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Star Wars “Lava Berry Explosion” Pop Tarts!

Currently working on an article, but just remembered that I wanted to show the world the new Star Wars Pop Tarts -- "Lava Berry Explosion," in tribute to the setting of Anakin and Obi-Wan's fateful duel. It's one of the better Sith-related food promotions I've seen, as it actually affects the grub itself instead of just throwing a character on the box. Not to say that they haven't, because Vader's right there, but take a look at the Pop Tarts themselves -- red to all Hell, with even redder jelly filling and a bunch of yellowish sprinkle things for a slight atmospheric effect. Something like that. I'm not very fond of Pop Tarts to begin with and thus a terrible judge, but personally, they taste way too much like candy to me. Even the pastry crust is a sonic cavity inducer.

Speaking of ROTS, I've read a lot of reviews and most seem pretty positive, but my old pal Rob from Retrocrush hated it. And it's not so much the subjective-based points of his review that concern me -- it's just the simple facts about the movie. I wouldn't read it if you're avoiding spoilers, but again, judging by this, it looks like we may have another case where it'll be tough to overlook the oversights (hey!) and just enjoy it for what it is -- which I will try to do with every last ounce of Force power in my loins.

Posted by Matt on 05/07/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 103 comments

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Chestnuts roasted by BuyWRONG @ 05/12/2005 1:57 AM

Man, finally we get something semi-new out over here.

When did the Burger King Star Wars toys come out there?

I think I pissed alot of people off, my order only took like two minutes, but the poor lady behind the counter…

Lady: Which one do you want?
Me: Um, let me have Darth Vader, Darth Maul…
Lady: Who?
Me: Um…Yoda too
Lady? Who?
Me: Okay, I want Samuel L. Jackson, the black guy in the mask, the tattooed freak, the little green guy…
Lady: Oh okay (fishes through boxes)

I don’t know what’s worse, calling them by their real names and getting nowhere, or just breaking it down bare bones and sounding like a nerdy fanboy…

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

P.S. I eventually ended up with Darth Vader/A.Skywalker, Boba Fett, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, and Obi-Wan Kenobi while my stepdaughters got the "girls," though one wasn’t thrilled when she found out hers died. Damn George Lucas.

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/12/2005 2:05 AM

Erik, did you actually have to buy like eight kids meals, or did they just give them to you? I have thi crazy vision of you buying a dozen bags of food, then ripping them apart to find the toys! :)

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/12/2005 11:11 AM

I’ve never seen the first 7 Friday the 13th movies. They were banned in my house as a kid and I avoided them in college untill I could give Jason a marathon.

A few months ago I picked up a RCA videodisc player and the first 5 F13th movies on CED.
DVDs would be better quality but CEDs are too much 80s fun. Part 3 came with 3-D glasses and it appears they work well with the movie.

I can’t decide if I should run through the series this Friday or save it up for Halloween fun.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 05/12/2005 1:45 PM

Yo KB!

No, they had it if you bought an adult value meal, you can make it a "Jedi" meal and buy two toys for only $3.50 more.

So I did go back for multiple meals that day for myself, my wife, and they come free for the stepdaughters in BK Kids Meals…

I’m pretty tight with the peeps there (I’m like at the food court everyday, the life of a house husband) so I figure I could just fork over a $50 and get the rest and extras.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/12/2005 3:25 PM

Has anyone seen that Chewie works at BK?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 05/12/2005 3:48 PM

Eighty something … eth post. Wee. I’ve had those lava-berry poptarts. I saw them at a Wal*Mart, and seeing Vader on the label, couldn’t not buy them. Like you, I usually don’t go much for pop-tarts (or any sugar-laden junk food for that matter), but I found those are pretty good if you DON’T toast them.

As for your friend at Retrocrush hating Episode III … all I can say is it has Digital Age Syndrome. When my site (Falling Down) is up, you can read about that little malady. Myself, I’m more hyped about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the books being a childhood favorite.

Chestnuts roasted by PuffedUpStuff @ 05/12/2005 6:52 PM

I’m sick of being blocked!! It’s Jibber Jabber — but its all good cuz STAR WARS is coming back!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. T @ 05/12/2005 9:34 PM

I’m sick of being blocked!! It’s Jibber Jabber — but its all good cuz STAR WARS is coming back!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. T @ 05/12/2005 9:34 PM

Carri: http://www.cedmagic.com

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 05/12/2005 9:53 PM

I really don’t like fanboys. Especially the ones whose perspective is so limited they cannot understand things without it being spelt out to them.

Obi-Wan is a Jedi knight, even if the Order has been destroyed. Jedi don’t kill helpless opponents who pose no immediate threat to them. More importantly, Anakin was his friend.
And how else do they explain how Anakin Skywalker eventually had to become ‘more machine than man’?

