As mentioned, Toys 'R' Us now considers Easter the most important holiday of the year, and they're celebrating with more candies, more baskets and more SPRING SALES than anyone scheduled to die within the next fifty years could count. It's mostly a sea of forgettables, but a few of the selections are worth buying billboard space for to celebrate. Example:
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Easter Egg! WOOOOO! This thing is friggin' amazing. Basically, Playmates grabbed a couple of TMNT toys that by and large are considered obsolete, but once packed in a turtleshell egg with see-thru top (think pantyhose), it's the single greatest contribution to Easter since damned dead lamb. The egg itself is the only "new" item included, but come on, that's more than enough. You could do pretty much anything with that thing. Fill it with toys, fill it with candy, fill it 10% with gravel and 3% with baby turtles...it is your unlikely championship canvas. Do what you will, take what you may.
Retailing for 9.99, the contents just barely pass as a good deal. You get two miniature Ninja Turtle figures still in their packages, one regular sized figure sans package, a sheet of stickers, and the ultimate must-have: Retromutagen Ooze!!! Hell yes. They had me at "big egg," but if not, they would've had me at "small ooze." Combined, big eggs and small ooze tag team every frown upside down. It's the ten buck miracle cure.
Though all of the eggs have the same assortment of stuff, the characters differ. Dunno how many parents-of-little-ones read this site, but trust an eternal little boy on this: they will love a Ninja Turtle Easter Egg. I can think of no one who wouldn't. Except most girls and people who hate Ninja Turtles. Total minority.
Posted by Matt on 03/21/2005. E-mail me!
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Not just any commercial from the 70′s, oh no! A McDonalds commercial with a very young Jodie Foster and http://www.planetout.com/images/quicktime/trailers/jodiemcdonalds.mov">EVIL GRIMACE!
It’s not the melting one, though. I’m hoping no one outside of the McCorporation has that one. But, the first click is a very interesting thesis on marketing, and the second link is a great ad for us old fogies. Enjoy at your own risk! keep all four arms inside your browser at all times, and abandon all hope all who are faint of heart and/or weak of bladder!