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Summer Megaparty: X-E Goes To The Kwik-E-Mart!

I made a promise that X-E's Summer Megaparty would include new blog content everyday from 6/20 through 8/1...


...but I think I can get off on a technicality if I write a new article. It's been a wild day. I'm at home slumped in my chair, and one phone call later, I'm crashing into eighty cars as I zip to New York City for the privilege to go inside a real, live Kwik-E-Mart. Click here for the huge report!

Yes, promoting The Simpsons Movie, eleven 7-Eleven stores (get it?) from all over the country have turned themselves in Kwik-E-Marts, each with real, live Kwik-E-Mart foodstuffs and enough Simpsons crap to make anyone who still can't hear "Rock Me Amadeus" without thinking of Dr. Zaius happy.

The article is a photo journey through the store, but I had a bunch of pics leftover. Check 'em out, after the jump. Jump jump.









That's just the tip of the iceberg...make sure you check out the full review!

Posted by Matt on 07/02/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 140 comments
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Christ…How did I know YOU would cover this?

The movie’s going to suck, but all that promotional junk is a nolstagia fanatic’s wet dream.

Too bad I don’t live near a 7-11 :(

Chestnuts roasted by ShameOnPretzel @ 07/06/2007 9:44 AM

Awesome. I wish the 7-11′s here in Japan would do that. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I’m in Japan now…

Click on my name to see a YouTube vid.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 07/07/2007 1:36 AM

I wrote a pretty extensive feature on the Chicago Kwik-E-Mart based on a 4-hour visit Tuesday. THEY had plenty of KrustyO’s in stock. You won’t believe how much money they were making over there.

I’ve also got audio of the store’s owner telling customers “Thank you, come again” with an Indian accent, arguing that the Simpsons are bigger than Star Wars and saying that Apu’s character inspired him to buy his first 7-Eleven.

Five reasons to visit the Chicago Kwik-E-Mart
http://www.methodsreporter.com/2007/07/05/kwik-e-mart-chicago-simpsons-movie-7-eleven/

Chicago Kwik-E-Mart photo gallery:
http://www.methodsreporter.com/chicago-kwik-e-mart-photos/

Chestnuts roasted by Brad Flora @ 07/07/2007 11:37 AM

“apparently” one of the real KWIK_E_MART employees is randomly posting stuff on various blog sites and discussion boards.

but I personally don’t believe it’s true.

thank you,

COME AGAIN!

thank you,

COME AGAIN!

thank you,

COME AGAIN!

thank you,

COME AGAIN!

thank you,

COME AGAIN!

(somebody might wanna get a net.)

Chestnuts roasted by Shaunpu @ 07/07/2007 2:58 PM

Apparently here in Oz, we’re just getting some of the cinema lolly bars converted in Kwik-E-Marts and Westfield shopping centres will take on a Springfield theme. LAME!

Chestnuts roasted by Cleavy @ 07/07/2007 8:01 PM

wow this is totally fucking retarded

Chestnuts roasted by jordan @ 07/07/2007 8:14 PM

hey~ went to the Henderson Nv kwike-e-mart! it was great! got boxes and boxes of krusty os!

Chestnuts roasted by chris black @ 07/08/2007 12:08 AM

Kowabunga Dudes, I Live in Las Vegas, Nv and I have to tell you a few cool things I’ve Seen, How about THE SIMPSONS REAL HOUSE, ’bout 11 years ago I had the privledge of touring the not too famous Simpsons Replica House which was truly amazing, you just don’t feel there home on TV like you do Litterally walking through it! The house was a giveaway for somethin’ or other But you can do a search for it it’s on 712 Red Bark Lane, is part of Kaufman and Broad’s Springfield Community,South Valley Ranch!if on g**gle maps in Henderson find Boulder Hwy & Broadbent then past the center of the park Find Red Bark Ln. count down to the 9th house on the North side of the street,however when I saw it, it was in full Technicolor, but they have since repainted! And for some wierd reason there actually is a Quickie Mart in this town on the corner of Flamingo and Cameron in a strip mall! Oh Yea if you check a U.S. Map try northwestern Kentucky, I’m almost certain the Simpsons are modeled after a little town called Simpsonville it’s right next to Shelbyville, Ky. I could Be Wrong!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 07/08/2007 2:00 PM

Fuck! georgia didn’t get one. atleast there’s eBay.

Chestnuts roasted by psycho jack @ 07/08/2007 10:54 PM

There’s two 7-11′s within a couple blocks of me here in Denver (only one got the Kwik-e-Mart makeoever, though). They’ve both been COMPLETELY sold out of Simpsons stuff every time I go by. ::sigh:: Oh how I pine for a box of Krusty O’s and a six pack of Buzz Cola…

Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 07/11/2007 8:57 AM

WAHHHHH!!!! I HATE THIS! i’ve waited like my whole life for this movie, and i can’t believe it *sob* we don’t have 7-11′s in houston. They won’t have simpson themed conoco’s, thats for damn sure! how dare they do this to me! damn you, fox, damn you!

Chestnuts roasted by Dolores Napierkowski @ 07/16/2007 5:44 AM

I got my Squishi cup!The blue one was rather tasty.

Our 7-11 only has the squishis, and a 12 dollar homer hat….

Chestnuts roasted by Trace @ 07/17/2007 10:54 AM

the donald duck balloon video oh yes its cool.

Chestnuts roasted by kenneth @ 04/13/2009 4:19 PM

Unbelievable that they didn’t do more with Duff beer. That’s been such an iconic staple of Simpsons lore since practically its inception. Maybe the marketers thought that the theft rates would be too high. What they really need to do is have a permanent 24/7 fully-operating Kwik-E-Mart that sells all this glorious garbage. They could even reenact scenes from the show on occasion.

Chestnuts roasted by Aaron C. Wade @ 09/21/2009 9:00 AM

That’s awesome!

I am envious now i want one!

Chestnuts roasted by Richard Metcalfe @ 01/09/2010 11:43 AM

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