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Posted 25 May 2005 - 12:26 PM

Am I the only one extremely annoyed by all these commercials? Yoda using Jedi mind tricks to get a diet Pepsi. Vader staring down the Burger King guy . . . and so on and so on . . .

If you love the movie, do you love the corporate tie-ins? Is the converse true?
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 12:27 PM

I haven`t seen any!

I am not watching television recently, please post some links!
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 12:32 PM

Yeah, they're all over TV. (Amercian tv that is) Maybe someone else can find some links? I'm not that computer literate.
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 12:44 PM

That Diet Pepsi commercial has made me hate Yoda with a passion. And that's all I have to say about that.
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 12:54 PM

Seeing Yoda on every bottle of 7 UP and Pespi 2L bottle is equally annoying...as it reminds me of the money machine that Star Wars has turned into. Im curious to hear if anyone was silly enough to call that number and hear "Yoda" speak
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 01:37 PM

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as it reminds me of the money machine that Star Wars has turned into.


"turned into"? when has it ever not been exploited for its commercial value?
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 01:54 PM

Good point I guess. However once it reaches terminal saturation, the Value of the brand has to suffer.
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 02:01 PM

QUOTE (jariten @ May 25 2005, 01:37 PM)
"turned into"? when has it ever not been exploited for its commercial value?


Touche.....though I dont remember AOTC or TPM quite as heavily commercialized. But thats part of Star Wars
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 02:03 PM

Hmmm, I'm wouldn't say I'm too keen on Vader flogging burgers but then again, where is the surprise? The kids probably love it.
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 02:40 PM

I thought Episode I was extremely commercialised. Remember the series of Pepsi cans with every character from the movie, down to one-line wonders like Ric Olie? But even without watching TV I'm getting to see Episode III ads just by going to the supermarket and see Vader's or Yoda's face on snack packets, junk food displays, magazine covers...

So when's CSI: Tatooine coming out? I suggest "Eminence Front" for the obligatory Who song. It's a put-on...
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 02:43 PM

QUOTE (jariten @ May 25 2005, 01:37 PM)
"turned into"? when has it ever not been exploited for its commercial value?


actually, this was the 1st time that characters in the 'star wars' universe interacted with characters/settings from our world...

yoda may have been on a burger king glass in the past (still got mine), but he never begged for a pepsi, and then proceeded to steal it using the force... that's awful on so many levels...
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 06:26 PM

UK is just the same....

Orange mobile phones using clips of everything including a SW convention.
Packs of Pringles turning into lightsabers and then being eaten by Chewie.
Darth Vader facing off a Burger King employee with a broom!
Frosties giving away mini lightsabers.
Adverts to "Play the game BEFORE you see the movie" for RotS on PS2 and XBox in EVERY advert (almost as much as that F'ing frog ringtone angry.gif )
Anthony Daniels doing voice overs for every upcoming program on any Sky channel.
Every Sky channel having a SW related documentary/making of, even when most have SFA real connection to the films.

I'm an addict (I guess we all are here) and even I'm sick of it!
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 08:57 PM

C3P0 and R2D2 did AT&T adds in the early 80s...

SW always was exploited for it's comercial value.
the onlydifference now is that it is soley made for it's comercial value.
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Posted 25 May 2005 - 09:18 PM

Nothing much has changed as far as the marketing, except that the characters now have more companies to shill for.

And I'm old enough to hate it now.
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 04:37 AM

Come on already! Is it really that lamentable? I mean Yoda is afterall a muppet with Fozzy the bear's voice. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that SW has always been a brand that drives sales of consumer products, particularly children's toys. Why not Pepsi and BK? The true force, the force of our world, lies in marketing appeal. This is the one facet of SW that GL has always had consistency.
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