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OK, Most Batman Fans in the USA right now know about the DARK KNIGHT Movie Promotion that General Mills is doing with their line of cereal boxes but keeping up with it is sort of crazy! Here's the deal. All of their cereal brands have some sort of Batman prize or premium in the box ( NO "mail-aways" right now ). There are 4 different areas to collect: 3 Mini-Comic Book Booklets, 4 Batman & Joker Figures ( 2 of each character ), 4 Spinning Tops, & 4 Disc-Shooters. The booklets & figures are sort of random & to complete a set is just luck but one neat thing about this promo is that you can get the 4 Spinning Tops just by buying one box of 4 different brands of cereal. In other words 4 cereal boxes each have 1 very specific SPINNING TOP just for that box. The 4 cereals are Fruity Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch ( I really like the flavor of this one, ha ha ), Lucky Charms, & Reese's Puffs. In later posts I will be covering the other premiums so look for those in the future.
Lately, General Mills has been doing an awesome job at promoting THE DARK KNIGHT with all their cereal boxes & other products. Well now, they have teamed-up with SUPERVALU to offer a "Hunker Down in Your Very Own Bat-Bunker" Spectacular Sweepstakes! Basically all you do is enter the contest & you have a chance to win a Visa Card with $5000 that you can use to spruce-up your very own personal batcave, sounds pretty good to me! Here's a link to check it out:
Recently at the Bat-Blog we shared the information about there being a set of 4 cereal premium figures of THE DARK KNIGHT ( 2 Batman, 1 Scarecrow, & 1 Joker ) that are "foreign" because they're from Brazil. They're put out by Nestle which is a division of General Mills. OK, just to revamp, General Mills has 4 figures in cereal boxes for the USA & Nestle has 4 figures in Brazil. When you look at the figures on the backs of the cereal boxes, & even in photos, the figures from Brazil look exactly the same except for Scarecrow ( obviously ) & a "Double-Punch" Batman. So, I thought there were only 2 figures that were different. Well, our friend Eric got a set of them recently & ALL FOUR of the foreign ones are different! They are a little bit taller & a lot thicker than the US ones. So, thank you Eric for the information. For the rest of the story, & some amazing photos, please be sure to check out Eric's website. It's called TOYRIFFIC!
I hope my friend "Shadowbat" doesn't mind but I totally stole these 2 photos from him off a Message Board, ha ha! Sorry Dude, I was just so excited! Here's a set of photos of the new General Mills CHEERIOS Cereal Box with THE DARK KNIGHT Batman Movie tie-in!! Looks like they're giving away 4 FREE "Stunt Figure" cereal premiums. There are 2 Batman figures & 2 of The Joker. Now, the good news is that I totally love Cheerios cereal so it won't go to waste, ha ha! Be sure to click on the photo up above for a larger version. Also, if you, the Bat-Blog Reader, finds out about any more promotions like this please shoot me an e-mail!
The other night I was at Target & found this really great piece of Batman merchandise, a box of Betty Crocker "The Dark Knight" Fudge Brownies Mix, ha ha! OK, ya gotta admit it's kinda silly but if you think about it this box will be extremely RARE later & very desirable by Batman collectors in the future. The great thing is that it's only $1.50 & it's actually kind of cool for display because it's so wacky! Plus, if you wanted too, you can make the brownies, enjoy them, & keep the box. It's a win-win situation!
