4 Merchandised Toy With Candy Products

With Halloween over for the year, you can usually get leftover Halloween candy for cheap because stores want that stuff off their shelves and not taking up precious backroom space that can be used for storing upcoming December holiday candy and other products. Although I usually refer to it as cheap candy, what I really mean to say is that it’s inexpensive. It’s good candy that has been reduced in price as opposed to poorly made candy that doesn’t cost much to make and isn’t that great. It’s just like the cheap toys you can get. There are the inexpensive good toys you can get for less money and the poorly made, fall apart when you touch them, cheap toys. There are actually quite a bit of familiar candy products you can get for less at dollar and discount stores, but these merchandised candy products give you very little candy and more packaging. You can also get these at various other stores as well, such as department stores or even video game specialty stores. The candy included isn’t exactly cheap, since you could get much more candy with other choices, but you can keep the containers and even play with them. They’re a cheap toy with a treat inside like a reverse Kinder Surprise which has the toy inside the candy. They are made by Au’Some, which is probably supposed to be mean ‘awesome’, but it looks French so I translated it using Babelfish and it came back ‘with the nap’ in English and that just makes no sense at all. 1.) Mario Barrel Candy Container Didn’t Mario die when landing on a barrel? This is Nintendo’s Mario standing on a barrel full of candy. I’m not up on all my Mario games, but the only game that I can recall off the top of my head that included both Mario and barrels was Donkey Kong. Mario had to make it to the top of a building while dodging barrels that Donkey Kong was throwing from the top. The candy inside is brightly colored and is most likely crunchy. 2.) Wiimote Candy Dispenser Hazard: It doesn’t have a wrist strap This is a really well done replica of an actual Wiimote only smaller in size. The candy goes in on the wrist strap side and you use the trigger to dispense them. The pack includes two packs of the Rockets-like candy. You could probably find similarly sized and shaped candy as refills or if the candy is all gone,...

Cracked Lists 5 Least Useful Army Men

From my “I wish I thought of that” list comes a funny, but true, article/list from Cracked.com about the plastic army men. It’s called “The 5 Plastic Army Men Least Useful in Combat”. Take a look. In the one plastic army men set, there is a second set I haven’t posted yet, I only have the mine sweeper guy and the gun holding binocular guy in a more flattering pose. I’m surprised I didn’t get either of the two variations of the just binocular guys. There are a couple of pretty useless army men that probably could have been included from my set had the list been longer. Communications Army Man This guy is almost posing while talking on his cell phone. This is the classic annoying guy you see who is always answering his phone at the most inopportune times. He would stop whatever he was doing, like shooting if he actually had a gun, to take that call that will only last a “minute” with the giant antenna allowing him to have good signal strength anywhere on the planet. Oh, and the phone ringing would likely would alert everyone to his position because he forgot to set it to vibrate. Crawling Army Man This is a view the enemy helicopters have of the guy when flying overhead. He’s still making his way to his designated shooting spot and the crawling is probably taking longer because he is trying to hold his gun while he crawls. Without aiming their gun like their smarter colleagues, the best they can do when they are spotted is to play and hope the enemy doesn’t decide to make sure they aren’t just playing. The guy can’t stand up and leaning him up against something is just really dumb looking. Pretty useless. Cracked’s rules of the game are quite humorous to. What? You didn’t know they had rules? That’s because there are no rules. They even have a link to a stop motion video using plastic army men. It’s almost ten minutes long and it must have taken a long time to...

Dollar Tree Sold Bootleg American Flags

It’s one thing to get a bootleg Optimus Prime action figure where the head comes off instead of transforms or a bootleg Spiderman action figure with different name and a light installed in his chest, those are the cheap toy knock offs you’d expect to see at a dollar or discount store, but it’s another to get a bootleg of something meant to be patriotic. Tim Childress got a plastic American flag at a Dollar Tree dollar store in Dallas, but was surprised to find out there was something slightly wrong with his Old Glory purchase. Instead of the standard 50 stars you expect to find on the real flag, there were a total of 61 stars. The flag was imported from China by a company in Virginia. Seeing as how they made their way to Texas from Virginia, it probably means other stores may have them. If they haven’t seen that report and already pulled them from shelves to save some embarrassment. The manager said off camera from the news report that it’s a “patriotic banner” and not an American flag. You aren’t being patriotic if you’re sporting an incorrect American flag. I think it’s a little lame that they would be importing something of this much importance from China though. At least make them in the USA. A while back, here in Canada, there were pairs of Canadian flag underwear in beer cases used for Canada Day. That all sounded good until people noticed they were made in a country other than Canada like Mexico or possibly even China. If anyone knows what I am talking about with the Canada Day thing and I am wrong about any or all of it, please comment. Have we really gotten so bad that we need to outsource manufacturing items about our country to other countries just to save some money? Do yourself a favor, if you plan on getting an American flag this July 4th, make sure it’s the proper flag before you buy it. For the entire story/news report video online, go here. For added amusement, or eye rolling, see what conversation starts in the comment section by a seemingly innocent...

Cadmium Tainted Toys Given As Reward

When you’re a kid, going to the doctor or the dentist can be quite a traumatic experience. Many doctor and dentist offices have a supply of candy or toys as a reward after the visit so the kids leave with a smile. That way, hopefully they will remember they got something good so it wasn’t all that bad of an experience. Dentists usually give some form of sugar free candy and I’m not sure about doctors, lollipop maybe. The rewards differ from office to office I would imagine. Well it seems that some offices have been giving away children’s jewelry which has been tested and found to contain cadmium. That’s really something parents don’t even want to think about is possibly going on. The jewelry in question are the Happy Charm Bracelets. They are colored beads on a string with a metal charm. Some have a cutesy charm for girls and others have a manly football for boys. Almost 70,000 were recalled overall and they were being given away for about five years. If you have any of them, just throw them away. It’s one thing to avoid buying something, it’s another when they are given to you and you expect them to be safe. You’ve been given a fair...

Dollar Store Fined For Selling Bad Food

You get some articles about finding good food products to buy at a dollar store and then you get articles like this that make just reinforce the reasons why you wouldn’t want to buy food products at dollar stores. A dollar store owner in Edmonton was fined several thousand dollars for trying to sell damaged goods. Things like dented cans, exposed dry goods and expired items. It’s easy for people to avoid such products, I myself wouldn’t be picking up anything that looked compromised, but it doesn’t mean they should be sitting on the shelf when they could be taken off. The people most at risk are low income customers who were buying them because they were on the shelf and cheap. What’s really facepalm worthy is that the owner tried to use the it’s the customers fault for not looking and the employee’s fault for leaving them on the shelf excuse, trying to place blame on someone else, but this was after numerous warnings over a four year period and the judge wasn’t buying it. With all the bad food tossed in a dumpster, no one was buying that anymore either. Hopefully this opens the dollar store owners eyes on the matter and gets him to clean up his act. Read the entire story...