The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is teaming up with famous cereals Lucky Charms and Trix for special editions of those cereals!  Even though the movie isn’t going to be out until April, you can get these cereals now, at least at Wal-Mart (that’s where I got them).  So let’s take a look at them!

This isn’t like a new Mario cereal like what happened during the release of Super Mario Odyssey.  It’s just special editions of existing cereals.  Let’s take a look at the Lucky Charms one first.  Here is the front of the box.

The back of the box wants you to count all the Lumas in that jumbled mess of Mario items.

Here’s what the cereal looks like in the bowl.  Good gosh, I don’t remember Lucky Charms having that many marshmallows!  That’s nearly half the bowl!  Might as well eat a whole bowl of marshmallows for breakfast at that point.  And did you notice the box said it was strawberry flavored?  I thought the oat bits in Lucky Charms were just oat flavored.  As if the cereal wasn’t sweet enough already!  Hey parents, do you want your kids to have enough energy to blast off into space like Mario?  Then give them this cereal!

I took some of the marshmallows out so you can see what they look like.  The special marshmallows are shaped like swirled planets (or lemons, but I think they’re supposed to be planets), and stars.  They still have the other regular Lucky Charms marshmallows.  I don’t remember some of these, though.  But then, I don’t like Lucky Charms so I don’t keep up with that stuff.  I wanted to try and take out all the different marshmallows, but I got tired of doing that so you just get an assortment.

So yeah, I’ve never been a big fan of Lucky Charms, or any marshmallow cereal in general.  I’ve always been that way, since I was a little kid.  I was so upset as a kid when they first came out with Pac-Man cereal and it had marshmallows in it!  Also, whenever I would spend the night at a friend’s house and they had Lucky Charms for breakfast, I would always take out all my marshmallows and put them in my friend’s bowl.  And then his mom would wonder how he got so hyper that day!  Later on when I was in college and the Internet was new, I found this quiz that would guess your personality by which Lucky Charms marshmallow was your favorite.  Since I didn’t like any of them, I chose the ‘oat bit’ option and the quiz said I was hopelessly boring and would be destined to be a lonely librarian or something.  Wow, thanks Internet!  I can’t be THAT boring!  I mean, I’m writing an article about cereal for crying out loud!  Oh well, boring or not, I’m proud of who I am!

Anyway, let’s look at the Trix cereal now.  Here’s a picture of the front of the box.

The back of the box has a little maze activity where you follow the lines to find the Lumas.

And here’s what the cereal looks like in the bowl.  I think they’re swirled like that so they look like planets, but they just look like edible marbles to me.  Do kids even play with marbles anymore?  Heck, I’m not even sure I played with marbles as a kid.  The cereal says it’s Blue Raspberry flavored.  I really didn’t notice other than the smell.  Just tasted like ‘sweet’ to me.

So when I was a preteen I really liked cartoons (still do really) and wanted to be a cartoonist.  So my mom enrolled me in a just for fun summer college course taught by a former Disney animator.  His name was William “Tex” Henson and while I didn’t learn a thing about cartooning in his class, I did love listening to his stories of his days as an animator.  He first worked for Disney and helped create Chip N Dale.  He then worked on Casper cartoons at Famous Studios, and then helped with Rocky and Bullwinkle at Jay Ward.  After that he mostly did animations in advertising, and one of the things he did there was the early Trix Rabbit commercials.  So every time I see Trix cereal I think of him!

Anyway, that’s all the cereals.  I’m still surprised they are selling them so early, but really they aren’t revealing any spoilers.  Only thing they really show that wasn’t in the first trailer is the Comet Observatory on the box.  Let me know in the comments section if you’ve tried the cereals and are looking forward to seeing the movie!  Later!  –Cary

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