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Author: adventureswithcandy
Mommy. Knott's Berry Farm Season Passholder. Seaworld San Diego Season Passholder. Nature Nate's Brand Ambassador. We love theme parks, museums, kids play places, scary movies, Halloween, haunts of all sizes, The Monkees, 60s tunes, and clowns.
For their 100th anniversary Knott’s Berry Farm are celebrating by releasing 100 pins. Every Friday they’ll announce the pin and that Saturday that pin will be available to purchase.
Pin #1 is the 100th Anniversary 2020. A big boysenberry with a picture of the berry stand. The pin is big and grand!
The first pin is $9.99. All other pins will be $9.99 or $5 with any purchase. Pins will be available at; The General Store (located in Ghost Town), Cordy’s Corner (located across from Bear-y Tales — coming soon), Gold Trails Hotel and Mercantile (across from the entrance of Ghost Rider), Virginia’s Gift Shop (located at the California Market Place), and Casa California.
I purchased Pin #1 at The General Store. 2 weeks after its release there were about a dozen left at The General Store and a dozen left at Cordy’s Corner. I didn’t see any at Gold Trails Hotel and Mercantile or at Virginia’s Gift Shop but both locations were too busy to ask.
Sad news for anyone looking for Pin #2 — they are sold out! Pin #3 is currently on sale — during a holiday weekend — so happy hunting to all out there doing their collecting 🙂
Wow! What a movie! I’m sure most everyone that has seen this film probably thinks the same thing. If you didn’t like it — let me know. The long shots were great. So many men lined up in character. I think I held my breath through the whole movie. I didn’t feel like terror was going to strike at any moment. But just the worry of him having to get from point A to point B quickly. There’s a lot to say about this film.. but I’ll leave it at that. Just a fantastic film.
So exciting to hear the news about Build-A-Bear coming to Knott’s Berry Farm. Even more exciting was catching a glimpse of it during our visit to Knott’s. Of course I was looking in the windows and caught a glimpse of the inside coming together nicely and looking lovely.
Located in the California Market Place right outside of the Knott’s exit. Happy to see this building being occupied. It’s a cute stand-alone building and every single visit I’ve always been bummed to see it empty.
Knott’s has announced that they’ll honor the Old West with a line of cowboy, cowgirl, and train conductor bears. As well as other products celebrating other Knott’s events.
We already know that Build-A-Bear has sold a Peanuts line. You can still get the Flying Ace outfit, winter outfit, Snoopy Christmas and Valentine’s shirts for your bears. You can also get the Peanuts theme to put in your bear. Or a Woodstock plush. All are currently on sale at buildabear.com
So will we be seeing more Peanuts? Peanuts bears? Peanuts accessories? Peanuts characters? Peanuts celebration shirt? Bear-y Tales is coming.. will we see a line for that? Scary Farm bear? Can’t wait to find out!
What we do know is that opening day is Tuesday January 28th and there will be a special t-shirt!
Yes, you will receive discounts with your pass. Yes, gift cards will be accepted at this location.
WOW!! What a movie! If you love Mister Rogers, you gotta love this. If you love Tom Hanks, you gotta love this.
Inspired by a 1998 article published in Esquire magazine about Mister Rogers being a hero. It follows the journalists journey with his encounter with Mister Rogers and everything going on with this fellas life at the time.
It starts off with the classic theme and intro with Tom Hanks singing the song. Turn on the waterworks for me! I cried through this movie from start-to-finish. Just the gentleness of the story of Mister Rogers and his interaction with people is so lovely. The daily life of this journalist and things he was going through with his family and how Mister Rogers put himself in their life was lovely. Daniel Striped Tiger makes and appearance which is also lovely.
If you love all things Mister Rogers, like I do, then you’ll love this movie.
Do you think Tom Hanks did a good job portraying Mister Rogers?
My other half really didn’t want to see this movie — at all. Even this huge cast couldn’t pull him in. I was excited from the trailer, he wasn’t. It was the huge cast that pulled me.. especially Christoper Plummer, Michael Shannon, and Toni Collette. Who doesn’t like a good whodunit?
I’d just like to know, did you enjoy it? Were you able to figure out whodunit? Were you surprised at who it was? What other whodunit movies do you like?
I took my 9-year-old step-daughter to see this. She’s all about the girl power and I figured this would be filled with it! And it is! Of course I had her watch the original before we went. This is similar to the original as in — they’re in a sorority. This one has a totally different story line.
Spoiler; there are breaking necks. I don’t do breaking necks. I didn’t realize that PG-13 were big in the breaking necks department. I was a little uneasy throughout the film.
