Avengers Age of Ulton may still be a few months away but the Hype Train has now officially left the station. Forget the trailers, posters, tweets and online buzz. The REAL first day of movie promotion starts in the grocery store. And that day is today. Avengers Cheez-Its, anyone?
They're certainly not Marvel's first superhero foray into the cracker genre:
But some extra steps were taken here and that need to be acknowledged. Let's start with the shapes. With many teams, particularly the Avengers, food real estate is at a premium and usually goes to the most popular profitable characters. That being said, I would like to welcome Black Widow (who usually gets left out) to the grocery aisle, even if it's only her logo:
In addition to her logo we've got Iron Man's mask, Cap's Shield, the Avengers logo, Thor's hammer...essentially the usual shapes we've seen in cookies, pasta and fruit snacks before. Of course, there's no Hawkeye but it's rare to see him on a package, outside of a group shot anyway so it's not like he was expected. We'll just have to be satisfied with Widow's inclusion.
The other good element from this snack is a throwback to the old days of games on the back of cereal boxes and this time you get two for one:
Everything is included except the coin you need to flip for "Game of Heroes." I would image that it would work with dice as well but Big Cracker didn't want to take the chance that you didn't have a pair handy. Odds are, you are someone near you might have a coin on hand when cracking open a box.
You can also try spend some cracker crunching time with "Ultron's Menacing Maze." And if it's too menacing then there is a URL at the bottom, in small print, you can use to find the answer. Yes, that's right.
Hopefully this is only the beginning of the AoU hype train. I, for one, am ready to get on board.
