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McMonopoly, Bat Organs and MLP.


Someone bought-and-brought McDonald's in for lunch at work today, and her cup marked a special day: The return of the McDonald's Monopoly game, which I will never ever win but will continue to play anyway, for all of time! I'm pretty sure everyone in the country knows someone who knows someone who swears they found "Boardwalk" and lost it under suspicious circumstances; me, I'm happy just putting little avenue piece stickers on a paper Monopoly board and hoping for an instant win free sundae piece that I will never actually cash in.

There are forty-thousand McDonald's restaurants within walking distance from my office, and another two or three at home. People shouldn't eat Big Macs every night, but there's nothing stopping me from making sure every ounce of soda I drink for the next few weeks comes from a Monopoly-laden McDonald's cup.


I've talked about the constant dread I experience in regard to the woman asking me to take her to...the craft store. It's a little easier around the holidays, because craft stores know the holidays. I'm actually finding a lot of cool stuff at 'em this year. Previously, it was all about stupid scarecrow door wreaths and pumpkin-themed scrapbook kits, but this year, I'm finding stuff like "Bat Organs" party favors. BAT ORGANS!


The packaging is kind of boring and kind of sucks, but since it includes the term "BAT ORGANS" in large text, I'm not sure I need anything else. The set consists of four gooey "bat brains," which are such unbelievably perfect little gooey brains that I am now 100% positive that my destiny is to create a homemade Krang and write up a DIY guide afterwards. These things are just awesome, and CHEAP! Even more amazing is that the so-called "bat brains" are clearly too large to be the brains of any existing bat. They're bigger than most bat heads. I love them!

New on the Halloween Countdown: My Little Pony.

PS, think I can sue McD's if they give me two Baltic Avenues on one Coke?

Posted by Matt on 10/03/2006. E-mail me!



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Bat Organs.

BAT ORGANS?!
That means more than one, like…imagine chewy bat eyes, or gummy bat teeth or dismembered rubber bat wings.
I think I’ve seen those before…

Chestnuts roasted by TPStag @ 10/03/2006 10:43 PM

I might not have been clear, but these ain’t candy — they’re toys!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/03/2006 10:44 PM

Are you sure there not candy? Eat one just to be sure, and even if that one isn’t good, eat another one just to be sure.

Thanks again Matt

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/03/2006 10:47 PM

Awesome! You have inclued all my loves tonight! Mcds Bats and My Little Pony! How do you do it? Can you read my mind?

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/03/2006 10:47 PM

I totally found Boardwalk last year… but.. my cat ate it.
I swear!

Bat Organs should just be called Bat Brains. I don’t see any spleens or kidneys or anything.. Such false advertising. :( I only saw two packages of them, and some jerk squished all of the plastic bubbles in so the brains were smooshed. Therefore, I didn’t get any, cause who wants a package of smooshed brains? Surely not I!

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 10/03/2006 10:47 PM

wait, eat two more to be surest

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/03/2006 10:48 PM

I know! I’m trying to figure out if “BAT ORGANS” refers to a larger line — like, maybe there’s packages full of bat kidneys, as you say. I hold out hope.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/03/2006 10:48 PM

Wait, the package says Bat Organs, With Bat Brains. How does that make any sense? I’m confused.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/03/2006 10:52 PM

I had the feeling that it was a pretty limited production line. Brains hold more ground than almost any other organ in the desirability area. I know I’d rather have a brain than a stomach/kidney, etc. A heart though would be pretty cool.. If I ever go to a craft store before Halloween again (which is unlikely, I have almost the same aversion you do), I’ll check for different varieties.

The brains in your pictures do look kind of edible, like gummies, and I’m not just saying that ’cause I’m a zombie. =) Perhaps you’re just particularly skilled at photographing things in an alluring manner?

I never did like those little ponies, but seeing that I could indeed stick an orange pony to my refrigerator, I may just have to buy one. It’s so strange that it intrigues me.

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 10/03/2006 11:00 PM

You can sue McD’s for two Baltic Avenues, but only if you’ve also spilled the contents of the cup on your crotch.

Chestnuts roasted by Roadblock @ 10/03/2006 11:03 PM

There’s a slightly different version of the “Bat Organs” at some of the Spirit Halloween stores. The packages have only two brains, but also two hearts.

Two obviously HUMAN hearts. Which either means these are just “human” organs cynically repackaged as “bat” organs in order to fool Halloween shoppers into buying the same stuff twice, or these organs were taken from a vampire just as it was midway between transforming into a bat.

