It’s all about the toy

The other day I went to the store to purchase some Cheerios (which were on sale at the time), and one of the two boxes I purchased contained a toy. Sure it was also a (slightly) larger size than the box I had originally intended to buy but it was also the “regular”  Cheerios (I had my sights set on one of the many flavored varieties). What made me change my mind (other than the (slightly) larger size)? Well it was the inclusion of a pull-back car packed in the box.

What can I say, I didn't necessarily want the toy car (it isn’t a Spidey thing), but well, it was a toy.

Oh, and in case you think I’ve gone completely Spidey-less, here is an “ice cup” I’ve had in my freezer for months, that I just took out as I’m really not using it, and it’s just taking up space.

You keep this in your freezer and then when you pour a drink in it you don't need ice. However, it is really a kid’s cup, and never actually held a large enough drink for my tastes. So now it gets packed away with my 42 trillion metric tones of Spidey stuff.

Hey! There's a panda in my cereal

Kung Fu Panda 2 toys in my cereal! How cool is that?

Everybody wants to pack movie toys into your food products.

There’s a Joker in my cereal!

No, really, I’m not kidding, there is a real live (OK, so he’s not “alive” live, but you know what I mean) Joker in my cereal. Yeah, Yeah, I know that me talking about Batman isn’t something that you really expect me to be doing here on this blog, but you have to believe, me here, there is like a real reason. Stay with me for just a minute, and I’ll get there. (Oh, and if you aren’t hungry yet, you soon will be.)

So, it isn’t like I’ve gone over to the DC side of comics, but, well, I’ve been picking up comics-related, movie tie-in toys for like two months now, and — ya gotta believe me — I really couldn’t help myself. Really. You see, I have this sort of fetish about collecting food-related toys, and well, this qualifies as comicbook-related food toys, so it is fair game.

So here it is. I couldn’t help myself. Well, I actually spotted my first Dark Knight-related food toy today. It was a box of cereal with Batman figures in them. Personally, I’m more of a Cheerios for breakfast kind of guy, but well, I spotted these Golden Grahams with Batman figures, and I figured that I’d snag one. Only I didn’t get a Batman figure, but a Joker figure, which is cool, I suppose.

ANd that isn’t the last of it, apparently there are Batman Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, (and in more than one configuration, Yep, there are chocolate Batmans all over), as well as in Cheerios.

More as this develops.

A Dark Knight Breakfast

Just in case you kiddies thought that all of this Summer’s food-related toys are MARVELous, I just wanted to get you all hip to what could be coming with the most important meal of the day. You got it kids, There are Batman toys packaged with your Cheerios!

(And here I was wondering if there were going to be any food toy tie-ins to that flick because of the film’s dark nature and the death of Heath Ledger. Well, I guess that the licensing gods must be served, so here come the toys!)

This one is sort of a disc launcher, and the other items on the back of the box look king of cool. To be sure, I’m not going to be actively collecting these toys (Yeah, it may be Batman, but — for better or worse — I’m first and foremost a Marvel Zombie.) Thing is, I really only like Cheerios so, I’ll probably wind up with more of these.

If I get doubles, anyone interested?