2011-10-13

lazypadawan: (Default)
2011-10-13 07:47 am
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TPM Re-Release Poster

It's impossible to find anything on starwars.com these days (but I do appreciate the SWPAS shoutout), so it wasn't until now that I saw on Twitter via @LightsaberRattling that they posted not only more stuff about Maul's Clone Wars debut and the TPM 3D trailer, they also posted the re-release poster:

http://www.starwars.com/news/darth_maul_returns_2012.html

Maybe it's a teaser, maybe it isn't. It's too bad Drew Struzan retired; I loved the stuff he did for the Special Editions in 1997. My only quibble is that um, there's no Quiggy, no Amidala, and no Anakin. Definitely no Jar Jar.
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2011-10-13 07:42 pm
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OT: The Dumbest Yet Most Effective Car Dealership Ad Ever

Haunting my local airwaves is this ad for a Nissan dealership. Obviously it's aimed at teens and folks in their 20s: faux flash mobs (not the kind where people are beaten), cheesy dance routines, and the dopiest fads since swallowing goldfish, planking and owling. Some hapless employees at this dealership actually had to plank and owl throughout the ad. But you still can't take your eyes off the ad. You just have to see it to believe it, but I warn you, "I wanna plank right now" will stick in your head like glue: