The player who collects the most money from successful operations wins. The OPERATION: SHREK game from Milton Bradley will feature Shrek and his ailments including Ear Wax, Onion Breath and Humongous Fungus. (Approximate retail price: $9.99 for kids 3+.) bug guts! One five-ounce can and 2 two-ounce cans of PLAY-DOH compound are included in the set. The set even comes with a dispenser for the popular ogre's favorite toothpaste. They can "drill" away using the mechanized toothbrush with pretend drill attachment or choose to extract Shreks rotting teeth with the make believe wishbone tweezers. (Approximate retail price: $29.99 for kids 5+.)Ĭhildren can play dentist with Shrek in the PLAY-DOH ROTTEN ROOT CANAL. But watch out, when he hears "Go away Donkey" his mood turns sour. Press on his fuzzy muzzle and say "I love you, Donkey" to activate the plush donkey's buddy mode.
The Hasbro's SHREK 2 line includes WISE CRACKIN' SHREK/DONKEY, kind of an interactive companion doll.
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welcomes Shrek and friends back with a full line of SHREK 2 plush, playsets, figures and games available in spring 2004 at retail stores in the U.S. California producer River Ranch Fresh Foods has been using Popeye to tout its array of fresh packaged spinach and salad blends under the Popeye Fresh! label since the mid-2000s.Hasbro Inc. It could be argued that Popeye has been selling kids on spinach since his inception in 1929. Hinkle Produce of Cissna Park, Illinois, puts its pumpkin haul in big orange bins with Charlie, Snoopy and Linus proclaiming, "It's the Great Pumpkin!" Well, if you're waiting for the great pumpkin, look no further than Charlie Brown in the produce aisle. Not content to scarf down cookies, Sesame Street's crumby blue monster joined Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and an animated stalk of broccoli for a public service announcement geared to PBS's youngest viewers on the benefits of eating a wide variety of veggies. Though there's no special Snoopy plastic wrap, the watermelons come in Snoopy-covered watermelon bins. Hinkle Produce uses Charlie Brown's beagle to sell young shoppers on the merits of its juicy watermelons. Donald's got a big bowl of cauliflower florets that he looks very excited to quack down.
Imagination Farms tapped Disney's wubbable Donald Duck to tout the wonders of cauliflower to the young generation under its Disney Garden line. In the meantime, here are our five favorite produce spokescartoons:
Along with taking home kid-friendly recipes, shoppers can enter to win a 50-inch television, a Nintendo Wii game system and a Shrek video game. You get it? We both have layers."īeginning in late April when Vidalia onions are harvested and up through the movie's May 21 premiere, Shrek cutouts will decorate produce aisles in thousands of stores, Brannen says. "Ogres are like onions," Shrek tells Donkey: "Onions have layers. Shrek seemed an obvious choice for the Vidalia campaign, Brannen says, because the ogre compares himself to an onion in the first Shrek film. And last summer, Sesame Street's Cookie Monster teamed up with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to promote children eating a rainbow of fresh produce. Popeye and the characters from Disney and Peanuts are among the cartoons that have been featured by produce companies, says Patrick Delaney, communications manager for the United Fresh Produce Association in Washington. In a study published last year by the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers at Ohio State University found that adolescents don't meet guidelines for fruit and vegetable consumption, and fruit and juice consumption drops once children turn 6. It's become almost commonplace to see the latest cartoon character pop up on a cereal box or a Happy Meal, but these characters have been creeping up among fresh fruit and vegetable displays in recent years, which industry officials say is all good if it gets children to eat more produce.
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"We do like to market to younger audiences and teach them about our product," said Wendy Brannen, the committee's executive director.Īlthough it's not the first time movie advertising has taken to the produce aisle ( Disney promoted the DVD release of Peter Pan a few years ago with stickers on fresh tomatoes), it's definitely one of the most prominent displays. In turn, the Georgia-based growers group hopes the green guy will turn children on to eating Vidalia onions. (CNN) - Next month, the Vidalia Onion Committee, a Georgia group that promotes the consumption of sweet onions, will roll out 6-foot cardboard cutouts of the ogre Shrek as a tie-in to the latest film in the series, "Shrek Forever After."
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