Is it a little late to spoof the Old Spice guy? Yeah. But it’s still adorable, because Muppets make everything better.
Watch Friday’s Clone Wars premiere online now
The episodes ‘Clone Cadets’ and ‘ARC Troopers’ are now available at StarWars.com for your online enjoyment.
You’ll also probably want to check out three new commercials for the rest of the season: ‘Secrets Revealed,’ ‘Ahsoka,’ and ‘Get Ready.’
Video: Snoop, Beckham hock Star Wars shoes again
Music dudes, sports stars, Jay Baruchel, the cantina scene… Yup, it’s another adidas originals commercial.
Teaser: The Last Airbender
Video: Star Wars adidas, the commercial
So the Star Wars aidas commercial features Snoop Dogg, David Beckham, Daft Punk, and more hipsters than you can shake a stick at. Celebrating originality! Riiight.
Video: More Clone Wars commercials
There’s no stopping them now: It’s to the point where I’m having a hard time keeping them all straight. Oh well: Buy lots of toys, kids! (via)
In more timely news, StarWars.com has just posted part 3 of their pre-season webcomic, ‘Hunting the Hunters.’
Video flashback: The Vector Prime TV commercial
Quality of Vector Prime aside, this was a sad day for Expanded Universe fans… I remember being surprised by it on the Sci-Fi Channel and being terribly embarrassment squicked. (My wariness of book trailers probably dates from that moment. Though things do seem to have improved.)
In any case, better now than later to introduce the Expanded Universe playlist at Youtube ClubJaders. Most of it is much less squicky than this, I promise.
Video: The Clone Wars S2 promo
Kind of anticlimactic, but it’ll get the kids excited, I suppose. There’s another version, as well as a super-cheesy music video, “Jedi Song,” on CartoonNetwork.com. (via)
Cheap shots: Kirk’s Mentos commercial
Please tell me this has been around for a while and we’ve all just missed it. (via)
A mildly depressing Mother’s Day tribute
Almost ten years of The Phantom Menace… Mother’s Day… What else? This was one of several ‘tone poem’ commercials running back in ’99.