Star Wars Cereal Boxes
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trends have always been a big commodity for collectors, but it’s seldom that a
movie actually has a cereal all its own. In the case of Star Wars Episode 2 –
Attack of the Clones, however, General mills produced a cereal with
sweetened corn puffs and marshmallows in the shapes of Clone Troopers, Light
Sabers, Yoda, R2-D2, Slave I and the Jedi Starfighter. The two collectable boxes
that were released to promote the film featured a continuing adventure game
where players would actually use the marshmallows as game pieces. As of
Wednesday, Star Wars Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones had
grossed $293,817,404 (Box Office
Mojo).
>Only in Hollywood!</b><br><br>In the highly acclaimed, Sam
Mendes-directed film <i>Road To Perdition</i>, the character of young Michael
Sullivan, son of Tom Hank’s lead character Michael Sullivan, Sr., spends a good
bit of screen time reading a <i>Lone Ranger</i> Big Little Book.<br><br>Under
other circumstances it might be a fun twist to see the famous character popping
up in a film which itself grew out of a comic. It might be, but not this
time.<br><br>The story is set in 1931. Unfortunately <i>The Lone Ranger</i>
first appeared in February 3,1933. It was on the radio, and it would be years
before he made it to the printed page. The first Big Little Book was published
in 1935 (scroll down to see the images of the first four Big Little Book
covers).<br><br>It’s not