Dinosaur eggs

Dinosaur eggs

by Mark Edwards

Dinosaur eggs, made by Willy Wonker, they were similar to gobstoppers but had sherbet in the middle FAB John

Dino Eggs

by Mark Edwards

im looking for a classic sweet, they were individualy boxed and called( dinosaour eggs) if u can locate these i will be willing to buy a whole box…  thanks  demi

dinosaur egg

by michaelp

It was like a small gobstopper (wrapped like an egg) prob 1987 ish had a sours taste and changed colour on sucking. Think they then bought out another variety which was yellow (watermelon?) – would have been the same time as the hot jawbreakers..

  1. Alex Carraro remembers: -

    I loved dinosaur eggs. sweet then sour then sweet as the colours changed. I’d love to see these resurrected like the Texan bar. I have just bought a whole box and stashed it in my shed! I would probably have to buy a concrete bunker to store Dinosaur or Dinosour eggs in if they came back. I bought mine from a corner shop in Northfields London W5. Long since gone and become housing, it used to smell of sherbert and had sticky wooden floorboards from all the generations of dropped sweet powder. Heaven.

  2. sam gladstone remembers: -

    Discovering this amazing sour gobstopper was the only thing I can remember about visiting the Commonwealth Institute on a school trip in the late 70′s! Wow they were good – why did they suddenly stop producing them – they were a hit with every kid I knew – even though they were 10p a kick! (In those days that was a 1/3 of my pocket money…

  3. Bilbo remembers: -

    Are they anything like these?
    http://store.candywarehouse.com/candywarehouse/dinasoureggs.html

  4. Bilbo remembers: -

    or this?
    http://store.candywarehouse.com/giantsours.html
    the reason i ask, is cause i loved dinosaur eggs and im just wondering if anyone has tried the sweets on the links i’ve posted and if they are the same type of thing or not? they sound similar but would they be as good? hhhmmmmm……

Dinasour Egg

by michaelp

It was an egg shaped gob stopper sized sweet which changed colour and flavour as you ate it (all sour flavours). In the middle was a sweet powder. Fantastic for school, since you could take it out of your mouth and blow on it for a few seconds and it would dry without being sticky. [...]

Dinosour eggs

by michaelp

These were AMAZING! They were huge gobstoppers that came in a cardboard box and changed colour as you sucked them. They had a million layers, each a different colour, and we used to suck them for a bit & then put them back in their box to save for later. When you got right to [...]

  1. Allison remembers: -

    I think these are the same thing I used to buy them from the ice cream man in the late 80′s. They were made by willy wonka only the ones I bought came in a plastic wrapper and there were 2 jawbreakers inside. They were the best!

Dinosaur eggs

by michaelp

Came in a box and could be sucked for DAYS (literally) – they were so big at first they barely fit in your mouth and got smaller and smaller – so long ago I can’t remember what was inside but I remember it being amazing!!!! S.G.

  1. Dino sucker remembers: -

    You can get the smaller version still thru candywarehouse.com. Not nearly as good as the larger egg, but may be good….

  2. Katherine Bone remembers: -

    Dinosaur eggs (very popular in the early 1980s) got banned at my school (Neville’s Cross Primary, County Durham). The reason: The kids liked them too much! One boy called Malcolm Whale decided to spend all the pocket money he’d been saving, go 1st thing in the morning to the local post office that sold them, and buy out the entire stock. They cost him 10p each but he was selling them on in a mafia style operation at 50p a shot (and kids were prepared to pay!). The age of Thatcherite private enterprise indeed!!!
    They were the greatest 80s sweets *ever*. In second place for me were Watermelons (massive watermelon flavoured gobstopper in a similar sized box and made by the same company I think)