{"id":18594,"date":"2016-10-27T19:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=18594"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:05:43","slug":"kit-kats-awesome-halloween-cat-mascot-packs-plus-kit-kat-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=18594","title":{"rendered":"Kit Kat’s Awesome Halloween Cat Mascot Packs! Plus Kit Kat Darkness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around this time last year, Hershey started to upgrade their snack size packaging with a series of new seasonal mascots.\u00a0 But it wasn’t until 2016 that the “Kit Kat Cat” arrived and for the Halloween season they’ve really outdone themselves with a number of packages featuring this fun new character.\u00a0 Make the jump to check out Kit Kat’s awesome new Halloween Cat mascot packs!<\/p>\n

Hershey’s has had a few standard Halloween snack-size offerings the last few years<\/a>, one of them being their orange-colored white chocolate “Halloween Kit Kat”.\u00a0 Orange Halloween Kit Kats return this year, but unlike previous seasons their outer packs feature the new Kit Kat Cat!\u00a0 For this variety The Cat is dressed like a pirate, complete with peg leg and mouse-skull-and-bones eye patch.\u00a0 Take a look – it’s outstanding:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat Orange White Chocolate – Snack Size – 10_29 oz Halloween candy multi-bag package – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a comparison from the previous packaging to this year:<\/p>\n

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Hershey \u2013 Kit Kat \u2013 Orange Colored Halloween Treats \u2013 Comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

The interior wrappers remain the same as in previous years, which is too bad – I’d have liked to have seen that pirate Cat make it onto the individual wrappers.<\/p>\n

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Hershey \u2013 Kit Kat \u2013 Halloween fun size wrapper \u2013 2012-2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Another returning favorite is Kit Kat Triple Chocolate, and it received its own variation on the Halloween Kit Kat Cat – this time The Cat sports a classic wizard costume and wand:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a look at the previous version on the new one:<\/p>\n

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Hershey \u2013 Kit Kat \u2013 Triple Chocolate Halloween \u2013 Comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Similar to the Orange Halloween, the interior snack size wrappers have not changed:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – Kit Kat Triple Chocolate – Halloween snack size individual wrapper – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Halloween Kit Kat in white returned again this year but when I first saw them, they didn’t have The Cat mascot on the packages.\u00a0 Instead, they were just like last years version:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat White – Snack Size – 10_29 oz Halloween candy multi-bag package – 2015-2016<\/p><\/div>\n

I was disappointed with that until I realized that Kit Kat White did get a Cat pack after all – but only in the Jumbo<\/em> or 20 ounce size.\u00a0 Here, The Cat is dressed up as a mummy:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat White – Snack Size Jumbo Bag – 20_1 oz Halloween candy multi-bag package – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Again here, the snack size wrappers themselves still reflected the previous-year’s design:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – Kit Kat White – Halloween snack size individual wrapper – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

A Halloween multi-package for Kit Kat minis also arrived in stores for the 2016 season, and for that, we find The Cat hanging out behind a tombstone.<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat Minis – Snack Size – 9_12 oz Halloween candy multi-bag package – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, Target stores got an exclusive this year in the form of a dark chocolate Kit Kat snack size assortment.\u00a0 And rather than just call them “Kit Kat Dark”, they gave them the far more spooky-sounding moniker of “Kit Kat Darkness”.\u00a0 For this one, we find The Cat mascot in what I can only describe as a woolen monster hat of some sort.\u00a0 Whatever it is, it’s awesome:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat Darkness – Snack Size – 10_78 oz Halloween candy multi-bag package – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

And in the only example found this year, the snack size Kit Kat Darkness individual wrappers themselves also get the new mascot treatment:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat Darkness – Halloween snack size individual wrapper – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m kind of a big fan of that last one – I think it’s pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

I should note that I also saw an awesome-and-enormous package of Hershey Halloween product that prominently featured The Cat mascot, and as much as I liked it, it was simply too big for me to buy.\u00a0 Yes, even I have my limits.<\/p>\n

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Kit Kat Cat Hershey Halloween 145 piece package – Halloween 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

The Kit Kat Cat is also being found all over the non-Halloween, general Fall\/Autumn branding as well:<\/p>\n

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Hershey – KitKat Miniatures -10 oz Autumn-themed candy multi-bag package – September 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kit Kat Cat Autumn display dump – October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

“The Cat” (I’m not sure of his real name, or if he\/she has one yet) has been appearing on various marketing materials in 2016 for Hershey, Kit Kat and certainly Hershey’s Halloween — and they all come off pretty great.\u00a0 I suspect this is a bit of character branding and marketing that will be around for at least a few years.\u00a0 I think it’s an instant classic and I cannot wait to see what mischief the Kit Kat Cat gets into during the next holiday.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything I’ve got on Kit Kat’s awesome Halloween mascot packaging.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s 2016 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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