McDonalds/Lucasfilm conspire to make your butt bigger

The thing that has killed me over the past 11 years is the SW food tie-ins. First it was the Special Editions and the promos at Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza the Hutt, repeated again in 1999 for TPM. Those chalupas and Meat Lovers pizzas made me go up a dress size. I thought I'd get a little bit of a break with AOTC since no fast food joints did a tie-in in the U.S., but there was the promo with Frito Lay. One of my friends swore off Doritos for life after that one and she loved Doritos. Then along came Burger King's promo for ROTS. I downed 1000 calorie crud just to get the fry box with Anakin and Obi-Wan.

Now it's McDonalds' turn for Clone Wars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/media/01adco.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

At least they're the smaller Happy Meals. The small burgers that come with those actually aren't too bad.

Midnight Madness returns to San Diego! (Ha ha)

Toys R Us will host another Midnight Madness blitz of merchandising goodness on the evening of Friday July 25. There will be fun and frolic until doors open at the Witching Hour on the 26th.

What, you live in Omaha? Too bad, so sad, because only two stores in all of America will host Midnight Madness: the Times Square flagship in New York City and the Mission Bay store (my local TRU) in San Diego. Bwahahaha! The reason is pretty simple...it's the same weekend as Comic Con and all of Geekdom will be in my humble little burg. Steve Sansweet will be onhand. No doubt he will be scooping everything up himself ;).

Of course the fan club breakfast is at 7 a.m. the next morning...

Update: Midnight Madness goes NATIONWIDE! Check TRU's list here to see if your local store is on it:

http://toysrusblog.typepad.com/storeList.html