Lou Seelbach
United States
Huntington
West Virginia
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All serious players of the original Candy Land should remember Queen Frostine. She was the most powerful card and arguably broken as an opening play. I still hate my older sister for drawing Queen Frostine while I drew a red card in my first game of Candy Land...
While originally powerful, Hasborg has been on a quiet quest to discredit and destroy Queen Frostine. First came the stripping of the Queen's title. In current editions, she is now known as Princess Frostine, and is a comely, barbie-doll figure on ice skates. While some may say that her loss of title was made up through her gain in hotness, I disagree. I see it as sexist and degrading. They also took away her awesomely huge staff of snowflake power and gave her a dainty wand.
In the recent feature film Candy Land - The Great Lollipop Adventure (2005, rated G), I was originally excited to find out it was about a Princess' quest to bring the royal scepter to the "Sweet Celebration" ceremony. Imagine my disappointment when it turns out that Princess Lolly is the leading female, while Princess Frostine is relegated to a supporting, older sister role. PRINCESS LOLLY?!?!? Please...debates still rage whether she is even a princess or not! Just look at your recent version of Candy Land.
The last straw came today when I opened my minty new copy of Candy Land DVD Game. As I pored through the playing mats, I eagerly anticipated a full cast of characters. Every face card from the original game should be there...Mr. Mint check, Jolly check, Gramma Nutt check, Lolly check, Gloppy check, King Kandy, check. Wait...Gloppy? What are you doing in there you evil chocolate monster. King Kandy? You're the end game condition, not a space at all.
Thats it. No Gingerbread Tree. No Princess Frostine. Relegated to a non-entity. At least Jib, who may be the curious offspring of the Gingerbread Tree, is featured in the DVD that comes with the game. Princess Frostine is completely ignored. From a Queen, to a pretty Princess, to a nonentity. I may never buy another Candy Land product again.
Fellow Candy Land players unite! I urge you to email Hasbro about this trend before our beloved Queen shows up as a character in the beheading game Guillotine. Act now or future generations may never know the true Queen of Candy Land.
-Lou
NOTE: I thought it important enough to repost this here, in the heart of the Candy Land community.
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Adam Alleman
United States
Denver
Colorado
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Now I can finally explain to my 5 year old why I won't play this game anymore. I am openly pissed.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Lou-Dawg wrote: Fellow Candy Land players unite! I urge you to email Hasbro about this trend before our beloved Queen shows up as a character in the beheading game Guillotine. Act now or future generations may never know the true Queen of Candy Land. I'm tempted to start a petition to urge hasbro or the makers of guillotine to include miss frostine as a potential beheading victim.
I'm all for including the rest of the candyland cast as well.
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W M Shubert
United States
Portland
Oregon
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Bah! She is just a usurper to the throne! My old candyland set had just the "Ice Cream Sea," no queen or princess of any kind!
(Although since she is Princess Lolly's mother, it does make more sense for her to be Queen Frostine than Princess Frostine).
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Lou Seelbach
United States
Huntington
West Virginia
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wmshub wrote: Bah! She is just a usurper to the throne! My old candyland set had just the "Ice Cream Sea," no queen or princess of any kind!
(Although since she is Princess Lolly's mother, it does make more sense for her to be Queen Frostine than Princess Frostine).
So Hasbro is saying that Frostine is both Lolly's sister AND mother? Shame on them...
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franklin johnson
United States
santa cruz
California
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wmshub wrote: Bah! She is just a usurper to the throne! My old candyland set had just the "Ice Cream Sea," no queen or princess of any kind!
Thats right, REAL Candyland has only candy, no creepy anthrophomorphic characters with a subliminal message of 'bite me'.
And a molasses swamp (not chocolate).
And a Bifrost-like numinous Rainbow Bridge.
And a mysteriously twisty secret path thru the gumdrop mountains.
I admit though, the continued shafting of Queen Frostine sounds interesting. I can't quite visualize it, tho. Maybe you have some pictures?
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leftfield
United States
Durham
North Carolina
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Princess Frostine: Destroyer of Dreams
Steve, at the sneeze discusses Princess Frostine.
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000758.php
After reading the post, I suggest reading the "Steve, Don't Eat It" section of the blog.
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Gene Warren
United States
Redwood City
California
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Lou-Dawg wrote:
So Hasbro is saying that Frostine is both Lolly's sister AND mother? Shame on them...
Must keep the royal bloodlines pure and all that.....
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