Showing posts with label promotional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label promotional. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2010

Better than expected

Posted this to Flickr a couple days back and then kinda got busy and forgot to make note of it. What it is, it's basically some kind of promotional dish set from the Japanese car maker, Subaru, that features Mickey Mouse and Stitch, who's (for some reason) dressed up in a cow outfit.

One of the exciting things for a foreigner with little grasp of English bidding on Yahoo Japan auctions is that you never quite know what to expect. To be clear, I've only very rarely been disappointed (with far less frequency than when buying thing on, say, eBay), but between the sometimes minimally useful translation programs and the tendency of Yahoo J sellers to keep descriptions to a Zen-like minimum ("Kindly do not ask for a return, as it will disappoint our ancestors"), YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU GONNA GET.

In this case, I can recall no mention that this set was actually nice, heavy ceramic dishes (I had expected some kind of crappy plastic, which is what you'd probably get if this was an American car company). It's got big and small plates of Stitch and Mickey, plus some tea cups.

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I'm not quite sure what this promotion is about, or how long it's lasted, but I'll try and root around for some more Stitch subaru items I've picked up - there's been a lot of stuff.




UPDATE: Found a couple more things: a Subaru Stitch mousepad, and a kite with cow Stitch. The kite is from last year, and it's fairly awesome. If I were a kid, I would totally make my parents buy and Impreza to get a kite like that!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Stitch! Dole Plush & Ecobag


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Originally uploaded by tikistitch
This was evidently some kind of cross-promotion in Japan for the Stitch! anime by Dole (ya know, the banana company). It's pretty cute: you get an "ecobag" (a reusable cloth shopping bag like all the Prius drivers in your neighborhood take to Trader Joes and buy cheese nowadays) which has a Stitch! anime design on one side and the Dole logo on the other, and also cleverly folds up by means of a little button. Plus you get a little karate Stitch plushie. I'm not sure why a super powered character like Stitch would need to learn karate, but Yuna, the little girl in the anime, runs a dojo, so perhaps he's learning a bit of discipline. For once, this promotion actually makes sense, as the Stitch character as depicted in the anime seems to take special delight in destroying the fruit stands of Izayoi Island, so he's probably generating a lot of business for Dole.


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