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09 May 2008

Awesome Ad Concept (calling dabitch)
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Come on, if you can think of the ONE character in the last 50 years of kids TV who you would love to see totally rock out, who would it be? Well, this would certainly be one of the top contenders for me. A little 'awkward' at times, and not in the way you'd expect the character to be awkward, but the ending ad slogan just tied it up perfectly. A product I would never buy, but still....

post by: wendell at: 21:07 | 4 comments

My only major complaint here is that they made the dance steps too good to be possible from a real marionette. If they hadn't gotten so ambitious, they could have worked harder to look less like CGI and more like next-level master puppetry. Which would have multiplied the awesome. But it is a cool ad regardless.

posted by middleclasstool 09 May | 22:30

mct, you explained the 'slightly-off-ness' of the performance much better than I could.

posted by wendell 09 May | 22:35

This is absolutely brilliant. I loved Thunderbirds as a kid.

Disagreeing with wendell and mct, what I love about this advert is that, although it's CGI, they've kept his puppetness and I think they got it right.

posted by essexjan 10 May | 01:45

*clap clap clap clap* That was really good. Much better than their odd brainplant poster

posted by dabitch 10 May | 02:47

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