Wow, the last post on here turned out to be prophetic. I found out on Wednesday that the Toys 'R' Us in Times Square was hosting a special version of the Midnight Madness event -- the night where toy stores across the country open their doors at 12 AM to give Star Wars nuts first dibs on all the new Revenge of the Sith merchandise. I'm sure a few of you attended the event in your area, but at this particular TRU, it wasn't just about toys -- it was about costumed M&M's dressed as Star Wars characters, giant Darth Taters and enough "real" Stormtroopers to take down the city. Quite a night we had -- check out the four page report!
So yes, the Sith-craze has officially begun. The stuff is just everywhere. We've covered similar phenomena when Shrek 2 and The Hulk came out, but it's a little different this time, since I actually, you know, like Star Wars. I'll review as much of the crap as time allows, but let's start with a big one: tongue-coloring Star Wars Cheetos!
Illustrated above, moisture makes the cheesy twirls let go of their inner secret colors, staining everything they touch either green or black. What fun! Though I'm sure many will buy these for the novelty factor, I don't think every kid at school's gonna want a lunchtime snack that makes their mouth area look so dirty. As if Cheetos didn't leave enough messy residue already.
That's all for now -- if you participated in any of the midnight events or hit the stores over the weekend, let us know what you picked up! I plan on hitting TRU everyday till I land myself a red Royal Guard. Disgustingly, I'm pretty excited about doing that.
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Just Wow....
Chestnuts roasted by SuperRecoome @ 04/03/2005 07:58 PM EST
Ewww...
Chestnuts roasted by Mechageo @ 04/03/2005 08:13 PM EST
Did Knacks and Kuse make an appearance?
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 04/03/2005 08:55 PM EST
Is there a way of telling what cheeto is going to turn your tounge what? If not that's just going to be a disaster in your mouth.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 04/03/2005 09:02 PM EST
Matt, first off, as a long-time "Star Wars" fan myself, let me tell you...you are envied. MAJORLY envied. I'm 45 minutes from the nearest Toys R Us, but I'll hopefully be making a mall pilgrimge within the next two weeks or so, so god willing, I'll see all those great new toys. What I WON'T see are the guys dressed as everything from Bobba Fett to stormtroopers mingling with a New York crowd on a rainy spring night. That's the kind of "happening" that only happens once every few years, if that.
And Darth Tater. My god, I MUST have Darth Tater. I've been wanting an excuse to replace my much-loved childhood Mr. Potato Head anyway, and here he is. And he even pulls off cute with one of the nastiest villians in film history. Gotta love it.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 04/03/2005 09:06 PM EST
Here's a couple of connections...
On Cheetos: X-E covered a Shrek version that used the same tongue-coloring gimmick.
On Star Wars @ TRU: It's the same TRU that played host to the article where I met Skeletor and Mario Lopez.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/03/2005 09:42 PM EST
Star Wars Cheetos: it's like there's a party in my mouth, and everyone's throwing up. What kind of funky focus group did they have?
Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 04/03/2005 09:58 PM EST
Isn't Darth Tater just darling?
Chestnuts roasted by eight-bit @ 04/03/2005 10:44 PM EST
For those curious, here's what I've picked up so far...
Figures: Padme, Palpatine, Dooku, Blue Senate Guard, Chewbacca, Vader, 3P0, R2, Anakin, General Grievous, and somehow, I ended up with two Mon Mothmas. I had the fever.
Exclusives: Holographic Yoda x3, plus I just ordered two of the Early Bird kits from Walmart's website. Went to two of the stores on Saturday morning and the people working there had no idea what I was asking for. If you're interested in that, I strongly suggest ordering from the site before it's gone forever. Now I just need that Target Lava Vader. 
Dolls: Ultimate Villain Anakin & Darth Sidious. Didn't get the Clone Trooper, but he looked pretty rockin.
Other: Darth Tater, some new small Lego set based on Vader's grand unveiling, and of course, the Darth Vader Voice Changer.
Plus a bunch of food-related items I plan to keep until 2045, at which time they will be eaten.
I'll probably keep going with the Sith stuff since I'm off to such a strong start, and besides, the packaging is way nicer with these than on most of the figs that have come out in recent years.
I almost forgot how fun this was. Thank the Lord I work across the fucking street from a TRU...how absolutely perfect.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/03/2005 10:52 PM EST
Now this is the article I was waiting for!! I didn't go to the midnight unveiling but I went to K-MART, TRU, TARGET, and WAL-MART yesterday. I only bought the new Darth Vader BUT Target bput some of their "older" stuff on clearance. I got a blue lightsaber for 1.74!!
Hands down, WALMART had the best display. It is no Times Square but at least my town has all of these shops (starwenn, you have my sympathies). They had couple of big displays and a cutout that let you could talk into a sound like Vader.
TRU had a nice display and Target had people taking pictures (XE fans??) and loading up shopping carts.
I guess I will have to nickel and dime the figures for the next 40 years.....
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 04/03/2005 10:56 PM EST
Oh yeah, I got a TON of food items too and mailed off for some of the KELLOGG's premiums. I have some of the boxes in the classroom already (!).
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 04/03/2005 10:57 PM EST
Shit, no TRU within 100 miles. I really would have loved to go to this. I attending the Episode I Midnight Madness in California, and while I was broke and couldn't buy anything, I had a blast. I can't believe the Episode II MM passed me by.
Matt, you live in, what, an apartment? With another person? You sleep outside or something?
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 04/03/2005 11:13 PM EST
Hey, the target Darth Vader is available on their website now. Hurry, supplies are limited! I'd paste the address to it here but it would totally screw up your formatting, and I wouldn't want to do that to you. www.target.com there is a link right on the front. Plus, what is with you lack of Jedi?? That's all I bought. Jedi are sweet.
Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 04/04/2005 12:02 AM EST
The cheese doodles scare me.
Chestnuts roasted by Modern Day Pirate @ 04/04/2005 12:13 AM EST
Everyone needs to check out that link at the bottom of the article, since Ted Leo is pretty much the best thing ever. And the Ditty Bops are freaking adorable.
