5 Nerd-Worthy Burger King Movie Watch Sets

By Adrian Beiting in Daily Lists, Merchandise, Movies

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 8:02 am

What's that? "Don't need a watch," you say? Pshaw. If all you're concerned about is telling the time, then you're really missing the point. Snapping one of these bands to your wrist is a healthy way to show your allegiance to nerdery in general and a nerdy movie in specific, even if the meal threatens to shave a year off your life. While Burger King's not the only fast food place to use watches to promote such things, they've been among the most consistent. For some reason, whenever cheap, plastic watches are used to spread the word about a movie, The King is usually there, dishing out these sweet plastic chronometers to the welcoming public.

All of these sets were from special value deals, but that's not terribly important now. What's important is that you own them, because they're ridiculously cool, even though we can't promise they'll go with anything you wear. So, grab a few packs of button cells and a super-tiny screwdriver, friends -- a large dose of unusually irrational nerdery awaits you after the jump.

5) The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Burger King's set of five watches coincided with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and was partial to some pretty seductive patterns and color schemes. Each one came with a character-specific tin and had "4-way" reversibility thanks to dual-sided bands and the respective character's head in sticker form opposite the clock. Perfect for helping you make it to The Krusty Krab in style -- and punctually, of course.

4) The Nightmare Before Christmas
Did you know they made merchandise for this movie?! Ah, we see you've already spit out your evening's tea in disbelief, but rest assured, Burger King constructed a four piece collector's set based on The Nightmare Before Christmas. Each watch came in a classy, coffin-like cardboard box with faux gift wrap design and featured characters, locations, and scenes from the flick, extending to the armbands themselves. If only choosing one, we'd like to side with the Santa version, but it's hard to pass on Jack's signature Spiral Hill jaunt. Also important: they're historic as the one nick in Hot Topic's otherwise perfect "selling stuff based on The Nightmare Before Christmas" track record.

3) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

These things glowed in the dark, flipped open, had holograms... you name the nerdery, they dished it out. Oh yeah, not to mention the obvious -- they're dinosaur watches based on the Jurassic Park franchise. We regret that there isn't one featuring Ian Malcolm's bespectacled, terrified expression, but maybe they'll get around to that when Jurassic Park IV: Dinosaurs Shooting Lasers finally hits theaters.

2) The Simpsons Movie

The four talking watches released for The Simpsons Movie may not have been hitched with the best sound quality in the world, but they looked a level or two better than your standard fast food tie-in and came in swanky boxes. The lot included Bart, Homer, Krusty, and the family driving, each with its own related audio clip. You just can't write off a Krusty the Clown watch with Sideshow Bob on its strap, unless Krusty Brand made it, in which case -- for the love of everything - propel the thing into your nearest pit of fire and run far, far away.

1) Star Wars

Timed with Revenge of the Sith's DVD release, this set of six (one for each Episode) really took the whole fast food watch thing to a new level, due in no small part to the daring cylindrical display tins which each featured two embossed characters and text. The overall execution on the watches themselves was also impressive; each sturdy band was reversible, so you basically got a sweet Star Wars two-in-one deal along with an equally sweet holographic sticker behind the clock. They really put a lot of thought into these -- Episode IV's had Luke in his stormtrooper getup on one side, and a real stormtrooper on the other. Meanwhile, Revenge of the Sith's watch featured Anakin and Darth Vader. And of course, no Yoda timepiece can be ignored. For such display-worthy goodness and quality, these easily reign supreme in BK's movie watch galaxy.

Tags: Bizarre Merchandise, Dinosaurs, Fast Food, Jurassic Park, Nightmare Before Christmas, Simpsons, SpongeBob, Star Wars

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theInsaneArtist

Oh, wow! lol I remember having a few of the Jurassic Park watches from BK as a kid. I LOVED the raptor eye one. Though I thought the stegosaurus was a bit lame, so I gave that one to my little brother.

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Andrew

I loved the star wars watches so much, I gave them to my groomsmen for a wedding gift and we all wore them on my wedding day.

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TorreyAnderson

Nice...I totally still have those Jurassic Park ones.

Parsat

The Jurassic Park watches were awesome!

