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As part of their Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Buy Lots Of Stuff Novedecember/Whatever promotion, Amazon currently has Peanuts 70th Anniversary Holiday Collection Limited Edition, a Blu-ray set with some new commentary tracks, for $39.99 (off of a $99.99 list.) This set comes with a Snoopy figure and, more vitally for this blog, the book Happy Holidays, Charlie Brown. What’s in that book? I do not know, because I was to cheap to buy this before this sale… and besides, this was pushed as a limited edition item, and I tend to dodge manufactured collectibles. But now I’m giving in.

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Officially, it’s a “Super Chubby”

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