That article made my night as it was, but Ted Leo covering Kelly Clarkson? Solid gold.
Chestnuts roasted by Jeffster @ 04/04/2005 12:16 AM EST
WHOA. Great coverage, you really captured the mood. Darth Tater is the coolest, but that Obi-Wan M is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I just saw the ad for the LEGO® Star Wars™ video game today, and it got me a little giddy. I've been anticipating Sin Cith and Hitchhiker's a lot, but haven't really gotten excited over Star Wars until now. I'll probably end up going on opening night, but I don't think I'd be willing to wait as long as I had to for the last two movies.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/04/2005 12:45 AM EST
It was a sad night in the end.
I dragged my poor girlfriend to the local Toys R Us store. One store which in fact I had fond memories of as a kid. In comparison to the May '99 unveiling (which there were like 500 people on line) there were about 50 or so this time. I watched as greedy hands and desperate collectors tore apart the store to fufill their sick, dirty, habit. I looked on, only merely to see some of the neat stuff I do not need nor can I afford. In the end I left with nothing. I knew this was a benchmark moment. I had spent too much time when I was younger collecting hunks (of beautiful well sculpted plastic) of plastic that would collect dust in storage. This was the beginning of the end of my youth. It was fun to live thrrough the younger kids buying crap with bright eyes and reckless abandon. I knew it was time to move on. I felt kinda empty by the time I had hit the car. At 26, the saga had ended.
Chestnuts roasted by Jerry Horror @ 04/04/2005 01:06 AM EST
I also must express my affections for The Ditty Bops. I work at Barnes and Noble and their CD has been one of our plays for a couple monnths. First time I heard it, I said to all my coworkers that I'm marrying those gals.
About Star Wars, I don't have much to say. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, they say. As for me, ignorance is bliss. On the other hand, I have a Darth Tater and I love the little fella.
Matt, I must give acclaim to your Leia's-failure-to-rescue-Han reference. It's a moment not much discussed, but always revered, and always relevant.
By the by, I read the last three pages of the novelization--the twist ending is that Anakin rejects the darkside creating a timespace paradox in which IV, V, and VI never happen and dissappear from store shelves across the country and from our minds.
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 04/04/2005 01:33 AM EST
When I was a kid the Jawa figure was the hardest to come by. We used to wait at K-Mart until they put new ones out.
Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 04/04/2005 01:43 AM EST
I am currently eating the "Darth Mix" peanut dark chocolate M & M's. I can feel my brain dissolving.
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 04/04/2005 02:01 AM EST
That was a fantastic read! Darth Tater needs to be one of an entire line of potato Star Wars toys. I'd kill to see a potato Han riding a non-potato Tauntaun.
P.S. I think these are two typos, and normally you appreciate those being caught:
"One to keep, one to open and one to sell one of you poor freaks for three hundred dollars."
"... along with a few other images the serve the church of sacreligion."
Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 04/04/2005 04:58 AM EST
There's something special about seeing a box containing Darth Vader with a message on the packaging saying: "WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD".
Chestnuts roasted by Photoboy @ 04/04/2005 06:47 AM EST
Eddie -- thanks!
"Sacreligion" is a gag word that sounds better than it reads.
The other one is jumbled a bit, yes, I'll fix that later, yes.
Photoboy: Hell yes.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/04/2005 09:11 AM EST
I always thought that a good Star Wars food tie-in the Lucas people overlooked was the Han Solo frozen in carbonite chocolate bar. Maybe some kinda white chocolate Han inside the dark chocolate carbonite. Then I could eat him. I'm not sure that's a good thing. Now I know why they backed off from it.
Chestnuts roasted by Dags @ 04/04/2005 09:18 AM EST
Ah, you didn't manage to buy Aayla Secura, which I tore apart the local TRU on Sunday looking for. If you'd found one, I'd have to kill you. Oddly enough, they had plenty of Luminaras, which was the figure I kept looking for for episode II and never managed to find.(Granted, the ep III sculpt of Luminara stinks compared to the ep II one. The entire reason I wanted her was because of the dynamic pose.)
Anyway, regardless of the movie, Episode 3 has already provided a few positives. It has made dark chocolate M&Ms commonly available.
Also, Twi'lek boobies.
Chestnuts roasted by Regault @ 04/04/2005 09:26 AM EST
I too, indulged myself, but not to the same degree as the more fanatical.
I got up and headed to Walmart at about 730 on Saturday morning.
After perusing the figures there (still wish i'd've grabbed a jedi starfighter) i headed to Target, where i had a $1 off EVERY figure coupon. Granted, the prices BEFORE coupon amounted to my $1 off being good for $.25 off the Walmart price, but hey, it's a quarter. If anyone wants to argue that logic, please send me your quarters!!!
I picked up the Target Exclusive Vader, Yoda, Grievous (standard, not deluxe), Grievous' bodyguard, and Ayla Secura.
Can anyone tell me which figures (aside from the store exclusives) are supposed to be the hard to get ones???
Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/04/2005 10:08 AM EST
It seems the red royal guard and #33 and up are the harder to find ones. If you really need your star wars toy fix head over to rebelscum.com that's rebel scum, not rebels cum. I don't wanna sound queer or anything, but i think the second one is pretty funny.
Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 04/04/2005 10:12 AM EST
This would have been cool if it was true. I kind of hoped it was. Check out the March 31, 2005 entry. (or pick up the latest Wizard Magazine)
http://comicriot.blogspot.com/
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 04/04/2005 10:23 AM EST
Regault, i just noticed you were tearing up TRU for Aayla. I'll sell you mine...
...for $300. =)
Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/04/2005 10:27 AM EST
Wow...just wow. I suddenly realized that Lucas is going to need to buy another ranch to store his money.
Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 04/04/2005 10:38 AM EST
Thanks Mike!!!
Wish I'd've had this list on Saturday! Most of them were at my fingertips.
I didn't know...i didn't know...
Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/04/2005 10:45 AM EST
I bought Darth Tater on Sunday but I think I might have to go back for the Blue Royal Guard, it's too cooh looking.
I bought Palpatine for 50 cents at a yard sale that same Sunday.
The 12" Anakin looks cool from far away but when you really look at it you can tell it's a rehash of a 12" 90's GI JOES that are more like a muscled up Ken doll then a posable action figure. They are cool, but not 50 dollars cool.
Most of Wal-Marts toy section is Star Wars! Two main aisles are filled with large box displays filled with legos, action figures, and books and there are lots of stand-ups everywhere in the store. Then there are two sections in the action figure asile with star wars. Very neat.
Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 04/04/2005 11:23 AM EST
Matt Great article, having had to stock our local tru star wars feature zone, I swore I wouldnt look at another figure for weeks, , lol. WRONG! came home and read your treatment on Ill keep my eyes peeled out here for a red guard for you. Thanks for making it worthwhile to stock those shelves with all those yodas.
Chestnuts roasted by Fast Framin Tessa @ 04/04/2005 12:31 PM EST
The missed opportunity? Not finding a way to photo all three Vaders ogether! Were I there, I would have used all my secret power to tweak Fate and get them together, but on retrospect, waayyy too many heads would have 'sploded. What I miss most, from the first blitz back in the 70's, is the metric tons of rip-offs. Literally overnight, the bags of army guys, cowboys and indians, and their tanks and horses, were replaced by aliens, robots, and starships that hurt like hell when you stepped on them with bare feet.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/04/2005 12:33 PM EST
I just watched the Episode III trailers for the first time... how... mind-blowingly awesome!
I wasn't expecting the level of anticipation I'm currently experiencing.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 04/04/2005 12:33 PM EST
My entire weekend was consumed in a mix of alcohol and toy buying...I was at the midnite madness at our TRU, and one of the 12 who were lucky enough to get the yoda. Then on the way home I blew out a tire on my car...by the time I got home I was so angry I just stayed up all nite and headed to Target first thing the next morning for my lava vader...and yes I also snagged the Darth Tater...which is now my 2nd favorite thing in my SW collection
Chestnuts roasted by oldschool @ 04/04/2005 12:44 PM EST
Hi Matt! Thanks for such an excellent coverage on the debut of the Sith craze! I got meself a Darth Tater too recently, way before it was out officially in stores. I am a great appreciator of what you do on XE Matt, but with all due respect, when are you gonna do away with the Xmas decos already? 
Chestnuts roasted by Fairy Mahdzan @ 04/04/2005 12:50 PM EST
I wasn't one to be bothered by the Christmas decorations, but now I'm fully behind a campaign to tear them town and throw up some SW theme and start a countdown to Vader.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 04/04/2005 01:01 PM EST
That was a great enrty! I was the lone Death Star Gunner in Times Square that evening. And yes, I was caught up in the excitement too!! I'm glad this was a positive experience for you. It's always nice to help provide the illusion of the Star Wars Universe to grateful fans! Thanks again for the kind words.
Chestnuts roasted by Diane (TieDi) @ 04/04/2005 01:51 PM EST
RE the Boba Fett costume
Because I'm a dork, I've got the Boba Fett figure from EpII hanging off my computer. That dude's costume is an almost perfect reproduction of that figure, down to the crotch plate damage.
It does look a little off, if you're comparing it to the original Fett figure/character, but it's an exact copy of the EpII Fett.
Jesus I'm a dork.
Chestnuts roasted by That Guy @ 04/04/2005 01:53 PM EST
holy jesus, mother and sith!!!! (yeah, that's not a typo)
I hadn't been so stunned since I found out that the Alien kubrick toys open their mouths to let the tiny second jaws come out...
I'd have given at least five of my 20 fingers/toes (no matter which) to be there and to take a Darth Tatter with me...
It's the biggest and most amazing Star Wars orgy I've ever seen and I'm sure the general cosmic feeling had to be simply awesome.
oh my oh my...can't wait for the release...
and this time I'll go dressed up as Darth Vader...it's the last oportunity to do do...I'll be a geek for the last time
Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 04/04/2005 02:38 PM EST
Well, I went there during the lunch break...
Incredible. Tons of collectors (kids too, but mostly collectors) were still lurking around. TRU's taken to just throwing hundreds of action figures in giant bins...kind of silly, because nearly half of the packages got so busted up that I can't see anyone possibly buying them.
Picked up a Clone Trooper, Super Battle Droid and REGULAH! Battle Droid.
It's safe to say that, at least in my area, the red Royal Guard and Grievous' bodyguard are two of the toughest to find. Haven't seen a single of each yet.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/04/2005 02:50 PM EST
Just got back from lunch, and stopped by Wal-Monolith to scope out the toys. Now, I really want Darth Tater! And Greivous' stylin' mono-bike! And both the TV games! Anyone who lives close to my part of Oklahoma might want to swing by the Anadarko store to see if they have any thing you can't find anywhere else. We may be out-of-the-way, but at least we're hard to find.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/04/2005 02:59 PM EST
Matt, as you know, I work in a KB store here on LI (the West Babylon store if you ever trek out here).
And we had a LOT of Grievous's Bodyguards here. And I did come across a Red Palace Guard. The nerds that were in there either bought it and I didn't notice it (I rang them up) or I put it away and couldn't find it again.
Amd I have not seen the Blue Senate Guard here. One of the rarest figures here was regular Vader.
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 04/04/2005 03:05 PM EST
I've seen plenty of Vaders here, yet TRU was limiting sales on him and Grievous to one per customer.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/04/2005 03:11 PM EST
Target offers a $900 Vader mask. I'm curious, is anyone here, or anywhere for that matter, fanatical enough to spend that much?
Also, interestingly, the Halloween costume version of the mask from amazon.com costs around $55, which is more than twice as much as the much cooler voice changing toy mask.
On an unrelated note, am I the only one who roots for the empire when they watch the original trilogy?
Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 04/04/2005 03:53 PM EST
Apperently, I'm always cheering for the wrong side when I watch certain westerns.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/04/2005 03:57 PM EST
Heeeeey, I saw a few red guards. Why are they so special now when a few years ago they were out and weren't so popular?
Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 04/04/2005 04:04 PM EST
Kennef: Plastic robes suck. Cloth robes rock.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/04/2005 04:27 PM EST
I was just at wal-mart and they had a bunch of vaders, I saw a grievous bodyguard, but what I'm really jonesing for is a red royal guard. I love those guys. And cloth robes are totally bomb ass sweet!
Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 04/04/2005 05:03 PM EST
Also, did you order your target exclusive vader from the target website yet Matt? I put my homepage as the direct link to it, instead of shipping in 4 to 8 weeks now it says 24 hours!
Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 04/04/2005 05:05 PM EST
Got the last one in the store. Let me know if you want it, Matt.
http://www.batsbelfry.com/3401.jpg
bat@batsbelfry.com
Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 04/04/2005 05:08 PM EST
Thanks for the coverage. I was one of the Biker Scouts at the event. Although I wasn't the one with the neck showing. Hehehe.
Chestnuts roasted by Natasha @ 04/04/2005 05:10 PM EST
Wow...just wow. I suddenly realized that Lucas is going to need to buy another ranch to store his money.
He'll just build more studios. You no doubt heard on 60 Minutes that he built a gigantic, expensive studio for ILM to move into on his ranch, then bought a larger area and abandoned that building in two months.
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 04/04/2005 05:46 PM EST
I like the Star Wars M&Ms with all the different bags. They r0x0R5.
Chestnuts roasted by Wilkersons_Revenge @ 04/04/2005 06:51 PM EST
Alright, you've convinced me. I'm excited about the new Star Wars. I was kind of pissed about it at first...bitter, I guess. But I feel the frenzy now.
In relation to the Kool Aid article from a few days ago-I saw a girl with a Kool Aid purse on Saturday. It looked like a bunch of packets stitched together, maybe three wide by one deep by one tall, but the packets were metallic and more the size of a Capri Sun. Definitely Kool Aid though. Wasn't close enough to see what it was actually made of-if it was printed onto fabric or plastic or what. Still, pretty awesome.
Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 04/04/2005 09:06 PM EST
Manimal: Thanks. I live in a small southern New Jersey resort town; the only place near me to get toys is K-Mart. I've got a birthday and a vacation from work coming soon, though, so I'll hopefully have the money and the time to take a look at all the new stuff.
Oh, and I saw the "M-pire" M&Ms while I was running errands today in CVS. Way too cute. I was tempted to try the milk chocolate ones because the blue M&M was supposed to be Han Solo and he's always been my favorite, but I gave in to the dark side. It was something new. I probably won't again. They're nifty-looking, but too bitter for me. :p
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 04/04/2005 09:27 PM EST
great article. i was one of the jedi at the event (the younger bearded one). that had to have been one of the best nights of my life. however i left with nothing as most of my money was spent on that blasted costume i made.
however, the experience was well worth it.
Chestnuts roasted by darth nevoc @ 04/04/2005 09:37 PM EST
Sounds like YOU had a fun night. WAAAAHHH! I WANNA GO TO TIMES SQUARE TOYS R US AGAIN SO BADLY! WAAAAAHH!!
Chestnuts roasted by Dragonrider @ 04/04/2005 09:42 PM EST
DAMN YOU MATT!! I bought a Darth Tater. We went to the mall to get E.Claire's portrait done (very cute by the way) and I took her to the Kay-Bee (aka: she was my cover). I saw Darth Tater there and....I guess your article got me all juiced up.
Saw plenty of Grevious bodyguards but no Imperial Red guard.
MANIMAL TALLY OF EPISODE III CRAP-1 Darth Vader
1 Darth Tater
1 poster
1 coloring book/activity book
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 04/05/2005 12:39 AM EST
I went to my local TRu for midnight madness..
Got the Holo Yoda, then got up early for the Lava Vader...
Then got pissed when i found out I could have
A) Gone to bed earlier
and
B) Slept in later..
And just ordered both online.
Crap.
You should have a Midnight madness survey:
How many people saw fully grown men push 10 year olds out of the way to get a blue royal guard??
* <--- That means "one" here!
Good times.
Chestnuts roasted by Tyler @ 04/05/2005 01:39 AM EST
I have a confession to make... I bought Darth Tater about 2 weeks ago, but haven't opened him yet. 
I will tomorrow! I promise!
If I didn't work at TRU, maybe this midnight thing would've been more exciting to me. I didn't get to work the actual midnight shift, but don't get me started on that...
But, ohh, the joy of being able to go in the stockroom and tear open a fresh box of figurines and pick through them before anyone else, and all by yourself. 
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 04/05/2005 02:09 AM EST
Matt - I forgot to ask, are the dark chocolate M&M's vegan by any chance? I know some dark chocolate doesn't have milk, but I was curious about these and haven't seen/inspected them yet.
They probably aren't.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 04/05/2005 02:35 AM EST
I'd say the Star Wars Legos video game is the oddest thing i've actually seen so far. I thought the commercial was a joke at first but i was dead wrong. I mean the concept of Star Wars legos is perfectly fine but basing a game off of it seems like a little too much. My fave Star Wars viedo games were the SNES trilogy and Masters of Tera Kasi (not sure if the name is exactly right) for PS-1. It was a 2-D 3-D fighting game with most of the main good and bad guys available, although Vader had to be unlocked using a code. I liked how the name of the sandperson (i think it was one of the sandpeople) was Hoar. Plus it was kick ass to blast someone with Boba Fett's backpack misslie launcher and was always a fan of the move where Luke just chucks his lightsaber at his opponent. Well enough of my blabbing.
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 04/05/2005 02:39 AM EST
You know, this is just...wow...
It's almost sickening. People are going Star Wars retarded, and like in three months they'll be shoveling this shit into a hole and having ridiculous clearance sales cause there is just TOO MUCH! I went to the M&Ms site and I was just dumbfounded and how whored out this movie is, and how they aren't even like being modest. "YOU MUST BUY OUR SHIT OR DARTH VADER WILL RAPE YOU."
