Free Crayola Crayons at Toys R Us- Black Friday Deal

It's Black Friday week, and big-box stores are bringing out the doorbuster Black Friday advertisements. Toys R Us is going to give away 250,000 boxes of Crayola crayons to early-bird shoppers. We're talking the Crayola 64 pack, with the crayon-sharpener on the back, not those little party-favor-sized boxes. Never mind Zhu Zhu Pets: if it were me, a free box of Crayolas would get me up at 7am or whatever. I suspect that Toys R Us is aiming this directly at parents: Crayons are products that parents either want for themselves (nostalgia, a bit of old-school fun) or the sort of toy that they feel their kids should have. Kids, meanwhile, probably want the Zhu Zhu Pets.

Toys R Us will release 100 previously-unadvertised "mystery deals" online at 12:01am on Wednesday, November 25, and the actual Toys R Us Black Friday ad will appear in newspapers and online on November 26 (Thanksgiving Day) . All I care about are the crayons.

(List of standard Crayola colors. Burnt Sienna tends to be the last one used, because it's lame)

Meanwhile Crayola is going somewhat green, turning to solar power to help run their Forks Township, PA headquarters.

(I am not affiliated with either Toys R Us or Crayola, but I really, really like crayons. They compliment my atrocious handwriting. Crayons a necessary part of any serious writing-implement arsenal)