This is the plot for the upcoming UB book #20
Feeding Frenzy from the S&S site.
ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY
MISSION:
To uncover the truth behind a mysterious death at the first qualifying round for Football Frank's Super Bowl hot dog eating contest.
LOCATION:
The qualifying rounds are in Miami; the final competition takes place during the Super Bowl halftime show.
POTENTIAL VICTIMS:
All the teen finalists know that the next hot dog could be their last.
SUSPECTS:
Any of the contestants--they all have reason to knock off the competition.
THIS MISSION REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ERASED IN FIVE SECONDS.
Nice, Thanks Sam! Looks interesting, I don't remeber them ever doing that before.
Quote from: Sam Spade on November 27, 2007, 04:33:08 PM
ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY
MISSION:
To uncover the truth behind a mysterious death at the first qualifying round for Football Frank's Super Bowl hot dog eating contest.
Football Frank's Super Bowl hot dog's???? Couldn't they come up with a better name for the competition than Football Frank's. That's just like "Phil's Phranks and Phries" from
Murder At The Mall.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw it! :D It even said the Boys thought Phil's Phranks and Phries was corny.
Quote from: Sam Spade on November 27, 2007, 04:33:08 PMThe qualifying rounds are in Miami; the final competition takes place during the Super Bowl halftime show.
I think this is the first time in the UBs that the hardys have gone to Florida, isn't it?
Well, they sure haven't been to Canada. Niagra Falls, New York was the closest they got in UB #5 Rocky Road.
Maybe S&S is trying to widen the Hardy's adventures.
I thought this book was really good. The shark attack scene was awsome. The plot was beliveible.
Maybe the guy just had a heart attack, or choked on some food. Guys who eat tons of food really fast, arent exactly going to live a long time.
Quote from: Bigfootman on July 14, 2008, 06:19:10 PM
I thought this book was really good. The shark attack scene was awsome. The plot was beliveible.
Shark attack scene?!?
Yeah, the HBs and the people they were with were on the beach or something and somebody went in the water. You can tell I remember every detail ;D
sounds like a good one!
Good book, but did you guys notice all the advertising. Brian eating their Doritos, Xboxes in all the rooms, and Frank talking about how much he likes Youtube (and Youtube reveling a major clue). I think this was to counter the fact that you have to pay to use the word SuperBowl in a book or on TV. (Thats why froogle newscasters say "the Big Game" instead.)
I don't think any big company like Google, Microsoft, or even Doritos would pay to be mentioned in a little known digest paperback!
The Hardy Boys are a well known book seris! Besids we see ads all the time on small web sites.
The Hardy Boys name is well known, yes, but not as much as it used to be, and if you asked someone to name the recent Hardy Boys book, 99 out of 100 people couldn't. Lots of people I know, know of The Hardy Boys but almost never know that new books are still being published.
YouTube is far more well known then The Hardy Boys these days.
I have to agree with SDLagent. People know of the classic Hardy Boys, not these newer rip-offs. A lot of times when I'm reading a new UB book at work people will say to me that they didn't even know that the Hardy Boys were still being written.
*shig* Iknow. :( My Aunt said that about Comic books once.
Quote from: tomswift2002 on August 13, 2008, 07:38:43 PM
I have to agree with SDLagent. People know of the classic Hardy Boys, not these newer rip-offs. A lot of times when I'm reading a new UB book at work people will say to me that they didn't even know that the Hardy Boys were still being written.
Same here, most people I know don't. And it's not just adults either lots of kids don't even know about them.
I think I'll start a new topic to do with this...
...this thread drift, need no longer go on, I bring thee:
http://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/forums/index.php?topic=916.msg9964#msg9964 (http://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/forums/index.php?topic=916.msg9964#msg9964)
That was supposed to be old English.
I think all the PR/advertising people who don't know or understand the Hardy Boys' separate series (and which are considered good/bad/popular) could be fooled into using HB:UB for promotion if they don't do their research! ;)
But more likely, the references used are to "modernize" the books, even though S&S could use the $$$, at least for this series. I guess their finances balance out from other books that are selling well. Unless HB:UB is really draining them.
Quote from: tomswift2002 on August 13, 2008, 07:38:43 PM
I have to agree with SDLagent. People know of the classic Hardy Boys, not these newer rip-offs. A lot of times when I'm reading a new UB book at work people will say to me that they didn't even know that the Hardy Boys were still being written.
A lot of people know about the casefiles, amost all teens, neaver heard anyone talk bout the UBs besides this form.
Yeah, quite a few know of the Casefiles. They don't know them as that, though. Lots of people I know think of the Digests and Casefiles as the "Paperback Hardy Boys" books.
One of my friends, when talking about Casefiles #1 ''Dead on Target'', once said something along the lines of, "It's good. It's not really the first book, though. I've read books with Iola in them".
Ha Ha! Idiots! Yeld to are knowlage of the Hardy worlds! ;D
Quote from: SDLagent on March 04, 2009, 03:06:19 AM
Yeah, quite a few know of the Casefiles. They don't know them as that, though. Lots of people I know think of the Digests and Casefiles as the "Paperback Hardy Boys" books.
One of my friends, when talking about Casefiles #1 ''Dead on Target'', once said something along the lines of, "It's good. It's not really the first book, though. I've read books with Iola in them".
The person is correct. Dead On Target was not the first book in the Casefile format, it's the third.
Revenge Of The Desert Phantom and The Skyfire Puzzle come before it.
That's not what he meant. He was talking about all the books that came before - not just those two.