#3 MUSKETEERS CANDYBAR MOVIE#

Scandalini, and one entitled ' The Chocolaty Awards' where they receive the award for 'New Better Tasting Chocolate' at the aforementioned awards show. In addition, the website features two short animated clips with the characters, one entitled ' Factory', where they battle the evil Dr.

#3 MUSKETEERS CANDYBAR MOVIE#

In another remarkably strange aspect of this creepy candy mythos, there are bios of each of the characters on the site which portray the characters as movie stars, not unlike the Three Amigos!.

If you want a little racial diversity, call your candy bar Othello. They're based on real people, real French people. Hell, they aren't even wholly characters that Alexandre Dumas made up. These aren't characters some marketing exec made up. Porthos is black (I'm sorry, that should be African Frenchman), Athos is Hispanic (and, of course, like all people of Hispanic descent, he sounds like Cheech Marin), and D'Artagnan has blond hair and blue eyes. The truly egregious part is when one sees the renderings of the previously mentioned characters. Īll that said, this is pretty minor corporate stuff, the kind of shilling that one expects on a company's own website. If this is indeed a frequently asked question, would that not indicate that there is a demand for such merchandise? There's something awfully fishy here. Even more bizarrely, they have this as a frequently asked question, and yet they provide an answer that would disappoint anyone asking the question in the first place. I might believe 'Hey, can I get a 3 Musketeers t-shirt?', or perhaps ' OH DEAR GOD, IT WON'T STOP BLEEDING, SOMEONE GET A TOURNIQUET,' but not 'Where can I buy 3 MUSKETEERS® branded merchandise'. There is no way in hell that 'Where can I buy 3 MUSKETEERS® branded merchandise' is a frequently asked question. There are currently no retail outlets where 3 MUSKETEERS® branded merchandise is available. Where can I buy 3 MUSKETEERS® branded merchandise? After all, Athos being haunted by the shame of marrying a convicted thief whom he subsequently kills doesn't exactly scream 'Chocolatey fun!' at you. Some might notice the fact that these descriptions gloss over the characters a bit, and in many ways don't actually resemble the characters from Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, but that is to be expected to a certain extent in a candy bar marketed to children. He's courageous, gallant and always wins the day. He's young and eager, always the first to charge into the fray.

He's a scatterbrained hero with a heart of gold.ĭ'Artagnan - the leader of the trio. He constantly finds himself in awkward situations because he doesn't watch where he's going. He is James Bond with a saber.Īthos- brilliant and brave but also clumsy like a nutty professor. He's smooth and sophisticated and exudes self-confidence and personal style. The personalities of the 3 MUSKETEERS® characters are as follows: M&M/MARS decided that because of D'Artagnan's courage and worthiness, he would make a fine 3 MUSKETEERS® character, and therefore, we do not use Aramis. Aramis, Porthos and Athos were the original Musketeers, but D'Artagnan proved himself worthy and was embraced as the 4th Musketeer. There were originally four (4) Musketeers, however, M&M/MARS only uses three Musketeers. What is the history of the 3 MUSKETEERS® Brand Characters? For example, here's one of the questions from the 3 Musketeers FAQ: However, its official website is a garish abomination that inevitably causes insanity in all who gaze upon it. The candy bar switched to its current format of a single bar containing only chocolate flavored nougat in 1945.ģ Musketeers is a delicious and unique taste treat in the American candy universe, being the only candy bar I know of to commit so strongly to the righteous cause of nougat. This is why it was given the name of 3 Musketeers. Currently, the 3 Musketeers candy bar is a bar of chocolate nougat covered in milk chocolate, but originally it debuted M&M/Mars's third original candy creation, consisting of three separate bars, one each of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry nougats. Chocolate brands: 3 Musketeers | A.3 Musketeers is a candy bar that was first produced in 1932 by the M&M/Mars Company.

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