{"id":17623,"date":"2015-10-23T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2015-10-23T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:20:46","slug":"new-for-2015-mars-halloween-muskefears-and-snickers-xscream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=17623","title":{"rendered":"New for 2015: Mars’ Halloween Muskefears and Snickers XScream!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Halloween this year, Mars came up with a pair of terrific seasonal editions of two of their all-year-round products: 3 Musketeers and Snickers Xtreme, re-branding them as Muskefears and Snickers XScream.\u00a0 These are two of my favorites from 2015’s new introductions, so make the jump to check them out!<\/p>\n

I think it’s especially great when products get seasonal releases that play upon their existing names in clever ways.\u00a0 Nestle-Canada did a great job of this back in 2012 with their Halloween ScAero bar and Coffin Crisp<\/a>, and they also nailed it with their UK Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee “Brit Kat” Kit Kat edition<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 So when I heard that Mars was releasing a Halloween version of 3 Musketeers as “Muskefears”, I was sold.\u00a0 Let’s check these out!<\/p>\n

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Mars – 3 Musketeers – Muskefears – Halloween edition – 11 oz chocolate candy multipack Fun Size packaging – Fall 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

The outer packaging for Muskefears is a striking foil bag with graphical spider-web details.\u00a0 It also has a nice cutaway image of one of the fun size bars, showcasing the novel feature of its Halloween-themed “Spooky Red Nougat”.\u00a0 Pretty awesome.\u00a0\u00a0 The individual Fun Size wrappers also sport a foil look and the Muskefears name.<\/p>\n

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Mars – 3 Musketeers – Muskefears – Halloween edition – fun size candy wrapper – Fall 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

For Snickers XScream, no changes were made to the actual candy so this is an entirely package-based re-branding, but it’s an appealing one with a great ghost illustration on the large package as well as each individual Fun Size wrapper.<\/p>\n

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Mars – Snickers Xtreme – Xcream Halloween fun size – 10.50 oz multi bag package – Fall 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mars – Snickers Xtreme – Xcream Halloween fun size bar wrapper – candy wrapper – Fall 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

Great-looking stuff from Mars this year and it hearkens back to the fun Halloween edition Snickers Bites packaging I found last year<\/a> (which I didn’t see around this season).<\/p>\n

And that’s everything I’ve got to share on Mars’ Halloween Muskefears and Snickers XScream releases.\u00a0 Hope you enjoyed seeing them and I’ll see you next time!<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s 2015 Countdown to Halloween. To check out other sites celebrating Halloween all month long, visit the official CountdownToHalloween site.<\/a>\u00a0 For more of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s CountdownToHalloween posts, just click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For Halloween this year, Mars came up with a pair of terrific seasonal editions of two of their all-year-round products: 3 Musketeers and Snickers Xtreme, re-branding them as Muskefears and Snickers XScream.\u00a0 These are two of my favorites from 2015’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,589,252,50,59],"tags":[321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,1248,1222,415,21,450,1120,7,15,341,11],"class_list":["post-17623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chocolate-2","category-countdowntohalloween","category-halloween","category-holiday-2","category-mars","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-ghosts","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-candy","tag-packaging","tag-packaging-design","tag-seasonal","tag-snickers","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrappers","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-4Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17636,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions\/17636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}