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Madeline And Her Friends Review and Giveaway
My kids always love to sit down and watch shows with me. It doesn’t matter what it is because I think the novelty of them sitting down with dad and chilling with anything from wrestling to aliens attacking earth. Every once in awhile I will ask each one idividually what they would like to watch. It was Taylor’s turn and she said Madeline. What was nice was that I had just gotten Madeline And Her Friends on DVD and we popped it in. She really digs all of the Madeline movies that come out and the boys really enjoys them too.
Madeline, the smallest of 12 little girls in Miss Clavel’s class, and her best friend — her loyal dog Genevieve —take the fun to town in her latest DVD Madeline And Her Friends with six outrageous adventures inspired by Ludwig Bemelmans’ best-selling children’s books!
The DVD streets on June 7, 2011 via Shout! Factory. Containing six animated episodes, all making their DVD debut: Madeline and the Soccer Star, Madeline’s Singing Dog, Madeline and the Missing Clown, Madeline and the Talking Parrott, Madeline and the Big Cheese, and Madeline’s Rescue the DVD is perfect for the whole family!
Giveaway
One (1) winner will receive:
- Madeline and her friends on DVD.
How to Enter
Tell me if you know a second language and if so what it is.
Extra Entries Available
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This giveaway will end on June 18th at 10:00 PM Central time. Winner will be chosen via a random number generator. Giveaway is open to US entries. The winner must contact me in 24 hours to claim their prize. Good luck to everyone!
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Like it, Reveal it, Win it Giveaway
Excitement is awesome. Especially when sweet companies like Samsung get excited. That means that when they get excited, stuff gets given away. Samsung has recently launched a fun campaign on their Facebook page, called “Like it, Reveal it, Win it“. People will have multiple opportunities to win fun new Samsung products, like the latest Samsung Smart TV. I have went over there and “liked it” and then it lets you play a little “pick the winning pixel” type game. I am a Samsung man as it is and still hug my Samsung Touch of Color 46″ 1080p TV everyday.
In celebration of YOU and the totally rad game on their Facebook page we are giving away the new Shrek 2 on Blu-ray as a giveaway to the best blog readers in the multiverse!
Giveaway
Three (3) winners will receive:
- Shrek 2 on Blu-ray.
How to Enter
Tell me who your favorite Shrek character is.
Extra Entries Available
After you have completed the first entry, you are eligible for additional entries. Make sure you leave a separate comment for EACH entry. Each counts as one extra entry unless noted otherwise.
- Vote for Daddy Digest in the Camp Dirt Contest with the widget on the left side of the homepage.
- Subscribe to Daddy Digest by reader or email.
- Like me on my Facebook Fan Page.
- Follow Daddy Digest on Twitter AND Tweet about the giveaway. Leave the URL to the Tweet in your comment. You can tweet once a day, but remember to leave the URL to each tweet.
This giveaway will end on June 16th at 10:00 PM Central time. Winner will be chosen via a random number generator. Giveaway is open to US entries. The winner must contact me in 24 hours to claim their prize. Good luck to everyone!
The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely that of the blog owners. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. I have been given a product free of charge, but that does not impact my views or opinions in any freakin’ way.
Good TV Can Come in Small Packages?
Things are really tight these days. I still get paid the same but it seems like everything else is going up. We have cut back a little bit here and there. The fans are on more and the a/c is turned up to a higher degree. We started eating out less and eating more food that is prepared at home. In the tech/geek department there have been no new video game purchases lately and we went down to streaming only on Netflix just to save a couple of bucks on getting a disc in the mail.
The next big decision we have to make is what to do about the way we watch TV and who brings us the channels that we watch so much. We thought about just totally going with something like Hulu from the Xbox, a Roku Box, or AppleTV. Sometimes though we like to tune in to channels that you can’t normally watch on those devices. We currently are spending waaaayyyy too much for DIRECTV as our bill is a little over $80! That is just like the basic 200 channels and no movie or sports packages. When shopping around and comparing dish packages I found out that I can cut that price in half and get even more than I was getting before.
We have been wronged in the past by our current satellite provider and hope that Crystal will give me the “OK” to rip them a new one and move on over to something like Infinity Dish where I could get a whole lot more for a whole lot less. Hopefully a decade down the road the situation will be totally different with a whole new way of getting the media we love. Remember…not too long ago a ton of people still had “rabbit ears”.
Let me know what is working for you and your household!
The Wild Thornberrys Review
The Wild Thornberrys have arrived on DVD.. My kids watched a lot of cartoons and still do. Not everyone was good enough that I would want to watch but the The Wild Thornberrys was one I did like to watch. Shout! Factory have been given the rights to distribute DVD and Blu-ray releases of some of Nick’s classic animated programs in the U.S. and Canada. The Wild Thornberrys are the first series to be released. They will soon be followed by Hey Arnold, Danny Phantom, Aaaah! Real Monsters, The Angry Beavers and one of my favorites, Rocko’s Modern Life.
My two older kids remember this series fondly and couldn’t wait to watch it. My two younger ones didn’t know what it was and was excited to see what it this all about. They watched the first of 4 discs and said they liked it and said they would keep watching it. I will watch it too with them. Tim Curry as Sir. Nigel Archibald Thornberry is awesome. Perfect casting as the bumbling naive documentarian who is a nature expert. He is always available for a laugh in this classic cartoon. Another one of my favorite characters was Darwin the talking monkey. He was a talking monkey only to Elizabeth “Eliza” Thornberry. She had gained the ability to speak to animals early on in the series. This ablitiy is the driving force behind the whole series as she and Darwin get in and out of wacky adventures.
