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Nostalgia themed to grab both old folks and antique-loving millenials, and latex body suits to grab the S&M crowd. Sounds like a marketing win to me!
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I'm pretty sure you could get that NY Seltzer in the UK through the 80's, I remember the label. And yeah despite the posters that seem to have zero to do with the labels, it's really good stuff. 30s/40s style typography is back in a big way on beverage packaging, it's a terrible idea not to go with that, rather than dayglo generic hookers in an oversaturated Times Square.
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I distinctly remember my grandfather having a garage fridge full of that stuff in about 1986. The weird foamy labels were fun to peel and pick.
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'Can almost taste the raspberry' is a spot on description, though.
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Platystemon posted:Millennials. Christ is there anything millenials won't ruin?
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little munchkin posted:Christ is there anything millenials won't ruin? The drink only existed during the 1980s, so it's not like there's a long and storied history there to ruin.
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little munchkin posted:Christ is there anything snake people won't ruin? I love the millenial to snake people plugin so much. It even works on Netflix subtitles it turns out.
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Schrödinger's Merch: dumb and amazing at the same time Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan™ Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk The Needs of the Many Ornament  http://shop.hallmark.com/ornaments/...995QXI2587.html
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Given how fervently some Trekkies still adhere to the classics and pretty much everything about crucifixes and pieta recreations..... I suppose it makes a certain level of sense.
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twistedmentat posted:The lable conjures up the images of Father Kickerbocker, Al Smith and Tammany Hall, but the ads make me think of Russian space robot hookers. In order words it's true NYC as gently caress.
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Grey Fox posted:Schrödinger's Merch: dumb and amazing at the same time Why are they dressed like mounties?
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Kurtofan posted:Why are they dressed like mounties? The federation was borne out of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police... you didn't know? That's why the saucer sections on the first federation ships were even shaped like giant mountie hats!
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i get the context for spock to be wearing that huge oven mitt, but drat if it doesn't look ridiculous
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Kurtofan posted:Why are they dressed like mounties? Holodeck malfuction. Or it was working properly.
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Len posted:I love the millenial to snake people plugin so much. It even works on Netflix subtitles it turns out. I don't mean to call you out specifically, but it does begin to grate.
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Instant Sunrise posted:i get the context for spock to be wearing that huge oven mitt, but drat if it doesn't look ridiculous Break Spock off that ornament and get a Barbie kitchen set, and you turn tragedy into Spock making Christmas dinner.
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Grey Fox posted:Schrödinger's Merch: dumb and amazing at the same time trekkies will buy anything.
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No matter the product there's always a fan who'll buy anything. E: Product's not quite the right word but I'm not sure what to say for show/movie/game/singer/website/etc. AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 12:30 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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I guess "selling a thing I don't like" is now a dumb move in marketing? 
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AlphaKretin posted:No matter the product there's always a fan who'll buy anything. Media?
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Wow, I had no idea New York Seltzer was still a thing. Count me among the many goons in thread who drank way too much of it as a kid in the 80s. Like, my brother and I actually had T-shirts from them too much. Then I remember Clearly Canadian usurping the flavored seltzer market.
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little munchkin posted:Christ is there anything millenials won't ruin? Vietnam, I suppose.
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Besesoth posted:I guess "selling a thing I don't like" is now a dumb move in marketing?
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AlphaKretin posted:No matter the product there's always a fan who'll buy anything. Franchise. Anyway, you haven't seen bad merch until you've seen adult humans with cabinets full of latex cat girls. Bonus: not just for creepy young men anymore! Also for creepy middle-aged women.
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Grey Fox posted:Who said I didn't like it? It's just a bizarre use of the brand, even by Star Trek standards. It's like making a Christmas ornament out of Randy Quaid plowing his jet into the ID4 spaceship. Oh man I would totally buy that
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davidspackage posted:Break Spock off that ornament and get a Barbie kitchen set, and you turn tragedy into Spock making Christmas dinner. Just buy a Barbie and you've got the making of a 50 Shades of Grey set.
