Rescuers Down Under Christmas Ornaments, McDonalds 1990

 
Happy Christmas in July! It's the first blog post in a while... Well, one of which from the drafts waiting to be published.

30+ years ago, The Rescuers movie got a sequel where Bernard and Bianca took thier heroics to Australia - and McDonalds joined in for a festive Happy Meal promotion.

I tracked this promotion down online and acquired an unopened set. These are pretty cool! They're a simple set of the movies main 2 characters as flocked figures in Christmas attire. Bernard and Bianca are in near scale to Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters toys but without the articulation.

These will be joining The Demogorgon, Soundwave, Ecto-1 and a whole host of other pop culture mess on our 'Holiday' tree when its up in November.

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Goodfella's Star Wars Pizza

 

Star Wars and Pizza... Let's Do This!!!!

From Goodfella's, the Star Wars: Meteor Meatball Pizza as part of their Little Fella's range.

Sporting a cropped product photo and some Darth Vader stock imagery and modern orange 'Star Wars' logo to make the packaging eye-catching, the job is done well. There are also Frozen and Mickey Mouse: Clubhouse options too, but we'll focus on Star Wars for this entry. With a long-awaited movie sequel out in December and an animated show doing very well, Star Wars is set to be the big and more recent merchandise monster set to take Christmas 2015 by storm. Anything with Darth Vader and co pictured on is guaranteed to do big.

As an added bonus, the pizza box sports inside a Wordsearch puzzle and a couple of color-in and cut-out figures (see bottom of article). The cardboard figures are a random pairing of Boba Fett and Yoda from the original trilogy and are the only two to collect, as all the inside prints are the same (judging from the 3 boxes purchased).
 

These pizzas are a good serving size, but that is down to opinion. The packaging and website both shill the nutritional information of the pizza product, and they pull no punches doing so.

These are also great for kids parties, and at £1.50 a shot there isn't a lot of waste involved. There are arguably more unhealthily engineered kids-licensed foods out there, and small Disney branded pizzas claiming to provide one your '5-a-Day' aren't among them.

Disney Princess Makeover

I found a little something put by for my daughter a couple of years ago (for until she was old enough to use it). - A Disney Princesses Sketch Book.

The sketch book came from Saudi Arabia through a pal who resided there at the time. As you can see the designs have been altered slightly. An interesting cultural variant on the brand, or makeover rather.

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Wreck-It Ralph Christmas Promotion

Despite this film held back until February 15th 2013, it is still being promoted quite well. Courtesy of Showcase Cinemas for the Holiday Season are these fantastic Wreck-It Ralph Advent Calendars.

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