Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Batman marketing machine (finally) rolls into town

You remember a week or so back when I was talking up The Dark Knight before I had even seen it, and wondering where oh where the Batman food tie-ins were? I mean we all saw the Iron Man and Hulk fast food toys (wait, now that I think of it, where were the Hellboy toys? did anybody see any Hellboy toys?)

Still, I knew from the Bat Blog that there were some Batman food toys in the offing, only I never actually saw any. Well, today that changed. I managed to score a Batman figure from Cheerios. Previously I had managed to acquire a Joker figure, but I was afraid that I was never going to be able to get my hands on a Batman (Not that I’m such a big Batman fan, mind you, I just love those superhero food toys.)

So, you can see by this posting that I did (after searching virtually every store that carries cereal in town) to get my hands on what has to be the last box of Cheerios with a Batman figure in it. Cool, eh?



Not sure that I’m going to work so hard to track down the other two figures, though. I have one of each and that should work for now.

3 comments:

Reggie White Jr. said...

Chibi Joker and Batman are sooooo cuuuuute!

Tommy said...

Just in case you don't know what chibi means, Bob (the term comes up more in regards to manga/anime), it refers to little/cute versions of characters.

And I am currently picking up the Poke toys at Burger King, but I bet you figured that one out already. :P

Reggie White Jr. said...

Thanks, Tommy. I was prepared to explain what chibi meant if need be. =)

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