Ferrero - Natoons

I think everyone knows Ferrero. It's an Italian company with lots of products. Maybe their most well-known product is Nutella. They're also known for Tic Tac and Kinder.
The product I'm going to talk about is Kinder Surprise, a part of Ferrero's Kinder series. Kinder Surprise, also known as Kinder Egg or Kinder Joy (original: Kinder Sorpresa; German: Kinder Überraschung), is a hollow chocolate egg with a plastic egg in the inside. In this egg there is a surprise: a little toy. There are uncountable amounts of series made through the years, from cars to jigsaws, from movie figures to.. Animals!

So there are lots of animal series made for the Kinder Surprise eggs, but in this topic I'm going to talk about one line of series: the Natoons. If I'm correct, there were 98 surprises made for the Natoons series. Some are hard plastic pieces you had to put together yourself, others are rubbery plastic and there was even one range with small paper balloons. Here I'll show you my favourite Natoons.

Most realistic animals

* African Animals [2011]

<sub>Rhino DC001, Hippo DC002, Lion DC003, Leopard DC004

Gorilla DC005, Crocodile DC006, Elephant DC007, Turtle DC008

Chimpansee DC009, African Buffalo DC010, Dromedary DC011</sub>

* Arctic Animals [2012]

<sub>Penguin TR001, Wolf TR002, Seal TR003, Arctic Fox TR004

Polar Bear TR005, Otter TR006, Walrus TR007, Reindeer TR008</sub>

* Animals of the World [2013]

<sub>Crocodile DC006A, Kangaroo FT001, Tiger FT002, Panther FT003

Platypus FT005, Giant Panda FT006, Koala FT007, Ostrich FT008</sub>

* Dangerous Predators [2015]

<sub>Lynx FS019, Puma FS020, Panther FS021, Lion FS022

Tiger FS023; soft variations: Lion FS022, Tiger FS023</sub>

* Animal Planet [2015]

<sub>Leopard DC004A, Eurasian Lynx FS264, Grizzly Bear FS265, European Hare FS266

Red Squirrel FS287, Siberian Tiger FT002A, Gray Wolf TR002A, Red Fox TR004B

Polar Bear TR005, Sea Otter TR006, Walrus TR007</sub>

Cute baby animals

* Baby Arctic Animals [2012]

<sub>Penguin TR009, Wolf TR010, Seal TR011, Arctic Fox TR012

Polar Bear TR013, Otter TR014, Walrus TR015, Reindeer TR016</sub>

* Baby Animals [2013]

<sub>Kangaroo FT009, Tiger FT010, Panther FT011, Crocodile FT012

Platypus FT013, Giant Panda FT014, Koala FT015, Ostrich FT016</sub>

Others

* Pluche Animals [2011]

<sub>Elephant DC018, Lion DC019, Monkey DC020, Hippo DC021

Giant Panda DC022, Polar Bear DC023, Rhino DC024</sub>

Just look how the Baby Arctic Animals and Baby Animals are the same species as their Arctic Animals and Animals of the World friends

These are not my pictures and I don't have all the series complete, but I just wanted to show you what's made in the Natoons series!

I LOVE them ! And I even have some on my smal-model-shelves, they are gifts from good friends, a reaso to love them even more  

THANKYOU for this topic, - Julie, we are very lucky to have you in this forum        

You are doing an amazing job, adding new topic for the small animals
Gosh, those are also very adorable.... You let me see the beauty of the small animal world :3

:) Thank you for showing them Julie :)
I also have 3 of these tiny beauties ....including the arctic fox, which I wanted to send to Roger...but before that, I saw, that he has it already :) ...
How did you find all these models Julie? Theay are from your collection right? :)
I mean. did you eat many chocolate eggs to have them? :)

SUSANNE wrote:

I LOVE them ! And I even have some on my smal-model-shelves, they are gifts from good friends, a reaso to love them even more  

Yes, they're so adorable And indeed, that's a reason to love any figurine!

SUSANNE wrote:

THANKYOU for this topic, - Julie, we are very lucky to have you in this forum        

You're very welcome, Susanne!

NightLioness wrote:

You are doing an amazing job, adding new topic for the small animals

Thank you very much, Karin

NightLioness wrote:

Gosh, those are also very adorable.... You let me see the beauty of the small animal world :3

I understand why most people only collect realistic animal figurines, but these small ones are so lovely as well And I like the variety of species!

costicuba wrote:

:) Thank you for showing them Julie :)

You're welcome!

costicuba wrote:

How did you find all these models Julie? Theay are from your collection right? :)
I mean. did you eat many chocolate eggs to have them? :)

I forgot to note that these aren't my photographs; it's from a site on which you can find all kinds of collections (not just animal figurines). But I do have quite a lot of them. I only ate one chocolate egg (the one with the DC006A crocodile), the others I got from flea markets and thrift stores. They're pretty easy to get here in the Netherlands

Congratulations Julie :)

Thank you for sharing, great reference!

LeeAnn wrote:

Thank you for sharing, great reference!

You're very welcome

Yesterday I was scrolling down eBay in search for lovely animal figurines which seem out of reach, when I came across two lovely Ferrero felines, which looked quite realistic for this children's company. When I searched for them on Catawiki, I found out that they're part of a new Natoons series, which was released only last year. Here they are:

* Dangerous Predators [2015]

<sub>Lynx FS 019, Puma FS 020, Panther FS 021, Lion FS 022, Tiger FS 023

Soft variations: Lion FS 022, Tiger FS 023</sub>

I think it's great that the Natoons series are now specializing on certain animal families - maybe this year canids? I don't understand why Ferrero made soft variations of the lion and tiger only But I prefer the 'normal' versions.