And yet, I just bought Star Wars cereal. God bless America.
Chestnuts roasted by Kris @ 04/05/2005 02:49 AM EST
Don't know what to say that hasn't already been said, but sounds like you really had a blast, Matt.
I'm glad you had such a good time and passed the fun on to us in a wonderfully massive article. :smile:
P.S. Darth Tater RULES!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 04/05/2005 03:30 AM EST
Loved the article Matt, I never got into collecting the prequel toys, but for some reason Ep. III has got me excited. Bought 23 of the figures this weekend plus Anakin's FX light saber. Yes it was an all SW geek-out weekend for me. Now I'm waiting for some Revenge of the Sith breakfast cereal tie-ins.
Chestnuts roasted by Dain @ 04/05/2005 04:51 AM EST
You should've seen my Wal-Mart. I work at one in California, and they rented out a horrible looking vader costume with round candy-like buttons for his chest plate, tennis shoes and no gloves! My DV costume from 2 years ago looked better than that, and it was a cheap piece of crap! Plus the guy in the costume was an openly gay employee. (I mean that as no offense to him. He's a great guy that gets along good with everyone.) Plus for some reason they had him holding two lightsabers. One, the appropriate red, and the other Mace Windu Purple. So there ya have it. The gay, gloveless two saber-toting Darth Varder. The next day they needed a volunteer. Instead of doing it quietly as not to dissapoint the kids, they say over the loudspeaker, "If any employee would like to be Darth Vader, please dial 120."
Chestnuts roasted by JoJo @ 04/05/2005 05:55 AM EST
This is a great article because I'll never get visit anything like this.
Let us hear you using the voice changer!
Death star gunners had cool hats!
Chestnuts roasted by dfgdfg @ 04/05/2005 08:00 AM EST
Being in the UK, we are of course denied any respect by any of the toy/confection companies: just asked M&Ms if the Dark Side sweets will be out over here, and here's the reply I got: "Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding the M&Ms/Star Wars promotion which is currently running in USA.
We have no plans at present to introduce a similar promotion in the UK." I want that dark sweetness!
Chestnuts roasted by DantheMan @ 04/05/2005 08:14 AM EST
I don't think the dark choc M&M's would be vegan. They actually don't taste much different than the originals.
To those outside the U.S. craving dark chocolate goodness, I'm sure one of us here could hook you up.
Oh, I hit Target last night...fever's starting to wear off, but not enough for me to pass down the first G's Bodyguard I've seen yet. Also got a couple of hot Jedi chicks. Didn't see the Lava Vader or any of the figure/glass sets, because this Target wanted to hurt my feelings.
I picked up the cereal, tho. Will review this week.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/05/2005 09:22 AM EST
Matt I can't wait for a review of some of the new SW crapola. I'm going out again tonight to look for and get more!!! I'm an addict!
Plus I can't wait to see what kind of trouble some of the new figures get into...(aka I'm Jonesin' for a new figurine skit)
Thanks, as always, for the site Matt!
Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/05/2005 09:39 AM EST
I've been to the Toys R Us in Times Sqaure. The first thing I said when I walked through the door was "Happy Birthday Allison" (although it was 8 months until my birthday). But, anyways, this store is like your ultimate childhood dreams come true. Toys everywhere, and a whole section of Care bears.
Those Cheetos are nasty!! I just ate breakfast a little while ago (I'm @ college right now--Go Stockton!), and the Apple Jacks, orange juice, tea, and Blueberry Yogurt in my stomach just turned. Yuck. Sorry to be explanative of what I ate this morning, but its not that bad. Nah, I'll be ok.
Hey kingklash, I had to watch a western movie for a writing assignment, and let me tell you, this movie was bad. I rooted for the wrong side too. I also thought it looked like the audio track was a little off, but I later found out that the movie was from West Germany, dubbed in English. It even had this classic scene in which a few of the pioneers in the film, including the token girl, were on a log raft being pulled down a trecherous river. It looked like they so used a blue screen, and the terror on their faces was so artificial. I could have done it better, and I'm not really much of an actor!!!!
As for Star Wars, brace yourselves--I'm not interested. The one guy I work with loves it, and told me one day "We have enough time to watch Episodes 4, 5, and 6. I wanted to die right then and there.
I don't care much for sci-fi, but I LOVE Quantum Leap (though its not much of a sci-fi program). I LOVE Sam Beckett!!!!!!!! there, I said it.
Great work story (from my adventures in the video store)--my brother, who worked there before I did, and one of his best friends (who worked with both of us during two separate summers at the store) used to use rolled-up movie posters at lightsabers and yell "whoosh!!" in slo-mo. I wish I could have seen it firsthand, but they did a pretty good re-enactment at my house 3 years ago. IT was great.
Matt, the Cheetos look nasty, but I like M&M's. Great article. Hope you feel better.
Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 04/05/2005 09:46 AM EST
Darth Tater is nowhere to be found. I need to kill. I lashed out at every store clerk in town yesterday.
*sigh*
Chestnuts roasted by Bryan @ 04/05/2005 10:04 AM EST
Dammit! Here in Korea, there are NO toys to be seen....I was in Seoul this weekend though, and I saw a killer Ep. III movie poster up at a bus stop- this is a sign that at least I will get to see the movie when it comes out....even though I have no promotional tie-ins to help quench my thirst until that happy day.
Man, I am looking forward to this movie- there's NO way this one can suck- they have too much great story to tell.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 04/05/2005 10:11 AM EST
I SO wanted a lightsaber spoon (and also some breakfast) so I went out shopping. Do you think I could find one box of anything Kelloggs remotely tied to Star Wars? Nope. The cereal selections hadn't been restocked since last summer. The safest box for consumption was a Summer Olympics edition of Frosted Flakes. How very disappointing.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 04/05/2005 10:28 AM EST
One of my greatest regrets is giving my Star Wars action figures to my cousin when I was a kid. Because they were "boy toys" and I didn't appreciate them then. I do now! What a stupid child I was.
Chestnuts roasted by Rosella @ 04/05/2005 10:42 AM EST
Jojo, he's gay darth vader, he has to have a purple sword. That purple telly tubby said so.
Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 04/05/2005 10:55 AM EST
HAHA Kennef!!! TOOO Funny!!!
I'm trying to picture DARTH GAYDER, and it's freakin' hilarious!!! Somehow, just not quite as menacing!!!
Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/05/2005 11:08 AM EST
Skeletor tells Superman to get to work.
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 04/05/2005 11:16 AM EST
Was Darth using his Gayder Gay-dar? *snort* Sorry, that was so Captain Hero of me. Sounds like a bad sketch show premise.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/05/2005 11:26 AM EST
Oh we could get into a whole gay Star Wars thing now if we so chose, couldn't we? Darth Gaydar, Luke Buttf@#$er, Princess Lesbo Jabbin the B...well you get the idea.
I'm really very mature.
Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 04/05/2005 11:56 AM EST
Weirdly, since moving to inner suburban Ottawa from outer suburban Montreal in December, I have a Toys R' Us within easy walking distance for the first time in my life yet I did not avail myself of the opportunity to see if they had any "Midnight Madness" events at midnight on early Saturday morning, partially because I forgot, and partially because I was writing an extra long blog entry about my job interview and other assorted stuff of little interest to X-E readers (well, aside from maybe talking a little bit about the Powerpuff Girls Z anime, which I initially took to probably be an April Fool's Day joke, but it's legitimate news, presumably being made to be shown on Cartoon Network on both sides of the Pacific).
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/05/2005 01:29 PM EST
By the way, the marketing of the "Dark Chocolate" M&M's is ingenious, not just for the whole Star Wars "M-Pire" tie-in, but because the candies themselves are imbued with a couple of lesser-known Sith abilities: the dreaded Sith Laxative effect, and the shuddersome Sith Ultimate Canine Death Bringer should your dog eat a few of them by accident.
Or is the dark chocolate laxative effect just an urban legend? A little Internet research reveals that it's only a problem with sugar-free dark chocolate. Well, I'm not going to let facts get in the way at my pathetic jabs at making a joke.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/05/2005 02:17 PM EST
The culprits are Sorbitol, Maltitol, or any artificial ingredient that gifts sugar-free candy with the small print 'Excessive consumption may result in laxitve effect.' Translation: You even look at it funny and you're cursed with the Green Apple Two-Step.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/05/2005 02:28 PM EST
I simply cannot resist the Mpire chocolates. There are 72 different bags that all have really cute M&M's dressed as different characters with one liners. Mine features Red as a storm trooper and Blue as Boba Fet saying "A little round for a Stormtrooper, aren't you?"
The checkout boy loved it, but that might also have been my feminine charms.
(And no, I didn't get the sugar free)
Chestnuts roasted by jc @ 04/05/2005 04:56 PM EST
Coincidently while reading the article, the ice cream truck passes by and what do they have?...
Darth Vader Ice Cream Bars with gumball eyes.
Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 04/05/2005 06:31 PM EST
Just got the 2005 Special Edition Lego catalog in the mail. There's an awesome $300, 3,000 piece Star Destroyer and some kind of wheel bike contraption for General Grevious that looks kind of cool. And now some of the figures have lightsabers that really light up! Not Yoda though, he's just got a stick. A return to classic form, I guess.
Anybody else swinging between exhilaration and gloom about all the Star Wars fun? I wish I could just enjoy it, but whenever I start to get excited I feel like I should keep it in check so I'm not utterly disappointed when I actually see the movie. I know I should just appreciate it for the fun that it is (Darth Vader potatoes! M & M's that work for the Empire! Spoons that look like swords!) but I'm having trouble. Hopefully I can get the funk out of my system early...any suggestions?
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/05/2005 08:14 PM EST
Just got the voice changing mask. Wearing it right now. For the record, looking at a computer screen through the this things will give you a headache. Ny only other complaint with the thing is the packaging. The open front thing made it so that every mask was scuffed and scratched to hell.
A wanted to get a Darth Tater too, but they were sold out.
Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 04/05/2005 10:24 PM EST
I can't believe it, I WAS THERE AND I DIDN'T RUN INTO MATT! My one chance at X-E immortality, ruined by the fact that I work in the back unloading trucks...
Why oh why did fate not put me on register.
Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 04/05/2005 11:15 PM EST
I MISSED IT!!! I DIDN"T EVEN KNOW IT EXISTED!!! GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On a lighter note, yeah JLAJRC, I would like to see that produced. If only it were real.
Chestnuts roasted by TOM @ 04/06/2005 12:41 AM EST
Star Wars and Cheetos.. a match made in geek heaven!
Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 04/06/2005 04:36 AM EST
You think the dudes behind "Clone Wars" would be interested in making an animated "Shadows of the Empire?"
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/06/2005 11:18 AM EST
NO! Christmas stays!
This reminds me of the Christmas episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete..
WHICH BY THE WAY, IS BEING RELEASED ON DVD!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007Y08LA/qid=1112806971/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-7758802-4887307?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846
Not enough for you? How about some Clarissa Explains It All?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007Y08LK/qid=1112807044/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-7758802-4887307?v=glance&s=dvd
BAM!
And Nickelodeon isn't done there, either. I hear Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Salute Your Shorts, and You Can't Do That On Television are coming to DVD, too. Although it might depend on the sales of the first releases.
Don't you work at Nick, Matt? And they don't tell you this kind of stuff? Kill them.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 04/06/2005 01:08 PM EST
They made our leader swear on DangerMouse's eyepatch not to tell the greatest secrets of the First Network For Kids ahead of time, under threat of making his apartment even smaller that it is now. They have that kind of power. I heard things about the reign of Gerry Laybourne that would make Sith Lords cry and cower in a corner with their Tickle-Me-Dooku. I, for one, would not cross the Elder God known as Viacom.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash still has a crush on Moose from YCDTOTV @ 04/06/2005 01:42 PM EST
When I was a kid I lived and breathed Star Wars and horded all the toys like they were gold. I still love the movies and watch the original trilogy at least once a week but I just can't get excited about the new toys no matter how much I try. I feel like a traitor to the alliance.
