Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 29: Elvira Candy Bars from Sweet! Hollywood

A Countdown to Halloween wouldn't be complete without some candy. Sweets! Hollywood has three Elvira candy bars this year. The first one is a dark chocolate bar:

They also have a Elvira milk chocolate bar:

And then there is a Elvira white chocolate bar:

As a bonus, they also have a Elvira collectible sticky jar filled with handmade candy:

Other Halloween-theme candy bars that they sell include Toxictoons, Skelanimals, Famous Monsters, Hellboy and Afterlife with Archie. Note that this is not a paid for post so be sure to check them out if you dare.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 28: Franken Bride Slots

Franken Bride is a new slots game from House of Fun on Facebook. The main focus is the Bride of Frankenstein and is a sequel to Frankenstein Rising.

I love her purple hair with a white streak:

This is the Frankenstein place that appears while the game is loading:

This is the first screen shot of the actual game. Notice that the Franken Bride is colored differently and has white eyes. This is her really evil look. The good doctor himself makes an appearance.

Another screen shot of the actual game with the hunchback and a very nervous looking priest.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 27 Bonus: Elvira at Farmville Harvest Swap

Elvira has teamed up with Zynga this year and a game version of herself will be appearing in Farmville: Harvest Swap. I broke down and started playing it yesterday. I mostly collected witch hats and bats. Be warned that she will disappear at midnight on Halloween night so you better play it while you can. You can download the game or play it on Facebook, which is what I'm doing. Here is the banner for Elvira at Farmville: Harvest Swap:

Here is the list for Elvira's Spooktacular:

I started playing level 15 and lost the first round:

Elvira has a disappointed look when you loose;

I finally won level 15 after three tries and Elvira looks happy:

I love the wink that she gave me when I won level 15 of Farmville: Harvest Swap:

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 27: Boo Berry Box

Boo Berry is the final of the three monster cereals released this year with the We're Alive theme. The front of the box shows him with a castle in the background but still no cereal shown:

The left side of the box also includes instructions on how to use the Blippar app:

The back of the box features the portrait game but with Boo Berry:

Supergirl TV Series Reminder

Just a reminder that Supergirl tv series starring Melissa Benoist starts tonight on CBS right after The Big Bang Theory:

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 26: Franken Berry Box

Here is this year's Franken Berry box with the We're Alive theme that I picked up at the local Walmart Super Center. The front features the monster with a castle in the background. The cereal itself is strangely missing but check out his fingernails:

Here is the left side of the box which includes instructions on how to use the Bippar app:

Finally, here is the back with the portrait game featuring the monster:

The right side of the Franken Berry box features nutrition and ingredient lists so I'm not including it here.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 25 Bonus: Elvira on Halloween Wars Tonight

Elvira will be a special guest judge on tonight's season finale of Halloween Wars on the Food Network. Here she is with tv host Rossi Morreale:

Countdown to Halloween 2015: Count Chocula Box

This year's theme for the monster cereals from General Mills is We're Alive. You can Blipp them to life if you have the cell phone app. Unfortunately, I don't have a cell phone but I still got the boxes anyway. I'm spotlighting the Count Chocula box first since that is what I ate first at the beginning of the month. I picked it up from the local Walmart Super Center. The front has the Count and his castle featured but the cereal itself is missing:

The left side of the box features some facts about the cereal and how to bring the monsters alive using the Blippar app:

The back features a mini game where you have to put the different portraits of Count Chocula in their appropriate timeline. The Count appears in a group shot with the Franken Berry and Boo Berry. I think you can use Blippar to play more games:

Unfortunately, I don't have a Target nearby so I couldn't get the box with the build a castle back.

The right side of the box has nutrition facts and ingredients so I'm not including a scan of that since it's pretty boring.

To be honest, I would rather have a toy inside instead of the We're Alive feature.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 24: Cap'n Crunch's Halloween Crunch

This year the good Cap'n appears as a zombie on the front of this year's Cap'n Crunch's Halloween Crunch box (the cereal doesn't seem to turn the milk as green as it did last year):

Here's the left side of the box:

There is a pumpkin template on the back of the box:

The right side of the box is the usual list of nutrition facts and ingredients so I'm not including it here.

