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McDonald’s ditches cheeseburger Happy Meals
Prepare for another blow to your childhood, millennials: McDonald’s is removing cheeseburgers from Happy Meals. It’s part of a push to make its kids’ food options more healthy, which also includes removing chocolate milk from the default set of choices. Both chocolate milk and cheeseburgers will still be available in Happy Meals by request.
Chelsea Handler’s weed line
Comedian and TV host Chelsea Handler is the latest celebrity jumping into California’s now-fully-legal marijuana market. Handler posted a photo of herself at a pot farm on Instagram, saying she was doing her “due diligence” on the stuff. “I’m going to come out with my own line of weed, I decided. I want people to understand that you don’t have to get blottoed,” Us Weekly quoted Handler
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as saying on her Instagram story. “You can just get a little, nice buzz to take the edge off.”The digit: $25 million
That’s how much it would have cost Sony to buy the movie rights to nearly every single Marvel character in 1998, according to the Wall Street Journal. At the time, a young executive was tasked with acquiring just the rights to Spider-Man — and when he brought the offer for all the characters back to his bosses at Sony, was allegedly told “Nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters. Go back and do a deal for only Spider-Man.” Disney later paid $4 billion to buy Marvel Studios in 2010, after Iron Man and those other back-bench characters skyrocketed to success — Box Office Mojo reports Marvel Studios’ films have now brought in more than $25 billion.
Wrigleyville Taco Bell replacement announced
The Wrigleyville Taco Bell’s demise is nigh, and we finally have an idea of what might replace it: A climbing gym called Planet Granite. Renderings posted by Ald. Tom Tunney show a tiered three-story building with multicolored climbing walls visible from the street. The first floor appears to feature a couple of retail spaces — but a new Taco Bell is conspicuously absent. Where will we buy our Crunchwraps and Baja Blast?
‘Shaq Fu’ returns
Shaquille O’Neal will no longer be contained to his roles as NBA analyst, Icy Hot spokesman and sheriff’s deputy: His 1994 video game, “Shaq Fu” is getting a reboot. The original game was a “Mortal Kombat” knockoff for Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, but, y’know, with Shaq. In the new game’s trailer, developer Wired Productions admits the original game “sucked really bad” but says the new game will be “better than the old one.” “Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn” is planned for this spring on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
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