7-Eleven Gets A Kwik-E-Makeover
Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art. Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.
Official Simpsons Movie Website Launched
The Official Simpsons Movie website has taken on many forms but today the page has well and truly launched in all its glory.
Stolen Homer Simpson Statue Found
Two college students believed to be over-exuberant fans of The Simpsons stole a life-sized figurine of Homer Simpson from a cinema, but police tracked them down and forced them to return it Thursday. “This case has been solved,” Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia’s central Petaling Jaya district, told The Associated Press. The fiberglass replica of Homer holding a TV remote control was part of a promotional display at a local cinema.
Simpsons Channel Version 11.0
Hey visitors! I’m delighted to welcome you to a new look Simpsons Channel website. This new design may look a little stripped back on features, but we assure you, it’s all here. This design is an evolution of our previous look, once again bringing a larger focus on news which now appears up-front in a nice, expanded, easy to read blog-esque format without the boringness of being a blog. It’s been quite a journey that the site has taken since the days of being a website that linked to and reported the news about the goings on of other Simpsons websites, and this is the next chapter which will see us into our tenth birthday later this year.
