The deluge is rolling in

HorizonThe The Peanuts Movie promotion has been coming on strong for a while, as they build up to sell the movie… and now we’re already starting with the movie being used to sell other things. I just ran into the ad seen here (note, this is not a paid placement), using the movie to sell Horizon snacks and drinks, on the Target website. And speaking of Target, yesterday I was in their toy section and saw the first licensed The Peanuts Movie products I’ve seen out in the wild: two Lego-like “Lite Brix” sets, one of the Peanuts characters at a baseball diamond, the other of Lucy’s lemonade stand. (That’s right, I’ve not got that confused. Her stand is actually selling lemonade, five cents a glass. It’s like someone took Peanuts and removed the humorous thing from it!) Looking around, I see there are at least a couple further Peanuts Movie Lite Brix sets to be found, a school dance scene and a skating pond.

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A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report

The animated special Peanuts: A Summer Musical is coming out on Friday, as discussed before. And yet here I am on Thursday, covering it. What sort of secret inside access did I have that let’s me do this? Easy, I live on the West Coast. It’s already Friday on the East …

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Dolores CONFIRMED!

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Officially, it’s a “Super Chubby”

When I reviewed the 2015 book adapting the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, I had this to say: The book that’s titled It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (adaptation by Kara McMahon, art by Scott Jeralds) takes basically the whole special and simplifies everything. It briefly tells you that Charlie …