Magically Cute

 Welcome back to another batch of random shopping pictures with fun comments about 'em.

Rilakkuma gets all kinds of fun costumes. I don't know if this is from some sort of game or anything, but here he's like some kind of honey wizard. Cute. I mean, more cute than he normally is.

Huh. This is an odd bit of merchandise. Usually Lego is ripped-off with "compatible with leading brands" bricks. But these are not building things at all, instead they ripped-off the design of the minifigure heads, for a non-building thing.

Anybody else collect these ducks? Check out all the funny designs. That's a Ben Franklin Duck with the number 100 on him, for the dollar bill amount he's on. It's all about the Benjamins!

Sooooo.... The show Shark Tank. It seems like an advertisement for the products they may wind up investing in. And now the show itself is the plug? This seems like either grovelling, or pompous overkill boasting. Maybe it bothers me that they invest in these products, and now it seems like they didn't have the confidence the product could actually sell without the support of the show.

So what should I comment about this picture? I need somebody to give me advice about it.

Would you say I have a plethora of beers? Si, El Guapo. You have a plethora of beers! They put an eyepatch on the character, but it's clearly the El Guapo from the movie The Three Amigos. Did all the henchmen get him a sweater for his birthday?

Walmart parking lot squirrel hanging out on the tree. Is being upside-down comfortable? This is a common squirrel move, the upside-down hang.

I like silly Hot Wheels car designs. This one looks like an ice pop. Hurry and finish the race before you melt!

Woah. Scream... SEVEN. The movie started out as a critique-breakdown of the horror movie genre, and is now, itself, a long-running horror movie franchise. When do we get Scream-Scream? Is this it? Can they now make infinite Screams?

Hah. They sell Mandalorian figures that include Grogu, and both seperately. Check out Grogu in the tiny package. That's not the first time they gave him a special tiny package.

Does this make Cinnamon Toast Crunch the villains? Lucky Charms seems like a good hero cereal, but Golden Grahams would have been perfect since the K-Pop Demon Hunters have a song called "Golden".

What an amazing sales trick. You gotta buy it to flip it over and read the punchlines! Don't worry. I looked them up. here's the answers: Hisss-tory, All their neigh-bors, Because they don't have pockets, and "can you please be more Pacific?".

Yeowch. How can you get just one of the Powerpuff Girls? You'd need all three, right? At $25 a piece? Assuming you don't get any doubles? That's pricey!

Stephanie Vaquer is one of my friend's favorite characters on the WWE shows. She doesn't wrestle with the horns on, haha. Her best move is called Devil's Kisses and it looks cool, painful, and... Humiliating for the opponent.

Cactus Jack is from a while ago, but another of my friend's favorite characters. He'd hold his fingers up and chirp out "BANG BANG!"

Since kids from the 80's are, pretty much at this point, driving the whole toy market as collectors, it's fun to see all the retro mash-ups. Here's G.I.Joe versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters.

Bacon Scent Nerf for dogs! If they made regular Nerf darts bacon scented, you'd WANT to be hit by them?

Why put a cute face on a dog toy? Doesn't that make you feel like you are mean to give it to your dog to chew up?

Five bucks for a Lego minifigure. And you get a book with it! Check out Luke with his super-old, original style hair piece, first made in 1979!

How can your lisence plate say Pink Panther, and you have a dark burgundy car? Boooooo! Haha. Maybe it's just a reeeeeaaaaally dirty pink?

An evil-version flag with Darth Vader? Is that what America has become? Or is that some kind of snarky joke? Unlike that Pink Panther car from earlier, this car is full-on with the theme, with the red-black color combos and stuff.

80's toys in the claw machines, too. Hey, Baroness! Too bad you're so dug-in and close to the side. It would take a fortune to get you out of this particular claw machine. Check out her Cobra-rimmed glasses.

Did I take this pic before? I feel like I did but I can't remember. Just another excuse to mention I liked the 2nd M3gan movie. It was very well done, for what it's worth. A little less of a horror movie and more of a sci-fi cautionary story, but remember, the first M3gan movie was kinda like that, too.

Classic bully move from a toy company. Pack the figure you want with an extra figure just so you can get away with charging double. But look at the size of the box! Yeah half of it is just a big snowflake.

They were assembling a X-Files set at The Lego Store so I jumped in for a photo op. You know those conspiracy theories about Lego? Well, now they're true. All of them.

I didn't get one of these, but I kinda wanted to. It looks silly to stick peel-able stickers in a scene, but it also looked kinda fun.

Almost a full year after they had their golden moment, K-Pop Demon Hunter merch is starting to explode on the shelves. Good for them, they still seem to be popular. There's probably some kind of lesson here about how cool music helps things stay relevant.

Aside from the neat color matching, I think Furby is oddly too smart to be the blank-minded cat thing.

This picture might not show how awesomely small this van is. I looked it up, it's the Honda Acty.  And it's usually a pickup truck version, with an open back half!