{"id":227583,"date":"2019-08-21T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227583"},"modified":"2019-08-21T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:50:25","slug":"could-we-be-any-more-excited-friends-fans-nuts-for-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/21\/could-we-be-any-more-excited-friends-fans-nuts-for-merch\/","title":{"rendered":"Could we be any more excited? ‘Friends’ fans nuts for merch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re a “Friends”\u00a0superfan, there are lots of ways to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary on September 22nd. (File Photo<\/a>: MatthewPerry\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0If you’re a “Friends”\u00a0superfan, there are lots of ways to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary on September 22nd.<\/p>\n

You can see your “Friends”\u00a0on the big screen\u2060\u2014\u00a0deck out your place with “Friends”\u00a0furniture \u2060\u2014\u00a0wear your “Friends”\u00a0as jewelry.<\/p>\n

You can even buy the “Friends”\u00a0Lego set and pretend it’s for your kid.<\/p>\n

Warner Brothers senior vice-president Maryellen Zarakas says “Friends”\u00a0transcends generations.<\/p>\n

The show, which ended after 10 seasons in 2004, highlighted life in your 20’s \u2060\u2014\u00a0your first job, your first heartbreak, your first time your friends really become your family.<\/p>\n

The studio has partnered with a range of companies to celebrate the quarter-century mark.<\/p>\n

Some of the fun will include movie house screenings of popular episodes, newly remastered with never-before-seen extras.<\/p>\n

Fathom Events has more than 14-hundred theatres on board \u2060\u2014\u00a0amounting to well over 200-thousand seats available each night.<\/p>\n

Lego stores will be offering up a Central Perk building set.<\/p>\n

It goes on sale September 1st for $59.99 and recreates the gang’s coffee shop and comes with figures of the six buddies, plus Gunther.<\/p>\n

Builders can even construct the stage where Phoebe performed “Smelly Cat.”<\/p>\n

In New York, tickets sold out in two hours for “The One with the Pop-Up”\u00a0immersive experience in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

It includes Central Perk, props for photos, and some of the iconic looks for Ross, Rachel, Joey, Monica, Chandler and Phoebe.<\/p>\n

Lines have been around the corner for the Central Perk pop-up in Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n

Pottery Barn is taking a turn at “Friends”‘ merch with everything from mugs to tea towels and a reissue of the famous apothecary coffee table that Rachel tried to pass off as flea market to roommate Phoebe, who was not a Pottery Barn fan.<\/p>\n

The assortment also includes throw pillows with Monica’s purple apartment door, the tufted Central Perch couch and classic quotes like “Joey Doesn’t Share Food.”<\/p>\n

They even threw in wall art memorializing the show’s theme song and a doormat with the series’ logo.<\/p>\n

Shop online at PotteryBarn.com but beware, some items have already sold out.<\/p>\n

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