As for Padme, not only did Anakin force-choke her, she died of a broken heart from his evil deeds. Unless you don’t understand love, her death is pretty easy to explain from a dramatic point.

Chestnuts roasted by Fit For Natalie @ 05/13/2005 1:41 AM

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Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 05/13/2005 12:22 PM

Get off of me, you bodaggit!

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/13/2005 1:48 PM

ME – Thanks for the CED link.

I ended up with three players and bins and bins of movies. It’s a bit much and I haven’t sorted through it but I couldn’t pass up a ready-made collection, especially when it was free.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 05/13/2005 8:17 PM

I went to BK today and got a Millenium Falcon and a Han Solo encased-in-carbonite. They are so adorable…but there are 31 different toys and I want them all and really don’t need to eat that many burgers. They make you think you’re getting a bargain with the Jedi deal, but I think if you actually wanted that much food you’d be better off buying kids meals. I bought another Star Wars lotto ticket today too, but it was the same one I got last time and a loser to boot.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/13/2005 8:22 PM

I swear its the 14th of May…You woudlnt know it by this site…why dont you update once in a while…jesus dude!!

Chestnuts roasted by A Dude @ 05/14/2005 3:08 AM

This site may be fun to do, but I’m sure he has a "real job" that demands quite a bit of attention. Or something.
It was kind-of irritating at the end of January, but now I like the Christmas thing. A couple of weeks ago, Adult Swim ran some Christmas bumpers and I loved it because it was all out of context.
By the way, I just found an old Sears Wish List catalog from 1992. I’d like to do some kind of article on it, but I’ve just got a gay-ass Livejournal account…
Livejournal’s not totally gay, but it just seems it’s chock full of furries and girls who eat their feelings and blog about their cats.

Chestnuts roasted by spacezombie @ 05/14/2005 6:54 AM

I don’t think that Vader likes eat that stuff…. really I think that Vader doesn’t eat anything at all!!

Chestnuts roasted by Yelinna @ 05/14/2005 6:39 PM

Yelinna — Of course he eats SOMETHING. He may be more machine than man, but there’s still a lot of man there too. We know for a fact his head is all still organic, and I’d bet his heart is still there (or else his lungs, which we know he has, would be unnecessary).

With those organic components (and the most vital ones your body has, excluding certain unmentionables), he has to eat something in some sense. Or his organics (living tissue) would die out, and he would be all machine, no man.

Even if his idea of eating is some kind of introvenously-fed protein/vitamin goo like they give coma patients via IVs, it’s still "eating". I hate to be a nitpicking little prig about this, but I just hate it when people make blatantly uninformed statements that they couldn’t have possibly thought through before stating.

Maybe he puts his pop-tarts in a blender and adds them to his IV nutrient drip.

Or maybe we all need to quit spending so much time in front of computers and go be with the three-dimensional people … Yeah. Definitely.

As per what’s-his-name bitching about the Xmas theme … yeah I’m sure Matt has a "real" job he has to spend his time on (so do I hence my site not being even UP yet), but that’s not the only problem. What time he has for the site I imagien goes to adding CONTENT before anything else … we still see new articles once a week or so. If he took that time to update the skin on the site, I guarantee you there would be no new content for two to three weeks, as a complex, photoshop-sliced link table setup like his and my working design are a lot of work to modify. Give the guy a break … I think you owe him one of those fossilized kool-aid packets he collects, for being so mean.

Chestnuts roasted by PuffedUpStuff @ 05/15/2005 5:50 PM

Ok I bought these the other day and they are frigg’n nasty. Only smores pop tarts remain good.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 05/16/2005 6:21 AM

Uh huh. You toasted them, didn’t you? Don’t do that. I do agree that 99% of all poptarts are nasty though.

Chestnuts roasted by PuffedUpStuff @ 05/16/2005 10:05 AM

regarding Obi Wan leaving Anakin scene…the dialogue you quote from the script and the novelization makes sense, but it’s not in the film.

Chestnuts roasted by robert @ 05/17/2005 2:30 AM

looking waaay forward to seeing the latest chapter; also wanted to thank you for posting all of the 80′s commercials that you’ve made available for us :-)

Chestnuts roasted by ctpitact @ 05/17/2005 5:49 PM

Something is very disturbing about eating these. With the recent event of the human finger in Wendy’s chili, do you think anyone will sue for eating a small portion of Darth’s lava burnt legs?

Chestnuts roasted by DocSquid @ 05/23/2005 5:59 PM

………. is all i can say.

Chestnuts roasted by burnmonkeydeath @ 05/25/2005 5:37 PM

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