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  The Chase is On for Fans to Collect All 12 Cyanide & Happiness Mini-Figures

  Los Angeles, California, July 18, 2017 – “Cyanide & Happiness,” in association with global media company Studio71, is launching it’s first-ever line of collectible mini-figures at San Diego Comic-Con. The line comprises 12 unique “Cyanide & Happiness” characters hand-picked from the archives to create a truly collectible line. All mini-figures are packed in individual boxes that look the same, so fans have no way of knowing what character they will get. However, there’s an opportunity at Comic Con for fans to purchase a convention-exclusive set with all 12 mini-figures that comes with an additional bonus “Golden God” figure.

The “Cyanide & Happiness” mini-figures will be sold at an exclusive pop-up shop at Comic-Con at Luce Loft (1037 J Street, San Diego, CA), starting at 11 am PT on Thursday, July 22. As an added bonus, “Cyanide & Happiness” writer and illustrator Rob DenBleyker will be on hand signing all mini-figures purchased that day.

The “Cyanide and Happiness” mini-figure line is the latest offering from Explosm Entertainment and has been developed in partnership with Studio71. The mini-figures follow the debut of Explosm’s hugely popular card game Joking Hazard, which became the second most-successful card game in Kickstarter history, and custom Cyanide and Happiness Emoji and Avatar Generator app, which has been downloaded more than a million times since its launch March 2017 launch.

  “Our fans have been asking about collectible ‘Cyanide & Happiness’ figures for ages, and we’re excited to finally be bringing them to life with Studio71. It feels like all of the ‘Cyanide & Happiness’ short and episode characters came to life and are now sitting on my shelf judging me,” Rob DenBleyker, writer and illustrator of “Cyanide & Happiness.

  “Cyanide & Happiness is a wildly-popular global brand that is constantly pushing the boundaries of content creation with their innovative offerings. We are delighted to partner with them once again on this new line of collectibles,” said Javon Frazier, EVP of Strategy and Business Development at Studio71.

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The “Cyanide & Happiness” mini-figures include the following characters:

Ultrasoldier

Ketchup Cowboy

Lunk

Senor Cleanfist

Shark Rad

Clawford

Satan

God

Blue Shirt Guy

Ketchup Man

Green Shirt Guy

Butt Shark

  Starting Monday, July 24, the mini-figures will be available for purchase on the Explosm.net site here.

  About Cyanide & Happiness 

Cyanide & Happiness is an internationally known brand of comics, animations, and card games that has cultivated a passionate online following with more than 7.3 million YouTube subscribers and 1 billion views, not to mention more than 1.5 million Instagram followers, 12 million Facebook likes and 207k Twitter followers.

  About Studio71

Studio71 is the global media company for top creators across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat and Twitter. Featuring Lilly Singh a.k.a IISuperwomanII, Rhett & Link, Shay Mitchell, Matthew Santoro, Flula Borg, Epic Meal Time, Roman Atwood, Family Fun Pack and global superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Studio71’s 1,300 channels drive 7 billion monthly views, offer four times the average channel engagement and represent 19 percent of Google Preferred inventory. The company is a leader in results-driven branded content offering full-service strategy, creative, research, media and cross-platform activations for its clients. As a best-in-class production company, Studio71 develops, produces and distributes original programming across social media, television and film. It is part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group and is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Berlin, New York, Toronto and London.

Cyanide & Happiness To Launch Exclusive Line of Mini-Figures at San Diego Comic-Con The Chase is On for Fans to Collect All 12 Cyanide & Happiness Mini-Figures   Los Angeles, California, July 18, 2017…

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Baby Boomer Halloween Memories

"Hallowe'en" means “All Hallows Evening,” and refers to October 31st, the night before All Saints Day is observed. All Hallows Eve occurs at or near the time of older pagan celebrations that mark the end of the harvest season and the start of the “dark half” of the year. This is a “liminal” time, when the boundaries between the earthly realm and the supernatural are thinned. Elements of the old ways carried over into Christian customs. Lighting candles, praying for the dead, dressing up, and eating certain traditional foods became part of Hallowe’en for many.

Hallowe’en postcards from 1900 through the 1920s depicting children dressing up in masks and costumes and making or lighting Jack O’ Lanterns are common, but none show children trick-treating, because that custom did not emerge until well into the 1930s. (The classic 1944 film “Meet Me in St. Louis” depicts children out making mischief on Halloween in 1903, before the days of trick-or-treating.) Trick-or-treating was created to encourage children to accept “treats” instead of wreaking havoc on their communities.

By the time I was growing up, Hallowe’en had lost the apostrophe, trick-or-treating was well-established, and Halloween was very much a children's holiday. Dressing up in a costume to go get candy and other treats was a lot of fun. Here are some of my favorite Halloween memories.

