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I've also asked about this elsewhere, so now let's try it here;
Who knows whether these gnomes / dwarfs key rings were available at kindersurprise/surprise egg Ferrero or at De Efteling.
I often see them on the internet, but sometimes with reference to Ferrero, other times Efteling.

My question is if anyone has experience with this and whether they got it from a surprise egg or in an amusement park bought it.

Or does anyone have a promotional message about it?
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May 01, 2022 23:01
Definitely no Ferrero and no Efteling. But hey, if you add that in they sell better...

It's a series of key chains dating from the craze, late 1966 to early 1969.
https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/5211361-silver-colored-kabouters

The surprise egg did not exist for 1972 and for the Efteling they are not park-specific enough (and the name is not on them).

They were probably free with certain products (more expensive items, because they are quite luxuriously executed figures), but I have not yet been able to find out which brand.
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On marktplaats there is an ad that talks about soft drinks in the 1970s. It doesn't say which soft drink.
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May 02, 2022 11:43
Sunkist has issued key chains that are somewhat similar (see also background page).
But the gnomes are of somewhat heavier quality, if I remember correctly.
I wouldn't dare say whether we will ever find the answer, 50 years later.
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Thanks for your response, nice to see that Boekenmagazijn . trying to figure it out, I have been collecting metal figures from the surprise egg since 1977, when German catalogs appeared in the early 1990s stating: “ that the dwarfs hatch from the egg is very controversial” and that this sentence in later releases has disappeared and just included as if they were in the surprise egg, is very unsatisfactory to me!
These https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/5211361-silver-colored-gnomes and these https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/447425-dwergen may be merged for me because they are the same items go.
For the people who also like to find out, I share my findings here; I have zero evidence that they were in the surprise egg and that they would have been in it without a pendant is not realistic.
The only evidence I have of Efteling is this teaspoon from the 1960s.

I have also seen these performances that have no relation to Ferrero or Efteling.





I hope more people/puzzlers can solve this mystery.
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I can't recognize what the figure is supposed to represent by that spoon.

I have never seen a seventh 'dwarf' (in the middle), but it is also almost identical to the one on the right, except for right arm holding up the candlestick.

The fact that they can stand upright indicates that they were not designed primarily as a key ring. I can well imagine that someone has bought a batch of figures (eg from a metalware company in Germany) and soldered a ring to them. During the craze, many key rings were also given away (or sold) that had no relationship with the brand or the company.

By the way, I remember from the mid-seventies that there was a small souvenir shop in the Efteling, where all possible junk was sold that had nothing to do with the park. The fact that they were also for sale there cannot be ruled out.
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I did some searching but I found my spoon and immediately put it on LastDodo #9168641 . (is a coarser version)
The middle one is indeed with the candlestick, only the arm is broken.
The bottom photo; those 3 figures are 6 cm high 


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That's strange, that gnome does look the same as #2416127.
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As far as I know, that is also the only one of the 6 gnomes that has appeared on a teaspoon.
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