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^^^ Oh Lord if Hallmark does a 50 Shades ornament I'll torch the building Hallmark has been producing media-related ornaments for a few decades. Oh sure, it used to all be Precious Moments or Peanuts, the sort of stuff an older relative buys for the children in the family every year as a tradition. But as those kids grew up all sorts of franchises started popping up: Barbie, Star Trek, Disney, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and so on. Even lifestyle type brands like Harley-Davidson have ornaments now. These days a lot of those are around $20+ a whack, "limited," and are released as 1-3 pieces a year in a "series," meaning to get every character or version one has to spend years collecting them. Seems to me this strings multiple generations along, ensuring customers at least come back every year and blow money on them in addition to cards, gift crap, and so forth. Plus my 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Nautilus is hella sweet.
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Strudel Man posted:The primary purpose of these plugins appears to be posting about how you have them any time someone mentions the string to be replaced. I would not be surprised if 100% of the people who used that plugin were millenials themselves.
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Is this some joke on the misspelling of "milennials"? Or are you guys hating on people born between 1984 and 2000 that hard?
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Xibanya posted:Is this some joke on the misspelling of "milennials"? Or are you guys hating on people born between 1984 and 2000 that hard? Muphry's law strikes again
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Hyundai has a new commercial out where their Tucson driving rebel leaves work "on time" to the dismay of all of his co-workers. The time he boldly walks out the door? 6:01pm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ8Klm8vPlI Is this some kind of subliminal messaging from corporate America that leaving work at 6pm is normal? Daycare's start charging a dollar a minute if you pick your kids up after 6, so I can't be the only person who is booking for the door at 4. Heck, the song is called 9 to 5. Just seems odd, like the advertising agency is working it's ad writers so hard they think that leaving work at 6 is something to aspire to.
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little munchkin posted:I would not be surprised if 100% of the people who used that plugin were snake people themselves. I am a millenial. I just think the plugin is whimsical and amusing. It made the Pornhub insight article about the viewing habits of millenials amazing.
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Choco1980 posted:Then I remember Clearly Canadian usurping the flavored seltzer market. They're back!
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Krispy Kareem posted:Hyundai has a new commercial out where their Tucson driving rebel leaves work "on time" to the dismay of all of his co-workers. The time he boldly walks out the door? 6:01pm. My last office job mandated 8:30 to 5:30, unless you got approval otherwise.
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pussy riot police posted:Muphry's law strikes again two ls two ns kids these days! 
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Krispy Kareem posted:Hyundai has a new commercial out where their Tucson driving rebel leaves work "on time" to the dismay of all of his co-workers. The time he boldly walks out the door? 6:01pm. The whole point of being on Salary is you can cut corners  Grey Fox posted:Lunch hour isn't considered part of your workday anymore. So you're at the office from 9 to 6, but working 8 hours. Yeah my job is 8:30 to 5:30 but I'll be damned if the office isn't mostly empty at 5. Some people come in early at like 8 to do stuff, but not always.
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I usually arrive at work at around 8:30 and leave at 5. If you arrive late and take long lunch breaks it's possible six is your regular quitting hour. But even then, actually following your contract shouldn't make you a rebel unless you work for some horribly exploitative sweatshop company.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Is this some kind of subliminal messaging from corporate America that leaving work at 6pm is normal? It's obviously this. You nailed it.
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AtomD posted:Vietnam, I suppose. Have you seen Vietnam lately? Something like 75% of its population are Millennials. Mostly on account of everyone else being killed in the American Conflict, but still...
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Grey Fox posted:Schrödinger's Merch: dumb and amazing at the same time Last year there was one with sound clips from the episode with the giant hot pocket burning people to death in a mine, where Spock is touching the hot pocket alien. I would've bought it if it were cheaper because it was hilarious, but not $30 worth of hilarious. I have a couple nerdy christmas tree ornaments, I don't think it's any big deal. I have Mr. Sulu and I'll probably get this year's Lt. Uhura. There's also a Kirk vs. the Gorn one with a great face  And Spock tenderly touching the hot pocket monster 
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