The blog for Peter T. Chattaway, film critic, journalist, religion junkie, etc. Not all posts will be film-related, but film will always be just around the corner.
I can remember going to McDonald's with my dad after seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) in the theatre and getting a movie-themed Happy Meal -- the one with the transporters on the front, I think. (It's the one on the top left in the video below.) I believe I might still have the Happy Meal box somewhere among my still-packed items here, and if I'm lucky, I might still have the plastic communicator with comic-strip roll that came with it.
Click here if the video file above doesn't play properly.
One thing I did not know, until I read this item at TrekMovie.com tonight, is that ST:TMP was the first movie to get a McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in. Learn something new every day.
heh, i can one up you there. somewhere in my own still packed boxes is a collection of the original star trek enterprise blueprints in their original packaging that i got a small trek con when i was in gradeschool. did i just admit that?! oiy.
Born, raised, married, and still living in Vancouver, British Columbia. I reviewed films for the Vancouver Courier '99-'03 and have been on the staff of BC Christian News since '99. In addition to a 2005 Evangelical Press Association award-winning film column for the latter paper, I also review films for Christianity Today, and my articles have appeared in such publications as Books & Culture, Bible Review, Faith Today, ChristianWeek, the Vancouver Sun, the Georgia Straight and Beliefnet.com. I am a member of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and the Faith and Film Critics Circle.
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heh, i can one up you there. somewhere in my own still packed boxes is a collection of the original star trek enterprise blueprints in their original packaging that i got a small trek con when i was in gradeschool. did i just admit that?! oiy.
Whew, for a second I thought you were going to say you still had the 29-year-old burger that came with your meal! (Ewwww!)
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