The incredible hype for the Incredible Hulk rages on with his latest merchandising tie-in -- freakin' fruity freezy-pop FLAVOR-ICE. I was pretty stunned to see his green face stamped on the box, but not too stunned to run away before buying it. There's like sixty-thousand pops in there - a pretty good bargain for a mere fiver. As far as these kinds of crossovers go, the Hulk Pops are pretty lame. They're just regular Flavor-Ice sticks with the Hulk's logo stamped on top. Okay, I'm not sure what else they could've actually done, but they're just not very Hulkish once you get 'em out of the box. They should've at least threatened that some of the pops were radioactive and could cause anyone who ate them to grow big muscles or explode.
The sticks come in their usual flavors - cherry, orange, grape, blah blah blah. The only flavor remotely tied to the Hulk is lime, since it shares his skin color and illustrates the envy he has for superheroes who don't need to buy new clothes every time they use their powers. I'm going to have Flavor-Ice in my freezer for all of eternity, though. I never got into the purple and orange ones, so the 400 of 'em are gonna sit in there next to last year's box of Weaver Chicken Drumettes until I'm dead, if not longer. Apparently, random boxes include various rare Hulk trading cards. I wasn't one of the lucky winners, so the Lucite super-case that previously housed my '91 Upper Deck Griffey Jr. is still without a new champ. Makes me sad. Think I'll have an ice pop.
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As much as I've tried, and tried, and tried, I just can't bring myself to give a rat's arse(slapped or not) about the Hulk.
Flavor-Ice, though...if you've got any extra blue or red ones, let me know.
Chestnuts roasted by Patty O's running out of ideas on this @ 04/23/2003 03:33 PM EST
all this hulk crap is reminding me of the godzilla crap. we're gonna be doomed to 5 years of crap laying on shelves. dang.
Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 04/23/2003 03:33 PM EST
white freezies were always the best.
Chestnuts roasted by evin @ 04/23/2003 03:36 PM EST
The grape pops are semi-Hulk related...the Hulk's pants are usually purple, you know.
Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 04/23/2003 05:04 PM EST
I always thought the purple ones tasted like cough medicine.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 04/23/2003 05:25 PM EST
Had the US Godzilla actually *been* Godzilla, that stuff might have gone faster.
Personally, I'm interested in seeing this new Hulk movie. I think Spider-Man's one of the best movies out there, and Daredevil was pretty good. The Marvel hero I'm really waiting for is Iron Man! I like the armored heroes. (Although I wish the comic would bring back someone worth fighting. Tony's been getting the losers lately. Stop going after Stark and his friends and make with the supervillains already! You've got a near-indestructible suit of armor and enough firepower to level a city block! And your fighting a serial murderer and some terrorists that the Taliban would laugh at the same way Psyduck is laughed at by every Pokemon he comes across? What are you thinking, man?)
Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 04/23/2003 08:38 PM EST
i always loved the purple and orange ones. Send them to me Matt!
Chestnuts roasted by Stacey @ 04/23/2003 09:01 PM EST
Slopoke never laughed at Psyduck. They were buddies.
Chestnuts roasted by Patty 'O' yttap @ 04/24/2003 12:10 AM EST
Matt, you ain't seen nothingyet. Taco Bell is coming out with green-shelled tacos.
If you want to see a full list of the dozens of crazy Hulk marketing tie-ins, I have an article about it here:
http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpuVpkFyVlWmLQZMrl.php
Chestnuts roasted by Brian Jacks @ 04/24/2003 01:13 AM EST
mmmmmhhhmmmm ..... Lou Ferrigno
i mean ..... mmmmhhhhmmm ..... Hulk ..... wait .... mmmhhhhmmmm ..... Lime ..... there u go
Chestnuts roasted by Runnin wit scissors @ 04/24/2003 03:04 AM EST
Freezies...the Official summer food of the Canadian middle-class.
Fudgsicles are poisons made by the bourgeois.
Chestnuts roasted by Cannibalizer @ 04/24/2003 03:24 AM EST
I think you mean your 89 Ken Griffy Jr. Upperdeck card.
DUH!
Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 04/24/2003 09:15 AM EST
When we'll Marvel realise the untapped potential that is Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight?!?!