I like Imogen Poots from 28 Weeks Later, Green Room, Fright Night (remake), That Awkward Moment, Frank & Lola. So I went into this already liking this because of her.
I love The Shining. Giuseppe was Danny was Halloween a couple years ago. I LOVE Ewan McGregor, what a great choice. I thought this movie was great. The poor teenager boys that were trying to buy tickets but didn’t have IDs and were denied entry that were in front of us.
It didn’t do well at the theaters. Did anyone else see it and think it was lame? Was it the R rating that can’t pull in the teenage crowd? Where did it go wrong?
I’ve said this many times — our library is amazing! They threw a Stranger Things party last year and we asked them if they were going to throw another one — and they did! After the awesomeness of Season 3 who doesn’t want a Stranger Things party??
Laney put on her best Eleven shirt and Seppe went for his Bowie shirt and Jack Tripper shorts. His cousin Devin just had a Stranger Things themed birthday party and Seppe dressed up in his best Hopper attire.
The decorations were wonderful
There were photo-ops. Like Steve and a demogorgon
Photo booth with props
The kids went to the Star Court Mall where they could bowl, hula hoop, skip-it, hopscotch, ping pong toss for classic vintage candy. Giuseppe let me choose Wacky Wafers and Laney chose a crystal rock lollipop for their prizes.
After the fun the kids headed over to Scoops Ahoy for waffles and ice cream. During the summer they offer free lunch at the library so their mini cafeteria was turned into Scoops Ahoy. The staff were in full costume. So cute. Giuseppe had a little bit of ice cream but went back a couple of times for only waffles. I said, that’s my kid, the weird one! They were super sweet and let him keep coming back. They had a bunch left over and told everyone to come back for another round. They even had a sprinkles bar along with Swedish Fish and Pop Rocks.
Want in on the fun? Check out Glen Avon library in Jurupa Valley. There’s always something going on.
I thought this movie was great. Especially great for PG-13. I loved Elizabeth Lail in the show You. When I saw she was doing this movie I was totally in. Usually I know when jump scares are coming — but they got me good a couple of times during this movie. They were very quick!
If you need a good Halloween fright, definitely check this one out.
This was a full weekend of fun but I only attended Saturday’s events. I found out about this event from Night Of The Demons. As soon as I heard cast reunion and showing — I knew I had to go!
Night Of The Demons was a childhood classic. When cousins would come over for the weekend, or summer vacation, sleepovers with girlfriends — this was on the watch list. I mean, this is my favorite Halloween movie. Plus, there’s a TSOL sticker on the boombox during Angela’s iconic dance scene.
I didn’t rush to get tickets right away because I’ve never been to one of these horror events and I wasn’t really sure how they worked. Plus, I was going alone. Then, I get an email from LifeStream about receiving a ticket to Darkside In Riverside if you donate blood. I’ve been donating blood with them since 2016 so I jumped at the opportunity.
The day came and I couldn’t believe I was going to be a part of Night Of Demons. Arrived early to pick up my pass. I turned in my LifeStream ticket and was given a VIP wristband and VIP lanyard. What?! Nobody filled me in on this. I see people talking to Tony Todd (Candyman), John Kassir (voice of the Crypt Keeper), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Ari Lehman (Friday The 13th), Harry Manfredini (Friday The 13th composer), Ann Robinson (War Of The Worlds), Robert Mukes (House Of 1000 Corpses), Linda Blair was also one of the guests but I didn’t see her. I made my way through some of the vendors.
The Night Of The Demons Q&A was hilarious! I have a few video clips of some of the funny stuff they were saying. The stories about filming, how they were cast, scaring the shit out of people in full demon makeup without even knowing it.
I went home to see my son and returned for the Night Of The Demons screening.
The cast were there to introduce the film and even stuck around to watch it while doing funny commentary throughout the whole thing.
If you’re into lipstick in the titty, booty shots, amazing demon dancing, fantastic one-liners, snapping necks, and just that classic 80s horror — this movie’s for you.
After it was over half of the cast stuck around and shook hands with everyone and took some photos. I met Billy Gallo (Sal), Hal Havins (Stooge), Lance Fenton (Jay), Amelia Kinkade (Angela) They were so nice. The rest of the cast in attendance, Cathy Podewell (Judy), Linnea Quigley (Suzanne), Phillip Tanzini (Max), Jill Terashita (Frannie), and director Kevin Tenney. Hopefully we’ll do it again one day.
Check out my favorite Halloween movie, Night Of The Demons.
If you’re interested in donating blood at LifeStream or just getting information about it visit lstream.org
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