Collecting Diary 2005-03-18

Revenge of the Sith Lord

Okay... I know I shouldn't be paraphrasing interviews when I can't recall which ones it is I'm paraphrasing from... but recently when speaking of marketing for the new movie somebody from Lucasfilm mentioned that the product sales for Episodes I and II were down lower then expected because they were both missing the most recognized character: Darth Vader.
Well, there's no fear of that this time around! Photo #1 is of a gift bag Tamara found in the party supplies area of Toys R Us. It was made by Ambassador, a division of Hallmark, and retails for $3.89US.

So far I've found a Kudos Variety Pack box for Episode I and Episode II, and (as of tonight) an M&Ms Kudos Box for Star Wars Episode III. Somehow I completely missed the fact that Kudos boxes come with cut-out trading cards of the back of the Star Wars boxes.

When Lawrence and I bit into the last box of Kellogg's strawberry pop tarts, we were dissapointed to find them unfrosted. Tonight I found the box of frosted strawberry Pop-tarts! Yum! Now if I can just lay my hands upon a couple of really good variites of Star Wars frozen Eggo Waffles...