GIVEAWAY TIME (aka SHILL TIME!): Pringles and Star Wars Team Up for “The Force is Fun” Video Contest
Junk Food Nation, today I get to be a bit of a shill! Sweet. So I’m one of many bloggers who was contacted to host a giveaway on their blog for a currently ongoing promotion that Pringles and Star Wars are having together, called “The Force for Fun” contest. What do Pringles and Star Wars have in common? Er…..they both have the letter R in their name? Who knows.
Pringle The Force for Fun Contest!
The contest is basically a YouTube video contest for the next great Pringles commercial. Pringles and Star Wars asked people to put up videos incorporating the two themes, and they finally have seven finalists! You can watch the videos on other people’s blogs, here, here, and here, or just go to Youtube.com/Pringles. Personally, this is my favorite one:
The contest, sponsored by Pringles and Star Wars will award $25,000 to the winning video, along with the chance to be featured in a national advertising campaign for Pringles.
Ok, shilling is done. What can YOU WIN that is junk food related?
Promo Pringles and Star Wars Prize Pack!
THIS! Or rather, this is the promotional photo they sent me. What I actually received in the mail was:
Actual Pringles and Star Wars Prize Pack!
THIS! Which is pretty much exactly what’s in the promo photo. Anyways. Before we get to HOW to enter (below), let’s review what is it you can get IN this prize pack. Well first, YOU GET TWO CANS OF PRINGLES. That’s pretty sweet by itself. I got the Pizza and French Onion Dip flavor. I actually reviewed the French Onion Dip Pringles a while ago.
Next:
Storm Trooper Mimobot!
Helmet on…
…Helmet off!
You get an 8 GB STORMTROOPER MIMOBOT! For those uninitiated, Mimobots are collectible toy action figure jump drives that were first released in 2005. These things are APPARENTLY hot collectibles, and they are all over the price range on eBay. Having handled one, I can honestly say these things are friggin’ cool. Yes, maybe I am a geek. But these are cool. You want this.
Pringles Can Speaker
Unboxed
Where it goes
And finally, you get a PRINGLES CAN SPEAKER, a speaker that plugs right into your iPod and is mounted on a Pringles can for full sound. It’s a weird contraption for sure. I dunno. I got nothin’ else funny to say. It’s Pringle swag.
So that’s the prize! Two cans of Pringles, that bad-ass Stormtrooper Mimobot, and the Pringles swag speaker.
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* HOW TO ENTER *
Junk Food Nation, I’m not doing this contest the traditional way I usually do it, with me tweeting and you re-tweeting. Nope, this time will be a little different.
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1) FIRST WAY TO ENTER: Leave a comment that below that answers this question:
WHAT IS THE BEST ORDER TO WATCH THE CURRENT SIX STAR WARS FILMS, AND WHY?
Leave an answer in the comments below, and that gets you one entry. You only get one “comment” entry per person.
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2) SECOND WAY TO ENTER: Tweet out the following:
Check out @junkfoodguy giveaway 2 win an awesome #StarWars @Pringles giftpack w/ a @mimobot! #TheForceForFun http://junkfoodguy.com/?p=12635
You can tweet this as many times as you want for one entry a piece.
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3) The Rules: US residents are the only ones eligible to participate, and no one with PO Boxes…AND no Hawaii or Alaska. In this case, I don’t make the rules, sorry.
4) Contest closes on Thursday, May 23, at 11:59pm EST.
5) I’ll announce the winner next Friday!
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That’s it! Go forth, comment and tweet! Talk to you soon, Nation.
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Sincerely,
Junk Food Guy
Discuss - 26 Comments
Everyone knows it’s Four, then Five, then Six, then STOP, treating the first three films as non-existent, because that’s what they should be…
I think you have to watch them in the order they were made. I’m not a huge fan, but I still think it would make me too angry to go on watching if I started with the new ones.
