If you like to waste quarters clawing for trinkets in those claw games at stores and arcades, you can buy a whole machine’s worth of fun for roughly $37 at firebox.com. The home version is small, but works the same as the ones in stores—put in a coin or token, steer the joystick, and drop the claw for a chance at a prize. The machine comes with a free bag of Monster Mix retro candy and is equipped with three joysticks instead of the traditional single. Since it’s your machine, you can fill it with the candy and toys of your choice, and maybe even make some cash from your friends.
We have previously covered chocolate video game consoles and controllers, and now another one has popped up. This time it’s a chocolate Xbox 360 controller being given away by the folks at Joystiq. To win it, you have to write a limerick (deadline 11:59 EDT Friday) on the topic of the console war now underway between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
I’m not sure where the controller comes from since they don’t say, but they hinted in some previous posts that Microsoft is making them – whether for promo or for sale is unknown.
What’s the best thing to eat while playing Nintendo? Candy, of course. If you can’t play Nintendo though, you may as well be eating Nintendo candy. We decided to compile a comprehensive list of all the Nintendo-themed candy we could find and present them to you. Enjoy!
“Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?†Everyone remembers that commercial, right? (To relive it, click on the image above to watch it on YouTube.)
That question has played on the minds of thousands of Tootsie Pop fans for years, even driving engineering students to create licking machines and compare the results of their experiments with human volunteer results. Now, Tootsie Pops has given us three new reasons to the answer for ourselves.
The top-selling lollipop brand, consistently available in chocolate, cherry, orange, raspberry, and grape, is now adding one flavor each of strawberry, watermelon, and blue raspberry to Tootsie Pop bags.
If you want a more adventurous lollipop experience, Tootsie Pops Tropical Stormz are available in Berry Berry Punch, Orange/Pineapple, Lemon/Lime, Strawberry/Banana and Citrus Punch. The basic Tootsie Pop premise is the same as the original—a hard candy shell surrounds a Tootsie Roll—but the shell is a combination of two flavors swirled together.
If you’re a truly dedicated Tootsie Pop fanatic, the Online Tootsie Store has a lot of cool stuff to collect. My favorite is the Lick O Meter Keychain. It’s a plastic contraption that holds a Tootsie Pop and counts your licks on an LCD readout. It’s $5 and comes with batteries and a pop. I’d like to get one and compare its count to my own, although I bet I’d do what I always do with Tootsie Pops—lose my patience and ruin the experiment by taking a big bite before I’m halfway to the center.
Are you taking your candy addiction a little too seriously? Do your co-workers hide their candy when they hear you coming? Need a little extra will power to keep you from munching down on those Cordial Cherry Kisses, White Chocolate M&M’s, or maybe Shock-A-Lots? Then why not pick up a Shockolate Jar? It’s a candy jar designed to send shocks of electricity into your hand if you try to open it before the timer goes off. Fill it with your favorite candy, set the timer, and then sit by as it slowly counts down until your self-imposed candy exile is over. Of course, you could always smash the jar, or not put the lid on in the first place, but that would ruin the whole point of the entire contraption.
Coming from Go Bazaar in the UK, the Shockolate Jar will run you £9.99, which is about US$17.38 according to their calculations, so it’s not that cheap, but it may be just the thing you need to break your addiction to candy (or any other small object). And if you’re getting it for your significant other, don’t forget to check the “gift wrapping” option when ordering. “Warning: This product can emit an electric shock and should not be used by anybody suffering from heart problems or epilepsy and should be kept out of the reach of children.”