I am very pleased to here about the classic Nick shows coming to DVD! Thanx for the info Matt (#2?)
Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 04/06/2005 06:37 PM EST
kingklash mentioned 70s ripoffs taking over the stores as soon as Star Wars took off.
Must be my parents resorted to purchasing said ripoffs. I just discovered my childhood lightsabers are counterfeits. Believe it or not I think I love them all the more for being rip-offs for now I can really smack people with them without fear of destroying a vintage Star Wars toy.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 04/06/2005 07:56 PM EST
Just got back from Wal-mart. I actually took my 6yo to buy some Star Wars toys (yes, finally).
Anyway,they must've had like 10 of those Prego Padme figures. I almost bought one, just because.
I'm guessing that there won't be any gratuitous scenes in Ep3 showing how THAT happened! HA!
Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/06/2005 08:32 PM EST
YCDTOTV is tied up in legal junk from what I heard, and won't be hitting DVD anytime soon.
But Danger Mouse will be on DVD VERY soon.
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 04/07/2005 01:37 AM EST
-->> ..after all them Cheetos..
.. i now what colour my vomit's gonna be !!
Chestnuts roasted by ~tOkK @ 04/07/2005 07:24 AM EST
Salute Your Shorts, Pete & Pete, Clarissa, Are u Afraid of the Dark- all on DVD??? Awesome- SNICK lives! Man, Nickelodeon USED to be good.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 04/07/2005 01:01 PM EST
Y'know, Carri, a few months ago, we had a thread going about bootlegs and knock-offs, where we discovered that there is a small hub of collectors who specialize in such. I, myself, thouroughly enjoy boot-offs and knocklegs of Transformers/Japanese robots.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/07/2005 01:09 PM EST
I don't know if anyone was aware of this, but last night's (4/6) episode of The Daily Show covered the Times Square TRU Midnight Madness event.
The included everything basically covered here, from nerds in costumes, to Darth Tater (with the guy in the suit), and the Red M&M Jedi, as well as their Moment of Zen being one of those nerds saying that they admit being too old for the toys.
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 04/07/2005 03:00 PM EST
I could see the fun in collecting knock-off toys. Alot of them are pretty funny - especially the packaging.
My all time favorite bootleg toy was a "Cauliflower Child" I saw during Cabbage Patch fever years. The thing came packaged in a poorly crafted giant plastic Cauliflower. At the time I just thought an unfortunate Cabbage Patch had been sucked into a Body Snatchers pod.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 04/07/2005 03:18 PM EST
Invader Norbert: I also watched that episode of The Daily Show. As soon as I saw it I thought of XE and for whatever reason thought I'd be able to see Matt...I didn't though I was actually gonna comment on that episode...but guess I got beaten to it
Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 04/07/2005 05:55 PM EST
I just watched the footage and I didn't see Matt? I thought I was looking carefully...
Last night's ep of The Daily Show is about to air again, for those of us on the west coast, and it should be on again tonight at 11:30.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/07/2005 10:01 PM EST
I saw 'im. Leather jacket and red bag, full of goodies! Pretty cool.
Anyone like The Residents? Hear the new album, Animal Lover? It's great, I like it a lot!
It's too bad about YCDTOTV,but I have heard about the legal woes as the reason we haven't seen them in like 20 years! Maybe someday though. I for one am not a big BIG SNICK fan. I was a little bit older than that; I would really like to see Today's Special, one of the older shows on the network. For that matter, is Pinwheel out on DVD? That would rock!
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 04/07/2005 10:49 PM EST
Are these margins fucked up for anyone else?
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 04/07/2005 10:50 PM EST
kidneyboy -
They are fucked up for me when I am in Firefox but not in Internet Explorer. No clue why that is, though.
Chestnuts roasted by James McQuiston @ 04/08/2005 01:04 AM EST
I think it's the link that Matt(#2?) posted that's streatching everything out and making me have to scroll horizontally.
Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 04/08/2005 01:11 AM EST
I'm in Firefox and the margins are messed. Happens any time somebody posts a too long URL.
Thanks for the tip, kidney. Everyone has red bags though 
If you're looking, just watch for the girl with purple hair, then look for Matt to swoop by to the left fiddling with the camera.
The Daily Show coverage wasn't that great. The return of Produce Pete was way better. The best part of the Star Wars coverage was the Moment of Zen, which someone already mentioned, where a young man announces "I have a ridiculous amount of toys I'm too old to own".
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/08/2005 02:04 AM EST
I saw the Darth Vader play sprinkler at Target yesterday. . .it was too cool for words.
Chestnuts roasted by Twitchy @ 04/08/2005 04:03 PM EST
I saw Matt in the footage. It's just after the guy who knocks some of the action figures off the hook. He walked bye a Stormtrooper who ain't wearin' his helmet. Shame, shame...
Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 04/08/2005 04:12 PM EST
For future reference, here's what I learned from another site:
Where I Work
And it works like this:
(a href="http://www.whatever.wha"name of whatever(/a)
replace "" with ">" , and "(" with "<"
Yes, I can be taught!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/08/2005 05:21 PM EST
Darn smileys!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/08/2005 05:22 PM EST
Yay! I can now die a happy person. I viewed the link from Squee4242 and I saw Matt (though had to "rewind" the footage a few times ) So yay to seeing Matt. Oh, kind of off topic I finally managed to score a copy of the movie The Wizard off a Quebec website for $3.99 USD. Been lookin for that movie for years...so I'm happy (and yes, it's in english )
Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 04/08/2005 07:00 PM EST
Sorry about the long link, everybody. Hmm, I thought I was using Firefox at the time I posted and it seemed to look alright, though. Strange.
As for not seeing YCDTOTV in a long time.. actually, it was on Nick not too long ago when they ran the "old school" specials. I think one of the eps were pulled from the air during it's run for one reason or another. I heard it had something to do with the firing squad scene? Who knows.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 04/09/2005 12:47 AM EST
What I heard about the half-run episode was that there was a Reagan gag in the second half, and Reagan had just died.
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 04/09/2005 02:21 AM EST
I may be crazy but I remember an episode of YCDTOTV where they were at Barf's diner or whatever and the one kid finds a syringe on his burger. I was just thinking how the hell this got on children's television. It cracks me up every time i think of it. but unfortunately thinking of the show makes me think of alanis morrisette, and thinking of her makes me think of her little sexual escapade with Dave Coulier in a movie theater. God, I could just see that smug bastard doing his popeye laugh while she was doing her business. ughhhhh.......blech!!!!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 04/09/2005 02:22 AM EST
"C'mon Alanis....cut...it...out!"
Chestnuts roasted by Kristin @ 04/09/2005 04:57 AM EST
I was never much of a Snick fan myself. I did watch Roundhouse occasionally, but all in all I was over Nick at that point. I always felt like the Nick of our childhood was a little more sophisticated in its humor (I'm talking about the programs targeted at kids, not Snick which was more for the pre-teen set.) I used to watch YCDTOTV religiously (OK, so maybe that's not the best example of SOPHISTICATED), but we also had Turkey Television, Rated K ("for kids by kids" - even my mom really liked that show), Nick Rocks (does anyone else remember this show but me? I haven't met one yet.) We even had the Monkees. I'm not sure if we were just the last generation of kids that could handle that kind of programming, or if the kids got softer because the programming did. There. Said my peace.
Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 04/09/2005 11:34 AM EST
I went to a tru up here in canada, they didn't even have a quarter of that stuff, just one small little section with a darth vader voice changer, some light sabres and a couple lego things
tru canada sucks
Chestnuts roasted by Gene @ 04/09/2005 12:55 PM EST
Lori -
I remember Nick Rocks! I remember one episode in particular when They Might Be Giants hosted and sang a song that went something along the lines of "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas/A giant nuclear furnace..."
Chestnuts roasted by randomRach @ 04/09/2005 01:16 PM EST
Jabo- You scored The Wizard on DVD? Does it EXIST on DVD? Or was it just VHS? I LOVE that movie, and I own it myself...although its just a version I taped when it came on TV one time- so its full of commercials, and worst of all- all the swears and 'bad stuff' is cut out! So the whole "HE touched my BREAST!" part is gone!!
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 04/09/2005 01:31 PM EST
Sure it looks like Matt, but I think it could be a guy sent by UGO in a Matt costume. You know, to throw off cryptozoologists, and those in the media, that have been seeking evidence of his existence in the urban wild for years. I've got my best people studying the direct video link, so the results can be posted in my non-profit's bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the subject.
Chestnuts roasted by Golden Brick @ 04/09/2005 02:24 PM EST
I liked after the big guys beat the P.I. up and he's all wobbly and all, and he's grumbling to himself, "mumble mumble mutter mutter.... She doesn't even have breasts!"
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/09/2005 02:25 PM EST
randomRach -
Thank you!!! I knew that if I could find anyone else who remembered that show, it would probably be here.
Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 04/09/2005 05:14 PM EST
curiosity question having nothing to do with your entry and more to do with the website: i didnt look but i was wondering if you've ever examined the mcdonald's promotional competition with the records? ive got one at home and had more even- long ago-before i destroyed them in a fit of black rage and frustration ....the choir sings their hearts out to the mcdonald's hamburger song and inevitably always crumble into disagreement, discord, and grumblements of "awwwwww...grumble grumble" before arriving to the end of the song. important to note because you never knew when they'd screw up the song: soon or late in the lyrics...and if they DID manage to sing the whole thing, which i as a kid was convinced was impossible...unless...this...last...record...maybe...will...work.... you win what seemed to me at the time tons and tons of merchandise and cash. for a kid, it was a dream of a better life that never came to fruition.
Chestnuts roasted by didn't look @ 04/10/2005 03:15 AM EST
I remember the Cheetos when they were really going crazy with Chester Cheetah. I mean, didn't he have a tv show at some point?
Anyway, I remember the paw shaped cheetos, the tremendous varieties that came out. Sure, it opened up the market to new and exciting ways to make a fried corn puff covered in cheese powder, but, I'd just rather have a regular Cheeto. Or a Cheeze Doodle.
Chestnuts roasted by The Jays @ 04/10/2005 06:01 AM EST
Chester Cheetah had a video game(SNES?), when I was young I rented it a Jumbo Video all the time! Im sure it was an awful game tho.
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 04/10/2005 12:53 PM EST
Muppet Baby- sorry, I should have been specific on the format. It's a VHS copy of the movie. It's a used copy...but it's still in really good condition. I wish it was a DVD copy, but I've heard the only place you can get The Wizard on DVD is in Germany. (Just have heard this...could be wrong!) But yeah I was tempted to tape it when it was on TV once...but the same thing...all the bad stuff got cut out So I went on this 1 1/2 year journey to find the movie (at a reasonable price of course ) And of course this journey had a happy ending
Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 04/10/2005 01:07 PM EST
didn't look, there's an article from 2000 that mentions those McDonald's records: McDonald's Contests Promos!
I'd swear there's a newer article about them, because I remember downloading and listening to the song...Found it! It's a blog entry: "The Million Dollar McDonald's Contest Song."
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/10/2005 03:57 PM EST
IHAQ: SomethingAwful.com did a "ROM Pit" review of the Chester Cheetah game... yeah, it's bad.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/10/2005 06:41 PM EST
Loved the article Matt it inspired me to add to my old collection. My bf was convinced there'd be no Darth Taters in Australia, went to the local toy store and they had a pile of em. It was a fantastic day with me being unable to contain my excitement at finding and buying the most coolest star wars toy. Also picked up the cute little figurines that look all cartoony. Australia ain't so bad after all for toy buying goodness!
Chestnuts roasted by Melanie @ 04/16/2005 11:39 PM EST