Chestnuts roasted by Cowboy Hat Jones @ 04/24/2003 01:43 PM EST
Yeah Alpha flight! Yeah there's Northstar, the first marvel superhero to come out of the closet, oh wait he's in the x-men now. Then there's his sister the mentally unstable Aurora, oh wait she's in Weapon X,. Hey! At least theres Puck! Geez, no wonder that titls keeps getting canceled.
Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 04/24/2003 01:55 PM EST
I have all of the Alpha Flight action figures still in their boxes mounted on my wall... BWA!! Actually, they did have their own monthly series, and they had a new re-vamped team, but of course they kept Vindicator Puck and Sasquatch in it...hehehe...
Chestnuts roasted by Otaku Queen @ 04/24/2003 02:05 PM EST
So on board with the white freezies. Someone told me once that they're supposed to be cream soda flavoured but that *must* be shite, because I think cream soda tastes like medecine and these taste like the frozen nectar of the angels (which, considering all the fucked up shit in the Bible, is probably some sort of frozen God sweat. That wacky God and his rackets).
Hulk, I hate to say it, but I realy don't care. And get your damn preview offa my Red Dragon DVD. Me and what army? Well. . .I -- awright, awright; keep your shirt on, Hulk.
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 04/24/2003 02:09 PM EST
Matt, you can always use the box as a nifty hat! I would also like to add that when frozen, those little ice bastards are great at smackin' people in the back of the head (while makin' the famous Bruce Lee noises WAAAAH TAAAAAH).
Chestnuts roasted by erickprime @ 04/24/2003 03:27 PM EST
Haw haw, you put out a fiver for Hulk freeze pops and you don't even like half the flavors...Matt, teh loser is you!
Chestnuts roasted by whitemale_98 @ 04/24/2003 06:31 PM EST
Why did hulk have a fro and pointy eyebrows? Did this add to his superhero powers?
Chestnuts roasted by virgo_girl @ 04/24/2003 07:21 PM EST
it's not officially overkill till the Hulk breakfast cereal is released.
Chestnuts roasted by sharky @ 04/24/2003 08:56 PM EST
Wow, they actually resurrected Lou Ferrigno for this?
Chestnuts roasted by Max @ 04/24/2003 08:57 PM EST
Whatever happened to the white Ice-Pops? I always liked them best.
Chestnuts roasted by BC @ 04/24/2003 10:24 PM EST
I'm waiting for the poor, dumb bastard who does a review of the movie and has no idea who Lou Ferrigno is. Then......the hunt is on.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/24/2003 11:15 PM EST
Meh, I've seen worse. Then again...
Chestnuts roasted by Enigma @ 04/25/2003 09:46 AM EST
I wish I had five bucks....
Chestnuts roasted by Lint @ 04/25/2003 10:08 AM EST
Ferrigno is just going to have a cameo role as a security guard or something in the new movie..
I think the Hulk franchise could use rainbow colored Hulk-shaped limesicles! Or not.
Chestnuts roasted by MrMidknight @ 04/25/2003 12:52 PM EST
Hey, Sharky, you might want to see this.
http://www.emptybowl.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=299
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 04/25/2003 01:33 PM EST
shut up karen, no one cares about the point eyebrows and who is Lou anyway. lets go to lunch.
Chestnuts roasted by betty @ 04/25/2003 01:47 PM EST
Th' Hulk's pants turn purple probably because he lets loose with a pantsload o' bladdericious gamma-irradiated pee. Kids can now re-enact this loving trait of their beloved Green Goliath by eatin' several Flavor Ice pops and just lettin' goooooooooo........
Chestnuts roasted by IG-69 @ 04/25/2003 04:12 PM EST
My sister saw the trailer for the Hulk movie on TV during the Super Bowl (yes, she actually watched pro football; she was rooting for a friend who lived in Tampa, and it was a darn good thing the Buccaneers won). Anyway, she saw the trailer and when she saw the Hulk was CGI, she was like astounded. I wasn't surprised. Everything is being done CGI. Even Spider-Man swinging through the streets of NYC was CGI. The only problem with this is the Hulk looks too cartoonish and not human enough like the original Ferrigno.
