Close to Marketing Fame

Earlier this year, we were contacted by a professional balloonist about putting together a promotion involving a now famous movie which I won't name here, which prominently featured balloons as one of the central plot devices.

After considerable research and some scrambling to put together prototypes, we came very close to winning a promotional contract to help premiere one of the biggest movies of the year, but we ran into one problem, our giant $75 balloon prototype, (of which our customer wanted to do 800 for the full order) popped!

Sometimes, marketing glory is just not meant to be ;)

Princess Leia Headphones and other rejected Star Wars promotions

I found a fun gem of a link of concept art for Star Wars promotional products which didn't quite make the cut. My favorites are the Bantha slippers and the Leia Headphones as pictured below.

Link and picture courtesy Action Figure Insider and the Ottertorials blog.

http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/ottertorials/2008/02/10/rejected-a-long-long-time-ago/