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.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:37PM (5 children)
The Wall is Coming. And possibly, Tariffs is Coming. I DO NOT PLAY GAMES!!!!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Bot on Thursday April 04 2019, @09:22PM (2 children)
We don't need gender confusion
It's all written in chromosomes
Pronouns freedom in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone
They will have to face those beaners climbing the wall
They will have to face those beaners climbing the wall
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @09:41PM (1 child)
Looks like you've been hanging around Twitter too long and using Microsoft's shitty "updates" to train yourself.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/13/ai-programs-exhibit-racist-and-sexist-biases-research-reveals [theguardian.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Friday April 05 2019, @08:55AM
Of course AI prefers right wing propaganda, it is internally consistent. Left wing positions require too much plasticity. Guy is a refugee, a resource, a migrant (without specifying the direction), and instantly becomes an Italian when deciding to set a bus on fire, as instructed by foreign isis group which he does not belong to. Formalize that yourself first, then you can mewmew.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by stretch611 on Friday April 05 2019, @03:34AM (1 child)
And, if you watched the season 7 finale, you would have seen the wall falling down making it utterly useless.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 05 2019, @03:08PM
They have the SPOILER thing, you didn't put that one. And, didn't say there was a spoiler coming. Thanks a lot, asshole!!!!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday April 04 2019, @08:58PM (5 children)
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @09:29PM
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
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
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.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 05 2019, @08:34PM (1 child)
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?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 05 2019, @08:49PM
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.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @09:46PM (1 child)
Soylentils are, by and large, too smart for your cookie-based mind control tricks.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday April 04 2019, @10:16PM
Obligatory https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Darth-Darkside-Cookies-Sticker/dp/B076YQDCTQ [amazon.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @10:23PM (1 child)
How people treat their food is a great heuristic for how good of a partner (business or otherwise) they will be. I would never let someone who mistreated food in this way near anything sacred to me.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Friday April 05 2019, @02:41AM
Oreo != food
As with most sweet, fatty edibles, just beause you can doesn't mean you should..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Friday April 05 2019, @12:01AM (3 children)
That was actually kinda cool. Especially as the Oreo version was half as long as the real version.
/ the real version was cool
// the first 3-4 times I saw it
/// after that, fast forward that bitch.
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Mykl on Friday April 05 2019, @12:30AM
Noooo!
The intro graphics do actually subtly change not just from season-to-season, but within each season too. It's a great little indicator/reminder of where the key action is happening.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @01:24AM (1 child)
The intro shows you the map. It zooms in where the action will take place.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday April 05 2019, @02:36AM
Really? I did not know that. Especially as the last 2 months I've been getting the seasons from the library and binge watching them, getting ready for season 8.
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday April 05 2019, @03:38AM
At least the people in Westeros often die due to a sword in the heart, or poison in their food; they will be spared the death from "diabetic complications" after eating all those Oreos.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P