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Marvel Popsicles: Spidey and Wolverine, with gumball eyes!


Remember those dueling Hulk and Spongebob popsicles? They're not alone. While carousing around Jersey shopping plazas last night, we dropped into the only Toys R' Us around that hasn't been remodeled to look more "modern" -- a favorite stop of mine, as it still retains the look and strange smell of the stores I wandered around in as a child. Killing two birds with one stone, I stuck my head in their cashier-side freezer to see if there was anything worth writing about. There wasn't, but I'm going to anyway -- Marvel's effort to control the frozen treat market rages on with two more popsicles, this time striking the likeness of X-Men's "Wolverine" and Spider-Man's "Spider-Man." Ughhmsdgh.

Judging Marvel's success solely on these two, I'd say they're batting .500%.

First up, Wolverine's "X-Treme Sour" cherry ice. As the title suggests, it's real sour. It's interesting to eat something brown and flesh-colored that tastes like that, but not so much so that I wouldn't notice the fact that Wolvie's pair of gumball eyes are hideously misplaced. Oddly, this is the first time I've seen the beast. Seems a bit late to come out with an X-Men inspired ice cream, but hey, they're still peddling those X-Men Oreos, too. Maybe it's promotion for the DVD release? Nope. Definitely not. In fact, suggesting that Wolverine ice cream is meant to promote an upcoming DVD is probably the worst hypothesis I've ever made. I'd feel a tad more remiss if I didn't like cherry ice so much.

While Wolverine appears pretty much exactly how it should, Spider-Man looks more like one of those things that obstructed the Princess from climbing vines in Super Mario 2. The only way it could seem like less like Spider-Man is if they attached little notecards to the popsicle head reading "this is not Spider-Man." Tobey Maguire would feel a tad more remiss if everyone didn't like that horse movie so much.

With me and Tobey just barely avoiding feeling remiss, I bid you goodnight.

Posted by Matt on 08/13/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 47 comments

The guy in my ally always smells like booze. And blue cheese. Damn French.

Chestnuts roasted by Yankee Clipper @ 08/13/2003 4:43 PM

one time there was a metal skateboard/bike ramp behind albertsons for some reason and we would lauch shopping carts off of it at 40+mph. it was fun yes…and there was a bum back there once too and we shined a flashlight at him and he ran and hid in a corner. alleys can be fun, but no face bashing here.

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 08/13/2003 5:07 PM

.5 would be great in baseball!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Morcheeba @ 08/13/2003 5:13 PM

Spidey looks more like Deadpool. And that’s the way it should be.

Chestnuts roasted by Not really a comic geek... @ 08/13/2003 5:14 PM

the packaging looks nice though… makes me hungry for what could have been…

Chestnuts roasted by sonja @ 08/13/2003 6:41 PM

Spiral Binding WOOHOO.

But seriously, Matt, it doesn’t count if you make fun of them after they’vee melted on your dashboard during the infinite trek from the last true Toys ‘R’ Us to home.

Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 08/13/2003 6:44 PM

Oh yes it does.

But they made it home fine. Spidey was a bit misshapen, but that just adds to his charm.

I still think the Hulk pop leads the pack.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/13/2003 6:46 PM

heh, ever seen the Bart Simpson pop, or the Pikachu? The Bart one is strange, because he is supposedly new… http://www.popsicle.com/treats/treats_famousfaces.asp#bart
What possesed them to suddenly make a Simpsons pop? Strange, considering 8-10 years ago they were yesterday’s South Park… Now they are marketed towards kids…. The times they are a’changin.

Chestnuts roasted by goeatweeds @ 08/13/2003 8:08 PM

Hmf, Ice pops are so two-dimentional… What’s with that? They should be 3-dimentional, because there is nothing more fun than taking a big bite outta your favorite superstar’s melon and sucking out all the juciey gray matter. Or you could go for extra style and remove the brains through the eye socket. It’s possible! I saw it on a movie once, and they can’t lie to us in movies! It’s like the law or something!

Until we have 3-D ice pops with removable brains, I’m leaving these things in the cold lonely freezer where they belong.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 08/13/2003 9:10 PM

When I was youger my grandma always had these Disney fruit flavoured popsicles. Donald, Goofy, and Mickey. They were totally 3D. I remember always having to bite Mickey’s ears of first. So that he couldn’t here us comtemplating what body part would be next. Whoooohahahahah.

Chestnuts roasted by Yankee Clipper @ 08/13/2003 9:21 PM

Those rugrat pops remind me of the wwf ice cream bars of the late 80′s. Whoever came up with the idea of "etching" a design on a crappy vanilla wafer cookie and sandwiching it with drab vanilla ice cream. Mmm vanilla…aargh

Chestnuts roasted by Superstar Billy Graham @ 08/13/2003 9:22 PM

the blue makes me think he’s Spidey 2099

Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 08/13/2003 9:43 PM

My first impression when I saw that Spider-Man pop was "Wtf, a Strong Bad popsicle?" Anyone else get that reaction?

Chestnuts roasted by LastFrost @ 08/13/2003 10:07 PM

I was on the Strong Bad Page myself. I mean come-on, its a better idea than Spidey.

Chestnuts roasted by purple monkey dishwasher @ 08/13/2003 10:33 PM

I remember those 3d mickey pops too yankee!!! those things had the best flavor of any popcicle! and they were indeed very 3-d!

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 08/13/2003 10:52 PM

Wow.
I had one of those Wolverine popsicles a while back. It was the best popsicle I ever had. At least since I was really little. It didn’t look as stupid as that one, though. Thanks, Matt for re-fueling the "I really want a Wolverine popsicle" fire. I just got over it and now… Funny how it wasn’t really "sour", though.

I had those Disney popsicles!! I thought I was the only one that remembered those. I had one after my mom gave me a bath and got soap in my mouth. It was her way of making it up to me. It tasted all soapy, though. (And yes, I rinsed first.)I think It was an orange Mickey.

And I can never look at Spider-Man the same way again. Very creepy.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 08/13/2003 11:05 PM

Yankee, you took me back too dude. I remember the Disney Iceys now.

Dammit I want Icey’s again, just after I got over the urge top. Damn you Matt Cappawhateveryourlastnameis, Damn you

Chestnuts roasted by Big Will @ 08/14/2003 3:57 AM

Where is that old school Toys R US in New Jersey. The new store lay out sucks ass, I loved the old way.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr Satan @ 08/14/2003 5:45 AM

Now you’ve reminded me of how sad I am that Baskins and Robbins no longer has "Oreo X-Mint". I mean, oreos, mint, and dark chocolate, yet they decide to replace it with yet another bannana concoction as flavor of the month?

Chestnuts roasted by Regault @ 08/16/2003 1:10 AM

I seriously laughed out loud when I laid eyes on those pops. Those are some fucked up looking confections…

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Hmm…does this mean Corey Hart is Spider-Man?

Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 08/16/2003 1:02 PM

I think that they melted and refroze or something…..they look kind of frightning!

Chestnuts roasted by Whitney @ 08/17/2003 10:32 AM

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