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batsglasstoaster

I think I may have had one of the Star Wars ones. I know I've seen a tin, belonging either to me or someone else I've seen recently around...

Thomas

I used to have the T-Rex watch and STILL have the Stormtrooper watch that stays attached to my golf bag for luck. Boom!

Odowankenobi

I still have that Raptor Eye watch somewhere. I loved that thing when I was a kid.

Ant2206

I have the Jurassic Park hologram watch. I found it a couple of months ago in an old box of toys. STILL WORKED! It was only off by about two hours.

Back then, even fast food toys were made to LAST.

Mattgomery Scott

Who is the other character on the Yoda one? Any ideas?

Batbecca

It looks like Obi Wan from ANH. I have the Darth Mal one, but sadly I've lost the tin.

Scooter Atreides

I had that TNBC Spiral Hill watch, and I wore it proudlyXD Weird thing is: I have no recollection of how I got it! I didn't buy it myself...It just kinda--happened!

Btw, how the HELL did you get away with a 5-entry list, Adrian?! I didn't think we could do that! ^_^

Zac Featherston

Do not get me started on those Simpsons watches. When they first came out, my brother got the Bart one, and it's audio clip is Bart saying "Cool your jets, man!" When you give a 13 year old that, all you hear for weeks/months is "Cool your jets, man! Cool your jets, man! Cool your jets, man!" It almost got to the point of violence it was so annoying.

And to top off this, a friend of ours was recently (as in last month recently) going through a bunch of his old boxes. What was he to find? A goddamn Bart Simpson watch. That still worked. He's only just stopped making Bart tell me to cool my jets within the last week.

Scooter Atreides

That's impressive! Generally any sort of fast-food premium that "talks" breaks or runs out of power within a week ;)

Jmstewart17

those Simpson watches didnt come out with the movie. They came out a few years before the Movie. They were just Simpson watches. But the boxes were awesome, the watches were great, and overall, they are very nerdy.

Paula H.

Did not know they did a Nightmare Before Christmas set. I'm assuming this was done before our crappy little town got a BK, otherwise I would have known this. My sister has the Han Solo Star Wars watch. I've been trying to (unsuccessfully) talk her out of it for a while now.

demoncat_4

i remember getting one of the jurrassic park watches. given how i was a mcds person plus cool to see those nighmare before xmas watches. for wanted the jack one but never went to bk when they were there.

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loved the Jurassic park watches , the only ones i got for the sheer fact that they are awesome were the METAL ONE (top left) and the EYE OF THUNDERA (bottom right) this was back in high school so my desk mate was like dude your watch is looking at me .

the star wars hologram watches i have doubles of the ones who really matterVADER/ BOBA/YODA/ANAKIN/MAUL/SLAVE GIRL XDthe rest i couldnt bear to see

ThePirateStar

I had the NMBC watches and the entire Jurassic Park watch series. I loved the JP watches and I could never decide on which one I wanted to wear, so I ended up wearing all four watches (two on each wrist). I, of course, was picked on for this but it was worth it.

Someguy

The Star Wars watches was one of the only things good about the RofS movie.

LJDarten

agreed. I was thinking, based on the description in the list, it would have been nice if they had put that much care into the prequels.

The Amazing Rando

Seconded! I love my Bobba Fett watch and still wear it to this day, in fact I'm sitting right in front of my Star Wars book collection. On the top shelf of this collection is TWELVE of the watch tins, one for every character, maybe I should also mention that I'm typing this while I'm at work.

That's right I keep my Star Wars book collection in my office at work...

John Wofford

I remember, and loved dearly the Jurassic Park watches. I think at one point I had them all, after eating Burger King quite a few times. This was a feat in and of itself, because I was always a McDonald's/Sonic guy.

Anybody else feeling crotchety because of this article, something along the lines of, "Man, things used to be sooooo cool?"

Rachel Campbell

When I was in fifth grade, the dinosaur eye hologram watch had a near-permanent place on my wrist. I don't thrill on BK food either, but man alive were those watches awesome.

NicMiller

I always thought BK had the best food premiums. I remember throwing a massive fit to get my parent to take me there when I was about 8 years old. I really wanted a Snarf straw holder.

Scooter Atreides

Their ROTJ collector glasses from back in '83 were probably the best ever madeXD