One of my favorite memories this year was helping host the Showcase Cinemas Pixar Movie Marathon Event back in February. It was a blast hanging with other Pixar mega fans, watching Pixar movies all day and seeing an advanced screening of Onward. Showcase Cinemas also hooked me up with a few free Onward goodies that were waiting there in my hotel room as a surprise for when I arrived—one of the items being this fantastic Onward promotional umbrella! A huge thanks to the Showcase Cinemas marketing team for taking such good care of me that entire weekend.
For the last six months, I honestly thought this was just your basic umbrella; really nice quality with fun character images, but basic nonetheless. That is until a couple days ago when I was prepping for this review and noticed a flashlight underneath the handle. How did I not see that before?? What a neat feature.
So yah, noticing the flashlight under the handle was a cool enough realization on its own. I had never seen anything like that in an umbrella! However, when I added the three AAA batteries it needed, I discovered something even cooler: the main shaft of the umbrella actually lights up as well, featuring bright and vibrant colors with the press of a button on the handle! Magical.
You can cycle through six or seven different colors (red, green, purple, blue, yellow...) buy turning it off and on repeatedly. There's also a mode where it continuously fades through all the colors. You can see exactly what I mean in this video demonstration I posted on Twitter. Sweet right??
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any additional information on this anywhere online and it doesn't seem to be sold anywhere. If you happen to find somewhere that sells it or have any other info, be sure to let me know in the comments below and I'll update this post.
That's it for now. I'll see you right here again soon with another new item from my ever-expanding Pixar collection!
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