Watch 4, then 5, then (I suppose) 6, although I hate Ewoks. As for the other 3, throw them in the fireplace and watch them burn; it’ll be much more entertaining that way.
I’m going to go with I, II, III, IV, V then VI. Yes, I am a stickler for watching things in order, regardless of quality.
If they’re on TV, I’ll watch!
I recommend watching them in order of release, IV-VI (original trilogy) then I-III (prequels). I saw this because I am a fan of the history of cinema and it is interesting to see the progression of movies in the context of their time.
I think people new to Star Wars should watch them in chronological order so the story isn’t confusing. That being said, it’s almost impossible to find someone who hasn’t seen one of the movies on tv.
I would watch them in the order they came out in because that is how someone who would have followed the series from the time they first came out would have seen them.
Alphabetically, clearly. A New Hope, Attack of the Clones, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, The Empire Strikes Back, The Phantom Menace. It satisfies the OCD in you as well as the guy that loves the current trend of slowly doling out information in the form of flashbacks, so that you don’t understand anything that happens until you’ve seen it all. It’s prep for JJ Abrams Does Star Wars.
Think about it. You introduce the characters. Then you flashback to a big war. Then you show the end. Then you show the beginning of the end. Then you finally understand what led from the first to the last. Then you have an unnecessary flashback to their childhood.
The best order to watch the Star Wars moves is: IV, V, VI, then stop. You could probably skip VI too…maybe IV were it not for its historical significance.
Really, just make sure you watch V.
And make sure you send me those sweet, sweet prizes.
If you do find yourself forced to watch all six, perhaps strapped to some sort of Clockwork Orange chair as George Lucas stands there with an eyedropper in one hand and the other on an editing machine as he digitally inserts Jar Jar Binks into the original trilogy, then I would recommend them in order numerically, if for no other reason than to see the huge technological drop off that occurred ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away’ between iii and iv. Seriously. It’s like all the engineers died with the Jedi and all the plans for blasters disappeared so all the news ones miss all the time. Not to mention the decline in the quality of transportation.
Much, much want.
IV, V, VI.
Then I, II, III, but only in full on Mystery Science Theater 3000 mode.
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I would suggest watching them in the same order one should watch the Fast and Furious series, which is, of course, based on Vin Diesel’s acting performance from best to worst. So it would be VI (hopefully), I, V, IV, III. The question then is whether to watch II at all (because Dom isn’t in that one) or potentially to watch it first.
I know that most people don’t like Episode I but all those hilariously outdated racial stereotypes Lucas created (Jar Jar, the Trade Federation, Watto) were a serious commentary on racism. Also, there was Quadinaros. So instead of the “Machete Order” of IV, V, II, III, and VI, (as if the Phantom Menace didn’t exist or was just some random Star Trek movie), I humbly suggest seeing Episode I after watching any other Star Wars movie to raise social consciousness, etc.
Plus, in a couple of years, everyone will just claim that all you need to see are VII, VIII, and IX, amiright?
Order of release because you can see how much the filming technology advances .. and the worst movies are the last ones!
Machete order of course. It’s just the perfect order and it’s how I’ve watched it/made others watch it for the past couple of years. http://static.nomachetejuggling.com/machete_order.html
With a friend and two lightsabers do you can battle out the fighting scenes!
I think they are best watched in order of release. Of course, I’m old and that’s just the way I ended up watching them. 🙂
@Candace, believe it or not, those people exist. True story, about 5 years ago I got to sit next to my then-gf (now fiancee) when she saw “Luke, I am your father.” She was completely blown away. It was an epic moment of awesomeness.
I would even say one deserving of an award, wouldn’t you Eric? 🙂
The original three, then the newest three. It’s more suspenseful.
https://twitter.com/sohamolina/status/337245260537290754
I’d say watch them in the order they were released.
The original three, then the newest three. 🙂
I know it’s been said already, but I thought of it before reading any comments. The original trilogy in sequential order…over and over again. Prequels? What prequels?