Vintage black cat plastic blow mold Halloween treat bucket, circa 1950s - 1970s.

The Halloween Carnival

The Halloween Carnival at Monterey Heights Elementary school was a splendid evening event, with booths, games, food, and a darned good stage band providing music. There was enough going on to make many of us divide our time between trick-or-treating and attending the carnival. 

To this day I associate Halloween with that carnival, and the memory of walking around under the night sky in my costume, eating chili from a paper cup in the early autumn chill, and listening to the band. I loved the booth where we “fished” for prizes, using a stick with a string and a clothespin for a fishing pole, line, and hook. By the 4th grade I discovered the White Elephant booth, kindling my early interest in second hand and vintage items. 

An especially fond Halloween Carnival memory is the cake walk, held in one of the classrooms. When I was in the second or third grade, I won the cake walk, and happily chose a spice cake frosted with white buttercream icing and festooned with Autumn Mellowcreme decorations. I remember being quite charmed with the candy cats, pumpkins, sheafs of wheat, ears of corn, and other Halloween and harvest symbols. Being able to take that cake home to my family felt magical.

Autumn Mellowcreme candies. These ones are similar to the candy decorations on the cake I won as a child at the Halloween Carnival.

Vintage Halloween blow mold Jack O’ Lanterns.

Vintage plastic “popcorn” Halloween decoration. This type of decoration, made from bits of colored plastic fused together, is still sold.

Costumes

“What are you going to be for Halloween?” was a frequent and enjoyable conversation-starter among my classmates and I as the holiday neared. Choosing what you wanted to be was exciting.

Some of my Halloween costumes were made by my mother, and some were purchased. Halloween costumes sold in dime stores came in a box with a cellophane window, or on a hanger, and included a plastic mask and a simple rayon smock or jumpsuit with a design printed onto the fabric. 

You could also purchase a mask without a costume. (In the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the two main characters steal very typical Halloween masks from a dime store.) 

My earliest Halloween memory is of my father carrying me to homes of close neighbors so I could trick-or-treat. I wore pajamas with feet in them and a clown mask. A mask and “footy” pajamas were the standard ensemble for the preschool set.

When I was old enough to choose, I always wanted pretty costumes, often some variety of princess or fairy. (Purchased costumes like that rained glitter, which sales people referred to as “fairy dust.”)  An angel costume my mother had a local dressmaker sew for me for my kindergarten Christmas play was re-used as the basis for my 1st grade Halloween costume. I went as the Tooth Fairy, bedecked in pearls. (This worked fine for trick-or-treating, but not so well at a costume party, where other children chased me, demanding money.) In the second grade I had a homemade Mary Poppins costume, featuring a black straw hat an older Englishwoman helped my mother and I find at our church thrift store. (”It must have a brim!” she exclaimed, rushing to the back of the store to find exactly the right chapeau.) I won a prize for that costume at the church fair. 

In the fourth grade I used a fringed suede cloth vest and skirt with a yellow print top and a pair of moccasins I had for a Native American costume, then added a black wig and headband. (I am a card-carrying Kahnawake Mohawk, through my mother’s side of the family.)

My mother made a gypsy costume for my big sister at one point. It was a pretty skirt and fringed shawl, worn with a peasant blouse and a lot of costume jewelry. I wore it for Halloween when I was in the 6th grade. At age 11 I was already tall, looked older, and felt self-conscious about trick-or-treating for candy. I decided to go out one last time for a good cause, and collected donations for UNICEF instead. That was my final year of trick-or-treating.

Ever since then, I’ve enjoyed being the one to hand out Halloween candy. When I was 15, a date took me to see horror movies at the high school, and I felt I was really missing out on seeing the trick-or-treaters. As an adult, I’ve made an effort to have fun things to give out to the children who come to my door, even as the numbers have dwindled over the years.

Vintage clown costume. This one is from the 1970s, but I remember similar ones in the 1960s. The clown looks like Bozo, from the popular television show.

Vintage plastic Halloween masks. Masks like this could be bought separately or as part of a full costume.

Halloween costumes sold in dime stores were often packaged in boxes like this one, with a plastic mask and a rayon smock or jumpsuit printed with a simple design. This one is Wendy the Good Little Witch, the Harvey comic book character and friend of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Vintage Yogi Bear costume, 1960s. Yogi Bear was one of my favorite cartoon characters.

When I was growing up, "dime stores," including Woolworth's, were the place to go for Halloween costumes, decorations, and candy. Such fun memories.

