Sep 13, 2013

The 2013 Badges will rot your teeth!

The new 2013 badges are here a little later than I anticipated, but still, before October! This year, after brainstorming with Jaime of Shezcrafti.com, I decided to use her suggestion of celebrating the return of some long lost Monster Cereal mascots by having the 2013 badges feature Franken Berry, Count Chocula, Boo Berry, Fruit Brute (I refuse to call him Frute), and Yummy Mummy...

**Also, real quick, I wanted to add some noise to the suggestion by Dex of AEIOU and Sometimes Why about the idea of participants grabbing these images and hosting them yourselves.  Least year there was a hiccup with my image hosting provider that caused the badge images to break based on the html I posted.  So if anyone desires, please feel free to grab these and host them yourselves.  I have addressed the image hosting issue, so as far as I know it shouldn't be an issue again.**


Badge #1 (featuring Franken Berry)...

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Badge #2 (featuring Count Chocula)...

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Badge #3 (featuring Boo Berry)...

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Badge #4 (featuring Fruit Brute)...

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Badge #5 (featuring Fruity Yummy Mummy)...

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43 comments:

wicKED said...

Hey, I tried replying to your email about joining....keep getting an error that it can't send to that address.

Shawn Robare said...

Hey wicKED, Adding you to the list right now!

Rook Wilder said...

Brilliant badge choices this year! Loving the classic looks as well.
Fruit Brute for me!

Wings1295 said...

Awesome! Thank you!!!

Cliff said...

I LOVE these badges!! Added Yummy Mummy to The Holidaze! Great stuff

Justin S. Davis said...

These are spectacular. And what a great tribute to the cereal re-releases.

Man. It's gonna be impossible to pick just one.

Chad Thorson said...

Boo Berry was always my fave! Can't wait for another fun Halloween!

Lisa said...

yay! They're all awesome!

Which to choose, which to choose?

Phillyradiogeek said...

Awesome! I've been anxious to see this year's badges, and this is a great choice. I'll go with Frankenberry!

Magaly Guerrero said...

I'm stealing Boo Berry (gotta love the hat!). Creepy sweet choices ;-)

Barry P. said...

They're all fantastic, but gotta go with Fruit Brute! Thanks for organizing this event!

Jamie Ghione said...

Going to use the Boo Berry badge! Love this year's badges!

Dex said...

Hey guys, you might want to encourage people to d/l the badges and host them. Flickr is difficult when it comes to not linking back to the photo/image's page in your html.

I can't remember who (was it you, Shawn?) but someone had a problem with Flickr on their blog photos because they didn't do it the exact way Flickr wants and they had to go back and fix the html.

The "a href" link has to point to the image's page in Flickr, which would prevent it directing back here which is what we all want :D

Shawn Robare said...

Dex - Yeah, I used to host these set to private on Flickr and then last year they had a hiccup and made a bunch of user's private photos reset to public, and to fix it they created all new URLs for the images. I went ahead and set these to public so hopefully it shouldn't be a problem. Also, I circumvent the standard flickr sharing code to get the root image file. (Shhhhh, it's our secret ;) )

Shawn Robare said...

Oh yeah, but I second what Dex says. Anyone should feel free to grab the images and host them yourselves!

Dex said...

Ah ok, that makes a little more sense. I just thought Flickr were being jerks because you weren't redirecting back to the image page :)

Jeremy [Retro] said...

i dig the badges... i love fruit brute... oh the joys of a fruity cereal... glad to be back another year of boo scary!

Jeremy H.

New Look, New Name and Same Stuff...
[Being-Retro]

Felix Vasquez Jr. said...

Hi, could my site be included in the Halloween festivities? My site is:

http://www.cinema-crazed.com

My email: rpgforms@yahoo.com

We have a month long Halloween bonanza coming in October 1st. Thanks!

Shawn Robare said...

Jeremy & Felix, you're on the list!

Pop Rewind said...

You know we're down with this!:) Totally grabbing Count Chocula to add to Pop Rewind right now!

Tom Krohne said...

I'm in again thi year Shawn, bit I may modify my badge little
http://tomkrohne.blogspot.com/?m=1

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Shawn Robare said...

Hey Tom, have at it!

KaramPaul said...

great looking badge. love it

endo said...

Horrors Online is glad to be a part of the countdown for the first time!!
Thanks for having us.

endo said...

Horrors Online is happy to be a part of the countdown for the first time!!
Thanks for having us.

Eegah!! and Tabonga! said...

Yo Shawn! Count Chocula us in!!!

Brandon Early said...

Gotta be Franken Berry. The Dog Farm thanks you for hosting this.

Brandon Early said...

Thanks for hosting the countdown!

ratatouille's archives said...

Bonjour ! Shawn Robare...
Please "count" me in the Halloween count-down [again] this year. By the way, no pun intended...
...Since I selected the Count Dracula badge.
merci,

A. Ersley said...

Hi, love the concept and of course my choice would be Count Chocula. Would love to be a part of this, here is my blog http://intothecauldron.com

Mason said...

Great badges, I'm a big cereal fan so I dig 'em!

I would love to become an official Cryptkeeper! From October 1st-October 31st I will post every day about most everything relating to Halloween on my blog @ www.ditreasures.blogspot.com; such as spooky cereals, scary video games, undead toys, bloody candies, creepy crafts, horrifying costumes, traumatizing movies, eerie TV shows, dreadful cartoons, spine-chilling decorations, fearsome music and frightful events!

I'm partial to specters and ghosts, so Boo Berry's my man! Gotta love that dapper hat of his, true class!

Cody AKA Crooked Ninja said...

How did I miss this? Totally all-in!

Daniel said...

Count me in again this year!
Come on over and check out my revamped 3d Frankenberry.
catch you later!

Justin S. Davis said...

Just wanna make sure you've got me on The List.

Two blogs, even!

A Field Guide To Doomsday and The Haunted Spookshow Of Channel X!

Michael Jones said...

I think I've been added but I'm not sure. (http://mytwoyenworth.blogspot.jp/)

Is there a master list to check on the 2013 participants?

Anonymous said...

I just added my badge! Chose the Mummy, because it fits well with my blog's colors...

Abby said...

I sent in an e-mail... but I wanted to make sure you have me on the list again this year!

www.spooky-scary.blogspot.com

Abby R

DC said...

Hey, I just stumbled upon this blog and I hope it's not too late to join! I did this last year on my blog, The Good, The Bad & The Magnificent... http://gbandm.blogspot.com/ and am planning on doing it again this year. It'd be awesome if I could connect with you guys and be a part of it this year! Let me know, Cheers!

Shawn Robare said...

Alright, everyone below this comment has been added to the list!

Stacy said...

I love the badges! Count Chocula is my choice.
I definitely would like to participate this year!

Michael Jones said...

First! Don't you hate it when guys are the first to comment on a post and yell, "First!"?
That being said, at the stroke of midnight on 09-30/01-10, I made my first blog post for the countdown. I'm stoked!

Shawn Robare said...

Stacy - You're on the list!

Michael - Rad!