilBay, due to the very small stickers they need to be found with.

They are full-on 'Steckfiguren', but with the hands, feet, head, tail and legs all identical, there's no real 'swoppet' element, more 'push' or pop-together.

I like the little toe-beans on the underside of the feet, while the very-small looking red-component for the nose is actually a [hidden] larger component, so little fingers (perhaps with a parents help) can put them together. Note also; his rife is a pop-gun with a cork!

As well as the eyes, most models also have some other stick-ons, along with a  small sticker of the model for fridge, wardrobe door or bedstead/headboard . . . parents who don't allow a sticker agglomeration area aren't proper parents! That's it; Kinder, Pink Panthers - box ticked.