In ATOC, a number of LFL video games are displayed in the bar/club where Obi Wan looks for the assassin and turns down the "Deathsticks". In ROTS, Anakin holds a PSP video game when he hears Palpatine beckoning/and senses Padme met with Obi Wan. There are others. All this proves that despite your praise fopr the PT, you don't seem like someone who watched it. And I doubt those placements were done out of the graciousness of his heart for free. I'm surprised the Burger King with his big assed fiberglass head didn't appear popped into the cantina scene in the Special Edition of ANH on the DVD.
While it looks like some handheld earth video game system, it doesn't look like a Sony PSP to me. Was the prop originally a PSP that was modified? Who knows. But see the following pictures and compare for yourself...
I looked at some pictures (that I could find) of other commercial portable game systems and didn't really see one that looked exactly like it (gameboy/advance/sp/color, neogeo pocket color, atari lynx, nec turboxpress, nokia n-gage, tiger game.com, GP-32, wonderswan, sega nomad). It probably looks the most like a cross between the game.com, gameboy advance and psp. It's silver, flat and has what looks like a white "thumb button" (or analog stick) in one corner. It has rows of grooves on both sides and a screen that is not a rectange, but the sides flare out a bit.
Honestly I don't see any product placements for anything in Episodes I-III that isn't a Lucas-created product (ie: Star Wars characters and vehicles that became toys, background characters featured in comics and novels, etc.). It's true that the Episode I video game IS featured in Episode I and in the background of Episode II as a televised version of the pod race. What we're seeing on the screen is the same thing you're seeing in the game. Of course the game was developed alongside the first movie, so that's about as close as we get to "product placement" in the traditional sense.
I have yet to see any of the other screen images inside the AOTC bar featured in any LucasArts video games, but if you know of any, feel free to name them!
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And all those of you who cite GL's kids, have you seen the size of them? They're obese despite the fact that the Skywalker Ranch had all organically grown produce.
GL's one daughter is definately plump, but his other two children (at least what little I've seen of them, and certainly what we've seen in their prequel cameos) they don't look obese to me. Eating organic food of course has nothing to do with your weight. "Organically grown" just means they used manure instead of man-made chemical fertilizer and pesticides. You can still eat too much of it and gain weight! Obesity may be partially genetic, but it generally comes from eating too much and not exercising enough. "Organic" food technically isn't any healthier for you than "non-organic" food, unless you're one of those people who doesn't believe in washing off the pesticides with vinegar and lemon juice before you bite into your fresh produce. The non-organic stuff costs less and has a longer shelf life. Proponents of organic food say that it's "more natural" and tends to support smaller businesses rather than huge corporate farms that have bought out and swallowed up the family farms for the most part in the US anyway. Of course you could argue that organic food, being more expensive and smaller scale, appeals to the snobbery of wealthier people, and environmentalists who are afraid of chemicals contaminating the environment through runoff in farming. Of course manure runoff isn't any better for you than other types of pollution, but I digress...
This post has been edited by KurganX: 19 January 2006 - 11:04 PM