Goodnight Murphy Anderson

Silver Age comic book artist Murphy Anderson has passed on at the age of 89 according to Newsarama. He worked on the Buck Rogers comic book from 1947 to 1949, relaunched Hawkman with Gardner Fox in 1964, co-created Zatanna and revived the Spectre with Fox in 1966.

Murphy Anderson(July 9, 1926 – October 2015)

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 23: Halloween Stickers

I released these six Halloween stickers from my old warped sticker book and put them on homemade trading cards. These actually came from those little sticker booklets from the 1980s. They are not in great condition but at least I still have them.

The first card features a witch flying on her broom with a big orange moon watching her, a cute black cat wearing a witch's hat leaning on a jack-o-lantern and a black cat ready to scratch you:

The second card features a jack-o-lantern, a very friendly looking scarecrow and a ghost that looks a little like Casper:

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 22: Puffy Halloween Stickers

Here are four puffy Halloween stickers from my old warped sticker book. I took them out and put them on homemade trading cards. I'm not sure about the year but I'm pretty sure they were from the 1980s. I'm also thinking that they were available in vending machines but I could be wrong. I'm not really sure if they are all from the same set or not. I can't seem to find any info on them yet by searching the usual sites.

The first pair consist of a dancing skeleton with a pumpkin head and black cat sitting on a pumpkin:

The second pair is a skull and a very sinister red-faced devil with white horns:

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 21: Parade Exclusive with Elvira

You can read Dr. Nancy Berk's Parade Exclusive: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Shares Her Halloween Favorites.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 20: Vintage Vampire Snoopy and Woodstock Sticker

I had this vintage vampire Snoopy and Woodstock sticker in my old warped sticker book. I have no clue as the actual age or where I got it from. I'm pretty sure that it came on a sheet of stickers and I have had it since the 1980s at least. This is kind of unusual because vampire Snoopy has a blue cape:

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 19: Super Mario Bros Meets Elvira

Yes, Elvira was actually on the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show tv series twice. The first segment was "Mommies Curse" and was the twentieth live action segment that originally aired on September 29, 1989;
"The Ghoul of My Dreams" was the sixty-fifth live action segment that originally aired on December 1, 1989 and could be considered a sequel to her first appearance since they both feature Luigi as a mummy:

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 18: Glow in the Dark Horror Puffy Stickers

I remember getting these glow in the dark horror puffy stickers in the mid-1980s out of a local vending machine for a quarter. Unfortunately, I only got seven out of ten since I rarely ever got a full set of anything back then. I finally took them out of my very warped sticker book and put them on homemade trading cards. On the first card is Dracula, the Mummy, Wolfman and Frankenstein:

The second card features King Kong, the Skull and I-Oneman:

Unfortunately, these horror puffy stickers have lost their ability to glow in the dark after all these years.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 Day 17: Spookylicious Pop-Tarts

I actually managed to snag this year's Limited Edition Spookylicious Frosted Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts from Kellogg's in late September at the local Walmart Super Center. The front of the box is pretty cool with the haunted house in the background:

This is the left side of the box when the front is towards you. I like the unPOPular tart styles #20: DISCO-TARTS #boogiefever. This side gives you the directions on how to prepare the Pop-Tarts in English and Spanish:

The back of the box is basically has a few toons but nothing really spooky:

I'm not showing the right side of the box since it features the nutrition facts and ingredients both in English and Spanish.

The Pop-Tarts themselves look pretty much like the one on the front of the box but the ghosts and moon pieces do not cover them as neatly. They taste okay if you enjoy chocolate fudge, which I don't and the orange frosting didn't have any taste at all. I wish Kellogg's would produce the regular size of Pop-Tarts instead of the sixteen count because it took me a while to finish these off. Also, the foil wrappers are just like the regular ones so it would have been cool if they made them a little bit more special.