Did you all know that Ferrigno did the voice of the Hulk in the cartoon on UPN?
Chestnuts roasted by Go Knock Jimmy Down @ 04/25/2003 08:38 PM EST
Sindi, why do you always have to use your mother's name when commenting on anything? can you not speak for yourself? And don't make fun of me, by the way who is this Lou Ferrigno guy anyway, I assume he was the original hulk. Yep, I guess pointy eyebrows were the thing back then...look at spock from Star Trek...creepy...
Chestnuts roasted by virgo_girl @ 04/25/2003 10:08 PM EST
i can freeze NyQuil and get the same thing.
Chestnuts roasted by J2THA...LO @ 04/26/2003 04:02 PM EST
Big, bushy eyebrows seem to tie in with machismo. Just look at the Japanese animators who have been pulling that shit for years (Fist of the North Star). Ferrigno was the origninal Hulk (the un-hulked alter ego Dr. was played by Bill Bixby) Ferrigno actually did ok in Hollywood, considering he was deaf as a post.
Chestnuts roasted by Gunnm @ 04/28/2003 05:10 PM EST
Ferringo is doing a signing of his new DVD sometime this week in the NYC BestBuy.
For those wondering, the previous 2 made for TV Hulk movies are being released in a DVD box set.
Chestnuts roasted by Squid @ 04/28/2003 06:11 PM EST
Dude, isn't Ferrigno dead? Pumping Iron was the greatest movie of all time, he was shafted out of an Oscar! I demand justice immeadiately! Oh, and on a side note, the Hulk movie will suck. The hulk sucks as a comic book character. He's just an idiot with anger management problems, a very big and strong idiot, but an idiot nontheless.
Chestnuts roasted by hedtrauma @ 05/03/2003 11:48 PM EST
my wife had a child, and before they cleaned him thouroughly, that is what it looked like. Except it had eyes.
Chestnuts roasted by I had one of those. @ 05/04/2003 05:05 AM EST
Did it smell the same or have you even had this ice cream shit yet?
Chestnuts roasted by snorkel @ 05/04/2003 05:06 AM EST
This is the only sad instance where I would prefer to suck some dick, not suck this ice cream. I would rather have aids, not permanent bowel movements from my ears.
Chestnuts roasted by SAD @ 05/04/2003 05:07 AM EST
I haven't seen all too much hulk-hype.
Maybe thats because I live in a bubble, under a rock, Below a cave, on mars.
6 billion years ago.
Chestnuts roasted by Belly Slider @ 05/05/2003 12:16 AM EST
when i lived in brooklyn they sold these thick, long ice pops in the bodega. i like em thick and long.
Chestnuts roasted by CiCi @ 05/05/2003 04:17 PM EST
By, Hulk Ice. See you in the archives in 2008.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/06/2003 05:58 PM EST
Wow...this is the same Fla-vor-ice pop that has been around most of my life.
Hmmmm...I just ate the Hulk kind...oh...I am growing big....muscles....I am orange...that was the flavor I ate....these are different!!! WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
Chestnuts roasted by Xavier 7 @ 06/11/2003 06:50 AM EST
You should try the kisko freezies. they were the first to make white (cream soda) flavour freezies.
They taste way better then the hulk ones.
tek it eze
Chestnuts roasted by tek it eze @ 06/24/2003 08:50 PM EST
sharky: The Hulk breakfast cereal has been released - it's made by Post and consists of puffed wheat and marshmallows in the shape of tiny beakers.
On a side note, my favourite freezies were banana flavoured.
Chestnuts roasted by Whiskershrimp @ 06/25/2003 04:01 AM EST
HULK POPS RULE! I think its all the invisible gamma rays. Ive been on a Hulk pop eating MARATHON! Well I gotta get to bed so I can go buy another 100 pack in the morning.
Chestnuts roasted by Joseph Renckly @ 08/19/2003 07:00 AM EST
help me find flavaice products......i'm in cali and grew up in jersey on flava ice
Chestnuts roasted by TAd @ 04/30/2004 02:26 AM EST
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Chestnuts roasted by TAd @ 04/30/2004 02:27 AM EST
