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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We finally know how Charlie Brown did at the Super Bowl!

If you’ve never seen the 1994 Peanuts special You’re in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, well, you’re not alone. It aired only in 1994, linked to that year’s Super Bowl, on NBC, which had never before and has never since aired a Peanuts special. It has never been rerun, never …

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Free Snoopy Weekend

Apple just announced that this weekend, you can watch all of their original programming for free (you will have to sign in for an account, but not a subscription.) This means The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space, Camp Snoopy, and the new Peanuts specials that were created for Apple should all be …

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …