Bad news/Good News, Coraline toy edition

[yendi]

Bad news: Coraline toys are available at Hardees/Carl's Jr, which means you'll need to risk food poisoning (at worst) or a crappy meal (at best) to get one.

Good news: The toys look to be the crappiest toys in the history of crappy movie tie-in toys. So you can eat something better. Like a rock.

Comments

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Thats a little harsh. Carl's Jr makes the only Western Burger I actually like. I normally hate onions on my burgers...

[yendi]

In fairness, I've only eaten at Hardee's-branded locations, but I'd assumed that, like Roy Rodgers/Arby's, the core ingredients were basically the same.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Hey, now. Don't you be disrespectin' the Thickburger.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

That's what she said Okay, okay, I've already slapped myself!

That would be SO VERY WRONG as a nickname. For anything.

[davidlubar.livejournal.com]

My response to the toys was the inevitable "Hardee-har-har."

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Tales Of Tie-In Dumb: I remember that a fast-food chain released tie-in toys for the animated TV show Capital Critters. A show so short-lived, that (if I remember correctly) it was off the air by the time the chain got the toys. So the poor minimum-wage burger slingers were having to push toys from something almost no one knew about. The disinterest (much as it was for the show) was thundering. The show's now mainly known as maybe the second-biggest Steven Bochco belly-flop, less than two years after Cop Rock. On the other hand, hey, at least it gave Neil Patrick Harris some more non-Doogie work.

Here's what Google claims is Capital Critters's intro.

[greatcalvero.livejournal.com]

The poll on that page has Coraline's name spelled wrong.

I don't even understand why Hardee's stays open for lunch and dinner. Their parking lots are desolate wastelands every time I drive by in the afternoon at night. They could close after breakfast and probably make the same amount of money. Or, they could serve their biscuits all day long and make a king's ransom.