Something new for all ages

Last week I took my kids grocery shopping. On our way out of the supermarket they always want to stop by the vending machines. So we did.

Much to their excitement the machines have some new toys to choose from.

My fashion conscious 11-year-old daughter’s eyes fell on the machine with 1” True Color Rings . There was everything from hip hot pink, brilliant blue, sunflower yellow, purple and green rings all in different designs including red hearts, flowers, and the classic shapes like squares and ovals.

She put her 25 cents in the machine and much to her delight the capsule with the hip hot pink ring was her prize for the day. Suddenly she’s into going grocery shopping with me all the time. I know it’s only because she wants to get all 15 different rings.

Meantime my seven-year-old son spied the Spy Ear Vending Capsules in another machine. They are 2” capsules with handcuffs, guns, spy ear and more. He’s been playing cops and robbers with the kid next door, so getting the handcuffs was perfect. The he saw the Mini Flashlight capsules and asked for another quarter to get a flashlight to go with the handcuffs. I noticed they all come with a ring for his key chain.

He looked all the flashlights over and had a hard time picking which one he wanted. The choices included a yellow and red purse (not), a yellow lady big, a green tennis racket or a blue hand grenade. When the blue hand grenade came flying out of the chute he decided that was perfect to go along with the handcuffs.

Now it was my other son’s turn to pick a machine. He was all eyes for the Cartoon Projector 2” Vending Capsules. I had never seen them before, so he told me all about them. He said the projectors beam onto any surface and a cartoon image appears. So for a couple of quarters I made one five-year-old happy.

Now my kids want to go grocery shopping with me every week so that they can add to their collection of new toys.

I would imagine that the person who owns those vending machines will be busy keeping them filled since there was a line of kids waiting to spend their quarters on the new toys.

I understand candymachines.com has all these items in bulk.