Pre-Purchase The Amazing Spider-Man at Walmart to Receive an Early Digital Copy on Vudu.com (#SpiderManWMT #CBias)

If you are anxious for The Amazing Spider-Man to be released on any combination of UV Blu-ray or DVD on November 9th, here is a super-easy way for you to get a streaming copy of the movie on Vudu.com on October 30th, 10 days before the release date, that you will be able to watch on your computer, Blu-ray player, iPad, Roku, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.  The physical disc will be shipped to you sometime around the release date.  You will also have access to never before seen stunt footage and deleted scenes immediately after you register your pre-order of The Amazing Spider-Man on Vudu.


Checkout this exciting trailer from the movie . . . 



To Pre-Purchase The Amazing Spider-Man . . .

1.  Visit the Electronics department at your local Walmart store and look for any of the following . . . The Amazing Spider-Man Blu-Ray+DVD+UltraViolet Limited Edition Mask gift set, Ultraviolet/Blu-Ray, or Ultraviolet/DVD in a "pre-purchase" box.  Our store seemed to only have the pre-purchase for the DVD in stock.  Luckily, it was just what we needed.

2.  The instructions for registering your pre-purchase and registering for your advanced digital copy of the film can be found inside the box.

3.  Go to the special Vudu Spider-man movie link provided in the instructions and enter your redemption code.

4.  At this point, you will need to sign into Vudu or register for an account, if you do not already have one.  Then click the green button that says "Create Free UltraViolet Account."  You do not have to register again or go to another window.  Vudu creates the account for you.

5.  If you have followed the instructions correctly, you will see that The Amazing Spider-Man has been added under "My Movies."  From here, you can access some of the bonus features from the movie right away.  You will be able to access the movie via Vudu starting on October 30th and the physical copy of the movie will be shipped to you around November 9th.

How easy was that?  As an added bonus for registering for the first time on Vudu, I also received a free movie as a thank you.


I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment #CBias #SocialFabric #SpiderManWMT.  All opinions expressed are my own.

Photos From Our Mini Golf Birthday Party at GlowGolf

This past weekend, we had a birthday party for our first grader at our local GlowGolf.  The party turned out to be a huge success, but it did not start off that way.  I had booked the time more than six weeks in advanced and put down a deposit to hold the date.  When we arrived, there was another party taking place and it looked like our party sheet was not in their files, our information was erased from the appointment book, and they had no record of our deposit.  Luckily, the erased appointment was still legible, so the gentlemen on duty, who was very apologetic, was able to accommodate us and even took a little off the total bill for our inconvenience.  As luck would have it, the other party was scheduled to end right when our was suppose to begin.  Still, we were not able to set up until the previous party cleared out, so we started our party about 20 minutes late.  To someone like me, who starts planning her children's birthday parties months in advance, this hiccup was not a small one.

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GlowGolf provides glow bracelets plus tables and chairs for your party.  At this location, I rarely see more than one person working out front at a time, so there was nobody to help coordinate the activities.  We had 11 children altogether, so that was a good number for my husband and myself to handle.  It is a dark place, plus there were no on-site restrooms, so if possible, I recommend having a third adult on hand to escort any children off the premises to use the restroom.  I also had all the children and all the adults who were in our party wear lanyards so we could easily tell who was part of our group.

We started with a full round of mini golf.  Had we started the party on time, we could have gone through the course twice, but we were worried about time.  Each child had two tokens, so they could go through the laser maze twice.  While inside, each child's friends could watch him or her on the monitor.  The laser maze was a huge hit, even more so than the children being able to recharge their golf balls' glow themselves.

My husband could not resist giving the maze a try for himself.  Also, some of the children were afraid to go inside by themselves, so we allowed those children to go in pairs.

Soon it was time for cake!  We served this pull-apart Spider-Man birthday cake from Stop & Shop.  It was made of 24 cupcakes, half chocolate and half yellow.  We love the cakes from Stop & Shop and usually order a marble sheet cake with whipped, less sugary frosting.  This was our first pull apart cake.  It worked out great because we did not have to slice the cake to serve it, but when the children asked for seconds and thirds, we had to cut the cupcakes in half because there were not enough of them.  All the children were exclaiming how good the cupcakes were.  I usually have enough cake leftover for the parents, but not this time.

We took the photo below right before we had cake, since we knew the children would be plastered in red and yellow frosting soon enough . . .

Overall, the party was a huge success.  The children had a blast.  GlowGolf is extremely affordable compared to most of the other party options out there for grade school-aged children.  I do not regret booking my son's party there, even with the initial confusion.


This article was based on my family's personal experience with the above-mentioned services and products, which were purchased by us.  No compensation was received for sharing these experiences with my readers.

Stocking Stuffers 2010: Hasbro Spider-Man & Transformers Action Figures

No holiday stocking for an early grade school-aged boy is complete without at least one action figure. Hasbro has lots of new ones this year priced at $9.99 or less in the Transformers, Spider-Man, and Star Wars brands.

One of the newest lines for Transformers is the Transformers Power Core Combiners. This new assortment is for the collector and the builder. Each of the figures in the 2-pack combine, but you can also combine figures from multiple packs to create larger robots. The 2-packs retail for $9.99 each, but there are also 5-packs available for $19.99 each. This line of Transformers is recommended for ages 5 and up and comes with complete instructions. The set we received featured Smolder and Chopster.

One super hero who is always a hit in our house is Spider-Man. There is a huge variety of Spider-Man action figures available starting at $6.99 . We received the Web-Slinging Spider-Man, which is recommended for ages 4 and up. This particular figure was perfect for our nearly 4 year old son. It does not have multiple small parts like some figures. The suction cups work well on windows, the refrigerator, laminate tabletops and counter tops to prompt imaginative play.

If you are shopping for siblings, do not feel you need to purchase figures from the same line. My boys have no qualms about combining similarly-sized figures from different brands in their pretend play scenarios.

You can see all the available Hasbro action figures on Hasbro.com and HasbroToyShop.com . Of course you can find Hasbro figures at your local ToysRUs, Wal-Mart, Target, and most places where Hasbro toys are sold.

Thank you to Hasbro for providing us with complimentary product samples to base this review upon.