Sometimes it is the little things...

that make me happy!

Today I was in the downtown Blanchard, you know, at the Blanchard mall, aka Dollar General. I was looking for some sweet treats after dinner and low and behold, I ran into something that made me happy. Sometimes it does not take much and this time was no exception.


I found these, Fright Bites! I know Halloween is still three months away but there they were, right in the middle of the shelf. Of course, I love Halloween, so I had to pick up a bag. I thought I would share with you, so here they are.

The bag only held about 12 candies, not nearly enough for the little beggars on the big night, but at a buck a bag, I guess you could buy quite a few bags.

Well Fright Bites are chocolate with a fudge bite, yeah sure. More like generic chocolate with generic chocolate inside. Outside of the plain old chocolate taste the do come brightly wrapped in a Dracula themed foil wrapper. Each individual bite is about the size a silver dollar.


I know it is not Halloween yet, or even close but I pulled one out of the bites out, nibbled on it while watching Halloween III, Season of the Witch. Halloween will be here before we know it!

Coming soon

Coming soon, the wrap up articles for the Transformer/M&M's promotion for revenge of the fallen and possiblly some entries detailing some of my toy purchases associated with this latest movie. Don't hold me to it though!

Starscream

Starscream...you disappoint me! Classic line from the transformers series.

Megatron utters this often to Starscream both in the original cartoons and the most recent movies. This being said, have no fear, this bag does not disappoint. How could peanut M&M's disappoint anyone? Bag #5 in the Revenge of the Fallen/M&M team up features the power hungry Starscream teamed up with Yellow from the Delectocon team. Really if you think about it, this is an odd pairing. Starscream is all diabolical and Yellow is so laid back and unassuming, maybe that is why they were put together. Starscream wanted to be in charge. Hmm...regardless this was a tasty bag and the revamping of Starscream in the movies was awesome!

Megatron

Well I am back by popular demand, well my one fan requested that I do something here. He was even kind enough to send me the link to my own blog in case I had forgotten it's location.

So without further ado, I bring you M&M bag #4, Megatron. Megatron, leader of the Decepticons teams up with the Blue delectocon for this delicious bag of peanut treats. I love the peanut M&M's, I mean who doesn't, but add Megatron and you do not have to twist my arm to hard to drop sixty five cents on this bag.

Going back a bit, my memories of Megatron were bittersweet. I liked the guy, I mean he was bad and all but his transformed mode was a gun, how cool was that. Boys love guns and I was no exception back in the day. I loved guns, nerf, water, etc. but Megatron was a Transformer gun. Only issue with that was he was HARD to find. The few time I did run across him, I was cash poor and never able to coax my mother into dropping the necessary green on yet another toy. Oh well, maybe ebay will somehow come to my rescue one day.

Ironhide

The weapons specialist, Ironhide graces the third and final plain M&M’s bag. Bag number 3 features the most recent and I would say, the best version of Ironhide in the entire series. Ironhide is portrayed as a GMC topkick pickup. To call him a pickup is a bit of a misnomer as this truck is more like a small semi than a Silverado.

The orginal G1 Ironhide was some Japanese van, red in color and not very strong looking. Not the case now, Ironhide has the “transformed mode” to match his attitude, tough and ready to battle.

These round out the first three in the series of seven packages, up next, the peanut M&M packages.

Wrapper #2, Bumblebee

Package number two in my line up of M&M’s wrappers features the humble bumblebee. Once a yellow Volkswagen in the original, Bay has given him a makeover as a stunning 2009 Chevy camero. If I had a camero like that, it would be yellow with the black racing stripes and I am sure I would put the autobot logo somewhere on the car. Sorry, that is the kid in me talking!

Shown here in his bumblebee gear is Yellow together with Bumblebee striking a pose. And yes this is a “tear and share” package and I did share. My daughter Lily loves M&M’s and had to have a few.

VIctory for LSU

Congratulation to the 2009 LSU Baseball team on the sixth college series championship. Watched the game start to finish and it was awesome.

I felt a little bit of sympathy for Texas but hey, they still have a good team and can try again next year.

GEAUX TIGERS!!!

M&M’s Chocl - o - bots

In my effort to cover all things transformers this summer, I stumbled upon M&M’s. Ok, I would be lying if I said I do not eat M&M’s on the regular but not as often as I did for this series of blogs. I added at least a pound eating these dang things and burned up some gas finding all the packages.

M&M’s stepped up the Transformers 2 promotion with seven new packages and one new flavor. The first cover shows Red in his transformer attire with Optimus Prime and the official logos from the latest movie, including the weird symbols that I have yet to understand, probably because I have not seen the movie. Optimus Prime, being the leader of the heroic autobots gets top billing in this series as made official by placing him on package number one. I am partial to this one of all the package mostly because I am a prime fan and love the big red semi, have since a kid. I actually own several versions of the big guy and cannot wait to see him in the next movie and the cooresponding toys.

While the package is cool and definitely increased my M&M’s intake, it really does nothing for the overall flavor. They are still the same chocolate candies and still melt in your mouth as well as your hand in this heat.

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Yes, it is finally here. Transformers Revenge of the Fallen aka Transformers 2 is out! I cannot wait to see it! Probably going on Friday with my wife and some friends. I will be sure to post my thoughts.

Also I will be covering some of the promotional materials and toys associated with the first blockbuster of the summer. Stay tuned!

Quick Laugh

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, just not much going on.

Quick laugh for the day. I was downstairs in my building, downtown and say this little old man with the strangest shirt. Not strange in the that it was an odd color, or anything. The shirt on the man just seemed out of place.

This guy had to have been in his 70s or older and was hunched over and walking with a cane. The funniest thing was that he was wearing a brown shirt with the neck of an electric guitar printed on it and the words, "I LIKE TO PARTY". I had to turn my head to keep from laughing out loud. Just altogether amusing. I thought I would share.