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Hitokiri Kenshin
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:57 pm
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Saw that on tv the other day. Admit was a little surprised by that.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:24 pm
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The crossover no one expected.
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juaifan
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:28 pm
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MFrontier wrote: | The crossover no one expected. |
I mean, given they work at MgRonalds I'd argue it's one a lot of people would see coming and makes complete sense.
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AP24
Joined: 21 Apr 2011
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:41 pm
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They made a mistake. Maou works at MgRonald’s, not McDonald’s.
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Beatdigga
Joined: 26 Oct 2003
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:51 pm
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AP24 wrote: | They made a mistake. Maou works at MgRonald’s, not McDonald’s. |
I’m reminded of how Stein’s Gate used “IBN” computers only to be featured in actual IBM ads.
This is front and center as part of an ad campaign for Season 2 of Loki. You even see Sadao in the order kiosks apparently.
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Salanima
Joined: 07 Aug 2023
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:09 am
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Well it's time to go to McDonald's
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Avec ou Nous
Joined: 17 Feb 2023
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:24 am
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Beatdigga wrote: | I’m reminded of how Stein’s Gate used “IBN” computers only to be featured in actual IBM ads. |
Meanwhile the cast of Code Geass eats actual Pizza Hut.
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Emerje
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:38 am
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Avec ou Nous wrote: |
Beatdigga wrote: | I’m reminded of how Stein’s Gate used “IBN” computers only to be featured in actual IBM ads. |
Meanwhile the cast of Code Geass eats actual Pizza Hut. |
Yeah, but there's a bunch of these food and product promotions in Japan. That this appears on American TV pretty incredible. Nothing else comes to mind aside from when fast food is promoting a movie or whatever like Pokemon.
Emerje
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 1:12 pm
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Avec ou Nous wrote: |
Meanwhile the cast of Code Geass eats actual Pizza Hut. |
The Pizza Hut references have all been removed from all home video and streaming releases for that reason.
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ranran-001
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:17 pm
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They are missing one scene from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Also, the infamous movie Mac and Me where the crew go to the craziest McDonalds in the country.
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Gina Szanboti
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 4:50 pm
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Cardcaptor Takato wrote: |
Avec ou Nous wrote: | Meanwhile the cast of Code Geass eats actual Pizza Hut. |
The Pizza Hut references have all been removed from all home video and streaming releases for that reason. |
Which always baffled me from PH's pov. Why wouldn't they want free product placement to a niche market? If there's some trademark rules (I know if you don't protect your tm you can lose it), just pay them a dollar usage fee or something. Even if the distributor was the one paying PH, it'd be cheaper than editing it. (who pays who has also confused me. Businesses pay movies and tv and sports teams for product placement, but sometimes the media/team has to pay the business to be allowed to use their logos, and I've never understood what determines which way the payment goes)
Anyway, the ad was great fun. Kudos to McD's marketing people.
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flamemasterelan
Joined: 17 Apr 2022
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:54 am
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Gina Szanboti wrote: | Which always baffled me from PH's pov. Why wouldn't they want free product placement to a niche market? |
Since when was this free? Pizza Hut literally paid for that product placement. They probably didn't pay enough for it to make its way to the Blu Ray editions, where the artists are already going over everything again to make sure that there are as few mistakes and shortcuts as possible, so it's not that hard to just change a few labels when you're already editing it because you didn't give a background character a mouth.
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Rob19ny
Joined: 13 Jun 2020
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 4:25 am
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Like the day before this article was posted, I was randomly scrolling on Twitter when I saw Maou talking in a promoted video. I was like "WTF did I just see? Why was Maou in a McDonald's (?) commercial?". It was late at night, but it was apparently real. I saw when this article was posted, just forgot to post. With that said.... Royale with chee!
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