Treats, and Evolving Traditions

In an earlier post, I wrote about knowing which houses in the neighborhood had the best treats, and how I’ve tried as an adult to provide treats children will like and remember. (It was usually the older neighbors who gave the best stuff.)

Halloween felt very safe back then. I trick-or-treated in my neighborhood, where I knew people. (Some of my friends had much more ambitious Halloween routes.) My mother also always checked the treats we brought home. I was not allowed to eat anything I collected until then. I could not keep or eat unwrapped candy, which a few people still gave out back in the day. Anything that looked like it could possibly have been tampered with was also thrown in the trash. There were sometimes stories from other places of apples containing razorblades, but the only apples I brought home were from neighbors we knew, and they were always fine. I’m glad I grew up when I did, with crowds of children on the streets on Halloween night, that wonderful carnival, and no serious fears or worries. 

Once I was an adult, the world began to change this happy holiday. In September and October of 1982, just before Halloween, someone in Chicago laced bottles of Tylenol with cynanide, and seven adults died. Throughout the country parents were afraid the same thing might happen with Halloween candy. My parents and I gave out pencils and stickers instead that year. 

After that, Halloween was never quite the same. Decorations, adult costumes and parties became a bigger deal, but trick-or-treating as my generation knew it faded considerably. Shopping malls and churches started offering alternative celebrations, including “trunk-or-treat” in supervised parking lots. However, children still look forward to wearing costumes, and still seem to enjoy Halloween. And now, colorful Day of the Dead decorations and sugar skulls mingle with Halloween motifs. 

In Mexico, indigenous customs honoring the dead carried over into the observance of All Soul’s Day, the feast remembering all of the departed, on November 2nd. Held October 31st to November 2nd, Day of the Dead celebrations are a happy time of remembering and honoring family and friends no longer on this earth. People from Mexico brought this custom to the United States and beyond. 

Traditions evolve and change, as they have down the generations. With a little work, perhaps we can keep the best of the old as we embrace the new.

As a little postscript, and a nod to the old-fashioned Baby Boomer-era Halloween I remember, I’m including a recipe for popcorn balls my mother used. I’ll bet some of your remember this one!

Happy Halloween!

Vintage Halloween recipes. My mother used the one shown here for Popcorn Balls.

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clouds

This relaxed short on cloud-watching is the best Cynanide and Happiness ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT6jS_X4NaY

https://tentacles.org.uk/clouds

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London MCM Expo (May) 2015

London MCM expo broke the records this may with over 122k visitors attend MCM London Comic Con’s star-studded event - with star guests such as Felicia Day, Gillian Anderson, cast from popular Arrow series in attendance.

Even with 122,634 visitors passing through the doors of Britain’s biggest modern pop culture show MCCM pulled the stops with their queuing system and maximum waiting time was 20 minutes which was a massive improvement!

Popular buys were a coin flip between Alpaca plushies which started as a rare find now can be located on most stalls with different accessories, At the moment Lovejojo is selling them %05 to make room for new stock - spoil yourself here.  

The second star buy was the Pop figures which are slowly taking over the world. With thousands of characters from comics to TV series and now anime anyone can enjoy these figures and most people are collecting them like it's a compulsion! Average price starts from £9.99-15.99 Running over a full three days the Excel London event featured everything from movies, videogames, comic books, indie artists, anime, manga and cosplay (including popular cosplay guests including returning favourite Jessica Nigri and Kelly Jean).

Watch my interview here.

Lots of YouTube favourites were guesting and doing panels on the Vidfest stage such as The Yogscast, Tomska, Cynanide and Happiness, Chronicles of Syntax, Mandy Hynes, Fawn Mead, Jellie Bee, Chloe Dungate, MeowItsLucy, Doddleoddle and more.

Syfy fan cam came to indulge attendees in 360 degree photos of them suspended in the air like real superheros, in cosplay or using the props provided. Find Syfy photo moment and more from Konami, Hello Kitty land, CEX and Pixe here.

The next MCM London Comic Con will hit The Excel October 23th – 25th.

Buy tickets from: mcmcomiccon.co www.youtube.com/MCMExpo www.facebook.com/MCMExpo www.twitter.com/MCMComicCon

If you want to know about the latest Otaku events, games, anime and Japanese culture follow me on Facebook and Twitter ^_^ Aisha Anime

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Cyanide and Happiness shows us what you sound like when you use "no, no, it's alright, I have a Black friend" as an excuse for racist shit.

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tratando de ayudar a un compa . . . jaja que buena idea

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donttalk

Best Cynanide and Happiness for a while, “don’t talk”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FQ5wUYm9c

https://tentacles.org.uk/donttalk

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Wishes

[superthuy]

GEEZUS can do it better. always.

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