At work on Tuesday we brought out a standee for Despicable Me to be put together.

First off, this movie looks awesome as is and these things are only encouraging my wanting to see it. (Probably my #3 pick to see of the summer, behind Iron Man 2, which is behind Inception at #1.)

Second off, before the standee, we received a flat package (more like a huge, secure folder) with four sticker sheets in it, about 4 feet by 2 feet. In it were 3 sheets of some "Despicable Me" wording and the minions floating about, but...the fourth sheet had about 25 minions, about 6 inches high, standing around, looking wacky, etc. These smaller stickers were promptly put onto the candy cases and bathroom doors for customers to see.

I got to take two pairs home. Woot woot! I don't know where I'll put them, but they are awesome.

(These guys)

Now, back to the standee. I was doing the box office, so could not place my attention onto building the piece, which had six or more separate pieces that needed to be laid onto the back for support, but I was able to start on inflating three life-size (or larger than life?) minions. First I had to put about 8 pounds of water into their base, because a sound box then goes into essentially their butt. Once blown up, a nice punch in their eye(s) knocks them down, triggering the sound box, and they bounce back up snickering and saying "ouch!" in the only way those minions do.

See? They are awesome.

(On another note, however, marketing for that movie needs to fire someone for deciding to have customer interaction, rough interaction no less, with this thing. It's bad enough Mr. (and Mrs.) Potato Head is missing his hands for the Toy Story 3 standee (thing walk off), imagine what will happen with "oh hey I'm allowed to touch this!")

-CF