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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the filling-is-coming dept.

Yes, this is silly and some could rightly call it a bit of a "Soyvertisement", but I thought the community might be interested in seeing this unusual rendition of a popular TV show's intro. How good a job do you think they did?

See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted With 2,750 Oreo Cookies:

If all the HBO Game of Thrones marketing tie-ins have done their job, your season 8 premiere party on April 14 will be stocked with Bud Light and Oreo cookies.

Oreo had already teased the release of Game of Thrones-themed chocolate sandwich cookies, but the official announcement arrived on Tuesday along with a video re-creating the show's main title sequence with nothing but Oreos.

Nabisco plans to roll out special edition cookies "embossed with stylized logos for House Lannister, House Targaryen, House Stark and The Night King" starting on April 8.

Watch the video on YouTube.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:58PM (5 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:58PM (#824690)

    The great GoT hype marketing push is in full swing.
    Not sure why they bother. AT&T already bought them, and plans on changing the HBO business model, making the audience results moot. The people who care about season 8 already know and will watch, and very few will bother to catch up on 8 seasons because of this marketing campaign, if they didn't do it by now (many will binge all 8 seasons when it's over, but again the current ad push isn't for them). There are no advertisers during the broadcast to satisfy with high viewership.

    This whole hype machine is patently absurd... They'd be better off bringing back the tits.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @09:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @09:29PM (#824700)

    On the one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, the hype train is important to keep people who are already interested in the series to be interested in the series.

    As an example, "everybody knew" that Star Wars Episode 8 was coming out, and most of the people who ended up watching it had previously made up their mind to see it. However, there still was a major marketing push. Without the buzz, it's easy for interested people to lose interest, and there is always the small increase of incremental sales.

    Similarly, they may not get new people to jump in at season 8, but who knows how many people who would otherwise stop watching were persuaded that GoT was still their thing based on these activities.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @10:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @10:25PM (#824724)

    Yea, I'm most likely cancelling HBO after this. They want to move towards being 15 minutes low attention span product. Well, there should be another decent westworld season at least right?

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by stretch611 on Friday April 05 2019, @03:57AM

    by stretch611 (6199) on Friday April 05 2019, @03:57AM (#824796)

    The one benefit is that this is the last season. The writers already had everything planned in advance before AT&T took over. There is a good chance that it will be completed before AT&T forces all the budget cuts that will completely ruin HBO and any creativity at all left within Time Warner.

    Of course, I am afraid for Rick and Morty [wikipedia.org], on Cartoon Network [adultswim.com] which is also now in the hands of AT&T.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 05 2019, @08:34PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Friday April 05 2019, @08:34PM (#825101)

    I watched the Oreo trailer and found it interesting. I also have no intention of watching the full GoT, so might as well see it replaced with Oreo cookies. Only so much time in the day to devote to TV anyways.

    More importantly, what this about the tits?

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 05 2019, @08:49PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday April 05 2019, @08:49PM (#825110)

      Standard HBO recipe : Great visual quality, decent storylines, gore and violence, and naked women. Every episode.

      In the last couple years, probably because of MeToo, they have almost eliminated that last one, on both GoT and Westworld.