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New Jones Soda for Halloween ’06!

Somebody on the blog mentioned that they'd seen an eBay auction starring a foolish man who bid on and won a bottle of "Monster Mojito Soda" -- one of the new 2006 Halloween flavors from Jones Soda -- for a hundred bucks. I too was watching that auction. It was just before the beverages made their official debut, and that eBay auction was really the only proof of their existence. The new sodas weren't being talked about on drink forums, weren't being advertised anywhere, and they didn't even get a passing mention on Jones Soda's own website. Still, just one day after this poor schmuck kissed a hundred dollars goodbye, I found all of the Jones Soda flavors at Target, including Monster Mojito -- bought at under five bucks for a four-pack.

I know, I know. On eBay, "our bids are binding contracts." Whatever. If I was that guy, I'd take the negative feedback and haul ass to Red Lobster with my Ben Franklin.

I love Jones Soda, and I'm very happy that they're a part of this year's Halloween festivities. They've brought back the mini-cans (including one new flavor, one rerun and two renamed reruns) along with three all-new glass bottled sodas that cost more, look awesome and help me feel frightening and fancy all at the same time. I've done gone and drinked them all, and now, the Countdown welcomes the 2006 Jones Soda Halloween Collection.


Also at Target, I came across these two "Haunted Hollow" party favors. They're love and sweetness. I found 'em in that weird crowded "dollar store" section Targets have, where it's easy to get into fistfist-fights with women who firmly believe that you will try to swipe the pineapple-themed set of salad tongs that they clearly spotted first.

Not a whole lot of thought went into the names. On the left, it's "Putty With Glow In The Dark Ghost." On the right, we have "Putty With Glow In The Dark Skeleton." I wouldn't mind so much if these names translated to cool sounding acronyms, but they don't. Then again, toys that break apart into equal parts slime and glow don't need fiddy cent names.


The ghost's ass pops off to reveal a very generous glob of neon yellow slime, while Sir Skeleton -- a really cute figure that's way detailed for something so tiny -- dwells about in a coffin full of blue goo. (We can assume that colors vary in other packages.) The skeleton's slime has a different consistency than the ghost's -- his is akin to chafing fuel, while the ghost's is like a giant glob of vending machine slime. Which is better? Well, that's all about taste, man.

Posted by Matt on 09/11/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 84 comments

Hey Matt And Everybody Else! Im Typing This On My Cell Phone Since This Is My Only Way To Get On The Internets. Im Totally Stoked To Be Here For Another Halloween Countdown! Ill Be Checking In Everyday For My X-e Fix. Keep Kicking Ass, Matt! An Know That Theres At Least One Guy Out In So-cal Who Will Be Wasting All Of His Goddamn Cell Mineuts Reading Your Awesome Halloween Bullshit! Oh By The Way, The August Megaparty Was A Total Sanity Saver! Much Love & Respect To Matt And Long Live X-entertainment!!!

Chestnuts roasted by antenna villain @ 09/12/2006 1:49 AM

I thought you were too tough last year. Happy to see Jones get a fair shake now. I will be testing your Jones/alcohol mixes in the next couple days and report back!

Chestnuts roasted by def. @ 09/12/2006 2:01 AM

Hey Matt! First time poster, long time reader. I’m as excited for Halloween as you are (although I have never heard of Jones Soda…). Maybe they only sell it out East or something?

Chestnuts roasted by Draca @ 09/12/2006 3:13 AM

Okay I keep telling myself I’m going to go to Target.. then I look at my bank account and go naw.. I’ll go later.. and I never go. Well, my happy ass is makin a trip to Target sometime this week (after I get paid), and I’m getting some Jones Soda and plenty of other halloween goodies. I must buy halloween stuff.. I must. And I must throw a halloween party so I can try some Jones/alcohol mixes. And I must stop saying “must” so much.

Chestnuts roasted by Dj Lisas @ 09/12/2006 3:37 AM

Looking at the vampire on the Mojito bottle made me realize that Jones really needs to have a Mad Matt image for its Halloween flavors!

Chestnuts roasted by Jotenks @ 09/12/2006 3:37 AM

Another awesome article, Matt. The reviews were kickass, except for the “Lemon Dead Drop” soda, which I didn’t read because it was covered by that “Heroes” ad.

Chestnuts roasted by DocDragon @ 09/12/2006 6:07 AM

I was so stalking Target for the last two weeks waiting patiently for the Halloween stuff to hit. It’s sad to say but I was standing right there on a work lunch break when the employees were restocking that $1 section and I was the first in the store to grab up the skeleton in the blue goo. I wish it came in other colors but it’s blue down here in GA too.

Chestnuts roasted by Smurfwreck @ 09/12/2006 6:26 AM

Platy: Halloween in the UK does indeed suck. I was born and live here, but became eternally fascinated after seeing Halloween (the movie). For the past several years, I have laid on a Halloween bash. It has actually picked up momentum and we do regularly get a handful of TOT’ers. I always make sure I’ve got a loads of candy for them too. Not English stuff either…I put together a bag with tootsie pops, midges, dots, mini hershey bars etc. The kids love it.
Every year, I just wistfully read the Halloween Countdown and think “I want that”. There is a small corner of England that will always be black and orange throughout the Fall.

Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 09/12/2006 7:33 AM

Draca Jones is out of Seattle, and we have it here in the Midwest. I think it’s more the type of soda that you have to hunt for, it’s not sitting out on a huge pallet with Coke.
I totally remember that “making orange crayons” bit on PBS.
Not sure if I’m gonna buy the cans this year. I might do the bottles, if I can find them. I just know I’ll only be buying them for a sip out of each, and then they’ll sit in my fridge until Thanksgiving.
Thanks again Matt for entertaining us so through the season. It is much easier to get going in the morning, knowing that an article is waiting for me when I get to work.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/12/2006 7:43 AM

I haven’t tasted the Jones this year yet, but I just have to this out there…I love candy corn. That is all.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 09/12/2006 7:51 AM

I remember the crayon bit Matt’s talking about. The one where the little girl is drawing and she stares at her crayon and suddenly you see how crayons are made by the bajillions. Yeah. As a kid, it just made me really want to eat crayons.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/12/2006 7:58 AM

I love slime and the slime smell that comes with it.

Chestnuts roasted by super_dex @ 09/12/2006 8:01 AM

Damn! I was going to email you with pictures of the Skeleton and Ghost Goo(s) since I snagged them at Target yesterday. I also grabbed the Disjointed Head of the Black Cat that acts as a Stress Ball. And all of the Putty with the Glow in the Dark Skeleton packs were blue…

Mine is staring at me from in front of my monitor here at work, begging me to pop open the lid of his transparent coffin and free him from his blended blueberry hell!

Chestnuts roasted by IndieRochester @ 09/12/2006 8:02 AM

Does anyone know where we in the Great White North can obtian Jones Soda or (Pop) as we call it! TARGET needs to hurry up and take over the Department Store Business in Canukistan!

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 09/12/2006 8:46 AM

Greg — That’s a tough one. I’d suggest trying your local Zeller’s, if you have one, as the last time I was in one of those, they carried a lot of brands Target does. But they also carry a lot of brands does, so I don’t know how successful you’ll be. Good luck, you Canucklehead.

Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 09/12/2006 8:59 AM

OMG! I was at Toys ‘R’ Us yesterday, and they have some SERIOUSLY AWESOME Halloween gear… Normally they stock only a bunch of halloween candy in huge bags, treat bags (the EXPENSIVE kind, ya know, for kids who are too good to use old pillowcases or used Wal*Mart bags) and a whole bunch of kiddie costumes… this year they have that AND MORE! I picked up a few AWESOME stretchy, plastic bean filled versions of the Universal Monsters (although these are knock offs, they are all actually VERY well done, and incredibly detailed, they are actually pretty big, too… about 8″) I picked up Dracula and The Creature From The Black Lagoon, although they had Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Wolfman as well… and they were less than $2 a piece!!!! I also picked up a cute pumkin stress ball (they also had eyeball, spider, and ghost versions) and some really cool halloweenish props – a light up skull, a screaming eyeball, and a few others… Also, on the subject of things too cool not to mention I MET BRUCE CAMPBELL last night at a book signing!

Chestnuts roasted by c0rp0ratez0mb1e @ 09/12/2006 9:02 AM

http://www.jonessoda.com

Chestnuts roasted by 2est10n @ 09/12/2006 9:10 AM

We need to start harassing the good folks at Jones Soda Inc until they agree to release a limited edition pack of X-Entertainment soda flavors. We could have Peeps Soda, Giant Ape Juice Soda, Ecto Cooler Soda and, uh…Tim Robbins. Brilliant!

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 09/12/2006 9:19 AM

Matt,

That’s an awesome graffic of the old Castle Dracula billboard. That thing would scare the crap out of me as a kid… i didn’t want to know what he was pointing at.

I little trivia- I found out recently that the green guy is none other than Crazy Eddie from the Iron Madien album covers.

Chestnuts roasted by Lou @ 09/12/2006 10:01 AM

Did you mean Tim Curry flavor, Jedoc? Although, Matt did mention a Tim Robbins costume in one of the previous Halloween Countdowns. About how you wouldn’t want to model a costume after his Anti-Trust character.

That makes me want to say two things: Bill Gates = Megalomaniac and Anti-Trust is my vote for Rachael’s worst movie.

That is all :)

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 09/12/2006 10:05 AM

Greg- I am a fellow Canuck, and maybe I can help. I know this sounds weird, but they sell Jones Soda at that clothing store, Bluenotes. It’s a men’s and women’s clothing store specializing in jeans. If you have one near you, check it out, because they usually have a Jones Soda cooler- but you have to buy the bottles indicidually. Good luck! I am off to get some myself…my friend’s birthday is on HALLOWEEN so we may have to include these sodas in our bar menu…

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/12/2006 10:36 AM

I am going to blame my head cold/blurred vision for the misspelling of ‘individually’ in my last post. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/12/2006 10:37 AM

Hey! Fellow Canadian here too! Thank god Bluenotes has jones, otherwise id have to drive all the way to the US. And that’s not exactly close from Toronto area. Muppet Baby, do you know if its every bluenotes or perhaps just some of their larger stores?

Chestnuts roasted by Nickelodeon @ 09/12/2006 11:04 AM

Greg, and all other Canadians, I have also seen them sell Jones Soda at Bootlegger clothing store, so you can try there too.
I am very excited cause in about 2 hours or so, I’m going to the US to go to Target!! I don’t think I’ll be getting any Jones Soda, but I will be looking for Halloween stuff. I’m also going to Michaels too, I hoping I can find some of the stick on the window blood that they had last year. I bought some last year, but they only had one pack, so I did’nt have enough to fill the window all the way across.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 09/12/2006 12:09 PM

Call me odd, but what would all those taste like all poured together in a Jones’ HalllowSoda Suicide Punch? Like tampered candy without the metal and poison?

Bought a cheap-ass Freddy glove last night. Going to add the trimmed Pringles lids this weekend to convert it to a pizza slicer from Hell. Last item for completion of the “Pizza Kruger” costume is a blank baseball/trucker cap. Should I fabric-paint “Freddy’s” or “Kruger’s” on it? What sounds more like a good name for an Elm Street pizza joint? “Elm St. Pizza?”

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/12/2006 12:45 PM

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