I'll let you know as soon as I find anything on their 2016 Natoons range!

P.S. Pictures not by me!

Love the white tiger!

LeeAnn wrote:

Love the white tiger!

It sure is a lovely figurine! It were actually the white tiger and lynx which I found in the eBay listing, I really love this new series

Last year I found these over here:

bojan wrote:

Last year I found these over here:

OMG those are wonderful! I do recognize some, which are shown in this topic as well. But these forest and desert figurines are just.. Fabulous! I especially love the gray wolf, red fox (Roger!! ) and lynx! These certainly haven't been released here in the Netherlands

Thank you very much for sharing, I really hope I'll come across these as well!

Very interesting ! I'm in love with the Platypus !

They are ever so cute

Thanks Julie and Bojan for sharing these informations! These small collections have surely their own charm.

Tarunyada wrote:

OMG those are wonderful! I do recognize some, which are shown in this topic as well. But these forest and desert figurines are just.. Fabulous! I especially love the gray wolf, red fox (Roger!! ) and lynx! These certainly haven't been released here in the Netherlands

Yes Julie, one more fox to collect!

I just added these series to TAi. I still need to figure out Bojan's extra series, so these will be added later. I only added the 4 'realistic' series to TAi. Do you think I should add the 2012 Baby Arctic Animals and the 2013 Baby Animals to TAi as well or are these too cute/not realistic enough for TAi? And should I add 2011 Pluche Animals as well? Please let me know!

Tarunyada wrote:

I just added these series to TAi. I still need to figure out Bojan's extra series, so these will be added later. I only added the 4 'realistic' series to TAi. Do you think I should add the 2012 Baby Arctic Animals and the 2013 Baby Animals to TAi as well or are these too cute/not realistic enough for TAi? And should I add 2011 Pluche Animals as well? Please let me know!

That's a hard question once it is hard to determine the border between what should be considered realistic and cute looking. Though, not wanting to be an authority on TAI, I think these other series are excessively cartoonish to be added. In my opinion, you listed the right ones.

Roger wrote:

Tarunyada wrote:

I just added these series to TAi. I still need to figure out Bojan's extra series, so these will be added later. I only added the 4 'realistic' series to TAi. Do you think I should add the 2012 Baby Arctic Animals and the 2013 Baby Animals to TAi as well or are these too cute/not realistic enough for TAi? And should I add 2011 Pluche Animals as well? Please let me know!

That's a hard question once it is hard to determine the border between what should be considered realistic and cute looking. Though, not wanting to be an authority on TAI, I think these other series are excessively cartoonish to be added. In my opinion, you listed the right ones.

Thanks for your opinion, Roger! I thought the same about it, so I'll leave it like this (exept for Bojan's series I still have to add, of course!)

I was finally able to find more information on the mysterious series Bojan showed us back in 2016!

* Animal Planet [2015]

<sub>Leopard DC004A, Eurasian Lynx FS264, Grizzly Bear FS265, European Hare FS266

Red Squirrel FS287, Siberian Tiger FT002A, Gray Wolf TR002A, Red Fox TR004B

Polar Bear TR005, Sea Otter TR006, Walrus TR007</sub>

The series is called 'Animal Planet'. I didn't make up the species myself, these are the exact species that show on the leaflets that came with these figurines. It's interesting to see how some of the earlier made molds were reused but have a different paint job (leopard, tiger, wolf and red fox), how some molds are completely new (lynx, bear, hare and squirrel) and how some are completely the same as figurines from earlier series (polar bear, otter and walrus).

I was able to grab the lynx from this series from a second hand store a few months ago, but I'd love to have some of the others as well Roger, do you already have the red fox? Otherwise you can add it to your searchlist!

And I just found this leaflet that goes with the series:


There are four more figurines there. The reindeer (TR008?), the Arctic fox (TR004?) and the seal (TR003) that look like the same figurines from Arctic Animals [2012]. But there's also a warthog, a mold that hasn't occured before in the Ferrero Natoons series. Not sure if the reindeer, Arctic fox and seal are the exact same as the earlier figurines.

And I found something else. Compare the figurines on both pictures:


The figurines on the second picture are cut from the leaflet, so it seems. But it looks like some parts are painted differently. Unfortunately I don't have any of the figurines that can be compared

Tarunyada wrote:

There are four more figurines there. The reindeer (TR008?), the Arctic fox (TR004?) and the seal (TR003) that look like the same figurines from Arctic Animals [2012]. But there's also a warthog, a mold that hasn't occured before in the Ferrero Natoons series. Not sure if the reindeer, Arctic fox and seal are the exact same as the earlier figurines.

I found their product numbers:

Wild boar = FS286
Harp seal = TR003A
Arctic fox = TR004A
Reindeer = TR008A

The A's behind the latter three suggest that they're slightly different than the figurines from Arctic Animals [2012].

Good work Julie, if you ever find any difference on to the Arctic fox, just let me know. By the way, I also miss the red fox.

Congratulations

Roger wrote:

Good work Julie, if you ever find any difference on to the Arctic fox, just let me know. By the way, I also miss the red fox.

I don't have the red fox and second Arctic fox yet, but surely when I find the latter, I'll make some comparison pictures And of course I'll keep an eye out for doubles!!

And now I'm really hoping Ferrero is continuing their Natoons series