In reply to TobyA: Yep, great review, and yes the market must surely be ten year old boys (and girls)? If it was for middle aged fantasists surely it would come in matt-black and gunmetal?
My own tobacco tin had a no.2 Opinel, a ration-pack can opener, a lens, rabbit snares, a couple of budgie feathers, fish-hooks and line, needle and thread, some fragments of St Alfred's buns, bulrush fluff tinder in waxed paper, a flint flake I made and some matches that lit under water. I still have the same matches nearly 30 years later, it's just never been quite the right time to use them!
Most of the fun was trying to get hold of the various items Lofty declared would save your bacon when your plane crashed, or the four minute warning sounded, I never managed to get a wire saw
40 quid though? Blimey. A triumph of style over content? And I don't think I'd give a kid that knife, there's nothing to stop your fingers sliding along the blade. A kukri would be far better.