Personally I like the second explanation better. It’s nastier, it explains why the organs are too large for a normal bat, and vampire bat organs are unquestionably millions of times cooler than just any old run-of-the-mill flying rat filling. The only drawback to that explanation is that it shows what a major nerd I am for even bothering to dream it up in the first place.

Chestnuts roasted by SJ @ 10/03/2006 11:06 PM

I have a pony with a magnet in it’s hoof. It hangs on the metal reading lamp clipped on my bed.

I used to play My Little Ponies all the time with my neighbor in Allentown when I was little. I’m sorry to say, I don’t recall the premise of most of the pony scenarios, so I can’t enlighten you as to what they may have been. It was probably a lot of practicing for the pony ballet and trying to get them to wear doll clothes.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 10/03/2006 11:08 PM

SJ – The Spirit store I went to seriously dissapointed me, but you’ve totally made my night by mentioning a brain/heart package!

Your theory is extremely awesome. But why not package them as such? They would draw much more attention as vampire-bat organs. hmm. That would of course tip off the other vampires that their organs are being harvested, and of course this has to be a covert operation.. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 10/03/2006 11:12 PM

I’ll take anything even remotely related to a bat!

I looked at Target for the Halloween Ponies last time I was there, but alas, I didn’t even see a PLACE For them. :( I was sad. Still am… But I’m glad I finally get to see what they look like. I kept forgetting to do a search.

There’s a Halloween Barbie out (the one last year was way cooler) and Stacey and Kelly and whoever the little kids are all dressed up. But again, I’m not digging them as much as I did last year, although the Mummy one isn’t bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/03/2006 11:12 PM

Do you think GI Joe could have been even mroe successful if they had told you that Duke’s favorite gem was amethyst?

Chestnuts roasted by Roadblock @ 10/03/2006 11:14 PM

Much love for the girly toy article Matt! Now that I’ve seen them, I have to get Pumpkin Tart. I played ponies all the time, but those clothes were next to impossible to get on them. The shoes were satisfying and simple, but everything else – forget it.
My Little Ponies – as in the original cartoon – stands up more than I thought it would. I had no idea just how much it was about selling me toys until I heard one of the characters refer to a group of ponies as “The First Tooth Ponies” which would normally be fine except that the character had no previous contact with the pony world. Hello, marketing. It worked.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/03/2006 11:18 PM

Is it sad that out of all these GREAT Halloween articles so far I had the most fun reading about My Little Pony? Give up?? The answer is yes.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 10/03/2006 11:19 PM

whoah 3 articles for the price of 1! awesome deal. and yeah spirit stores are pretty weak. most of their merchandise is old and overpriced. party city and party pig usually get in the new halloween tech every year.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/03/2006 11:20 PM

Matt, only you could write about something I find so ridiculously boring and droll and turn it into an exciting trip the surreal.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/03/2006 11:21 PM

There’s a Strawberry Shortcake movie coming out soon. Went to the theater over the weekend and saw one of those huge cardboard standouts/posters advertising it. So I would have to give the edge to Strawberry over MLP.

Bought a AWESOME glow-in-the-dark shirt today that has a skelton’s skull and front on one side, and his spine on the back. Can’t wait to wear it.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/03/2006 11:24 PM

I was almost ready to skip the My Little Pony article (bleh), until I read the title. “This Little Pony Went to Hell!”.
Truely awesome title.

Chestnuts roasted by Kris @ 10/03/2006 11:24 PM

Christine – If vampire organs were being harvested, who would be doing the dirty deed and why? Van Helsing, Blade or Buffy wouldn’t do it… they certainly sliced and diced their share of Dracula and kin, but they never kept souvenirs.

So I ask again: Who would be ghoulish enough to carve up other ghouls? (Aside from Matt, of course. And us. And Rob Zombie. And the Hormel company. Someone who isn’t so blatantly obvious.)

Chestnuts roasted by SJ @ 10/03/2006 11:25 PM

That is amazing packaging. If I saw that I’d have to buy two, one to play with the brains and one to keep pristine and put on my wall next to my box of animal crackers and “signed” picture of Joel and the Bots.

I mean… “For the Mad Scientist in All of Us?”

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 10/03/2006 11:30 PM

(Now that I’ve actually read the article all I can say is…)

Jeez, Matt. Someone should tell Target about you.

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 10/03/2006 11:35 PM

Pumpkin Tart? You can tell she lives up to the name, with her spray-on tan and false eyelashes and hair highlights… I CAN SEE YOUR DIRTY PILLOWS!

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 10/03/2006 11:57 PM

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