First-ever Minions collaboration arrives just in time for Despicable Me 4. Japan’s premier doughnut chain Mister Donut has teamed up with locally born brands and businesses for some awesome collaborations in recent years, but now it’s joining forces with some famous characters that hail from overseas — Minions ! The tie-up campaign comes ahead of the 19 July release of Despicable Me 4 in Japan, in which the Minions play a starring role, as they have since the first instalment in the franchise premiered in 2010. The new doughnuts capture all the fun and mayhem of the Minions as they take over some of Mister Donut’s most popular products, starting with.
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..the Minion Pon de Popping Ring (275 yen [US$1.
70]) This new take on the chain’s Pon de Ring doughnut features a bright yellow banana milk-flavoured chocolate icing, with blue sugar chocolate popping candy to resemble denim overalls. The crackling texture of the candy on your tongue conveys the mischievous personality of the Minions, as do the bespectacled chocolate eyes. ▼ Next up, we have the Minion Mango Fashion (275 yen) Mister Donut’s Old-Fashioned doughnut gets a mango sauce coating for this new release, with a secret whipped cream filling inside to express the Minion’s mischievous personality.
The takeover is complete with a character face placed on top of the doughnut. ▼ The final doughnut in the range is the Minion Golden Pop (308 yen) Whipped chocolate cream is squeezed into these bite-sized go.
