Saturday is SKYLANDERS DAY at Game Stop Stores

If your kids enjoy playing Activision's Skylanders video games as much as mine do or your family is interested in trying out these toy-to-life games for the first time you are going to want to swing by a Game Stop store on Saturday, January 9.  There will be some great deals and savings to be had as Activision brings in the new year with a bang kicking off 2016 with an exclusive "Skylanders Day" at Game Stop.

This Saturday, January 9th participating Game Stop locations across the United States will allow Portal Masters to take advantage of some amazing Buy One Get One Free (BOGO) deals on Skylander products.  Pickup the recently released Skylanders SuperChargers starter pack for only $39.99 (or the Dark Edition for $59.99) and received an additional Skylanders starter pack from a previous edition of the gaming franchise (Skylanders Swap Force, Skylanders Trap Team or Skylanders Giants) for FREE! Also Skylanders SuperChargers characters and vehicles are BOGO during this special event.



Skylanders SuperChargers is also releasing a new character, Birthday Bash Big Bubble Pop Fizz to celebrate the video game franchise's 5th birthday in 2016.  Keep an eye out as this figure who sets a record for having the longest Skylander character name is just beginning to appear on store shelves.

It is customary tradition at the Skylanders Academy for all of the Skylanders to gather around and sing the birthday song to the guest of honor. For fun, any Skylanders that arrives late must sing the birthday song solo in front of the entire Academy. But rather than seeing this as an embarrassment, Pop Fizz continues to see this as an opportunity to show off his new Big Bubble party instruments, and so he arrives late every time.

Yogurt Freezes great treat for Minions Family Movie Night

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My little minions have been beseeching me to add Minions © 2015 Universal Studios. All rights reserved. to our home video library ever since we went to see it at the movie theater over the summer.  So on December 8, 2015 when Illumination Entertainment released Minions on Blu-ray and DVD we raced to the store to pick it up so our family could enjoy a #MinionsMovieNight at home.

We always like to do a fun activity or make a special treat to make family movie nights a bit more memorable than us just sitting on the couch and throwing a disc in the dvd player.  For our Minions family movie night, we made yogurt freezes resembling the three minions who are the stars of the movie, Stuart, Kevin & Bob.  Because we were going to enjoy watching Minions in the ambiance of our living room Christmas Tree we added some holiday flair to our treats by dressing them with Santa caps and red minions' overalls. To make your own fun family movie night minions Yogurt Freeze treats here are the ingredients and directions for the recipe:

Ingredients

Lemon Yogurt
Bananas
Fruit Sheet Snacks
Mini Marshmallows
Mini Chocolate Chips
Chocolate Sprinkles
White Frosting (plus Blue if you want that colored overalls)
Popsicle Sticks

Directions

+ Line a cookie sheet with wax paper;
+ Cut your bananas in half and insert a popsicle stick in the bottom;
+ Place your bananas on the cookie sheet;
+ Completely cover each banana half with lemon yogurt (another option is to use yellow food coloring in vanilla yogurt for a brighter minion color than we achieved);
+ Cut your mini marshmallows in half and place them to represent the minions' googles;
+ Use your mini chocolate chips for the eye balls, goggle bands, and mouths;
+ Shape red fruit sheet snacks into the shape of Santa caps and overalls placing them on your minions;
+ If you want to go with the movie look for your minions don't add the Santa caps and cover the red overalls with blue frosting.  Instead of using fruit sheet snacks for the outline of the overalls you can also go to a craft or bakery supply store and get blue edible paper to craft your overalls with.
+ Create the brim and ball of your minions' Santa cap  with white frosting;
+ Use chocolate sprinkles for the hair on minions not wearing a Santa cap;
+ Place the cookie sheet in your freezer for one hour.
+ Pull them out and you have a Yogurt Freeze minion you can eat that will be yummy for your tummy.

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Minions (rated PG) tells the story of how the minions came to serve Felonious Gru in the Illumination Entertainment movies Despicable Me & Despicable Me 2.  In this movie, which features the voice talents of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, and Michael Keaton, as the bumbling minions try to find their place in the world, Stuart, Kevin and Bob become recruited by super-villain Scarlet Overkill and her inventor husband Herb in a plot to steal the British crown.  Hilarity and high jinks ensue.  

CLICK HERE to find a retailer where you can purchase Minions on Blu-ray or DVD.

My kids adore the minions and also found them to be rather delicious!