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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: 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.