The DVDs themselves are nothing to crow about. I was surprised to how plain they were by offering only the episodes themselves and nothing extra. With all star voices such as Tim Curry, Flea and Lacey Chabert. I would expect featurettes detailing the behind the scences making and development of this series. The creators of The Wild Thornberrys, Arlene Klasky Gabor Csupo have made so many great cartoons for Nickoledeon. There has to be tons of great creative background stories and insights to be shared. I am very sad they did not put any of this on the 4 disc box set.
Watching The Wild Thornberrys is a joy despite the obvious low production value. The colors are very dull, the transfer to DVD looks sub-par and it’s in standard, not letterbox. That is hard to get used to but you do. It’s just like the orginal series jumped into a time machine and landed in your TV. But what I loved about The Wild Thornberrys was not the artistry but the stories. Every episode delivers the humor, adventure and education I expected each week. If you have young ones who never saw this series you should treat them to this collection of quality storytelling.
The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely that of the blog owners. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. I have been given a product free of charge, but that does not impact my views or opinions.
Winners!
So…the Wordlock giveaway has ended and the winner is…..
#47 Jaque R!
Thank you all who entered and the winner has 48 hours to respond!
Dial for Men’s Camp Dirt
I know I have been bugging a bunch of you over on Facebook to go and vote for me to be the official Camp Dirt blogger. I can’t tell you guys how excited I am and amazed of the votes that I have already. You guys are doing a fantastic job of helping me out. I am a good bit ahead of the others and I want to keep a good lead ahead of them. Voting runs through July 8th and you can vote once per day. So, head on over to the Camp Dirt leader board and vote it up!
You can also win a chance to head to Camp Dirt yourself. Check out Dial for Men’s Facebook page and enter and I could see you there. ‘Like’ Dial For Men on Facebook to enter to win a trip to C Lazy U Ranch for the Camp Dirt event from Dial for Men. The entry period for this sweepstakes ends on July 8, 2011. NOTE: Must be 21 years or older to play.
World’s Greatest TV Dad
Growing up when I was young meant that I had a good bit of different influences when it came to “father figures”. My parents drove through splitsville when I was barely able to walk. I got to spend every other weekend with my dad to where he tried to do his best to cram as much fatherly stuff in as he could. My mom remarried and then I had a step-dad that molded me week to week in the way he thought was best. In addition to two powerhouses of daditude taking turns showing me the path to become a man I also had my grandfather who I saw during the week everyday after school. Three dudes in my life that all had different views on family, faith, values, politics, movie choices, and even soda choices.
I feel like even though I had several different influences on what guided me down the path to becoming a man and eventually a father were all instilled by one common factor…love. My dad showed me love for all of the time he had to spend separated from me. His excitment over having two full weeks in between visits made our time more meaningful and filled with pure adoration. My step-dad showed me love for providing a home for which I felt like I belonged to even when they added to the family in the form of a sibling. In a situation where I wasn’t his child he sure did treat me like one of his own. My grandfather filled in the gap between the others and understood me and knew how to make me smile. He gave me the love of not only the grandfather he was to me but as a seasoned father to my mother that included all of that experience.
There were sometimes that I had away from all of them and most of the time it was filled with TV. Man, there were so many dads on TV that taught me a couple of values in all of those 22 minute episodes. Now if I had to weigh in about who had the most influence on me in the TV realm besides Optimus Prime(?!?) I would have to go with a tie between Jason Seaver and Cliff Huxtable. Both dads had great heart to hearts and had a real sense of “dad” to me. Thanks to Man of the House for helping me come to this conclusion. Now you too can weigh in on the World’s Greatest TV Dad and who you think should reign supreme.
I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Dad Central Consulting on behalf of P&G and received promotional items to thank me for taking the time to participate.
The Muppets Sneak Peek
Who doesn’t like the Muppets? Here is a little bit of info coming up on the new movie coming up this fall.
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos, “The Muppets” hits the big screen Nov. 23, 2011.
The Super Hero Squad Show: Quest For The Infinity Sword, Vol. 4
Seriously, with all of the hype that Marvel is getting lately with all of their movies doing so great in and out of the theaters, your kids have to be in a super hero mode. If your kids are going bonkers and taking meat tenderizer hammers and claiming that they are Thor all around the friggin house like mine are then you have to get them on the The Super Hero Squad Show bandwagon.
When the greatest heroes on the planet unite to face the world’s wickedest villains, you get the biggest, most family-friendly Super Hero alliance in TV history . . . the Super Hero Squad! It’s no small job protecting Super Hero City from the wild, weird and even wacky villainy of VillainVille’s infamous baddies . . . but Iron Man, Wolverine, the Hulk, the Silver Surfer, Thor and the Falcon are always up for the job. It is out NOW!
Ryan’s Rating: 7.5 out of 10!!
Pros: Kids love it, iconic characters, and the villains are getting really crazy in this volume!
Cons: Now we have the rock version stuck in our heads.
The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely that of the blog owners. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. I have been given a product free of charge, but that does not impact my views or opinions.
Winners!
The Dove giveaway has ended and the winners are…
#22 Isiah and #97 Christal Couturier!
All winner have 24 hour to respond and thanks to all that entered.
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