I worked for a promotion agency in Minneapolis that coordinated a number of cross-promotions between The Goonies and other products - ie: buy x numbers of Hi-C drink boxes and get a Goonies Treasure Map, etc. We also were the agency that arranged the product placement of our client, Nabisco's candy bar Baby Ruth in the movie. Remember when Chunk offers Sloth a Baby Ruth? Our company had 1 MILLION, 500 thousand posters of that scene printed, and 'near-packed' them in just about every grocery store in the US and Canada! (Near pack means that the poster premium is there at the store, and when you buy a bag of Baby Ruths, you get your poster right away. No sending away for it...)

Our bosses flew the team out to the set during filming as a perk for nearly killing ourselves getting ready for the promotions.

We had a private screening in Minneapolis before it was released - sort of a perk/thanks for working the project. You mentioned the octopus that was originally in the movie? Data mentions it to his mom... The scene was removed because the preview audiences in LA hated it. It looked too fakey and too overplayed.

Well in our preview screen there were a few frames of the octopus' leg thrashing around in the water that they'd missed when cutting that scene out. It was removed before it hit the theatres.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It was fun for me to work on the movie, as I was an Oregonian living in Minneapolis. I'm now back in Oregon and often reminded of the movie.

Um ...okay, it's possible that s/he is snacking on persons of Swedish descent ...but if so, it should be capitalized. It's possible that this is a cow, and simultaneously a heifer. But since both these terms apply to the female of the species; then it's not also possible to be a 'he' as has been written.

Hey, you guys are one of my favorite blogs. You usually do much better than this, even if this IS fake, it should be written up right, LOL.