Showing posts with label pr stunt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pr stunt. Show all posts

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Geekanerd Spotter: Stormtroopers Take Keyspan Park

Hey did you see The Clone Wars when it opened yesterday? I didn't, making it the first Star Wars movie I haven't seen on opening day since I was born. Ooh, it just looks so bad. But I can't help feeling like I skipped an old friend's birthday party, even if that friend has turned into an infantile cash-monger. Sad.

But on a lighter note, yesterday at the Brooklyn Cyclones game at Keyspan Park, a troupe of Stormtroopers showed up to pass out posters. I love this picture, because the guy on the left looks very self-conscious about being photographed in a nerdy context, the girl in the middle is being a good sport, and the girl on the right is somehow pulling off a "Yeah, I'm holding a Clone Wars mini-poster, you jealous?" look.
Foaming Geek Analysis Moment: I do have to question exactly what sort of troopers these are supposed to be. Given that they're promoting Clone Wars, you'd think they're supposed to be Clone Troopers from the era between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. The red guy is clearly a Clone Captain in Phase II armor, you can see the model here. So that checks out. But those other guys are just classic Stormtroopers, who weren't around until after (or at least the very end of) Revenge of the Sith. C'mon Lucasfilm, you couldn't spring for a few more Clone Trooper uniforms, you have to pull those old Halloween costumes out of storage? It never ends.

Thanks to loyal Gnerd reader Lena for sending these pictures in; here's her sister Alison in a classic photo op post with a trooper.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Another Awesome Simpsons Movie PR Stunt

Someone give the PR guy on the Simpsons Movie a raise. First he/she hit us with the 7/11 - Kwik-E-Mart conversion, and now we have a giant Homer painted in the grass at Cerne Abbas next to the resident Giant. Homer is apparently goading him with a donut, which by the looks it the Giant has confused with something of a more carnal nature. Needless to say, local Pagans are upset and vow to "do some rain magic to bring the rain and wash it away." Truth! Read the whole story at The Sun Online.

Via Jezebel