These awkward, hilarious, and kinda-sorta the weirdest, most amazing movie tie-in products are proof positive that even with 100 sets of eyes working on a marketing a film, sometimes things get a little strange.
But don’t just take our word for it — check out 8 of our favorite, fantastical finds.
1. “Harry Potter” Vibrating Broomstick
Don’t Panic Magazine/Warner Bros.
Accio Sexual Awakening! Wingardium leviosaaaahhhhhhhhh jeez, this is going to make dinner conversations with little Melody a little weird.
2. “The Avengers” Cologne
Marvel
What do you think a superhero would smell like? They’re running around ALL the time, wearing body-conscious, likely not-very-breathable suits as they battle the wildest intergalactic and/or homegrown threats on the dirty, dirty streets of planet Earth. But HEY! Maybe all that patriotism counteracts that.
3. “Rocky” Action Figure — “The Meat” Edition
Go Figure Action Figures
All those blood stains on the “don’t get the DNA on your clothes” jacket, coupled with a half rack of cow, sans skin? Maybe we’re overreacting here but this Rocky doll feels like it would be more at home in the playpen of a burgeoning serial murderperson than anywhere else.
4. The Jar Jar Binks Lollipop
Lucasfilms
Number of people who’ve ever wanted to make out with Jar Jar Binks: 0. Number of people who can thanks to a french-kissing lollipop made in the “Star Wars” creatures’ likeness? INFINITY!
5. “Star Trek” Waffles
Flickr
Hey, Spock: do you think this ingestible item of cinematic ephemera will ensure I healthily live long and prosper? Or is eating edible, dye-infused photos of you and Kirk — dare we say it? — unwise?
6. “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” Cereal
Rochester University
These are cereal pieces made to look like ARROWS, you guys. ARROWS. Whatever else you see is all on you.
7. “Dune” Children’s Coloring Books
Coilhouse
You may not know what it is, but this is all you really need to know: “Dune” was not a children’s movie. It was about space, and drugs, and space drugs, and intergalactic politics. It was directed by David “Twin Peaks” Lynch fer crissakes. So yes, there may be a little bit o’ cognitive dissonance here, but who cares? Everyone loves to color!
Coilhouse
8. “The Hunger Games” Boxed Water
h2O/The Hunger Games
Commemorating a film about a dystopian future where children murder each other for entertainment and sport — where life-giving supplies like water are scarce, and gaining access to them a political luxury — by selling boxed water feels like more of a win for the Capitol than it does the Districts.
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