Light up your Ass Night with Taco Bell

I've said it time and time again- you need safety lights during Halloween. Be it trick or treating, or maybe just in the pumpkin instead of a candle. In 1983 Taco Bell had your back and your back side after eating. For just 29 cents you could purchase a glow stick! That's a steal considering they're a dollar now... probably more... *sigh*. Not bad at all. Stop by Taco Bell, get dinner and a glow stick. Go trick or treating safely as we all know kids are invisible to cars on the one night that kids are out en masse at night in the streets. Then have a convenient light for all those bathroom trips you'll be making later. It's a win win!

Looking at you

There was a time when these eye ball toys were literally everywhere. Taco Bell decided to sell wacky straws that held these eye ball toys as a Halloween promotion and whomever at corperate came up with that idea deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Halloween is a season full of fun and it's not uncommon to get some fast food on the way home from the local haunted house. Having your monster straw stare at you while sipping that Mountain Dew with it's judging eyes... it knows what you did.

Batman Bell Grande

Taco Bell Monster Straws

The wife and I were just talking about these the other day. They should bring them back, paired with some sort of Halloween combo. Like one of those $5 box deals. Call it the Halloween combo, I dunno a black or orange taco shelled creation, nacho fires and a drink with the straw included. You know you'd be all in for that.

I admittedly just want some nacho fries.

Tacos and Transmetals

College was a simple time, sorta. Classes , job, social life, staying up all night on the internet or in front of a video game, and somehow living with just a few hours sleep here and there. It was basically childhood version 2.0 where I got to call my own shots.

When the Beast Wars Transmetals game was first released as a Blockbuster Video rental exclusive here in the states, it's no surprise how that went. I'd regularly swing by the video store, rent the game, then a quick run through the nearby Taco Bell drive through before getting home.

Several all nighters were spent with Cheetor walking in circles around opponents (it was a fighting game, a very basic fighting game meant for small children) and doing that weird kickball attack.

Before long, I found a used copy of the game for sale. It was around the time I learned that there was a secret character named Megatron X (a variation of Megatron with dragon wings) and if I beat him the right way, he'd become a playable character.

That's when the madness began. Each free night, I'd stock up on Taco Bell and Mtn Dew, then go all night. I was destined to unlock Megatron X, countless hours resulting in countless battles with him and heartburn. Frustration took hold and so did obsession.

I was going to do this, I was going to win.

My roommate and neighbors were going to kill me for the random screaming fits at 4am. That and the after effects of several hundred pounds of Taco Bell.

I'm just as amazed as you that I'm still alive.

In the end, I'd like to tell you I succeeded and unlocked Megatron X for play. Or is love to tell you I walked away from it out of better behavior.

But eventually, I found a used copy of the PlayStation game that was tons better. 

But there was still tacos.